Film and television criticism is a kind of art criticism, which has both the characteristics of general art criticism and its uniqueness as a screen art criticism. Film and television criticism is based on film and television appreciation, and critics evaluate the quality of film and television works of art according to their own criticism standards and aesthetic standards. It is the intermediary between film appreciation and film creation, and therefore it is the fertile ground for cultivating the flower of film theory.
(A) to reproduce art for the audience
Film and television is an art that faces the audience and is copied in large quantities through modern media for the public to read and entertain. Entertainment and recreation are the first attributes of film and television art, and people pay more attention to the visibility, aesthetic feeling and understandability of film and television works. Therefore, the film and television art around us today is an audience-oriented reproduction art with "entertainment" as the main means.
(B) film appreciation: aesthetic re-creation
Appreciators "re-create" the artistic image in film and television works into the artistic image in their own minds through activities such as feeling, imagination, experience and understanding, and "re-evaluate" the real life reflected by art through "re-creation".
"Re-creation" is a kind of imagination activity and experience activity based on feelings. Appreciators "reevaluate" the real life reflected by art. Appreciators, as a member of a specific social class, have a certain understanding of social life, certain thoughts and feelings, good taste, life experience and artistic accomplishment before appreciating film and television art, which all play a certain role in the process of appreciating film and television art. Therefore, "re-creation" based on imagination and experience is restricted by the artistic image of film and television art works on the one hand, and on the other hand.
The "re-creation" of the film and television art appreciator has the characteristics of supplementing the image in the appreciator's mind and even changing the image. It is in this spiritual activity of "re-creation" that the appreciator can deeply feel and experience the artistic image, discover or explore the ideological content of the artistic image, feel the heartfelt joy and receive education in entertainment.
So, how to improve the level of movie appreciation?
(1), we must first have the corresponding knowledge structure.
(2) Secondly, cultivate an aesthetic vision that is compatible with film and television art. ..
(3) Audio-visual thinking training, improve the "reading" ability of audio-visual language, and cultivate film and television cultural literacy.
(C) the writing of film and television reviews
Film and television criticism, from the perspective of writing, belongs to a kind of literary criticism and naturally follows the writing requirements and norms of general literary criticism. In addition, it is necessary to proceed from its own particularity and pay attention to the following six aspects:
(1), understand the characteristics and laws of film and television art ... One of the basic characteristics of film and television art is realism. The more excellent films are recognized by everyone, the closer they are to real life, the more they dare to express contradictions, difficulties and setbacks, and finally resolve contradictions, overcome difficulties and overcome setbacks through tenacious struggle. Only a film that abandons pretence and kitsch and truly dares to express people's wishes, demands and aspirations can be called a good work.
(2) Try to be familiar with the content and shooting process of a movie. Film and television works are both screen art and image art, and writing reviews should be based on the direct feelings of reviewers on images. If you are not familiar with the content of the film, it is naturally impossible to write a retry, specific and distinctive comment. In short, if you want to write a good film and television review, being familiar with film and television plays is an indispensable and important aspect.
(3) Understand the background of the film. It is necessary to understand the era and environment in which the film creators live, as well as the era and environment reflected by the film. We should respect the artistic personality and style formed by film and television artists in the process of creation. Facts have proved that if we don't understand the background of film and television, film and television criticism may be superficial or even ignorant, and it will not get the due effect at all.
(4) Pay attention to the general trend of film and television works. For the works with good general trend, even if there are some faults or big mistakes in parts and details, we should still affirm and support them. On the contrary, we should not hesitate to deny the works with bad general tendency, even if there are some merits in some places.
(5) Pay attention to the artistic analysis of film and television. An important purpose of writing film and television reviews is to popularize film and television culture. Therefore, we can't just analyze their ideological content. We should also pay attention to measuring and introducing a film from artistic forms and techniques.
(6), the form should be flexible and diverse, and the writing should be concise and vivid. Film and television reviews do not have to be written in a long article of 1000 words, nor do they have to take the form of serious academic articles. It can be written in different forms, such as short comments, letters, essays, notes, reflections, dialogues, paintings, processions, discussion minutes, etc. Of course, it can also be written as a monograph with hundreds of thousands of words. No matter the length of film and television reviews, they should be well-founded, reasonable and reasonable, so that people can gain something from watching them.