Director's Elaboration For The Short Film 'Undercover'

The short film "undercover" is a police action film based on "infiltration of intelligence department and intelligence theft" with the battle between the public security department and the criminal organization as the story line,supplemented by a strong sense of reality and two unexpected reversals,finally determined to apply a relatively objective,factualistic documentary aesthetic.The film tells the story of public security organs and criminal gangs each placing "undercover" inside each other and fight against each other both intellectually and physically.This design focuses on the genre elements and structural elements of the police genre film from the director's point of view to illustrate the script creation,character analysis,image style,fight choreography and other aspects of the design ideas and summarize the problems and challenges encountered.The theme of "undercover" is simple and straightforward,that is,the eternal theme as "punishing evil and promoting good,evil can never win good",showing the heroic wit of the public security organs.This film draws a lot of lessons from the "Jason Bourne" style techniques,using hand-held camera shooting style,intentionally create some shaking and vague presentation of the facial details of the characters.This shooting style aims to revive a subjective perspective similar to the "bystander perspective ",restoring the reality of the flash of objects in sight in high-speed motion.Based on the genre requirements of the police action film,the fighting style used by the police in the film should come from or close to the real world police fighting skills,after doing a certain research,so it is determined that the fighting techniques presented by the police characters in this film should come from the free fight and some seizing and wrestling skills,show real punches and kicks going beyond routine and dance.