How to write a film review?

From the theme, structure, character scene, scene, space, plane position, soft dialogue and so on.

The film theme that people usually understand should include the following two levels:

1. The content of the movie or what the author of the movie wants to tell us. We can clearly see and feel this from the narration and characters in the film. It is not an abstract symbol, nor a bunch of concepts, but is reflected in the screen effect full of visual modeling features.

2. What have we learned by understanding the theme, conception and overall audio-visual image of the film? Although the theme is the understanding, attitude, emotion and aesthetic concept of life and society expressed by the creator in the film, it has obvious personal subjective color and style, but it is not purely subjective, but must be the feeling of personal life.

When we analyze and discuss the theme of the film, in order to understand the theme of the work more deeply and understand the director's creative intention, we must make the following ten preparations to consult the written materials related to the film:

1) Which literary work (masterpiece) was this film adapted from? What kind of theme, background and characters did the author express in the original work? What kind of spiritual world and emotional effect does the work convey?

2) What works did the director of this film direct? What is his (her) consistent creative style? In this work, what means, methods, styles and modes are used to complete the film narrative and theme expression?

3) What kind of style does this movie belong to? What are the thoughts of similar films? What is the difference between them?

4) What plots, scenes and details are described that play a particularly important role in expressing the theme of the film? Can you express this psychological and artistic feeling accurately, vividly and completely? What excites you in the movie?

5) How much do you know about the events, background, characters and related reports of the film?

6) How did you know about this movie from your personal major, gender, age, culture, accomplishment, values and morality? Or what level do you think this movie is at?

7) At what level, we think we can fully understand what the film wants to express and what the director wants to express. What is our starting point?

8) How much do we agree with movies in visual physiology and aesthetic psychology?

9) What do you think is the most exciting and worth learning in the film? Style, narrative structure, modeling style, means, image effect and characterization in the film, which are the things you are most interested in?

10) Besides the opinions of the general public, do you have any views and opinions on this film? What do you think is the biggest deficiency in the film?

These ten questions can basically help us to deepen our understanding of movies.

Dual structure

The structural analysis of film is a systematic project in film analysis. We think that the structural analysis of film should include:

1, structural analysis of the play:

Throughout the world's feature film styles, there are basically four ways of existence: the narrative structure of the film, the dramatic structure of the film and the ending of the story:

First, it is reasonable and expected;

B, beyond reason, as expected;

C, reasonable, unexpected;

D, beyond reason, unexpected.

But no matter what kind of ending, it will be full of causality, accidental relationship, inevitable relationship and dramatic relationship, and there will be a subjective factor.

The script structure of modern movies often has great randomness and variability, which is mainly manifested in the reasonable and unreasonable handling of scripts, some reasonable and some unreasonable; Some are reasonable and some are unreasonable; But from the composition analysis of most films, rationality is more important than rationality.

2. Plot structure analysis:

Traditional movie plots are often sequential and linear, while modern movie plots are more complicated and confusing. But the plot and details of the film are important parts of the film structure.

The arrangement of movie plots is often based on the psychological clues and development of the characters. In the past, the "dramatic" film narrative relied on the exquisite external plot design and setting to a great extent.

Modern movies pay more and more attention to the details in narrative, and promote the plot through the action and accumulation of details. The characteristics of this kind of film are: paying attention to the details, paying attention to the repetition of details, forming the internal structure of the film and paying attention to details.

The routine and visualization of festivals help to shape characters and plots.

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The performance of the characters in the film is not only the overall narrative and plot of the film, but also the concrete performance and expression, rather than the number of scenes, dialogue lines and shots. Generally speaking, there are four ways:

1) Character appearance:

The appearance of the characters in the film is an important character feature and important visual information of the characters in the film.

In the process of film production, more attention is paid to the treatment of clothing, hairstyle and makeup. The characters in the film should not only conform to the narrative of the film, but also have distinctive characteristics.

2) the performance of the characters:

In the performance of a certain character in the film, sometimes it is more handled by a certain lens scene. Its purpose is to make full use of the scene of the lens to describe the psychology, emotion and performance of the characters, even for a certain character.

A variety of scenes to deal with the picture, or a large number of characters in different scenes, but also to portray the character and psychology.

For example, in "My Mom and Dad", the narrative and characters of "Mom" when she was young were more alternately used with close-ups, close-ups and panoramic views, while the narrative and characters of "Mom" when she was old were more completed with panoramic lenses. The overall style of the film is basically such a routine treatment.

3) Body expressions of characters:

Most of the narration of the film and the handling of characters in the scene are carefully designed by directors and actors. Because the way and state of the characters' body processing is not only for narration, but also for the scene, more for the shaping of characters and even for promoting the plot of the film.

