Zhibin's Room of Silence

question 1: What are your ambitions for this trimester (Jan-April)?

First, I want to finish the EYE Project, I am now working on the editing of visual parts now， but I may have problems with the soundtrack. So the plan is that I can finish the editing in this week and then work on the soundtrack next week. Second, based on the research about the camera fears from last trimester, I’d love to go further on this project. I will make a series of a documentary about recording one day of different people’s life. In this way, I get to know more about the possibilities between cameras and different people. compare their reactions from the begging of the day until the end of the day. what is the chemistry in this process, does it help to find out the answer that why so many people feel uncomfortable in front of cameras? I want to record 4 people at least.

question 2: What orders your life? (work for money; artwork; big projects; family obligations; helping friends &c.

Making money, improving filmmaking skills, learning new languages and changing the way of thinking and dealing with questions are ordering my life.

question 3: What are you working on now? (what, how and why)

what: I am working on the EYE project recently. I just looked through all the footages I shot 2 days ago, and now planning on how to edit them in a clear way to present the idea that eating fruits can bring people sexual experience in the future. How: I am using the Final Cut Pro X as the software to edit the movie. First of all, I select one good shoot of the performance of the model enjoying the sex and reach the organism, cut it into 4 pieces by the process of her performance. Secondary, I chose 6 footages about the sexy food and cut them into small pieces which each piece is less than 1 second, and mix them into the performance footage. Why: In response to the topic of utopia, I want to tell a story about the world where people can enjoy the sexual experience by just eating fruits. So the combination of these two groups of the footage is aiming to create the visual effect, the illusion, about it.

question 4: What choices did you recently make? (in relation to work) aka = identify choices you recently made.

I decided that I need to change the method of doing the research in this trimester, focus more on the logical relationship between the research method and the question, instead of the final result of the project.

question 5: Why did you make those choices?

I usually make a lot of assumptions before I focus on the project itself. I feel safe when I can foresee the result of the question. But in this way, I get lost easily and miss the point of the project.

question 6: What non-fiction have you recently read?

I read an article about a man who has the ability to understand the social principles in dogs’ world and participate in their society to build the right and healthy relationship with dogs.

question 7: Describe it (aka what is the thesis and what does it conclude?)

it is about this guy clarifying a problem which has been misunderstood by people, especially dog owners, that dogs are acting in the ‘bad’ way is mostly because we don’t know their social principles and how to communicate with them.

question 8: How does it relate to your work? (aka = how is it useful to understanding your own work?)

I am working on the project about the camera fear. When, how and why do most people feel uncomfortable when they are exposed in front of cameras. what makes me interested in that article is how does this dog expert observe dogs and response to them based on knowing their social behaviors. It is not directly related to my project but I think his logical thinking and method of dominating dogs are good examples

question 9: Who is on your art radar? (describe the work)

Casey Neistat He is a filmmaker, vlogger, and co-founder of multimedia company Beme. He is doing the daily vlog to share his life and his crazy ideas on YouTube. The most interesting thing about his work to me is the way he tells stories through cameras.

question 10: Was media are you consuming? question 11: Is there a relation to your work? What is it?

question 12: What question needs an answer?