Wang Xiaowu learns about movies by watching films, and explains the audio-visual language of 10 classic Hollywood movies

Wang Xiaowu learns about movies by watching films, and explains the audio-visual language resources of 10 classic Hollywood movies in detail:

Do you feel overwhelmed when facing movies?

What should we watch when watching a movie? Is it the plot? Is it fate? No. Even if you can recite the movie story by heart, you are not studying movies, but studying literature.

Movies have two sides. The outside is the expression of narrative and emotion, and the inside is the method of realizing narrative and emotion. What the audience sees is the outside. What is more important for us to watch the film is to see the inside, to see the creator's means of realization through the surface. This is the true meaning of learning movies.

In this course, we will learn the most widely accepted and applied mainstream audio-visual language, and analyze 10 classic films step by step. We will explain in detail the composition and characteristics of the classic audio-visual language, as well as the meaning behind these audio-visual elements. In every shot of the classic films, we will learn the extraordinary creative techniques of film masters.

Course Catalog:

Video course 22 hours

1. How to learn movies by watching films

1. The basic properties of audiovisual language and the general procedure of film editing

2. The difference between a viewpoint lens and the viewpoint of a lens

3. What is the essence of shot size? How to understand shot size during film editing?

4. How to view the film space in the film

5. The movement of images – the movement of people

6. The movement of the image – the movement of the camera

7. Analyze the role of light, composition, and color in movies

2. Detailed explanation of the audio-visual language behind 10 classic Hollywood movies (15 lessons)

1. Decoding the mystery behind the camera, the clever use of audio-visual language in classic movies - Schindler's List (Part 1)

2. Decoding the mystery behind the camera, the clever use of audio-visual language in classic movies - Schindler's List (Part 2)

3. Learn to combine similar items and see the director's overall construction of the details - "Bridge of Spies"

4. Conquer “complex films” and grasp the essence of audio-visual communication in “dazzling” – Inception (Part 1)

5. Conquer the "complex film" and grasp the essence of audio-visual communication in the "dazzling" - "Inception" (Part 2)

6. Peel off the outer layer of the wonderful performance and learn to interpret the inner world of human beings - "Joker 2019" (Part 1)

7. Peel off the outer layer of the wonderful performance and learn to interpret the inner world of human beings - "Joker 2019" (Part 2)

8. Find out the logic behind the visual spectacle - "Fast and Furious"

9. How does the language of the camera create questions and give answers in suspense films? - "Identity" (Part 1)

10. How does the language of the camera create questions and give answers in a suspense film? - "Identity" (Part 2)

11. How to use the camera to make an unreal story seem real - The Bourne Supremacy

12. A comprehensive analysis of the audiovisual language in a "standard" film - "Seven Deadly Sins" (Part 1)

13. A comprehensive analysis of the audiovisual language in a "standard" film - "Seven Deadly Sins" (Part 2)

14. See how David Fincher plays with the film space - Panic Room

15. Analyze how the lens language subtly affects the audience's psychology - "The Skeleton Key"