- Reflection from Art of the Microbudget, RESCUE- YIXUAN HUANG
This is a desktop movie. The so-called “desktop movie” is a screen within a screen, presenting the story in the closed space of the desktop of the computer or mobile phone, all the shots are screenshots, this is what I learned from the Art of Microbudget studio. The film is like a camera shooting the whole process of a computer screen. The audience watching the movie is like looking at their own computer screen. YIXUAN uses the perspective of surveillance shooting to convey the network security issues today. The current social network covers almost every corner of the world and has become a tool for people to communicate with each other and an important part of life. When it becomes a narrative element in a movie, the audience will naturally have a sense of intimacy and trust. In addition, due to the removal of the gorgeous lens language of other movies, the narration of the story relies entirely on the surveillance video recorded on the protagonist’s computer, and all the information is placed on the screen together. The audience can join the protagonist in the whole process of the dispute between the victim and his girlfriend, from passive acceptance when watching movies in the past. Information is transformed into an active exploration of information, which brings the audience an immersive movie-watching experience like being in the scene, and helps to deepen the audience’s understanding of the story. The original threat symptoms and fear shadows that always linger in the depths of the online world in desktop movies are also the deepest fears of all digital residents living in the virtual world-uncontrollable events and a world that is no longer real.
- Reflection from Art of the Microbudget, COME TO THE CHAT…- ANTONG LI
This also is a desktop movie, but what is different from YIXUAN HUANG is that ANTONG LI has added real-world shooting. The combination of the two brings the audience into the computer video and the real world to immerse and dissociate. The character image that appeared in the protagonist’s video dialogue only occupies the size of the window on the screen. Under the premise that the actor’s performance space is already limited, the character image constitutes a second “compression”. Relying on the advantages of unlimited magnification of performance details by movie scenes, the image of the protagonist in the desktop movie is condensed into intuitive and expressive facial expressions. Miniature performances largely enable viewers of desktop movies to explore their inner thoughts from the subtle changes on the protagonist’s face, which is a visual experience that is difficult to capture and watch in daily life. ANTONG LI’s films use the dual logic of immersion and dissociation to switch back and forth between the two states of maintaining the illusion and breaking the illusion. The audience’s temporal experience is designed as a structure of regular switching, which becomes a necessary condition for the audience to participate in the illusion.
- Reflection from Designing Drama Studio, EPISODE 2- JIABAO MO
When I watched this film, the first thing that caught my eye was his red and blue lighting. Because from the perspective of visual spectral distribution, red and blue are located at the two extremes of visible light, they have the clearest visual experience. These two colors that have the most profound impact on human memory, red and blue light are great for creating a psychedelic and rich atmosphere. Using colored light as the background or partial rendering of the body is a very effective way while using colored light to create the entire scene, the visual effect is more complete, and the portrayal of the character’s emotions and temperament is also stronger. Therefore, combined with the whole story, red and blue are the two colors that are most easily remembered and used to render the storyline in his film shoot. Then talk about the plot again. This video brought me into my personal experience, I was also very unsuccessful in terms of ‘lover’. Because of my family and childhood experiences, I was very insecure and needed emotional companionship, almost all my love has been cheated on and abandoned me. I have been depressed many times because of emotional bruises and even developed psychological barriers. But the good thing is that I have my friends, just like in the film, the boy had troubles with his girlfriend, and his brother took out two bottles of wine to accompany him without saying a word. My friends are the same way, I don’t need to say anything, they can understand my inner thoughts, accompany me to go out on a trip, and drink and sing at the beach all night, it is they who accompany me out of the blue mood.
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