DanielFilmBlog

Creates films filled with dazzling images- focus on visual expression.  Romanticism French New Wave cinematic Auteur Traits: Often casts Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Maggie Cheung in his films Often wears sunglasses Opening and closing credits against a red or blue backdrop Abstract, abrupt and ambiguous endings with the characters left with ambivalent feelings at the end, leaving the outcome "post-ending" to the viewer's choice and interpretation Usage of flip clocks to show the time in particular scenes Multiple narrators are frequently shown in his films with mostly the thoughts of the respective character being expressed via his/her narration Uses a lot of symbolism or visually metaphorical situations to depict the moods of his characters in various situations while they are doing apparently mundane things on-screen Dull-lit &/or color-filtered-lit rooms Frequent usage of time-lapse photography Quick freeze-frames to emphasize the specific important m

Link to Video Evaluation This video, while made under a small time budget, was somehow more compelling to me than the whole of the last video project we tried.The main strengths of this video I would say are the big vibrant facial expressions from Dan that really exaggerate his performance and give the video a similarity to the German Expressionist style. I also considered using double exposure in my long shot of the group to combines the Lumiere brother's fixed camera capturing life and the more complex edited expressionist type of film that fits more to Melies. To improve, we could have perhaps considered more fitting music that suited the time however we thought that music that suited the look of the video would be stronger and follow the narrative better.