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 Roland Barthes says in The Death of the Author that we should stop thinking of the author as the one true source of meaning. Instead, a work (whether a book or a film) is a space where many ideas, influences, and voices mix. As he puts it, it’s not a single message from an “Author-God,” but a “multi-dimensional space” (p146). That idea influenced how I made my experimental film, extending further than set design and text components, this time I was thinking about the concept, the production as the whole. I didn’t want to tell viewers exactly what to think or feel. I would use disconnected images, very little dialogue ( similar as my previous idea), and scenes that don’t follow a clear story. I want viewers to bring their own ideas, emotions, and experiences to the film and find meaning for themselves. I don’t think of the film as totally original either. I borrowed styles and techniques from other filmmakers and artists. It’s more like remixing than inventing. In that way, my r...

Journal  During the past week, I've been thinking about the first two messages of the 3 that I will build my film around. First one is the linguistic, and a quote from the book made me rewrite part of the script and improved my dialogue writings way better- that is,  " Does the image duplicate certain of the informations given in the text by a phenomenon of redundancy or does the text add a fresh information to the image ? (p38) This made me think about how I've been building my scenes and it has always been building it from the photography standpoint first. I would need a structured and well built or well planned set for me to work on, as elements in the set will always have symbolic meaning that helps with the delivery of the message. So the text in the dialogue is not only to serve as a description of what is going on the film, nor I want it be how the story will be told straight out, but as quoted  " When it comes to the 'symbolic message', the linguistic ...

Another Experimental Short Film by Nhat Minh Nguyen  Presentation After the 2 film projects I had in ART240, I was very interested in film and motion picture media since it involved so many mediums and components that effectively evoke emotion as well as delivering messages. This time, with the new book of Image, Music and Text, which are the three things I have been experimenting with in the 240 class, in which the two movies had thoroughly planned set with each component has its meaning, which tied into the imagery and aesthetic. The music in both short films that I made was used to carry the film's narrative and the text was experimented with bold in the scene or complete absent of it. This time, with the further analysis on the types messages of image ( The Linguistic Message, The Coded - Iconic Message and the  The Non Coded - Iconic Message) I look forward to further experiment and enhance the media's message deliveries by using different methods and juxtaposition of Ima...