The new drama "Longling Miku" under the New Year's Ghost Blowing Lantern series in 2020 received numerous praises as soon as it was released. The Douban score even scored 8.3 points, which is currently ranked first in the history of the Ghost Blowing Lantern series.
The 2015 movie version of "Ghost Blowing Lantern: Looking for the Dragon", which many people are familiar with, has a box office of 1.682 billion, and Douban scored 7.4 points. This is surprising. What kind of genes do this web drama carry? Able to score such a high score, and watching word of mouth is also bursting.
In addition to the bold use of Pan Yueming to play Hu Bayi this time, plus Jiang Chao, who once played Big Mouth in "Wulin Biography", formed a hip-hop duo. Together with the support of Tong Lei's big golden tooth fight, the organization In addition to the fact that the Audio-Technica of the movie made the audience very involved, there is another important factor that allowed this online drama to win word-of-mouth and high ratings, that is, this time the TV series was filmed with a film method.
The language of expression in movies and TV
The language of expression in movies and TV shows is different. From the perspective of photography and scene scheduling, the performance of the two is quite different.
Filming has high requirements for photography, because most of them need to tell a complete story within 90 minutes, which requires the position and manipulation of the camera, coupled with the continuous changes of light and shadow, so that the viewer is immersed in it, so for the lens The degree of refinement is greater than that of TV. Due to the budget and plot needs of the drama series,
TV focuses on the content of the story. The photography requirements are much rougher, and the lens language is relatively not considered too much. The long-shot effect pursued in movies is in many TV series. It didn't show up.
Another aspect of scene scheduling, how the composition and the perception of regional space are often considered by film directors, from a certain aspect, the form is greater than the content, showing grandeur and momentum in detail.
Like in the "Lord of the Rings" series of movies, there are many shots involving grand scenes. In terms of momentum, one can feel that there is a sense of grandeur and historical vicissitudes. The world of Middle-earth is slowly revealed in these shots. After that, a magnificent three-dimensional world will appear in the minds of viewers.
Even if someone doesn't understand the language difference between movies and TV, sometimes he might say when he sees a movie, how can it look like a TV show? Because I can feel the roughness and pettyness in it.
Sometimes when I see some TV series, it feels like a movie, but the momentum and perception are different. For example, this "Longling Miku" was praised by many netizens as being too movie-like, and each episode was as enjoyable as watching a movie. Behind the praise of
is the solidification of the different modes of film and TV languages. Nowadays, TV producers have begun to think about making TV series by filming, as long as the story itself is good, plus filming. The visual effects displayed will definitely be rewarding.
's "The Twelfth Hours of Chang'an" in 2019 has shown a lot of filmmaking techniques, and the success is obvious to all. The American TV series "The Mandalorian" took this filming technique to the extreme. It is said that the cost of each episode is as high as 15 million U.S. dollars (over 100 million yuan), and it has also achieved great success, making science fiction fans excited. Finally saw a high-level American drama.
And this time the domestic year-end drama falls on this web drama. This time the movie is filmed in the language of the movie, and the novel "Ghost Blowing the Light" itself is wonderful, the story is already in place, and the rest As long as you have deep kung fu and sincerity, a web drama can also become a new year drama.
The lens under the interlaced light and shadow
"Longling Misty Cave" shows its momentum at the beginning, with a long lens from far to near, in the sound of music, the big vision slowly turns into the middle shot, following the trembling Li Chunlai went to set up the coffin together. When the lens focused on the coffin, the long shot lasted almost 2 minutes from far to near.
In these 2 minutes, I can feel the perfect combination of stillness and movement in the open mountains. This opening chapter has already attracted the attention of the audience, and the momentum is very well performed. Behind
, whether it is in the Yellow River with strange fishThe war is still walking in the vast wilderness. This kind of big-distance scene often appears in movies, and this kind of lens expression is not common in general TV dramas.
The main reason is that most people know that this lens language is mainly used to render the overall plot effect. It should give the audience a sense of pleasure and grandeur, and also help to establish a grand movie world, such as "The Ring The rendering in "The King" shows a Middle-earth world, and this web drama shows what kind of small world the Captain Touch Jin is in.
