I study TV photography. Are there any world-famous documentaries or documentary directors recommended?

"Heaven and earth are mysterious and yellow"

◎ Jane

Documentary with the theme of the evolution of the earth and human beings and the relationship between human beings and the environment. The director traveled around the world and filmed in 24 countries. The whole movie only has music and images, and there is no dialogue. The effect is absolutely shocking.

Appreciating and watching movies is not just a photographer's patent. Photographers who take still photos can also learn a lot from it. Appreciating movies from the photographer's point of view is not about the actors' devotion to the performance, nor about the thrilling visual effects. So, what are the basic conditions and reasons for photographers to choose movies? First of all, the most important thing is the angle of light and the environment. Secondly, the choice of the scene. For this reason, we have chosen the following ten films, whose scenes are unforgettable and I can't wait to see them.

Baraka is an ancient Sufi vocabulary of Islam, which means "blessing".

When the film was first released, it received rave reviews and was called "the greatest documentary of the 20th century" by some crazy film critics. A few years ago, some people even claimed that if they were exiled to a desert island, the only movie they would like to bring was it. The film is based on the evolution of the earth and human beings, and the relationship between human beings and the environment. There is no dialogue from beginning to end. Where the scenery in front of us comes from is entirely the imagination of the audience themselves.

It is said that Ron Fricke, the director, spent 14 months and took a three-person film crew to 24 countries on six continents to make this film. * * * cost four million dollars. For this film, which doesn't need to pay a high appearance fee for the actors, the investment is considerable. Another reason for such a high investment is the shooting equipment: it uses the expensive Todd -AQ 70 mm format. At the same time, the music effect of this film is excellent, which brings you a rare visual and auditory shock.

The scene of Baraka is the dream of any photographer. One minute you are imagining the face of a macaque, and the next minute you are in Mount Fuji, Japan. Before I could savor the cremation ceremony on the banks of the Ganges River in India, I stopped in front of the Syrian temple. This is a movie worth watching again, because the content is so rich that it can't be fully absorbed by fleeting browsing.

In addition to the scenery, the director also used computer program control technology to shoot a large number of time-lapse shots to reflect the busy scenes on the streets of Manhattan and Tokyo. This is of course the feature of dynamic films, but can still photographers consider using delayed exposure effect to express some busy scenes?

Along with this film, there is also a beautiful album, which records in detail all kinds of interesting experiences in filming. At the same time, a large number of color and black and white photos are attached.

Trilogy of life

Italian experimental documentary master Franco Piavoli.

The Blue Planet

1979, the first part of his trilogy of life, Life on Earth, was broadcast on the BBC. This is an epoch-making work in the history of natural history documentary production, which has made a breakthrough contribution to the special shooting technology, program production and the depth and breadth of the investigation of the life world in different wild environments. It covers the whole process of the evolution of life on earth by photographing typical creatures in various geological periods around the world. After that, it took him ten years to elaborate the second and third films, The Living Planet? The trial of life examines the changing ecological environment of the earth and the colorful behavior of animals respectively. After the trilogy of life, he started a more ambitious shooting plan "Life Series", which described the life of the earth in detail, divided into polar animals (life in the freezer), plants (private life of plants) and birds (life of birds). Blue planet-marine life, mammals, terrestrial invertebrates, reptiles and amphibians. At the same time, he also presided over or explained more than ten programs related to natural history. Beautiful image effects, coupled with David's enthusiasm, humor, wonderful on-site explanation and personal demonstration, make his program the most successful natural history documentary. The epic "Blue Planet-Marine Life" was just broadcast on the 9 1 1 event. Many people think that this epic brought unspeakable spiritual comfort to the frightened British and American audiences at that time. It is said that his nature program has been watched by 500 million TV viewers all over the world. Unfortunately, it seems that it has never been broadcast by China TV.

Sound rhythm

In 15 years after the birth of Blue Planet, Franco Piavoli, a 63-year-old Italian experimental documentary master, finally finished the second part of his "trilogy of life"-"VOCINEL TEMPO/Voices Through Time" (1996), which once again let us indulge in those works with beautiful photography.

In this touching documentary, Piavioli describes all the experiences of a person's life, from crying at birth to innocent games in childhood, the mutual attraction and admiration between young men and women, to the sadness of saying goodbye to parents at the wedding, and the nostalgia of lost women for youth. Finally, the picture is fixed on the old man who has been weathered by the years holding the child's hand and walking through the ice covered by the afterglow of the sunset. . . The beginning and end of life intersect here, which also implies that the melody of life will come one after another and never stop. The film not only records the life of kind, simple and enthusiastic Italians, but also praises the life of all people living on this blue planet.

As soon as the wind blows ... international.

The First Breeze is the last film of Italian director Franco Piavoli's life trilogy, which was filmed only in 2002. Different from the first two documentaries, this is a movie with a little plot. Of course, the "plot" I said is still very vague compared with normal feature films. You can think of it as a "prose" film.

The role in the film is played by actors and the scene is set in the countryside on a summer afternoon. The characters are a family living in the manor: father, mother, daughter, seriously ill grandfather and an unidentified old woman. Although they live together, everyone's activity space seems to be deliberately isolated from others and immersed in their own world: my father hides in the study all day reading, sorting out his own paintings and writing articles about the similarities and differences of nature; Mother walked aimlessly in the garden, made plant specimens and recalled her beautiful first love; The eldest daughter kept playing the sad melody of Sadie and Ravel on the piano; The youngest daughter is running in the mysterious forest, looking for anything of interest. . . There is also a grandfather in this strange family who can't move in bed, just staring out the window.

Nothing seems to have happened in 85 minutes, but in fact anything can happen, is happening or has happened. Who are they? Why don't you talk? What happened between them? All the movies you have doubts about have no specific explanations, but it seems that all the stories and answers are hidden in those silent and far-reaching pictures. You can interpret the meaning behind the image according to your own experience. In fact, I think the creator wants to express a feeling-loneliness, not a simple statement. He wants to use images and sounds to strip people's deep loneliness and show it to ourselves.

Like Piavoli's previous works, The First Bite of the Wind is a delicate and beautiful poetic film. The theme of this film is loneliness, which reminds me of several experimental documentaries made by sogou's Noff in the early 1990s. They have similar ideas and skills and unique abstract expressions, which minimize the role of language and pay more attention to the changes of sound, color and light and shadow. Unlike the dark and confusing works of Russians, rural life has always been loved by Italians. In several of his films, the scenes are set in the beautiful countryside, and in the warm sunshine like spring, the original face of life is restored with prose-like images-simple, simple and straightforward, and the meditative atmosphere stretches between exquisite music and painting rhythm, which makes people infinitely intoxicated.

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