Final Project

Asian Americans of Hunter: a Snapshot of the Asian American Student Experience from Kevin Park on Vimeo.

Blog 4 | ADR Interactive in MoMI

Before walking into the small ADR studio in MoMI with my classmates, I only knew two things about ADR: that it stood for automated dialogue replacement and that using ADR was helpful for replacing poor dialogue audio or tweaking to match the tone of a piece. It didn't seem very relevant to me because I figured that I would not be needing to replace dialogue for any of my Media Production 160 projects. The only way I was able to picture myself using ADR was using a program like Audacity on my pc and plugging in a microphone, read off from a script, and then carefully sync my new audio with the video in premiere pro. 

At my visit to MoMI I and a group of three other individuals did some ADR. We did dialogue replacement for Marilyn Monroe's character, Sugar Kane, in the Some Like it Hot scene at the beach with Joe. 

One thing I noticed was the short amount of time our group of voice actors had. We had just enough time to say lines outloud for practice in a normal tone, and then we had a few seconds to act out the script. 

I also noticed during the playbacks with ADR that all foley sounds and other actor's dialogue were perfectly synced to help make our own dialogue replacement appear seamless. 

I'm not sure how technology for ADR has changed because I've only seen one system, but I assume that one common problem of replacing dialogue is matching words with lip movement. 

Andrew Traficante Audio Portrait

Kevin Park & Ailsa Wu | Treatment, Interview Questions, Shots List

MEDP 160 – Lab 2 | Kevin Park, Ailsa Wu

Mini-Documentary: Treatment

The film opens up with a text card saying “What does it meant to be Asian American?” and leads to a montage of closeups of 3-5 different Asian American Hunter students  answering the question. “Yuri Kochiyama” by Blue Scholars is playing in the background.

We see Daniel Song sitting in Fighting Game Association, playing King of Fighters with his pad. KOF sounds. Daniel answers “What groups do you fit into?” Daniel explains his high school life and not fitting in with Asians. Daniel mentions going into Marine Corps after graduating from Bronx Science. Documentary cuts into photos of him during his time at the Marine Corps. Daniel describes the typical conversation non-Asians ask him when they meet him: “Where are you from?” “Bronx” “No, I mean, where were you born?” “The Bronx.” “I mean, you know what I mean!” “No, I don’t.” Viewer sees my finger (nails painted with different flags of Asian countries, that particular nail with SK flag) pointing to Pelham Bay Parkway on the subway map. Daniel answers what he thinks being Asian American means. There is no music but Daniel looks at camera, puts in an earbud and we hear his music for a few seconds. It’s very atypical from the majority of people in his age group.

Day time, Jeff Kang with his backpack on walking down Thomas Hunter block, camera sees his back. My finger points to College Point on the subway map. Viewers hear the explanation of his Korean name: “I guess it makes sense because my name has the word sky in it, and I’m tall.” Viewer hears me ask him why he’s taking Asians in U.S. While he answers, viewers see him opening up his pencil case.

Interview Questions

Daniel Song:

What groups did you fit into growing up in a first generation Korean American family?

How well do you know speak Korean?

How much do you know about Korean culture?

When did you join the Marine Corps?

What do you think being Asian American means?

Jeff Kang:

What’s your Korean name? What does it mean?

Where were you born and raised?

Are you surrounded by a Korean community?

Has anyone ever told you that you weren’t Korean enough?

Do you consider yourself Asian-American?

Why are you taking Asians in U.S. this semester?

CRAASH Members- Linda Luu, Alina Shen, Danica Pagulayan, Jing Ney Leong, Evelyn Mau

What is Asian American Studies?Why is AAS important?

What makes Hunter AAS unique?

What courses have you taken?

What is CRAASH and why was it created?

Why are you in CRAASH?

What is CRAASH up to now?

Shot List

Students walking outside Hunter.

CU/MU students’ feet

Montage of students answering question by HW Lobby or sky bridge

MU/CU of students faces

Shots of AASP Office

LS of office with open door.

CRAASH member interview in front of CRAASH sign.

Jeff walking

ELS, shows Hunter Campus (West building) and Jeff is centered. MLS, we see Jeff’s torso and up, him walking. MS of Jeff speaking

Subway

CU of finger on subway map, eye level.

