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Longchang Department

Old image of Shanghai

Yuxin Qi

http://imanas.shanghai.nyu.edu/~qy648/documentary/index.html

Description

My concept is about the story of old Shanghai. The inspiration of this project is from the documentary Manufactured Landscape where it portraits the image of modern Shanghai. So I want to show a very different image of Shanghai, which may have gradually been forgotten by people, an old, densely-populated, but full of warmth and tranquility. When we think about developments, we always it is a beneficial word, it represents advance, better quality and so on. But is it true that it is one hundred percent good? Will it also lose something valuable? For me personally, the answer is yes. The development of high buildings blocks the close relationships between neighbors; the fast-paced city life pushes us to always go on and never stop to enjoy the serenity. It is due to these reasons that I want to shoot the life in old Shanghai and also give myself a chance to be more familiar with it.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
Communications Lab
Culture,Narrative/Storytelling
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Corner Pockets

It is a text adventure game and visitors need to find the clues and infer which one is the killer, otherwise they will be killed by the ghost.

Jiachen Zhou

https://s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com/ima.nyu.edu/commlab/leon/johnny/index.html

Description

The storyline is that 5 students are going to make a film and due to the long journey, they need to find someplace to stay up for the night. They finally find an abandoned theater and decide to check whether it’s safe and suitable for staying. While in this process, one of the main characters was found killed in his room. And a ghost suddenly appeared, announcing that if they don’t find the killer, all of them will be killed. The story is based on a Japanese animation called “氷菓ひょうか” and Christie Agatha's novel.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
Communications Lab
Narrative/Storytelling
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4 Seasons of Sanyu

Four stages of Sanyu, the Chinese Van Gogh's frustrated life

Haoyu Ding

https://wp.nyu.edu/enatub/week-9-leon-ding-documentation-of-project-3-18th-apr/

Description

This project mainly shows four stages during the life of Sanyu, with “four seasons” as a metaphor. For those who may never hear about this name, Sanyu is kinda like a Chinese Van Gogh, who spent most of his life in poor and unappreciated condition, but still left lots of art pieces that have been given high credit to by posterity. The main purpose of this project is to share an experience from Sanyu’s life with the users. When you’re watching those paintings of his, you would also listen to audios that uncover his life and thus have a better understanding of his personality and what he’s undergone.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
Communications Lab
Sound
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A Walk in the Woods

A beautiful escape for your cabin fever riddled quarantine brain.

Alexandra Mariamma Mathew

http://imanas.shanghai.nyu.edu/~amm1429/IMA-show-doc

Description

This project was heavily inspired by my love of ASMR and a great need to get out of my house during quarantine. I wanted to create a project that brought together great visuals and soothing audio to take the participant's mind off of whatever may be weighing heavily on them. I this project I aimed for authenticity coupled with a relaxing atmosphere.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
Communications Lab
Sound
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murder, the murder

Every murder happens for a reason.

Jiashi Zhao

https://youtu.be/6U2KtkKARb8

Description

You will be taken to his computer…to find out the truth.

This interactive documentary takes you to the mysterious case of Skai Qin, an unemployed young man who is suspected that he brutally murdered his roommate, Ian. However, after the police detective, Darren Chu, found out that they look exactly identical, things started to become more and more out of control.

Greatly inspired by the popular game “Her Story”, this interactive “mockumentary” brings you to the computer screen of the detective Darren Chu. With each click triggering the next move, you will be guided to find out the truth, or not.

IMPORTANT NOTE: IF IT DOESN'T SEEM TO WORK AFTER CLICKING “INVESTIGATE”, TRY REFRESH SEVERAL TIMES AND THEN SMASH YOUR MOUSE BUTTON.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
Communications Lab, Communications Lab
Performance,Narrative/Storytelling
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Old Town Story

An interactive documentary on trifle things in a small town in China.

Yifei Li

https://s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com/ima.nyu.edu/commlab/moon/fay-li/index.html

Description

This is an interactive documentary existing on a webpage. I shot many short videos, record things happening in a typical Chinese small town. I want to give the viewers a sense of what life here is like, which can be new to many people. The viewers can interact with the documentary and make different choices to explore various scenes.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
Communications Lab
Narrative/Storytelling
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Ori's Adventure

Hover and scroll down and listen !!!

