Thoughts on Watching "The Man with the Camera"

Virgie 2022-11-07 09:35:23

This is a documentary without a plot. Throughout the film, I saw a lot of shots taken by the cameraman through different positions and travel methods. On the one hand, the way of shooting in the film seems to be an eye observing the surroundings. everything of. As long as it is the lens involved in the camera on the shoulder of the photographer, we feel that all this is the normal life of people, but once the lens is switched to the appearance of the photographer carrying the camera, we will feel the previous The scene is actually what the photographer wants to shoot and convey to us. Outside the lens, there may be another life state of people with different styles, but the photographer does not want to shoot this picture.

Combined with the film eye theory taught in the class, this film is indeed a systematic record of life facts and a systematic organization of documentary materials. In addition, although this is a documentary film from 1929, it has been nearly 90 years since we are now, but the film The framing angles of various shots, the depth of field movement, the type of editing, and the rhythm of shooting shots are just like a complete collection of film techniques. Let us combine many of the current films, and we can vaguely perceive the shadow marks of this film from them.

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  • Amelia 2022-06-23 20:32:59

    In a narrow sense, this is a film that is completely determined by images. Images are the biggest dominant and the deepest base. Through editing and post-production that transcend the times, as well as more severe montage techniques, these disordered and non-linear phenomena are displayed. Fragment. Here, the camera is no longer a dead thing, but a curious eye, groping, advancing, recalling, we see the world through our eyes, and the camera looks at us through the lens.

  • Lilliana 2022-06-23 21:25:39

    Although I have been reluctant to break the convention of not giving full marks to documentaries, it is undeniable that this 1929 documentary left the audience with a Soviet style painting with its perfect cut shots and double exposure. The most impressive are the female workers packing cigarette boxes, the camera animation, and the scenes of marriage and divorce. Politics and policies are inadvertently revealed in the works, but they change the "faithfulness" of the documentary, thus presenting an art that does not match the era.