Studio 1 Memory_The Cutting Edge


2. Submit all your notes here (typed); some guiding question are below but feel free to add more to this discussion


Editor do: cut great

the editor is good for the director.

create a story

a language

writer: work

singer: note

editor frame

What were some editing techniques you found interesting? intriguing? 

I think the editor can make a boring screen to become interesting. And when an editor is editing the shoot can create a story.  And you can see the possibilities of the shoot. It is a new language.

Which techniques do you think could help you edit your documentary? why?

I think I can use the skill of slow down the time and speed up it. Moreover, I can add the narrator of the video.

3. Select 3 techniques and find an example of each in movies; explain each technique in writing (one paragraph) and add a clip of the movie that you are using as an example to represent each technique.

In a film, Lucy is used a lot of editing techniques: speed up, speed down and mute the sound. At the beginning of the story, at 00:02:06, the editor shoot the street of HongKong. it is used speed up to create a busy feeling of the city. at 00:03:00, the editor mute the sound and give a shoot of the first human “Lucy”. It creates a very creepy feeling of it. And the moving of the frame is not fluent also create this feeling. Moreover at 00:22:00, there is a sense that cut a bunch of disasters together, the editor uses both speeds up and speeds down together to create this sense.

Studio 1 Memory MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE_Mini-task

From the exhibition,Behind the Screen, select 3 videos and compare them to respond the following question:

1. what is the story told in each video?

The first one is the talk show of a frog.

The second one is a video period of a dinosaur invades someone’s house.

The third one is a lady taking a bus with her friends and sing.

2. how is the story constructed? is it linear? non-linear? 

All of them is linear.

3. Are there any similarities amongst them?

I think they are totally different the first one is a carton, the second one is

4. Any differences?

Their topic, audience, and shooting technique is different



From the installation, The GIF Elevator:

1. how these installation pieces made you feel?

It is a recycle, it is very interesting to see the image repeating again and again.

2. Did you have a strong reaction to one in particular? describe your experience/how it made you feel

When I saw it for a long time it makes me feel dizzy.

Sem1 Memory_the sister of JiaYing

I am a big sister of Jia Ying. I am one of her closest friend that she love. And I am the one that take care of her. In the family, we play together. We always draw, read a book, play computer games. I am also her teacher. I always teach my sister math. She is very bad at it. However, when she studies math, she can not focus on it. It seems like a little bit hard for her. She always asks me how to fix this problem. I usually can fix it. However, sometimes the math questions of primary school also hard to do with. Thus, when the question is hard for me, I always told my sister to fix the question my herself. It is not my business. And I will fix them on my own after I find it out, I will tell my sister the solutions. I don’t like talking but my sister always has something to speak. In this case, I always listen to her to talk about the thing that happened in her school. It is kind of interesting in listening to my sister’s daily life. Moreover, she always shares her food with me. She always gets some snake from her school, and she brings them to home and shares with me. I feel very happy at that time. In addition, my sister is good at singing and drawing. She has talented in it. Moreover, she has a lot of interests in it. I think it is a good thing to have her own interests. I love my sister very much. When I come back to my hometown, my sister is the first one that I want to see. She is one of the most important persons in my life. I love her.

Studio1 Memory _ Bridge 2 _ Contestational Artifacts

Ten Question: 

  1. Can you share a piece of your memory which is happy?
  2. Which animal do you like? Why?
  3. Where did you study in high school? Can you share your experience?
  4. What do you want to do in the future? Is it related to your major?
  5. What fruit do you like? Does it have special meaning?
  6. Which sports do you like? why? Will you be relaxed when you do it?
  7. What challenges did you face in New York?
  8. Which colour do you like? Why?
  9. When you are in a strange place what will you do?
  10. What do you prefer? Stay alone or with a friend? Why?

