Building of Love (Process Book)

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BuildingofLove

Director’s Statement

Story Concept

Research & Analysis

Visual References

Character Development

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director’s statementHumanness is disappearing, don’t you think so?Or didn’t you realize it because you are busying with your own stuff?

The most observable example is the relationship between neighbours.We can hardly find a neighbour who greets you other than “HI” and “BYE”.

I do really like the close relationship among neighbours in the past.That is why I made this animation.Hope you all enjoy it.

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story conceptI am now staying at my grandmother’s home.In contrast to my home, I can feel the unbreakable relationship between my grandmother’s neighbours.They always visit others home to have gatherings, sharing of their new “invention”,even if they are living in the same building.

That is how I can experience the humannessand compare it between now and the past time.

I can have a conclusion on this:

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Humanness Privacy =

objectivesTo arise people’s awareness on the decreasing humanness among neighbours.

To document the living environment and activities in the pastwhich are being eliminated in the modern society.

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research & analysisFirst-hand research:Photo-takingInterviewingViewing photos of my grandmaother

Second-hand research:Borrowing/Buying booksBrowsing Internets

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research & analysisPlaces chosen to be visited:Dai Pai DongHawkersOld-style Cafe/Cha Chaan TengOld-style Stationary StoreOld FlatOld Soya Byproduct StoreRooftop of Old BuildingsHair-styling Stall at the alley

Additional activities chosen to be observed:Airplane olive sellingFlour Doll making

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Dai Pai Dong Messy, dirty with little animals and rubbish everywhere. Many foldable tables and chairslocate on the roadsides or at the alley

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Photo taken:G.O.D. (Shek Kip Mei Branch)

Hawkers Messy, dirty with little animals and rubbish everywhere. Small-scale business and therefore a high mobilityProducts are relatively cheaper and handier

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Photo taken:G.O.D. (Shek Kip Mei Branch)

Old Style Cafe/Cha Chaan Teng (餐室) A good place for gathering, with reasonable pricePopular in the old days

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Photo taken:Mido Cafe, Yau Ma TeiStar Cafe, Tsim Sha Tsui

Old Style Cafe/Cha Chaan Teng (餐室)

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Tile patterns on the wall

Things are being put under the seats

Shop owners may make some dishes for seasoning on their own

Old Style Cafe/Cha Chaan Teng (餐室)

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Old style equipment They are preparing the materials for next day

Sketches of Old Style Cafe/Cha Chaan Teng (餐室)

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Sketches of Old Style Cafe/Cha Chaan Teng (餐室)

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Hair-styling stalls at the alley Located at the alley,Small-scale with simple hair-styling tools

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Photo taken:Sham Shui Po

Reference from:“MYHK”

Hair-styling stalls at the alley

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Old-style Stationary Store Products mixed with toys, stationary and Chinese funeral paper offerings etc.Overcrowded environment but things are being put in order

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Photo taken:Kweilin Street, Cheung Sha Wan

Old-style Stationary Store Shop owners always hang the products upand leave them there overnight

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Old-style Stationary Store Shop owners always chat with customersThey usually have a very close relationship

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Sketches of Old-style Stationary Store

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Old Flat The furniture found in the past is hard to be found nowadays.

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Photo taken:G.O.D. (Shek Kip Mei Branch)Hong Kong Museum of History

Reference from:Old photos from my Grandmother“MY HK”

Old Flat Simple decoration (mostly hanging several family photos)Some hand-made furniture may be available too

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Old Flat

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Old Flat

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Old Flat

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---- Tekkon kinkreet (惡童)

Old Soya Byproduct Store Established for a long timeKeeping its traditional method to make their productsEverything unchanged for long time

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Photo taken:Cheung Sha Wan

Old Soya Byproduct Store The shop is the mixture of --Place for dining, production area, office, kitchen and the place for storing and selling products

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Old Soya Byproduct Store Soya byproducts everywhere in the store

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Old Soya Byproduct Store The method of jotting down prices is different from the one we used nowadays

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The shop owner kept telling me stories while she was making me a try of their product

Sketches of Old Soya Byproduct Store

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Rooftop of the Old Buildings Rusted houseswhich are made of metal sheets are build on old buildings

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Photo taken:Sheung Sha Wan

Rooftop of the Old Buildings

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There are wire netting and clothes hanged for drying

Aerials everywhere on top

Rooftop of the Old Buildings

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---- Tekkon kinkreet (惡童)

Sketches of Rooftop of Old Building

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Old Buildings

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Old Buildings

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This is a really old building which has only 2 storey. But the big balcony can be the features of old buildings

The cages built outside the windows are another features of old housing

Old Buildings

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There is a ½ level of the building, which is located between G/F and 2/F, the height of this flat is relatively lower

There are lots of electrical wires flying over the street

Those are the backs of the old buildings

Old Buildings

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This kind of celebrating board can be found in old districts

People have to walk through this long and narrow stairs before getting home

Sketches of Old Building

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Old Style Bakery

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All breads are being put at the display area

The shop owner is so nice that he helped to slice the cake for his customers

visual references- Le Building- Tekkon kinkreet (惡童)- NDS game “雷頓教授與最後的時間旅行”- Cards found at G.O.D. (TST Branch)

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- Le Building

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- Tekkon kinkreet (惡童)

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visual references

- NDS game “雷頓教授與最後的時間旅行”

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- NDS game “雷頓教授與最後的時間旅行”

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-- photos taken in G.O.D (TST Branch)

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character designThe main character dressed with a sharper colour will be a leading role which bring audience to explore the old living environment. It would be a boy dressing in casual clothing which can be easily found in the past.

