Movie Scene Recreation
Casino Royale poker scene with James Bond
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Adaptation of the Dark Knight
The Dark Knight- Christopher Nolan
Read moreSunday Sketch #9: Recreate A Movie Scene
This scene is from the movie “Monster” (怪物) by Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda. The original scene is two protagonists sitting in an abandoned train facing each other playing the game of guessing the word on the card they hold by asking question. I couldn’t recreate the abandoned train from the props I have, so I […]
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I decided to recreate this scene from the musical “Singin’ in the Rain”. I don’t know a lot about movies, so I consulted a friend who is currently taking a film class to ask her for inspiration. Together, we searched up possible scenes to recreate, and we stumbled across this scene. Each aspect of the […]
Read moreSketch 9: Recreate a movie scene
In this Sunday’s sketch, I recreated the movie scene from the Lion King, when Mufasa was holding up Simba to show the world. Here, I held up my stuffed animal princess turtle, Suki, and looked at it while I was at the beach. Recreating this movie scene was fun and taught me the skills of […]
Read moreLiterary Narrative Part 3 Reflection
Read my Literary Narrative Part 3 Here Converting my literacy narrative into a comic and back into a literary narrative was an eye-opening experience. Returning to the alphabetic version after this exercise felt like stepping into a new creative space, armed with insights I gained through drawing. Distilling my narrative into frames taught me to […]
Read moreBetween Red and Blue: The Books that Taught me to Read and Write – Post-Comic Version
Dusting off its cover, my father hands me a tightly bound book. Its cold, Soviet-industrial print spelled out three bold Chinese characters: 红宝书, Mao’s Little Red Book. I knew instantly what it was—a relic of my hometown Beijing’s history and a symbol of resilience. For generations, this book rallied the Chinese through war and chaos. […]
Read moreLiteracy Narrative Reflection
Before creating the comic, my original draft was unorganized and difficult to understand. It started off strong but towards the end it was difficult to understand what I was trying to say. I could not find the words to convey the message I wanted my audience to get. However, after creating the comic I got […]
Read moreLiteracy Narrative, Part 3 Reflection
My reflection on the third part of my literacy narrative, the re-alphabetization of the essay.
Read moreLiteracy Narrative, Part 3 Reflection
I learned that writing is a process through the literacy narrative assignment, which emphasized the value of review, rewriting, and reflection. Over the course of the semester, the task helped me to hone my concepts and work at a reasonable pace, which decreased my stress levels and helped me create my best work. My perspective […]
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