Tianjin Shi (s3764193)

1.The way films feel: Aesthetic features and mood in film Tarvainen, J, Westman, S & Oittinen, P 2015, ‘The way films feel: Aesthetic features and mood in film’, Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, vol. 9(3), pp. 254-265. The article studies the relationship… Continue Reading →

In my presentation, I mentioned that water can be a carrier of time because people can’t catch water. So this week I shot some river surfaces. It’s very interesting that when I stretched the lens to take a close-up shot,… Continue Reading →

I feel like compared with electronic clocks, analog clocks can express the passing of time more intuitively. Every second of the pointer movement represents that a certain point in time is moving away from us, so I choose to use… Continue Reading →

Because my topic is about time, I would like to use a lot of clocks or watches as the carriers of time (both analog clocks and electronic clocks will be used). Although I had the plan of video shooting in… Continue Reading →

In my screen project 2, I plan to shoot a video with a slower shutter speed to get the motion blur effect. This effect is inspired by Wong Kar-wai’s Chongqing Express. Although I have a clear understanding of the exposure… Continue Reading →

After studying the relationship between color and mood in films,  I did some color grading experiments using the video clips from my activity 7.1. My initial idea is to make a cold tone work, so this practice mainly did two… Continue Reading →

When I conceived my screen project 2, I was thinking about what kind of emotion should be conveyed. Since the concept of my work is to express the stolen time, it must be regretful that time is gone forever, so… Continue Reading →

Coincidentally, this week’s activity happened to be making an experimental film, which was the same as the content of my screen project 2. So I took this opportunity to try a few editing techniques and post-processing effects which i think… Continue Reading →

This week we focused on the topic of found footage short films. I was surprised that it perfectly matched my screen project 2, because I want to make a conceptual film which will include the overlay technique. No matter Bill… Continue Reading →

This week we watched David Lynch’s short film of Idem Paris. I feel like this is a very realistic video without any narrative, so i don’t have much thought about it. Even for the concept of ‘place and story’, I… Continue Reading →