Language expression skills of double shots in film photography

How to use the language skills of double lens to present in film shooting? Below, I sorted out the language skills of double lens in film shooting for your reference!

Brief introduction of two-lens language

Two-shot language means that two subjects occupy a corner of the picture respectively and describe their position and relative relationship. This focal plane is the mainstream of romantic comedies or movies with good friends and sisters. Movies often make the hero and heroine who love each other in the play be framed in the same picture, giving the audience the illusion that they are made for each other. Interested readers can observe some cool colors or lonely protagonists. In order to express that you are not good at communicating with others, there are few opportunities to use dual lenses. If there is, the time will be short, even avoiding the eyes of the protagonist.

As you can see, the space of the movie screen is actually to express the relationship between the characters. People are social animals and cannot live alone. Everyone is surrounded by five kinds of people: relatives, friends, lovers, passers-by or enemies. In this world, people who don't know you, who don't harm you, who don't let go of your enemies, who care about you from time to time, who don't abandon their loved ones, and who want to spend their lives together are called lovers. But who knows that one day, the person who stabbed you in the back will be the most unexpected person in your life.

Two-person shots were quite common in American movies in the 1930s, and cameras just entering the period of talking movies were also quite bulky. The use of a double lens in a dialogue scene greatly reduces the need to move the lens, but now it has become the need for composition.

What is the main difference between a pair of mirrors? Balance? With what? Imbalance? Two kinds. The so-called balanced double lens can be imagined as ballroom dancing. Dance steps come and go, and the two sides have a tacit understanding, so that they can dance in harmony. Its picture is stable, peaceful or warm. Unbalanced double guns are like a fierce boxing match. The two sides are at daggers drawn, and either side will fall. Today, either you die or I die. Its picture is tense and uneasy, and the unbalanced two-person lens will form a cold and sharp contrast, but it is this contrast that can show the difference in position between the characters.

However, if a film is full of balanced shots, it will definitely make the audience feel monotonous and worse than aesthetic fatigue. Although it is warm, it seems to lack some tension. Remember to arrange some conflicts or turning points. But if the whole film is unbalanced, the audience may be angry to death and feel that justice cannot be done and needs to be eased. Although watching and cursing, at least there is some motivation to support the ending. How to deal with discretion often depends on the accumulation of experience and practice.

Another key point that needs special attention when shooting is that people have different distance scales in the shooting picture due to differences in personality and object, culture and gender. Privacy, private space, personal domain, everyone will subconsciously appear a certain distance or domain because of the change of objects, which is called "Proxemics". For example, by bus, if there are many empty seats, most people would rather sit next to no one. Unless you have an acquaintance, you can't cling to others in line. Even if people are forced to squeeze together when taking the elevator, people's eyes will not communicate. If a stranger stares at you, you will feel uncomfortable all over for a while. Maybe you don't think it's necessary to know these things when shooting, but since the psychoanalytic theory penetrated into the film field in the 1960 s and 1970 s, the film has entered another new stage, and photography can be far broader and more delicate than imagined.

Double panoramic lens

Panoramic lens is the earliest lens type in film development. Just like watching a stage play in a theater, the audience can see the whole picture of the characters and the surrounding environment. However, when watching a stage play, the audience's eyes are fixed, or subconsciously only pay attention to the key points or actors they want to pay attention to, and sometimes they can't help but take out their binoculars to watch. The biggest difference of the film is that in order to let the audience quickly grasp the key points of the picture, they will shoot scenes at different distances.

That's why there are panoramic views, close-up views and close-up views. Like a leader. The audience obviously has been sitting in the chair, but they like to touch and stare at it in person, and then shed tears for it. If the creator's theme is not clear enough and only knows to shoot first and then edit, then the quality and effect of the picture will often be greatly reduced. Panoramic distance is only a public distance. Just like students and teachers keep a distance of 2-3 meters in class, or ordinary people walk in public, people will keep a distance and have enough sense of space. If many people suddenly stick together in public, people will feel nervous. It is often used as a confirmation lens for people and environment. As the story gets longer and longer, we become more and more familiar with the characters, and the lens is getting closer and closer to the middle and close shots, but in the next scene and character, we will start from another panorama. Sometimes the audience can't see any expression, but it adds more anxiety. In addition, panoramic composition does not have to be side by side. That composition is a bit monotonous. You can try different angles.

