Introduction：
This article is mainly about how the director tells the story with the lens.
A good script is indispensable to a good movie. However, a good script may not produce a good and attractive film, it depends on how the director uses the lens to tell the story of the script. This article will focus on analysis, camera axis, camera composition, camera Angle, moving lens and editing. Through the analysis of these elements, it summarizes the laws of shooting, movement and link of different cameras, so that readers can better understand the different shooting techniques and narrative methods of performance shots and fighting shots.These existing rules are very important for film creators, but they are not invariable. Different directors derive their own shooting styles based on these rules. This paper will compare and analyze how different directors use these camera motion rules to achieve better narrative effects.
Background significance：
The main purpose of this paper is to make a good script play its value and role to the greatest extent by analyzing and summarizing the shooting method of the lens. I spent a long time studying scripts, and a good script is the soul of a film and television work. But how the director tells the story is more important. The same script, different director’s shooting method and narrative method, can make the same script produce completely different effects. For example, the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs and the Hollywood version of The Departed. “The Departed” is a remake Hollywood film of the Chinese film “Infernal Affairs”。”The Departed” won the 79th Academy Awards for best director, best adapted screenplay, best editing, best picture 4 Awards, but the original “Infernal Affairs” did not get the Oscar nomination for best foreign language film! Is it because Martin Scorsese is so competent as a director? Or something else? This paper will focus on the differences in lens narration between the two films.
We’ll also analyze the two classic movies spirited Away and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in terms of acting and fighting scenes.
Acting shot: How does the director of Spirited Away use the shot to highlight the inner changes of the character, hint at the plot development and make the camera narrative flow smoothly。
Fighting scenes: How does the director o fCrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon use the shot to alternates fast and slow scenes to shock and attract the audience’s attention.
Suppositions and implications：
Camera axis, camera composition, camera Angle, moving lens and editing. Through studying and learning these concepts, I understood how to shoot a scene, how to move the lens, how to switch lenses and when to switch lenses. Under what circumstances are these existing theories not followed. What happens if you don’t follow these theories, what are the good and bad consequences of it. For example: Normally, the camera needs to move along the axis, not cross the axis, unless in some cases there is some special, contrary to the law of camera movement is deliberately created by the director.
Through these studies, we will have a very clear and definite understanding of both the performance shots and the action shots. Let readers know how, how to make better films through the lens, how to tell better stories.
Excellent directors use similar rules, but even if they have the same script, similar story background, different shooting ideas, different shooting content, different shots, the quality of the work will be greatly different. Like Infernal Affairs and the Hollywood version of The Departed.
The selection of good shot content can make the audience better understand the environment and background of the protagonist, immerse the audience in the script, better stimulate the audience’s empathy for the protagonist, and thus better resonate with the film.If the camera narration is not good and the audience is always in a state of dissociation, no matter how good the script is, it will be difficult to succeed. The narrative methods and techniques of film scenes are still developing and evolving. It’s a question that a lot of filmmakers have been working on all their lives. Although the research in this paper is based on the previous summary and discussion of the director’s experience in using the lens, it does not mean that these experiences and methods are invariable. Based on these experiences, many excellent filmmakers continue to break through and create. At the same time, every director has his own unique shooting method derived from the law of camera movement. This paper only studies the methods of these three famous directors. In conclusion, no matter which method is used, the camera lens is meant to give the audience a better story experience.
Conclusion：
To sum up, the lens narrative method is not uniform, unchanged. Every director reprocesses and recreates his camera movements in accordance with the basic laws of camera motion. This paper analyzes “Spirited Away” and “Hidden Dragon Crouching Tiger” in detail, and makes an in-depth study of their camera handling techniques. Their performances and fighting scenes have very important reference value and research significance. At the same time, this paper discusses, Infernal Affairs and The Departed, the two plays are similar, but there are still great differences in narrative techniques. It’s the two directors’ different interpretations of the same story. It reveals the important factors that affect the quality of film shot selection. With the further study of these elements, the application of animated characters, and the application of film theory, future research will create better methods to create more wonderful film and television works. Through the analysis of different film shots, we will sum up the laws and skills of excellent directors in film shooting and scenemaking. These rules and techniques can help us better present the works we want to create and better tell the story. Lens research is of great significance in films, animations and documentaries.