Study on Film-Making & Lens Design Fundamentals for Hong Kong Movies under Ethnographic Research

Abstract

In the context of Hong Kong movies, discussion about the contemporary significance of directors and their works would not be separated from the deep description of "mainland people" in the film. The film uses collages and realistic narrative techniques of various ways of expression to unrealize reality, and shows a contemporary China that is both strange and realistic from the perspective of "mainland people". This paper introduces the concept of "deep description" in ethnography research, looks for details from different film texts of Hong Kong directors in different periods, analyzes the modern landscape and era fables displayed in the film, and attempts to summarize the philosophical significance behind the details of the narrative based on combing the narrative content of the film with the help of metaphor theory.