Zhou getai

Zhou getai

Zhou Getai, the name of the character, is known as "the master of plot MV" in Taiwan's performing arts circle, and has great influence in Taiwan's directing circle. Representative works include the film may 1 (17 years old in mainland China), comprehension, courage, suffering, etc.

personal honor

The 19th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards Pop Awards ceremony was held in Taipei at 19:00 on July 5. Zhou Getai won the best prize for "worship"

Director of MV, Liang Jingru received the award.

Representative works

Representative works: May 1st (mainland "17 years old"), comprehension, courage, the first time, can't hear, I love you very much, fairy tale, agreement, a story, etc.

A brief analysis of style

Narrative director

Many years ago, there was a song, in its MV, the female singer listened to the scene, sang and cried, cried to the eye shadow became black tears, and also described a sad story. "Ah, what a painful understanding, you used to be all to me." How many people have been deeply moved by it. Many years have passed, that song has been rarely heard, and the female singer is no longer popular. However, the director of that MV shows more and more unique characteristics. He is the master of MV narration, Zhou Getai.

A popular song, in addition to the beautiful melody, the rich connotation of the lyrics is also the basis of the song can be widely spread. Unlike European and American rock songs, which express dissatisfaction with the society and the emptiness of the spiritual world, Chinese pop music mostly expresses the emotional content of the private world, because the lyrics also emphasize a kind of emotion and feeling. So a lot of songs do not have plot, even if there is also hidden in the lyrics of the desalination plot. Therefore, the general MV shooting director will avoid using specific stories to narrate, of course, this is also due to the consideration of capital cost. Director Zhou Getai has always been committed to using the story to show the content of the song, he emphasizes the plot, so as to show a different style.

In the above MV "understanding", Zhou Getai adds a complete story to a song with only five minutes, and extends the content of the song through the plot of the story. This "cinematic" approach to music TV has become a major feature of his directing style, and many of his later works have been branded with this brand.

MV tells a story: a woman loves his man deeply. When she finds another woman in their home, she chooses to leave. Years later, a woman and her children ran a pub by themselves. On an unexpected rainy day, the man became her guest. Time has changed everything, the woman handed him a raincoat, and finally watched him disappear in the pouring rain of the night. The most memorable Lyric in comprehension is "ah, what a painful comprehension, you used to be all to me", and the whole story just expresses the theme of comprehension.

MV is the most "cinematic"

It is said that the most "cinematic" MV directed by Zhou Getai is not only that he is good at telling stories, but also that he can find a lot of film traces from his shooting techniques.

The first is the use of fixed lens and balanced composition. Zhou Getai's lens rarely has the mobile photography which generally appears in the general MV, instead is the stable machine position and the balanced composition. In his works, the characters are always in the center of the picture. Single person

The characters in the lens are almost symmetrical, while in the double lens, the two protagonists occupy a corner of the picture, which makes the picture stable and balanced. For example, in understanding, the heroine is lying alone in a big bed, which occupies the center of the picture, while the heroine is in the middle of the bed. There is no superfluous thing that affects the audience's vision. It feels that the space of the whole room is concentrated on the heroine, which makes her more lonely. And the same picture, when the hero and heroine back at the two ends of the bed, a bed is so far away, it is obvious to express the strangeness of two people's hearts. There are few scenes of three or more people in Chinese MV, because most of the themes are personal love stories, and not many characters are needed. Zhou Getai also follows the principle of balance when dealing with multi person shots, and generally adopts triangle composition.

Close to life

In terms of shooting, Zhou Getai deliberately makes his characters close to life, so he will use panoramic and medium scenes more. Panorama determines the space in which the narrative takes place and the relationship between the characters, while medium view shows the actions of the characters. He seldom uses close ups that emphasize and highlight details, because that will make the characters lose their sense of reality. In terms of lighting, director Zhou Getai has always been very ingenious. He usually uses a very artistic main light to make the characters in an environment of emotional externalization, such as the blue light of water wave, which is often used in understanding, to create a very melancholy and uncertain sense of turbulence. A large number of auxiliary lights also appear in his works. We can see that different light sources appear in a space, which increases the contrast between the light and the shadow. In the works using film, the color has a better degree of restoration.

