pp2 Story telling

In this pressure project 2, we have 5 hours to work with how do we tell a story with cultural significance.

Thinking about the cultural significance, I decided to tell an ancient Chinese story. I decided to tell the love story between Xuanzong, who is the seventh emperor of Tang dynasty, and Yang Guifei. Their love story has already been recorded a lot through the history and I was really drawn into one movie which also re-investigates the love between them. How much a man can do when he hold the extreme power and what a woman can do by the side of such man.

I found the poetry and a lot of documentation which talk about their love story and the death of Yang online and I summarized and translated by my self in english.

By thinking about tell a story through mass media, I tried to investigate what can be achieved by media editing which would never be done by human voice. So, I decided to record my story sentence by sentence so that I can overlap them, repeat them and manipulate them.

I used Isadora to finish this audio editing. I use the timed trigger to count times so that each sentence can be played at certain timing. This could also be done by a lot of audio programer, but I just want to try with Isadora.

During that presentation, I felt really satisfied by everyone’s feedback and I think they get all the points I want to express. Something about the female cannot hold power in ancient China, some thing about a man can not do everything he want when he hold the extreme power. I felt great that I can express those only through the audio files with my manipulation. And I realize that the sound can really contain, express or even change a lot of informations.