In the film industry is a bit sluggish this year, film variety shows are supported.
Although the film and the variety show are originally two tracks that may not be very compatible, this form also allows the audience to see the creative process of the film (probably), and the sparks of the creators and evaluators on the same stage.
Although the variety show "Let's Shoot" shows the overall process of a film from the birth of the idea to the investment of people to the start of the group shooting and then to the final film, there is no shortage of tips for introducing film expertise in the program.
But as a general audience, what matters most is whether the film is good or not, whether it can be watched, and what Chinese directors are doing and what they can do.
So as far as the current number of directorial works are concerned, is it okay?
Several of the participating directors in "Let's Shoot" are either from the class or film and television practitioners. Even if he says that he is only a primary school student, he still has a film work.
If you want to say that the most "miserable" is probably Wang Luodan and Hu Guohan. One is pure and ready to prepare actors to turn to directors, and one has only filmed three nets before going on the show.
The show began with a swing interview session, with the director and actors casting a double selection.
Then the director will go to another space to tell the investors about his creative direction to attract investment, and then invite the actors to come in and detail their film outline and then pull the investment for the second time.
Although this way of showing investment is complained by many people that it oversimplifies the arduous process of pulling investment, after all, the focus of variety shows is to show the director's ability to shoot films, not to test who will make money for the project.
After organizing a good situation and taking good money, the shooting cycle given to the director by the program team is twenty days, and the length of the film that needs to be handed in is about fifteen minutes.
Although the time is still a little tight, as a competition variety show, the design of this kind of funding and time is still relatively reasonable, so it can be seen that the completion of the currently broadcast works is still very high.
After talking about the pre-game preparations, let's go straight to the topic and talk about the films that have already aired.
The first to be broadcast was Yi Xiaoxing's work.
As we all know, Yi Xiaoxing is better at comedy, so the first short film he participated in in the show was still choosing to shoot comedy.
However, unlike the nonsensical comedy of his previous works, this work still adds a lot of absurd comedy components, so in the black and white pictures that look boring, he mainly creates a comedic atmosphere through the performance of the characters, a large number of memes, and reversals and reversals.
The second is Desert Director's "Brake", although it is a short film of ten minutes, but the film texture is very strong, you can see the professionalism of a director from a class, as well as the ease of audiovisual language expression.
In fact, a common problem of young directors is that they are too "self", always thinking of expressing their feelings and making their works narrow.
But just as Desert's personality is more extroverted and will actively communicate with people, so in his films there will be a social perspective of insight and minority concern.
Hao Jie's work "Feng Hai's Dream" should be the most concerned work before broadcasting, in addition to director Hao Jie's own personality charm bonus, in recent years, everyone will still look forward to some rural genre films.
And the work of rural temperament is also the type that many directors decide to try, especially the director who is from the countryside himself. For example, this year's Jia Zhangke's "Swim Until the Sea Turns Blue" is a work he wants to make a dialogue between the countryside and literature.
In fact, as far as the current broadcast response is concerned, all the films are still more well received than bad reviews.
But after all, it is a show, the off-site audience said that it is not counted, and the final result of the participating directors still depends on the film critics who scored on the spot.
After all, although the film is made for the audience to see, the box office is also given by the audience, but the biggest contradiction and controversy is often between the director and the film critic.
The works of these directors are actually very different, and the style is particularly unique.
And unlike another variety show where the audience and film critics score together, "Let's Shoot" adopts a simple film critic scoring system, which is actually a relatively fair way for films with large differences in style to compare on the same stage, after all, film critics will not press the pause button because they can't watch it.
However, the evaluation of overly professional film critics also seems to be a bit harsh, so it has produced a different understanding of the film than the audience.
For example, film critic Luo Yiji commented that Yi Xiaoxing's work was "focusing on funny and lacking authenticity".
But in fact, Yi Xiaoxing's film, the funny point that can arouse the audience's empathy is really not a professional performance method, it is precisely the truth in the plot.
For example, when the boss was in a meeting, he simply sighed about his real physiological state, but the employees at the bottom quickly took notes, and then immediately listed the words of the analysis leader, afraid that the leader would be angry.
For example, some types of workers may really need to bring their children to work, but the temper of children is elusive, so sometimes they need colleagues to help take care of them, and then promise that the children will come back immediately.
For example, those that may seem to be some small details in the form of too short films, but put in the overall plot also seem to be silent, such as indecision, Baidu, and stealing others, stealing takeaway day thunder...
Although the plot design of comparing takeaway to the crystallization of the boss and the boss lady, mentioning that the boss lady and the boss's driver have underground hidden feelings, these plot designs are a bit vulgar and boring, but as a performance of the boss's orders as a holy will, but the care for the daughter's unambiguous workers and the seemingly considerate subordinates, but the love with the wife is superficially contrasted enough.
Different from Yi Xiaoxing's one-sided evaluation of film critics, although the story of the desert is optimistic, it is also questioned because it is too "stylized" of the academy.
The film tells the story of how a father who has lost his son brakes the car in time to hurt the emotions of someone else's son.
This kind of informative story is actually difficult to tell well in ten minutes, but the desert cleverly adopts some overlapping techniques of time and space, so that the beginning and ending of the story can be compared and expressed at the same point in time. And this design also makes the story full of a strong sense of suspense and thinking.
Although Chen Kaige's evaluation of this film is the lack of an exciting ending that makes people feel that the future is bright, Tao feels that it is this somewhat unfinished ending that can highlight the expression of similar but regretful affection in the film.
Hao Jie's "Feng Hai's Dream" actually represents the most authentic feedback of many experimental films in history, and some viewers may find it difficult to understand, but professionals have to slap them all red.
However, regardless of whether the expression of the plot can be understood, the use of the director's black and white picture and the attitude towards the rural scenery that insists on going far away do not need the director to say more to find the answer in his film.
And the picture that chose to be reconcegured because the actress did not have enough schedule is also an extremely brilliant part of this film. Watermarks on the concrete floor, shadows of legs on the wall, panting dogs, overlapping shoes on the ground... These images are cut together and full of metaphors and hints.
This kind of film with a lot of blank space will be what film critics want the audience to see, after all, professionals will always think of raising the threshold of the public, so it can be seen that this work makes the harsh film critics score high.
Of course, the so-called film critic's evaluation is actually just a reference, and the most important thing is the audience's own feelings.
This kind of movie variety show can actually give the audience a chance to really think, thinking about who they should listen to when watching movies?
What movies need is to savor, and variety shows may need fast pace. But when the two are combined, you can't give up patiently watching movies because they are variety shows.
As the directors say before each play:
Give the movie a little time, or wait until you finish watching it all.
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