Coquettish Rebirth

Just when Jia Hongjian was puzzled, he listened to Spielberg kindly give him guidance, "You have to understand one thing, our lens is not a painting hanging on the wall in an art gallery. ▲∴, Then a static painting, people can watch it for 5 minutes to pay attention to every detail and every stroke of it, but our film cannot, we are dynamic art, and the attention is slightly distracted in the blink of an eye, so a few frames of the picture It’s over, even a shot can pass, so we must grab the audience’s attention, and express to them what we want to express in the space where the audience’s attention is limited. In fact, our movie is okay, if it is a comic In fact, it is even more difficult, because the carrier of comics is a kind of fixed paper, they can be analyzed slowly like traditional paintings, so it is easy for cartoonists to fall into this fluid trap, just paying attention to showing off their skills I drew the picture, but didn't notice how to let the audience get the core idea they want to express at a glance.

For example, in a scene where the main character is having a picnic in the park with his family, some painters tend to fall into the point of drawing every grass to life, and painting the trees to perfection. This is very good, but after that ?What does the center of the picture want to express, so that readers can't see it?If the audience only pays attention to the core content he wants to express - the protagonist and his family are having a pleasant picnic and enjoying family happiness, then the readers will not notice the details of grass and trees, then the artist spent so much effort to paint these interesting for what?He can use this time to refine the plot!On the other hand, if the reader really notices these grasses and trees, then the process of the core idea to be expressed in such a picture entering the reader's brain must be hindered, because the reader's attention is distracted!Sometimes if a cartoonist chooses the camera angle and position poorly, or spends energy on the inexplicable details of the drawing, readers may not feel anything for a short time when watching it.But after a long time, they will feel tired, because they have no way to obtain effective information at the first time, they receive too much information at the first time, and their brains need to process and distinguish to eliminate invalid interference information, which It's been a long time and tiring..."

Whoops, I'm going?At that time, Jia Hongjian felt that Mr. Spielberg's research was so deep!Has this all studied the brain operation principle of the receiver or the audience?At that time, Jia Hongjian became interested, "Brother, tell me more, I'm interested in this!" That's right, he, Jia Hongjian, likes to understand some laws of people's subconscious the most. Does he like to think about people!How else could he know so much about human nature?Seeing that Jia Hongjian was also quite interested, Spielberg just smiled and continued, "I know some of your Chinese culture. After filming "Saving Private Ryan", I I found that your Chinese philosophy also has a summary similar to my life experience, called...returning to nature...how do you say it in Chinese? fan-pu-gui-zhen?"

Mr. Spielberg said a word like "back to basics" in a weird accent.Seeing that Jia Hongjian nodded and confirmed that he really said so, the old man continued to talk about his experience, "I think it's really like this. When I first learned some professional techniques, I always wanted to Show off, make it very fashionable and technical, but when I get old, I realize that sometimes the simpler the better. The more natural the better. It’s like saying that it’s also a scene where the main character goes to a picnic with his family, the same The location is the same as the camera position. The strokes are slightly changed, and a large area of ​​blank space is used as the lawn, and the tree is also simplified to draw, leaving the center of the picture for the happy protagonist and his family, expressing their expressions and actions, so that Readers can feel happiness as the core idea you want to express right away. Isn’t that enough? Why do you need to draw the grass very finely? Why do you need to draw the tree so realistically? Readers need those Is it real?"

When Jia Hongjian heard this, he felt quite reasonable.Then the old man extended the truth to the picture he just edited at this time, "It's like this Batman retired at the end, went for a walk with Catwoman abroad, and then drank tea on the street. I saw the old butler like this Scene. You first took a distant view of a city, and then took a distant view of the park. Taking the distant view of the city, especially the iconic buildings, is a representation of changing a city or a country, which is very common. It’s like showing the United States, then take a long shot of Manhattan in New York, and take a picture of the Statue of Liberty, so that people will know that they are coming to the United States without subtitles.

But here I think it is inappropriate to use it, because which country is such a city in the end, is it important to the audience?The audience just needs to know that this is not Gotham City, and they know that Batman has gone away and started to live a good life, that’s all. Who cares whether such a city is Paris, New York or something else?At the same time, I know that you want to show the beauty of such a park because you want to show that Batman is finally living a good life after retirement, but living a good life is not just about a good environment, or that a good environment has nothing to do with a good life.Good days are more about relaxation, happiness, and lovers, so it’s enough to show that Batman and Catwoman are happy together, isn’t that enough?I even think that the depth of field can be made very shallow through processing, so that the scene of the protagonists Batman and Catwoman on the street is very clear, but the surrounding environment is completely blurred, so as to highlight the most important thing that we need most. What is expressed is also the information that the audience most needs to get!They just need to get Batman to be happy and happy, and they don't need to know the faces of passers-by or the appearance of the storefront..."

