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Sunday 16 September 2012
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For major project, I’m going to present one Taiwanese unique performance—“Eight generals”. "Eight generals" is a traditional and religious ceremonial performance, which has its roots in Taiwan's temple culture. The "eight generals" wear gaudy, embroidered clothing, fierce face-paint and straw sandals. They walk with an exaggerated swagger called "tiger steps" and their performance traditionally represented them bringing criminals to justice and protecting the people in the other world.
Because Eight generals’ duty is arresting ghosts and monsters, in order to show this point, one ghost will appear through the whole film. At the beginning of the film, the calligraphy title – “Ba Jai Zhang” and “Eight generals” appear by writing effect from the dark then melt into the dark again.
A small ghost runs into the dark screen, he looks around to make sure there’s no dangerous but one mask appears behind him. The first mask is General Gan who has a symmetrical pattern on his face. The scene is lighted up while General Gan appearing and General Gan’s mask turned around. The ghost starts running away from General Gan as General Gan is trying to arrest him. A cloud pattern follows and overtakes the ghost then arrives at the next mask – General Liou.
The ghost keeps running. Afterward a bat waves its wings to cover the screen and become the pattern on General Shei’s mask. The sign on General Shei’s forehead turn into a weapon and attack the small ghost. Next is General Van who has the burning fire. The ghost run into a place full of lotus and the God of Spring shows so he runs away again. Then the plant changes into bottle gourd and one red gourd just grows on Summer God’s forehead. A cloud pattern, which differs from the last, leads the film to the next scene.
The ghost meets the God of Fall, and the pattern keeps pushing him to the God of Winter. All generals appear at the same time and surrounding the small ghost, they start rotating around him then the ghost becomes smaller and smaller. Eight generals stop rotating after the ghost disappears then the screen turns into dark.
A small ghost runs into the dark screen, he looks around to make sure there’s no dangerous but one mask appears behind him. The first mask is General Gan who has a symmetrical pattern on his face. The scene is lighted up while General Gan appearing and General Gan’s mask turned around. The ghost starts running away from General Gan as General Gan is trying to arrest him. A cloud pattern follows and overtakes the ghost then arrives at the next mask – General Liou.
The ghost keeps running. Afterward a bat waves its wings to cover the screen and become the pattern on General Shei’s mask. The sign on General Shei’s forehead turn into a weapon and attack the small ghost. Next is General Van who has the burning fire. The ghost run into a place full of lotus and the God of Spring shows so he runs away again. Then the plant changes into bottle gourd and one red gourd just grows on Summer God’s forehead. A cloud pattern, which differs from the last, leads the film to the next scene.
The ghost meets the God of Fall, and the pattern keeps pushing him to the God of Winter. All generals appear at the same time and surrounding the small ghost, they start rotating around him then the ghost becomes smaller and smaller. Eight generals stop rotating after the ghost disappears then the screen turns into dark.
In terms of film form, I want to make a trailer or an advertisement to introduce this unique culture. I might not make it so religion; I hope it looks more artistic and a little bit mystery so I will emphasize the colour and special shapes of the mask which have their own meaning and origin. I want to use Chinese traditional music to show the lasting charm of our culture. The motion of this film should be smooth and light even they are trying to catch the small ghost.
Each character of “Eight generals” will be displayed and introduced simply. I might use camera angle shift to create a little bit 3D effect. And the pattern will play an important role in the film as well as the result of all pattern related to each mask. Black will be the main color for the patterns and I think prepared Chinese ink could be a good present form. If possible, I hope the ink can spread softly and smoothly. Besides, rice paper (Chinese paper) will be used as background texture.
Each character of “Eight generals” will be displayed and introduced simply. I might use camera angle shift to create a little bit 3D effect. And the pattern will play an important role in the film as well as the result of all pattern related to each mask. Black will be the main color for the patterns and I think prepared Chinese ink could be a good present form. If possible, I hope the ink can spread softly and smoothly. Besides, rice paper (Chinese paper) will be used as background texture.
Reference: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wade-wang/3426794456/
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