Above the clouds, there are ancient and modern history, and the rise and fall of the future. The director overlooks the earth from the perspective of God, slowly narrates the historical changes in the second person, and uses a strong logical system to frame the entire video text. With a strong sense of mission of humanistic care and environmental protection, the original creative goal has been achieved to a great extent.
Taking audience comments as a reference, Homeland evokes reflection on the relationship between people and the environment. A persuasive rational text that evokes an inner emotional call. Maybe it’s an apology, maybe it’s emotion, or maybe it’s a prospect for the future. The building of trust in video texts is a crucial part of information transmission and emotional expression.
1. Rational and clear reasoning logic, build causal relationship
From the initial introduction of the formation of the earth's ecology, to the interaction between man and nature, the layers are intertwined and advanced step by step, and finally a point of view that is recognized by the audience is drawn. From volcanoes, rivers, atmosphere, color formation, green space, trees, soil, animals to the emergence of human civilization, everything in the earth's ecology is closely related. Reproduce the development of ecological civilization with the evolution of the timeline. The text in the first half of the film focuses on the vastness of the world and the tiny part of humanity in the evolution of the planet. In the second half of the text, starting from the emergence of human beings, we begin to trace the development of human history. Domestication of animals, the invention of agriculture, the rise of cities, energy extraction, population migration, the development of aquaculture, and the emergence of modern industry. The complex industrial logic is accurately expressed with individual cases and figures, and it shapes the power of human beings in the history of ecological civilization in the world. When human civilization develops to a certain stage, over-exploitation of resources brings resource dilemma, hunger, unmet energy demand, global warming and a series of problems, one after another. The visual form reinforces the crisis form. The film does not use a tone of condemnation to persuade human beings, nor does it stand on the commanding heights of morality to accuse people of their actions. Instead, the film ends on people's actions. At the same time, it looks forward to the future with infinite hope, which strengthens the resonance with the audience, and also achieves The transmission of the concept of environmental protection. Although the strong logical advancement lacks the interestingness of the story, it is more in line with the grand theme construction of the human homeland.
2. The use of rhetorical devices to enhance emotional resonance
Overlooking the perspective, the large panoramic natural scenery, the rhythmic and ethereal music, and the rational text are interdependent, realizing the depth of the theme and the conveyance of emotion. Director Bertrand has spent 15 years, traveled through several countries, organized 488 hours of video material, and finally determined the 2 hours of video text that can be viewed with a suitable logical system. Cow in groups, elephants stretching their waists and shaking their trunks, the background sound of the picture is the addition of the footsteps of species extinction. The interesting combination of sound and picture relationship puts a heavy sense of crisis and mission in protecting the ecological environment. The audience's heart. The bird's-eye view from God's perspective breaks away from the original interaction between man and nature, and provides the audience with a potential space for self-reflection. A drop in the ocean of individual life, the power of one horizontal and one stroke, is enough to leave a light or heavy footprint in the history of the earth's ecological civilization. At the same time, the film also raises many practical issues, such as 20% of the poor live in countries with abundant resources, or that education is the privilege of a few, and children are the property of a family. The introduction of a series of viewpoints is enough to see the director's personal humanistic concern and self-reflection. Have an attitude and stand, make the life of the documentary more flexible.
Perhaps large-scale shooting of natural environments consumes resources, time and money, but the creation of images is for the purpose of obtaining recognition and the construction of opinions. A good documentary image can be recognized by the official and the audience, which naturally has its fundamental characteristics and reasons. Powerful reasoning logic and the use of rhetorical devices that complement each other are two points that cannot be ignored.
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