"Cut! Check the camera, okay, passed."

Sure enough, the Xiangjiang martial arts masters hired by Ronald pulled the tightrope steadily and well. As long as Tom Hanks focused on his performance, they would naturally match his pace and pull the weight of Mykelti Williamson.

Most of it has been removed. Otherwise, unless Schwarzenegger plays Forrest Gump, no one can hold a strong man like him and run away.

After the filming was completed, the people from the special effects team hurried to the scene and marked various places. These places were the various locations where the actors ran. They took a lot of photos and used them for positioning during post-processing computer processing.

"I want to feel like people are being blown away. This is the detonation point. The two soldiers were blown up and flew backwards. Their upper bodies flew up quickly, and their lower limbs had no time to move. Their whole bodies were pulled backwards.

fall……"

Ronald stood at a location and made demands on the Hong Kong martial arts masters. He asked them to pass the rope tied to the actor and suddenly pull it back to create the effect of being blown up. Various requirements were stated in detail.

"That's it? Don't you want to put an explosion point here?" The Xiangjiang martial arts masters looked at each other, a little confused by Director Ronald's request. The soldiers were blown away, but there was no explosion. How could the audience buy it?

"No, we'll shoot the explosion separately..." Ronald pointed to the other side of the golf course, where a team in charge of pyrotechnics was making preparations.

The two martial artists felt that their IQs were running out. It was like magic in Hollywood. Could the explosion and the stunt of people flying out be filmed separately?

"Does it matter?"

"The dinosaurs in Jurassic Park are all very different. It's probably because of some new technology."

The two stopped talking and began to tie a rope around the chests and backs of the two actors who were wearing army uniforms and lying in the trench holding automatic rifles.

"Action!"

The two actors were lying there shooting, and suddenly, the two of them were pulled away by the rope. The reaction of the whole person was very sudden, because they themselves did not know when they would be pulled away.

The level of Xiangjiang martial arts is very good. The method and position of their rope tying are very particular, so it will not look strange when they pull it off. The strength and speed of their pull also rely very much on experience. The force on the two ropes is just right.

The center of gravity of the actors was lost, so the two actors seemed to have been blown away by bombs.

"How are the preparations going here?"

"Everything is ready"

"Then let's get started, prepare to clear the place, countdown to thirty seconds..."

"Action!"

After shooting the explosion scene, Ronald went to the explosion special effects site on the other side. The staff here prepared a small explosion. The explosion point placed was not violent, but the effect was amazing.

After an explosion point was exploded, many red light bombs prepared inside exploded along the designed trajectory. After a bang, they were all captured by the camera.

"What do you think?" Ronald asked special effects supervisor Van Fleet, who was filming with a home video camera.

"No problem, as long as the height and circumference ratio of the splashing fire reaches the explosion scene of an aerial bomb during the Vietnam War. For the rest, we can use the special effects software Inferno to match this explosion special effect."

"Okay, let's do it again."

It was also Ronald's first time to shoot a movie with so many complex special effects, so he had to work closely with the special effects team during the shooting. The explosion spots on the scene, the flying postures of the people who were blown away, and the time sequence of the explosions

, it has to be photographed according to their design and perfectly.

Otherwise, it will cause a lot of trouble in post-production. Secondly, the cost will increase. The most important thing is to waste a lot of time and increase the uncertainty of the film's release.

The large-scale use of computer post-production special effects shooting is still a new thing in Hollywood. This explosion scene was shot for a whole day. Later, the special effects team will combine the actors' movements, the explosive explosion, and the final computer-generated explosion flames.

Then the sound of the explosion is also produced, and finally a synthetic explosion is generated on the screen that is almost invisible to the real explosion.

If we use traditional methods to shoot, such as Coppola throwing napalm bombs to explode the tropical jungle at the beginning of Apocalypse Now, not only will it take more time to prepare, but many details will not be able to be precisely controlled.

Moreover, explosions often have accidents. The direction of some explosions and the shape of the mushroom cloud after the explosion may not be in line with your ideas. Explosions produced in computer post-production can be expressed completely according to the artistry of the director's thinking.

For example, the week before, Ronald filmed little Forrest Gump and little Jenny praying in the cornfield. When they were hiding from little Jenny's father in the cornfield higher than themselves, the camera lens would zoom out and pan.

Climb up and take a panoramic view of the entire countryside.

When the camera rose, some staff members released birds to the left of the two young actors. A large flock of birds rose from the ground and flew to the left of the actors, filling the empty sky on that side.

This was originally a designed lens, and the direction of the bird's flight had to be arranged in advance to match the beauty of the entire lens. However, after three attempts, the bird did not fly in the predetermined direction.

Ronald also discovered that no matter how good a bird trainer is, it is impossible to make a large group of birds follow the flight direction set by him.

So he immediately decided to change this shot to special effects. After filming, little Forrest Gump and little Jenny prayed together, and Jenny wanted God to turn herself into a bird and fly away from this outrageous family.

The special effects team will superimpose a group of birds on the original film, and then let them fly away in groups according to their own design, along the direction where she is praying. Together with the pious posture of little Jenny, it feels like she has also flown away together.

