Whether you're a film-cutting novice, orAI Videocontent creatorIf you want to make your work more cinematic and make the audience "get into the movie in a second", you can't get around one keyword---.LensesGrouping. In this issue, we will use the most common language, take you to play around with the definition, classification, use, applicable scenes of lens grouping, and accompanied by dry-goods-level cases!AI prompt wordsA text mastering film and televisionsubscopeCore Techniques!
I. What is lens grouping?
Lens splicing, in fact, is a separate lens in accordance with a certain rhythm and logic "splicing" up, so that the audience is free to switch between different images, to achieve a coherent storytelling and silky smooth effect. Each lens is like a piece of Lego blocks, only reasonable splicing, in order to make the whole video story complete and fascinating.
Second, the classification of the lens group connection
Lens assembly is not simply put together, it has its own set of "play":
- Continuity Editing
- Parallel Editing
- Cross-cutting
- Montage Editing
- Match Cut
- Jump Cut
Third, the use of various types of lens grouping and applicable scenes
1、Successive grouping - so that the audience to understand "what is happening"
Purpose: Ensure that the story is complete, flows smoothly, and gives the audience a sense of immersion.
Applicable scenes: Drama, daily life record, microfilm.
Tips: Follow the "180-degree rule" to avoid spatial disorganization of the audience; preset scene changes in advance to prevent redundancy.
Case AI prompt word: in a quiet cafe, the protagonist quietly writing, waiter brings coffee, light rain outside the window, time passes slowly, warm and soft light inside, show warmth and concentration, cinematic feeling, shallow depth of field lens, sequential shooting every step of the action details
2、Parallel grouping - the "magic weapon" of multi-line narrative
Uses: To alternate the actions of different spaces or characters to create suspense, contrast.
Applicable scenes: Tense rescue scenes, family warmth and outside crisis in parallel.
Technique: Two threads of story echo each other, with changes in pace highlighting points of conflict.
Case AI cue word: on the one hand, the little girl is waiting for her parents to return in her room, on the other hand, her parents are struggling to rush home in the night of a thunderstorm, the two sets of images are cross-presented, alternating darkness and light, with strong emotional contrasts, a rainy night atmosphere, and a moving shot collage
3. Cross-grouping - creating a psychological "collision"
Purpose: To achieve "concentricity", where different events affect each other at the same time.
Applicable Scenes: Spy, suspense, chase scenes.
Tip: The length of the shots and the pace of the switches match the heightened tension of the plot.
Case AI cue word: a detective in the street to follow the clues, at the same time the criminal in the secret room to destroy the evidence, the two action cross-switching, the image of contrasting tones, tense atmosphere, hand-held photography, rapid editing
4, montage grouping - the magic of time fast-forwarding
Usage: A few tens of seconds for the audience to "finish" a day, years, high information density, the rhythm of the explosion.
Scenarios: Commercials, character growth, sports highlights.
Skills: Editing to the rhythm of the music, moving and static.
Case AI cue word: show a boy from waking up in the morning, brushing his teeth and washing his face, running to school, to write homework at night, go to sleep a day of life, high-speed editing, each slice of life with different shots and light and shadow performance, fast-paced, youthful feeling
5、Matching group connection--visual magician
Usage: Utilizing the similarity of screen elements or the continuation of actions to realize the instantaneous "seamless switching" of scenes, which is very creative and cool.
Applicable scenes: space jump, theme credits, cool ads.
Tip: Capture continuity of movement, color, or shape to avoid dissonance.
Case AI cue word: a girl running in the park, suddenly the camera cuts to her running on the beach, the action is exactly the same, the background instantly changes, the sun is bright, the air raised petals or sand particles, the dynamics of the echo, creative space switching
6, jump cuts grouping - break the time "continuity"
Uses: Omits redundancy, creates shock, intensifies emotions.
Applicable scenes: vlog, emotional expression, repetitive padding.
Tip: Purposefully make the image jump around to emphasize the theme.
Case AI cue word: the protagonist faces the mirror to repeatedly practice self-introduction, the camera quickly switches between different progressions of the same action, the background changes slightly, motion blur effects, highlighting the sense of anxiety and repetition, and a strong sense of rhythm
Fourth, the AI era lens grouping creation tips
1, choose the right lens, comply with the mood: AI generates video footage, try to choose a calm large distant scene or tense near scene based on the mood of the script.
2、Use the text to optimize repeatedly: try more different cue words to get a more ideal lens picture.
3, storytelling with grouping: first design the type of lens grouping, and then refine each lens image, and ultimately grouped into a film.
4, the scene jump to be reasonable: for example, "panorama → medium → close-up" is the classic progressive, can guide the audience to focus; but "close-up → panorama → close-up" of the jump is easy to let the audience confusion, unless intentionally create a sense of impact.
5, color tone unity is not abrupt: warm-tone lens connected to the cold-tone lens, the middle plus a transition lens (such as the sunset in the sky, from warm to cold gradient), AI can be generated directly with the "hue gradient transition" tips.
6, action articulation to find a "node": for example, people raise their hands to close the door, in the previous shot when the hand just touched the door cut away, the next shot from the hand to push open the door at the moment to start, the audience will automatically brainstorm the middle of the action.
7, if you want to multi-camera combination, in advance to write a "sub-scene outline" is clearer;
8, the use of consistent cueing style (color, mirror direction, style description) is easier to group together naturally;
9, with Runway / can Ling / that is, dream / Vidu, try to control the lens action coherence;
10, with AI to generate footage, directly in the prompt word to join the group requirements, can save a lot of adjustments later. For example, if you want to shoot a memory kill: "Generate three memory shots, according to 'childhood swing (panorama, soft light) → teenagers looking down at the book (medium view, yellow filter) → adults look up and smile (close-up, clear)' order of grouping, the end of each lens plus 0.2 seconds fuzzy spot transition ".
V. Conclusion: will be grouped together, film and television AI more colorful!
If you're also working on AI shorts, commercials, and feature films, shot grouping is definitely one of the advanced skills you must master.
Instead of piling up shots in a jigsaw style, we use grouping to make the images "speak".
The grouping of shots will not only make the AI-generated video say goodbye to the "PPT feeling", but also allow the audience to get into the story in a second. Learning and applying these techniques step by step will make your short videos and AI video creations stand out and ignite both visual and emotional sparks!
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