As a standard film about Greek mythology, the choice of storyline is naturally based on fighting and the mythical beasts in ancient Greek mythology, so the whole film should be a magnificent and shocking epic masterpiece. Legend has it that the director of this film gave up advanced digital cameras when choosing photography equipment, and instead used film cameras, because the graininess of film and the expressiveness of colors are what this magnificent film needs. In order to show the spectacular scenes of Greek mythology, this film uses the following film composition expression techniques.
First of all, the most frequent occurrences in Greek mythology are naturally all kinds of monsters. The movie props team painstakingly produced Kronos, the hell monster Chimera, Cyclops, and Taurus who are half-human and half-bull. , the combat value of the magic Makohai. In order to express the grand momentum of these monsters, the film uses a centripetal divergent composition without exception, so that the main body of the monster is located in the center, and the audience's eyes are strongly directed to the monster in the Greek mythology in the middle of the picture. It played a role of gathering, and at the same time produced a huge sense of oppression. It was the audience's first-hand experience of the horror of monsters.
At the same time, the geographical features of ancient Greece are also expressed through composition. The unobstructed loess land and the vastness of the sea level in ancient Greece are shown through horizontal composition. The way of shooting, Perseus is only a small point relative to the vast ocean, showing the grandeur of nature. In addition, in terms of expressing the grandeur of the war, the film moves quickly on the battlefield through the camera, and shuttles through the crowd from a first-person perspective, making the audience seem to be in the battlefield.
The tone of the whole film is also very elegant. When expressing Hades' mansion, the film uses cool tones to express the darkness and lifelessness of the underworld, while when expressing the hell created by Vulcan, there are large fiery red magma, and constant The warm colors of the erupting volcano add to the horror of hell in vain. When expressing the Greek people, a flat tone like yellow is used, which can highlight the contrast and make the visual stimulation given by the film more shocking.
The film has also used the classic composition method of the golden section many times. For example, when the father and son are talking at the end of the play, the director arranges the two people in the position of the golden section on the left side of the screen. The choice of such a position It also adds to the beauty of the film, giving people a sense of virtue.
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