Film Modeling Elements —— Taking Inception as an Example

Film uses photography, lighting, composition and lighting. Movies use artificial light, such as lamps, to create a light atmosphere, and use photosensitive materials, such as optical lenses and filters, to control the brightness, angle, quality and color temperature of the lights. At the same time, the lighting organization of the set in the shed also has some skills, which need to create colors, light effects and various atmospheres; In a real scene or place, the picture is processed according to the shooting direction and illumination direction. For example, there is a saying in photography: the natural light around sunrise and sunset is "prime time".

The lens in Inception's top picture shows the warmth and beauty of children's drama by using the warm light of nature, and expresses the protagonist's yearning for going home to see the children.

Rendering the environment of the specified situation through light can strengthen the portrayal of the characters' hearts. In addition, the contrast of light can also show the change of mood. Sunny weather always makes people feel happy, and the "sunny" big boy is always charming. We use "a bright future" to express our gratitude and wishes. On the contrary, "My world is dark" is the heart of people with depression. This shows the importance of light to the psychological description of characters. In movies, symbolic images like sunshine, moonlit night, thunderstorm, morning fog and dusk are presented to people, and we feel our inner feelings by ourselves.

This picture shows the protagonist's wife thinking in the dim sunset, and a mysterious and illusory picture appears before our eyes, showing her confused state.

There are many classic pictures in the film, such as dark and humid prisons, brightly lit palaces, horrible silhouettes, lovers snuggling in front of flowers under the moon and so on. These specific light atmospheres can already be used as a "template" for directors. In this way, the audience's cognitive process and emotional identification are easier, because the experience of many movies makes the audience understand the "routine", but it will also reduce the audience's thinking. Many movies inspire the audience with their unexpected lighting atmosphere. For example, the rainy night in Singing in the Rain expresses the hero's happy mood, and this unexpected picture is also adopted by many advertisements, so the innovative lighting atmosphere is also one of the breakthrough points of the film.

In the book Character of Color, the source and "character" of various colors are introduced in depth. The historical origin and symbolic significance of each color are reflected in the book.

Yellow is the main color in this film. It is mentioned in the book that yellow is a contradictory color, and the symbolic meaning generated from experience is positive, symbolizing the sun, light and gold. The symbolic meaning of being branded with history is negative: it represents rejected things and symbolizes selfish character. Because sunlight looks yellow, the more yellow the light, the more natural and beautiful it looks.

1. Budd often compares emotional changes with natural circulation. They compare the mature color to the emotional color of love, and yellow symbolizes the highest happiness-the return of love.

2. Most yellow will cause negative associations: yellow is the color that represents all troubles. Jealousy is yellow-worrying about other people's property; Suspicion is yellow-worrying about the existence of others.

In this film, the image of the wife always exists in the hero's deepest dream, which makes trouble when he steals the dream. So, I think yellow is used here to show trouble.

Sour, cool, bitter-yellow taste belongs to this category: people will think of sour fruits, lemons and bitter bile the most. Yellow is the second color representing poison-the corresponding idiom is "Spit poison to get courage".

Many people are addicted to their dreams. Yellow represents their bitter escape from life, and they are also terrible and pitiful.

Movies do use colors to add emotional effects. The primary colors used are blue, red and green. Later, more and more colors were used to present a colorful world. In addition, the documentary will truly restore the vivid colors of reality and bring a sense of reality. Sometimes colors also serve politics.

Light and shade is the objective expression of object structure, color and light effect, and it is also the expression and appeal of art. The light and dark level of the scene represented in the image is an important means to deal with modeling, composition, contrast atmosphere and express emotion. Contrast can create a pleasant image, create a rigid or soft or cheerful or depressed mood, help to set off the theme and render the atmosphere.

Because Inception contains multiple layers of dreams, including a fragment, he concentrated on using montage to depict the "rescue for one minute" of different dreams. At this time, it is very important to distinguish the distinct depth of different dreams.

The first layer of dreams

Dark and cold colors, pouring rain, bustling streets, and overall gloomy silver.

The second dream

Warm colors of yellow and orange are in the corridor of the hotel.

The third dream

On the vast snowy mountains.

The fourth dream

Silver, illusory, is in the deepest subconscious of the protagonist-cold palace.

The suggestion and permission of dreams make people understand the deeper consciousness hidden in their hearts; Dreams may make people see and analyze the interests of their environment more clearly, because the protagonist feels guilty about his wife, so he can't get rid of this trouble. There may be hints, connections, symbols and corresponding relationships between things in dreams and things in reality. The description of dreams intrudes into the depths of the characters' hearts and all areas of the subconscious.

Line composition forms include horizontal line composition, vertical line composition, triangle composition, diagonal line composition, S-shaped composition and circular composition. Usually it is the connecting line between the light and dark boundary of the scene and the scene represented by the image. The contours of common scenes, horizons, skylines, rivers, roads, connecting lines of similar scenes perceived by visual characteristics, connecting lines of corresponding scenes, and imaginary lines of sight direction and motion trend are also often used in photography. There are several forms of lines: straight lines, curves, wavy lines, broken lines and so on. In modeling, lines are helpful to express the three-dimensional shape, spatial depth and texture of objects, and can form a sense of rhythm.

In the movie Inception, many lines are inspired by escher's paintings. Because escher's paintings are strange and mysterious, the director used them to shoot a folded world, showing a strange dream world.

This film provides the audience with a brand-new vision-dream, which implies Freud's view on dreams, draws lessons from escher's painting performance art, and also contains the commercial plot of salvation. Its innovation and whimsy in shooting mirrors have brought us different experiences, which may be the reason why it is "very popular".