The good start is over and it deserves a small celebration, but once the crew starts working, time is money.
Not long after the applause ended, Zhao Jian's commanding voice came out from the intercom, and the crew immediately took action to prepare for the next scene.
The original work of "Zhu Xian" begins with a fast pace. Xiao Lin Jingyu and Xiao Zhang Xiaofan start with a run, and when they arrive at a ruined temple, they meet Pu Zhi, and then the climax of the first act comes.
Novels are novels. If a TV series is shot like this, the audience will not be able to understand it. After all, the time, place, characters, and background are not explained clearly.
Even if there is a plot with great special effects, the audience will probably be more confused than shocked.
Under such circumstances, the plot will naturally need to be changed.
In the script, some life scenes of the villagers in Caomiao Village were added. From the villagers' mouths, the character traits of Xiao Zhang Xiaofan and Xiao Lin Jingyu were told, as well as the background of Caomiao Village, and a few words about the Qingyun Sect were briefly exchanged.
At least, let the audience know immediately that this is a world of cultivation.
The peaceful atmosphere of Caomiao Village is reflected through the scenes of villagers going about farming with smiles on their faces.
From the peace during the day to the destruction of Caomiao Village at night, there is a contrasting dramatic structure before and after. Perhaps this will give the audience more shock, surprise and expectations for the subsequent plot.
As the saying goes, there must be foreshadowing before the climax, so that the plot has its ups and downs and is interesting to watch. This is true.
There are many extras pretending to be villagers, at least dozens of people at a glance, and many of them are local villagers.
Let these villagers have no prospects of speaking, and just need to walk around in a completely natural state, which will fill the atmosphere of life and make them more realistic.
However, the villagers have never acted before and do not understand the camera range and movement range, so it will take some time to coordinate.
On-site assistant director Wu Qingyuan is responsible for scheduling, and producer and performance director Huang Lei is responsible for arranging moves and telling the story.
They are all experienced teachers. People are coming and going on the set, staff, extras, and villagers are all mixed together. The scene looks like a market, but in fact everything is in order.
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei should not interfere and let professionals do the professional things.
"Let's watch and learn more here. Don't run around and don't block the road. Let's go look elsewhere and call if you need anything." Chu Xuan said.
Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying each said "Hmm", and their eyes never left the set. The crew of "Zhu Xian" is much larger than the crew of "Crazy Stone". Although they have a learning attitude, they also feel very
novel.
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei came to where the director team was. Liu Xiaoli arrived at some unknown time and was sitting on a chair eating breakfast.
"Mother."
"Aunt."
The two of them greeted each other, and Liu Xiaoli nodded slightly.
The set was being prepared, and Zhao Jian had nothing to do for a while, looking through the director's script, which is also the storyboard.
Seeing Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei come and sit down, he raised his eyebrows and glanced at them, asking: "How do you feel?"
"A little excited." Chu Xuan said.
Zhao Jian looked at him and said, "You can see it, the smile on his face has never gone away."
"It's normal." Art director Qi said, "It's the first time for the big devil to be on a crew, and it's such a big crew. Brother Zhang has said before that he was very excited every day."
Hearing this, the teachers on the directing team smiled.
"Before, when I was an actor on a film crew, I only cared about filming. Now as a producer, I care about everything." Liu Yifei said.
Hearing what her daughter said, Liu Xiaoli smiled happily while eating her buns, and looked at her daughter who was looking over. The daughter winked her right eye mischievously, and Liu Xiaoli couldn't help laughing and felt happy because of her daughter's happiness.
"The position of the station is different, the horizons are broadened, and the layout becomes bigger." Zhao Jian said.
"The rank has become higher." Wen Muye summarized Zhao Jian's words.
The corners of everyone's mouths raised slightly.
"Director Zhao, you're ready to go." The leader of the camera crew came over and said.
"Go." Zhao Jian nodded.
"Where to go?" Chu Xuan asked, and Liu Yifei was also confused.
