Description

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Students will learn about different approaches and techniques for presenting heritage, including experiments with digital media and storytelling via visual communication, such as short films. The course adapts filmmaking as an act of creative engagement with the built environment to better understand our current place and time while emphasize tangible, intangible, and 'living heritage.' The latter two are inherited from our ancestors and passed on to our descendants and include oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, rituals and festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe, and the knowledge and skills related to craftsmanship. Student groups will be asked to reflect on their own urban experiences with tangible, intangible, and 'living heritage' in Hong Kong and create a three-minute short film to communicate a narrative. By adapting film as a powerful tool of communication, students will learn how to effectively convey these ideas through moving images. This includes traditional filmmaking, as well as GenAI film tools (such as KlingAI), stop-motion animation, collage essay films, etc. The course aims to present various modes and styles of film production and further enhance students’ visual communication skills. No prior film or poster-making skills are required.