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character designWith the references, I drew these three characters. I chose the left one to have further development because its feeling suits my animation and the limps are easier to animate.

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character designI recreate this character due to his trendy look.He doesn’t match the time in the past.He is too modern.

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character designHere is the final set of character designAll children share a similar hair styleBecause they cut their hair by the same stylist.

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character designI tried to fill the colour by watercolour pencils. But the colour is not stable while having a cell drawing animation

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character designSo, I use Photoshop to fill the colour. Colour pencil texture is added to create a feeling of the past.

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- A group of kids get to play outdoor together - We can go upstairs to watch TV while ours had broken down

- We could get a slice of cake if our neighbour made one

- Mother always stand and chat with her friends at the roadside

- Neighbour may give us a hand when someone is sick but no one staying at home - Neighbour may help to pick up out kids from school

- Neighbour may lend us money when we forget to take it

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story flowDue to the unplanned usage on land, mixed land use is common in the past. Similarly, in my story, all activities and scenes will appear in the same building within a limited space.

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story flowI first tried to list out the kinds of shops that can be found in the old days, then I tried to put the shops into the units

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story analysisScene 1:The environment of the surroundings

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story analysisScene 2:Location: Dai Pai Dong

Mrs. Kam gave Gum a 5 cents coin as his birthday present

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story analysisScene 2:Location: Hair-styling store

Gum helps to bring his sister to the hair-styling store at the other side of the building Mr. Wong, the hair-stylist, remembers Gum’s birthday

- Shows the close relationship between them

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story analysisScene 3:Location: outside the stationary store

Try to get his favourite colour pen set at a discounted price by lucky drawBut his only 5 cents coin stucks in the machine

- A chance for him ro fulfil his dream, but not success

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story analysisScene 3:Location: outside the stationary store

Gum turns sad and the camera moves into the stationary storeAnd Mr. Ho climb up the ladder at the same time

- To show the characteristics of the stores in the past- To show the nervousness of My.Ho while Gum was getting upset

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story analysisScene 4:Location: The long narrow staircase of the building

Gum goes upstairs sadly with a darker colour of the surroundings

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story analysisScene 5:Location: Corridor outside Mr. Ho’s Flat

Mr. Ho asked Gum to stop while he was walking pass Mr. Ho’s door. He greets Gum and gave him a birthday present, which was the set of colour pen set he liked And also, a Birthday Lucky Coin.

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story analysisScene 6:Location: The surrounding’s of the building- Cha Chen Tang (2/F) -> (G/F) -> Outdoor near Dai Pai Dong -> SiuLing’s Home

To show the living environment and the eliminating activities found in the past, and also their close relationship

Eliminating activities:- Airplane olive selling (due to the increasing height of the buildings)- The food-delivering lift of Cha Chaan Teng

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story analysisScene 7:Location: SiuLing’s home

SiuLing’s father, who is a flour craftman, is making the flour dollsSo that Mrs. Gum asked Gum to borrow flour from themAnd Oi Keung is first show up in this flat

Elmilating activities:- Flour dolls making

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story analysisScene 8:Location: Staircase

Gum runs very happily and fast to represent his excitement

- Have a contrast with the last “walking-upstairs” scene

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story analysisScene 9:Location: Gum’s Home

Mrs. Gum yelled from her Dai Pai Dong to asked whether Gum remember to borrow flour from SiuLing’s fatherBut Gum is concentrating on his drawing and neglected her

Elimilated activities: - Yelling from the ground floor to their flats

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story analysisScene 9:Location: Gum’s Home

His friend, Oi Keung, found him because he heard Gum’s mother’s conversation But he can only get Gum’s sttention when he throws something towards GumGum’s introduced this pen set excitedly And suggested to ask ArFai to join them playing on the rooftop

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story analysisScene 10:Location: Corridor outside Gum’s flat -> Rooftop of the building

They knocked ArFai’s door asked him to play together at the rooftop They race upstairs and get to a cornerGum tends to draw on rooftop’s wall, Which was not permitted to do so. But he want a larger area to draw So he started to draw at the corner of the wall

Eliminating activities:- Playing with neighbour nearby

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story analysisScene 10-11:Location: Rooftop of the building

He drew himself one the wall. Suddenly he dropped the pen. Colour tone is changed to a darker and colder one. And the camera start to help finding the pen

Gum finally found the pen where he hide many years ago. The pen become very short and dirty He draw near the portrait he drew long time ago – it is a portrait again.

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story analysisScene 12:Location: Rooftop of the building

He walked towards the house on the rooftop.Audience can then discovered that Gum has up.

There was nothing else left but a can He got into the house and open the can.

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story analysisScene 12:Location: Rooftop of the building

Dozens of letter are there in it. There is also other things inside:

1. A folder which was containing all news about Gum since he left the building

2. A colour pencil set Mr. Ho knew that Gum loves drawing. He bought him a luxury pencil set as present one year.

3. Lots of 5 cents coins Mr. Ho left Gum one 5 cents coin per year as his birthday lucky coin.

But Gum didn’t come back until now. 5 cents are now not available at all And also Gum’s neighbour. All of those are being a part of his memory…

THE END.

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