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My recent work ‘Improvisation’ is a video which focus on a subject that the strict manipulation of online world in China has brought people in a post-truth era, those historical events, people and things that have been removed deliberately will still have an impact on social development despite they disappear in the virtual world, so I have been thinking about whether the truth will become more and more difficult to reach online, And with the tightening of censorship and the disappearance of real history, will our social identity fall into nihilism as the virtual world continues to collapse? But ‘Improvisation’ is just like the name, it's actually a visual note, I spent a couple of months filling it. When I was doing research I will have some sudden ideas, sometimes it’s an image or a single word, sometimes it will be a story… I continued stacking and collaging images, texts , sounds , music that I could think of. It will be a strong visual reference before I come to the formal creation.

I wrote a script currently, but it’s still untitled for now, and It will be a short animation film: A long time ago, people's shadows had their own eyes, the human’s eyes see the part that was illuminated by the light, and the shadow's eyes see the secret hidden in the shadow. The story happened in a small town with a silent monster sit on the hill for years. One day, the monster on the hill broke into the town and attacked on some people, breaking the previous harmony, and the people in the town fell into a huge panic. The government quickly worked out a response to soothe the public. They launched a new pill, once people take it, the monster will disappear in front of their eyes. But it seems that only a 12-year-old boy—Ming, noticed the unusualness of the pill, so he decided not to take it and find out the truth about the monster alone…

Apparently, there is a strong connection between my two works, and the current script is summarising the content of the previous video, while giving these conceptual, abstract images,sounds, figures a story, a context to present them.

The biggest difference between the two works is the structure. The first video has no logic, all I need to do is recording what I think of and what I find out. But the second one is a complete story, provide all those abstract visual elements a context.

I think I will spend some time on character design next before painting, because I don't want the time line of this work be so long, so I could only show the character changes and choices through the change of his appearance, for example, if there’s person who is stubborn, then his appearance will look different with those who are gentle and soft.

I think I can show my scripts to my friends and classmates, they may gave me some of their imagination towards the story, and also I need some technical advices , for instance, how to choose a proper frame rates and whether using software to creat.

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