Photographic skills and editing skills used in The Shawshank Redemption.

The Shawshank Redemption is based on the novel rita hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption by American writer Stephen King. The film premiered at Toronto Film Festival in September 1994 and was nominated for the American Film Academy Award. However, the domestic box office income in the United States is only $28 million, which is extremely disproportionate to its reputation in the media. However, in 1995, with the premiere of CBS on the cable TV network, it beat the sensational film "True Lies" and occupied the first place in the list of home video rental and sales.

Frank Dalabont, the director, explained his unique views on time, pain and friendship to the audience through the different attitudes of people living in the special environment of prison towards faith, hope and love. Unlike Green Mile, which is also set in prison, this film is not about human confusion about unexplained supernatural phenomena, but about the fear of realizing that life has passed away for ten, twenty or thirty years in a blink of an eye in daily life. At the same time, Dalabont completely followed the original work to deeply analyze the spirit of life with a plain plot, and successfully created a rich and broad artistic conception for this film: there is no glamorous charm of superstars in the film; Every role is equally important and indispensable; The story unfolds gradually in a conventional way; Even the film length of 142 minutes means that when you look back, you will find that it is only a few decades. So "The Shawshank Redemption" is not a prison movie in general.

In terms of directing skills, Darabont avoided showing too much the physical blows Andy suffered, and did not use such vulgar techniques to arouse the audience's cheap sympathy: after Andy was beaten by a pervert, the audience could only see Andy wandering in the prison playground from a distance. Like Andy's friends, the camera didn't focus on his scars and bruises, but gave him a free space. In the use of color, the film is in a gloomy and monotonous atmosphere most of the time, and the characters are mostly active in the shadows. Therefore, with the development of the story, when the color of the film suddenly turns bright and lively, the mood of the audience will naturally become clear, so that the protagonist can use this change of light and shade to gain his own life.

The beauty of the narrative structure of this film lies in that although Andy is a real hero in Shawshank prison, the whole film never observes the world from his perspective except for the first few reasons for Andy's imprisonment. On the contrary, Reid brought the audience into the high-walled world with a calm and peaceful narrative, showing a picture of life depicted by friendship and hope. Reid's narrative represents the views of most prisoners in Shawshank prison on real life, and also allows the audience to see Andy's ideological changes at close range, and follow the trajectory of this change to experience the great promotion of human hope to individuals. Andy insists on himself on another invisible level, does not give up hope and creates his own opportunities in the struggle against time. The key to this structure is to avoid the trap of individual heroism, just like an invisible hand that closely connects the audience's feelings with Andy's fate.

Photographer Roger Dickins didn't show off his photography skills too much, but skillfully used lens language to convey relevant information. In the scene of Andy's first arrival in Shawshank Prison, he only used two shots (one from above the prison and the other from outside to inside below the prison gate) to draw a complete picture of the whole prison, which also indicates that the protagonist will be imprisoned from now on. Another commendable thing is that Dickens did not let the lens language go beyond the development process of the story. Here, photography only faithfully records what happened in Shawshank, without making unnecessary guesses and hints.

The friendship between Andy and Reid, played by Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman, is the key to the story of this film. The meaningful conversation between the two inmates and Reid's wonderful narration are full of insight into life, which attracts the audience to chew and ponder repeatedly, and realizes that the details in life that they once ignored are so important. As Andy said in the film: "No matter how complicated life is, it can actually be summed up as a choice:' Get busy living or get busy dying'"

Believe in yourself, don't give up hope, don't give up efforts, and wait patiently for the glory of your own life. This is The Shawshank Redemption.

Editing Techniques Applied to Morphological Rules of Action Editing in The Shawshank Redemption

The charm of American Hollywood movies is obvious to all. Hollywood fills us with fantasy, and many classic scenes of its movies still leave us endless aftertaste in retrospect today. It makes us realize many endless fantasies. People call it "DreamWorks", but I think the deeper reason is to publicize the cultural and spiritual connotation of the American people to the world. The unique structure, complete plot and the use of editing techniques of Hollywood blockbusters make us unable to see any flaws, which may be the reason why we are attracted to them.

Classic Hollywood movies have formed a generally accepted method of "unskilled editing". This method adopts the continuous cut-and-paste combination between shots, and the film has no special effects and changes from beginning to end, forming its own set of "action editing forms" and establishing corresponding behavior rules and norms.

(1) First of all, it attaches great importance to the maintenance of the logic, consistency and integrity of the main action process by editing points.

(2) Secondly, in order to keep logic, coherence and fluency, the subject's actions and directions should be consistent.

(3) Thirdly, in the composition of lens vocabulary, it puts great emphasis on the adaptation to people's normal and logical attention-psychological tendency in life.

I think everyone has seen many movies, not to mention Hollywood movies. As far as 2007 is concerned, there are countless impressive sci-fi movies, such as Spider-Man 3, Shrek 3, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Pirates of the Caribbean 3: The End of the World, Resident Evil 3 and so on. , as well as the more classic At large or Die Hard Rowen, Shrek 3 and Resident Evil 3. It's basically sequels. When we think about it seriously, we may think so, just because the previous movies were really wonderful. Why are Hollywood movies so wonderful? This requires each of us to seriously think, carefully analyze our own shooting ideas and concepts, and seriously study editing skills and the production of 3D animation.

