How to make creation powerful

When creating a work, it is an indispensable step for the creator to make the work strong, but the embodiment of strength in the work is contradictory. There are often contradictions in fact-based creation, and only by deepening the contradictions can this kind of creation complete a good work. If the work is fabricated out of thin air, contradictions need to be created by themselves. This article is about how to create contradictions.

The narrow concept of contradiction and its popularization

Contradictions I won't repeat the story of spear and shield. The summary of the story is that two completely opposite things appear in the same task line. It is the emergence, persistence and solution of this situation that has promoted the progress of people's daily life.

Let me tell you the basic elements of contradictory creation first. When you read the following examples with these basic elements and then correspond to them one by one, you will easily understand how to create contradictions. After reading this article, you should also be able to simply analyze the contradictory elements in your life and create contradictions when necessary.

Let's try to build a contradiction from the bottom. First you need the story line, and then you need a point relative to the identity/attribute of the story line. When you connect this point with any point on the main line, contradiction appears, and the connected line is contradiction.

There are degrees of opposition, from local to complete opposition. On the contrary, the more opposites, the stronger the collision, and the greater the shock brought by the whole story or creation. Instead, it is a face-to-face collision, tit for tat, and it is also the most powerful. This contradiction is the most attractive.

Application of contradiction

Here are some examples from fact to reality to creation out of thin air.

Contradictions in public opinion events: MJ's vitiligo and Eminem

The contradiction and its influence brought by real life are far more wonderful than imagined.

Michael Jackson, a pop king of black background, unfortunately suffered from vitiligo. One black and one white, together with his reputation as a pop king, caused a protracted public debate in the United States where racial discrimination is serious. White people say that he is crazy about plastic surgery, bleaching his skin, and even saying that he changes his skin; The black man said he forgot his race, and the white man turned away from him when he licked the dog. Michael Jackson has been dead for 9 years (2009-20 18). Up to now, the first intelligent supplementary column that pops up after entering Michael Jackson in the search engine is still "Why Michael Jackson turns white". It can be seen that one white and one black star is an eye-catching topic.

There is also a singer who mixes black and white. He is always surprised by this black-and-white contradiction. Looking at his title, you can imagine the hardships he struggled all the way, Eminem, the king of white rap.

Contradiction in Literary Works: Charcoal Man

In realistic literary creation, the phrase "The poor man wears the right clothes, but worries about charcoal and looks forward to the cold weather" in "The Charcoal Man" shows that it is not easy for the bottom people to make a living from the contradiction between "the right clothes" and "looking forward to the cold weather". If it is written as "rags, no one came", although it is also a description of the facts, it is not contradictory. Obviously, it does not reflect the hardships of the charcoal seller as strongly as Bai Juyi's original sentence. I believe that even if Bai Juyi didn't write this poem, it will always be circulated because of this sentence.

Contradictions in film and television creation: American fear season 2 (the intensity of contradictions in the story is not enough, so the numbers are together)

I chose American Horror Story because this drama typically embodies the skill of the screenwriter's complete creation.

Before I finished watching the play, the screenwriter kept setting up new contradictions in the story, so many contradictions let me play, and almost every episode will have new contradictions. The main contradiction of the story is not enough to support the whole play, so we have to make up for it by quantity. It was in the process of watching this play that the idea of writing this article came into being.

Every season of Fear of Beauty is an independent theme, and the theme of this season's Fear of Beauty is a mental hospital.

Next, from the perspective of the screenwriter, starting from the bad story point of the mental hospital, according to the principle of creating contradictions above, write the main line and branch line contradictions of this play.

Opposite the mental hospital are normal people. If a normal person enters a mental hospital, there will definitely be stories about his efforts to prove that he is not mentally ill or to "escape from prison".

How can a normal person be considered mentally ill? What most people don't believe will happen to him. Either Machamp was absent-minded, and he saw a ghost, or science didn't involve it at present. Considering that a normal person enters a mental hospital and chooses the latter, the play chooses the power of aliens relative to human beings.

This is the origin and main line of the story. Next, we should fill all the branches in the main line to ensure the content of the whole play is substantial.

The story is set in New England in 1960s, which is an era of conservative ethnic culture. Since it is conservative, it will break through the contradiction and make the white protagonist fall in love with the black. The black sister was kidnapped by aliens, and the white protagonist who went through the whole process was sent to a mental hospital as a mental illness.

