2013年9月10日星期二

new Questionnaire

Questionnaire

1. What is your occupation?
□ Management
□ Business and Financial Operations
□ Computer and Mathematical
□ Architecture and Engineering
□ Life, Physical, and Social Science
□ Community and Social Service
□ Legal Education, Training, and Library
□ Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media
□ Healthcare Practitioners and Technical
□ Healthcare Support Occupations
□ Food Preparation and Serving Related
□ Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance
□ Personal Care and Service
□ Sales and Related
□ Office and Administrative Support
□ Farming, Fishing, and Forestry
□ Construction and Extraction
□ Installation, Maintenance, and Repair
□ Production
□ Transportation and Material Moving Occupations
□ Student
□ Other _____

2. How old are you? 18~29/ 30~39/ 40-49/ 50-59/ Over 60

3. What is your gender?
□ Male   □ Female

4. Where are you from? / Which province are you from?


5. Do you mean “After watching both flat story films do you think that the act of eating is an important element in the story?”
□ Yes     □ No

If yes, which part you think important?
□ Susan’s dinner with Jack (The film describes this dinner and doesn’t actually show it)
□ Susan’s lunch with Nancy
□ Susan’s invitation to Nancy and Rita

Could you tell me why you think it is important?


    If no, my project is how might Chinese convention be applied in the Chinese low-budget      comedy film, could you tell me which typical Chinese convention can be applied in the Chinese low-budget comedy film, which can demonstrate China’s characters and close to Chinese daily life?


6. Could you recognize the Chinese fairy tale in flat story2?
□ Yes
□No
If yes, do you know what is it?

If no, my project is how might Chinese culture be applies in the Chinese low-budget comedy film, could you tell me which typical Chinese culture can be applied in the Chinese low-budget comedy film, which can show Chinese style and most Chinese people like it?



7. Do you feel that the specific dialect used in the film makes it funnier?
□Yes
□No
If yes, which dialect of areas you think that would make the story of film seem   funnier?



         Why you think it would make the film funnier?





8. Could you realize some behaviour of characters or plots in the <Flat Story2>, , their happen is caused by Chinese some social condition
□ Yes
□ No
If yes, could you tell me which part you realize it? What is it?



         If No, my project is how might Chinese social convention be applied in Chinese low-budget comedy film for closing most ordinary Chinese people’s real life, reflecting Chinese social problem? Could you tell me what Chinese social condition can show these aspects in the Chinese low-budget comedy film?



9. In the <Flat Story2>, Susan image that she knock Rita’s door, but she did not do that. Do you think this part is interesting?
 □ Yes
 □No
        
         If yes, could you tell me why you feel this part is interesting?



         If no could you give me another way which can make the film more interesting?



         








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Name of researcher taking consent ……Zhuo Wang ……
Date ……10-09-2013……

Signature: Zhuo Wang




2013年8月15日星期四

Questionnair

Questionnaire (by watching <flat story>)

1>  Do you think there is a difference between Chinese and occidental? Chinese people like paying the bill for friends when they go to the restaurant but occidental like separate.      
                         YES          NO

2>  Do you think separate payment is a stingy behavior in China? Especially when a man and a woman together go to restaurant, man pay the entire bill that can show the better behavior.
                         YES          NO

3>  Do you think the eating way of Chinese people can share food with other people, but occidental is not; they just eat the food in one’s own plate.
                         YES          NO

4>  Do you think as for Chinese people, sometimes they invent friends to dinner for promoting friendship?
                         YES          NO

5>  Do you think as for Chinese, sometimes they invent people to diner for special purpose, such as a repayment way, a kind of stratagem?
                         YES          NO

6>  Do you think that adapting Chinese fairy tale can give you new good feeling?
                         YES          NO
What kind of feeling you have?
1>  Interesting because the new idea and new meaning
2>  Romantic or legendary atmospheres because their good imagination.

7>  Do you think localism can be more reflecting real existence state to ordinary people, meanwhile, localism can make you happy?
                          YES          NO

8>  What kind of localism of China you feel funny?
1>  Northern dialects like Dong Bei, Si Chuan, and He Nan
2>  Min-nan dialect
3>  Hakka dialect

9>  Do you think ‘ loser’ is an important social issue in China?
                          YES          NO
Could you tell me what kind of trouble things they have for these ‘loser’?


10>           Do you like Dream polyphony structure in this film?
YES       NO

What is your feeling?
1>  Funny
2>  Interesting
3>  Boring

11> Could you give some comments to these Chinese convention, culture, and social issue? And what is your opinion?








 
       
                       



2013年8月13日星期二

Narrative structure -----Dream structure.

Dream  structure. 

In dreams and imagination as the main link and content, with more than two narrative lines form dialogue and conflict, from the physical space-time to psychological time-space.


Advantages: 1>To highlight the character's "psychological space", in-depth character.
                      2>it is a better way to develop plots.


In my film< flat story >, applying this structure to describe Susan's mental activity, furthermore, developing more plots in the film. making the film more interesting.  

Reference:http://group.mtime.com/angieng/discussion/737052/
                     http://baike.baidu.com/view/2209604.htm
                     http://qkzz.net/article/3ee39518-dc3f-441d-9237-56e50aedde12_2.htm

                     

2013年8月9日星期五

Analyzing ----loser


  • I wrote the script about "loser". In fact, Jack and Susan are both "loser".
  • Jack is a loser, he comes from a small rural area. His family is poor. Although he get a high education by his working hard, he still a poor guy, because it not means he can get a hight pay job in the future, his family cannot able to help him and employment is very difficult in China.
  •    Thus, from Jack's heart, he has a sense of inferiority. He always feel no girls can like him. He cannot get  a girlfriend.
  •   So I wrote a plot about this, although Susan is not a good girl, Jack still try his best to make Susan happy, because he really need love, need a girlfriend.
  • Susan also is a loser because she make effort to getting luxury life. Thus, she forced her goy friend buy everything she wants because she cannot able to afford by herself.  












Chinese social condition----the big gap between rich and poor


  • Why I talk about this and tend to make plots about this in Chinese low-budget comedy films?
           The reason is that this is an important social issue to China, in other words, it can illustrate       recently the social condition of China and the existence state of Chinese ordinary people. It  not only can close to Chinese people, but also can reflect Chinese social problem from films. 
  • At present, China has become one of the world's largest disparity between the rich and the poor.
  • Thus, as for low social status people in China, they are difficult to climb the social ladder.(because that their education, house register or family background.......)
  • This situation not only affect their living condition and also affect their mental condition. Most of these people have a sense of inferiority.  So they like call themselves "loser"

There are many low-budget comedy film to show "loser"'s life. Like the film< getting home>, a man take his dead body of colleague go to his hometown. The man have not money, so most time he has to carry the dead body on the way. 
<Getting Home>, 2007


Another comedy film can be seen, <Lucky Dog>, the hero is a worker, he has retired. His wife sick but he does not have money to pay the medical fee. His daughter married with an officials, but her husband is not nice to her, even he does not respect the hero, because that they are low-social status people. The hero always said he is a lucky god although he is not in his life.

                                                               <Lucky Dog>, 2009

The satiric character can be seen from events of their life, meanwhile, they show that unimportant people's funny behavior.  These points help low-budget comedy film to make funnier.