"The scene in Caomiao Village does not require so many camera crews. I sent two groups of people up the mountain to shoot the scene. Don't be idle," said Zhao Jian.
Chu Xuan raised his head and looked at the vast Laojun Mountain. In the early morning, there was a slight cloud and mist on the mountain peak, as if a fairy spirit was floating in it.
"Go up the mountain with them to exercise?" Zhao Jian asked, looking at Chu Xuan's somewhat moved expression.
"Leave?" Chu Xuan looked at Liu Yifei.
"Let's go." Liu Yifei nodded repeatedly. She had never been to Laojun Mountain Scenic Area, and she also yearned for the scenery on the mountain.
"Is mom going?" she asked again.
"Let's go." Liu Xiaoli stood up and threw the plastic bag into the trash can, put her backpack on her back, and prepared to go up the mountain with her two children.
When Chu Xuan walked past Wen Muye, he patted his shoulder and said, "Come up together, get the camera, and learn how to frame the scene."
Fumino was so happy that he quickly picked up the camera and followed. The opportunity to learn from a professional camera crew was a rare one.
"Teach us how to take pictures by the way." Chu Xuan said casually.
Wen Muye was startled and said: "Brother, I don't have much experience either."
"At least it's better than the two of us with no experience." Liu Yifei's eyes flashed with a smile.
Wen Muye scratched his head and said, "Don't scold me if I'm a bad teacher."
"How could that happen?" Liu Yifei shook her head.
The two camera crews, together with art teacher Qi, Chu Xuan, Liu Yifei, Liu Xiaoli and Wen Muye, and their team members, nearly twenty people got into four cars and headed for the entrance of the scenic spot.
It was already eight o'clock in the morning when we arrived at the entrance of the scenic spot. The sun was rising in the east. Although it was a bit cold, the sky was clear and the weather was sunny.
After showing the scenic spot ID and seeing that the crew who was cooperating with the scenic spot were coming, the conductor let them go, but his eyes kept staring at Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei.
"Can you sign your name?" The conductor girl was vaguely excited.
In this off-season for travel, she originally thought it would be boring.
Unexpectedly, a film crew descended from heaven to film.
She had never seen filming before, so she was looking forward to the arrival of the crew with high spirits.
Then she heard that it was the crew of "Zhu Xian", the crew of Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei, and she looked forward to it even more.
This pair of young couple and superstars are unique in the entertainment industry. People always pay greater attention to different things and people.
Chu Xuan's path to success has also inspired young people like her to admire and inspire her.
Thinking about meeting Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei, she has been looking forward to it every day these days.
What you have been waiting for, finally arrived.
Chu Xuan smiled slightly and stretched out a hand.
The conductor girl's eyes lit up and she immediately took out her notebook and pen and handed them out of the window.
Chu Xuan took it and took turns signing the book with Liu Yifei. Under the excited eyes of the conductor girl, they waved and gradually walked away.
The higher you climb the mountain, the cooler the temperature becomes.
The cold wind blew against her face, making Liu Yifei's complexion slightly rosy, but she didn't care.
I stayed in the capital with Chu Xuan, either at home or in the company because of production work. Now I finally went out and changed into a new environment, so I was naturally in a good mood.
"Come on, come on, Teacher Wen, let's start the lecture." Chu Xuan said beside Wen Muye. He was very interested in photography, which he had never been exposed to before.
A maximum of three people can walk abreast on the mountain path in the scenic area. Liu Yifei was walking on the innermost side of the mountain wall, protected by Chu Xuan. After hearing Chu Xuan's words, Liu Yifei was in high spirits and turned her head to look at Wen Muye.
Liu Xiaoli walked behind them with her bodyguard team. She walked with her arms folded and looked at the two children with eyes full of peace.
Wen Muye couldn't help laughing when he heard Chu Xuan call him Teacher Wen.
He also expected that the senior brother and sister wanted to learn photography and become directors.
Backed by big companies and big resources, not learning anything while you are young is always a waste of time.
Since he joined the cast of "Zhu Xian", he has studied with this pair of seniors for several months. He has seen their hard work and enthusiasm and admires them very much.
