What is empty mirror shooting?

It is one of the shooting skills to shoot with an empty mirror without a specific person, just shooting the scenery or buildings without people.

An empty shot, also known as a scene shot, refers to a scene that depicts natural scenery or scenes without appearing on the characters. Often introduce environmental background, explain time and space, express characters' feelings, publicize stories, express the author's attitude, and use functions such as explanation, prompt, symbol and metaphor.

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The Application of Empty Lens in Story Programs

The empty lens has a specific symbolic meaning. Green symbolizes life; Red symbolizes enthusiasm; White symbolizes purity; Black symbolizes sadness. This is what people feel from their life experiences.

Empty lens can increase the emotional effect of the picture. "All scenery and words are emotional words" (Wang Weiyu), and the environment is the externalization of characters' inner feelings. People's emotions can spread and stretch in the environment, and then resonate with the audience's emotions. Empty lens is an art form which is mainly based on picture language and supplemented by audio language.

When expressing the past, the empty lens has the expressive force of breaking through time and space. In some films reflecting the fighting life of the older generation of revolutionaries, we often see empty shots such as Zhu De's shoulder pole, the worn-out grain bag used by the Red Army during the Long March, and the cave dwelling in Yan 'an where Chairman Mao lived, which naturally produced objective empirical effects and had high credibility.

The authority of the empty lens bears witness. There is such a set of shots: potholed country roads, cracked primary school classrooms, abandoned irrigation and drainage facilities, old wells that have been used for decades, and so on. These "physical evidence" make people feel that time seems to be frozen in this small village. There has been little change for decades, and the poor living conditions of the people have not been improved.

Realism comes from the occurrence, development and change of facts. The seemingly simple empty lens reflects the truth and makes it authoritative.

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