Pulse Desert Natural Selection 2018.12.6 ——Comment on "Earth Pulse Desert" The yellow-brown desert shows a silky light mixed with golden threads under the irradiation of the poisonous sunlight. Countless creatures are in the deserts of every corner of the earth. thrive on. The desert episode of "Earth Pulse" uses unique lens language to show the environment, dramatic colors to clarify the theme, and supplementary explanatory words to slowly tell the audience the stories between various creatures and the desert. The film also subtly conveys the natural law of natural selection and survival of the fittest through artistic and storytelling on the basis of documentary. The lens is the master of expressing the language of the picture. In the documentary "Earth Pulse", the ingenious use of various lenses has dramatically amplified the story based on the documentary to the extreme. For example, when the lions hunt down giraffes, different scenes lay out the environment, process and details of the hunt in detail before the audience. Before the hunt begins, the lion and the giraffe each have a close-up shot of their faces edited together. The camera zooms in on the facial expressions of the two animals, creating an atmosphere of imminent storm for the audience. At the same time, the sharp killing intent implied in the bottomless eyes of the lion forms a strong contrast with the ignorant and sluggish expression of the giraffe, which visually magnifies the difference and contradiction between the two, indicating that you will die or I will die. The struggle for death is about to begin. When the tug-of-war really begins, the moving panoramic shot shows the intense pursuit; the top-down aerial shot of the drone shows the environment and the distance between the predator and the prey; the close-up depicts the lion's paw on the quicksand The stampede run... The switching of all the different scenes puts pressure on the pursuit process, and also increases the tension and curiosity of the audience. The use of the lens of this documentary has played an exemplary role in mobilizing the audience's emotions and promoting the development of the story. The colors in this film are also worth chewing and aftertaste, and the colors also play an important role in expressing the theme of the whole film. The background of the whole documentary is in the desert, so warm colors have become the overall tone of the whole film. However, the contrast between cool and warm colors is particularly striking. After a short torrential rain, the desert changed its gloomy appearance, bursting with green, and the overwhelming gray-yellow locusts swept the green desert into crisis once again. When the aerial camera is aimed at the green under the gray-yellow cover, the vitality of the vegetation instantly loses its color, and the sharp contrast between the two is even more intense after the locusts have eaten the plants. This chromatic shock is more about the torturing of the laws of nature. The swarm advantage of locusts allows them to feast on seasonal rains, but death begins to beckon them after a gluttonous feast. All creatures in nature are in such a cycle of ebb and flow, and even human beings cannot break this innate law. The contrast of colors in this film extends the film's discussion of natural laws and laws, which arouses the audience's resonance and thinking. If a good documentary is inseparable from the visual language to show information and narrate the story, then it is also inseparable from the supplementary commentary. The critical role of commentary is revealed when shrikes fetch water for their chicks. The footage shows the shrikes fetching water from thousands of miles away, but it cannot explain why the shrikes do not live near waterholes. The commentary slowly said after the falcon caught the shrike, "The falcon will always wait for the shrike near the waterhole to come to fetch water, so the shrike will not station its nest near the water source.", which relieved the audience's heart. Doubt, but also directly stated the hardships of living in the desert, and further explained that only the fittest can be invincible. The commentary of "Earth Pulse" is precise and concise, and it always appears at the right time, further expanding the story information and clarifying the story context. The seemingly desolate and dead desert hides the vigorous pulse of all kinds of creatures and a strong desire for survival. Just like the gorgeous red canyons that appear in the desert in the documentary, the best scenery never comes from a sunny place, and the most tenacious life never comes from comfortable soil. The harsher and more difficult the natural environment, the more unbridled life will grow towards the light. The law of natural selection is the eternal theme of nature, but the silent struggle of every creature can always collide with the rules written by nature to create brilliant fireworks and reflect brilliant light.
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