In History 300AA: Chinese History Through Cinema, we had to create a GIF set to accompany an analysis of two Chinese films we had watched in class. I chose to analyze, and compare and contrast the theme of sexuality in the 1987 film Red Sorghum and the 1990 film Ju Dou. The GIF set is a scene in Ju Dou where Ju Dou persuades Tianqing to have an affair with her. To create the GIF set, I imported film into Adobe Premiere to trim it down to that one scene. After that, I imported the various video clips into Adobe Photoshop as layers, changed the speed of the frames, and saved the segments as GIFs.
The following is a PDF of my thesis paper that corresponds with the GIF set above.
The Theme of Sexuality: Zhang Yimou’s Red Sorghum and Ju Dou
