March In 2012

The first conversation between Ivan and I related to phase 2 discussion, the amazing moment was happened today. Based on the lasting interest of social network, I prefer to choose my topic around it in Screen Culture field. Recently amounts of social network focus on making friends produced both in UK and China bring a popular storm, eg. Talk box, Weixin. I present a detailed description to my tutor, from my classmates and Ivan's facial expression, I confirm that it should be a "Fresh" in today. 

What is " TalkBox":

★ Push-to-talk INSTANT voice messaging, text messaging, photo sharing and location sharing with your friends 

★ Cross-Platform Messenger

★ FREE and works over WIFI, 3G and any other data network

★ GROUP CHATS

★ Post voice to Facebook, Twitter and make broadcast to all your friends

★ Address Book and Facebook contact Integration

★ Conversation History & message notification

★ Themes to suit your moods

★ iPod Auto-Resume: Seamlessly work with iPod. Pause iPod when playing voice from TalkBox, and auto-resume   afterwards

What is "Weixin":

 It is likely a clone of " Talkbox", but has one key advantage to Chinese Users. Just about every single Chinese Internet users has a QQ account, for many QQ is the internet. For Weixin, a QQ account is the only log-in option, which also immediately allows the app to pull from a user’s existing QQ social graph.

Bibliography:

1. Green Tomato Limited ( 2011), " TalkBox Voice Messager," Available at :

    http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/talkbox-voice-messenger/id412710421?mt=8

2. Sunny Ye ( 2011), " Weixin, Tencent's Bringing The Mobile IM Revolution To The Main Stream", 

    Available at:

    http://techrice.com/2011/09/21/weixin-%E5%BE%AE%E4%BF%A1-tencents-bringing-the-mobile-im-      revolution-to-the-mainstream/

March In 2012

Nakata’s Ringgu, which in its opening ‘teenager at home’ death sequence, technophobia and female investigative journalist as central character.” (Ruth Goldberg, 2005). At the beginning of Ringgu, an urban legend has begun to spread among the teenage population of Tokyo during the late summer of 1997. The legend concerns a mysterious video cassette, the mere playing of which dooms the viewer to certain death. Those people who watch the video immediately thereafter receive a telephone call informing them that they have but one week to live. Each person who died in “Ringgu” can readily by infer from the terror-stricken expressions on their dead faces: their heart have stopped beating from sheer fright. What’s more each of the dead would receive a call as a death notice, the telephone ring come to be the terrorist signal through the movie. As the representative horror cinema in Japan, it contains almost all of the factors and characteristics called as " Japanese style", it fully deserved as the study case in my work. I find a common  phenomenon in this typical film, the ghost always turns up  in a unexpected situation without any dialogue or sound, the " suddenly" moment should be the most effective way to shock the audiences heart. 

Bibliography: 


1. 1.      Richard J. Hand (2005), “JAPANESE HORROR CINEMA: Aesthetics of Cruelty: Traditional Japanese Theatre and the Horror Film”, Edinburgh University Press Ltd.

March In 2012

After I collecting information and field management, I search for the clue of the entire arrangement. The purpose of my work is analysis the power of silence in film industry, I select the horror cinemas both in Japanese and American's as my research target. Examples for study case will be more highly persuasive evidence combined with illustration. I start the first step of my whole research process with the Japanese horror film " Ringgu" which is the original idea in my opinion. From the book which is written by Richard J. Hand “JAPANESE HORROR CINEMA: Aesthetics of Cruelty: Traditional Japanese Theatre and the Horror Film”, I learnt amounts of information and analysis related to this cinema, in meanwhile I get a completely definition and developing process of Japanese Horror film industry. Including all of the factors, issues and material, I arrange the management step by step, a good harvest to my work.

March In 2012

I do a research focus on Japanese and American horror cinema, I select the books that I will be used in my essay, the list as follows:

• “JAPANESE HORROR CINEMA: Aesthetics of Cruelty: Traditional Japanese Theatre and the Horror Film” 
• “The Sound of the World Turned Inside Out”
• “HORROR, THE FILM READER: PART ONE: THEORIZING HORROR: Why Horror? “
• SOUND DESIGN: CHAPTER 5: MUSIC TO OUR EARS: RHYTHM AND ANTICIPATION: Silence”

Bibliography:

1.   Richard J. Hand (2005), “JAPANESE HORROR CINEMA: Aesthetics of Cruelty: Traditional Japanese Theatre and the Horror Film”, Edinburgh University Press Ltd.
2. Ruth Goldberg (2005), “JAPANESE HORROR CINEMA: The Nightmare of Romantic Passion in Three Classic Japanese Horror Films”, Edinburgh University Press Ltd.
3.   Philip Brophy (2005), “The Sound of the World Turned Inside Out”, Edinburgh University Press Ltd.
4. .      Noel Carroll (2002), “HORROR, THE FILM READER: PART ONE: THEORIZING HORROR: Why Horror? “ British Library Congress Cataloguing in Publication.
   5.    David Sonnenschein (2001), “SOUND DESIGN: CHAPTER 5: MUSIC TO OUR EARS: RHYTHM AND ANTICIPATION: Silence”, Published by Michael Wiese Productions.
   
   
   
   

March In 2012

Today I settle up the frame of my essay, I compare with the three different form of my work, finally I prefer the traditional essay than the others, it can both show the illustrations and words to give a clearly comparison and definition of my opinion, it directly present the analysis between Japanese and American Horror films. 

March In 2012

The first tutorial with Ivan, I made the decision to change the idea from the Chaplin to Horror cinema, it was inspired by the unforgettable impression of my first experience of Japanese horror cinema " Ringgu", it has been several years happened in my junior high school, however it left quite terror memory until now. Without perfect story design and charters dialogue, underlying the scaring psychological hint and  horror atmosphere, in between sound effects, character design and unexpected scene take the important part in the film. Usually the ghost turns up with low background music and without any dialogue,  it creates strong impact to audiences' mind and reaches the best effective of horror cinemas. Silent plays a quite important issue in this typical film. I present the opinion and communicate with my tutor, we arranged the agreement and got the permission to do the research of horror films, and Ivan suggested me to do a comparison between Japanese and American Horror cinemas.

March In 2012

  The first idea come to my mind about the phase 1: the silence of power is about the world famous comedy master Chaplin, he is well known for the silence cinema, there is no word through the entire cinema. He performed by action and facial expression in the stage, however Chaplin's humorous style creates a unforgettable and deeply impression in audiences' mind.