He is obviously already very good, and his ambition to make progress is no weaker than anyone else's. This ambition also drives his enthusiasm, and his mentality becomes more and more energetic.
Anyway, he has a feeling that after staying with his senior brothers and sisters for a long time, you will be embarrassed if you don't work hard.
Brother Shi's company will set up a subsidiary next year, which is also a film and television company. Some time ago, they invited him to join the director department. He was pleasantly surprised and at the same time very much looking forward to it.
"Brother, do you know nothing about cameras, or do you know a little bit?" He picked up the camera and turned it on.
"I know a little bit about shutter speed and frame rate, but I don't understand the specific situation." Chu Xuan said.
Liu Yifei held Chu Xuan's hand and leaned her head against his arm to listen.
Wen Muye lowered his head and looked at the camera that was turned on, and said: "Brother, come and see."
Chu Xuan nodded, Liu Yifei also approached, Wen Muye stopped, and Liu Xiaoli behind also stopped.
"Press the button next to the display screen and click on the parameters."
Wen Muye was operating, while Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei were watching carefully.
"There is a frame rate here, which is the frame rate you just mentioned, senior brother."
Chu Xuan nodded.
"The frame rate parameter can be selected. Currently, the setting value of my camera is 25fps, which means 25 frames per second. In other words, if you record for 1 second, you will take 25 photos."
"25 photos?" Liu Yifei raised her eyebrows, slightly confused.
Wen Muye raised the camera and pointed it forward, "Teacher Qi and the others are going ahead, right?"
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei nodded.
"I set it up as a scheduled camera, recording for 1 second." Wen Mino was operating.
After one second, the display screen freezes and is recorded for one second.
Fumino played the video, "Have you seen this 1 second of video? This 1 second of video is made up of 25 photos."
"Why?" Liu Yifei asked in confusion.
"Do you understand?" She tilted her head to look at Chu Xuan.
Chu Xuan and her looked at each other.
Liu Yifei couldn't help laughing when she saw that he didn't seem to understand it for a while.
Wen Muye raised his feet, "Senior brother and sister, the way I raise my feet is the first picture."
Wen Muye put down his feet, "The way I put my feet down is the second picture."
He said: "These two pictures are both static pictures, but when the two static pictures are switched at an extremely fast speed, with the naked eye, the two pictures of raising the foot and putting the foot down are one dynamic picture."
Chu Xuan thought for a moment, raised his eyebrows and said: "So, the 1-second video you just mentioned is actually 25 pictures switching quickly. The human eye cannot catch the switching speed, so the video looks dynamic, but in fact it is all
It’s made of static images.”
"Yes!" Fumino said.
Liu Yifei thought for a moment and suddenly said: "I understand!"
She stretched out a finger with excitement, pointed forward, and then pointed at the camera's display screen.
"In reality, people are moving, but the camera records static pictures, which are quickly switched from picture to picture. Therefore, the videos and videos we see, including film and television dramas, seem to be dynamic, but in fact they are actually dynamic.
The static photos are switching, but the switching speed is too fast, and the audience cannot feel it." She understood completely.
Wen Muye nodded, "Senior sister is right."
"Is it true?" Liu Xiaoli became interested, "The TV series on TV and the movies in the cinema are all made of static pictures?"
"Yes, Auntie." Wen Muye replied.
"Tsk, tsk, I've learned a lot." Liu Xiaoli shook her head and laughed. She didn't understand this, but she suddenly heard them talking about it. The movies and TV series she had seen before were all static pictures. She felt very strange for a moment.
Seeing her like this, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei looked at each other, feeling amused.
"25 frames per second means 25 pictures per second. Is that the same concept as the 25 shooting actions per second mentioned by the directors and teachers?" Chu Xuan asked.
"It's a concept." Wen Muye nodded.
"What is the principle of this? Why do we need to set the frame rate to 25?" Liu Yifei was full of curiosity, and new things made her interested.