For example, in the movie My Mom and Dad, the young "mom" is always in motion, standing and running in the colorful memories of time and space; In the black-and-white realistic space-time paragraphs, the old "mother" is just the opposite treatment, and most of the body expressions are treated as static forms and sitting postures.

4) Role position performance:

The position of characters in the composition of film photography pictures has its special significance in both film style and picture effect. In the specific picture processing mode, some characters are processed in the middle of the picture; Some characters are processed on the screen; The positions of some characters are simply irregular and stuck.

For example, the overall style of the role position in the movie Yellow Land is centered. The overall style of character positions in movies 1 and 8 is neighborhood handling. These two different processing methods make the position of characters in the film picture composition have a distinct modeling effect. In fact, this is an extension of film narrative, means and style.

Sichangjing

Scene is the basic carrier of film narrative and the specific spatial environment of the film.

Scene-is an important modeling element of the film.

The scenes of modern movies can be realistic or unrealistic, but the existence of these two scenes needs the embodiment and reflection of the situations specified in the script.

Secondly, the movie scene has a time relationship, which stipulates and restricts the time relationship between the narrative and action expressed in this scene. As we often say: as far as film narration is concerned, changing shots is every three to five; Changing scenery means changing time, Z. Changing scenery means changing space.

Through the analysis of the tab and the movie, we find that the selection, utilization, arrangement and composition of the scene in the movie will affect the following problems:

1) the scene determines the film style: the choice and concrete application of the scene determines the narrative style and modeling style of the film from a macro perspective. We often say: location is conducive to the atmosphere of the film. The interior is conducive to the use of light in the film; Real advantage

The spatial expression of movies. Exterior performance artistic conception, interior performance drama, real performance scheduling.

2) Scenes affect the spatial sense of the film: the appearance and appearance of exterior scenes in the film, regardless of the length and quantity of scenes, will form an overall spatial scale in the film. Feeling and effect. In interior shooting, we will have the opposite feeling, which shows that the film space changes a lot, but it is not complete.

3) Scene restricts characterization: The application of location in movies makes the expression of characters more environmental, makes the characters more credible in narrative and is more conducive to characterization. The application of interior has optimized the modeling of photography.

Elements are more conducive to the shaping of characters visually, and more importantly, they are conducive to expressing the "drama" of characters.

4) Scene relationship: Due to the conscious and unconscious changes of the scenes in the film, the relationship between the ground and the tone in the film will change greatly, which can form different initial tone effects in different scenes in the film.

5) The field determines the integrity of a narrative plot: a scene in a movie can clearly complete a relatively independent and complete narrative plot, or it can only be a small part of the narrative plot. In the process of film production, we should also pay attention to the role of scenes in the film. Scene is a descriptive language, the title of an actual festival and the expression of an independent event. The actual increase is often; A scene can be completed by one scene or several scenes.

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The scene of the film is the expression language of the focal plane and the visual form of the picture. On the surface, it is a modeling element, but in fact it is a means to teach things.

The most fundamental meaning of farewell is to express the range contained in the picture. Generally speaking, the division of movie scenes has the following forms; L) Foresight, 2) Foresight, 3) Panorama, 4) Panorama, 5) Middle Scene, 6) Middle Scene, Close Scene, 9) Big Scene.

The scenery in the film is one of the external forms of visual effect and director's language style. Decide the film style, decide the narrative style, decide the party style and decide the director style.

In the process of analyzing the film, we pay attention to the whole film, not a specific shot. The analysis focuses on the following aspects:

1. What kind of scenes are dominant in the narrative process of the whole movie? What is the dominant trend in the film? What role did it play in the style of the film?

2. What is the main scene of the important dialogue between the characters in the scene? What are the rules and characteristics between the changes of lens scenes? How does it help the characterization and narrative advancement in the film?

3. What are the characteristics of the interior in the movie scene? What are the landscape features of the site? What kind of effect is the interweaving of these two landscapes? In particular, it is necessary to analyze the influence of scenery on characters, narration and rights from the outside and inside.

What role does the expression and expression of words and actions play?

4. What are the characteristics of the scene application at the beginning and end of each scene? What is the law of scene change in lens editing?

5. In the whole film, what is the scene change range of the lens? How does it affect the rhythm of the film? How does this change of scenery help the narrative of the film?

6. Analyze the characteristics and forms of character action and lens scene application in action scenes.

7. How does the use of the scenery and the effect of the final picture affect the style of the film?

8. What influence and help do different scenes have on the composition of the picture?

9. What effect does the application of Jingbie have on the atmosphere of the environment, the expression of space and the scene?

