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On the Artistic Techniques of My Father and Mother Documentary

"My Mom and Dad" takes the oral form of photographer Jiao Bo, carefully selected static photos of "My Mom and Dad" as clues, and combines dynamic documentary images to construct several touching life stories, which have become the life records of my mom and dad for more than 20 years, and created the characters of rural parents in China full of oriental charm for the audience. With poetic language and romantic style, it embodies a pure beauty. The carefully selected music in the film, which runs through and reveals the theme, or plays an important role in the unification of the artistic style of the whole film. The application of music in My Mom and Dad provides an excellent example for the soundtrack of TV documentaries.

The first is "theme music" that runs through and reveals the theme.

Documentary theme music is a kind of music form that highly summarizes the documentary content, and can bring the audience to a specific historical background, cultural atmosphere or a certain category. At the beginning of My Mom and Dad, when the silhouette of my mom and dad appeared, the director chose a piece of theme music. This theme music is selected according to the overall tone expressed in the documentary, which is affectionate, slightly sad and nostalgic. Theme music appeared three times repeatedly in the film, and each time it appeared, it was touching and tearful. Affectionate music laid the affectionate tone of this film.

The first "emotional tone". With the explanation that there is a small mountain village where my elderly parents live in the mountainous area in the middle of Shandong Province, adjacent to Yimeng Mountain, the picture is fixed on the village hidden by distant mountains in the early morning. At this time, the theme phrase of 12 seconds, which is composed of violin lead, three notes descending and repeated motives, rings. With the music, the silhouette of my father and my mother was melted on the screen, and the title of the film gradually appeared: my father and my mother. At this time, the audience can smell the emotional tone of this documentary from the affectionate music.

The second time, "mutual affection." For many years, Jiao Bo insisted on recording his parents' life for 70 years with his camera. In the old house, old photos such as "My mom scratched my dad's back" and "My dad cut my mom's nails" are like notes in music, weaving the love of dad and mom into an unforgettable hymn. Theme music has started again. Through changes and repetitions, music has developed from the initial theme phrase of 12 seconds to a 58-second segment composed of four phrases, leading the audience to think and recall in music and making waves in their hearts.

The third time "The Last Farewell". My father and mother live in the same hospital. When my mother was discharged from the hospital, she couldn't even look at my father for the last time. My mother walked past my father's ward with everyone's help. This is their last parting. At the moment they passed the ward, two phrases and 20 seconds of theme music sounded for the third time, hitting the fragile hearts of the audience. This scene suddenly makes people breathless. Music, like a meat cleaver, gently but cruelly crossed their hearts, but also deeply engraved in the hearts of the audience.

Theme music appears repeatedly in the whole film, which has two functions: one is to express the feelings of the characters in a specific plot. For example, in the plot points of "emotional tone", "caring for each other" and "final parting", music has been conveying to the audience the deep affection and tear-jerking spiritual significance that pictures and words can't express. Second, the plot emotion of a unified and coherent documentary. There is a famous saying in music creation, that is: "Repetition is power". Theme music appears many times, forming a continuity throughout the development, which not only deepens the theme, but also strings the pearls of various paragraphs together like a red line, which plays a role in making the emotional theme of the documentary coherent and unified.

Second, the "live music" that plays up the atmosphere and sets off the emotions.

In addition to the theme music, the film also inserted five musical scenes featuring violins. As music used in a certain scene, scene music can often play an important role in promoting the development of the plot and creating a dramatic climax.

1, "Work-related injury". Jiao Bo recalled that his 57-year-old father went out to work alone to earn tuition and was injured. He rushed to the coal mine site and found his father lying in a messy pile of tools in the low shed. I saw my father's hands wrapped in thick gauze with blood on them. In the rice jar, there is a bowl of five-cent cabbage. When Jiao Bo tearfully said that his father was reluctant to eat white steamed bread and exchanged it for someone else's black steamed bread, the emotional music sounded, and the affectionate and exciting melody showed Jiao Bo's guilt and gratitude to his father. The music is selected from an aria "My Dear Dad" in the Italian composer Puccini's one-act play "Johnny Schicchi". The melody is extremely beautiful, affectionate and moving, which appropriately expresses the author's feelings. Inserting a foreign music into a typical China TV documentary will not make people feel stiff, but will make people feel inexplicably moved.

2. "The flashlight shines on the road." Jiao Bo recalled: One night, he said goodbye to his mother and returned to the city. Jiao Bo walked in front, and my mother illuminated Jiao Bo with a flashlight in the back. Jiao Bo gradually walked away along the rugged path. When I turned around, my mother was still standing in the same place saying goodbye to her son. The faint flashlight light has not dispersed for a long time. Jiao Bo was deeply impressed by the trembling figure of his mother, and the faint torch light became a beacon in their hearts forever. The faint flashlight light continues, and the affectionate music vaguely enters but lasts for a long time. The violin plays beautiful and sad music with a slightly sad tone, expressing the mother's exhortation, care and nostalgia for the runaway children. It strengthened the emotional feelings that Jiao Bo conveyed to the audience as a son, and expressed Jiao Bo's love and reluctance to his mother.

