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“I decided to become a writer.” Mr. C slowly declares. He starts his very first writing project as an ideal writer, but also the endless nightmare of creating. As undergoing tons of setbacks and denials, he gradually understands he is just no more than a frustrated writer. At the end, Mr. C finally realizes that his life is actually a tragedy. This piece used only sixteen still frames. Should we call it a film? A series of photographs? Or should we call it a drama? Through these sixteen frames, which make us not knowing whether to laugh or to cry, we experience the conceited to desperate of Mr. C, and also experience the most frankly confession and self-ridicule of the creator himself.
《Sixteen Scenes about Mr. C》 is a short film about “anxiety of creating”. It is to present an immature creator who lives a life of unrealistic. Yet, it turns out he can’t bear the humiliations of the constant denials and the anxieties that occurs in creating. At the end, he lightly compromises his ideal and walks back in the real life. The conception of this film is actually from the self-experience of director himself. By the means of self-ridicule, director tried to eliminate the myth of good pieces all raised from great anguish. In the length of twenty-two minutes, which was shooting in HDV format, the film was combined with different fields of art as film, photography, and drama. Director attempted integrating image and sound, representing a format and style of not only “semi-aloofness” but “ridiculousness”. Director made an effort to fill up the film, which seems simple in form and concept with more gradations.
In this thesis, we can find both aspect of “creation” and “production”. In the first chapter Concept of Creation, the author discusses the motive of creating, basic theory, contents in the film, and the practice of performs. In the second chapter Description of Production, the author describes the procedures from pre-production to post-production. Also this chapter records the executive details, restrictions that has confronted, and the solutions to the problems. In the third chapter Interpretation by Scenes, the author explains his intention scene by scene. Followed up the fourth chapter, embodies the feed back after the public premiere. Finally, the fifth chapter sums up the conclusion of the whole procedure of production. In the appendix contains the project of this film, and the screenplay, story board, and the illustration of every production category. Honestly wish this thesis would be considered as the reference for other researchers in this field.
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