Ying Liang's "Sculpting of Time - Visual Analysis of "Ivan's Childhood"" is wonderful! ! So I went through the film again and again according to his analysis, and combined some of my own insights to get the axe~
1. Dream
"Ivan's Childhood" expresses the transition between dream and reality through the change of light and shadow effects. There are three times of Ivan's dream in the film
The first dream is at the beginning of the film. The bright sunshine fills the picture, and the light source is mainly side light, side light and back light, creating soft light and shadow. Four of the shots: Ivan looked at the sun; Ivan ran to his mother; Mother watched Ivan and Ivan drink water, all of which were shot with backlighting, and the characters in the last shot were shrouded in soft backlighting, showing a dreamlike appearance Effect.
The other two dreamscapes also use classic modeling light, so that each subject of the picture is surrounded by backlighting. The mother fetching water from the well, the playmates and horses on the beach...
2. Reality
In the real paragraph, unlike the high-key lighting in the dream, it is generally low-key lighting. And the light ratio is large, the light quality is hard
The flashing signal flares, the beating candles and stoves, the alternating light and shadow on the faces of the characters, the beams of light slanting down from the top of the battle, the huge shadows displayed on the walls... a lot of top light and foot light, weirdness created by unstable light sources Light spots, creating a turbulent atmosphere unique to wartime, in contrast to Ivan's beautiful "dreamland"
In addition to the scenes of the birch forest where Hollin pursues the female military doctor, the windmill house when Ivan wakes up, the ruins covered with haze, the river surface at night, the shelter of Hartsev, etc., pursue a low-key effect. There are huge projections on the interior walls
3. Imagination
I feel that Hu Ge's imagination in the episode of "The Party at Southern Station" where he finished healing his wound was borrowed from this segment.
The clock in the foreground pressed Ivan in the background tightly at the bottom of the picture; then the light bulb was blown up, Ivan disappeared in the shadows, and Ivan disappeared from time to time; the large area light source disappeared, and the flashlight became the main light source , unstable light source, flickering camera lens, sudden appearance of people, multiple footlights, Ivan's silhouette - accompanied by various sounds, constitute an unrealistic scene
Fourth, several field scheduling
1. Inside the car
2. Begin
3. Double
4. Bend over three times to give way to the scene
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