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Beauty of small objects

Student Project
Abstract film by Longheng Tan  
Why?

We all don’t see the beauty of small objects around us. I want to focus on finding the beauty of small things and their incredible movement by using a close-up lens in my project. This will be an experimental film that aims to explore and capture the beauty of moving soap bubbles and oil.

My Journey


Before getting to the point where I am right, it took a lot of complex research, and there are many times that I kept on changing and changing to get what I wanted for my film. Last year, I proposed a proposal to film a documentary about my close friend who moved to New Zealand not too long before I moved here. The interview in the documentary will include her struggle of adapting to a new country and the work she faced in high school as a teenager. The documentary will focus more on the visual styles than the narrative side. Let say that I want to have fun making it. I know that I love colors, and I wanted something around that. I did a lot of research; my first idea was to drop paint in the water and film it. I had seen a previous student do that before, and also I did that as well last year, so I ended up not doing it. The second idea was to film a moving car and animated illustrations characters on top of it. I felt like it would be the same thing as what I am doing for my major, so I decided not to go with it and go with new ideas. That is when I asked myself what do I want to do and explore for my final project? What do I want to get out of this paper?
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