After watching so many movies, what I want to say most is the Hollywood movie The Shawshank Redemption. The story is simple and easy for the audience to understand. The design without any suspense is directly presented to the audience. The following is an analysis of editing skills:

The Shawshank Redemption is a film about friendship, hardship, struggle, hope and dream. The world it depicts is dark and depressing. The hero's calm temperament, excellent mind, meticulous thinking, firm belief, loyal emotion, resourceful design and perseverance are very touching. Let countless people be filled with hope and inspiration, and inspire those who are mediocre and indifferent to life to strive for strength, realize their dreams and get warmth from them. What moved me most about this movie was that it gave people hope from beginning to end.

As we all know, film and television editing should be understood from three aspects: first, the combination between shots, that is, the relationship between upper and lower shots; The second is to combine several scenes into clips, that is, montage paragraphs; The third is editing as the overall structure of the film, that is, the overall idea of the film.

The film uses monologues, with monologues as the keynote, and then tells the story according to monologues interspersed with corresponding pictures, so that the audience can understand the social reality at that time through monologues, from beginning to end, throughout the film.

The film began to use cross-cut images to convey several frames of video information, such as drunkards in cars, court trials, lovesickness, drunkards loading bullets, interrogations, orgasms during sex, and getting off with guns. Through the integration of various possibilities, the viewer has doubts, and then the lawyer's eloquence easily helps the viewer find the "fact": the banker killed his wife (a pair of liars) after drinking. What is important is that all this is virtual for the viewer, and it can also be said that the director helped the viewer to do a warm-up exercise, but the film did not prove the "fact" process.

In the next Prison Storm, the audience's doubts about the "facts" were teased from time to time. When Rhett asked Andy why he was in prison, he said, "I'm innocent." On the one hand, it induces the viewer to doubt or even rebuild the hypothesis, on the other hand, it continues to highlight the theme paradox. Rhett should have said, "Everyone who comes here is innocent." The theme paradox is inadvertently revealed, and the viewer does not pay attention at this time. The genius of the film lies in reversing the causal relationship, putting forward the conclusion first, and then slowly explaining the premise, so that the audience can experience the light continuously with the in-depth development of the film, and this light finally clearly reflects the great prophecy of the theme. This process is a paradox in itself, but it greatly expands the appreciation space of movies. This is also a formal editing technique used to put the cart before the horse, which constitutes the change of the plot and establishes a kind of concealment and expectation.

When Rhett responded "There is no crime here", the audience thought more about "Who is the murderer?" This will attract the audience to continue watching. Just as a young man who entered Sharkburg prison for stealing listened to Andy's explanation of the reasons for his imprisonment, he told the truth. Here, we also use the method of cross editing. Through the murderer's account, we know who killed Andy's wife and why we killed them. Finally, of course, Andy's desire to return was aroused. When we found the warden to explain the facts, the extremely greedy, shameless and cruel warden told him to give up his years, and for his own benefit, he continued to let Andy, a banker, launder money, pay bills and evade taxes, and brutally killed the young man who wanted to be reborn and know the truth. I think this is the direct reason why bankers really want to escape.

Different fragments can create different feelings, express different psychology, express different thoughts and show different plots. Andy saw a CD when he went to the library to collect books sent to him by the government. He carefully closed the door and began to stand alone, playing music to everyone in the prison. It was very difficult for the warden at that time, and even the prisoners felt a little ridiculous because it was unprecedented. Then why did Andy risk being grounded and show "The Wedding of Figaro" to everyone? There is only one reason: no matter how we degenerate and lose our lives, we must never give up our ideals and hopes. With hope, life will become meaningful and colorful.

Personally, I think this clip is also very good, especially Andy's superb performance. When the warden knocked on the door, the camera switch showed that Andy was shaking all over, his hands and feet were shaking, and he was mentally confused. This not only did not make him afraid, but amplified the sound, as if he could not hear the roar outside. The camera took a picture of the player Andy. Andy's sinister smiling face further angered the warden and turned to confront the prison guard, which finally made the audience feel a panic.

Having said that, I can't help but talk about the American drama Prison Break. Its title production and scene editing can also be said to be classic works, which have created a group of prison break fans. Of course, I am no exception. I've been sweating for them all day, and the camera changes quickly. Around the story of prison break, I am telling the story of eight people, one by one, and it is a clip. There are no flaws, no unhappiness for the audience, and the narrative of the story is quite perfect. If so many sequels are condensed into one film, it can be said to be a classic The Shawshank Redemption.

The Shawshank Redemption: From the movie, we can deeply feel a person's yearning for a free life and fearless courage! The most unforgettable scene is the scene where the hero takes off his clothes and stretches out his arms to embrace the wind and rain after climbing out of the prison sewer and drain pipe. Andy is climbing out of the hole he dug, entering the sewer of the prison, breaking the underground water pipe and climbing out of the ditch with an unimaginable smell of 500 yards. Personally, I think it is worth remembering. With the help of thunder, the camera turned from lightning to Andy. Through Andy's close-up face and the action of breaking the water pipe, it can be said that it is a psychological description of Andy at that time, eager to escape from prison and see the light again. Andy expects him to climb more than 500 meters.