10. Analyze the expressions of people and actions in different scenes. The movies we watch sometimes give a certain role a specific scene. In some cases, different scenes have different descriptions of different roles.

Things, different emotional requirements and different action expressions will play a very important role.

1 1. Analyze the influence of movie scenes on movie rhythm.

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In theoretical analysis, film space is not a very specific concept.

At the same time, film space is a whole concept of expression, which is inseparable from the narrative and theme of the film. Film space is a function word in the expression of film shooting and an adjective in the theoretical analysis of film shooting.

However, in the process of film creation, space is the embodiment of the specific scene of the film. Often in the process of understanding movies, the space of movies is a broader, less specific and even vague concept for us.

Our sense of film space generally comes from our concept of survival. So, what are the characteristics of movie space?

1. Definition of film carrier space. That is what we call the two-dimensional space of the screen. The screen space of movies is limited, flat and concrete. The spatial relationship we see is formed on the two-dimensional plane relationship.

2. Assumption of film performance space. The three-dimensional space we see on the screen is an imaginary three-dimensional space. The film uses optics, colors and tones to create a specific psychological (big) physical (eye) feeling.

Perception is an empty spatial relationship and spatial effect.

3. The comprehensiveness of film sensory space. Our feeling of movie space is a process of comprehensive understanding of physiology and psychology. It is both a screen and an imagination; Both concrete and illusory; It is both planar and three-dimensional; It is expressive and reproducible.

4. The reality of the space inside the film painting and the imagination of the space outside the film painting. The film uses the limited spatial layout in the painting to express the infinite spatial relationship outside the painting. We often use the local and incomplete space in the painting to express the whole space outside the painting.

Relationship, stitching the audience's psychological imagination.

In the process of analyzing the film space, we should analyze the following questions:

2. Does the main spatial structure in the film participate in the narrative and modeling of the film?

Space exists in movies, usually as the environment where events take place, which helps movies complete the narrative. The film space is not only the specific place where the event takes place, but also the main carrier to promote the development of the event.

For example, in the film Red Sorghum, the sorghum field became an important environmental basis for the emotional catharsis of "my grandfather" and "my grandmother" in the film. The space of the scene expresses the characters and reflects the personality. As narrative and modeling elements, film space has become the visual and aesthetic subject of the film.

2. Does the jump of the main space in the film constitute a huge contrast?

In the American film Brave Heart, the alternation of Scottish regional scenery and ancient closed castles has formed a huge spatial contrast and a huge atmosphere contrast, which has made great contributions to the narrative and style of the film.

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3. Is the film space symbolic?

The space in the film is not only the carrier of the theme, but also the narrative environment. It is not only the party style of the film, but also the modeling style of the film; Therefore, the space in the film has great expressive force and symbolic significance.

For example, in the movie "Red Lantern Hanging High", red lanterns and black lanterns in the house become symbols of the life style and destiny of the characters. The closed and gloomy house, as an environment, a symbol and a style, as a story and modeling element of the film, has played an independent role in the film.

4. What kind of movie space is it?

In modern movies, the spatial symbols and manifestations of movies are mostly two forms of existence:

1) One is the spatial symbol of the whole movie. Use the main scenes selected in the film to symbolize the theme of the film from the perspective of image.

2) One is the local space symbol of the film. Use the very characteristic scenes in the film to express characters or plots from the perspective of specific fields.

Most film creators use these two methods to help deepen the concept of film.

For example, the film "Yellow Land" uses a lot of symbols of the spatial relationship between land, the Yellow River, caves and the whole to reflect on the traditional culture and style of the Chinese nation for 5,000 years.

For example, in the movie Red Sorghum, my grandfather and grandmother have a scene of "wild combination of sorghum fields". This specific scene space of sorghum fields implies the sublimity of human life and the greatness of human nature.

For example, in the movie "Ju Dou", the symbol of local spatial relationship is used in the closed dyehouse to show the prosperity and development of the dyehouse and the decline of a family's life and ethics.

For example, in the American film "All Golden Shell", the bathroom of the soldiers in the Marine Corps barracks is a typical symbol of closed and local spatial relationship, which not only shows the mental distortion of several soldiers under the oppression of human nature, the army and the environment, but also shows the shocking incident that soldiers are dissatisfied with the style of officers in the military system and shoot the sergeant.

5. Does the performance and expression of film space have unique visual modeling characteristics?

The environmental space of the film not only completes the narrative and characterization of the film, but also has unique visual modeling characteristics.

For example, the movie "Raise the Red Lantern" expresses the destruction of feudal society, feudal system, feudal family and ethical code from the modeling characteristics of the wishing party.

