? The film Spring of Cowboy, which was released in France in 2004, was originally named Les choristes, also known as Sing with Heart (Hong Kong), Choir Boy and Choir. Directed by christophe barratier and starring Gé rard Junio, the film was nominated for the 58th British Film Academy Award, the 62nd Golden Globe Award and the 77th Academy Award. The rational use of lens skills and ingenious sound form in this film make the overall style of the work very harmonious in vision and hearing, which plays an important role in promoting the overall arrangement and structure of its narrative structure, so the strong sense of contrast and rendering power become the highlight of the film rhythm. This paper will mainly analyze the charm of film rhythm from two aspects: lens switching and sound form.

? Keywords: "Spring of Cowboy Class"; Lens application; Sound form; Film rhythm

? The film "Spring in Cowboy Class" tells the story of a frustrated teacher, Clermont Matthew, who went to Tangdi Boarding School as an inspector in an embarrassing situation, and got along well with the principal, teachers and children there, and finally warmed the children's hearts with music and changed their life trajectory.

? The narrative structure of the past tense is adopted in the film. Opening the diary of Matthew brought by Pepineau through Pierre Morange, who has become a famous musician, will arouse memories and feelings about this past.

? In the film, a variety of lens application methods are used to construct the personality and quality of the characters in the situation, which also makes the narrative and plot evolution of the story no longer monotonous. Give people a sense of rhythm with soothing as the general tone, facilitate the expression and promotion of emotional level, and subtly bring the audience's emotions.

? In addition, the songs of Matthew Children's Choir are directly the main content of film music, which can not only keep the progress of the current plot, but also make it a symbolic emotional symbol of stage summary. Music plays a foil role in this film, and it has also become an important content and material in the film. Whether as a bridge or as a backbone, the application opportunity and presentation form of sound in this film are worth exploring and thinking about.

? First, rich lens application methods and vivid picture effects.

(A) the use of various lenses

? Spring in the Cowboy Class uses a variety of action scenes to adapt to the switching of narrators and the development and transition of the story.

? Translation and panning are often used in the whole work, mainly in the transition between the beginning and the middle of the film. For example, when Mo Langjie learned of his mother's bad news, he turned to attend the funeral. He turned from daytime activities to Matthew's diary and score at night, which conveyed the effect of lengthening time and space, making the plot transition naturally and flexibly, while retaining the original style and tone of narrative techniques.

? There is even a scene in the film in which President Hassan angered Meng Dan when interrogating Meng Dan for stealing money, and then Chabert caught Meng Dan. President Hassan anxiously said that he would call the police and ask Meng Dan to go to jail. Shabert used the only scene in the whole film to wink at Matthew, which strongly highlighted that Meng Dan's stealing of money had developed into an irretrievable bad state, leaving people with more helpless regrets and helplessness. This is in sharp contrast and irony with the slow motion of Meng Dan's stubborn smile when he was taken away by the police. This sudden visual and emotional appearance will stimulate the audience to explore and think deeply, and it is also a suitable opportunity to find and understand the will of the film.

? Subjective shots have also become a highlight of the film. The beautiful appearance of violette, Mo Langjie's mother, shows Matthew's inner love and appreciation for her through subjective lens, which is natural and vivid, full of sense of scene and reality. In the close-up, when violette smiles at the sunshine, every wrinkle in the corner of his eye is photographed with a soft temperament and charm. Moreover, because the lens is given for a long time, when the audience looks at violette affectionately and is unconsciously attracted by her beauty, it is easy to understand that what is shown in the lens is actually Matthew's "eyes", thus taking into account the aesthetic value in the film and subtly conveying the psychological substitution of the characters directly to the audience.

? The purpose of controlling and collecting all available information of a shot is to make the film have flexible development space in a stable and orderly process arrangement and be as full of details as possible in a fixed time period. This is what we should focus on in terms of lens movement in movie rhythm.

? In the main content of the film "Spring in Cowboy Class", it is stipulated that it must revolve around the part where Matthew directs the children to sing. Many push shots have successfully established the overall image of the choir, and interspersed the emotional communication and cultivation between Matthew and the children in the chorus, avoiding the boring performance content and strengthening the appeal and expressive force of the presentation effect, so that the subtle tacit understanding between teachers and students can be fully exerted through the push shots, and efforts can be made to amplify the feelings that they want to share with the audience. The countess's children's chorus is a typical joke scene.

? (2) Selection of scene, picture angle and tone.

? Director Josef Von Sternberg once said: "A film is a work of art: when the flow of visual pictures follows a perceptible rhythm (with specific pauses and rhythms), these continuous pictures are related to the whole in all aspects." The picture is a flowing part of the film, and analyzing and understanding the picture is an indispensable part of understanding the rhythm of the film.

