Ask to introduce the person with a camera in the film.

Focus: Montage Teaching Materials

Before Melia brought drama into the film, the film mainly focused on records, such as trains entering the station, factories leaving work and so on. With the enrichment of focal plane language and the development of film production technology, there are stories and narrative methods have also changed. However, documentaries are still an important part of movies. Let me briefly talk about the person with the camera (1929).

The rhythm of the record. The director blends the details of life into the lens, showing a contrast or enhanced lens atmosphere, and its harmonious rhythm is a thoughtful pioneer film even today. For example, a group of dynamic shots, leaves swaying in the wind, flying pigeons soaring in the blue sky, running trains, and endless urban traffic … these seemingly unrelated things show the real state of life on earth.

Poetic nature of records. The so-called poetry is the poetic spirit conveyed by the film in the picture, that is, the poetry of the documentary. For example, people who rest on benches, babies who sleep in cradles, and people who rest are in contrast to stopped machines, and the city slows down, showing the tranquility and beauty of life. The triviality of life is presented poetically through montage clips.

Logicality of records. As the most authentic feature of documentary, truth always comes first. But the main creation is not limited to "real" shooting, but through deconstruction and layout, every picture has meaning, such as the ending. With the help of a fast climax music, various life scenes also accelerate the formation of visual symphonies, and the appearance of "fins" is as crisp and neat as the end of a baton.

Subjectivity of records. Another feature of this film is the photographer always online. The ever-changing photographers and cameras remind us that this not only records the objective world, but also involves the photographer's subjective participation. What scenes, actions and scenes a photographer chooses are closely related to the photographer's expression. Not only that, but also made full use of special effects such as overlap, screen capture and multiple exposure in the later period, which expanded the expressive force of the main creation and inserted the wings of imagination into the documentary.

In a word, this is a pioneer documentary that makes full use of montage (although montage theory is still developing at this time). It does not rely on stories to attract the audience, but creates more thoughts and associations by cutting between pictures, and really achieves the effect of 1+ 1 greater than 2. It's a textbook from a documentary.