Who has the skills to direct? Why can the movies he made can be said to be commercially successful, and when he says that he is going to win awards, everyone thinks he can try it?

In fact, the skills of a director are not difficult to learn, in short, a director must be able to have several abilities.

One is to turn words into pictures, you have to know how to turn literary scripts into continuous pictures, literary scripts are just text imagination, and movie pictures are to turn imaginary words into the feelings you want to present to the audience, so that the audience loses their imagination, but is shocked by your imagination.

For example, 'the maple leaves flying in the sky are like a romantic golden rain', how do you turn this kind of text into a picture? If you shoot the four elements of flying maple leaves, romantic couples, winding forest paths covered with maple leaves, and autumn sunshine, and then skillfully combine them, then you can be regarded as a basically qualified director at most, because as long as the director who has learned to fiddle with the camera will shoot, it is also all the pictures imagined by the audience, and you have not let the picture surprise the audience.

The further director will let the camera shine in the daylight, men and women dance gracefully together, and then the maple leaves do not fly naturally, but with the wind up and down, fast and slow, with the dancing posture of men and women. In this way, the light is moving, the people are moving, and the maple leaf is also moving, and it becomes a romantic flow, rather than a static one.

Isn't this a little more advanced? Or a little more chic, at least it will make the audience think, 'Wow, this director has pushed me through the imagination'.

Of course, there are more advanced ......

This is the method of technical processing to turn words into pictures, and whether each director is skilled in technology and imagination is enough determines how good his technical processing will be.

The second ability is to be able to tell the story well, the logic is reasonable, the structure is familiar, and the suspense is hooking. Of course, this is only for commercial directors, for literary and artistic directors who de-story, maybe it doesn't matter whether the story is told well or not, and whether the director's thoughts are expressed is the key.

The third ability is that you need to know how to act, and you can act on camera. Although it does not mean that all directors must be an actor with good acting skills, basically the director must be a basically qualified actor. There are many directors around the world whose acting skills are not bad, even if they are like Zhang Yimou or Feng Xiaogang, they can act.

Director, you don't know how to act, how do you guide the actors to perform? How do you convey to the actors what you want to perform?

The fourth ability is the mastery of photography, the director is not necessarily a photographer, but a qualified director must be an excellent photography lecturer, he can tell the photography flowers, one set.

Because film is the art of audio-visual, and vision is the picture, and the picture has to be shot by the camera, you don't understand how photography can present the picture you want?

The fifth ability is that the understanding of color must be top-notch, and color is an expression of emotions. Don't say it's mysterious, it's not mysterious at all, for example, if you stare at a movie full of black and cold tones for ten minutes, it will ensure that your mood is extremely heavy, which will cause your facial expression to be serious and your heart to be nervous.

And if the screen is full of romantic tones, no matter how deep your face is, it will be slightly soothed, and some people can't help but smile, looking happy and sweet.

Of course, color can also divert the viewer's attention.

Therefore, a director must understand color. The colors in the movie come from three aspects, one is light, the second is art, and the third is clothing.

The sixth ability, that is, the ability to edit, a director does not know editing, then he will not have editing thinking when filming, and he will not think about what it will be like for me to cut this shot and the next shot together.

The seventh ability is the ability to appreciate music, after all, audio-visual audio-visual, in addition to movie pictures, sound is also another major category of films. Sometimes you have to know how to make a fuss about sound, and it will have a good effect if you do this well.

If you want to expand on each of these seven abilities, I guess I can write a thick book. I can only click here, which means that the reason why He Fang was able to make "Far Cry" into another movie with a different time and space is because he has a certain foundation for these seven abilities.

This is one of the roots of his confidence in filmmaking, because he has no shortage of technology, he has been in Hollywood for eight years, from script to photography to acting to art to editing and music, he has studied in-depth and operated it himself.

There is no problem with the basic skills of a director, and the soul from 2024 has allowed him to see film creation more clearly and think more clearly from the dimension of time and the thickness accumulated by a large number of excellent films in the following ten years.

