The first major contributor is a professional photography APP called FiLMiC Pro in the iPhone, which is priced at 64 soft sister coins. It can help the director to perform high-speed zoom and extremely accurate manual focus control, including exposure adjustment, ISO adjustment, and shutter speed adjustment. , color temperature adjustment can be fully manually controlled, but also provides four compression levels, video frame rate selection, audio monitoring and other additional professional tools. There are also standard, manual and mixed shooting modes for users of different levels, and there are as many as 7 resolutions and aspect ratios for producers to choose from. Of course, if you have a 6 or 6S, then you have more options. Lots of space to shoot. And because of the fame of "Orange", now when you open the official homepage of FiLMiC Pro, the first thing you see is the orange poster!
Secondly, the iPhone5S is equipped with a 1.33X anamorphic adaptor anamorphic lens produced by Moondog Labs, and this external lens worth nearly a thousand soft sister coins can expand the field of view of the iPhone by 33%, thus expanding the aspect ratio from 16:9 to suitable The 2.35:1 wide screen of the big screen, and the director himself has repeatedly stated in public that it is precisely because of this external lens that the picture of the movie has the texture of a real movie. The FiLMiC Pro mentioned above has also added a wide-screen format to the frame ratio of the shooting video in the latest update, and the functional practicability is also increasing day by day!
The last weapon is the Steadicam mobile phone stabilizer that sells for nearly 1,000 soft sister coins. If you don’t want the things you shoot yourself to be as shaky as a home DV, then a camera stabilizer is essential for you. It is precisely because such a stable stand ensures the stability of the iPhone that the director can ride freely around the actors to shoot, and in the film, such as many follow-up or fast-moving scenes, the picture can be made silky. Smooth, it can be said that a stabilizer greatly lowers the threshold of professionalism, and with the two equipment mentioned above, it can be perfectly matched to make the lens less likely to be stolen on the big screen. It is worth mentioning that several domestic technology companies are at the forefront of mobile phone gimbal stabilizer technology in the world. The electronic gimbal stabilizer developed by them is the best partner for film fans. Interested friends can try searching. Down.
However, the actual shooting situation is uncontrollable due to budget constraints. The only problem that has not been solved in the whole film is to control the light. In outdoor scenes, you will find that there are many overexposed pictures in the film, including some violent direct sunlight on the actor's face, indoor scenes. The scene is that the exposure of different shots cannot always be unified. In this case, the director can only remedy and cover it in the post-graduate color correction. The story of the film focuses on the transgender prostitutes in the dark neighborhoods of Los Angeles, and shows the vulnerable groups who suffer from social and family discrimination. For this not-so-glamorous subject matter, they did not choose low contrast, but increased the saturation of the picture. Combined with the strong sunlight in Los Angeles, it presents a dreamy candy color. The warmer color corresponds to the orange of the title, which can also cover up the problem of overexposure. aesthetics. On the other hand, although the APP can provide a solution for simultaneous recording, it is completely unqualified to transfer it to the output big screen later, so the radio aspect of "Orange" is still in accordance with the traditional radio mode, which is also the only real film in the filming process. A professional film level.
Returning to the level of film content to evaluate this film also has many bright spots. First of all, a large number of follow-up shooting on the streets made the photographer a character in the film, which made the audience have a third-party sense of substitution to enjoy the film. In addition, the film limited all plots to within 24 hours of Christmas Eve, so that the film had a documentary quality. as keen insight. However, the main line of the story revolves around the big battle of the junior three, with explosive dramatic plots one after another, making the film essentially an absurd comedy closer to the mainstream audience, supplemented by the atmosphere brought by Christmas, the film does not have Like other independent films, it is far from the acceptance of passers-by because of the too artistic treatment of the subject of marginalized people.
It is worth noting that most of the actors in the film, including the two heroines, are non-professional actors. They have undertaken all the plots of the film that are a little bit tricky. As far as the script goes, whether it is a runaway street or a big fight in a restaurant, it is a sense of drama. Full of words, but it is precisely because of this amateurishness that the performance of the two has credibility, so that this drama does not destroy the realistic sadness of the theme of the story. At the same time, they not only showed hysteria and hoarseness when they were tearing up, but also accurately grasped the coquetry, jealousy and moodiness that people have in the impression of native girls. The Latina taxi driver in another story line in the film is a professional actor. His character is a gay who has married. His anxiety between hiding his family and releasing his desires requires a certain amount of time. Performance accumulation can be well interpreted. Therefore, the combination of the two groups of actors complements each other, and the use of iPhone shooting can increase the sense of interaction and intimacy during the performance, and can effectively eliminate the jerky acting skills of the new actors.
LGBT-themed films always tend to step into a misunderstanding. They always subjectively isolate homosexual and transgender people, making the audience feel that they are special from the very beginning. But the narrative strategy of "Orange" is just the opposite. The director nailed the background of the story to Santa Monica, a neighborhood belonging to transgender sex workers. The map shows various images of transgender prostitutes and the living rules of the neighborhood, so the director is not emphasizing the lack of this group, but trying to convey to the audience that there is also a colorful group of transgender prostitutes, and don’t use colored eyes to exclude them. Although all the characters at the end of the film are all alone on the streets, which is a huge contrast to the atmosphere of Christmas, the compassion that is not accepted by society and rejected by the family is also a call for everyone to respect them and caring, I think that's the real charm of the film
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