"Whether it is photography or videography, it can only take pictures. To make the pictures move to form a video, the camera can only take N pictures in 1 second and automatically switch the pictures." Fumino said.
"As for why the frame rate should be set to 25, it is globally recognized as the most comfortable rate for human eyes to view images. If the frame rate exceeds 25, the image will become clearer and clearer, but the eyes will not be able to see it for a long time.
It will be uncomfortable, and if the frame rate is too low than 25, the imaging will be stuck and not smooth." Fumino explained.
"The last reason is that the TV encoding system used in our country is the PL system, which is scanned at 25 frames per second and finally displayed on the TV screen. Therefore, if a TV series wants to be played on TV, the captured images must have the same frequency. This is what filming means.
The core reason why TV series use 25 frame rate." Fumino finally said.
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei nodded, feeling enlightened.
Wen Muye's easy-to-understand explanations also greatly increased Liu Xiaoli's knowledge.
"The number of frames per second mentioned in the special effects is the same, right?" Liu Yifei asked.
"Yes." Fumino nodded, "The number of frames per second represents the number of pictures per second. In special effects, it also represents several changes in the special effects per second. Theoretically speaking, the special effects below 10 frames per second,
Special effects with less than 10 changes are very likely to become what netizens call 50-cent special effects. Because the special effects will be stuck during the application process, and then they will look like stickers, and they will appear in seconds."
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei nodded, feeling very interesting.
"So, the higher the frame rate, the smoother the special effects will be." Chu Xuan said.
"That's what I say, but special effects with too high a frame rate may not be practical." Fumino said.
Chu Xuan turned his head to look at him, waiting for him to continue.
"It depends on the imaging quality and post-processing quality of the film and television drama. If the quality of the special effects exceeds the picture quality of the film and television drama, then it is putting the cart before the horse, and the gain outweighs the loss. The special effects are just embellishments and serve the plot and scenes, at least that's what I think.
"Wen Mino Road.
Chu Xuan patted his shoulder and said: "Okay, I have the same idea as you in this regard. Thanks to Teacher Wen for explaining, the special effects team invited by the crew are coming over this afternoon, and your senior sister and I are going to go with them
Let’s talk, now I understand something, so I won’t be embarrassed later.”
"Where's the shutter?" He asked another knowledge point.
Wen Muye picked up the camera, and Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei came closer and looked down.
"Under normal circumstances, the frame rate is 25 and the shutter parameter is set to 50. The number 50 means that the shutter opens and closes 50 times in 1 second, 25 times open and 25 times closed."
"I understand!" Liu Yifei raised a hand like a primary school student and said: "Opening 25 times means taking 25 photos."
Wen Mino shook his head: "Wrong."
Concubine Liu Yi raised her eyebrows in confusion.
"Opening 25 times can only mean that 25 shots have been taken, but it may not necessarily produce an image. It depends on the frame rate." Fumino said.
"The frame rate is 25, the shutter speed is 50, and the shot is 25 times. This should mean that 25 photos have been taken, right?" Chu Xuan said.
"That's right." Wen Muye nodded, looked at them and said: "If the frame rate remains unchanged, increase the shutter speed. If the frame rate is 25 and the shutter is 100, then the camera will shoot 50 times in 1 second, but in the end
Only 25 pictures are taken."
"Then what will happen?" Liu Yifei asked curiously.
"If you take 50 shots but only have 25 pictures, there will be 25 blank pictures. The technical term is called blank frames. The blank frames also need to be run under the action of electronic components."
Fumino smiled, he raised one leg, "The image runs until I lift one leg, but if it continues to run, it is a blank frame, then the movement of my leg will be temporarily frozen until the image is imaged after a while.
, my leg will continue to the next action, which is also the slow motion in movies and TV series."
Liu Yifei was startled and said with bright eyes: "Wow! Is this how the slow motion was shot?"
There were waves in her heart, not only the joy of having a new understanding of new knowledge, but also the joy of getting new interpretations and new answers to things she often saw.
This feeling, as if she had discovered a new world, made her very excited.
"Does the fast movement mean that the shutter speed is lowered?" She blinked.
