The feeling of migratory birds

Rule number one: Everything is for survival.

-Comments on migratory birds

"The story of migratory birds migration is a promise, a promise of return. Their journey, flying thousands of miles, is full of crises, with only one purpose: survival, massive migration of migratory birds and fighting for survival. " They have no choice but to fly.

There are always too many beautiful words about migratory birds. The film tries to objectively record a dream about bird migration, and the creator's lens has also experienced such a long flight. The migration process of migratory birds is extremely difficult, and it is necessary to overcome the hardships of long-distance flight and the severe challenges of nature. The indomitable spirit in adversity is worth learning, which is actually the attitude that life should have today. The story focuses on the migration process of migratory birds from south to north, and tells how migratory birds overcome the natural environment, find the right direction in the sandstorm, protect themselves in the ice and snow, and hunt in the sea of Wang Yang ... The migration of birds is a cyclical process. Although the road is full of difficulties and obstacles, migratory birds persevere in adversity and overcome many difficulties in the natural environment, and their populations are maintained in this process.

Humans have played various roles in bird migration: an old woman brought food to the migrating cranes; In some places, migratory birds were shot; A flightless chick was run over by a combine harvester; A migratory bird is trapped in the mud of a factory and can't escape ... In the desperate resistance of birds, the meanness and smallness of people's hearts are exposed, and the pollution of nature in the industrial age is shameful.

The soundtrack of the film is also worth mentioning. Some people say that the highly respected soundtrack of this film "has the charm of being close to the sun like Nietzsche" and is full of grand feelings that only belong to the dream era. Looking at the passage of birds flying in the film, timely background music, or magnificent symphony, or ethereal and mellow soprano solo, perfectly blended with the natural sound effects in the film, revealing a boundless and sad atmosphere. In addition to live sound effects, music contrast is also indispensable. Music, as an element directly related to emotion, can often go deep into the inner world and express the feelings, ideas and strong excitement of role development to the fullest.

The large-scale digital documentary "Migratory Birds" has brought us a long-lost surprise in shooting skills and content, and its powerful visual impact has brought us a brand-new audio-visual perfect feeling, which is also an epoch-making innovation in film history. The indomitable spirit in adversity is worth learning, which is actually the attitude that life should have today.

Chapter two: the feeling of migratory birds

"The story of migratory birds migration is a promise, a promise of return. Their journey, flying thousands of miles, is full of crises, with only one purpose: survival, massive migration of migratory birds and fighting for survival. " As the gray goose that broke free from the hunting net rose into the air, accompanied by a deep male voice narration, the movie "Migratory Birds" began.

The migration of migratory birds is a long and difficult process. We must not only overcome the fatigue of long-distance flight, but also overcome the severe challenges of nature. More importantly, we must face the threats posed by eyeing natural enemies and human beings. It is their indomitable spirit in the face of adversity and increasingly severe living conditions that touched me. Although I don't know much about this movie, I deeply feel the indomitable spirit of migratory birds from this movie. What made the swan fly over the long journey of 1200 km? What makes sandhill cranes find their way out in the sand? It is this indomitable belief!

Migratory birds have to go through countless thrilling "baptisms" in the sacred migration process! During the flight, we should not only pay attention to the enemy's covet, but also bear the threat of natural climate. However, these are nothing, all can survive, and there is only one biggest enemy: human beings. The geese in Migratory Birds have to face the gunfire of human beings when crossing one city after another. When I was watching this film, I suddenly heard several gunshots, and the beautiful figure fell with the sound, and the quiet beauty was also broken. What a pity and anger!

In this film, I realized the indomitable spirit of migratory birds, and I also want to remind human beings: please cherish the animals around you, not just birds, but messengers who live in the same world with us!

Chapter 3: Fly like a bird.

-Comments on migratory birds

Snow geese are 4000 kilometers, pigeons are 4000 kilometers, long-necked swans are 3000 kilometers, Canadian geese are 3500 kilometers, and vultures are 3000 kilometers. ...

When these staggering data are presented to me, I really don't understand: what motivates these migrating birds to fly over many difficulties and make such dangerous flights year after year?

In the process of migration, birds face many difficulties: shooting, avalanche, cold, natural enemies, fatigue ... no one can help, let alone have the ability to help. In front of nature, everything seems so insignificant that birds can only decide their fate by their own ability. However, the reality is cruel-the survival of the fittest is a law that nature has silently observed for thousands of years, and birds are no exception. As a result, countless birds were eliminated. I remember when a flock of geese crossed Eastern Europe, one of them got stuck in the factory asphalt, and his companions had to choose to leave, leaving him alone to wait for death. When a group of Canadian geese migrated, a Canadian goose was abandoned by a sudden horse, and finally it could only wander in the vast Gobi desert and groan constantly. ...

