How to learn film photography

(1) How to study if you don’t have a camera?

1. "In the absence of a video camera, a static camera can be used instead to a certain extent. That is, using the dynamic thinking of making movies to take idle photos. ... It is just a lens

2. "Try to copy a paragraph you like, which is easier to photograph. Or break up several paragraphs like this and put them back together again." When the time comes, you are not allowed to watch the original film again to practice your memory and judgment. Just practice like this. According to my experience, if you practice for one or two hundred paragraphs, you will be comfortable. Of course, it will take about one or two hundred shots. Spend a year or two. What's the rush? Speed ??is faster than speed. You must be proficient enough to express your thoughts and feelings fluently in audio-visual language."

3. "Take some of the recordings you have in hand. Watch it dozens of times, and then connect one shot to another according to your own ideas. This practice includes several exercises. ...You can carefully figure out how his lens is used, what is connected to what, and you can also study how his lens guides the audience's psychological activities step by step. ...read and analyze a large number of wonderful three-minute paragraphs. That is, spread out the entire action and then compress it into three minutes. Study how others make choices.

” 4. “Generally speaking, read it once, and then read the paragraph you like best, or the paragraph you think is the worst. How are its lenses connected? In other words, what is the light and sound relationship between the last frame of the previous shot and the first frame of the next shot. Does it have meaning? Does it look good or not, and what are the audio-visual effects? How are the relationships between characters expressed? By dialogue? Is there any exercise, is it good or bad to use, or do you think it should be used or shouldn’t be used? How is light used? How are colors used? Does the sound have a sense of space? Is the sound expressive? Then you put the content in and see if it’s appropriate? Why did the director handle it this way? Is there any modification? "

(2) How to conduct audio-visual thinking training?

1. "Do not use any text form, purely use audio-visual language to tell a story (basic skill), write one every day A hundred words event. I can only write a hundred words, and I can only write actions. ...The action is the characters, the action is the conflict, the action is the plot. ...The first training is for students to write about scenes. They are not allowed to write about things that are not on the screen...The shots chosen for writing shots must have audio-visual effects. Students must find a way to write out the audio-visual effects in words, and then Then take the photo yourself. ...What is required to write is that something happened. Happening means movement and process. There is no need to describe it. The description is static. No static writing is allowed. "

2. "Finally, write a few mediocre scripts, and you are not allowed to write lines. If others understand it, then you can add the lines. ...Any dialogue that can be replaced by actions, don't do it. After the script is approved, the students will film it themselves. "

3. Read and interpret a large number of excellent classic films.

(3) About the choice of movie books?