Cover source: "Violet Evergarden" CM
Author: Lie Sauce
"Violet Evergarden" animation planning CM just appeared, and it immediately exploded into a firework on various platforms. Everyone is amazed by the rotating scene changes, or fascinated by the brilliant use of light, shadow and color, or immersed in the character's jewel-like eyes, all lamenting the ingenuity of Kyoto Animation's CM.
At the end, the publicity of eight languages and the opening of Kyoto's official website to play this CM directly shows that Kyoto Animation attaches great importance to this only one of its own Bunko Awards.
As a CM, this is undoubtedly very successful. Exquisite paintings, penetrations of floating objects, and rotating scenes—the shooting techniques and special effects used this time have left a deep impression on people.
Perhaps in the feature film, it is difficult for the protagonist to move around the scene in a normal conversation, but I still believe that Kyoto Animation's future narrative method will not disappoint us.
The information conveyed by CM is only a bit of a star. If viewers who have not seen the original work, do they want to know more about the story after watching the CM and sighing at its beauty?
Let me take you into the world of the novel "Violet Evergarden" through my elaboration of CM. It involves serious spoilers, please skip it if you mind.
The "automatic secretary puppet" girl tapped the keyboard with her mechanical hands, and the rhythm of the keys on the screen matched the rhythm of the piano in the background music. As if the letters beaten by the girl were transformed into wonderful notes, composing a gripping melody and telling a touching story.
As the girl pressed the button, words like this appeared on the white paper:
"One day
One day
Daddy
One day, I will show..."
"One day, one
day ,
father
, one day, I will show you
(when In autumn, when the leaves are floating on the lake,
as long as you step on the floating leaves, hold an umbrella and face the wind, you can walk on the lake without falling.)”
This is the naive way of the nine-year-old daughter on the day she died. Looking at what his father Oscar said.
Oscar is a wealthy novelist. It turned out that he lived happily in a beautiful villa with his wife and daughter. However, suddenly, the death of his wife broke the peace.
The wife died of a blood disease, and to make matters worse, the daughter was found to suffer the same not long after.
When he found that seeking medical treatment was ineffective and only aggravated his daughter's pain, Oscar decided to take her daughter to spend the rest of the time quietly in the villa.
......
The daughter finally passed away, and the words before leaving became Oscar's eternal dream, and he began to spend every day willingly.
——Until the arrival of the "automatic clerk doll" - Violet
Paper rises, disintegrates and letters and complete envelopes fall.
The kind "automatic secretary puppet" finally agreed to Oscar's additional request to play the girl. The long golden hair was scattered like a waterfall, and Violet lifted the hem of her skirt, spinning and jumping with the wind in this charming autumn color.
Oscar was stunned for a moment—if his daughter was still alive, it should be like this.
This is the content of the first chapter of the novel. CM did not show us the most beautiful picture - the scene in the mouth of my daughter that day, we can feel it through the illustrations of the novel.
The blue of the lake and the color of the fallen leaves complement each other.
The moment Violet stepped on the floating leaves, she suddenly opened her umbrella.
An umbrella floating in the air, a dress that blows in the wind, a girl who is lightly touched by Ling Bo.
With the help of the autumn wind, it is as gorgeous as a flower.
The envelope floats and the letters fall to another employer's home.
It was the house where Ann and her favorite seriously ill mother lived, but the appearance of the "automatic secretary doll" took away the time between her mother and Ann. In a place that Ann can't get close to, mother and Violet begin a week-long letter-writing. It was a cruel order for Ann, a seven-year-old girl who always clings to her mother.
In the last few days of writing the letter, the mother's condition worsened, but the weak mother never stopped writing letters on her behalf.
The unbearable Ann finally broke out——
"...Violet, don't take my mother away from me..."
She buried her head in Violet's chest and said with tears.
"Don't take away my mom's time, Violet..."
A few months after Violet's ghostwriting assignment, her mother died.
When her mother passed away and Ann celebrated her eighth birthday, she received a stuffed bear doll and a letter signed by her deceased mother.
"Happy eighth birthday, Ann. Maybe you're going through a lot of grief, maybe there are too many things waiting for you to work on. But don't give in. Maybe you'll cry because you're lonely, but don't forget that. Mom, I will always love Ann the most."
Every birthday in the future, Ann will receive a letter signed by her mother.
The mother at that time insisted on writing the letters even when she was in bed, all for safety.