If it's so dangerous, why did they migrate?

I think this motivation should be a dream of birds, a dream about warm spring. Yes, migration is painful, but birds will be happy because they know that only after experiencing the hardest can they taste the sweetest taste. They are flying, painful and happy.

In fact, aren't people like birds? People who are content with the status quo and don't make progress are like poultry in captivity. Although they are stable, they will only be eaten by others in the end And those who are brave in struggle, eager for the future and full of dreams, just like those birds who' fly high', bravely migrate to the warm spring!

For me, I choose the latter willingly. Some people say it is too difficult, but I don't think so: if I succeed, it means I am a strong man; If I fail unfortunately, I won't lose-after all, I'm already a winner compared with those who don't want to try!

I still remember the ending: "The return of these migratory birds is a kind of respect for spring, and they return to fulfill a promise." Now it should be changed to: the return of these migratory birds is a tribute to the brave, and they come back to prove that they have never regretted it!

Chapter four: the feeling of migratory birds

"The story of migratory birds migration is a promise, a promise of return. Their journey, flying thousands of miles, is full of crises, with only one purpose: survival, massive migration of migratory birds and fighting for survival. " The film begins the long migration of more than 30 kinds of birds with the wild geese breaking free from the hunting net and the narration of a low male voice, recording the hardships of birds flying freely, playing happily, being tender and affectionate, fighting against various harsh environments in nature and being brutally killed by human beings.

Flying begins when the gray-tailed goose is entangled in a net. After the little boy cut the net for it, it took the net rope on its foot and ran after its partner. Over quiet lakes and golden wheat fields, over bridge opening and aqueducts, over jungles, swamps, the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower. Go north, go north, and fly to a familiar and unfamiliar hometown. The film was beautifully shot and presented to the audience with a kind of exquisite beauty. Look at the elegant crane spreading its wings and dancing, like running water, stretching lightly; Look at the noble swan head, forming a complete heart shape, reflecting the reflection in the water; Watching flocks of seagulls fly together is magnificent and gives people a strong visual impact ... The film melts the author's vision into a physical vision, making the physical vision the dominant vision in the work and the representative of the author's vision. This is a horizon that tends to zero. The author tries to conceal and give up his involvement in material criticism and authority, () instead of controlling and guiding experience and value. It can be said that zero horizon has become the aesthetic principle of most documentary writers. When we watch this movie, we feel that we are seeing the world through the eyes of birds. In particular, one of the shots gives the impression that it is really a bird, flying freely in the sky, and the whole person is completely transparent and comfortable.

Whether the documentary needs explanation is not a question of the essential characteristics of the documentary, but must be viewed in combination with the works. The whole film "Migratory Birds" is "no more than 10 sentences, no more than 20 subtitles", without preaching or slogans. It is this striking "blank space" nature that touched the audience from the deep heart and left more time for the audience to think and feel quietly. Although the commentary explains the picture, its most important task is to supplement the information that the picture does not have. The relationship between it and the picture has two most important points, one is to make up for each other, and the other is to deepen each other. The most fundamental feature of film and television language is its direct visual impact. In the field of documentary creation, some people really prefer to use non-picture and non-recorded language such as commentary to describe things that are not in the picture, and use non-documentary language to express documentary objects, which directly leads to fiction, from style to content. To a certain extent, people still tend to adopt the attitude of "seeing is believing". This film can conquer the hearts of the audience with its pure picture factors.

However, because birds, the object of expression in the film, have no language to communicate directly with human beings, it is particularly important to use music and sound. First, the sound of the big environment should create a scene environment that one can perceive, and second, some detailed sounds should be captured. The film should achieve the effect of the integration of sound and painting, the picture provides image and atmosphere for the sound, and the sound creates artistic conception and imagination for the picture. In the film, there are only birds singing low or high, only the wind of their wings passing high in the sky, only the splash they raise and the whimper of the waves, only the melodious music like hymns. Those music can always appear at the most appropriate time, playing the best rhythm for the dance of red-crowned cranes and swans, and singing happily for the newborn chicks with their small heads sticking out of their parents' wings for the first time. Those sounds of nature even fly higher and higher with the snow geese and northern herring birds, and fall on the earth with the sunshine. This is a realm. The author combines images, actual sounds, music and many other factors, which has aroused our emotional resonance, which is also an important performance of the film's success.

