Coquettish Rebirth

Rural themes can be handled in this way, but what about sports themes?To be honest, even if the TV series is not a rural theme plus sports theme, but an urban theme plus sports theme, even if the main characters are all adults, it is really not easy to shoot!why?Because although the urban theme can make it easier for the main urban audience to bring in and accept it, there is a problem, that is, the sports theme itself is really difficult to shoot!This is not to say that there are few people who like sports themes, but in terms of the difficulty of shooting, it is really difficult to shoot!why?Because very few actors really have such good sports skills, and at the same time, few directors and other main creators really know sports so well!

For sports-themed TV dramas, it is really necessary for the main creators to understand sports, and understand it very deeply, so it can be good-looking when it is shot!For example, the best thing in the NBA is that a three-point lore comes in the last three seconds. In reality, there may be players who catch the ball and run to the midfield to jump up and shoot, and then the ultra-long three-pointer will be shot. This is it.But you can't do that in a TV show!The audience will think it's too ridiculous if the TV series is filmed like this!Because reality can always be more exaggerated than literary works, no one can refute reality, no one can criticize, but literature and art can!Therefore, in the field of literature and art, this lore may be placed outside the three-point line, which is more reasonable and better-looking!

On the other hand, if the director and other main creators don't know much about sports such as basketball and football, it will be difficult to come up with wonderful and beautiful pictures in your mind before shooting!Of course, the pictures taken in this way are fragmented, and of course they are not good-looking or exciting!For example, in a real sports broadcast, the directors and photographers are all old fritters who have been working for decades. People can predict what will be exciting next after watching the scene, and then they will point the camera lens at the past. People can only achieve this level if they have a deep understanding of sports, but how can ordinary art directors understand this?If you don't understand these things, aren't those shots all messed up by patting your head?

And there is another problem-the broadcast of sports is more about showing the audience the overall scene.Therefore, the overall vision is given.Not to mention football broadcasts, even for basketball with a relatively small number of people, when broadcasting, basically the proportion of the entire body of the player in the screen is not large in sports battles.The entire screen can accommodate the width of the entire half-court, and it is normal for ten players to appear in the camera!But in general filming, the most important thing is to let the actors show their faces as much as possible!It’s like many times when filming war scenes or medical scenes, etc., for a series of reasons, important characters have to wear gas masks or masks, and the characters will take off the things on their faces within a few seconds. Then show your face!why?Because the audience knows who is who without showing their face?For example, in a battlefield scene, suppose there is poisonous gas.More than a dozen soldiers are all wearing tight gas masks, the clothes are still the same, and the weapons are still the same. How can the audience distinguish the protagonist from the important supporting role?

In the same way, even if it is a traditional literary film, even if it gives the protagonist a long shot in a street crowd, it is designed so that people can distinguish the protagonist at a glance!For example, let the protagonist look up at the camera, and then the camera first takes a close shot, and then slowly zooms out, so that the audience's attention is still on the protagonist.And you can find the main character too!And if basketball is made into a TV series, the protagonist is one of ten people, and it is still a distant view. At first glance, even the face cannot be seen clearly. Sports fans may subconsciously distinguish by appearance and number, but they don’t know much about sports. The audience may be confused immediately, and immediately feel that they don't know who is the protagonist!In this way, the focus of the show will be gone!The attention of the audience is suddenly lost!

But if you want to focus the lens on the protagonist and show what the protagonist is doing at every turn, then the whole game will suddenly be fragmented-the details are too small, and the whole is not obvious.So maybe after a game, I watched the protagonist chattering about in various ways, but no one knew what was going on in the specific scene!This is a bit like Nolan's fight scenes, all kinds of dark scenes.Two people fight at close quarters, and then there are close-ups of arms, faces, etc. at every turn. The continuity of the shots is fragmented, and the audience doesn't know who has the upper hand, and who is hitting whom!Anyway, after reading it, I feel like fighting together, feeling dizzy!Slap scene.Special experience is required to make good shots, and the same goes for sports!When a director who doesn't understand football comes to shoot a sports film, the result is that sports can only be used as a background to pave the way for the urban plot!Such a sports theme is completely no different from any commercial theme!

