IM · Specialty | What kind of participating films do our judges like?

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In the past four or five years, I have been invited to be the judges of four film festivals, and three of them are short -format competitions.

Roughly, within a few years, I watched six or seven hundred short films, but I have to say that there are very few masterpieces.

—— Of course this is normal. Don't say that the law of 28 is reflected in all aspects. More importantly, young people who have a high threshold for image creation and are difficult to experience and have lacking economy. It is not easy to shoot Good things.

However, after all, funds, technology, and experience are not the key to the problem. Too many students' short films are mediocre. In my opinion, it is based on the "selection".

What is "topic"? This was originally a black words in our media industry, but it is also good to understand: there are so many people and things that can be reported (writing/recording/video), but which one should be selected and what kind of genre, structure, text/audiovisual/audiovisual, and audiovisual. What about the style?

Therefore, the topic selection and selection not only clarify the content, but also set the form.

However, in many of the participating short films I have reviewed, it is difficult to see clear and complete, unique topic thinking thinking, and there are rarely seen eye -catching methods. It is true that the young creator who came to the competition was the moment he determined what he was going to shoot, he actually completed a "topic selection", but this is often a straightforward, rough, arrears of consideration and arrears, in other words, in other words, in other words, in other words, in other words , Not a good topic.

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For example, in the past few years, I have seen too many "childhood past" short films. They are similar: one is to show the feelings of the old native childhood (or former industrialized town) that can not be returned. The criticism of the phenomenon of divorce, left -behind children, and the negative economic development, the third is to express the mourning of ignorance.

"Childhood Past" poster

Most of these films, the vast majority of audiovisuals are extremely naturalism (or simply saying that it is humble and shabby), the rhythm is extremely slow, and the structure is extremely popular.

It must be said that of course, "childhood past" can be a very good mother question. Truffe, Hou Xiaoxian, and Jiang Wen have all made the masterpieces of the history of film. However, the friendly rural scenery, kind ancestor, and the endless friendship or love affair are really not new, and it is difficult to shoot differently from others.

"Sunny Day" stills

In particular, such short films often use a group of children's actors. They were originally difficult to control and guide mature film and television creators. Besides, they encountered newborn novices? In addition, it is usually the years that have been performed. It is necessary to restore the scenes of landscape and art more than ten or twenty years ago or even earlier. The help of wearing a gang became a common problem.

Moreover, the most critical thing is that the foundation of this type of autobiographical nature is the fundamental or failure lies in whether the creator has the courage to dissect himself. Don't forget, whether it is Truffer or Hou Xiaoxian, they have not looked back at their childhood. Those who are merciless dare to strip yourself. Then, we can get the same as the big, so, and let us feel the same, and then understand the truth of life, human nature and society.

And the young short film directors, too many are self -pity and self -move, and they did not squeeze out their "small under the robe" at all.

In the same way, there is another large number of urban themes. At first glance, they rarely focus on "past". Most of them present the "present" of high schools and universities. However, the bones are the same as the previous category. "It also has a certain transformation and deformation), and the smell throughout it has become loneliness, melancholy, boredom, stingy, and not understood by others. The movies are indeed expressing loneliness and melancholy, which is not that such subjects themselves are not desirable). Still picking up search, which has a headache.

In a word, too many youth short films, although the subject matter and images are very different, but the root causes are the same: the story is the same: the story is faint and emotionally drowned, not for the audience but for themselves.

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Therefore, on the other hand, the short films that can "forget me" and shoot some other people's stories are often more interesting and unexpected -in other words, they will even impress the judges and the audience.

In fact, regardless of Chinese and foreign, the classic models of narrative literature are: "A long, long time ago, there was a person, his name was ..." Homer's epic, Shakespell drama, Tang legend, Yuan miscellaneous drama, four masterpieces, and even "Rings King" , Jin Yong martial arts, Marvel universe, how many autobiography of juvenile troubles?

There are countless life of life every day. Some of them are chilling and some are spitting. So can it be used as the starting point of creation? We also have so many monsters, martial arts novels, martial arts novels, butterfly literature ... Why can't we be made into a short story movie?

Adapted is not a shortcut of creation, but at least the ready -made stories and ready -made materials are richer and easy to operate.

When you are timid or ashamed and you can't tell yourself sincerely, why not try to tell the story of others?

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Of course, after the world entered the "modern", the hills on the literary world changed the king flag. Kafka, Joyce, Allen Renai, Antonioni, Ferini, Malik, Hong Changxiu, which are concerned about the inner small universe, may become a more advanced pulse. However, the laws of 28 are still spiritual. 80%or more movies (film and television) in the world are "products" for the public, and at most 20%are deep tangled art works. Imagine that we would ask ordinary people from any angle in this world, did he see Jackie Chan or Ou Rong? The answer is self -evident.

As a "judge", the film festival I understand, especially the short film festival competition, is actually to examine whether the creators can relatively use the audiovisual techniques and drama rules to narrate through images. Although it is not absolute, the composition is more exquisite, the narrative rhythm is faster, and the story is more "grasped", which is more likely to stand out from the competition.

In other words, it is to create a more commercial type of film standards to think of all kinds of horses and unscrupulous ideas. Do not always have Hou Xiaoxian, Jia Zhangke or Bi Gan, but should be a little bit more Quentin, Xu Ke, Michael, Michael Best, try to use the techniques of playing, gambling, ghost films, love movies, and even salty and wet films, so that the work is interesting and creative. This is the most effective "topic selection" of young creators. Way.

Director Xu Ke's work- "Dragon Gate Flying A"

For example, at the North American Chinese Director Short Film Show, after all, I have been immersed in the industrialization system of the film, so most creators are consciously adopting the form of a type of film to shoot their own work. Basically, don't touch any youth pain. They all know that these "topics" are to knock on the door of the industry's door.

To put it bluntly, the art film is to fight whether the creator is really artistic, so it is essentially unspeakable, and the rate of materials is the lowest; and it is commonly composed of type movies, TV dramas, advertising MVs, variety shows, and so on. A set of "commercial audiovisual" industries need a large number of craftsmen, which can be trained and trained, and even then can be a roundabout path for artists (represented by Du Qifeng, Zhang Yimou, and Kitano).

So, young people who want to make films, do you want to choose your topic? You are the age when you are twenty years old. What we want to see is your vitality, your ghost ideas, your punk spirit, your wild and magnificent dream, you say NO to this world spirit.

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