The clip selected in the homework is the scene of the first collaboration between GUY and GIRL. Below is a brief analysis of the shots into groups.
Shots 1-3: Opening with a long-term view, reflecting the privacy of the musical instrument store with a sense of depth. Warm and dark tones and orderly arrangement make the audience visually feel that this is a warm and inclusive place. The coexistence of the violin music in the store and the human voice in the market highlights the heart of the film's protagonist. The feeling of eagerness to temporarily escape from reality and being purely wrapped in music emerges. It can be said that this scene infected the audience with excellent audio-visual language from the very beginning.
Shots 4-5: This group of shots can be said to be a transition. GUY and GIRL moved from the relatively narrow store aisle to the wider musical instrument display area, and their mood gradually became bright and relaxed with the conversation with the store owner. The camera is still calm, and the well-trained medium and long shots seem to have deliberately photographed the vacuum cleaner that GIRL dragged all the way, with a little naughty joy. GIRL set foot in front of the piano, and the view is more open, even including the drum set on the other side of the store. From the use of scenes in this group of shots, it can be seen that the director wants to emphasize not the relationship between characters, but the fusion between characters and scenes. This also makes a good note for the film's shallow and high-quality sentimentality: love is drifting away, but there are always many other things to keep in mind.
Shots 6-8: This is a set of shots that stand out in their own style. GIRL played a Mendelssohn piano piece, the camera slowly pushed to the side of GIRL's face, and then shot around from different angles, and the camera was always slightly shaken, and the classical piano performance also shot into modern rock. like breath. For this shooting method, I personally like it. For example, in the Hong Kong movie "Butterfly", all the clips related to memories are so charmingly shaken, and the noise is very large. It seems that a DV enthusiast is persistently using shabby The machine records everything in front of you, like a dream but very real. In "ONCE", such shaking makes people feel tremors, as if to sigh that there is such a huge poetry and potential hidden in the heart of this well-behaved girl. In shot 7, the camera pans to GUY's face, so all the tremors become GUY's alone. Just imagine, if it was a Hollywood-style movie, what a regular and gorgeous set of shots it would be; just as the smoky eye makeup and Martin boots in the British street style conveyed the message, disordered and intoxicated in the dark Dance is the movie we're going to make, even if on the surface everything looks bright and peaceful.
Shots 9-22: In "ONCE", nothing happened to GUY and GIRL from beginning to end. Some people may feel depressed and contrived. But if you carefully analyze this group of shots, you will find that this is their passion scene, but they disdain to use the bed and body to show it. In the music and singing, we try each other, explore, gradually get to know each other, and blend together until the peak. The tension of the music overwhelms everything, and all the camera can do in this segment is try to record it calmly and objectively.
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