Using City Night View For Creating Character

The city night view is a place full of contradictions and emotions.Including heavy traffic,neon lights,street lights and intensive buildings.There is an obvious contrast between element of prosperity and the loneliness of main character.Even main character stands in the road center,she still cannot build relationships with others.Everyone can only live in their lonely and powerless world.Macau is a prosperous city.There are neon lights and heavy traffic on the street which shows the lively city night.The busy people in the down represent the feeling of“prosperity but lonely”for the city.And creates a contradictory feeling of curious and ridiculous sight.Using Her as an example in this essay,analyze how to use city night view as a visual element to create characters of drama from space,light and crowd.The background is based on a living community such as a park,the seaside and the street,it’s helpful to build up a story.For example,the character walks through a busy street where full of neon lights after work.Under the lights,contradictions between a busy street and the distance of people where reveal more loneliness of character.The street view of Her creates narratives through the lights of old buildings.The main character Xiang Li walks through the old buildings,the large and empty space represents her depression.Lastly,analyses the difficulties and challenges which will meet through shooting.And the innovation of audio-visual language by using creative methods.