The Sketch that I draw:

Final Work:


My question is about my partner’s past, current, and future. The past can let me know about my partner’s personal experience. In this case, it gives me the information about which things are important to her.  Then, I ask a lot about her favourites such as her favourite animal, colour, fruit, and sports. I can make objects which base on her preference. The reaction what she is in a strange place can represent her own personalities. When I ask about her expectations of the future, I want to know her thought of herself development. She wants to have her own clothing brand. It indicates that maybe she wants to develop the fashion area. Because right now she is in photography major. If she needs to create her own brand, I think she will learn a lot about the fashion area. The question that I am interested in “What is your most memorable memory in united states.” Because America is totally new to me. I will face a lot of unknowable problem in a new situation.

After I learn about my partner, I find out that she is a cool girl who is like black. When she faced a difficult situation, she can get the solution quickly and be calm. I am also a homesick person, sometimes I very miss my family. All the time, after I make a phone call with my parents, I feel very sad and miss them. I think it happens a lot between international students. Because we live far away from our hometown. Sometimes I also prefer to stay alone. Because school life is very hard for me. I have classes, finish my homework. I also improve my filming skills. In this case, sometimes staying lone makes me feel relaxed. Newyork is a busy city. It has quick pease. It is good to slow down and keep myself alone.

I will make a wood felt black strawberry. Because strawberry is her favourite fruits. My partner also picked strawberry by herself when she was in China. In the interview, she said:” I like strawberry, and I will go to pick strawberries every strawberry season.”  And Black is her favourite colour. She thinks ” black is a classic colour that never goes out of style.” It also shows her personalities. Moreover, She prefers to be alone. It shows that she is a very independent people. In this case, strawberry represents herself.  I will make two leaves, the first one is green and leaf stalk will be red. Red is the colour of the Chinese national flag. So it represents that when My partner was in China she is happy and she lived in China for a long time. The other leave is smaller and yellow because when she is in America she fell very homesick and miss her mother.”I am homesick; I always miss my family, and I have to talk to my Mom in facetime every day, to tell her what happened to me that day.” Moreover, the leaf stalk is blue which the main colour of the American of the national flag.  the strawberry flower will be white, My partner prefers to stay alone which indicate that she needs blank time for herself to relax and do what every she what. ” I prefer to be alone mostly because I think being alone makes me more comfortable and freer. ” The material that I will use is clay. It has a soft texture which also can represent my partner’s personality.

Moreover, I create a bunch of leaves and Leaf still with different colour and shape. To let the audience create their own.



In this project, I think what I need to improve is that I need to have a better one and show more detail of the stuff that I did. Moreover, maybe make some blank space which allows the audience to make their own strawberry and leaves. It can let the audience have connections with my project. Moreover. I can have more delicate detail about planning the process of our work. In this case, I can manage my time better. However, I think the whole project is successful to show. The sculpture is very beautiful. I pretty like this project.

Sem 1 Memory_relativity


  1. I like the environment of the Washington square park. There are a lot of trees, squirrels and a fountain in this park. I feel relaxed when I walk inside it.
  2. When I sit on the chair in Washington Square part. I enjoyed observing others. I like the feeling of people walks around me. When I see the olds are walking with their dogs, for me, it is happiness. When I became old, I also want to walk with my dog every day.
  3. In Washington square park, there are also some performances. Some of them are really interesting such as playing guitars and singing.
  4. There are also a lot of children playing in Washington Square Park. They make me feel very energetic. They give me positive feelings.
  5. I always study with my friends in Bobst Library. It is a very good place to study. There are a lot of books can read. The chairs and desks are comfortable for me to study.
  6. There is a centre of performing art beside Washington Square Park. I like the setting in the centre. I have a very good experience in this centre.
  7. I really like a restaurant around the Bobst Library. It just surve for French Frise. There are a bunch of different types of sources for customers to choose from. I really like the one with pineapple. I didn’t eat it before.
  8. There is a Starbucks beside the Bobst Library. Last semester, my friends and I wanted to study in the Bobst Library at 6 PM. However, I didn’t bring my student ID and the time was too late to sign in as a guest. So we were studying at Starbucks. It is a very memorable experience.
  9. I took a picture in front of the fountain in Washington Square Park. It was the first time that I been there. However, the picture was too ugly that I deleted it.
  10. Last semester, my friends and I finish our final in the library. The wind is very cold and we were too tired to talk with each other. However, when we finish our final project, we were very happy.