14_ Suddenly, a Knock on the Door

1. The story is so weird for me, I tried to get the point of this story but not really. I read it for few times and can't feel what's that about. A man is forced to tell a story for three strangers? What's the background story? What is the meaning of this story? Story happens in a room with conversations, and the author must means something about that, but I'm just so confused about that. That's my reaction for this short.

2. The only connection for me might be that guy who is write story who is forced to give stories in front of few strangers. As a computer animation major, we need to keep producing stories during my college life. It's easy to make up stories when I see something inspired when I'm in a relaxing mood, or without pressure. But mostly they are just concepts, not completely structure stories. Our job in class is making full structure stories for three years student life. and we keep producing it only for short term. It's kind of forced for me, like the guy in the story. Sometime it's difficult to make up a story I like, but I learn to tell stories and understood how the process works. It's still kind of hard to forced to make it up, but after keep doing that it getting easier.

3. I would like to use animation type to make this story. For a story to make it in the animation, this one seems like too live action type, I think I will exaggerate it, not just how the character's acting, even setting for the environment can be more entertain. Like to make it more surreal, because this story is just not making sense to me. I can make it just like a day dream type of thing, and exaggerate the proportion of characters, make it more dreaming like. The facial expression is also a fun thing to change in this story, make characters are talking, and their expression can be interested to push it more. The force, I mean the gun they pull out can also push. But anyway, the animation is the medium I would like to use.

11_ Long from Television

    I rarely watch American TV show until recently the stranger thing grab my eye, I heard lots about it around my friends especially last semester, because the second season just about to released at that moment, so I finished it and feel like I really love how the American TV show works, In my age (I'm not really old by the way), I kind of born in the Taiwanese TV show just about to became popular at that time period. And the show type is always same and easier to get tired with. I used to watched TV show when I was in the elementary school and junior high, but then the internet came out, it became the most popular thin around me. I learned to use it for everything even entertainment, so I stopped to watch TV show from living room with families, and kind of lost the interest on TV show. But the Stranger Things get my attentions, I really enjoyed it.

    For this section, I choose Black Mirror for my study point, I saw some reviews and know that is about some weird si-fi topic but also study about human being, that is the most attract me parts. Season One the first episode is kind of disgust me, it satirize many different things like the indifferent government, and the news media who willing to do anything to get the first hand information, and the people who follow the public without empathy with litigant. It's kind of suck and feel real in this world, which just happening around us. Second episode is satirizing the virtual reality and the popular youtuber kind of thing. It's also feel so real because the internet is so popular right now, and vlog is a good way to earn salary, but somehow some people trying so hard to get audience attention, they willing to do something they're not really want to do or even just show something that people would like to see. I like how this TV show about talking something that is really happening in this world.