Review of Kindergarten Documentary (Part I)
Kindergarten was originally a world full of innocence and simplicity. If the campus is the only pure land in the present society, then the kindergarten should be the pure land in the pure land. However, in the documentary "Kindergarten", we see that kindergarten and adult society are reconciled in many aspects, which has to arouse the deep thinking of every adult.
When someone asked why a child could grow so tall, the child skillfully replied: I grew so tall with the help of my parents, grandparents and teachers. ? This can't help but surprise me: how can a kindergarten child answer such a question? Perfect? . But think about it carefully, in fact, this is not necessarily the real idea of children, but the brand left by our adult secularism on them.
When the reporter asked about the police, a little boy told us that the traffic police would charge a lot of money and drive away. A child has such an understanding of public officials in our country. I can't imagine that these impressions will stay in their world and grow with them in the future, but maybe? I found a penny on the side of the road and gave it to the police uncle? It will be difficult to implement.
It is not difficult for us to see that children are brought up under the influence of adults? Thinker? Attitude, and the maturity of these children is far from the innocence we imagined. The documentary "Kindergarten" is not only profound in theme, but also worthy of our praise in expression and shooting skills.
The scenes filmed and performed by the director are not the common scenes such as class, June 1 ST and games that will flash in our minds when we mention kindergarten. What we see seems ordinary, but after careful tasting, it can make people have unexpected gains and abnormal content.
After watching the whole movie, you will find yourself in a completely lower world than usual. The film uses a head-up approach to see the world with children's height and vision. This not only eliminates the troubles of adults, but also makes us feel everything in the eyes of children more truly, which is very infectious.
Just looking at the kindergarten gives people a scattered feeling, and it seems difficult for us to comprehensively summarize its content in one sentence. But if you think about it carefully, the director is constantly extending the theme and enhancing the connotation through various seemingly scattered fragments. Then use montage to deeply express this child's world, which is actually a reflection of the adult world.
Reflections on Kindergarten Documentary (Ⅱ)
Accompanied by soothing music, a sentence appeared at the beginning of kindergarten: maybe it is our children, maybe it is ourselves. It laid the emotional tone for the whole documentary. In the following time, it tells the story of the growth process of this group of children from just entering the park and clamoring to go home, to getting used to kindergarten life gradually, and finally leaving kindergarten after graduation. Every child in the lens has such a vivid face and such clear eyes that have not been polluted by the world. Every movement is the most authentic response, and every sentence is expressing the purest heart. How can they not be shocking?
The documentary "Kindergarten" is really touching in content, and as an award-winning film, its shooting techniques also have many places worth learning.
The film has no commentary from beginning to end, and only a few pieces of music connect a large number of scattered pictures in series, which minimizes the interference and misleading of the photographer to the audience's feelings and allows the audience to understand the theme of the work according to their own ideas.
First of all, I was particularly impressed by the soundtrack in the documentary. A "jasmine" appeared in the whole film five times. The melody of this song is soft and changeable, which is used in different stages of children. With the picture, people feel endless helplessness and sadness. This arrangement not only increases the delicate and long lyrical meaning of the film, but also makes the theme of the film more perfect. In addition to the soundtrack, Kindergarten skillfully uses the actual sound. Through interviews and cross-cutting live shooting, we can see the great changes before and after the children. For example, at the beginning of the film, the child cries and makes noise on the first day of kindergarten. At this time, the mental arithmetic answers of the top students in the kindergarten mental arithmetic class were inserted, and then the voice changed back to a small class. One child cried loudly, and the other was dragged into the kindergarten and ran to the gate.
Of course, the most important support of every movie is the picture displayed in front of the audience. These pictures are carefully selected from many shots, and each shot plays an important role. Kindergarten mainly takes indoor shots, supplemented by some middle, near and close-up shots, which truly and vividly reproduces the living conditions and emotional changes of children. Relatively speaking, outdoor lenses are rarely used, and they are all virtual focal processing. For example, in the scene of children playing games and singing on the playground, the figure of children is very vague, and only the slogans and happy and casual laughter when they play games are heard. This hazy expression technique is the transmission of some subjective meaning of the director. When watching these shots, the audience will mobilize their own thinking to think about the director's intentions.
The documentary "Kindergarten" gives us a different experience with its unique means of expression. It fully mobilized the lens, pictures, music and other means, presented us with a profound film work, not only let us see a real kindergarten that is no different from the adult world, but also let us learn various technical means to make an excellent documentary.
Reflections on Kindergarten Documentary (Ⅲ)
I think every audience should feel the same way after watching this documentary, because everyone has had a childhood, which is the most memorable happy period in a person's life, naive and simple. The documentary "Kindergarten" perfectly shows the truth of childhood life in the form of documentary. This perfect exhibition is inseparable from the director's shooting techniques, the selected angles and the integration of some artistic techniques.
A documentary from a line of subtitles? Maybe it's our children, maybe we cut it ourselves, giving people a meaningful feeling. Then there is the picture of the teacher leading a group of children away from each other, and the picture is gradually blurred. What is presented to the audience next? Kindergarten? Three words, clearly pointed out, will tell the story of children in kindergarten.
The whole film records the triviality of children's life in kindergarten, and there is no main theme, such as classes, teachers, parents, campuses, festivals that can strengthen children's vitality and vitality, and so on. The film selects some specific time periods, specific occasions, specific children and specific expressions to show all unexpected and abnormal things in normal life to the audience. This expression is not blunt, but vivid and touching.
Through the subtitles, we know that the film has selected several specific time periods: the first day of small class (full-time nursery), the first meal, the first nap, the first class, the comparison of small classes, entering a large class, and graduation. There are various shooting techniques in each period, with panoramic view, middle view, close-up view and close-up alternating. For example, on the first day of kindergarten, write the whole scene as a panorama, and then switch to the close-up of a little boy sitting at the table sobbing and saying? Why don't you let me go back? Then, a close-up of a little girl in red with one arm lying on the table and crying with her neck upturned was selected, and then she jumped to the scene where the top student in the mental arithmetic class gave birth to a bear to answer the teacher's arithmetic problem. This is the first day of entering the park, and the children's different performances are vividly displayed through different scenes and different lenses. The same is true of shooting at other times, which seems illogical, but it is a portrayal of children's real life.
In addition to the cross use of different shots and scenes, the film also has a major feature that the exterior is blurred, and the audience's attention is all attracted to the classroom, bedroom and bathhouse, which seems dramatic but infinitely real. The lively playground outside, the people passing by outside the park, the scene of rain and the scene of snow in winter are all blurred. The fuzzy exterior reflects the children's liveliness, truthfulness and vitality, and shows the truth of park life.
The theme that runs through the whole film is jasmine, which is warm and touching, as if it were a hymn of life, lamenting innocent childhood. The melody of jasmine does not always give people the same feeling. At first, the music accompanied by children's frolicking was fresh, cheerful and pleasant. Looking at their life experiences in the park and watching them grow and mature, Jasmine makes people feel dignified and thought-provoking. Whenever you think of music, there are often close-ups and freeze-frames, which become lingering memories in the audience's mind?
The whole film Kindergarten is undoubtedly very successful in the selection of angles, the display of pictures and the comprehensive application of artistic techniques. Whether you have gone through childhood or adults with children, you will have great feelings after reading it. The theme of the film not only shows the child's nature and innocence, but also seems to extend far away?