clarifying the following five questions will help us determine where the camera should be placed. These five questions can be included in a general question: What must be done?
1. Whose scene is this? This question is not always the same as whose video is this. When
is answering "Whose scene is this?"-a question that will help you as directors, the most useful factor is- In order to better appreciate this scene, whose head should the audience enter ?
2. What is the essence of the moment I want to convey to the audience?
3. What story points, places, characters or props must be clearly introduced or always kept alive?
4. What style element or motivation should be displayed?
5. Is it necessary to solve the spatial separation between characters or to adapt the audience to the place and time?
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The entrance of the characters in the
film plays a similar role of revealing, but there is more specific work to be done: introducing the characters to the audience, presenting an overview of the characters or as a hint of their psychology. The entrance of the character
also announced to the audience whether this character played an important role in the story. If you don't want your protagonist to "slide" into the movie, you should show their admission.
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subjective photography
sometimes requires a subjective voice. Allow the audience to participate more in the inner life or perception of the character. Subjective Photography (English term, SUBJECTIVE PHOTOGRAPHY) allows us to see what the subject is going through.
subjective photography should not be confused with perspective lens , which is equivalent to what a person sees. The
perspective lens contains dynamic changes in spatial relationships, so the audience understands that this is what the character sees, but there is no change in sound. Perspective lenses have great potential to "share" the perception of characters, which will become an important tool for establishing subjective voices.
Excessive use of subjective photography may reduce its dramatic power. One method of overuse is to apply subjective photography to multiple people. One of them is usually the protagonist.
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objective photography
most of the time narrators will tell stories in an "objective" voice. The personality of the narrator and the storytelling style of
will be explained clearly at the beginning of the film. For beginner directors, it is helpful to think of the narrator as a collar that must be used to lock the audience. The audience is locked and can only be released at the end of the film.
Through this collar, the narrator can direct the audience's attention to wherever the story is needed. I believe you will find that audiences are more willing to be mastered by powerful and authoritative narrators than weak and cringe narrators.
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Reveal
Reveal (reveal) is a very common drama/narrative element, so the role of reveal is often ignored by beginners in the film production industry, because in a sense, every shot reveals something.
Dramatic reveal (dramatic reveal)-a kind of impact, carrying the dramatic weight of the reveal.
is like the horse head in "The Godfather"; the spaceship that appears behind Richard Dreyfus's minivan in
"The Third Kind of Contact";
is shocked when a little girl is caught by a monster in "Han River Monster" A heartbreaking revelation; a wonderful revelation when the protagonist’s face first appeared in
"Eight and One Half".
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The camera as the narrator
Movies are a language used to tell stories, and the narrator of these stories is the camera. Director
is the ultimate narrator, but she uses the "voice" of the camera. Director
can control six variables of the camera.
in all six variablesAmong them, the picture structure (composition) is the most important factor.
1, angle
2, scene (factors that affect the scale and angle of view)
3, motion (ascending, descending, following (track, follow), shifting)
4, depth of field (normal, shallow depth of field, deep depth of field, subject to Lens focal length (focallength) and f-stop (fstop) influence)
5, focus (selectable within the screen)
6, speed (normal, fast motion (low speed photography), slow motion (high speed photography)) Director
will manipulate and integrate these factors to create sentences for telling cinematic stories, and will compose these sentences into "paragraphs"-complete narrative or dramatic units, which are highly dependent on compression, expansion, and another particularly powerful The narrative/dramatic elements, performance.