There is an English proverb that "God exists in the details". In the filming of a documentary, a certain detail or the subsidiary factors of the picture often become the core of the whole picture. On the boat in the tropical rain forest, when the parrot in the cage was free through self-help and spread its wings to the blue sky, we all breathed a sigh of relief and praised its cleverness. At this moment, the screen firmly grasped our eyes. In the live shooting of the documentary, the photographer had to open the other eye. One eye should pay attention to the scene frame, and the other eye should pay attention to the emergence of unexpected events and factors other than materials. This is the random structure of documentary. Such as the avalanche scene in the film, and the scene where a bird with a broken wing is eaten by a crab, these are inevitable. If you don't always pay attention to your surroundings, you are likely to miss the wonderful material. However, not all the filmed materials can eventually become a part of the film, and these materials need to be edited later. We emphasize the authenticity of the documentary, not that the documentary is not allowed to be controlled by film and television editing, nor that editing brings disaster to the documentary, but that there are too many interference and control factors, which violates the narrative principle of the documentary language. Documentary does not mean to have a long shot, but to decide the structure and narrative mode of the shot according to the scene. There are basically no long shots in migratory birds, but this does not affect its integrity. Reality can't express or agree with the narrative mode of documentary, and the key lies in whether this truth conforms to the integrity of the event scene and the authenticity of the narrative structure of the whole film. When we watch oil paintings, the close-up effect is a pile of different colors of oil, not the painting object. Only at a proper distance can the viewer feel that the painting is a representation of something. In sharp contrast with the delicacy of China's meticulous painting. Similarly, the author uses the perspective, middle shot, close shot and close-up lens comprehensively in the film, so that we can better see what he wants to express.

We should also see that the later creative editing is not a contraction and extension of the pure time length of the material form, but its ideological core is the ideological increase factor of picture combination, that is, the invisible ideological scene achieved through the reproduction of the material. Through the scattered pictures in the film, we can see the affection and love of animals, the helplessness and fragility of life, and the innocence and cruelty of human beings. The bird with broken wings, dragging its sick wings to make a final struggle, and finally drowned in the group of crabs; Tens of thousands of emperor penguins stay together, but they can only watch their children being killed and eaten by only two invading wild ducks. Their wailing to the sky is heartbreaking. The Canadian goose scattered by the rushing horses, its partner has already flown away, and its back is so lonely; Those wild ducks in captivity have such complicated eyes when they see their companions flying in the air in iron cages and hear their happy and free cries. The innocence of children and the cruelty of hunters appear in the film at the same time, and a special aesthetic feeling of contradiction is displayed in front of people, which can not help but cause people to think more.

There are few human scenes in the film. Through the rescue of the little boy and the feeding of the old woman, we have seen the harmonious coexistence between human beings and animals, but the beautiful movies contain tragic and tragic accusations against modern civilization. There are several subtle and far-reaching scenes: the sinful gunfire and the whining of birds in the sludge accuse human beings of crimes against nature in the process of industrialization; On the way of birds flying, evil bullets from the ground in the United States pierced the peace of the sky; Took the lives of birds. The birds that have experienced thousands of waters in Qian Shan have finally fallen into the quagmire of European civilization; When the huge lawn mower arrived, the helpless eyes of mother bird and baby bird were lost in the roar of machinery. I remember that the posture of the goose was beautiful and free, and the music was dancing. Just when we were completely immersed in this beautiful nature, we were caught off guard and terrified by the sudden gunshots, and we were shocked by the gunfire. The black goose has fallen into the lake, and even the posture of death is so beautiful. Although we can't see those hunters here, they reflect the ugliness of our human beings, and the lens is subtle but touching. We claim to be the masters of this planet, but most of what we leave behind is endless destruction caused by greed and barbaric harm to other creatures who also belong to this planet.

Birds are a symbol of freedom. The birds we saw later in the film are no longer animals without spirituality. The author shows us that these creatures also coexist with human beings in this world and are angels created by God. They have the qualities of freedom, unity, courage and keeping promises that make us ashamed. "In the face of the magnificent and sad fate of birds, how I look forward to one day, when the seasons stop flowing, we can leave home immediately like these birds and start a magical journey on this beautiful planet! How I look forward to the day when people can break the barriers of regional boundaries and understand that the earth is our home, then we are as free as birds! " This is a kind of mourning and prayer. At this time, the emotion of the film has been further sublimated, which is the softest part that can arouse people's hearts. The gray-tailed goose with a net rope tied to its leg returned to the little boy who saved him in winter. The cranes that once rejected the old woman finally accepted the old man's gift when they passed the farm again. Their long mouths deftly take food from the old man, so trusting. There is still hope, what is needed is human grasp.