Daniel Song

LS Daniel playing KOF, Eye level CU while he talks (remember rule of thirds)

Pelham Bay Parkway

(Any) shots of White Hill Road that depict loneliness

Assignment 3: In the Mood for Love | Car, Mail, and Clock Scenes

Clip starts at 35:54 and ends at 37:15.

36:00 Medium Close Up shot of Mrs. Chan and Mr. Chow in car at night. There is no music, there are only sounds of the car going down the road in the background. They both avoid eye contact. The street lights occasionally seep into the car, shining on them, creating tension in their clandestine meeting.
36:16 Cut-in of Mr. Chow brushing his hand against Mrs. Chan's hand, and their hands are illuminated by the street lamp. When Mrs. Chan pulls her hand away and the camera focuses on Mr. Chow's retracting hand the light leaves the shot. There's a sense of loneliness in this scene Mrs. Chan makes it clear that she would prefer to avoid making their relationship romantic.
36:25 Extreme Long shot of a house keeper bringing Mrs. Chan a letter. Mrs. Chan is very distant from the camera, perhaps emphasizing the distance between her and her husband who is on a business trip in Japan. Mrs. Chan looks tiny, vulnerable and lonely. The sound of their dialogue is low and matches the distance of the camera from the characters.
36:49 Medium Shot of Mr. Chow slouching and crumpling the letter from his wife in his bedroom. A door takes up a third of the shot, and Mr. Chow looks away from the camera, giving us the feeling of peeking into his matters without his knowing. There are photos of a woman hanging on the wall above the bed. The walls are pink but the room is very dimly lit. We know it's night time because the lamps are on. There's a feeling of anxiety and frustration. Mr. Chow slams the door.
36:56 Close up of a Siemens Clock, pedestal down. It is 1:10. We don't see Mr. Chow or Mrs. Chan but we hear them talking about the letter. Their voices are very quiet.

The colors are very dark for these four clips and the cuts are seamless, there is always atleast a variation of 30 degrees except in the case of the clock scene.

Blog 2 | Soundwalk

Keynotes: background sounds

• Sound Signals: foreground sounds intended to attract attention.
What sounds are clues to a specific neighborhood?

Location: Woodhaven, Queens
Time: Tuesday Evening | 5pm
Season: Fall

The sky was glowing orange and most of the school children had gotten off from after-school when I began my soundwalk in Woodhaven. In all of the soundwalk I could hear varying pitches of the leaves being blown by the wind. If the breeze was light, the rustling of leaves on the trees would whisper lightly, and if the breeze was strong and lingering, you could hear the wind circle from one tree to another, touching four or five trees before the rustling was inaudible.

I could hear the drilling of holes inside someone's home: it had to be drilling of a wall because the pitch was deep and long, whatever was being drilled was not hallow, and the sound was too clean for it to have been a jackhammer on the floor.

In the distance there was a (happy sounding) screaming toddler.

Occasionally, if they were close enough, (three feet away) I would hear the flapping of sparrows. (They're the small round brown birds with gray and light brown bellies,)

I counted two people long-boarding down the road.

I heard an ice cream truck playing "Pop Goes the Weasel." I expected to hear a wave of children screaming, following the playing of icecream truck song.
I heard some police sirens. I heard a few cars whirring by, a slow smooth whirring because there were no speed bumps.
"Honk" went a fire truck.
I heard three ambulances wail within a span of an hour.

At the end of my soundwalk, I heard a young man cussing.

Define a Place - Ailsa Wu

Define a Place | Ailsa Wu MEDP 160: 03 from Ailsa on Vimeo.

Artist Statement

Whenever I make new friends, I barrage them with questions: Do you play anything? Are you indifferent to the smell of cold Spring nights? In hypothetical situation ____, would you...?

"You're like that kid that doesn't stop asking an adult 'why?'" my friend Daniel told me.

I like people watching: I like observing people's interactions, facial expressions, and listening to the variation of tones in their words because I like when people's masks peel off. I feel that out of stress from our obligations, our baggage from our past hurts, we numb ourselves and tuck away who we are.

I like classes that deal with emotion and self expression: Creative Writing, Classical Mythology, Film 101. My favorite class at Hunter is Classical Mythology, taught by Professor Jeffrey Barnes.

I'm not looking to reveal "beautiful" interactions between people. My only experience with media has been an enrichment class that I took in middle school, but with this class I hope to (I'm not original here) remind people that it's okay to feel, and be vulnerable.