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"Blue Umbrella Love" is an animated short film produced by Pixar. The film uses anthropomorphic techniques to tell the story of two umbrellas, one blue and one red, met in the rain on a rainy day. The blue umbrella fell in love with the red umbrella at first sight. A beautiful love story together.
The film uses a unique and straightforward artistic expression, giving this eternal and outdated love theme a unique connotation of animation in the new era. At the same time, there are many characters in the film and most of them are anthropomorphic products, each with their own personalities and characteristics, which plays an important role in promoting the story. The soothing and passionate music is also a highlight of the film. In addition, the protagonist's bright colors The contrast with the dark colors of the supporting characters is also one of the characteristics of this film, and it also inherits Disney's consistent cute style.
The subtle hints of color on emotion
The whole film revolves around an encounter in the rain. The melancholy sky, dim light, and black umbrella make the whole film in a dark tone, but combined with the graceful music, the picture is not depressing but adds to it. Pleasant lightness. The dark tone makes the blue umbrella and red, the protagonists of the film, stand out, and the bright colors can immediately attract people's attention under the foil of dark tones. Red symbolizes warmth, passion and passion, which well arouses the desire for love in Lan Umbrella's heart, which makes him desperate to start the pursuit of Red Umbrella and advances the development of the story. Blue symbolizes magic and dreams, and it also indicates that the pursuit of red umbrellas by blue umbrellas will not be smooth sailing, implying the unknown and unpredictable nature of chasing love. Ups and downs. The other anthropomorphic characters in the film are mostly yellow, because yellow is the brightest color, symbolizing the sun to inspire enthusiasm, suggesting that they will help blue through the crisis. In the end, the blue and the red umbrella finally met. The shadow of the red umbrella was reflected on the blue, revealing a faint purple color, which also symbolized the enthusiasm and romance of their love. A hint that this romantic tale will have a happy ending. Each character in the film, whether supporting or protagonist, has its own color, which hints at their character, portrays a distinct character image, and at the same time subtly hints at emotion.
Music's boost to the storyline
Music is the top priority throughout the film. There is no narration or dialogue between characters in the film, but it does not hinder the expressive effect of the film. In the film, the sound and picture are synchronized, and the picture and sound effects complement each other and are indispensable, and promote the development of the plot. From the sparse sound of raindrops to the rhythmic clapping, it brings a sense of relaxation and pleasure to the audience. After the appearance of the protagonist, the music also changed from the sound of raindrops to the humming of girls, which brought a fresh feeling to the audience, which not only seemed relaxed and comfortable, but also brought infinite reverie to the audience. When the blue and red umbrellas meet, the background music is warm and beautiful, symbolizing the two people's longing and expectation for a beautiful love, and at the same time rendering a beautiful atmosphere. But when they parted, the music changed sharply, became fast and tense, and the picture was no longer as harmonious as before, and the wind and rain also increased a lot, suggesting what happened next. When the blue and red umbrellas meet again, the music becomes a beautiful and warm music. When we separated again, the music became tense and heavy again. The music of the film mainly switched back and forth between the beautiful and warm and the tense and heavy, which had a good promotion effect on the storyline of the film. At the same time, the switching of the music also made the audience feel Swap back and forth between tension and relaxation, and relax a little after tension. Music is the main way for the film to advance the story, it controls the main rhythm of the film, and it has a distinct performance at the turning point of the story. At the same time, the music of the film also enables the audience to better enter the atmosphere of the film, and also makes the film rhythm. more compact.
Smart use of lenses
At the beginning of the film, a blue umbrella stands out from a group of gray umbrellas, showing the protagonist status. With the subjective lens of Lan Umbrella and his happy expression, it highlights his coziness and comfort at the moment. Afterwards, other anthropomorphic objects around him greeted him and his subjective shots reflected Lan Umbrella's curiosity and interest in the surrounding things, and also paved the way for them to help Lan Umbrella through difficulties later. The close-up of the traffic light changing from green to red shows that it was intentionally turned red to make them meet, and the exaggerated pause in the close-up of the shoe of the man holding the umbrella can also be seen that the red light is unexpected, implying that love can’t be wrong. A long shot to show the erratic eyes of the blue umbrella, but finally falls on the red umbrella, showing the strong attraction of the red umbrella to him. Later, the close-up of the blue umbrella showed the change in his heart, and love sprouted in his heart. Looking down on the road, the blue umbrella is silently approaching the red umbrella, which can better reflect the distance between the two umbrellas in the heart and space. However, on the top view, you can see that the road has many branches, which also implies the separation between the two. At the end of the date between Blue Umbrella and Red Umbrella, the smiling faces of the supporting actors also appeared, and repeated montage techniques were used to show the beautiful friendship between friends, which also enriched the portrayal of the supporting actors and promoted the story.
"Blue Umbrella Love" tells a subtle and fortunate love story in a fairy tale way. The whole film mostly uses close-up shots, which is conducive to telling the whole story at a faster rhythm. At the same time, it also uses music, colors, shots, etc. to make the whole story and characters more full and not monotonous. Shows the unpredictability of love.
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