Archives by date

You are browsing the site archives by date.

Week 2 Documentary as action

First, we discussed the ‘Poetic Documentary’. To be honest, I am not understand all the reading first. I researched some informations from Internet. This type of documentary does not emphasize narrative, does not pay more attention to the creation of a particular time and space, and does not emphasize coherent editing. It focuses on the […]

Documentary PB 1 Reflection

Documentary PB 1 Reflection

Well, we finished Week 1 classes and then we have an activity. First, I think documentary not only express a truth, but also seem like a story that educational and fantastic. So I chose the pedestrians cross the road. Because in my opinion, documentary need to recording. We can record everything in our daily lives. […]

Asian cinema comments

Hero CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON OM SHANTI OM YOJIMBO and Japanese Western Asian Cinema-Week 4-Hero Asian Cinema-Week 3-Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Asian Cinema-Week 2-Om Shanti Om Asian Cinema-Week 1-Yojimbo

Week 4 Hero

Monday, we watch the new Chinese movie–Hero. Compared with such Hollywood traditional drama films, heroes can be regarded as maverick. It uses a lot of rare ancient Chinese concepts in previous films. For example, duel with ideas, and some special views in movies. Fencing is not only interlinked with music, but also hidden in words. […]

Week 3 Crouching tiger hidden dragon

This week we looked famous Chinese action movie–Crouching tiger hidden dragon. Ang Lee’s “Crouching.Tiger,Hidden.Dragon”,  talk about a place that called ‘jianghu’ and talk about a story. In this movie, Li Mubai and Yu Xiulian are up the face, is want to sue Jen inside the soul. The ‘Crouching’ and the ‘Hidden’ are deep in the […]

Week 1 Yojimbo

This week, we watched the film–Yojimbo. It is a Japanese film that I have never ever seen it. Usually I watch some Japanese animation, like ‘Slam dunk’, ‘Naruto’ and so on. In my opinion, filmmaker hopes to express a sense of positive spirit from the film. Warrior belongs to a part of Japanese traditional culture. […]

Week 2 Om Shanti Om

Week 2 Om Shanti Om

This week, I saw the Indian movie, ‘Om Shanti Om’. I really enjoyed it. This film not only has a reincarnation of the plot and a good storyline, but also has a fantastic scene and dance. To be honest, I thought it is a musical film firstly, like ‘The Wizard of OZ’. However, this is […]

Week 1 The meaning of Documentary

This is my first studio, I choose documentary. First, the documentary is based on real life as a creative material, to the real performance of the object, and the art processing and display, in order to show the real nature and true inspired movie or TV art form. Second, I had ever seen a Chinese […]

PB 4 Reflection

Congratulation!!!! We finished all the full recording. Thanks my teammates, Matt James and Joshua Houston. I thought this project as possible as the most interesting and the most difficult at the same time. Although it took us too much time to do it, we all satisfied with the final result we got. Each of us […]

Week 12 Initiative

Review and Expectation This semester will be ended. During the media class, I learned a lot. I know how to use camera and recorder, how to make a short video, interview and audio. At the same time, I learned collaboration. Team work is a really important part in this semester. It is a good experience […]

Skip to toolbar