For example, the open expression and treatment of the space environment in the first half of the film Ju Dou, the plane expression and treatment of the space environment in the second half, and the visual modeling characteristics of the picture truly show the process of a family from prosperity to decline.

For example, in the movie "In the Mood for Love", the rented apartment of the hero and heroine, the real environmental spatial relationship and the crowded residential building structure have formed another kind of depression for the hero and heroine, casting a shadow over the fate of the characters in the film.

Seven machine positions

"Machine position" is the name of the film creator for the camera shooting position, and it is also the expression of the camera shooting point in film analysis.

In fact, the position of the film director is the most important language form.

The use of seats is the narrative form of movies.

The change of position is the lens form of the film.

The changing law of plane position is the visual form of film.

When analyzing the seating relationship in movies (movies and paragraphs), we should pay attention to the following questions:

1) specifically analyze where the director shot, and use a scene to express the narrative of the film.

2) Analyze how the lens position is arranged in such a narrative process (paragraph). What is the composition effect of the plane?

3) What are the characteristics of the handling of seats in specific paragraphs in the film (such as showing the actions of characters and showing the details of events)?

4) What are the rules for the handling and layout of seats in the whole film and a scene? In fact, in the process of pulling the tab, we will find that the arrangement of all lens positions is regular, whether the director has this consciousness or not.

It exists, and the laws of lens processing and typesetting should be analyzed.

5) How do the seats in the film express the spatial relationship in the film? The expression of film space is realized through the processing of lens. The distance of the scene and the change of the lens direction are of decisive significance to the expression of the film scene space.

6) What kind of help does this seating treatment have to the shaping of characters' personalities and the expression of characters' images? For the character and image of the characters in the film, you can use static pictures or dynamic pictures, and the results brought by these two methods are different.

7) Which seats are used to complete the narrative in a scene of the movie. In some films, there are few shots in a scene, and it is clear that two or three seats are enough to complete the shooting of a scene. In other films, there are many shots in one scene, but there are no seats.

It takes a lot of changes to complete a play. By comparison, we can also find the law of lens processing.

Jiuguang line

Light is the soul of photography creation.

Film lighting is an important embodiment of film visual style.

The use of film light reflects the director and photographer's pursuit of the visual form of future film pictures.

The light in the film is a technical problem first, and then an artistic problem.

1. According to the direction and form of light, cinematography has the following forms:

Front light, back light, side light, scattered light and effect light.

2. According to the nature and function of light, cinematography has the following forms:

Main lamp, auxiliary lamp, outline lamp, background lamp, decorative lamp.

3. The light in the movie has the following functions:

1) Create characters.

2) Express the party style of the film.

3) Create an atmosphere of the environment.

Our main purpose: to analyze the narrative and modeling role of light in the film by watching the overall picture effect of the film; Analyze its unique role in the visual style of movies.

Stone eagle carving

The keynote of the film is the expression of the overall visual style of the film.

On the surface, the tone of a film is the overall relationship between light and shade of the film, which finally reflects the visual image style and the overall feeling of the tone of the film.

In fact, the concrete implementation of tone film in the shooting process is the photographer's distribution of various brightness relationships in the scene. The treatment of various shades in the film is completely determined by the director and photographer according to the content and style of the film.

For example, some photographers control the tone relationship of the whole film very dark, and most scenes are controlled in the low-density part of the film, forming a feeling of depression and dullness. In the film In the Mood for Love, narrative requirements and most scenes

It is the night that makes the film itself sadder, full of nostalgia and tragedy.

For example, some photographers consciously control the high brightness part of the whole film to the feeling of overexposure, forming a purposeful feeling of partial overexposure. In the movie Ruan, some scenes and shots are one-sided and conscious.

Most scenes are not very dark because overexposure is controlled very badly. It's dark, and the picture effect is warm and poetic, which adds a lot of color to the narrative of the film.

For example, some photographers make the color control of the whole movie into a unified effect, forming the overall picture form of the movie. In the movie My Mom and Dad, the black and white part of modern time and space is completely conscious and high-key; And the past tense of movies.

The blank color part is also a conscious high-profile treatment. The film is also very warm in the overall control of the tone. This is a conscious pursuit, which has written a brilliant stroke for the spiritual and emotional shaping of the film.

Watching movies is a kind of spiritual enjoyment and a kind of professional research.

In addition to certain ways and means, we must have some patience and confidence. In today's information-developed era, in this era when words must be called masters, the means and methods of film can be learned, but the cultivation of film specialty depends on slowness.

Only by accumulating slowly can we achieve it. Only by working harder and harder than others can we reach a certain professional level.