Movie Reviews is a kind of scientific activity, a bridge between film art and audience, and an important means to realize the triple value of film (artistic, social, economic). Foreign film criticism mainly plays a role in box office value, while Chinese film criticism focuses on sociality, forming the most extensive mass film criticism wave unique to China and forming the unique landscape of Chinese literary criticism.
Film criticism itself is an art, which is conducive to improving people's aesthetic ability, thinking ability and writing ability. According to the requirements of writing, film criticism writing needs the ability of information processing, as well as the comprehensive application of narration, description, discussion and lyricism. Many started out as film critics and went on to professional cultural work. In order to meet the requirements of quality-oriented education, Shanghai Municipal College Entrance Examination in 1997 included a short essay question in the Chinese language, requiring students to write film reviews. The topic was "Recommend a film and TV drama", with 15 points. This measure caused a film craze in schools, which was reported by "Wenhui Film Times" in 1997 and "Xinmin Evening News" on February 11, 1998. Foreign liberal arts universities generally have film courses. Southeast University carried out campus cultural activities, requiring students to watch 100 excellent movies and videos. Beijing Normal University set up a cinema for college students and invited experts to give comments on the films shown.
If Movie Reviews is the focus of the director, then documentary film is the priority of film criticism. The overall scope is divided into three categories: documentary film, feature film, art film.
The first two can be grouped together. In foreign countries, the first two are collectively referred to as documentaries, because they have many similarities, real people and things happening in real time and real environment. In fact, there is no essential difference in China, and there are many reasons for separation.
In this way, it is not difficult for us to understand the biggest characteristic of documentary -- documentary. The nature of documentary should be the recovery of objective material reality. The creation of documentaries focuses on reflecting the narrative structure without human control, but insisting on the documentary nature does not mean that it cannot have other attributes, such as artistry, political discourse, literature, philosophy, etc. However, the documentary is supreme, and other attributes should be expressed through the documentary. Generally speaking, documentary is a kind of new film that reflects the character image environment, real events and real life. Because it is an objective reflection, there is little subjective color of the director. Authenticity is a prerequisite for reflecting any property.
There are not many fixed formats for documentary Movie Reviews, but there is a classic format: structure -- authenticity -- picture -- color, which makes it look organized and not messy. Note, however, that in documentary analysis, it is important to grasp the long shot. Long shots accompany the documentary from beginning to end. Close-ups are recorded through long shots, mid-shot and panoramic scenes are used to describe the characters' expressions and scenery, reflect the inner world of the characters, heighten the atmosphere, and thus explain the realistic significance.
The general formula of art film is similar to that of documentary (structure -- picture characteristics -- color), the only difference is that documentary reflects the authenticity, but art film does not have this attribute, and need beautiful language and gorgeous vocabulary, to reflect its artistry.
