Golden Rooster Award Special Planning ｜ Film technical workers hiding behind the scenes

1905 movie network news Golden roosters and crows, striding for a new journey. "Today’s Film Review" specially plans a series of programs for the 35th Golden Rooster Award of Chinese films, and pays attention to the film technical workers who are hidden behind the scenes nominated by this Golden Rooster Award. These photographers, artists and sound recorders who work behind the scenes of movies are often little known. What efforts have they made behind the scenes to get the frame-by-frame light and shadow presented on the big screen?

Once the nomination list of the 35th Chinese Golden Rooster Award was announced, it triggered a wide-ranging discussion. In addition to the selection of the best film and the best actor and actress, there are some awards that can be said to be unpopular in the film festival, such as the best photography award, the best recording award, the best art award and other technical awards. These awards may be unfamiliar to the audience, but they are full of weight for the film industry practitioners.

Shadan, a film critic, said: "The Golden Rooster Award, as the most well-known award in China, is a very important moment to bring out these behind-the-scenes heroes, because the art form of film is considered to be a more humanistic creation, but in fact, it has been developing a lot of technology since its birth, supporting the continuous presentation and perfection of this art, and there are many heroes behind it that you may not be so familiar with, but now we can enjoy such a perfect film form, and there are many efforts of these big coffees.

What is pleasing to the eye and immersive is really a matter for a reason and a matter for someone. In this list, there are about four to five films for each award, which are carefully selected from the cinema films of the past year. For example, the films nominated for the photography awards have taken the lead at the beginning, climbing up from the bottom of a building with a particularly eye-catching long lens, and the audience has also read the scenes of educating children in every household with the camera’s perspective. This scheduling needs to make the film show a huge amount of information in one shot, and this information needs a large number of actors and behind-the-scenes staff to cooperate with the camera, and finally popularize the theme of children in the film and let the audience see the film from one shot.

It can be said that the photographer is the eyes of the director or a movie, and in the new era, filming is increasingly testing the photographer’s imagination. For example, the visual effect of the film is completely built in the shed, and photography should realize the director’s design from scratch in this process, which is well reflected in Moon Man, from the formation of art design and stunt to the final collocation of photography. Shadan mentioned: "The visual shock of Moon Man’s fine arts is very strong, and the treatment of the color block is very eye-catching. The main part is divided into two parts: blue and yellow. You can imagine that these two colors represent the earth and the moon, and they are interspersed with each other. Through such a very eye-catching collocation, everyone can quickly feel that this is a story about the connection between the moon and the earth." That’s true, and blue usually reminds people of sci-fi themes, while yellow gives people a sense of comedy. The two color systems not only explain the theme to the audience, but also show their own types of sci-fi comedies.

In this nomination list for the best art, besides Moon Man and Mozart in Outer Space, there are also such low-cost works, which can be nominated and compete with several blockbusters, so it must have its own uniqueness in the art scene. The film is a script game in a closed space, and there are not so many scenes in it, so we should make a strong contrast between the villas in different time and space in the film. With the development of the whole incident, the once prosperous villas gradually declined, and the artists made some ingenious designs and placed many withered and black plants, which on the one hand separated time and space itself, and also showed that the theme of the film was moving towards suspense and darkness step by step. This kind of detail processing plays a great role in the audience’s inner hints.

Film is not only a visual expression, but also a sound expression. Sound design is very important in the film, and it is also a well-designed detail for the audience to be there and hear the film in the cinema. When filming, it’s not just to record the live sound directly, it’s just a part of the radio, and the actual production needs a lot of complicated processes and some artistic design. Many sounds are not recorded on the set, but simulated in various ways.

Shadan mentioned: "This film was shortlisted for the best recording award. Anita Mui is a person who is particularly good at singing, so songs are the most important element in this film. However, it can’t be said that Anita Mui’s voice is not used at all, and Wang Danni’s voice is completely similar to Anita Mui’s, which requires a lot of skills. Wang Danni performed the farewell performance in "Anita Mui", a heavy scene in the Red Survey Gymnasium. She mixed the original soundtrack of Anita Mui with the voice that was later sung again. Everyone sounded like the original soundtrack, but it was actually sung by the actors themselves, which was seamless. Let everyone feel that at this moment, Anita Mui’s spirit and voice reappeared again in Wang Danni’s interpretation. "

The finalists of this year’s Golden Rooster Award represent the responsibility and responsibility of filmmakers in the new era to strut, work hard and move forward bravely. In the next journey, every filmmaker needs to constantly create films that are closer to people’s lives according to the main theme of the times and express good stories in audio-visual language. Such an important award, represented by the Golden Rooster Award, is not only to commend the traditional awards such as the best film and the best director that everyone is most concerned about, but also to gather together at this time for a grand commendation for all kinds of jobs, because every link plays a very important role in whether the future film creation can develop better and meet the needs of the audience.