Author(s)

Xinyue Huang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ The Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics, Kyoto, Japan

Corresponding Author

Xinyue Huang

ABSTRACT

This paper focuses on the study of the charm of camera language in film and animation, guiding the reader to feel the expression of camera language consciously in the future, and to concretize the abstract feeling of watching a film. A good film and television work, each of its images should have meaning, that is, the lens language. It is often ignored by the audience, but it does exist. In this paper, the author will analyze some clips from Akira Kurosawa's film Seven Samurai and a Chinese XIANXIA animation film, A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality, and analyze the camera language hidden under the visual images through the layout of the images, the movement of the camera and the performance of the characters. In Seven Samurai, the author mainly analyze the general scenes, while in A Record of a Mortal is Journey to Immortality, the author will focus on the fight scenes.

KEYWORDS

Storyboard; Film Language; Camera Language; Animation

CITE THIS PAPER

Xinyue Huang, Film and animation storyboard camera language exploration. Art and Performance Letters (2023) Vol. 4: 14-22. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/artpl.2023.040703.

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