Thursday, February 15, 2007

the word awkward has WKW...and other revelations

Focusing my sentence:

My sentence from last week:

I am studying the works (or perhaps a specific work) of Wong Kar-Wai because I am trying to find out how his works explore and express transnationalism in order to show how film is more and more shifting from a local to a global product.

Although my conclusion is pretty weak as of now, I think that after I complete my transnationalism cinema class and after I start to analyze WKW's works more, I will arrive at a stronger concluding statement.

I have narrowed the films I want to focus on:

Chungking Express (1994)
Happy Together (1997)
2046 (2004) (Probably not but maybe if I have enough time and find it appropriate)

Audience:

As of now, my project is directed to peers, college age to late 20s perhaps, who have some, but not expert, knowledge of cinema.

Format:

I guess I was pretty inspired by Prof. Kinder's Labyrinth presentation because I want to make a interactive project where the audience gets to explore a interface/space. I think this works really well because a lot of WKW's themes deals with space and time. Hot spots will present information that relates to WKW and transnationalism.

My thoughts so far:

Audience can maneuver around certain spaces in Hong Kong. For example, a HK movie theater. On the marquee it will have a WKW film and a French New Wave film. If you click on the marquee you can compare clips of, say, Chungking Express to Breathless. Or a HK bar where the audience gets to browse the juke box and listen to music which help characterize WKW's movies (Latin, American rock, Chinese covers, Reggae, etc)you

However, I am trying to find a creative, non essayistic, probably multi-layered approach to discussing the transnational themes present within WKW's work.

1 comment:

pweil said...

Good progress - you're getting more specific. Now that you have the general "feel" of the project, you might work from the other end: take one or two "transnational themes" and see what you might design/storyboard around them to discovert the "non-essayistic" treatment.