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**P1 / HONG KONG CITYCHASE**
//IDEA//

Hong Kong Citychase is a quick tour for part of Hong Kong, with a main focus on skyscrapers located in the Hong Kong Island. Hong Kong is an international city located in China. There are a lot of breathtaking skyscrapers constructed in such dense area. I chose to use Universe 67 Condensed in the animation, because it gives a metropolitan feel. After editing the footage, I purposely desaturated the video, in order to contrast it with the neon/bright type. The background music is The Adventures of Pippi Longstrump (Edwin van Cleef Remix) by Fear of Tigers. I chose this for the audio, as it gives an energetic feel to the animation and reinforce the urban atmosphere in Hong Kong. (thanks to Meg, who gave me a song list)

//CHALLENGES//

- filming the footages (I ended up having 30+ videos to use) - editing the 1 hour footage and shortening it - gathering the data (info, stats, route) and I found that google map is not accurate sometimes - tracking is very hard in this case, because there are road bumps and it was a cloudy day, the colours have lower contrast - I had to go into the track motion and fix the track points manually, frame by frame

//PROCESS//

I have a lot of process videos for this project, but it takes too long to upload them. I will include them in the DVD! I also have a night scene series. Unfortunately I did not have enough close ups of the skyscrapers. The skyline of Hong Kong at night is amazing!
 * videos that i took**



I didn't end up using all of them, because the video will be an hour long if I do so
 * drafted list of skyscrapers**

1. tunnel / fire headquarter 2. Central Plaza 3. IFC 4. Citic Tower 5. High Court 6. Queensway Government Office 7. Island Shangri-la Hotel 8. Pacific Place 9. Conrad Hotel 10. JW Marriott Hotel 11. United Centre (gold and blue) 12. Hutchison House (blue beside white) 13. Bank of America Tower (white) 14. Far Wasr Finance Centre (gold) 15. Admiralty Centre Office Tower 1 (with Principal sign) 16. Admiralty Centre Office Tower 2 17. People's Liberation Army Hong Kong Building 18. Harbour Building (behind IFC) 19. Exchange Square (yellow blue) 20. Jardine House (circle) 21. Harvest Building (sharp) ...

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 * animation in progress**

//FINAL//

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