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A while ago, the Japanese media photographed Kanna Hashimoto, who is known as a beautiful girl who has rarely met for a thousand years and has zero scandals since her debut, entering and leaving Nakagawa Daishi's apartment...!
Who is Nakagawa Daishi also?
A new generation of Japanese actors and child actors.
In 2019, with the movie "Apollo on Sakado" and the TV series "Enlightenment! The Girl Over There" won the Best Newcomer Award at the 42nd Japan Academy Film Awards.
And according to the revelation, the opportunity for the two to be together was actually because of the filming of "Night Parade" on the set, because they both like to raise dogs, with the common topic of "dogs" began to become familiar, and finally ...
To tell the truth, in the Japanese entertainment where beautiful women love to marry "ordinary men", it can be calculated that a pair is more matched in appearance
But the sheep found a hua point...
In the collaborative movie "Night Parade" between the two secretly in love, the composition of each scene is very "strange" -
The darkroom is equipped with warm lights, and large close-ups of the face are added with odd or dull expressions
Good fellow, worthy of Japan, even the warm Christmas film should be made a little special.
Even if the film has not yet been released, the sheep can already see the general tone of the film from these compositions: eerie warmth.
Last week, Yang talked about how light and shadow shape aesthetics and the plot of movies, but the reason why movies are called art is because the shooting method is composed of many aspects.
Light and shadow are pure visual arts, and in addition to light and shadow, how the composition is arranged determines the plot extension of the entire picture.
So why is composition so important?
What exactly are we watching when we watch a movie?
That's right, it's about composition.
The composition is not only as simple as the picture structure on the surface, it is actually divided into three parts: the subject, the companion, and the environment.
Specifically, film composition refers to the subject and shooting modeling elements, which are distributed and organized in a series of active film pictures in chronological order and spatial position, forming a unified picture form.
In other words: composition is actually the arrangement of elements in the picture and the relationship between them.
If the concept of the sheep is not easy to understand, the treasurers can simply imagine the film composition as a moving picture.
Because before the advent of movies, people had already learned to tell stories in paintings.
Just like in the following painting: there is a protagonist, there is a situation, there is a theme, there is a relationship between the level of power
And many film directors actually draw on the elements in famous paintings when shooting.
For example, the movie "Shirley Realistic Vision" borrows from the painting "Morning Sun"
and the painting "The Room in New York"
The film "Melancholia" borrows from the painting "Ophelia"
"Broken Embrace" borrows from the painting "Lover"
Of course, if you want to tell a two-hour story well, it is definitely not enough to draw on it.
So how do you choose the composition when shooting a movie?
The simplest understanding: highlight the main key points -
Film is narrative art, and each picture has the main information that can advance the story, so the basic principle of scene composition is to highlight key information.
In the concept of geometry, point-line surfaces are the basic elements of flat space, and the same is true in film composition.
The sheep first said "point".
Don't simply understand "point".
In movies, a "dot" can be a person, a tree, a beam of light, a bridge hole, or even a fish
In layman's terms: what the director wants you to see, what is the "point" in the film and television composition.
For example, this soldier walking in the jungle.
Even though the surrounding environment occupies most of the lens, our eyes will involuntarily focus on him
In general, directors generally use "dots" to attract the attention of the audience in wide-angle lenses, so the background is usually a neat solid color.
For example, a lone boat at sea
Glide in the snow
Advance in the fog
But the background color is not fixed.
For example, in the following shot, even if it is initially out of focus, the viewer's eyes will be attracted by the sword glowing with light and blood
In the walking crowd, the person standing is the "point" in the picture
Taking it a step further, when shooting movies, "points" are often used in conjunction with the rule of thirds.
The so-called rule of thirds means that the body of the frame should be placed at the four intersections of the four vertical and horizontal lines of the lens.
For example, the upper left intersection
Or the lower left intersection
Another technique that uses "dots" is the Golden Triangle.
For example, in the multiplayer confrontation scene in "Pulp Fiction", the character movements of the two focal points before and after are limited to the frame
Another example is this diagonal lens.
After drawing the diagonal, draw the line from the other two corners that intersect at right angles to create two balanced focal points
As Yang said above, the goal of film composition is to explain key information.
Baozi can actually understand the "point" said by the sheep as the key point in the composition, and when the "point" and "line" are combined, it will further enhance the beauty or story of the picture.
What is a "line"?
It can be a tall building, a window frame, or sea level.
There are two types of "lines" in film and television composition: artificial or natural.