Flowers!Hearing what the old man said, Jia Hongjian suddenly felt a little enlightened!Is this similar to the feeling of blank space in Chinese traditional paintings?That's right, Chinese traditional painting is blank, that is, it pays attention to using blank pictures to show something and let the audience imagine something.But from another perspective, this allows the audience to imagine, isn't that actually keeping the audience's attention on the things that have been painted?For example, in a landscape painting of mountains and rivers, the ancient painters did not need to paint water at all, but directly painted misty mountains, and then left the water blank, so that when people saw the painting, the blank place in their brains was water.This stimulates the audience's imagination, but from another perspective.Didn't people just not spend their energy and pen and ink on painting water?They didn't draw the water flow or the reef, these things will only distract the audience's attention.People leave blank the place that should be the river, which does not prevent the audience from recognizing that it is water. On the contrary, such an omission guides the audience's attention to the overall artistic conception of the landscape!It is to let the audience see the whole at the first time, not the details of the river!This is what old man Spielberg said.Is this a bit of the same feeling?

The more I think about it, the more it makes sense!Even Jia Hongjian’s thoughts diverged in an instant, and if he drew inferences from one instance, he thought of Japanese manga-this Japanese manga is often summed up as saying that manga artists in the 90s still drew noses, but manga artists in the 21st century don’t draw noses. Yes, and it really looks better without a nose!Why is this?If you look at it from such a perspective, maybe it is the effect of blank space?If you understand the characters in the manga as a photo of a beautiful woman who is overexposed and has a high contrast, the beauty may have obvious shadows such as her neck, but her face is too white under the light, what kind of white freckles are there? The nasolabial folds are no longer visible, and even the nostrils can only be shown as a small line segment on the screen.Under such circumstances, the tip of the nose and the wings of the nose may not be visible!

But the eyebrows, eyes and lips are still very obvious. Under such circumstances, a beauty is still a beauty!At the same time, because it is left blank or deliberately does not show various shortcomings, it makes people think that this character is beautiful!Is that what you mean?If you use Spielberg's theory, it is equivalent to drawing the most important, omitting irrelevant information as much as possible, and then allowing the audience to receive the core concept that the creator wants to express-beautiful!Jia Hongjian even thought of "Fortress Besieged" written by Mr. Qian Zhongshu.In such a book, the protagonist Fang Hongjian went to teach at a university in Southwest China with his former rival in love and now his best friend Zhao Xinmei.in the process of being a teacher.This Zhao Xinmei fell in love with Mrs. Wang, the principal who moved to the southwestern hinterland with the principal.As for such a beautiful Mrs. Wang, Sun Roujia, the future wife of Fang Hongjian, summed up Mrs. Wang's image in one sentence—ten points of red nails and red lips.Isn't such a description like the last little thing left after leaving most of it blank on a blank sheet of paper?And such a thing can also make people think a lot!

even.Jia Hongjian also remembered what a writer like Wang Shuo once said - he said that when he wrote about a character's appearance, he tried to capture the most impressive part of such a person's appearance, and then It is enough to use such a point to refer to it, and there is no need to describe anything else.For example, write about a person with glasses.Then you can use "glasses" to refer to such a person.Is such an approach also simplifying the concept to the simplest state, forming a symbolic image so that readers can absorb and understand it in the first place?Indeed, if it is like a traditional martial arts novel, it is easy to talk about what a character's face is, what kind of eyebrows are what kind of eyebrows, what kind of mouth is what kind of mouth, what shoes are on the upper body and what shoes are on the lower body... What happens in the reader's mind after so many descriptions? Possibly with an exact image?It can only be a vague image of an ancient costume!Instead of this, it is better to grasp other characteristics, and then ignore the descriptions on these clothes!In that way, readers can confirm the concept at the first time without being disturbed by other secondary concepts?

Hey!If you imagine it this way, in fact, many core principles of literature and art are interlinked!Damn, suddenly Jia Hongjian felt a little enlightened!And just when he felt that he was getting better at literature and drama, Cheng Long, who was in charge of martial arts, also came to the United States.Next, Cheng Long will "show" to Jia Hongjian how to edit the martial arts. It can be said that Jia Hongjian is very lucky during this period. Both literary and martial arts are guided by masters. After he has learned it all, won't he become a master of all things civil and military? (To be continued..)