| Nowadays as a new media form, the microfilm developed rapidly, watching microfilm becomes a way to relax for people in the leisure time, and making microfilm also becomes a trend. However filmmaking of the microfilm is different from the works of previous online film, microfilm has better professional standard of planning and operation. As a film director Wang Xiao shuai said: “the script, lines and scene of the microfilm is same as these of the big film, but the length of the microfilm is shorter, and we should treat the big film and the microfilm in the same attitude.†At present, many sophisticated microfilm are created in accordance with the filmmaking process.The length of the microfilm “The Sea Far Away†is 20 minutes, the type of this microfilm is a “healing film of journeyâ€, which theme is family and hope, and tells people a story about that an abandoned little girl and a desperate woman meet in a short journey, then they heal each other.Firstly, the paper expounds the theme and tone of the script, and then analyzes the characters in the microfilm. During the script writing, the author researched the narrative features of the “healing†and “healing film of journey†film, and then applied them to the script writing. Secondly, the author expounds the selection of actors and sites, the design of shooting script, and the arrangement of the time, in order to show the importance of the preparatory work. Finally, the author expounds the problems that encountered during the course of filming and post production, and the solution to these problems.The film "The Sea Far Away" was created in accordance with the traditional filmmaking process. After shooting this microfilm, the author gets deeper understanding of the whole process of filmmaking. The author hopes that she could shoot a good work to make the audience feel warmth and affected from the film. |