Siyuan Yu

https://s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com/ima.nyu.edu/commlab/moon/siyuan-yu/index.html

Description

The Images and and the two characters in my project are screenshots taken from two video games called “Ori and Wills of the Wisps” and “Ori and the Blind Forest” by Moon Studios. In this project, is a story that Ori and Naru (The two Characters) were brought to a dangerous place and they had to escape from that place and to find the paradise where they can stay safe (In the second Picture). The background sound of thunder and roar was simulating by me.And users and hover to the two characters to listen to their voices to find their mood at that time. When the scrolling down to the third picture, you will be very easily hover on the body of the great devil, and might be frightened by the sudden roar of the devil. But that’s one of my goal to make user realize that they have met a devil. In the fourth picture, the background music becomes harmonious, and there is an eagle flying by. The user can hover on the eagle to hear the sound of the eagle. In the last page, the two characters reach to the paradise successfully. Users can hover on the two characters to hear the change of their mood. And the final background music is echoing to the bgm in the first page. In the first page, there was only piano, and it was played and recorded by me. The bgm in the last page is the Game OST, which add some more elements including human voices.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
Communications Lab
Sound
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The Lost Forest

A virtual soundscape that provides immersive spooky experience.

Yuchen Wang

https://s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com/ima.nyu.edu/commlab/moon/barry-wang/index.html

Description

In this project, I would like to create an imaginary space of a forest that sunk underneath a lake. The idea come from a game series called Rusty Lake. When I was playing that game, the horrifying feeling it brings generates great excitement to me. I aim to create such a forest so as to construct a spooky and horrifying space. This forest under the lake is set to be a place to empty one's mind and escape from reality. The purpose is to bring the users an immersive experience of mental stimulation, and also a of place for meditation and self-reflection, though in a bizarre way. In this project, multiple sound objects are applied, including some recorded sound, including some real forest and underwater sound. Besides artificial ones are also applied. The goal is to make this soundscape easily acceptable by the audience, while inspiring their imagination to think beyond the soundscape itself and come up with his or her on story that may happen behind it. To make the whole project more completed and more surprising, I added a loop when the users finish their first round. It makes the story much spookier, as if this is a haunted forest that one can never leave.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
Communications Lab
Sound,Art
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The Inside World of a Smoker

This is a tiny story originated from an ordinary life, unfolding as a stream of consciousness

Yuntong Dai

https://s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com/ima.nyu.edu/commlab/moon/hazel-dai/index.html

Description

This is a documentary project from the communications lab. It is very mini, and the users can explore the webpage with easy interactions. The main concept is to know about a smoker's life-story, anxiety, and childhood. The mini-documentary is shot with iPhone 11 pro, and the style is diverse but uniformed meanwhile. You can see some elements from the old-fashioned silent movie and even some messy hand-writings! However, the main point here is not trying to tell a wholesome story. Instead, the story is unfolded as a stream of consciousness. Just imagine you've entered the smoker's brain, and explore a tiny part of his complicated yet typical life. Moreover, the concept of “mood” is there, all the way through the whole project. The interactive way may be a bit simple, but please enjoy the videos as well!

IMA/IMB Shanghai
Communications Lab
Narrative/Storytelling
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Alice In Wonderland

An interactive story of Alice in Wonderland that brings your naïveté and curiosity back.

Hanyu Zhao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtXzNgcTHJ0&feature=youtu.be

Description

The project I picked is adapted from the famous novel Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Although it’s a novel repeatedly recomposed by many writers or movie makers, I want to use the web browser to create an interactive experience for others to take part in Alice’s choices and really get to know how simple, erudite, and full of imagination Alice is. I believe Alice In Wonderland is not just a fairytale or merely a book for children. Russell once quotes it many times to illustrate profound philosophical questions. Though being adults, we shouldn’t lose our initial curiosity about the world. This is what I try to convey by incorporating users’ choices in Alice’s own story. Therefore, I’m going to create various options for different scenarios, most of which unexpected or need users to jump out of the box to get the correct answer. The two central themes that I want to convey through creating a fairy-tale-like atmosphere is: dream and reality have no black-and-white boundary; never forget where we started and always remember to be curious and innocent.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
INTM-SHU.120.2
Communications Lab
Narrative/Storytelling,Play/Games