Hello everyone, today I would like to introduce you to a special shooting series
Close-up Photography "Tokusatsu" (Japanese: 特肓, Tokusatsu) is a Japanese Chinese word for "special technical photography", which is a term derived from Japan. The original meaning refers to the special technology of shooting for various films, which is a traditional Japanese film and television drama genre and shooting technology that is different from computer special effects and Western SFX. The purpose of close-up photography is to record the pictures that do not exist in reality or are difficult to achieve with a lens, called "special images". The close-up film is the most shocking by filming things that do not exist, so that the audience can see the real thing.
In Japan, special photography refers to film and television dramas that are shot for special on-site photography using equal-scale models plus optical photography and on-site blasting, or that use prop suits and large models to show things that require computer special effects or freeze-frame shooting in many genre films. For example, the restoration of various disaster scenes such as tsunamis, earthquakes, subsidences, volcanic eruptions, magma outflows, and meteorite falls in Japanese special shots was shot with the real use of on-site materials. Today's close-up films are specifically aimed at being shot in Japan
Godzilla series
Ultraman series
Kamen Rider series
Super Sentai series
and so on as a series of works.
Historical feature films about close-ups were Japanese national policy films before World War II. The 1942 Japanese war feature Film The Battle of Hawaii was mistaken by the American occupying forces for a real war documentary after World War II. In 1954, Japan's Toho Corporation launched Japan's first monster close-up film "Godzilla", and its leading European and American popular stop-motion shooting methods such as wearing prop costumes to play monsters and the creation of supernatural creatures that reflect reality had a great impact on the West. For a long time, Europe and the United States also began to popular leather holsters and equal proportions of miniature models shooting. Masters such as Spielberg and Tim Burton were deeply influenced by Japanese close-up photography and learned to apply them. Japanese special photography (especially works based on monsters, hunting, war, strange people, horror, disasters, etc.) has also become the darling of the West for a long time. The combination of commercial popular elements such as the degree of production excellence, the degree of technological leadership, the depth of the plot connotation and the fun, and the advanced nature of the setting were incomparable to the European and American science fiction film and television dramas at that time. In the 1970s, superhero tv series began to rise. And after the decline of close-ups in 2004, it became the existence of modern provocative close-up films.
The difference between close-ups and special effects There is a certain difference between close-ups and special effects films. In order to pursue the real effect in the close-up film, the explosion and other scenes are real use, the destroyed aircraft collapsed buildings are the effects of equal proportion props, and the close-up scenes can hardly see the flaws of the exquisite props that need to be made every week, resulting in the production cost of many special series such as "Godzilla", "Gamera", "Ultraman" and many other special series are very expensive, and it is said that the first episode of the 1998 "Gaia Ultraman" filming cost 100 million yen, including the use of special effects at the peak of the world in the same period. The leather case of the Great Snake of The Eight Qis in "Sun Valkyrie" is ten meters long. As the cost of using special effects became lower and lower, traditional close-up technology films gradually declined. But there are still 1999's "Gamera 3: The Awakening of the Evil Gods", which uses close-up technology to reach the level of Hollywood special effects blockbusters in the same period. It is not unreasonable to classify close-ups in generalized special effects in contemporary times, but then there is no way to distinguish between close-ups and special effects.
Because "special selection" is Japanese, Japanese close-up films have a great influence on ACGN. If you want to deliberately distinguish between the Chinese word "special shot" and the Japanese word "special pick".
The most important thing is that in Japan, film and television dramas that are mainly filmed using close-up technology are all close-ups. For example, in japan, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, war movies were popular. Such as "Warlord", "Two Hundred and Three Highlands", "Combined Fleet" and so on. In the 1970s, Japanese close-ups also produced two similar works like Star Wars. They are Toho's "The Great War of the Stars" and Toei's "Message from the Universe". The latter was also nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
The above is a brief introduction to close-up photography, if you want to know more about close-up knowledge, pay attention to me!