XUQING (CHRIS) ZHANG
PROCESS BOOK
1 // RESEARCH
Choice of Director
WONG KAR WAI Wong Kar-wai (born 17 July 1958) is a Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylized, emotionally resonant work, including Days of Being Wild (1990), Ashes of Time (1994), Chungking Express (1994), Fallen Angels (1995), Happy Together (1997) and 2046 (2004). His film In the Mood for Love (2000), starring Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung, garnered widespread critical acclaim. Wong’s films frequently feature protagonists who yearn for romance in the midst of a knowingly brief life and scenes that can often be described as sketchy, digressive, exhilarating, and containing vivid imagery. Wong was listed at number three on the British Film Institute’s Sight & Sound Top Ten Directors list of modern times. Born in Shanghai, he moved to Hong Kong with his parents at the age of five. Coming from the Mainland and speaking only Mandarin and Shanghainese, he spent hours in cinemas with his mother. After graduating from Hong Kong Polytechnic College in graphic design in 1980, he enrolled in the Production Training Course organised by Hong Kong Television Broadcasts Limited and became a full-time television screenwriter.
Selected Films
AS TEARS GO BY Ha-tau (Andy Lau) is a small-time triad leader. Two of his followers are Fly (Jacky Cheung) and Ah-Site (Barry Wong). Fly in so many words is a f*ck-up, always trying to do big things but winds up getting into trouble. Ha-tau detests having to bail out Fly all the time, but he does without hesitation, even at the cost of getting seriously hurt in the process. Tony (Alex Man) is the leader of another gang that Fly is constantly getting in trouble with. At the beginning of the movie, Ah Ngor (Maggie Cheung), who is Ha-tau’s cousin from Lantau Island, is quite sick and has come to Kowloon seeking medical treatment.
CHUNGKING EXPRESS Two love-struck cops is filmed in impressionistic splashes of motion and color. The first half deals with Cop 223, who has broken up with his girlfriend of five years. He purchases a tin of pineapples with an expiration date of May 1 each day for a month. By the end of that time, he feels that he will either be rejoined with his love or that it too will have expired forever. The second half shows Cop 663 dealing with his breakup with his flight attendant girlfriend. He talks to his apartment furnishings until he meets a new girl at a local lunch counter.
DAYS OF BEING WILD Set in 1960, the film center of the young, boyishly handsome Yuddy (Leslie Cheung), who learns from the drunken ex-prostitute who raised him that she is not his real mother. Hoping to hold onto him, she refuses to divulge the name of his real birth mother. The revelation shakes Yuddy to his very core, unleashing a cascade of conflicting emotions. Two women have the bad luck to fall for Yuddy. One is a quiet lass who works at a sport arena named Su Lizhen (Maggie Cheung), while the other is a glitzy showgirl named Mimi (Carina Lau). Perhaps due to his unresolved Oedipal issues, he passively lets the two compete for him, unable or unwilling to make a choice. As Lizhen slowly confides her frustration to a cop named Tide (Andy Lau), he falls for her. The same is true for Yuddy’s friend Zeb (Jacky Cheung), who falls for Mimi. Later, Yuddy learns of his birth mother’s whereabouts and heads out to the Philippines.
HAPPY TOGETHER Yiu-Fai and Po-Wing arrive in Argentina from Hong Kong and take to the road for a holiday. Something is wrong and their relationship goes adrift. A disillusioned Yiu-Fai starts working at a tango bar to save up for his trip home. When a beaten and bruised Po-Wing reappears, Yiu-Fai is empathetic but is unable to enter a more intimate relationship. After all, Po-Wing is not ready to settle down. Yiu-Fai now works in a Chinese restaurant and meets the youthful Chang from Taiwan. Yiu-Fai’s life takes on a new spin, while Po-Wing’s life shatters continually in contrast.
FALLEN ANGELS Fallen Angels is set in the surreal milieu of urban, nighttime Hong Kong. As with the filmmaker’s other features, plot takes a back seat to mood. The wisp of a narrative intercuts two story lines. The first follows a hitman (Leon Lai) who finds that the assassin’s life has slowly lost its allure. Complicating his life is his beautiful contact (Michele Reis, a former Miss Hong Kong winner) who pines after him with fetishistic ardor, although the two have never met in their nearly three-year partnership. In another part of the city, He (Takeshi Kaneshiro), a mute, boyish ex-convict, makes a living by sneaking into and running businesses after hours. Still living with his father who runs the Chungking Mansions hotel, the restless Ho falls for Cherry (Charlie Yeung), a woman getting over her breakup with the offscreen Johnny. The movie follows these episodic romances almost half-heartedly as with Wong’s other films, and digressionary moments attract much of the camera’s distracted gaze. This visually stylish and unabashedly effusive work is considered by some critics to be the quintessential Wong film.
Style Explorations PHOTO STYLE // NEON BACKLIT
PHOTO STYLE // CITY AT NIGHT
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2 // VISUAL IDENTITY
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3 // EVOLUTION OF DELIVERABLES
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LAYOUT EXPLORATIONS
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DVD INSIDE COVER // FINAL
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DVD BOOKLET // INITIAL EXPLORATION – raw fold
Website
Business system
Tickets
FORMAT EXPLORATION // ROUND 1
FORMAT EXPLORATION // ROUND 2
I got the critique that the format of the ticket should not be the major concern. (aka: don’t be confined by the format of Polariod photo)
FORMAT EXPLORATION // ROUND 3
FINAL TICKETS
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Schedule
FORMAT EXPLORATION // ROUND 1
Soundtrack