At that time, mental hospitals, also known as sanatoriums, were mainly nuns and nuns in churches. A religious mother can have another contradiction-a mother who is addicted to sex. Let this unusual nurse become the biggest nurse in the hospital, adding a lot of content. For example, why should a sex addict be a mother? This is an introduction to mommy's past.

Let's set our sights higher. The bizarre events that happened to the protagonist, coupled with his being sent to a mental hospital, will add hot spots to this town without news. So a reporter will go to a mental hospital to interview. The reporter must want to break the news. At the same time, there must be something unknown about a mental hospital dominated by sex addiction's mother. One wants to break the news and the other doesn't want to see the light, which is a pair of contradictions.

The reporter was a lesbian, and her attitude towards homosexuality was very conservative at that time. This small contradiction has promoted the development of the big contradiction just mentioned. The nurse seized the handle that she was a lesbian and forcibly put her in a mental hospital. For the wet nurse, the secret of the mental hospital can be delayed, and at the same time, the whole story shows the contradiction of a normal person in a mental hospital.

I won't elaborate on many contradictions behind, but also take out points that are contrary to the main line, such as demon possession, to enrich the story. Originally, I wanted to experience the horror and was shocked. As a result, the screenwriter was compiled in this way, which made me analyze contradictions rationally and lost the motivation to look down. Speaking of horror movies, I still think the supernatural is terrible and ghosts and gods can't explain it. This is the most terrible. After reading it, people are afraid to look in the mirror, turn on the tap and look at the cat's eye. ...

Contradictions in photography creation

The reason why I want to mention the contradiction of photography creation is that on the one hand, I prefer photography, on the other hand, photography creation, especially figure photography, rarely produces completely opposite contradictions. Therefore, the contradiction I am talking about here is not completely opposite, but has a degree of opposition.

Before introducing the contradictory creation of figure photography, we need to understand a concept, the freedom of the body.

All joints of the body cannot move. If we are flat, we say that the whole body has only one degree of freedom. If the neck can be twisted, there are two degrees of freedom, and the waist can also drive the upper body to rotate, and there are three degrees of freedom. At the same time, if the eyeball can also rotate, we have four degrees of freedom.

What I'm introducing is that on the basis of these four simple degrees of freedom, contradictions in different degrees are expressed, thus increasing the intensity of photographic works.

The photos taken by photography are still, so when we orient these four degrees of freedom in one direction (exactly the same-not contradictory), it is just the simple standing of the characters in the background, which can only show the details of the characters themselves, such as wrinkles and clothes. Once we increase the degree of freedom, the vitality of the characters and the story of the photos will come out, adding imagination to the original still photos.

Here are some chestnuts.

This Adele, her head, body and eyes are not in the same direction. The photo seems to tell us that she just broke up with her boyfriend and was in a trance in the room. Suddenly someone stopped him from the side and cast a melancholy glance at the camera.

Look at this one again, freedom has not changed, so there is no story, which can only reflect the face value of Adele fairy, but her face value is enough to hold up the whole photo. You must have enough personality and self-confidence to dare to take such close-ups

The next two are all a feeling, and you can feel the sense of story brought by the change of freedom.

In fact, the eye is also a degree of freedom. For the sake of simplification, the degree of freedom of the eyes is not increased here, and the weight of the degree of freedom is not discussed. The above photos are all aimed at the camera, which may be said to be special. There are some other examples below, which are also photos brought by free change.

Look at this close-up of Chen Danqing, with his head slightly lowered and his eyes looking up. It is not the superficial details of Chen Danqing, but the inner spirit of indomitable and upward challenge. People can't help but imagine what they are staring at beyond the upper left corner. Looking at this photo, you can feel the character temperament in the photo in less than one second. This is a powerful portrait creation.

Not only celebrity photography, but also this method can be used to shoot interesting works when sweeping the street.

For example, this one was taken when I was sweeping the streets in Chengdu (I can't find other materials for the time being, so I have the cheek to explain it). The turn of the old ladies is the core of the whole work. The change of freedom brought a story: three old ladies were chatting, and someone came to take pictures of them, so the old lady on the right looked at the camera. At the same time, something suddenly attracted the other two outside the right camera, causing the other two to turn instinctively. It may also be like this: three old ladies were watching what happened outside the camera on the right, when the old lady on the right noticed that someone else appeared and turned to the camera.

To sum up, that's all I want to say. You can also try to compare contradictions with degrees of freedom, and you will find interesting phenomena.

Here it is.

Title Photography: Guo Xiang