Coquettish Rebirth

Before Cheng Long came, Jia Hongjian thought about what Spielberg said, and the more he thought about it, the more enlightened he felt!For example, he read comics occasionally in his previous life. For example, he had read comics like "One Piece". @, He used to feel that compared with "Dragon Ball" and other comics of the previous era, this "One Piece" looks really tired. It's not that this comic is bad, but the plot concept is really good.But the manga author doesn't know if the artist is not enough. Sometimes when Jia Hongjian draws in the grid, he can't tell at a glance whether the grid is drawing a character or a background!And sometimes the grids on a page are like this, and after adding the content of the text, he may have to look back and forth at the pictures on such a page for several minutes before he can figure out what the picture is on this page!

And sometimes this kind of picture is a scene of intense fighting!When it should be fast-paced and hearty, readers suddenly have to stop and analyze what is being said. Does this make people feel tired?Similarly, when Jia Hongjian read novels when he was a child, he often read stories about supporting characters instead of the main character, and he would skip long paragraphs because he found it boring. From a perspective, does it have something to do with rhythm?The more I think about Jia Hongjian, the more I think it is!In the final analysis, for a category of products like literature and art, what is important is to transmit the ideas in the creator's head to the recipient through the work. It is impossible to say that the transmission in the middle is 100% successful. It is limited by the media and techniques. There are various efficiencies.As for the saying "There are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people", it may mean that everyone accepts it to a different degree. In such a situation, if the secondary information is not discarded and the main information is highlighted.Don't the receivers have to spend energy to distinguish what is the main information and the secondary information?Wouldn't the pace of receiving information slow down in this way?Wouldn't it be meaningless in this way?

He even thought of the field of photo photography. When shooting flowers or insects in this photography, a lens with a short depth of field is often used. In this way, the subject in the middle of the picture is the clearest, and the surrounding area is the most clear. The other things in the picture are all virtual, which is the easiest way to concentrate people's attention.Let the viewers involuntarily see the subject that the photographer wants to highlight.But what if you don’t use a lens with a shallow depth of field?How about using a lens with a high depth of field for taking photos while traveling?When taking a picture of a butterfly on a flower, the result is that the flowers hundreds of meters around the flower are included in the photo. This f*cking photo looks like a flower, so how can you notice any insects?In this way, isn't the invalid information interfering with the main information?And when taking travel photos, why use a lens with a high depth of field?Why take a picture of the background?Nonsense, what travel takes is the scenery, the purpose of this photo is to let the viewer see the scenery that takes up a lot of space behind, not the people!Otherwise, what is it called a tourist photo or a landscape photo?This is probably the concept of painting and shooting of "virtual and real"?

Just when Jia Hongjian deeply comprehended these concepts and began to infer other cases from one instance.Cheng Long is here!After picking up Cheng Long and getting off the plane, on the way back, Jia Hongjian thought about it, and told Cheng Long what was on his mind—"Brother, you also teach me when editing this time? I am also very interested in the editing of martial arts scenes." Although it is true that when Cheng Long was editing, he, Jia Hongjian, could watch the stealing master from behind, but he was not just satisfied with such a stealing master!After he asked Spielberg for advice, he felt that many things still needed to be said by the mentor before he could be enlightened!After all, there is a teacher to give pointers and there is no teacher, just to explore and comprehend by yourself.That's totally different!As for Cheng Long, he agreed to Jia Hongjian's request in minutes.He is famous for his brotherly loyalty.Even when I was dating Teresa Teng back then, I wished I could bring my brother along on a date, I thought that would be enough loyalty!It can be said that he is such a person, he is really full of the atmosphere of the world after being in the world at a young age!

However, although Cheng Chenglong agreed to teach Jia Hongjian, his style of doing things is very different from Spielberg's.Let Jia Hongjian edit one side first, then he will watch it and put forward various opinions at the end, then Cheng Long is completely reversed - this Cheng Long will first come up and edit it by himself, and then he will edit it while editing. In a few words, he told Jia Hongjian why he wanted to cut it like this.With these two approaches, it is impossible to say which is good and which is bad.Cheng Long's method can't be said to be inattentive, but it just made Jia Hongjian feel that it was a little less efficient to accept.Why?Because Cheng Long never went to school, he went to Peking Opera school. When he was a child, he practiced for half a day and his master taught them to recite the Four Books and Five Classics. He never received any other formal education!So in terms of language expression ability, it is really much worse than people like Spielberg who have gone to college!The same thing, Cheng Long expressed it bluntly, that is, a hammer here and a mallet here, and Spielberg can quickly summarize it into a programmatic theory!

