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Mom's Qingming Mochi

A project of refreshing style about Chinese culture, Qingming Mochi and love.

Hanyu Zhao

https://s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com/ima.nyu.edu/commlab/moon/sharon-zhao-doc/index.html

Description

The theme I choose for my project is Mom’s Qingming Mochi. In this project, I try to incorporate both cultural and personal aspects. Qingming Mochi is a typical Chinese snack, especially popular in the region where I live. It’s also very meaningful to me because my mom always makes me Qingming Mochi when I was small. I want to build a both informational, aesthetic, and interesting experience for my users. With this idea in mind, I developed mom’s secret recipe part to let my users have a taste of what Qingming Mochi is made of. I also build the choosing ingredient mini-game to make my project more fun. Moreover, I shoot the videos in an aesthetic way to create an artistic environment. What’s worth noticing is that almost all my background music comes from the famous documentary A Bite of China. I hope that it can create a similar atmosphere as the documentary being cultural and absorbing.

IMA/IMB Shanghai
Communications Lab
Culture,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