What principles should be considered when dealing with the composition elements in a movie?

To deal with the composition elements in a movie, we should consider the following three principles: 1. Aesthetic principles, 2. Highlight principles and 3. Variational principle.

Among them, "aesthetic principle" and "theme service principle" refer to the composition of a single picture frame. The principle of change is about the composition of the whole movie.

Aesthetic principles:

Film is an art, so its composition should be beautiful and "artistic" first. In other words, it is necessary to have a visual sense of beauty to make people look comfortable and beautiful.

How to make the composition of a picture frame have visual beauty? I don't think it should just be understood as: the content photographed in the photo frame is beautiful and moving scenery: green mountains, green waters, flowers and beautiful people ... the content photographed in the photo frame is beautiful, that is, "What are you photographing?"

It's just one aspect of the beauty of the picture frame. That's not all. More important than this is-"How to shoot? 」。 "How to shoot?" -that is, different shooting methods can make beautiful things unattractive, and also make things that look ordinary look good after shooting.

"How to shoot?" This is a question of formal beauty. There are many factors that affect the composition of a picture frame, such as light, color, tone level, contrast between reality and reality, contrast between distance and size, and so on. This is the professional knowledge of photographic composition. I won't go into details here (light and color will be discussed later). We only talk about a few problems that should be paid attention to from the perspective of creation.

No matter how many people or things a picture frame represents, it can be divided into two categories: subject and companion.

Theme service principle:?

In a movie, the composition of the picture is undoubtedly one of the various forms of the movie. The theme or story of a movie is the decisive "content" in the movie. Form must serve the content and composition must also serve the theme.

Principle of change:

The above two "aesthetic principles" and "theme service principles" are about the composition of a single specific picture in a movie. Then, the principle to be followed is the "change principle" of the picture composition of the whole movie composed of thousands of separate pictures.

Movies are not photos. The audience can't stand a film whose composition hasn't changed. And change is the main feature and charm of film art. The changes in a movie can be described as ever-changing In addition to the change of the content of the composition, the change of the composition form is also an important change.