When Cheng Long showed Jia Hongjian how to edit, for example, a scene like the fight between Bain and Batman was arranged at night, and Cheng Long edited it while talking with Jia Hongjian. Said: "Look, for such a fighting scene, I just arranged to put a lot of lights on the roof, so that the light is brighter and you can see it more clearly. Hollywood directors are guilty, they don't I know how to shoot, so many fighting scenes are found in dark places, and the camera is even dangling, so that the audience can't see who is fighting whom, or how to fight, just listen to the crackling, and then the two It's been a long time for a man to be kind. When you see that kind of editing later, you will know that the director doesn't know how to shoot fighting scenes at all..."

For example, in such a passage, if the useful content is really said, it is only one sentence, and the rest are all complaints or something.Can this really be said to be a lack of expressive ability?Because according to Spielberg's theory, there are too many miscellaneous and invalid information, not concise enough, unable to highlight the most important, and unable to allow the receiver to absorb the most core things in the fastest and most labor-saving way, so to be honest if.The content of Cheng Long's speech also needs to be edited!But of course, Jia Hongjian would not mention such things in person, he nodded, and tried his best to pick out two useful ones from the pile of information provided by Cheng Long. "If the environment is not designed to be bright. Batman is already dressed in black, and if he plays against a dark background, then the audience will not be able to see anything clearly, and they will see a mass of black things. What's the matter?" mean?

So in a scene like this, I brightened up the environment, and even Batman had a lot of light from the front and back, so that Batman stood out from the background, and then Bane did the same.Originally, Bane used to wear leather clothes, but in such a scene, even in winter, I let the actor fight with his upper body naked. Why?Just because if Bane is wearing a coat, even though he is khaki, it will not be clear enough under the mask environment of the scene, so that both he and Batman are a bit dark, and the audience will be too tired to watch.So one must be brighter and the other darker.If you are shooting during the day when there is enough light, then you can match one color and one black..."

What Cheng Long said.He once told Jia Hongjian, and after telling it again now, Jia Hongjian was not impatient, but felt that he had a deeper understanding of Cheng Long's design—if according to Spielberg's In theory, Cheng Long is highlighting the main message to be expressed in a shot?For example, or fighting in the dark, if the light is not enough.In addition, the actors are not wearing bright costumes, so the fight is so dark, it is very difficult for the audience to distinguish useful information from the screen, and it takes a lot of information to distinguish, which makes people feel tired!The background and front light sources are enhanced.Relying on some light sources that are reasonable according to the plot makes it easier for the audience to look, isn't this just highlighting the key points?Then the arrangement of the characters, Batman must be completely black, so Bane should try to be brighter, so that there is a contrast that can be seen at a glance in appearance, so that the audience can better and more smoothly accept it. The information in the fight scene... is that what it means?

For example, if two people are both dressed in black, and they hit each other, the faster the rhythm of the fight, the harder it is for the audience to distinguish who is hitting the other, which makes the audience a bit of a drama!The audience has to jump out of such a scene where a good guy beats a bad guy to distinguish which one is the good guy and which one is the bad guy.But what if the good guy and the bad guy are dressed in white and black?In this way, even if he didn't slap his face, but just slapped a fist under the white sleeve on the black chest, that would allow the audience to see who hit whom at a glance, right?In this way, the audience can completely and easily throw themselves into the play!Cheng Long did not sum up such a theory in simple words. He could only talk about his own experience over the years. He could only say that if the audience was tired from shooting in this way, there would be no way to sublimate such an experience to information reception and Deal with the theory to come up!Perhaps, this is the difference between reading and not reading?

"Each shot must be clear and try to capture as much content as possible. You can't pull the camera too close to take a close-up of the body, so that the audience can't see what's going on at all. You have to zoom out a little so that the audience can see it. It is clear who hit whom and at what position. And because it is far away, it is more convenient to use the angle and position, and the actor who is hit can also make a large range of movements to show that the opponent is hitting very hard... And then always A few seconds before a new prop or environment enters the scene, let them appear in advance, so that the audience knows that such a thing exists, and it will feel reasonable... And the camera lens should not keep moving, the lens movement represents If the director can't shoot, it also means that the actors can't shoot..."

Cheng Long has said a lot, and to Jia Hongjian’s ears, the meaning is still—try to choose the camera position and screen design well, so that the audience can immediately accept and quickly process what we want to express, Don't confuse the audience, don't let the audience think for a few tenths of a second to understand what the picture expresses!For example, the emergence of new props and new environments should be "shown" in advance, which is also to prepare the audience.Otherwise, some things that have not been shown in the camera suddenly appear, which will definitely confuse the audience for a while!Similarly, the position of the camera is a little farther away, so that the audience can quickly process such a message of fighting!Otherwise, if you just focus on the detailed scene of punching and kicking the body without giving a panoramic view, the audience's brains will explode!What you see here is that the fist hits a certain part of the body. It needs the audience's brain to distinguish which position it hits. Doesn't this increase the burden on the audience to process information?No wonder it is said that those who do this can't shoot or act! (To be continued..)