Because two movies have been made in a row, it feels more silky and easier to get started with movies like "People in Embarrassment".

What surprised He Fang was Wang Baoqiang's efforts and acting skills, this is not just a simple person, his scripts are always dense, and he even wrote three pages of character analysis, and his homework is exactly the same as that of an actor from a professional class, or even more serious.

He also asked He Fang to help him confirm a performance baseline, but He Fang didn't give him much help, because the setting of the role is to be optimistic in the midst of hardship, setbacks and positive characters, which is very consistent with Wang Baoqiang's own characteristics, it can be said that he doesn't need to use much force to act, he is the Niu Geng in the film.

"Brother Qiang, act well, maybe the next part will look for you." He Fang patted Wang Baoqiang's shoulder and said.

"Really? Your sci-fi blockbuster? Wang Baoqiang asked.

"Huh? That probably won't work, I'll have to hire a Hollywood star. The lower part I am talking about is the next part of the embarrassment of people. He Fang said with a smile.

"It's okay, Director He, I promise to be on call." Wang Baoqiang said very righteously.

"Haha...... Good. ”

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"People in Embarrassment" has a large number of rushing shots, which requires the use of sports shots, at first Du Jie wanted to carry it on his shoulder, but he was stopped by whom.

"Brother Du, shouldering is not suitable for this movie, although the 'breathing' on the shoulder has a pseudo-documentary meaning, it can make people feel the process of going home for the Spring Festival. However, now Chinese audiences are not used to this kind of dangling shots, and it is easy for the audience to vomit in the cinema. Let's be safe and go to Steadicam. ”

"Okay." Du Jie did not object.

"By the way, let's play a long shot when we walk home." He Fang said suddenly.

"Long shots? That's boring, are you sure? Du Jie was a little surprised.

He Fang suddenly slapped his forehead, "It's not a long shot of a literary film, it's a long shot of a commercial film." ”

"How long do you want? The whole scene in one shot? Du Jie asked.

"You can take on a challenge."

"Hey, this is a bit difficult, so let's challenge it."

Many people think that long shots are just the standard configuration of literary films, no, there are many commercial films that play long shots, but many viewers can't see it.

Most of the long shots of literary films are fixed long shots, or long shots that are shoulder-to-shoulder, etc., which are all metaphorical.

For example, a fixed long shot generally shows the character slowly walking away from the shot, getting farther and farther away, until it disappears into the edge of the shot. This represents the character looking for a new life, either different or still the same, giving people a sense of imagination.

The shoulder-mounted follow long shot is generally expressed as the character's impatience, uncertainty in life, trance in the spiritual world, etc.

But commercial long shots are different, they are all about being cool, or to give the audience a more immersive experience.

For example, the long shot of Optimus Prime in "Transformers" is a cool shot that gives the audience an immersive experience, which is to let the audience see from the beginning to the end, from far to near, and from the whole picture to see the local shots.

There is no need to introduce Optimus Prime more, just a long shot of movement can make the audience look at Optimus Prime thoroughly.

He wants to use a shot to let the audience look down from a high altitude, see from God's perspective, and then follow, and then let the camera go hand in hand with the person, so that the audience can become a part of the walk.

Then push and look at someone more emphatically, and finally pull it again, slowly pulling away, so that the audience can once again change from becoming one of them to God's perspective, so that the audience can get out of immersion.

This requires good scheduling, so when this one shot was filmed, the whole crew tossed there for a day, and finally shot this one-shot shot at the end of the sky when the sky was about to set.

The result was unexpectedly good, because there was a sunset all over the sky, which just gave people a sense of urgency, and they had to go home before dark, and Chinese New Year's Eve was almost here?

"This can be, this can be, this is awesome. I think this movie is worth it just for this one shot. Du Jie shouted excitedly.

"Haha, don't get excited, you can shoot better in the future."

"That's the joy of making a movie, sometimes a perfect shot can make people fall asleep with excitement."