Analysis of the audiovisual language of the movie "The Wind" "The Wind" is a film that tells the story of the Wang puppet government, after a series of high-ranking official assassinations, the Japanese army attracted great attention, in order to find out the code name for

The "old ghost" Communist Party members and the Japanese army and the puppet army interrogated Gu Xiaomeng, Li Ningyu, Wu Zhiguo, Bai Xiaonian and Jin Shenghuo.

The film's audio-visual language style is distinctive, and the film strives to create a wonderful suspense story for the audience from the lens language, picture editing, and sound effects, showing a vivid character image.

This paper analyzes the audiovisual language of the film from the aspects of shots, scenes, sounds, lights, colors, and subtitles based on the clips in the film.

1. The expression of the lens and the scene: In the film, the lens not only acts as the eyes of the audience, tells the audience the plot and development of the story, but also contributes a lot to the formation of the expression style of the film.

(1) The use of long shots: At the beginning of the movie, special effects are used to simulate a long shot of more than a second: the starting picture is at a high altitude full of black clouds, and then through layers of black clouds, passing through the wings of the fighter planes hovering in the air, and continuing to probe down, there is a black landform between mountains and rivers, and the mountains are black, so the color of the water becomes a bright color, and the shape and distribution of these rivers form the shape of two words: the wind.

At this point, the title of the movie appears. However, the long shot does not end there, but continues to stretch lower, over the top of the mountain, to the city surrounded by mountains, and ends with fireworks appearing in the night sky in the distance.

The next shot is a firework on the ground that appears at an upward angle to complete the transition. The use of this long shot is a good explanation of the location where the story takes place, like an invisible hand pulling away layers of black clouds from the hazy sky to tell the audience that the story takes place in a dark city, which sets a dark and oppressive tone for the film.

(2) Most of the medium and close-up scenes depict the characters, and most of the scenes in this film are medium and close-up. The choice of scenery in "The Wind" is not only due to the expression of the storyline and the portrayal of the characters and personalities, but also to the environmental constraints of the filming location.

The film was shot in a closed Qiuzhuang area, so it focused on a closed, oppressive form, and in the interior, close-up shots became the cameraman's first choice.

And because the storyline revolves around ghost hunting, speculation and reasoning are also the performance content of the characters in the play.

Subtle movements, inner and facial expressions need to be concretely expressed, so medium-shot, close-up and even close-up shots need to be used frequently.

2. The performance of the picture: the combination of fiction and reality (1) The realistic picture forms a visual impact effect, and in "The Wind", Takeda Chang tortures the suspected object in order to force the appearance of the old ghost of the underground party, and the bloody scene can better set off the viciousness and evil of the Japanese officer Takeda Chang, the danger and cruelty of intelligence work, and the unyielding loyalty of the underground party.

Therefore, the bloody scenes of criminal law to extract confessions appear in many films. A large number of close-ups of torture instruments and tortured people are used to realistically reproduce the torture scenes.

For example, the close-up of the sixth master's acupuncture equipment and the tortured Wu Zhiguo's distorted face due to great pain, bloody wounds, bulging green tendons, and eyes full of blood and tears" These realistic pictures have caused a strong visual impact on the audience, fully showing the ugly face of the traitor and Wu Zhiguo's iron bones.

(2) The freehand picture evokes associations, in "The Sound of the Wind", when dealing with Bai Xiaonian, it is just a panorama of a nail chair and a close-up of a knife file, and the pulling shot of the iron door of the dim Qiu Bunker ends in Bai Xiaonian's heart-rending shout.

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"Virtual" refers to the fact that there is no picture of Bai Xiaonian being directly tortured in the movie, but through sound effects and empty pictures, the audience's association and imagination are aroused.

There are no bloody shots, but more terrifying, using sound and empty shots with great space for thinking expansion to stimulate the audience's sensory impact caused by imagination, thus causing the audience's psychological horror to diffuse.

3. The use of sound (1) Using music to render the plot Music is a special sound symbol. It is the essence of musical instruments and sounds.

