“形式(符号)即意义”
整本书从Realism and Formalism出发,探究摄影、场面调度、运动、表演、理论。覆盖了电影这门艺术的不同方面,真正讲述了这门艺术。
这是我的二刷,第一次看是焦雄屏老师的中译本,第二次则是对照中译本花了37天啃完了这部英文原版。(足足61万字已经让我怀疑人生)如果最开始的基础性章节能让我通过英文语境还原电影的理论性探究,而后面更多的是逼自己完成这样一项有意义的读...“形式(符号)即意义”
整本书从Realism and Formalism出发,探究摄影、场面调度、运动、表演、理论。覆盖了电影这门艺术的不同方面,真正讲述了这门艺术。
这是我的二刷,第一次看是焦雄屏老师的中译本,第二次则是对照中译本花了37天啃完了这部英文原版。(足足61万字已经让我怀疑人生)如果最开始的基础性章节能让我通过英文语境还原电影的理论性探究,而后面更多的是逼自己完成这样一项有意义的读书纪录,当然也不失发现了更多有意思的,例如中英版本的差异,以及作者的写作思路。(长评略展开)
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The Godfather was photographed by the great Gordon Wills,who is famous for his low-key lighting magic.The colors are not only subdued,they'resuffocating in airless dark rooms.In this shadowy world,only an occasional wisp of color is allowed to escape-a vibrant red rose,pale yellow light filtering discreetly through the blinds,a few splotches of mottled flesh tones.The rest is darkness. 《教父》...(3回应)
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The Godfather was photographed by the great Gordon Wills,who is famous for his low-key lighting magic.The colors are not only subdued,they'resuffocating in airless dark rooms.In this shadowy world,only an occasional wisp of color is allowed to escape-a vibrant red rose,pale yellow light filtering discreetly through the blinds,a few splotches of mottled flesh tones.The rest is darkness.引自 PHOTOGRAPHY
Actually, a complete mise en scene analysis of a given shot is even more complex. Ordinarily, any iconographical elements, in addition to a costume and set analysis, are considered part of the mise en scene. But of course movies exist in time and have many Other ways of communicating information. Photography and mise en scene aremerely two language systems of many. A filmmaker has literally hun...
2020-04-20 12:53:54
Actually, a complete mise en scene analysis of a given shot is even more complex. Ordinarily, any iconographical elements, in addition to a costume and set analysis, are considered part of the mise en scene.
But of course movies exist in time and have many Other ways of communicating information. Photography and mise en scene aremerely two language systems of many.
A filmmaker has literally hundreds of different ways to convey meanings. Like the painter or still Hot grapher, the movie dirrector can emphasize visual dominants. In a scene portraying violence, for example, he or she can use diagonal and zigzagging lines,aggressive colors, close-ups, extreme angles, harsh lighting contrasts, unbalanced compositions, large shapes, and so on. Unlike most other visual artists, the maker can also suggest violence through movement, either of the subject itself, the camera, or both. The film artist can suggest violence through editing, by having one shot collide with anothers- in a kaleidoscopic explosion of different perspectives. Furthermore, through the use of the soundtrack, violence can be conveyed by loud or rapid dialogue, harsh sound effects,or strident music. Precisely because there are so many ways to convey a given effect, the filmmaker will vary the emphasis, sometimes stressing image, sometimes movement,other times sound. Occasionally, especially in climactic scenes, all three are used at the same time.
引自 2 MISE EN SC魬NE 场面调度 44
In short, dominance is defined contextually in film-not necessarily the way it's perceived in real life. The movie frame is also a kind of territory, though a temporary one, existing only for the duration of the shot, The way space is shared within the frame is one of the major tools of the filmmaker, who can define, adjust, and redefine human relationships by exploiting spatial conventions. Fu...
2020-04-20 12:45:39
In short, dominance is defined contextually in film-not necessarily the way it's perceived in real life.
The movie frame is also a kind of territory, though a temporary one, existing only for the duration of the shot, The way space is shared within the frame is one of the major tools of the filmmaker, who can define, adjust, and redefine human relationships by exploiting spatial conventions. Furthermore, once a relationship has been established, the director can go on to other matters simply by changing the camera setup. The film director, in other words, is not confined to a spatial area that's permanent throughout the scene. A master of mise en scene can express shifting psychological and social nuances with a single shot-by exploiting the space berween characters, the depth planes within the images, the intrinsically weighted areas of the frame, and the direction the characters are facing vis-a-vis the camera.引自 Territorial Space 区域空间 67
Some of the most suggestive critical studies have explored the relationship of a genre to the society that nurtured it. This sociophychic approach was pioneered by the Frech literary critic Hippolyte Taine in the ninetheenth century. Taine claimed that the social and intellctual anxieties of a given era and nation wil find expression in its art. This implicit function of an artist is to harmoni...
