Jiacheng
"Tiffany "
Wang
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A Film Director, cinematographer, screenwriter, painter, designer, poet, and a visual media artist
currently studying at USC School of Cinematic Arts
Feature/short Film
Acting
Graphic Design
Photography
Drawing/Digital Drawing
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“I want to touch people with my art.
I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.”
- Vincent van Gogh
Her Last Day (2021)
Short film, Coming Soon.
Souvenez-Vous (2021)
Directed/Written/DP by Jiacheng "Tiffany" Wang
Remake of Portrait of a Lady on Fire
"Kill This Dawn" Exhibition
Concept Art Design (2020)
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"Or Far or Near" Full Series
Concept Art Design (2018)
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and intended messages
"Gaze of Desire"
Year: 2019 Medium: Digital Painting: Procreate Size: 2224 * 1668 px
This piece is included in the series of "Or far or near", and is inspired by Henri Matisse's color expression and the "Christina's World" by Andrew Wyeth. I created the symbol as a planet that seems both like the moon and the sun, but ultimately a mysterious element to which the audience can freely assign meaning. The symbol is in an unrealistic proportion and is larger compared to the human’s size. It symbolizes a figurative utopian desire and beauty that is near us but is never a mundane object that we can obtain and announce ownership of. The girl within the image is also a self-portrait of myself craving for the ideology of beauty and desire, with a romanticized view of the world with hope and passion as expressed by the colors to resonate with audiences' emotions.
"What Do You Think of Beauty? "
Year: 2019 Medium: Digital Painting: Procreate Size: 11'' * 8.5''
"What Do You Think of Beauty" is a continued piece followed by "Pearl," featuring the same person looking at the audience directly. I explored the possible relationships between nature elements and humans as a means to illustrate personality. This piece continued with the message inspired by the actress in the figure that her appearances and thoughts provoke questions in the audience's mind after the interview of self-acceptance and unhealthy beauty standards in China.
“Pearls”
Year: 2019 Medium: Digital Painting: Procreate Size: 8.5''*11''
I featured XiaChun, a Chinese actress in this painting. She has inspired me with her idea that beauty comes from self-acceptance, and it is the flow of natural expression. I found her messages influential to my understanding of figurative drawing and the perception of beauty and appearance. Impacted by her ideologies, I expressed her vibe of freedom and the defiance of beauty standards in society with confident and impressionistic brush strokes toward all directions freely.
Yearbook Designs & Films
My design, final products, elements, and theme reveal vid as an official Design Editor/Film Producer (2016)
"Mirror, Mirror"
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"Mirror, mirror"
I intended to deliver the message that we are not able to find out who we are internally if we use external factors to validate ourselves. These factors include other’s comments on our image, the number of likes received, and a distorted perfect self-image we projected on social media. I cut a mirror out to a phone’s shape to symbolize that people incline to seek their true identity based on the images and persona they projected on social media. One can see themselves clearly from a mirror, but the model in the image is not able to see her face and identities from the “media mirror.” I conducted surveys about the effect of using social media and observed that the majority of my peers experience anxiety from using social media and tend to present a perfect image. They claimed that social media doesn’t represent their identity correctly. I used photography, after-effects, and paintbrushes to communicate the relationship between 2D technology and 3D real-life. I designed a value scale and a “likes” number to mock the phenomenon that we quantified others’ appreciation into numbers, and use it as a tool to judge ourselves’ and others’ value and status on social media.
Poster Design
The 8th AFMA Film Festival of Young Cinema
USC Annenberg Film Marketing Association
Issue of Animal welfare violation & Adoption
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cross-cultural volunteer experiences, and photographs to help solve the issue)
Film produced for Los Angeles Institue of Architecture & Design
"Against the Tide"
Sometimes solidarity is the bravery of challenging the collective foolishness.
One has the individual solidarity to go against a group's solidarity and thus the unaware foolishness, In a world of agreements, violence, mediocrity, and injustice, they chose to go against the tide, and be the opposite.
Digital Drawing · 2020
A student-led project "Running box"
aims for recycling boxes sustainably
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"Your World"
An 8-minute short film based on a mobile game “Mr. Love” and its virtual character’s motivational and romantic interactions with the players.
"Drowned Starry Night"
Acrylic, 2017.
Referenced "Starry Night" & "Starry Night Over the Rhone" by Vincent van Gogh
"The Besieged City"
A film remix from overseas Chinese Students' perspective on coronavirus in 2020. This film is dedicated to bringing love, hope, and bravery to all. Love conquers all.
"Last Dinner"
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Inspired and struck by the appealing real-life photography by Chris Jordan, which an albatross died with a stomach of macroplastic debris from human, I recreated the 3D sculpture and titled it as “meal”. Human activities have a direct impact on the ecosystem, and I intended to deliver the message that we as the species on top of the food chain are consuming all of the waste that we have thrown into the environment carelessly. The macroplastics accumulate in the bird's stomach, causing suffocation, infection, and immediate death. The invisible microplastic will also accumulate in the birds, and biomagnification of the harmful chemicals remain in the food chain with Human receiving the most effects ultimately. I placed the sculpture upon a plate and asides two plastic tableware for the audience to view the whole work from the top perspective. I chose to use the clay as the medium for the albatrosses’ body. The garbage within the work is the litter that I picked up on the ground when I was walking in my school, and by this, I hope to connect my work to the community I live in. My goal for this creation is to inform my community members of the seriousness of the issue, as well as rising the general audience’s awareness on the topic and initiate sustainable practices further in action.