Magic Shop

Assignment 1 for SM2105ZHAO Mengchen

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Artistic Statement After few weeks studied at Linda’s Narrative related class, the most

impressive concept which delved into my brain is the idea of “Narrative is not just story.” As a cinematic art student, we take narration as story for granted for almost three years, and until now, when dealing with the art theory, I know that the two words are different and subvert what I thought before. During this assignment, there are two innovations that break the rule: I didn’t use normal photographs which we usually take by a camera, instead, I created a fantastic “magic shop” with some gothic and Medieval element scene by actually my favorite PC game “The Sims” for six days in details. In addition, I didn’t use any characters to fulfill my screen because I think I could reach my narration just by showing the location. In my work, it has two trajectories actually, first one is I show the house in the sequence of the direction of clockwise, secondly I show audience the place from outside to inside, then each of the rooms. So the audience might feel that they are walking step by step on a timeline and want to figure out what is at the end of the narration of space. In this way, I built my dream of creating a magic shop which I really obsessed with and reach a montage.