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Peter Diploma in Screen Media
Low Shi Jian

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Student Bio Project Description

Low Shi Jian is a passionate film student with a creative Peter is a film that talks about the concept of the elderly and

mindset from the Diploma in Screen Media, graduating with inevitable death. We set out with this idea and slowly building

the batch 2020. He enjoys every form of art as much as on how we can offer different ways of capturing these

film and believes different forms of art are not independent scenes. With only a camera, limited budget and manpower,

but interconnected. As a result, a unique style can be easily and only two to three lights to work with, we had to improvise
found from his films. many ways to get the shots we needed, challenging our

creativity with our methods to achieving our goal. The story

As also a freelance filmmaker and artist (in his freetime), he sticks very close to real life, an uncomfortable subject to

has various experiences working on projects like short films, talk about even within family. In some conservative families,

documentaries, music videos, product photography, mural the subject of death is a taboo topic that is rarely brought up

paintings, and installation art. Some of his works have won because nobody wants to openly discuss about something

awards and been showcased in exhibitions. so sensitive, yet we do have thoughts and plans for when it

happens at the back of our minds. The director felt strongly

about it, contrasting a serious topic with a light-hearted

and comedic take on the film to ease the seriousness. The

Fig 27. scenes and shots in the film also feature visually pleasing

framing, from the leading lines to frames in a frame and

symmetry. This film has been achieved with the use of only

one lens and caught during the rise of a pandemic.

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