"My mother has been guarding me, guiding me, and correcting my behavior. It's the same now," said Ann, who grew up.
This is the story of the second chapter of the novel, which conveys a strong mother-daughter relationship to readers. In the European and American movie "Note I Love You", the plot of the husband entrusting the post office to send a letter to his wife every year after his death has the same effect as the story in this chapter.
Reading this chapter, I have a feeling of reading O'Henry's short stories in high school. The ending is unexpected but reasonable, and the harvest is full of emotion and warmth.
Another letter was folded, switching from the little girl's home to a scene with all kinds of colorful lanterns.
Maybe it was a festive holiday, but Violet on the screen stared at the emerald brooch with a dazzling glow in her hand with a sad expression.
By asking translators and people who have read the novel, the first volume that has been published does not mention the implied meaning of the emerald brooch, but the first three chapters have repeatedly mentioned that Violet "adorned with different colors than blue eyes" The color of the emerald brooch", according to my inference, it should be a foreshadowing of the relationship between the male and female protagonists.
At the end of the scene, Violet cherishes the gem in her mouth, and the envelope floats up to the battle scene with the letters.
Violet on the screen is wearing a bandage, which corresponds to the sixth chapter of the novel, which tells the story of the Major and the auto-killing doll.
This is the main thread of the novel - Violet's own story.
Then the letterhead took us into a battle raging deep in the jungle.
This time Violet's mission is to help the warrior Aidan Field convey what she wanted to say to her parents and childhood friend Maria before she died, corresponding to the third chapter of the novel.
Through delicate brushstrokes, the author vividly describes the inner struggles of the warriors.
The intermittent language of the soldier before his death shows us the laughter and tears of his life.
When Violet picked up Aidan Field's body again, she was more careful than before.
The white dress was stained with blood, but she didn't care.
"Master, I will send you home."
She said to the smiling young man who closed his eyes.
"I will definitely take you home." On the
expressionless face, only the rosy lips trembled slightly.
"So, you will never be lonely again."
The flames of war swept through the man's green pupils, and he switched the lens very naturally, giving a close-up of the man's face. His crystal-clear eyes were as bright and clear as Kyoto style.
Although only a little bit of the edge appears, we can still see the scars on the man's face due to the war. It is inferred that this man should be the protagonist Gilbert Bugambilia.
In the next change of location, through the alternation of light and shadow on the crossbar of the window, the camera zooms past the window to the side face of the girl who is slightly raised by the window.
"Blonde hair as bright as born in the moonlight, blue pupils shining with the brilliance of gems, and plump lips painted brightly and ruddy."
Violet on the picture perfectly greets us This description is shown in the novel.
In order to show Violet's deep-boned features and stunning beauty as a Westerner, the nose is no longer a point or a line in the previous animation, but a triangle is drawn and the shadow is enhanced. In addition to being bright, it also adds a three-dimensional sense, with a texture like glass beads.
The last letter crossed.
The camera switches to the overall situation, which allows us to understand that the girl at this time was in the room by the window, and the slightly raised face seemed to follow the direction of the letter paper in the first shot of CM.
The first shot shows us the secretary's girl partially, and the last shot shows us the secretary's girl as a whole.
Echoing the beginning and the end, the past few seconds of footage are like the replay of the memories in the girl's mind, all in one go.
The letterhead fell, the umbrella was frivolous.
"violet evergarden" appears in the center of the picture, indicating the title of the work.
The letter paper floating around is from blurred to clear, and the light and shadow also diverge from to gather, which is really breathtaking.
The novel takes puppets as clues, and the first five chapters are narrated in the form of unit dramas. The story is depressing and healing. First, we have a preliminary understanding of Violet's gentle beauty through the five stories of the automatic book doll and the novelist, the girl, the youth, the scholar and the prisoner, leaving a kind of Violet's appearance. It is the impression of the soul that came to save others. As Oscar said to Violet, "I don't think there is a god or something, but if it exists, it must be like you."
However, in the eyes of others, a god The like-minded Violet actually has her own sad story. The title of the sixth chapter is "The Major and the Auto-Murder Doll", which is different from "So-and-so and the Auto-Secretary Doll" in other chapters. It changes from "Secretary" to "Murder", which opens the main line of the novel and describes Violet as a Soldiers, and the poignant and moving past of Gilbert, an army soldier, in the war...
The novel has not been finished yet, and Violet's story is still going on. Let us look forward to the development of the story and the start of the animation!
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