A world of its own

Special effects movies like "Hope" are basically shot entirely in a studio without any natural light sources, so the lighting effect is undoubtedly the top priority.

The function of lighting is to simulate natural light and adjust it to the light effects required by the themes of film and television dramas. Finally, it is combined with the post-production pictures to present the fine optical art required by producers and directors.

Among them, how to use light effects to bring out the beauty of characters, including profile profile, facial texture, eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, silhouette, back, etc. This is a practical knowledge.

Each actor's beauty, body shape, and face size are different, which requires on-site debugging by the director, lighting engineer, and cameraman.

After several rounds of trial shooting by Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei, the flaws in the captured images were captured by the teachers. Under Kong Sheng’s dispatch, a group of lighting teachers adjusted the lighting at different angles, and a group of camera teachers also adjusted the shooting angle. Chu

Xuan Xuan and Liu Yifei cooperated.

Half an hour later, Kong Sheng checked the pictures of each camera. After seeing him nod to confirm, Wang Bowen composed the picture at a fixed point, combining the positions and angles of several groups of lights, the positions and angles of the cameras, and the positions of Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei.

The general strokes were drawn.

"Hope" is the first science fiction film in China. All the transcripts will be of great reference for encountering this kind of shooting situation again in the future. This is also a process of accumulating experience.

These records are extremely precious.

Under the current as perfect as possible combination of lighting and search, under the current as perfect as possible camera angle, the scene recorder made a decision, and another round of shooting began.

In front of the monitor, looking at the picture after lighting adjustment and debugging, Wen Mino and others looked at it with admiration.

Li Xue lay back slightly, leaning on the back of the chair, looking at the screen, and said: "The faces of Chu Xuan and Qian Qian are quite suitable for the big screen. They have contours, edges and corners. The images are quite good.

In line with Chinese aesthetics, one is handsome and masculine, and the other is beautiful and classical."

Listening to her comments and looking at Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei in the picture, everyone admired them and nodded in agreement with Li Xue's words.

Wen Muye played with the walkie-talkie and said: "Senior brother, if you don't tell me, his acting skills are always online. It's up to you, senior sister, to see if you have noticed. Senior sister has a rare advantage."

Li Xue, Li Lan and Liu Yi raised their brows, waiting for Wen Muye's next words.

Fumino glanced at them and said, "Once the senior sister makes a micro-expression that suits the character, combined with the beauty reflected in her face, it is difficult for other actors in the industry to present it."

Liu Yi nodded with a smile, folded his hands, and said: "With a slight expression, you will feel that her character is very beautiful. Compared with other actresses who have to use other means to show their beauty, this is indeed Sissi."

A big advantage.”

Li Xue slightly raised her forehead and said: "The same goes for Zhang Ziyi. There is no need for a big show, a small expression is enough."

"Indeed." Li Lan agreed.

Wen Mino threw the walkie-talkie and then caught it, put it to his mouth and said: "Click!"

He tilted his head to look at the teachers and said, "The texture is still a little bit different."

The teachers nodded, and Li Xue said: "This sense of faith requires them to stay for some time to make up for it. How about filming the follow-up CG shots first."

Fumino picked up the walkie-talkie and said, "Brother, the texture is still a bit lacking. How about you guys stop and have a feel for it, and we shoot the follow-up CG shots first?"

On the set, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei looked at each other. Chu Xuan said nothing and let Liu Yifei make up her mind.

The tacit understanding over the years allowed Liu Yifei to immediately understand what Chu Xuan meant. She hugged the protective mask on her elbows with both hands again and said, "I want to feel more."

Chu Xuan gestured "yeah" to Kong Sheng. Kong Sheng nodded and used the walkie-talkie to respond to Wen Muye, "Two more shots."

Liu Yifei put on her protective mask again in preparation for filming.

After several consecutive filmings, she found that she thought of making movies simply. Perhaps her supporting role experience in "New Police Story" misled her and made her understanding of the real film art superficial.

Another reason is that her and Chu Xuan's journey has been so smooth. During the filming process, she and Chu Xuan succeeded each other and everything seemed to become easier.

Now that she thought about it, it was because she and Chu Xuan had been filming emotional scenes for a long time. They were boyfriend and girlfriend. Isn't it easy to film emotional scenes?

As long as you imagine the character as Chu Xuan's girlfriend, then how to act is right.

Therefore, in the past, the mutual success between her and Chu Xuan was to provide each other with emotional help.

But now she and Chu Xuan no longer act as lovers, but as rivals, which makes her unable to feel Chu Xuan's emotions.

