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- Title: Subtitle
- “I will strive to repair this”
- Creators
- Hao Zhou
- Contributors
- Anahita Ghazvinizadeh (Advisor)Rachel Cox (Committee Member)Christopher Harris (Committee Member)
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Degree Awarded
- Master of Fine Arts (MFA), University of Iowa
- Degree in
- Film and Video Production
- Date degree season
- Spring 2022
- DOI
- 10.17077/etd.006401
- Publisher
- University of Iowa
- Number of pages
- iv, 16 pages
- Copyright
- Copyright 2022 Hao Zhou
- Language
- English
- Description illustrations
- illustrations
- Description bibliographic
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 15-16).
- Public Abstract (ETD)
- "I Will Strive to Repair This” analyzes Hao Zhou’s forthcoming feature film (title pending). The paper’s title is a quote from the film’s main character: Wang, a man who spins webs of lies but claims (questionably) that he wants to set things right. The quote is also a reference to the film’s period of post- production (editing, sound mixing, visual effects, etc.), when the original images and sounds were transformed to create the final product. In this thesis, the discussion focuses on the key methods and thoughts behind the film’s post-production. The thesis statement introduces the filmmaker’s major inspirations and influencing in writing and post-producing this film. These influences include such filmmakers as Lou Ye, Pedro Almodóvar, and Naomi Kawase, as well as scholarship relating to the representation of Asian characters in cinema, particularly in Western-made cinema. covers three main sections relevant to the post-production stage. The first section if Image, consisting of editing, aspect ratios, color grading (that is, changing the color characteristics of the image), and title cards. The second section is Sound, consisting of dialogue dubbing and foley (that is, re-creating sounds for the film), sound design, and music. The final section is an overview of the film’s on-screen captions, in which the original Chinese-language dialogue is translated into English.
- Academic Unit
- Cinematic Arts
- Record Identifier
- 9984271253802771