Panorama not only allows the audience to see the characters, dress up and explain their identities, but also focuses on the body movements. In particular, the panoramic shots of two people used in dance films or martial arts films can better show the confrontation between the roles such as dance or martial arts and the positions of both sides, and the audience can see that the roles will exert their limbs to the extreme. In addition, in the environment, because of the long shooting distance and wide picture, it is suitable to use the environment to create another atmosphere. For example, the plane double lens may see two protagonists taking a leisurely walk under the sunny beach; If it is an uneven double shot, maybe a storm suddenly strikes and the two protagonists start to flee for their lives. The farther the picture is drawn, the more they feel swallowed up by nature, and the smallness and powerlessness of the protagonist. Through the specific environment and scene, the characters are explained and set off.

For example, there are many characters in the scene of the contest in Ip Man 2, but almost all of them are blurred by the background. The real subject is only two players who have been fighting in front, but they are all handled with the lens of two people. There are many panoramic martial arts actions in the film; However, in IP Man 1, there are few panoramic shots, because Wing Chun is a southern martial art, and it is mainly based on melee techniques. In order to clearly show the martial arts characteristics of this kind of boxing school, it is more used in close-range shooting, so only by understanding the characteristics of various movements can we shoot appropriate shots.

Double center lens

The' lens' in this picture is just the social distance, which is about 1.5 to 3 meters between people. It is convenient for friendly and interactive conversation when meeting or nodding for the first time, but space can make people feel more comfortable and safe. As a dialogue or narrative lens in movies, the middle lens is an important backbone, and the shooting range usually starts from the waist or above the knee. The most dramatic feature of the middle shot is the double shot, because it allows the characters to gain a dominant position on the screen in the following aspects, such as light, position, angle, acting skills and area, which will affect who has the advantage on the screen. For example, in the idol group MV, the leader's position is either in the middle or at the front.

Flat-panel double shooting, one person speaks, and the other person expresses his feelings after listening. In the jagged double guns, it's like a tug-of-war game. Two people talk at the same time, and neither of them will let anyone talk, or one of them speaks harshly and the other speaks coldly to him, which severely hits the other side. The winner now has an advantage on the screen, which also caused laughter from the audience and formed a strong contrast. People will notice the things closest to them at first sight, and they will also notice the people in sight first.

Double close-up

This distance can be called personal distance. About 0.5 meters to 1.5 meters, friends, family members or lovers, the average person usually needs someone who is quite familiar or interested to get so close. It makes people feel kind and comfortable, but if a stranger suddenly appears, it will make people feel scared or uncomfortable, and subconsciously alienate or avoid. For example, in horror movies, ghosts often appear next to some characters, or suddenly seem to rush out of the picture, which makes use of this psychological principle. This kind of picture usually has a shooting range above the chest.

In addition, in the close-up shooting of two people, there is also a way of "shooting over the shoulder" or "pulling back", that is, the foreground is shot over one person's shoulder, making the body a virtual frame. The advantage is that the scene can be compressed, but there is a sense of depth before and after. Although there are two people in the picture at the same time, it allows the audience to focus on only one of them, and then cross-shoot, giving people a real sense of existence. But if you deliberately don't use the front and back lenses, you can only see the back of a single character, which will increase your anxiety because you can't see the expression. Film is a horizontal frame, it has no circle or square, because film is the product of simulating human vision, and the horizontal shape is the closest to what the naked eye can see. So there are many kinds of shooting methods, which make people concentrate on a certain focus in a short time. Over-the-shoulder shooting is one of them.

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The shooting range of close-up is above the person's chest or a part of the object, but if it is used in double lenses, this shooting range can be called intimate distance, which is about 50 cm, which is the most intimate distance. This closeness, whether physical or mental, only allows intimate behaviors such as hugging, kissing and so on. Because of different customs and people's feelings, movies in some countries are still not allowed today, and even kissing pictures are extremely difficult to appear, so at most, close-ups of two people are used to imply that the relationship is unusual. Close-ups of two people sometimes express a kind of spiritual distance. There seems to be no one else in the world of love, only each other in their eyes.