It expresses human emotions through the artistic image formed by organized musical sounds, rendering and highlighting the plot in the film.

After being suspected by Takeda, Li Ningyu passed through the dim corridor and came to the dark and secret secret room to be examined by Takeda.

Li Ningyu's expression was solemn, and the slow piano soundtrack, rendering the uneasy atmosphere, with a heavy sound of the door closing, Li Ningyu's body trembled, and the piano music came to an abrupt end, indicating the next dangerous encounter and the fear in the character's heart.

(2) Monologue coherent picture formation narrative paragraph: Monologue refers to the voice of the character speaking alone in the picture, which is an effective method to reveal the inner world of the character.

At the end of the film, Gu Xiaomeng's monologue sounded:

"I am in purgatour, leaving this record", "The old ghost and the old gun are not individuals, but a spirit and a belief~" The picture is matched with Wu Zhiguo, who was sitting in the car, shed a line of lonely tears, and then cut to the big vista of the overhead shot: the car was driving on the road, the camera panned to the hill on the side of the road, and then the picture of Li Ningyu and Gu Xiaomeng in Qiuzhuang appeared through superimposition: Li Ningyu was smoking on the balcony, looking back at Gu Xiaomeng who was sitting in the house and sewing cheongsam for himself, at this time, Gu Xiaomeng looked up at the camera, that is, looking back, Li Ningyu's eyes were gentle and firm.

In the footage of this paragraph, Gu Xiaomeng's monologue has been going on, but the picture returns from the end of the story to the middle of the story, when Gu Xiaomeng sewed this passage into the cheongsam.

This passage is structured as a flashback, and the picture is coherent into a single paragraph through the continuity of the monologue sound.

It is the audio-visual experience formed by the audience: Gu Xiaomeng has long been ready to die for the revolution, although this confession is not known until the end of the story, but through the reversal of the picture, through Wu Zhiguo's tears, and finally Gu Xiaomeng's look at the camera (or at Li Ningyu's gaze), it is like Gu Xiaomeng personally said to Li Ningyu and Wu Zhiguo, as well as the audience watching the movie.

This is Gu Xiaomeng's confession before she died, and she sewed these words on Li Ningyu's cheongsam with Morse code.

This confession is expressed in the form of a monologue, which is very powerful. Gu Xiaomeng confessed his heart, and also pointed out the core idea that the film wanted to express through this passage.

4. The use of other audio-visual languages (1) The use of light: Light has the effect of creating an atmosphere and portraying the image of the characters: In the scene of the assassination in the restaurant at the beginning of the film, the puppet government official Wang who is about to be assassinated sits on both sides of the table with Mr. Fan, whom he wants to woo.

The camera is shot backwards, and the light in the lens is toplight, shining from the top of the heads of the two people, and the eyes of both are obscured in the darkness by the shadow of the eyebrow bone.

There is no harmonious atmosphere at the dinner here, but through light and shadow, the cold faces and expressions of the two are set off, and it also indicates the distance between the two people's hearts, and even the opposing positions.

It also set the stage for a tense atmosphere for this assassination. (2) The cold color sets off the terrifying atmosphere, the story takes place in the western suburbs of Baicaotang, which is the location of the trap and the old ghost, and the castle is full of murderous atmosphere, and the interior of the ancient castle of Qiuzhuang itself is cold and dark.

The use of blue, black, gray and other colors throughout the film sets a gloomy and oppressive tone. (3) Subtitles form a paragraph structure and grasp the narrative rhythm: In the movie "The Wind", subtitles appear at the beginning.

The film also uses a lot of stunt shots that use telegraph transitions, and these stunt shots are subtitled (the inner monologue of the old ghost).

The subtitles introduce the background of the story and continue throughout the film, becoming the demarcation of the passages where the plot progresses. Whenever there is a new development in the plot, a subtitle will appear.

These subtitles make the plot interlocking, forming a tight rhythm that drives the plot forward.