This is something that was very difficult to achieve in Hollywood's real-life shooting method. With complicated camera scheduling, it would only happen by chance with God's blessing.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The most famous example in the movie is probably when Bogdanovich was filming "The Last Movie", the male protagonist and the supporting actor were having a conversation by the river.

After telling an intimate conversation, a cloud dispersed, the fog dispersed, and a ray of sunshine directly hit the actor's face, illuminating everything.

It is said that Japan's Akira Kurosawa often waited a whole day for a cloud to arrive at the desired location. This was also the main reason why Toei didn't want to invest in Akira Kurosawa in the later stages. Such filming would be too expensive.

However, if you want to take similar shots now, you don’t need to wait for the cloud to arrive.

"Are the tracers ready?"

"Okay, but I guess the muzzle velocity of the M16 rifle and M60 machine gun used in the Vietnam War will not show tracer traces on the film."

The head of the firearms team came over to explain to Ronald. The explosion had been shot for several days, and today it was finally time to shoot the most important scene of the Vietnam War scene, the scene where Forrest Gump and Babu's company were attacked.

Ronald's idea was to highly condense Forrest Gump's experience in the Vietnam War in his memory, leaving only two parts: a rain and a sunny day after the rain. When the clouds cleared and the sun shone,

It is directly converted from the state of marching to the state of engaging in battle.

This is also a common part of the memories of many Vietnam War veterans. Many times you can't see where the enemy is, and suddenly you are involved in a close-range firefight.

Ronald also wanted to scare the audience at this time, so that they, like Forrest Gump, were shocked by the cruelty and horror of the Vietnam War. In this way, the words Jenny's Forrest Gump said to him before going to Vietnam made him touch

When you encounter a danger that you cannot handle, you must remember that running quickly has a realistic basis.

Of course, with the help of Van Fleet's computer post-production special effects, in the second half of 1993, Ronald did not have to wait for the weather to be kind like Bogdanovich or Akira Kurosawa.

When it gets dark at the beginning and it rains heavily, you can solve the problem by lowering the brightness of the entire image and the saturation of the color in the later stage. When it stops raining, you can return to the normal image brightness under the sun to perfectly present Forrest Gump's memory.

The scene of the attack.

"Let's give it a try. If the tracer bullet can't be caught, then we'll still use post-production special effects, but we need to understand what kind of trajectory the tracer bullet will leave behind when it flies through the sky..."

Ronald shook his head. When shooting tracer bullets in movies, that is, the previous alliance, some directors tried it when they could rent troops to help with the shooting, but it was a long shot, unlike what Ronald shot, which was a long medium shot and a long shot.

Close shot.

Whether you can see the trajectory of the tracer bullet can only be tested by doing experiments.

"Let's take a shot! All departments are in place!"

Ronald yelled, this is a very complicated schedule.

"Squirt!"

Two large fire hoses started spraying at the scene, and soon it seemed like it was raining heavily on the golf course.

"Attention all departments... Action!"

The camera focused on the road in the deserted grassland. There were green palm leaves on both sides. Amidst the sound of water, a palm leaf on the right swayed. Forrest Gump and his platoon slowly walked out of it.

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Ronald turned his head and looked at the director of photography. Under his command, a group of awesome guys were working hard to push the camera.

Forrest Gump is in the foreground of the picture, and all the actors are spread out, with their guns pointed downwards and not pointed at each other to prevent misfire.

When they reached the middle of the dirt road, Ronald waved again. At the fire hose, two staff members were quickly turning on the hose.

The water sprayed out gradually decreased. Tom Hanks, like other actors, raised their heads and looked at the sky, as if wondering why the rainy season for half a year passed like this?

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..."

Suddenly, a burst of gunfire rang out, and tracer bullets began to be fired from a safe distance, but the sound of the gunfire was clearly identifiable at the scene.

"There's an ambush! Get down quickly and take cover!"

The actor playing Lieutenant Dan started shouting, and Tom Hanks stumbled and fell down, then rolled over and crawled under the roadbed, finding a shelter for himself on the high, flat road surface.

The camera was by his side, shooting this scene, and the scene was very satisfying.

Just as Forrest Gump crawled over, a stuntman suddenly raised his upper body as if he had been hit.

Puff, puff...

Several explosive points buried in danger on the dirt road also fired according to the predetermined time. Some soil was splashed up, as if the opponent's bullets hit the ground.

"Fuck, get the phone right now!"

During the on-site dispatch, Ronald arranged for Lieutenant Dan to direct the soldiers in the platoon by the dirt roadside where Forrest Gump finally hid.

However, except for this military family whose ancestors have sacrificed their lives for America, the other young men who were recruited were frightened and didn't know what to do. They had to raise their hands above their heads and stretch them out without aiming, just facing the opposite direction.

Shoot randomly until all the bullets in the gun are empty.

"Forrest Gump, Forrest Gump, are you okay?"

It was a very chaotic scene. Everyone was acting on instinct. Only Babu was thinking about his best friend A-Gump and called his name while shooting.

"Cut!"

Ronald stopped the filming. This sequence of shots was smooth and smooth, and the scene and camera arrangements were very skillful. It can be said that it is the condensation of Ronald's many years of experience as a director.

In fact, there is nothing fancy about this scene.
To be continued...