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Undone Cycle
A 4D Class Assignment on Subtexts
The subtext of this presentation is about the effects of global warming, both the destruction and recovery.
Opening scene of a man picking out the fruits from a plate symbolize man’s intervention into the otherwise balanced environment. The fruits are colour-coded with green representing the trees, orange/yellow representing the sun and solar energy and blue/purple representing the rainfall.
The repeated cycle of eating the apple and grapes is to illustrate a degenerative vicious cycle that takes place when man harms the environment, with the solar element being constant throughout. The last shot of the grape stems was deliberately left longer for the sense of lingering destruction.
During the transition scene from the green apple to the green balloon, we see a change in events as now the trees are growing in quantity gradually due to efforts in conservation. As a result, the impact of the sun’s harmful energy has lessened and the Earth’s rainfall is also slowly going back to a healthy level.
The multiple grids are representations of our efforts. 4 frames of effort to conserve the forest will have a snow-ball effect as a little effort on part of an individual can bring about major changes, resulting in rainfall that will help the forest to flourish.
The last scene is a detached small frame with a scene of a human hand holding the all the balloons in one hand with the yellow balloon (sun) being significantly smaller. That is the utopia of our environment and is presented in a dreamy detached manner to show that it is just an aim and has not been achieved yet but it is possible. Significantly, the human hand seemingly enjoying the balloons is to show that Man will benefit most from the recovery.
In the destruction process we chose fruits as the representation because we feel that fruits are goods of nature and eating them is like a parallel to destroying them. Furthermore, the destruction rate is rapid and not constant, just like how a fruit is eaten depending on how fast the person eats it. In the recovery sequence we chose balloons for their material quality as it is important to show the balloons in their gradual change to show that the recovery of our environment back to equilibrium is a gradual process and not completed in matter of days.
The music is chosen for the sound similar to heartbeats throughout. The heartbeat is to symbolize the existence of Man throughout this cycle, be it destruction or recovery. The vocals evoke a sense of hope and especially so when it starts right at the start of the recovery sequence.
The title Undone Cycle is chosen quite literally. It refers to the destruction and the undoing of the destruction. Undone also means not done yet in another context.
A Joint Project by Tay Li Cheng and Koo Chia Meng
Directed by Tay Li Cheng and Koo Chia Meng
Director of Photography Tay Li Cheng
Edited by Koo Chia Meng and Tay Li Cheng
Music by Massive Attack featuring Elizabeth Fraser – Teardrops
Shot and Cut in 2007
I actually posted this movie poster sometime last year but it was only released recently ah I heard. Anyway, I got very interested in this film esp after reading the protagonist's true story in Jan 2007 issue of Nat Geographic. Its super super sad and sounds very graphic. Can't wait til it comes here.
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