2020-02-12 22:57:05
Some of the most suggestive critical studies have explored the relationship of a genre to the society that nurtured it. This sociophychic approach was pioneered by the Frech literary critic Hippolyte Taine in the ninetheenth century. Taine claimed that the social and intellctual anxieties of a given era and nation wil find expression in its art. This implicit function of an artist is to harmonize and reconcile cultural clashes of value. He believed that art must be analyzed for both its overt and covert meaning, that beneath its explicit content there exsits a vast reservoir of latent social and psychic information.
The approach tends to work best with popular genres, which reflect the shared values and fears of a large audience. Such genres might be regarded as contemporary myths, lending philosophical meaning to the facts of everyday life. As social conditions change, genres often change with them, chanllenging some traditional customs and beliefs, reaffirming others.Gangster films, for example, are often covert critiques of American capitalism. They are often vehicles for exploring rebellion myths and are especially popular during periods of social breakdown. The protagonists - usually played by small man - are likened to ruthless businessmen, their climb to power a sardonic parody of the Horatio Alger myth.
Actually, a complete mise en scene analysis of a given shot is even more complex. Ordinarily, any iconographical elements, in addition to a costume and set analysis, are considered part of the mise en scene. But of course movies exist in time and have many Other ways of communicating information. Photography and mise en scene aremerely two language systems of many. A filmmaker has literally hun...
2020-04-20 12:53:54
Actually, a complete mise en scene analysis of a given shot is even more complex. Ordinarily, any iconographical elements, in addition to a costume and set analysis, are considered part of the mise en scene.
But of course movies exist in time and have many Other ways of communicating information. Photography and mise en scene aremerely two language systems of many.
A filmmaker has literally hundreds of different ways to convey meanings. Like the painter or still Hot grapher, the movie dirrector can emphasize visual dominants. In a scene portraying violence, for example, he or she can use diagonal and zigzagging lines,aggressive colors, close-ups, extreme angles, harsh lighting contrasts, unbalanced compositions, large shapes, and so on. Unlike most other visual artists, the maker can also suggest violence through movement, either of the subject itself, the camera, or both. The film artist can suggest violence through editing, by having one shot collide with anothers- in a kaleidoscopic explosion of different perspectives. Furthermore, through the use of the soundtrack, violence can be conveyed by loud or rapid dialogue, harsh sound effects,or strident music. Precisely because there are so many ways to convey a given effect, the filmmaker will vary the emphasis, sometimes stressing image, sometimes movement,other times sound. Occasionally, especially in climactic scenes, all three are used at the same time.
引自 2 MISE EN SC魬NE 场面调度 44
In short, dominance is defined contextually in film-not necessarily the way it's perceived in real life. The movie frame is also a kind of territory, though a temporary one, existing only for the duration of the shot, The way space is shared within the frame is one of the major tools of the filmmaker, who can define, adjust, and redefine human relationships by exploiting spatial conventions. Fu...
2020-04-20 12:45:39
In short, dominance is defined contextually in film-not necessarily the way it's perceived in real life.
The movie frame is also a kind of territory, though a temporary one, existing only for the duration of the shot, The way space is shared within the frame is one of the major tools of the filmmaker, who can define, adjust, and redefine human relationships by exploiting spatial conventions. Furthermore, once a relationship has been established, the director can go on to other matters simply by changing the camera setup. The film director, in other words, is not confined to a spatial area that's permanent throughout the scene. A master of mise en scene can express shifting psychological and social nuances with a single shot-by exploiting the space berween characters, the depth planes within the images, the intrinsically weighted areas of the frame, and the direction the characters are facing vis-a-vis the camera.引自 Territorial Space 区域空间 67
Some of the most suggestive critical studies have explored the relationship of a genre to the society that nurtured it. This sociophychic approach was pioneered by the Frech literary critic Hippolyte Taine in the ninetheenth century. Taine claimed that the social and intellctual anxieties of a given era and nation wil find expression in its art. This implicit function of an artist is to harmoni...