However, when directors who are not very knowledgeable shoot sports themes, they are still easily affected by funds. For the same shot, if a lore three-pointer is actually shot by the protagonist on the court, or is it a situation where the defender is desperately defending? Next, it must be very difficult for a shot to be shot close to the end, and it may be possible to shoot back and forth hundreds of times!In this way, even if the film does not cost money, even if it is shot with a digital camera, the pre-meal and accommodation expenses of the entire crew for a few days after the 45 shots are not money?Even the electricity bill to power various devices is not money?Isn't it money for the truck that pulls all kinds of equipment back and forth?It's all money!And what if you cut it?Let the actors take a shooting pose, then shift the camera to look up at the basket at [-] degrees under the basket, and then a ball flies in from outside the screen and enters the basket hollow, how about?In this way, just find someone who can play and shoot from any position, and then edit it, it looks like the protagonist's lore goal outside the three-point line!

With such an edit, it really saves money and achieves the goal, doesn’t it?No!The picture taken in this way, there is no feeling at once!Most of the time, the director really can't just try to make a living when shooting scenes. If this is the case, Cheng Long will never figure out how to shoot good-looking fighting scenes in his whole life!And Nolan estimated that if it was enough to make a living, he would never learn how to shoot fighting scenes in his lifetime!

As for directors who know more about sports, with a relatively sufficient budget, they can make sports films that look good.For example, those sports-themed movies in the United States are actually quite good, at least not like when some domestic TV series shoot sports scenes, the shooting is so unpopular and so people-watching Just play!At least they were able to shoot so that the audience could focus on the storyline and the scene of the game, instead of being forced to play by fragmented shots from time to time!

So how did Jia Hongjian solve the problem of sports themes?Use his expertise in sports?This is of course part of it, but after all, he is not the director of this show. Although when he chose the director, he chose a director who prefers the NBA and watch basketball, but after all, he is not the host of the filming, so he knows more about sports. In fact, there is no way to make full use of his specialties in the shooting process.So how did he do it?It's very simple, take advantage of the fact that young players are not stars!Celebrities need to take pictures of their faces clearly. On the one hand, it is the need of the literary form of TV and movies, and on the other hand, it is also the needs of the stars themselves!Otherwise, how many stars would be happy to shoot a drama in which the protagonist has a distinctive appearance and will not be confused with others at all, and let the stars put their face to death throughout the whole process?Certainly many people are not happy!After all, a celebrity eats with a face!No matter if he has acting skills or not, he still wants to show his face!

Therefore, the greater the brand name of the actor found, the greater the pressure will naturally be to ask the director to give a close-up of the actor's face!After all, even if the actor doesn't say it himself, the film and television company must want to show the actor more face - after all, they spent a lot of money to invite them, if they don't show their face, isn't it a waste of everything?Didn't it play a role in attracting the audience?Isn't it better to find a substitute to act?

But Jia Hongjian and the others are different. The young actors are all rural children, and none of them are celebrities. Even this is the first time for all of them to act on TV!This is their first exposure to acting!In such a situation, being able to be photographed by the camera is already very lucky, why would they ask how many times they must show their faces?In this way, wouldn't it be possible to use medium and long-range shots to show the scene?Most of the scenes are displayed in medium and long-range shots, and then when encountering the need to portray a breakthrough in the character, it is completely possible to pull the whole person from head to toe to fill the frame, or half of the body to fill the frame, so that , also showing his face, but it’s not like a close-up face where nothing else can be photographed but only the expression.Such a shooting method can also capture various body movements and confrontation movements of the young actors, how wonderful!Then add one or two close-ups of facial expressions every now and then, wouldn't that be the end of it?

If the sports theme itself is not very attractive, then adding that the players are all little girls, and they are all little girls who may drop out of school to work after graduating from elementary school in the future. Their fate itself will attract the attention of adults, and they will Get your audience's attention.This is determined by human instinct - human instinct is to continue the race, and protecting the cubs is a very important part of the instinct to continue the race!So whether it is in Hollywood blockbusters or Chinese TV dramas, if children encounter difficulties, it will definitely attract the attention of adults!Therefore, the selection of a group of unknown rural girls actually downplays the unflattering disadvantage of sports themes!

It can be said that Jia Hongjian has put a lot of effort into the two aspects of rural and sports themes, and he has used a lot of brains to eliminate his weaknesses as much as possible! (~^~)