TV series is the same as the movie, the basic unit is the lens picture, and the picture is inherently spatial, but uses the technology of montage and editing to move the picture, so that it has both temporal and spatial narrative characteristics. The
TV series version of "A Dream of Red Mansions" follows the sequence of flashbacks in the novel's text for narrative. The TV series takes the long-range shots of the misty Qinggeng Peak and the strange rocks as the opening screen, and then the screen uses the stubborn stone "writing the calendar" as the main body. Presented with close-ups.
added the voice-over language, first said the inscription poems that Cao Xueqin added after deletion and addition, and then told the story of the monk Dao encountering Nuwa's abandoned stone in the Wuji Cliff of Qinggeng Peak, and carrying its illusion At the beginning and end of the entry into the WTO, ", a heart-wrenching and heart-piercing story, begins here." The main narrative layer is separated by this.
has since hidden the voice-over, using camera shots, character dialogues, and montage splicing as the main narrative method. At the end of the last episode, the destitute Jia Baoyu, after encountering the help of the raider and Jiang Yuhan, has not waited for redemption. Xue Baochai , leave without saying goodbye.
The shot was pushed to a close-up, showing Xue Baochai weeping, and sounded "Good Song" as a summary and sublimation of the whole story theme. At this time, the sad and mournful Dream of Red Mansions Prelude sounded, and the picture returned to the misty mountains at the beginning of the first episode of the TV series. The close-up followed and panned to capture the footprints in the vast snow, and panned to the back of Jia Baoyu resolutely marching forward.
This flashback narrative sequence gives people the sighs and regrets of recalling the past, and the feeling that it is difficult to calm down for a long time. Different from the time dimension of reincarnation that begins immediately after the end of the movie version of "Dream of Red Mansions", the TV version of "Dream of Red Mansions" is a memory A one-dimensional narrative time that never returns. In the end,
combines the super narrative layer and the main narrative layer into one, forming a complete artistic whole. The showtime of a TV series is the same as the physical time and is the total amount of time the creators actually process the footage. Each episode of the
TV series "Dream of Red Mansions" is about 40 minutes long, with a total of 36 episodes and a show time of about 1440 minutes.
The narration time of the TV series is the same as the story time of the novel text. Although the voice-over summarizes the super-narrative layer concisely and clearly, it can be seen that the story is from the ancient myth of Nuwa mending the sky after the stone was transformed into the world and returned to Qinggeng Peak. The story that began to be told until Jia Baoyu abandoned the cliff and returned to Qinggeng Peak, is the narrative time of the TV series "A Dream of Red Mansions".
Due to the limited level of shooting technology, the extension and compression of the narrative time cannot rely on slow and fast motion shots. Instead, uses simple camera language and voice language to sing the narrative time. In addition, the successful arrangement styles such as the Overture of A Dream of Red Mansions, Lifetime Mistakes, and Burial of Flowers, tried their best to exaggerate the emotions to enhance the atmosphere and lengthen the narrative time.
The classic scene in the TV series is Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu reading in the West Wing among the flowers. The shadowy flowers are in the foreground. The camera pans from high to low to a close-up of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu, and then the camera is pushed to the close-up of the two faces. switch.
The actor's subtle and moving expression expresses this pure and throbbing emotion vividly , plus the lifelong mistake as a soundtrack to prolong this precious and beautiful feeling, the psychological perception time is infinitely prolonged, making it stay in the audience's mind for a long time, becoming a One of the most classic scenes in the TV series "Dream of Red Mansions".
on the compression of narrative time, creatingThe author also did not give special skills to the content of the picture, and used ordinary lens language and successful soundtrack to compress the narrative time.
After the relatives ended, Yuanfei ordered Jia Baoyu and the sisters to move into the garden. The camera language featured the smiling faces of the women as close-ups and flowers as the foreground. Jia Baoyu and the twelve hairpins happily ran among the flowers , with festive and cheerful music, to show the young and fresh vitality of the daughters in the Grand View Garden, and the splendid and beautiful life time. The brisk rhythm of
shortens the narrative time, and controls the length of the long and beautiful time to move into the park just right.
