"Paperman" is a two-dimensional animated short film, which uses sequential space-time linearity and a narrative structure with a distinct black and white style of Disney. Expressing love to her, it kept giving her origami planes, and finally they fell in love. Expressing that when we meet someone we love, as long as we pursue it bravely, the result must be beautiful.
The main tone of the film uses three colors of black, hundred and gray, but the girl's lip print is bright red, symbolizing that beautiful things are so worth pursuing, highlighting and emphasizing the theme of the film. In the men and women at the station, etc. When driving, combined with the picture, the music uses the parallel method of sound and picture, and the music content is the harp with the strings laid on the bottom to break down the chords, symbolizing the appearance of the girl and plucking the heartstrings of the boy, showing the beautiful atmosphere of the two meeting.
When the picture suddenly cuts to the man staring blankly at the desk, the picture uses a mobile phone with contrast montage to compare the man's heartbeat while waiting for the car with the dullness in the office, promoting the emotional narrative of the film. Combined with the picture, the sound uses the sound The cut-in and cut-out method switches the wind sound formed by the rapid passing of the car in the previous scene to the high-frequency telephone ring in the office, and uses the similarity of the frequency bands of the two to make the screen transition smoother and speed up the narrative rhythm of the film. Through the rapid switching of sound material content, the emotions of the two scenes are in sharp contrast.
When the boss sees the man distracted, the camera cuts to a close-up of the boss taking a lot of copywriting on the desktop, forcing the audience to focus. Combined with the picture, the sound uses a sound amplification method to amplify the contact between the copywriting and the desktop. , and superimposed a layer of reverberation in contrast to the dynamic sound, emphasizing the texture of the sound and intensifying the boss's anger. Later, the picture cuts to a close-up shot of the man folding the plane. Similarly, the sound uses a sound amplification method to make the folding The sound of the plane's motion effect is amplified, forming a contrast montage with the boss's copywriting, which highlights the depth of the man's heart and strengthens the man's determination to pursue the woman who makes his heart move.
When the man on the camera kept flying the paper plane to the building where the lady was located, the action screen was switched, the screen strengthened the man's determination, and used repeated montage and fragment montage to partially intercept the complete action of the flying paper plane, speeding up the film. The narrative rhythm. Combined with the picture, the ambient sound in the sound is weakened, and the dynamic sound of the paper plane hitting the wall is amplified, while the sound combined with the paper plane is gradually amplified, the tone of the music gradually rises, and the paper plane The dynamic sound of hitting the wall is superimposed with the music remake, and the music and sound effects are skillfully combined, which drives the narrative rhythm of the film. It shows that the paper airplane is the bond and bridge of the emotions between men and women, which is exactly the same as the emotion of the picture. Shows the firmness of men.
When the depressed man was rekindled by the paper airplane that was automatically blown up by the phoenix, the camera kept switching between the two pictures of the carriage where the man was and the carriage where the woman was, forming a parallel montage, connecting the two spaces at the same time in series , and finally they met to form a cross montage. The combination of parallel montage and cross montage accelerated the narrative rhythm of the film and rendered a tense atmosphere. Combined with the picture, the sound used the parallel method of sound and picture, using a very The cheerful music and the "whoosh" sound of the paper airplane connect the two time and space, and render the tense and exciting atmosphere in the picture. The theme melody of the music gradually rises, showing the praise of the beautiful love.
When all the paper planes scattered on the ground were all blown up, combined with the picture, the music used a Mickey Mouse-style soundtrack, and the ups and downs of the music were exactly in line with the direction in which the plane was blown by the phoenix, forming a complete sound and picture synchronization and promoting the narrative of the film.
In this short animated film, the sound combined with the picture greatly expands the time and space of the film, shows as much narrative content as possible, speeds up the narrative rhythm of the film, narrows the distance between the audience and the screen, and strengthens the drama in the film. Conflict, more effectively showing the unexpected encounter of beautiful love, shows that when we encounter beautiful things, we should be bold in pursuing them. After all, everyone has at least one chance, doesn't it?
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