The idea that the camera can move like a figure has been extended more in the 1930s, and in subjective shots (first person), the movement of the camera may represent the movement of the character. More loosely, the camera can also mimic an audience who is watching the story unfold.
The first-person perspective, also known as the POV lens, is a lens that expresses the subjective perspective of the character, which is generally used to attract the attention of the audience. Dating back to the 1927 film Napoleon, director Abel Guns wrapped the camera and lens in a sponge pad in order to realize Napoleon's subjective shots, and then asked the actors to rush into it.
The filming scene of "Napoleon"
In the early 1930s, there were also several masterpieces: Doctor Who (1931), Traces of Love (1931), Farewell to Weapons (1932), Parade of the Games (1932), Poor Miyu In the Mud (1933), and Murder in the Dog Room (1933).
The forties and fifties were when POV footage was really driven, an era of thriller, mystery, and sci-fi movies that often used technology to attract or scare audiences. In 1947, Corpses on the Lake used POV shots through the film, and the protagonist, Robert Montgomery, could only be seen in the reflections of windows or mirrors. To boost the box office, MGM used "You and Robert Montgomery to solve a mysterious murder!" "When promoting movie slogans.
Stills from "Corpse on the Lake"
First-person perspective films can make people have an immersive experience and a strong sense of substitution, not limited to feature films and short films, but can be shot in the first person to increase the sense of reality and immersion. Using it to make a movie, whether it is from the perspective of actor cooperation, prop scheduling, etc., is a very big challenge, because in the process of first-person perspective shooting, many times it must be a shot to the end, in one go. This is very challenging for the cameraman, because the cameraman is not only a cameraman, but also a stuntman at this time, and most of the content of the whole movie is everything that the actor "sees".
Hardcore Henry poster
Stills from the short film Biting Elbows: Bad Motherfucker
Based on director Ilya Neschuler's last short film, Biting Elbows: Bad Motherfucker, the film "Hardcore Henry" features a first-person view that gives the classic shooter a visual feel. Behind the scenes of Hardcore Henry, it is revealed how the head of the stuntman was bound to the equipment when filming the film in the first person. The crew's self-made head-binding shooting device can not only allow the stunt performers to have a good vision, but not too bulky, so that the actors can flexibly and lightly control the head movement in the violent action of jumping up and down, in order to take into account the field of view of the camera, students can learn yo ~ ~
First-person perspective film
Clover Archives
Cloverfield
Directed By: Matt Reeves
Writers: Drew Gundam
Starring: Liz Capan / Jessica Lucas
Genre: Sci-Fi / Thriller / Disaster
Country of Production: United States
Language: English / Russian
Duration: 85 minutes
The film is a disaster film shot in a pseudo-documentary manner, this film does not have too many thriller and horror elements, but instead spends more energy on plot design, which can be seen as a first-person American version of Godzilla. The story tells that New York is attacked without warning, monsters approach, and the city is in a state of panic like the end of the world.
Catacombs
As Above, So Below
Director: John Eric Total
Writers: Drew Total / John Eric Total
Starring: Petita Wickers / Ben Federman
Genre: Thriller / Horror
Language: English / French
Runtime: 93 minutes
The film's theme is tomb exploration, which is also a pseudo-documentary technique, and the film incorporates a large number of elements such as religion, cause and effect, atonement, fantasy, etc. The story tells that a female archaeology professor gathered a group of people to enter the catacombs in Paris in search of a golden stone, thinking that it would be a smooth expedition, but the development of things was beyond imagination, 370 feet underground, buried in the Paris catacombs with six million corpses, what awaited them?
Death video
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Directed by: Homer Baraguero / Paco Plaza
Writers: Haume Baraguero / Luiseau Bairdho
Starring: Manuela Velasco / Ferran Terrassa
Type: Horror
Country/Region of Production: Spain
Language: Spanish / Japanese
Runtime: 78 min
The film's sense of substitution is very exciting, and the reality brought by the shaking of the handheld camera makes you never know what will happen next, and it is as if you are immersed in the whole plot. The story tells that the reporter and photographer plan to shoot a documentary about the work of firefighters, during which the fire brigade receives an alarm call, so they follow them to an apartment, but what awaits them is a nightmare that cannot be escaped... The film won the Silver Scream Award at the Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival in 2008, the Best Film and Audience Vote at the 2008 Portuguese Fantasy International Film Festival, and the 2008 Spanish Goya Award for Best Screenplay and Best Newcomer Actress.
For small partners who apply for film majors, the appropriate use of rare lenses is advantageous, and when choosing whether to use subjective lenses, you need to consider whether your short film matches it. Subjective shots are shots with the viewpoint of the characters or animals as the shooting intention, all with a strong subjective emotional color, if your short film needs to convey objective content, then it is not suitable for the use of subjective shots to express.
Any work, is not a lens can be completed, it needs multiple, or even thousands of shots to complete, which requires you to combine the picture, to achieve natural lens conversion, perhaps you can innovate an excellent work.