"No, the shutter cannot be lower than the frame rate, and the frame rate cannot be adjusted too low, otherwise it is not called fast motion, it is called lag." Wen Mino shook his head.
He picked up the camera and pointed the lens at Teacher Qi and his group in front of him.
"Look, there is a shooting mode called interval shooting. I set the shooting mode to shoot every 5 seconds." Fumino was operating.
"Wait and see." He was holding a camera to take pictures of the people in front of him, while Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei watched.
After fifteen seconds, Wen Muye turned off the camera and then played the video.
According to Fumino's settings, fifteen seconds equals only three shots.
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei watched the video. In just one second, Liu Yifei said in surprise: "Teleportation!"
In the image, Teacher Qi and others on the road ahead were walking normally one second, and then they lifted or stepped forward and appeared five meters away on the road. The next second, they took another step forward five meters away.
"This is called fast motion. Do you know the clip of the island country's "Sadako" crawling out of the well? Sadako crawled on the ground and moved forward many meters. It should have been filmed using time-lapse shooting mode." Fumikino Michichi
.
"It's so fun." Liu Yifei said playfully: "Give me a machine, I think I can be a cameraman!"
Seeing her in such high spirits, Chu Xuan, Wen Muye and Liu Xiaoli were slightly happy.
Teacher Qi and the others in front also turned their heads and took a look.
"It's difficult to control the camera during interval shooting. If you make a mistake, the scenery before and after will change too much, and the audience will be confused and even unable to react. It feels baffling, so ordinary cameramen rarely use this mode to shoot." Fumino said.
Chu Xuan nodded and said: "The crew of "Zhu Xian" depends on you. Before the filming is completed, teach me and your senior sister the basic operations of the camera."
"Yeah." Liu Yifei nodded repeatedly and looked at Wen Muye.
Fumino couldn't help laughing and said: "Brother and sister, a cameraman must not only master the various parameters of the camera and shooting techniques, but also master the lighting. Know how to light the camera to achieve a more perfect image. He is the cameraman and the director.
It’s a required course, but I don’t know much about lighting either.”
"Let's learn." Liu Yifei said coquettishly, "There are so many top lighting technicians in the crew. If you don't learn, it will be useless."
Chu Xuan raised his lips slightly and said: "The crew of "Zhu Xian" needs to understand the basic operations of camera and lighting. The next producer will join the team to learn advanced operations, and the next producer will join the team to work as a cameraman himself. Next
The next producer joins the team and becomes a director. This is my small goal."
"What about me?" Liu Yifei blinked.
Chu Xuan glanced at her and said, "It's our little goal."
"That's pretty much it." Liu Yifei raised her eyebrows.
Watching the two of them having fun, Liu Xiaoli and Wen Muye burst into laughter.
"That's it." Suddenly, Teacher Qi's voice came from ahead.
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei looked forward, chatting about the camera, but they didn't pay attention to the scenery among the mountains.
At first glance, it was unclear how high up the mountain they had reached. Beyond the edge of the cliff, a sea of clouds appeared among the peaks.
"So beautiful!" Liu Yifei's eyes were filled with ripples.
"Take pictures and take pictures!" She asked Chu Xuan.
"Kino, could you please take a photo for us?" she said to Fumino.
"Sister, it's a small matter." Wen Muye made an "OK" gesture.
Liu Yifei turned around and grabbed her mother's hand, "Mom, come quickly, let's take pictures with our backs to the sea of clouds."
Hearing what she said, Wen Muye changed directions with Chu Xuan, Liu Yifei and Liu Xiaoli.
Fumino picked up the camera and pointed the lens at the three people.
In the display screen, Liu Xiaoli stood in the middle, half a position behind Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei, with her hands on the shoulders of Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei, and smiles appeared on the faces of the three of them.
Behind them are mountains, a sea of clouds, and a blue sky.
The scenery is picturesque, the smiles are like spring, and the warmth is as usual.
Wen Mino pressed the shutter, and the beautiful picture was frozen.