2020-02-12 22:57:05
Some of the most suggestive critical studies have explored the relationship of a genre to the society that nurtured it. This sociophychic approach was pioneered by the Frech literary critic Hippolyte Taine in the ninetheenth century. Taine claimed that the social and intellctual anxieties of a given era and nation wil find expression in its art. This implicit function of an artist is to harmonize and reconcile cultural clashes of value. He believed that art must be analyzed for both its overt and covert meaning, that beneath its explicit content there exsits a vast reservoir of latent social and psychic information.
The approach tends to work best with popular genres, which reflect the shared values and fears of a large audience. Such genres might be regarded as contemporary myths, lending philosophical meaning to the facts of everyday life. As social conditions change, genres often change with them, chanllenging some traditional customs and beliefs, reaffirming others.Gangster films, for example, are often covert critiques of American capitalism. They are often vehicles for exploring rebellion myths and are especially popular during periods of social breakdown. The protagonists - usually played by small man - are likened to ruthless businessmen, their climb to power a sardonic parody of the Horatio Alger myth.
摄影 开篇先介绍了realism(现实主义)&formalism(形式主义)的区分 Realism films attempt to reproduce the surface of reality with a minimum of distortion. Formalist movies are stylistically flamboyant. The directors are concerned with expressing their subjective experience of reality, not how other people might see it. Realists, in short, try to preserve the illusion that their world is unman...
2014-08-27 21:58:49
摄影
开篇先介绍了realism(现实主义)&formalism(形式主义)的区分
Realism films attempt to reproduce the surface of reality with a minimum of distortion.
Formalist movies are stylistically flamboyant. The directors are concerned with expressing their subjective experience of reality, not how other people might see it.
Realists, in short, try to preserve the illusion that their world is unmanipulated, an objective mirror of the actual world. Formalists, on the other hand, make no such pretense. They deliberately stylize and distort their raw materials so that no one would mistake a manipulated image of an object or event for the real thing.引自 一
电影style分成了三类:realism classicism formalism 对应的种类是documentary fiction avant-garde
不同style对form和content的看法 story-oriented or form supreme?
但是it's quite possible to present fantasy materials in a realistic style. It's equally possible to present reality-based materials in an expressionistic style.
The shots 镜头
基本六类:the extreme long shot/ the long shot(有一类变形the deep-focus shot)/ the full shot/ the medium shot/ the close-up/ the extreme close-up
the extreme long shot -- taken from a great distance(maybe 1/4 mile away), always an exterior shot and shows much of the locale, often found in epic films
the long shot -- correspond approximately to the distance between the audience and the stage in the live theater 这个种类里最近的是the full shot, includes the human body in full
the medium shot -- contains a figure from the knees or waist up, useful for shooting exposition scenes, for carrying movement and for dialogue (the two shot contains two figures, the three shot contains three figures) 有一种the over-the-shoulder shot, contains two figures, one with part of his/her back to the camera, the other facing the camera
the close-up -- concentrates on a relatively small object, ex.the human face, tends to elevate the importance of things, often suggesting a symbolic significance.
the extreme close-up -- a long shot consisting of a number of focal distances and photographed in depth. This type of shot captures objects at close, medium, and long ranges simultaneously, all of them in sharp focus.
the angles 角度
一般film realists的scenes are photographed from eye level (5-6 ft off the ground)
基本五种:the bird's-eye view/ the high angle/ the eye-level angle/ the low angle/ the oblique angle
the bird's-eye level -- 90度朝下 this permits us to hover above a scene like all-powerful gods.
the high angle -- camera placed on a crane or some natural high promontory. This angle tends to be ineffective for conveying a sense of speed, useful for suggesting tediousness. The importance of setting or environment is increased.
the eye-level angle -- 基本见于小津电影,4 ft from the floor
the low angle -- environment usually minimized, often used in propaganda films or films depicting heroism
the oblique angle -- horizon skewed, characters are at an oblique angle, often suggests tension, transition, and impending movement
Light and dark 光影
三个种类:high key/ high contrast/ low key
high key -- 一般用于comedies&musicals, bright, even illumination and no conspicuous shadows.
high contrast -- 一般用于tragedies&melodramas, hash shafts of light and dramatic streaks of blackness
low key -- 一般用于mysteries, thrillers and gangster films, diffused shadows and atmospheric pools of light
three-point lighting -- key light, fill light, backlight. Key light是dominant, 在focal point of action. Fill light softens the harshness of main light source, 也帮助呈现一些被阴影挡住的辅助细节. Backlights 区分前景人物和背景,加深图像立体效果
还有一种overexpose,used in nightmare and fantasy sequences.
