Why can't a TV camera or DV produce the effect of a movie?

Because the production of a film is complex and rigorous enough, and the efforts of hundreds of staff are involved before and after the production of a film, it is inevitable to open the gap between the picture and random shooting. But how is this exquisiteness achieved? From the figure, it can be explained from two aspects: early stage and late stage.

Early stage:

The shooting task of the film is undertaken by a professional cinematographer, whose level largely determines the picture quality of the film.

Additional explanations are needed here. In this article, the photographer refers to the efforts of the "photography team". When shooting, the photography team will at least have the positions of director, cameraman, focus, cameraman and assistant.

1. scene

Cinematographers will participate when they can see the scenery in the early stage and have their own right to speak on the screen when choosing scenes. The success or failure of a scene largely determines the picture of the film. The following two pictures, the picture above is a screenshot of the movie, and the picture below is a panoramic photo of the scene. Can such a good scene make it look like a movie? (Of course, thanks to the artist's arrangement of the scene)

Write a composition

Composition is most directly related to the exquisiteness of a movie picture. How to make a new scene more exquisite is very important.

Continuing with the above example, we can see that in the movie picture, two separated people share the picture equally, and their eyes are similar, forming a tension. This kind of composition is a very common symmetrical composition, which is different from the picture below. The main body of the picture in the movie above is prominent, and we will undoubtedly notice the conflict between two people immediately, while it is difficult to say who is the main body in the picture below, which is quite chaotic. (Of course, the depth of the picture below is also very good, which is a good-looking picture. )

The following screenshot is a typical close-up composition of the characters in the movie (the top edge of the picture is stuck and the bottom edge is stuck). The figure is located in the third part of the picture, in the golden section position, which is beautiful. However, this painting is not so simple, it expresses many meanings in the nuances of composition. Compared with this picture, the angle of the picture is slightly lower, and the plane is higher than the human eye to reach the horizontal line, which seems to have a sense of modeling; The line of sight of the characters is on the right side of the painting, and the characters are also on the right side of the frame, thus forming an unbalanced composition of the painting, which emphasizes the right over the left, suggesting a crisis.

lamplight

The above two points can also be controlled in our daily photography, but only photographers can accurately grasp the light.

Film photography is called painting with light, and a photographer who pays attention to narration is called writing with light. Visible light is paramount in the photographer's mind.

The film crew has a special lighting team, which is commanded by the photography team. At least a dozen people and the crew are carrying dozens of lights of different sizes to create a variety of lighting atmospheres.

About one or two trucks have similar equipment and accessories.

So, how do cinematographers control the lighting? You know, any camera, dv, has a tolerance, that is, it can only record light from dark to bright within a certain illumination range. Beyond this range, it will be overexposed. Below this range, it will die black. For example, in the picture of Longmen Escort Agency below, the background sky is all white, indicating overexposure. Strict photographers will not allow this phenomenon to appear in the picture.

Based on the understanding of camera tolerance, cinematographers control the proportion of light in scenes and pictures, and refine the brightness distribution to various positions, thus realizing the functions of guiding the audience's vision, modeling and performance, and truly realizing the significance of cinematography and writing with light. It can be said that the most decisive reason why we see such a perfect movie picture is that any light you see in the movie picture is artificially made or deliberately used!