Does the narrative technique of Don't Stop the Camera surprise you?

To tell the truth, this is the first time I have seen such a movie. The content of the film is actually a play in a play, and the protagonist is an advertising director. After receiving a zombie plan, he temporarily set up a grassroots team to shoot a real zombie story when a folk film crew filmed the corpse. It sounds awkward, but in the process of watching movies, the audience will not feel this way at all.

This film is a typical low-cost film, and I even think that all kinds of props in the film are actually some tools that the film crew really used in the shooting process. The narrative technique of the film adopts flashback. First, present the final result to the audience. When the audience was generally disappointed and impatient, they turned around and began to sort out the whole story, so that the audience could see the whole process of the shooting.

This way of telling stories is worth learning from small-budget movies. Because of the limited production cost, many small-budget movies are actually attracting the audience's favor with their unique narrative structure from the beginning. For example, Crazy Stone, an early small-budget comedy masterpiece in China, adopted a splicing narrative style and won unanimous praise from the audience. In this film, the director divides the story into three levels and reveals it to the audience from the inside out. This suspense expression also makes the audience largely ignore the natural disadvantages of film cost limitation.

But then again, the 37-minute short film at the beginning of this film is really too long for many viewers to insist on. It can only be said that it is a small regret in the film!

It's done.