It's such a beautiful day(1)
重点分析电影空间和时间与精神疾病之间建立的关系(Serrano,2015)。
时空的展现是电影中非常有趣的部分。创作者通过对于屏幕中时空的解构来构建一个精神疾病患者所感受到的世界,从而跨越认知的鸿沟,在视听上达成与观众的通感。让动画遇到一种模糊的真人动作,尝试所有特殊的特效,用模糊的记忆和不清晰的时间流逝来分割故事——这些都是方便的工具(Robinson,2021)。创作者破坏了传统的动画电影的视听叙事以及真人电影的镜头语言,将观众拉入如新生儿童一般的语言学习环境——电影语言,通过重复画面,强调色彩和不断变换的特效来破坏“秩序”或者说正常世界的时空感知方式。
Focus on the relationship established between cinematic space and time and mental illness (Serrano, 2015).
The presentation of time and space is a very interesting part of the movie. Through the deconstruction of time and space on the screen, the creator constructs a world felt by patients with mental illness, thus crossing the cognitive gap and achieving a common sense with the audience in audio-visual. Having the animation encounter a vague live-action, experimenting with all the special effects, splitting the story with fuzzy memories and unclear time passage - these are all handy tools (Robinson, 2021). The creators destroy the audio-visual narration of traditional animated films and the lens language of live-action films, and pull the audience into a language learning environment like a newborn child - film language. By repeating pictures, emphasizing colors and constantly changing special effects, they destroy the "order" or the time-space perception of the normal world.
同时,动画的简洁与真人动作/真实世界的结合,展示出完全割裂的两个世界的碰撞。在合理化了主角精神疾病发病的因素的同时,突出了精神疾病患者对于世界的认知与正常人的不同。同时,由于主角并不是“真实存在”的人,而是一个用简笔画创造出的脸谱化的角色,留给了观众更多的思考缓冲空间,不会产生不必要的刻板印象。
秩序的重建也是需要重视的一点。由于观众认知水平的不统一,创作者往往需要用非主流的手法以及非线性的叙事来帮助观众得到与主角相同的体验。这一方式也在False Wife中有所体现。这是一部poppers 训练视频,观众通过视频体验poppers人群的吸食体验。整部影片运用了大量令人晕眩的视觉效果,模糊的色情片段和全程机械式的女声画外音来建构一个虚幻的亲密关系,营造真实的吸食体验(daviddalegallery,2023)。
重复画面,旁白以及夸张的色彩是建立新的语言系统的极其有效的手段。
在儿童对于电影的认知以及儿童电影建构中,Tseng强调有关于叙事的作用。
“叙事通常被用作促进对时间理解的跨课程工具。视听叙事中时间特征的共同模式对儿童的叙事理解至关重要。时间特征的核心系统是事件时间、序列、频率。基于语言学的框架将这些系统进行整合和构建,以进行实证测试。”
At the same time, the simplicity of the animation combined with the live action/real world shows the collision of two worlds that are completely separated. While rationalizing the factors of the protagonist's mental illness, it highlights the difference between the mental illness patients' cognition of the world and that of normal people. At the same time, since the main character is not a "real" person, but a stereotyped character created with stick figures, it gives the audience more space to think and not create unnecessary stereotypes.
The restoration of order is also a priority. Due to the disunity of the audience's cognitive level, the creator often needs to use non-mainstream techniques and non-linear narration to help the audience get the same experience as the protagonist. This approach is also reflected in False Wife. This is a poppers training video, through which the audience experiences the poppers' smoking experience. The film uses a large number of dizzying visual effects, vague pornographic clips and mechanical female voice-overs to construct an illusory intimate relationship and create a real smoking experience (daviddalegallery, 2023).
Repetition, narration, and exaggerated colors are extremely effective means of establishing new language systems.
In children's cognition of film and the construction of children's film, Tseng emphasizes the role of narrative.
"Narrative is often used as a cross-curricular tool to promote understanding of time. Common patterns of temporal features in audiovisual narratives are crucial to children's narrative understanding. The core systems of time characteristics are event time, sequence and frequency. A linguistic-based framework integrates and constructs these systems for empirical testing."
由图片可知(Halliday 和 Matthiessen,2004),图中的多重影响因素儿童对于叙事的认知建构。然而,作为被引入了新的语言系统的观众,也面临的与儿童同样的学习困境。在这种困境中,创作者需要通过运用这些要素来帮助观众重建合理的电影世界。
As can be seen from the picture (Halliday and Matthiessen, 2004), the cognitive construction of narrative by children with multiple influencing factors in the picture. However, as an audience introduced to a new language system, they also face the same learning dilemma as children. In this dilemma, the creator needs to help the audience rebuild the reasonable movie world by using these elements.
以下是我总结出的四种方法:
将主角和道具玩偶化(主角将全程穿着青蛙玩偶服)
屏幕中多视角的建构将多个空间集合到同一画面
动画与真实世界的结合
通过画面重复与强调色彩来帮助新的认知系统的建构
Here are my four tips:
Puppetize the main character and props (the main character will wear a frog costume throughout)
The construction of multiple perspectives on the screen brings together multiple Spaces into the same picture
Animation and the real world
Repetition and color emphasis are used to help construct a new cognitive system
Reference List:
1. Rodríguez Serrano, A. (2015). La dignidad y el sentido. Narrativa audiovisual y enfermedad mental en It´s such a beautiful day (Don Hertzfeldt, 2012). Doxa Comunicación. Revista Interdisciplinar De Estudios De Comunicación Y Ciencias Sociales, (21), 113–132. https://doi.org/10.31921/doxacom.n21a5
2. Robinson, C. (2021). Mad eyed misfits: Writings on indie animation (First ed.).Chapter 11. CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003265153
3.Tseng, C., Djonov, E., IT-fakulteten, Department of Applied Information Technology (GU), Göteborgs universitet, Gothenburg University, IT Faculty, & Institutionen för tillämpad informationsteknologi (GU). (2023). Children’s comprehension of time in audiovisual narratives: A multimodal discourse and empirical approach. Linguistics and Education, 73, 101144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2022.101144
Reference Film:
False wife
It's such a beautiful day
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