3. "Tears streamed down my face." Everyone visited the "My Dad and My Mom-Jiao Bo Photo Exhibition" and watched the sincere photos taken by Jiao Bo for my parents. I can't help but recall the warmth of home, and my deep thoughts urge me to go home. A lady remembered her parents far away and couldn't help crying. At this time, the emotional music sounded for the third time, which seemed to be a very subtle catalyst to render the atmosphere of missing; Silent care flows gently with the music.

4. Lost in the Wilderness. My father died of a cerebral hemorrhage. On the day of the funeral, Jiao Bo sat alone in the open space not far from my father's grave, and tears slowly slipped down and penetrated into the hearts of the audience. Camera sound and emotional music sound form a kind of mutual care, and sound and picture form a kind of mutual care. Jiao Bo's yearning for my father will be vividly displayed on the screen.

5. always looking for it. In winter, my mother lives in the second sister's house in the city. When Jiao Bo left, my mother clung to his hand for a long time, unwilling to let go. She walked them from home to the stairs and waved goodbye to the window. Emotional music sounded for the fifth time. This is the longest segment of the film, lasting 75 seconds. It is the climax of the whole documentary, and the feelings of the characters have been the strongest sublimation.

Although there are many kinds of live music, the expert director unified the music style with two elements: 1, with the violin with strong singing as the main instrument; 2. The accompaniment is an orchestra. Create a unique artistic conception and atmosphere.

3. Revolutionary Folk Songs has profound implications and promotes the development of the plot.

The repeated singing of revolutionary folk songs is the characteristic of this film's music to promote the development of the plot.

At the beginning of the documentary, the sun shines into the valley. Accompanied by the actual voice, the rooster announced the dawn of the morning, and his father sang revolutionary folk songs affectionately in the form of voiceover: "Comrades, everyone should listen to the truth. We joined the Eighth Route Army to save the people. At home, we are all ordinary people. Don't forget this as a revolutionary soldier. " This is a revolutionary folk song that once spread widely in Luzhong Mountain area. The director arranged for my dad to sing at the beginning of the film, which not only showed the audience the regional characteristics of the Lushan area where the documentary took place, but also hinted that my dad's life was in a turbulent war era. Singing with true feelings seems to be a father's memory of the revolutionary era, and it also seems to be a father's teaching to his children. The simple voice echoed in the mountains over and over again, hitting the hearts of the audience.

The second time was in the fresh and quiet morning in the mountain village. There is still snow on the hillside, and bare branches and hay are set in Phnom Penh by Chaoyang. The blue sky echoed with the old man's song. An old man with gray temples climbed up the hillside with a heavy burden on his back, exhaled a long, thick breath, and sang revolutionary folk songs as he walked: "Fish can't live without water, and we can't win the battle without people. People love us like children, and we love people like parents. " This is a segmented song with the same tune as the revolutionary folk song sung by my father at the beginning of the documentary (a song composed of many lyrics with the same tune). It not only embodies the optimism and hard work of the farmers in the mountain village, but also adds regional color to the documentary.

The third time was in the village. An old man sang affectionately in front of Jiao Bo's camera: "Comrades, everyone should listen to the truth. We joined the Eighth Route Army to save the people ... "At this time, the audience is already familiar with the background and melody of revolutionary folk songs, and there is no need to sing the whole song. Music has become an indispensable drama element in the development of the plot. Music repetition has produced great dramatic power, promoted the development of the plot, and triggered the audience's thinking and play.

Fourth, stimulate Lenovo's "human voice echo"

Austrian psychoanalyst sigmund freud believes that when people's emotions accumulate to a certain extent, they need a way to vent their emotions. At the end of the film, Jiao Bo's feelings, gratitude and gratitude to his parents over the years, as well as emotional impulses that can't be expressed in words, face the mountains and cry out "Dad-Mom-". The director added vibrato to the shouts to form an echo effect. Affectionate echoes hit the rock walls, penetrated the hard rocks, and lingered repeatedly in the arms of the mountains, forming a shocking mountain symphony.

The music in My Mom and Dad runs through it in two different styles. One is "Revolutionary Folk Songs" sung by the original ecological singing method that appeared three times in the film. Express the original ecological life state with the original ecological voice. So as to show the true feelings to be expressed in the documentary; The other is "theme music" and "emotional music" that appear many times in the film. This part of emotional music is basically a complete musical work. According to different pictures and different emotions, when it is necessary to express and express feelings, it is only inserted into music to push emotions to a climax. The combination of Chinese and Western cultures, original vocal music and exquisite instrumental music jointly promote the emotional expression, theme deepening and narrative structure of the documentary, thus revealing the profound connotation of the film delicately and vividly, subliming the theme of the film and forming the artistic characteristics of the music of My Father and My Mother.