I chose to make an appropriation video for the final project. At first, I tried to mix the footage and the soundtrack that come from two separate films.  Then, I came up with the idea of using the paintings of Roy Lichtenstein. I’m fascinated by the narrative in his artwork, and these pop arts are also appropriation work, as many of his paintings were adapted from the comic book. Besides, the paintings used in this video all depict anonymous women who are blonde, beautiful and often become miserable because of men. And men are sometimes depicted as dominant and controlling in his paintings. So I feel like they reflect how female are shown in the early artwork as well as films. The soundtrack here is from Hitchcock’s film, Vertigo, in which the female character is objectified by the male gaze. It is clear that the male character is very controlling and dominant, whereas the female character is tragic. Thus I think there are some similarities between Lichtenstein and Hitchcock’s work in the way of them treating female characters, and these works are also from the 1960s. Moreover, through the project, I tried to convey the idea that filmmaking is about creating the illusion of moving images. But it is not easy for my first time editing and transforming the images of paintings into a film. I tried to add more effects to make it interesting to see, and I wish the images and the sound could appear to be related.