She knew that her performance level and understanding level were still far behind Chu Xuan's.

In other words, the way she and Chu Xuan achieved each other's success has advanced and risen to a higher level, causing her to be a little unresponsive.

Even though Chu Xuan was the male protagonist and gave her a sense of security and help with her performance, her understanding of her own character seemed to have been broken. She couldn't find the feeling she wanted.

The so-called sense of belief cannot bring her imagination space as a character.

She and Chu Xuan had read the script many times before, and basically understood the characters thoroughly from beginning to end, but understanding was understanding, but how to turn understanding into performance?

This is a conflict between theory and practice.

It's also the pull between how to imagine and how to express it.

This is also a question of how she and Chu Xuan can get along with each other on the road to further mutual success.

——You have to think about it carefully.

After "Golden Dust", she once again experienced the difficulty of filming.

But for her who dreams of becoming an actress, she enjoys the difficulties.

"Click!"

“The quality of the characters is still a bit lacking.”

I took the photo twice more and still got yelled at for the same reason.

Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei took off their protective masks and walked to the dressing room.

After changing back into their daily clothes, they came to the monitor to watch the replay.

In Liu Yifei's eyes, although there were subtle changes in her performance in the next few performances, and her emotions were a little stronger than Chu Xuan's and she was praised by the teachers, but overall she still did not step out of the box.

In the words of Teacher Li Xue, she did not step out of the “human” box.

In the words of teacher Kong Sheng’s professional comments, there is no personalization of the characters, and no highlights of the characters’ arcs, that is, there is no personalization of the characters belonging to the clones, and no highlights of the clones’ growth.

"This kind of personalization is not reflected in expressions, eyes, or movements, but a sense of character."

"Just like some actors look like presidents when they come out, and some actors look like bosses at first glance. What you have to do is that when you come out, people can see the difference between you and normal people, but you can't.

It’s too far out of the realm of human beings.”

"I don't know if you understand what I'm saying."

Listening to Teacher Kong Sheng's explanation, Liu Yifei nodded repeatedly.

"I understand." she said.

"This is the feeling that Chu Xuan performed." She looked at the screen and said.

"My acting was a bit bad, but I could have done better." Chu Xuan said, leaning on the back of the chair with one hand.

Wen Muye twisted the bottle cap of the mineral water and said: "Brother, we all think your performance is acceptable. If you insist on increasing the difficulty, then I have nothing to say and must support you."

Chu Xuan shook his head and said: "It could really be better. I have only acted in one movie in the past few years, and it has been two years. I want to find my sense of belief in this aspect again."

The teachers nodded. The quality of a movie is different from that of a TV series, and the corresponding requirements for the character's sense of belief are naturally different. When an actor who usually doesn't make movies suddenly starts making movies, it's easy to feel that something is wrong.

This is normal and takes time to get used to.

Liu Yifei straightened up, turned her head to look at Chu Xuan and said, "How to find it?"

Chu Xuan looked at her and said, "When your mother comes, I will take you to a place."

Chu Xuan's show-off made Liu Yifei pout, but the worry about the character's lack of belief disturbed her, making her sit down disapprovingly, flipping through the script on her own, and continuing to study and understand.

Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei's stoppage will not affect the filming process.

Fumino and the teachers began to prepare for the subsequent shooting of CG shots. Based on Wang Bowen's laser positioning and composition ideas, the cameraman moved the lens against the green cloth to see which part was the stars and sea, which part was the alien ecology, which part was

A fallen spacecraft requires imagination to move the mirror, which naturally takes a lot of time.

Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei were reading the script and communicating at the same time.

We had a meal at noon, and it was already three o'clock in the afternoon when Liu Xiaoli came back from her trip.

"Let's go first. Let's go and get a feel for it. You're busy." Chu Xuan closed the script and said.

"Goodbye, senior brother and senior sister." Wen Muye waved his hand, and the teachers also said hello.

Liu Yifei followed Chu Xuan and stood up, folding the script in Chu Xuan's hand with her own and putting it into her small backpack.

"Are you serious?" Liu Xiaoli was wearing a thin brown windbreaker, a black bag on her right shoulder, and her hands in her pockets.

"Yeah." Chu Xuan nodded.

"What are you serious about?" Liu Yifei was confused.

"Take you to see a patient." Liu Xiaoli felt funny but also speechless.

"Ah?" Liu Yifei blinked, a little confused.

Chu Xuan waved to the steward, who quickly ran over.

"Please lead the way," he said.

"Okay, Mr. Chu." The manager responded.

The group of people arrived at the entrance of the film and television base and got into the waiting nanny car.
To be continued...