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=First MMDC Project Outline Draft=
1.=First MMDC Project Outline Draft=


1.1== Tentative Title==  
== Tentative Title==  


* Youth Subculture in Beijing<br>
* Youth Subculture in Beijing<br>
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*How dreams,films,memory in brain (subconscious) restore as memory<br>
*How dreams,films,memory in brain (subconscious) restore as memory<br>


== Introduction ==
== Introduction ==<br>
    Subculture developing in China through out networks, magazines, and fashion industry. In Internet age, the Propaganda still being produced by mass media, different cultural voices are still being strictly controlled by government as the past 20 years. Subculture always survive in between the gap, its main developing space is to find the mainstream organization to cooperate with, for example fashion or entertainment industry. What's interesting differed from the western subculture is, Chinese subculture audiences are mostly influenced by Western subculture in between 1970-2000s. After decades, Chinese rock'n'roll happened since 1990s, first brought in by some young westerners. China never go through any Sextual revolution or large-scale Feminism movement, subculture spreading on network, cultural products, and also build up the so-called "Beijing street kid"'s dream about the west.
Subculture developing in China through out networks, magazines, and fashion industry. In Internet age, the Propaganda still being produced by mass media, different cultural voices are still being strictly controlled by government as the past 20 years. Subculture always survive in between the gap, its main developing space is to find the mainstream organization to cooperate with, for example fashion or entertainment industry. What's interesting differed from the western subculture is, Chinese subculture audiences are mostly influenced by Western subculture in between 1970-2000s. After decades, Chinese rock'n'roll happened since 1990s, first brought in by some young westerners. And part of the representative of the western subculture, such as the black culture, are equivalent of a second-hand transpass and be distorted and utilized within this situation.China never go through any Sextual revolution or large-scale Feminism movement, subculture spreading on network, cultural products, and also build up the so-called "Beijing street kid"'s dream about the west.


== What are you working on now?==
== What are you working on now?==
 
Collect examples about the subculture thematic, try to find both sociology, psychology, history related information.
I just finished my short video about a retired teacher volunteered to feed the street cats, the way she treat the cats is similar to babysitting. Also learning Affter Effects as preparation of making a short animation video.
Besides, I have a short movie script which I wrote 3 years ago that I want to develop to my first animation experiment. I'm learning After Effects.


==What do you want your first project to be?==
==What do you want your first project to be?==
 
I'm not sure about the title of my first project. Maybe the animation I mentioned above. Or maybe a creative writing about the stories of Beijing street kids and subculture, (there are plenty of insane stories I've seen and heard about).
The video of Mrs.Gao as an example(already done), try to use different tools to express emotions, such as how to pass on sad by different medium(music,language,color,bodylanguage,vj)...
OR try to use different tools to express emotions, such as how to pass on sad by different medium(music,language,color,bodylanguage,visual effects)...


==How do you plan to make it?==
==How do you plan to make it?==
Learn softwares, probably make music and a video to express a same feeling.
Affter Effects, Finalcut, WORD.
Narrative is my inclination. Trained by film school, my critical ability is too limited. So I'll try to concentrate on the more the project itself, try to make the content meaningful.  


=== Reading list ===
=== Reading list ===
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*The Accidental Mind: How brain evolution has given us love,memory,dreams,and god by David Linden <br>
*The Accidental Mind: How brain evolution has given us love,memory,dreams,and god by David Linden <br>
*Kittler Essays <br>
*Kittler Essays <br>
*Subculture: A brief of style<br>
*Religion Expalins by Pascal Boyer <br>
*Religion Expalins by Pascal Boyer <br>




==Why do you want to make it?==
==Why do you want to make it?==
 
Go through the special Chinese way "subculture struggle", I feel responsible to give myself some answers and show it to people who are interested.
Because I want to make music and films, and explore the relevant confused questions, like how do we figure out if it's a good film/music. I guess it's all about emotion connection?


==Who can help you and how?==
==Who can help you and how?==
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== Relation to previous practice ==
== Relation to previous practice ==
 
The skills of storytelling and video softwares as the tool.
I know how to tell story and make video, that can be used as a tool to pass on the emotions


== Relation to a larger context ==
== Relation to a larger context ==

Latest revision as of 14:34, 9 November 2015

1.=First MMDC Project Outline Draft=

Tentative Title

  • Youth Subculture in Beijing
  • Communication between human being and animal
  • How dreams,films,memory in brain (subconscious) restore as memory

== Introduction ==
Subculture developing in China through out networks, magazines, and fashion industry. In Internet age, the Propaganda still being produced by mass media, different cultural voices are still being strictly controlled by government as the past 20 years. Subculture always survive in between the gap, its main developing space is to find the mainstream organization to cooperate with, for example fashion or entertainment industry. What's interesting differed from the western subculture is, Chinese subculture audiences are mostly influenced by Western subculture in between 1970-2000s. After decades, Chinese rock'n'roll happened since 1990s, first brought in by some young westerners. And part of the representative of the western subculture, such as the black culture, are equivalent of a second-hand transpass and be distorted and utilized within this situation.China never go through any Sextual revolution or large-scale Feminism movement, subculture spreading on network, cultural products, and also build up the so-called "Beijing street kid"'s dream about the west.

What are you working on now?

Collect examples about the subculture thematic, try to find both sociology, psychology, history related information. Besides, I have a short movie script which I wrote 3 years ago that I want to develop to my first animation experiment. I'm learning After Effects.

What do you want your first project to be?

I'm not sure about the title of my first project. Maybe the animation I mentioned above. Or maybe a creative writing about the stories of Beijing street kids and subculture, (there are plenty of insane stories I've seen and heard about). OR try to use different tools to express emotions, such as how to pass on sad by different medium(music,language,color,bodylanguage,visual effects)...

How do you plan to make it?

Affter Effects, Finalcut, WORD. Narrative is my inclination. Trained by film school, my critical ability is too limited. So I'll try to concentrate on the more the project itself, try to make the content meaningful.

Reading list

(what I'm reading recently)

  • Sapiens:A brief history of humankind by Yuval Harari
  • The Accidental Mind: How brain evolution has given us love,memory,dreams,and god by David Linden
  • Kittler Essays
  • Subculture: A brief of style
  • Religion Expalins by Pascal Boyer


Why do you want to make it?

Go through the special Chinese way "subculture struggle", I feel responsible to give myself some answers and show it to people who are interested.

Who can help you and how?

Learn AE, AI, FL throughout internet tutorials. I'll discuss with tutors.

Relation to previous practice

The skills of storytelling and video softwares as the tool.

Relation to a larger context

References

Other non-sense additions

  • 1.Anthropology and Zoology

human behaviour
the similarity between animal behaviour and human
Animal express their emotions eg. chimpanzee

  • 2.What technology already can achieve on translating emotions

Some applications working on communication between human and animal
movie "Her" as a module explores the problem it may cause

  • 3.The way human restore memory, dreams, reality...

memories in brain (subconscious) restore as videos
Visual narrative and language as tool of deceit
......