color彩色
line is more like a nouns, color is like adjective. line more masculine, color more feminine
冷色调cool color:tranquility, aloofness, serenity
暖色调warm color:aggressiveness, violence, stimulation
Lenses, Filters, and Stocks镜片、滤镜和底片
3种滤镜:standard(nondistorted)range/ the telephoto lenses, and the wide angles.
telephoto: get close-ups of objects from extreme distances. 可用于从远处拍特写 摄影师可hide in public in cars to shoot people on the street 但它聚焦物体后镜头里其它物体都会blur, go out of focus
一种特殊技术:rack focusing or selective focusing 聚焦点从一个物体换到另一个物体
wide-angle lenses(short lenses): in deep-focus shots, preserve sharpness of focus on virtually all distance planes. 最极限例子: fish-eye lens
2种底片:fast stock/slow stock
fast stock: highly sensitive to light, sometimes can register images with no illumination
slow stock: insensitive to light, capture color precisely
Special Effect
CGI: computer-generated imagery 特殊动作场面 大规模背景等
最后语重心长地教导:cinematography is very important, but it usually can't make or break a movie -- only make it better or worse.
0 有用 碎碎评评 2011-12-13 06:30:04
很精彩,虽然技术上有点更不上时代。
0 有用 VivianC 2012-12-29 13:11:22
终于看完
0 有用 自闲 2012-07-13 22:06:45
厚厚的一本,较为全面综合。多看几遍更有收获
0 有用 花溪流萤 2011-11-25 22:02:29
买过第11版 12版应该也不错
0 有用 chaos 2019-06-10 20:52:45
看的原版影印,粗略翻了一下,电影流派和理论建构讲得太少太浅,其他还算详实,就是排版太糟糕了…
0 有用 淡定哥走路带风 2022-07-19 01:38:02
终于知道场记是干嘛的了
0 有用 车裂小可爱 2022-02-05 15:18:09
以前读了两页读不懂就读不下去了,2021年末通过LSAT科普了照相机起源Darogue刻板什么的终于可以读下去了,非常好的科普,以前以为网友说的多看电影就会懂,看了这书才知道原来我只知道一点点摄影和打光服装?在好多方面剧本casting好多的盲区,这书真是盲区显示镜了,文字还配有电影海报好多都不说没有看过,都没有听过没有概念。。感觉作者是很厉害的,不知道他老人家写了多久写了这么厚,这个价格这么厚而... 以前读了两页读不懂就读不下去了,2021年末通过LSAT科普了照相机起源Darogue刻板什么的终于可以读下去了,非常好的科普,以前以为网友说的多看电影就会懂,看了这书才知道原来我只知道一点点摄影和打光服装?在好多方面剧本casting好多的盲区,这书真是盲区显示镜了,文字还配有电影海报好多都不说没有看过,都没有听过没有概念。。感觉作者是很厉害的,不知道他老人家写了多久写了这么厚,这个价格这么厚而且很有内容的好书引进国内出版商真是良心 (展开)
0 有用 宝宝TWO 2021-08-26 14:05:13
所以任何一个学科,教科书都是如此的让人厌恶
0 有用 缓缓 2020-05-31 15:46:16
案例丰富,面面俱到,很好的入门
0 有用 李潇潇 2020-04-12 20:28:35
“形式(符号)即意义” 整本书从Realism and Formalism出发,探究摄影、场面调度、运动、表演、理论。覆盖了电影这门艺术的不同方面,真正讲述了这门艺术。 这是我的二刷,第一次看是焦雄屏老师的中译本,第二次则是对照中译本花了37天啃完了这部英文原版。(足足61万字已经让我怀疑人生)如果最开始的基础性章节能让我通过英文语境还原电影的理论性探究,而后面更多的是逼自己完成这样一项有意义的读... “形式(符号)即意义” 整本书从Realism and Formalism出发,探究摄影、场面调度、运动、表演、理论。覆盖了电影这门艺术的不同方面,真正讲述了这门艺术。 这是我的二刷,第一次看是焦雄屏老师的中译本,第二次则是对照中译本花了37天啃完了这部英文原版。(足足61万字已经让我怀疑人生)如果最开始的基础性章节能让我通过英文语境还原电影的理论性探究,而后面更多的是逼自己完成这样一项有意义的读书纪录,当然也不失发现了更多有意思的,例如中英版本的差异,以及作者的写作思路。(长评略展开) (展开)