Mériebben was a magician who turned to film, became a theater manager, and began directing and acting. As a magician, he is reflected in the movies.
He greatly extends the length of the film so that the film is no longer a nap, but an experience. Breaking the previous Lumiere Brothers documentary style, the film has a story and an active plot.
Structure
All of Merieux's later writings were born out of an accidental discovery.
Once he was filming a carriage, and suddenly the camera was out of order, and after beating it, it returned to normal and continued recording. At this time, a hearse passed by. Later, when the film was played, the coincidence of the carriage-for-hearse gave Mérieux a great inspiration. He could not always fix long shots for shooting, and the editing was born. This also laid the foundation for the later montage theory.
The shot
is a framed composition, which is very similar to what people see in theaters.
Color matching
Mérieux was also one of the leaders in color film, and every frame in A Journey to the Moon was painted with a brush. As you can see, the entire color system is well-proportioned, a textbook example. Because of the huge workload, he also hired more than 20 people to color his films.
Mérieux also proposed many innovative ideas for
special effects, using fire, light, smoke, etc., which conformed to his original magician's nature of lens switching, such as double exposure
such as fade, slide, dissolve, etc. The
effect
is matte, and the film is directly processed, so that the content recorded at different times can appear on one frame.
In my opinion, Mérieux has made a great contribution to the advancement of the film from a gadget to an art. movie magician.
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