Generally speaking, most TV dramas mainly focus on the development of the plot. Relatively speaking, most of them are parents’ shortcomings, workplace struggles and those dog-blooded traversing Xiaoqiang dramas. These do not need to be expressed in such lens language. Just tell the story well In addition, in terms of cost, shooting such a lens is time-consuming, laborious and costly, and the director is not willing to do this.
In addition, as far as light and shadow are concerned, the lighting effects of a movie are rarely stable. Of course, TV shows need the same lighting effects. However, compared with movies, the former has higher requirements and more detailed requirements, and a movie costs Most of the time is spent adjusting the complicated lighting of each lens.
Light and shadow have their own emotions. For example, light represents safety, virtue, joy, etc., while darkness symbolizes fear, evil, and unknown.
Nowadays, this kind of lighting effect can be achieved through special effects, but it is also necessary to consider the shock of this effect everywhere. In "Longling maze", there are many classic scenes that reflect the beauty and change of light and shadow. Emotional appeal.
One of them is in the Yellow River. It suddenly changed color and rained while riding a boat. In the scene of Hu Bayi fighting against strange fish, the river water changed from the original yellow to light color, which belonged to the dim light. Discoloration. The same is true for the light and shadow of
in the catacombs. According to the needs of the plot, it is either high light or light and dark interlacing, showing symbolic meaning through the light and dark.
When Hu Bayi is thinking about how to solve the problem of escaping from a secret room in the dark, the contrast between the highlights and the background highlights the character’s psychological activities. Thinking is like the light in the dark. In the end, it is necessary to point out a clear message to everyone trapped in it. road.
The transformation of lens, angle, light and shadow are all display elements in photography. In addition to these lens language, the scene scheduling of "Longling maze" also reflects refinement. The refinement of
scene scheduling
uses a simple sentence to express that scene scheduling is how the video material in the movie is arranged, composed and shot. When talking about scene scheduling, director Marcel Cane of
said: When constructs images, we have to treat the images like master painters, considering its effects and expressions. When the director
arranges the composition, whether it is fine or rough, basically it can be understood by watching a few episodes, and the fineness of "Longling maze" is very good.
When Li Chunlai went fishing in the Beijing antique market with the mind of Xiao Jiujiu, the overall scene debugging has a panoramic view and a detailed display, from which you can feel the breath of old Beijing. It is certain for many people who came to that era. Intimacy.
, even if you didn’t live in that era, you can feel the simplicity in it, whether it’s the red walls, the pancakes sold, slogans, and later when a group of three people went to eat hot pot, they all felt the breath of life at that time. The fineness of the overall composition.
As far as color is concerned, the main color of the earth at that time knows that it is a sea of red, even the underwear of the two people are all red, and the overall furniture style is also full of the atmosphere of the times, the old black and white TV, table lamp, furniture And so on, with the imprint of the times, of course there is a watermelon frozen in water.
However, when the picture is transferred to Shirley Yang’s home abroad, it becomes a light tone of a combination of Chinese and Western, which is no longer the warm reddish tone of the country, and it has also risen to a higher level than the place where Lao Hu lives. At that time, compared with domestic material standards, it was confirmed that there were many gaps in foreign material standards, and such gaps were also shown in the play.
Other scene composition design, such as a pedestrian in a graveThe pressure and tightness of space embodied in the constant search for a way out, invisibly makes people full of fear of the darkness and the unknown, making viewers sweat for them.
As for the figure of sixty-four elephants found, the details of the armillary sphere reveal the director’s requirements for detail display. In terms of these details, although it is a web drama, the level of detail is not relaxed at all. In the above, the psychological process and environment in the process of tomb robbery are perfectly interpreted by scene scheduling, fine composition and sense of space.
Of course, what "Longling maze" finally presents to the audience is not only these high-powered features, but also analyzes an excellent web drama from the perspectives of photography and scene scheduling. When filmed in film language, The look and feel presented.
As art critic Robert Hughes said: people remember their history, beliefs, attitudes, desires and dreams in the images they create.
This web drama adapted from a novel can be said to present an image extension that the language of the novel cannot achieve for the first time. It allows us to see the possibility of how domestic dramas should go down. The possible effects of this different technique are amazing.
