After the first week, I am getting used to the class now. I chose to sit in the middle of the first row, which is assumed as the best position for listening. The opening viewing was Charlie Chaplin’s ‘Behind the Screen.’ Although he is really famous, I am still not familiar with him.

However, I think it is true that we need the energy from the Predecessors. I felt quite proud when the Chinese Shadow Plays was show in Michael’s slides: actually, it’s my first time notice that Shadow Plays was originated from my hometown Hangzhou. (I have checked the data after class and I think it was earlier than Song Dynasty) Is there any relationship between Shadow Plays and sound design? The answer is for sure. Shadow Plays have its sound which usually played by the one who play these shows. The spirit continues today: the sound is an essential part of the shows.

Then we watched the opening of Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire. The sound design of this film was so good that when it was played it made me entirely focused on the film itself. When we looked back with the question of ‘what should be the sound of an angel’, we have to say that the sound designer have done a quite exquisite work. One interesting thing is that the environmental sound in the plane has been used as the real beginning of a grand string, since tone continued between this two.

We have not got any chance to watch Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927), but I watched it on my laptop at home. I noticed that there must be two different vision of the sound track. But what I found was a sound track without any stop. Since it is a film more than 2 hours and all the lines were showed in German words, it made me exhausted finally. However, if only talk about the film itself, I should say that was an unbelievable work. The effects use in the film was quite ahead of its time and the story is imaginative. In general, we can see the limitation of silent film through this experience and think about the role that the sound plays in a film.

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We have not got any chance to watch Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927), but I watched it on my laptop at home. I noticed that there must be two different vision of the sound track. But what I found was a sound track without any stop. Since it is a film more than 2 hours and all the lines were showed in German words, it made me exhausted finally. However, if only talk about the film itself, I should say that was an unbelievable work. The effects use in the film was quite ahead of its time and the story is imaginative. In general, we can see the limitation of silent film through this experience and think about the role that the sound plays in a film.