Chinese Colours

The following colours are shown with the Chinese meaning:

BLACK - Water, immortality, power, calmness vs lack of will.

BLUE - conserving, healing, relaxation, exploration, trust, calmness

BROWN - Industrious, grounded

GOLD - completness, wealth, metal

GREEN - growing, balancing, refreshing, calming, healing, health, harmony

GREY - dull, metal, indefinite

ORANGE - change, adaptability, spontaneity

PINK - love

PURPLE - strength, abundance, spiritual awareness

RED - traditional bridal colour, expansive, blooming, dynamic

SILVER - metal, trustworthiness, romance

WHITE - mourning, contracting, pureness, confidence, strength, death

YELLOW - nourishing, supporting, realibility

All of these colours are clearly represented throughout the movie and portray different emotions. These colours that are shown indicate that either the people involved in the scene or what they are discussing has a deeper meaning than meets the eye. It is expected that the audience reads into the meaning of the colours as they add weight the the story line.

Hero

We have started watching a Chinese film, Hero. It is about a fighter who is honour for defeating three of the king's most dangerous enemies, this film exploits the perception and re tells the story from many different aspects. This film so far is extremely visually interesting with different colours representing several emotions throughout the film. The movie was released in 2004 and was an interesting watch. Compared to Amelie it was a lot easier as we watched it with english dubbed instead of having to read the subtitles which takes away from the cinematography and visual aid that is available.

Monday - Week 2

During our lesson today we finished Amelie, it was an enjoyable movie. Although, I am still unsure of the exact purpose of the film. It was quite different to any film I have seen before as I really haven't watched many international films.

Difference to Hollywood films:

• Colours - overuse of saturation
• Shaky shots - when tension was building or an important scene was taking place
• odd pace - some shots were fast whilst others dragged out
• Not a typical romance type of film

Audrey Tautou played Amelie and has starred in other films including; Coco before Chanel, Priceless and Mood Indigo. She did a great job in this film that we watched and I would love to see her take on another role in these films. 

Term 2 - Lesson 1, Week 1, Thursday.

We have started studying global cinema which includes different films from around the world. We started our first lesson of the term watching a french film Amelie. The film consists of a fanciful comedy about a young woman who plans what the people around her do to making a world of her own. We only got about half way but so far I am enjoying the film and hopefully we get to watch many more. Once we finish this one we will begin to watch the hollywood remake of it to see the similarities and to highlight the differences that is used by the film industry in hollywood to romanticise film.

TERM 2!

Editing sections

We all individually edited the same amount as each other (approximately a minute and a half). Here are our times that we edited from.

Holly - up to 1:36

Kartya - 1:36 - 3:28

Alex - 3:28 - 5:17

We worked out prior what sort of music, theme, fades and fonts we wanted to use so that they would all correspond when put together. This ended up working out really well for our final documentary. 

Assignment

We have completed our design and documentary task on the impacts of social media on the youth. We handed in the completed documentary on Monday, we are all very happy with the final result. We took the angle of social media is detrimental to teenagers perception of body image. I found this one of the most interesting topics we have studied so far. My favourite part of this documentary was interviewing Dr Peta Stapleton who is a Clinical & Health Physiologist at Bond University. She had some very insightful comments about the issue, why and how it is occurring and how it can be prevented or death with in the future. I am happy with the outcome of our project.