A major feature

The use of simultaneous sound is another major feature of Zhou Getai's works. His MV usually starts with the dialogue of the characters or the recorded ambient sound, and then the music is added, followed by the cut-off in the chorus, the dialogue or action of the characters is added, and then the music is added

Subtitles are added to the work. In this way, the original integrity of the song is broken, but the space outside the song is extended. The song seems to be an episode in the five minute "movie". His latest work "fairy tale" MV, a collection of these features. At the beginning, the hero Guangliang stands on the stage, we can clearly hear the sound of his walking and the applause under the stage, followed by the dialogue with the heroine, when the music starts and the story begins. When it comes to the part of the chorus, the music suddenly stops. With the disappearance of the music, the heroine faints on the stage, and then the music reaches a climax. The audience is not so much affected by the music as attracted by the sound and picture combination of the story and music.

In more than ten years of MV directing career, Zhou Getai's works have gradually changed from describing painful love stories in the early stage to telling some fresh Romantic Sketches. His techniques have become more sophisticated and his styles have become more diversified. What remains unchanged is that he is always a storyteller and a good storyteller.

Directing works

Yu Kewei: lovelorn things are small and can't let go

Liang Jingru: courage, be good for me, flyaway, can't hear, don't want to sleep, Ningxia, swallowtail butterfly, love you very much, warmth, pain of breathing, worship, one family, comparative love

Guangliang: the first time, have you changed, fairy tale, agreement, if you like

Pin Guan: just call me a child, doomed, miss you more than you think, love turns for the better in Hong Kong

MUJI: guess

Li Qi: love is too far, can't hide, considerate

Li Du: love one, hate one, enough

Lin Yilian: crying

Du Dewei: don't go

Mo Wenwei: love in Hiroshima

Mayday: and I know, the most important little things, taste right when you are young, can't hear

Zhang Xinzhe: aftertaste of love

Zhang Yu: hard to buy

Fan Weiqi: he is not wrong

Xin Xiaoqi: understanding, taste, loneliness, it's not only my fault to fall in love with him, why do women have trouble with women, and I will fall in love with others

Chen Xiaochun: must be happy

Jay Chou: you can hear "back to the past"

Huang Jiaqian: love is full

Cao Ge: superwoman, innocence, wake up song, grandfather, ally have to do is dream, closetoyou

Jolin Tsai: I know you are very sad

Liu Ruoying: I don't miss you

Liang Wenyin: the happiest thing, I'm not as brave as you think

Li Yuchun: rain

Liu Dehua: Home

Xiao Shushen: the shape of happiness, February 14

Ding Dang: can't guess, can't you, half, ordinary dependence

Dawn: a story

Wu Kequn: parasitism

Deng Ziqi: a.i.n.y (love you) and endless tenderness

Chen Sheng: sister, home in Arctic village, when will the moon be full, old love song, gun of love, gagadachi's night train

Li Jiawei: suffering

Yi Nengjing: heavy rain

Wu Qianlian: going home

Luo Dayou: Taipei red rose

Li Ronghao: Mom and Dad

The movie may 1 (mainland version of 17 years old) stars Ren Xianqi, Jia Jingwen, Cheng Yuxi, Shao Yuwei and Yang Youying

Related events

Cao Ge MV actress audition, famous director Zhou Getai actually slapped the female model on the spot! The process was filmed by the TV station, wantonly announced that it would be broadcast next week, and the event caused a storm all over the city!

TVB (TVB bar) S-G "decisive battle No.1" took the contestants to Cao Ge's MV audition on the 20th of last month, and they were "killed"! The reason is that director Zhou Getai is dissatisfied with the performance of rookie Zhang Weicheng. He angrily denounces the other party, but also gives a slap to the most popular female model he wanting. Because the process was too sudden, he wanting was completely speechless! What's ridiculous is that he wanting has been slapped, and the TV station has also wantonly predicted that it will be broadcast next week. Ratings are more important than dignity!

He wanting once won the title of global small city in 2006