"It's ...... of our two screen photography directors"

"These are all pre-made footage ......"

"They had been editing for seven weeks before they actually started shooting......"

Ding Cheng greeted the other team members, looked at all kinds of fragmentary materials, and looked forward to the next cooperation more and more.

"Your accent is really good!" meets the two actresses in the play, one plays a local female police officer, and the other is his own daughter.

"I've seen all of Brother Cheng's works!" Especially Liu Mengyun, who plays his daughter, a little fan with an excited face, said excitedly: "I never dreamed that I could cooperate with the first Chinese actor!"

Ding Cheng smiled and chatted, and finally came to London, and the London accent that he had practiced for several years came in handy.

Not only the director, but everyone in the team is very excited, one is to be able to cooperate with the big movie star who is in the sky, and the other is that the originally tight budget has finally met the father of the gold owner and solved it.

Su Yao quickly negotiated the investment intention, with a budget of 200,000 pounds, accounting for 40% of the shares, and was responsible for overseas issuance and operation.

Anish signed a contract quickly, what else do you ask for as a rookie director?

started filming immediately, and on the first day, Ding Cheng felt a new experience that was different, taking all kinds of photos, all kinds of small videos, all kinds of daily clips, from the birth of his daughter to the gradual growth of bits and pieces......

In the first seven or eight minutes, the audience can only look at the photos, videos, calendars and other information presented on the computer screen, which not only explains the identity of the characters and the background of the events, but also acts like an independent small unit.

Not only does the plot have a complete rise and fall, the rhythm is relaxed and orderly, and the emotions are just right, the ordinary growth experience of an ordinary family, and the sense of substitution suddenly grabs people's hearts.

Especially knowing that his wife's life has entered the countdown, and the parting with her relatives is getting closer and closer......

"Because our screen activities are not faithful to real time, but are collaged together in a montage technique......"

"There's a change in pacing after editing, and when your character's train of thought gets blocked, or things get stagnant, the picture becomes sluggish and dull......"

"When you suddenly find important clues and race against time to search for information, the screen activity is significantly accelerated, and all kinds of information jump dizzily, and what you want is the time pressure and tension behind the screen......"

Ding Cheng quickly understood the director's intention, and many times he just sat in front of the screen, facing an LCD screen.

The absence of physical objects is a basic operation, the lens is fixed, and the only thing that changes is the dialogue window, video window, and web browser window in the frame.

When some key points, such as inadvertently discovering important clues, the camera will naturally zoom in, directing the viewer's gaze to a specific point on the screen.

At the same time, accompanied by tense background music, the audience transforms from a relatively passive subjective perspective to an almost active subjective perspective, and the gaze involuntarily overlaps with the gaze of the characters, enhancing the emotions of the in-depth experience of the characters.

It's a novel experience like never before!

In particular, I found that this seemingly young director is very good at using the technique of pause, one is to suddenly change from active picture activity to relatively static and monotonous picture activity, and the other is to interrupt the coherent narrative.

The former embodiment of the clever use of computer screensavers, the first time the screensaver appears, is when you are physically and mentally exhausted. At this time, the screen actually switched to a computer screensaver?

A beam of coloured lines on a black background is unpredictable, replacing a longer period of real time with a short virtual time. Paired with the background music that creates the atmosphere, there seems to be a symbolic meaning, as if the uncertainty of the development of events and the worries of the protagonist make the audience feel a sense of tension of black clouds pressing down on the city.

I know that this peaceful picture will end at any time, but I don't know when it will end.

Another type of pause is to interrupt the coherent narrative, using tools such as rotating the cursor during page loading, a black screen when the protagonist closes his laptop, and an abrupt transition from a computer screen to a mobile phone screen.

They are all very short, even instantaneous, but they will make the audience's coherent viewing have a momentary middle, which may make people anxious or surprised, so as to achieve the director's purpose of guiding the audience's attention and emotions.

I have to say that the creativity is infinite, these lens languages are actually grafted from the original three-dimensional space to the scheduling of a two-dimensional plane, and the audience is not aware of their existence, as if it is a natural viewing behavior, which is simply too talented!

"Maybe you won't understand ......"

"For Asians living in European countries, the pride of being able to see the face of their own ethnicity appear as a mainstream image in the mainstream media ......"

After getting along day and night, Liu Mengyun worships dedicated idols even more, just like those on the screen, sunny, positive, and full of positive energy.

Ding Cheng understood the other party's feelings, there were three or four hundred thousand Chinese living in the former empire where the sun never sets, and there were millions of international students.

Although the story is simple, it touches on a wide range of topics, such as children's education, parent-child relationships, human selfishness, the cold-bloodedness of the media, the pervasiveness of social media, and the security of cyberspace......

Each individual unfolding is bottomless, and if you use the traditional film form, it is inevitably impossible to cover it all. Greedy and chewy, but shallow and powerless.

If you choose one or two points to stop, you must also carefully design them in the form of plots, character activities, dialogues, etc., which may not be effective.

What's interesting about this film is that the way it is visually presented dictates that there can be more information per unit of time without having to reveal it through action or words.

For example, the various comments of the spectators on the Internet on the disappearance of the girl, the window scrolls down, and one by one comes into view, which is obviously an objective perspective, but people can't help but make subjective judgments.

Another example is the unscrupulous snooping of the police case scene in the live news screen, and the cold-bloodedness and madness of the media chasing news value can be seen.

Compared with the irony of the tunnel, this work takes the sword and enters from a small entry point, but it is more convincing with humanity.

A lot of details about his specific behavior, such as rummaging through chat records when he learned that his daughter was not attending piano lessons, checking the proportion of missing persons and police information when reporting the crime......

It's not arranged by the screenwriter to better shape the characters, because these will not be the reactions that the characters should make in that situation at the first time, and there is no basic hesitation and sluggishness, because they are all information that the audience needs to know more.

As the plot develops, third-person news clips are constantly intervened. The gradual determination of the scope of the real murderer, the continuous rotation of perspectives, and the composition logic of the film appear more accurate.

In my own opinion, it is by no means intended to use the medium of the screen as a mere form of presentation, to provide a so-called cheap realism in a simple way to make the audience react in convincing.

The choice is to radically type, weaving the audience into the game-like plot rhythm, so that they can continue to be secretly influenced by the huge amount of information in the act of downloading and watching the virtual world, so as to drive their own weaving pleasure.

And this is precisely the last layer, the search and redemption completed by the audience themselves.