For example, the picture below uses the door frame as an artificial line to divide the picture into two, and the same scene can construct two narrative subjects
This kind of picture construction can be used in many forms, such as confidants and eavesdroppers, or pursuers and evaders.
Another example is the following scene.
In a sense, the window frame became the picture frame, shaping the feeling of European medieval figure oil painting.
This composition not only has a certain degree of aesthetics, but also allows our eyes to focus on the "point" of the girl in the blue dress
So what are natural lines?
Case in point: the horizon.
The action of the horizontal line can suggest distance and calm, and when combined with the fresh color scheme, the whole picture can look extraordinarily soothing
Conversely, if diagonal shooting is accompanied by multiple "dots" of flow, the picture will have a sense of chaos and disorder
And the lines in the protagonist's environment will naturally guide people's eyes to specific "points".
Like fencing
Another example is the corridor
In addition to the above forms, the irregular lines not only shape the depth of field, but also make the picture feel closer to reality
And the combination of dots + lines forms the surface.
In addition to dotted lines, how does the composition arrangement in film and television shape the plot more deeply?
Film composition: language that does not speak
What makes a good movie?
Good movies can speak, but not just through words.
As the most important form of visual presentation, the composition picture can often act as the second language of the film, because all the information is hidden in the picture.
Take Wes Anderson, for example, one of the most representative directors in film composition.
Many fans like to call him paranoid because he pursues the symmetry of the picture too much.
One of the most frequently asked questions about his film sets was: Is our camera in the middle of the frame?
The same is true in multiplayer compositions
Even if the upper and lower double intersections are composed, the picture should be symmetrical
Wes Anderson's paranoid pursuit of symmetry and strong color structure have become his fixed film aesthetics.
What is the core of this composition?
It is the "person" who is basically always in the center of the picture, and all the information points are completely exposed
The symmetry composition is actually equivalent to placing the "points" mentioned by the sheep directly and clearly in front of the audience -
"My message is the center, so don't look anywhere else with your eyes."
In addition to picking out the points of information, the rigor and orderliness of this composition can often leave a strong impression and use to shape their own aesthetic style.
Symmetry is about stability, even if it is a confrontation scene at the negotiating table.
On the contrary, if the composition is irregular or even completely reversed, then from the perspective effect, the audience will instinctively produce a feeling of tension and unease.
You can also call this composition the dramatic angle in the movie.
An angle is a perspective, and in most cases the composition balances the camera with the ground
But if the perspective is reversed, the feeling of oppression will come to the face
Overhead shots with a high angle of view can make the subject appear small, weak, and fragile.
Low-angle overhead shots will make the subject appear tall, fierce and decisive.
In addition to this, color is also a classic element in composition.
Color has two roles in composition, one is aesthetic shaping, and the other is sublimating the theme.
Just like the use of high saturation colors by Wes Anderson, color can also establish the aesthetic style of the film to a certain extent.
For example, "Shadow", the black and white color combination and the strong depth of the picture look like a Chinese ink painting
Another example is the hedge between characters and colors in Wong Kar-wai's movies, hazy and psychedelic
Irregular lines of color composition, outlining the "points" in the picture
In terms of sublimation themes, the World War II film "Schindler's List" is an absolute classic in film history.
In the black and white tones of the whole film, the girl in red symbolizes the despair of blood, and at the same time stimulates humanity
And composition is a creative art, not conformist.
There are many ghost directors in film history who have created some classic compositions.
Sheep's favorite clip is from "Guess the Train" -
The male protagonist with an excess of XD slowly fell, and the carpet collapsed, and as the male protagonist looked at it from the first perspective, the carpet seemed to become a "coffin"
And when he went to the hospital for the injection, the male protagonist immediately regained consciousness, as if he came out of the "coffin"
Many people think that the most classic scene of "Guessing the Train" is "toilet swimming", but Yang feels that whether it is imagination or camera construction, this scene is not lost at all.
Cult film directors are usually very creative.
For example, there is another composition method in film history called "Kubrick gaze".
Although it wasn't invented by Kubrick, he often used it: the character's head hung down slightly, and his eyes looked directly at the camera, a bit like rolling his eyes
But this kind of picture can give people a strong sense of oppression -
It's not that we're watching the people in the film, but the people in the film are freezing us
And the composition art of the film is far more simple than what the sheep say today.
Art never ends, and the narrative development of film does not stop.
We like to watch movies because we pay attention to beauty and appreciate beauty.
Because film is not only another special narrative symbol, but also a fluid aesthetic.