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FILM / CREATION & CLOSE READING

Making films. Reading images.

From concept and shot design to narrative, character, rhythm and visual grammar.

01 / Original films

The Silence Recorder resting on a concrete surface under soft directional light.

Silence Recorder

Spec Ad · Personal concept work

A recorder that records no sound. What it keeps are the moments when the world goes quiet.

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The images are model-generated; the concept, narrative structure, continuity spec, and acceptance criteria are mine.

About this film

A 30-second spec ad in seven shots. The machine records no sound — only the moments the world goes quiet: a departing train, the last raindrop, a snowfield, the last light out in a late-night office.

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02 / Close readings

My analyses of narrative, rhythm and imagery in others’ work.

  1. A close-up of the protagonist in The Laid-Off Girl as she says what she has decided to give up

    Series study · 11 episodes · complete first season · 74:19

    The Laid-Off Girl · Season 1

    A full-season anatomy of how one phrase mutates into a social system

    35 min read · Report in ChineseRead the full study ↗
    Focus & themes

    Its real engine is not the spectacle of being fired, but the repeated redistribution of dignity, status, and the right to define another person.

    • Narrative architecture
    • Character systems
    • Rhythm
    • AI image method
  2. A close-up from Wen Cangsheng with the subtitle asking whether making gods and ghosts is a crime

    Bilibili · Feature-length case study · 26:14

    Wen Cangsheng

    How a historical-fantasy feature turns a moral paradox into a circulating emotional event

    7 min read · Report in ChineseRead the full study ↗
    Focus & themes

    The film spreads because it makes judgment unstable: every answer produces a new debt, forcing the audience to keep arguing after the plot ends.

    • Moral paradox
    • Emotional circulation
    • Long-form rhythm
  3. A comic action frame from Immortals Back at Work with the character Chenxiang

    Douyin · Short-form case study · 02:53

    Immortals Back at Work · Chenxiang Saves His Mother

    How a three-minute myth comedy completes reversal, sincerity, and a follow hook

    5 min read · Report in ChineseRead the full study ↗
    Focus & themes

    Its speed comes from assigning every beat two jobs: the joke lowers resistance while the family emotion quietly raises the stakes.

    • Short-form rhythm
    • Myth comedy
    • Follow hook