? The first is the scene. The middle scene is a kind of scene with the strongest narrative function, which is suitable for expressing the relationship between the characters and the surrounding environment. The film mainly focuses on the dialogue between characters, explains the relationship between characters, and pays attention to the concept of two-way or multi-directional interaction such as communication, expression, listening and understanding, so the middle scene is the main scene used in the film. Close range is also a widely used scene of focal plane. With its advantages of paying attention to facial expressions and powerfully portraying characters, it can facilitate the emotional communication between the audience and the characters, and the resulting closeness also makes the detailed picture impressive.

? For example, the fragment of dormitory chorus in "Resistance Movement". Mo Langjie taught himself the solo part of the new music score, and proudly showed Matthew his manners and crooked movements, Matthew's surprised eyes at Mo Langjie's great progress, and a little helpless grin at Mo Langjie's complacency, all of which were due to the subtle and vivid feelings between teachers and students.

? Followed by the picture angle. In fact, the angle of the picture is closely related to the shooting angle of the lens. In the film, the classic picture shows children flying paper planes with farewell notes in front of the classroom window to bid farewell to Matthew who was expelled by President Hassan. When Matthew was moved and decided to turn around and leave, the pictures taken from above actually conveyed the children's inner sadness and distress when they watched the lonely, humble but stubborn back of their beloved teacher leave. It can be seen that the appropriate picture angle can naturally guide the audience's thinking level and make the film pattern develop and extend.

? Finally, the color tone. The subjective application of color can effectively express and emphasize the content and narrative integrity of the play. According to the development of the plot and the change of the psychological character of the characters, designing different paragraph scene colors can promote the development and change of narrative, clarify the structure of the script and increase the sense of form of the picture. 1 The overall narrative tone of the film presents a warm and uplifting color, which gives people clear emotions and positive thoughts, both in the way the story is told and in the content itself.

? Many pictures in the film also contain ingenious integration and design of natural elements. The tree-lined road is one of the important scene settings. The broken shadows formed by sunlight through the gaps in the leaves create a mild lighting effect, which indirectly slows down the dialogue rhythm between characters and helps the audience catch the hint that the story is becoming clear. This kind of treatment not only belongs to the concise description of the film content, but also effectively stimulates the audience's perception of aesthetic art in the process of appreciation.

? Secondly, the diversified presentation types of sounds in movies and their corresponding meanings.

? The famous Japanese director Akira Kurosawa once expressed the attitude and position that sound should occupy in movies: "The real sound of movies is not only a simple and explanatory accompaniment sound, or a natural sound captured during synchronous recording. In other words, the sound of the movie does not simply increase the effect of the image, but doubles or even triples the effect. " The value of sound in the film is not symbolic, but it is more clearly confirmed in the film Spring of Cowboy Class.

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? The narrator's narrative runs through the whole film and has achieved successful results in creating Matthew's first-person perspective. In particular, the narrative content appears in the form of diary, giving the audience an immersive diary feeling. In addition, the narration is accurate and concise in supplementing the story and following the shot, which realizes the effective communication between the picture and the sound in the film and television. In the role of organizing the film content, narration enhances the visual shock of the transition of multiple pictures.

? For example, Matthew saw that children's chorus had made obvious progress and decided to continue writing new music scores. Children's songs as the soundtrack, Matthew's voice-over is "Mei, I have a new result". At the same time, close-ups of children's daily life and study also appeared one after another, and close-ups of Bernice Fass combing her hair and Pepineau cheating were filmed, which made the atmosphere of the film instantly cheerful. The vivid pictures of children rolling tires in the open space and flying paper planes in the corridor are particularly pure and colorful under the melodious singing and narration.

(2) Singing

? In this film, singing is undoubtedly the most touching sound element. Voice is an important means to express texture, time and temperature, and the voice of children's chorus has inspiring power because of its truthfulness, richness and surrounding. The superposition with other sound forms in the scene makes the feeling of being touched richer and more unique, thus greatly enhancing the credibility of the story content. Singing, like narration, has two functions of organizing plot and transition in film structure, and exists as plot means and transition element.

? Another aspect worthy of attention is the lyrics sung by the children in the film. There is such a lyric in the theme song: "The light of hope, the enthusiasm in life, the driveway of glory, the breeze on the sea, the breeze on the sea, and the heron flying lightly, flying from the snow-covered land. The fleeting breath of winter, your echo floats far away, the castle of Spain. Turn around and spread your wings in the whirling wind, find the way to the rainbow in the gray morning light, and kick off the spring. " The lyrics written by Matthew are full of children's yearning for freedom and beauty, and then the children sing their own voices, which are the voices of nature mixed with the friendship between teachers and students.

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