What role does composition play in the shooting of a film?

Composition is one of the main forms of image modeling elements, as Ben clements and David Rosenfeld said in Photographic Composition: "Composition is a kind of thinking process, which finds order from natural chaos and organizes it into an understandable whole. The purpose is to let these elements convey to people the excitement, embarrassment, fear, surprise or sympathy that photographers have experienced. "

So in essence, composition is to organize various elements in an orderly and organic way to form a picture with aesthetic feeling and artistry. Composition generally includes the following aspects:

1, the basic content of the composition

The basic content of the composition is relatively fixed, including theme, peers and environment. Theme is the most important part of the picture form, that is, the core content of the picture, followed by the companion, which has a certain relationship with the subject and is in the position of foil subject. Finally, the environment, which constitutes the activity space of subject and companion.

2. The main types of composition

Composition is mainly divided into two types:

⑴ Balanced composition and unbalanced composition: Balanced composition is more in line with our daily visual experience, showing a sense of symmetry, balance, dynamic and static combination, and consistent weight; The unbalanced composition is the imbalance of distribution ratio, highlighting the incomplete and biased visual effects.

⑵ Closed composition and open composition: Generally, the visual information presented by the whole picture with closed composition is relatively complete and the layout is important. The visual center of the audience is firmly attracted by the picture and accepts the existing information. However, the open composition creates an extension of the space inside the painting to the space outside the painting. We are more imaginative and related to the space outside the painting. Open composition can draw the audience's attention to the invisible space outside the painting and enrich the visual information.

3, the characteristics of composition-dynamic composition

Different from the traditional art category, film and television not only includes spatial modeling, but also includes time factors. As we all know, film and television art is the art of combining time and space. The most distinctive feature of film and television composition is "dynamic composition". Film and television interweave shots in different spaces and at different times, and present a unified, harmonious and organic film to the audience through editing.

Composition plays an important role in the art form of film and television. It is to find an artistic form for the expression of content, which can not only accurately convey the meaning of content, but also have artistic beauty.