Audiovisual Language Analysis Of The Piano In A Factory

The Piano In A Factory is a movie edited and directed by Zhang Meng and starred by Wang Qianyuan and Qin Hailu. It is a comedy about a laid-off worker at an old industrial area in Northeastern China. Although it’s a low-cost movie, it has been awarded "Special Prize for Committee Recommendation" at the3rd Sydney Chinese Film Festival and "Best International Movie" in the28th Miami International Film Festival and many other important awards from home and abroad. Zhang Meng’s seemingly simple scene language has fully expressed the theme and emotion of this move, giving dedicated description of the status and psychology of working class in the nineties, a transformational age.Scene language is the basic form of storytelling of every movie. It is also the ma in factor that forms different styles of different movies. While many scholars analysis the realism in this movie, this article is more focused on the basic elements of the mo vie-a moving picture and synchronizing sound. It reveals the strategic significance of this movie in current China film making industry. This article can be divided into five parts:the first part is introduction, stating the research question and the meaning of th em; the second part is the application of narrative scene; the third part is the special m ontage scenes of this move, i.e. division and link of analytical scenes, division and tra nsformation of scene and passage; the forth part is on the light and color of the movie; the fifth part is the combination of music and scene, analyzing the dialogue, sound eff ect, music track and scenes; the sixth part is to find out the deep meaning behind the d ialogues of A Piano of the Factory, including the attachment and respect for Communi st system.This article concludes the way Zhang Meng used the unique combination of scene, mise-en-scene, scene link, outstanding application of light, shadow and color, clever dialogue and sound effect and music to create this humorous and meaningful realistic movie. It is not as boring as other realistic movies. The way Piano in the Factory express realism in a different way deserves other movie makers to learn. In today’s film industry, which is fully occupied with commercial movies, this low-cost successful movie has significant meaning to not only the creation and application of movie making, but also to the diversity of movies development in China.