The members of the special effects team are all relatively young, and most of them are no more than a few years older than Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei.
Those who work on special effects techniques are all men, while those who work on original paintings are more female than male.
When Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei returned to the crew, they each held a small notebook and jotted down something. They had already begun to integrate into the work rhythm of the "Zhu Xian" crew.
After sitting and watching Zhao Jian filming for several hours, and chatting with Zhao Jian about some ideas for screen presentation, Zeng Zhengzong and Zheng Min led the team to officially start the preliminary work of special effects, observing and observing the environment near the Caomiao Village scene.
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Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei also joined to learn more about special effects production, and also to learn new things. Not to mention that they learned how to do special effects themselves, but at least they had to understand the entire process and details.
Whether you are a producer or a future director, if you do not understand these, it will be unprofessional and the time cost in communication will also cause a waste of funds.
The Caomiao Village in "Zhu Xian" is a real scene. The special effects of the scene must be as fake as real, and the production process must be based on the real scene.
While walking and chatting along the way, through Zheng Min's explanation, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei also learned some information about the original painting profession and related work.
Original animator is a professional provider and designer of basic drawings for special effects work in film and television dramas. Original animator is just a general term for this profession, which is divided into several professions, each with different professional tendencies to respond to the different needs of customers and the market.
Just like Zheng Min is an original painter, but in their industry, the detailed profession is also called a concept designer, also known as an artist; the team members she brings are all her students, and there are also digital matte painters, respectively.
Mirror artist, visual effects designer.
Under Zheng Min's explanation, take the special effects of the first scene of "Zhu Xian" as an example.
The concept designer first draws a frame diagram, which is a large-scale scene diagram of the mountains and rivers near Caomiao Village;
The storyboard artist draws the special effects scenes under different shots based on the decomposition of the frame drawing to provide reference for the director and producer;
If the director and producer approve, the digital matte artist will use the decomposition drawings to remove the special effects and then detail the scene to optimize the texture. The final picture will become the scene picture after replacing the green cloth;
Taking the scene picture that replaced the green cloth as the first special effects picture, the visual effects designer began to design detailed special effects on the scene picture, such as rocks rolling down, grass on fire, and river waves rising, which needed to be drawn frame by frame.
For example, in the first frame of the picture, the rock begins to fall freely; in the second frame of the picture, the rock falls freely for 10 meters; in the third frame of the picture, the rock starts to fall freely for 20 meters...
When these pictures were processed and rendered by computers by special effects technicians in the later stage, and played back at a rate of multiple frames per second, they became shocking special effects scenes that the audience could not distinguish between real and fake.
"Understood." Liu Yifei closed the notebook and recorded the knowledge she had just learned. She put the notebook and pen back into her backpack. Perhaps it was too troublesome to put the backpack back on her back, so she carried it on one shoulder.
After a preliminary understanding, she had a clear concept of the production of original paintings for special effects. She was also able to figure out the scenes under the special effects shots in "Zhu Xian" step by step.
Her thoughts also spread, and it turned out that the tsunamis, earthquakes, ice and snow... in those foreign blockbusters were all painted.
"How amazing." She thought.
"Go back." Chu Xuan said beside Liu Yifei. The two of them stood on a hill, overlooking the lively scene of people coming and going in the village under the lights.
At this time, the afterglow of the sunset is about to dissipate, and it will soon fall into the night.
Under dusk, when you climb high and look far into the distance, the surrounding mountains and rivers also have a different kind of beauty.
After just a moment of communication, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei understood the preliminary process of special effects production. At least in the future, when the crew communicates about special effects, they will no longer appear to be such amateurs.
The road to becoming a qualified producer has taken another step forward.
It was already dark when we returned to the set, and the crew was ready to call it a day.
"Brother Chu, have you finished shooting the scene in Caomiao Village?" Huang Xuan asked, walking with Zhao Liying in the direction of the business car with Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei.
"The remaining scenes will be filmed in the studio of Shendiao Film and Television City in Zhejiang Province." Chu Xuan said, his mouth was a little spicy after just eating, so he took the mineral water from Yang Tianzhen and took a sip.
"Scenes involving special effects are usually shot in a studio." Liu Yifei added, walking beside Chu Xuan.
Hearing this, Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying understood.
They had heard from the Shancheng crew that one scene would be filmed together.
There are still many scenes in the Caomiao Village scene, including a very important fight scene. The crew is calling it a day just after nightfall. The village committee only allows filming for one day, which means that it cannot be filmed here tomorrow, but the scenes are
The filming hadn't been finished yet, so they felt strange about it.
After hearing Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei's explanations, they understood. The studio was just hanging green cloth for filming, right? The legendary performance without physical objects?
Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying were thinking about it and were full of expectations.
"Huang Xuan, go back and find yourself in good condition. You have a lot of scenes tomorrow. Wear a thicker inner coat because you have to go up the mountain." Zhao Jian said to Huang Xuan in front of a business car next to him and immediately stepped onto the road.
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Huang Xuan paused slightly. He knew that he would be filming tomorrow. After Zhao Jian's reminder, a sense of tension suddenly arose in his heart. He stretched out his hand to grab the car door, stepped forward, and Zhao Liying followed Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei.
, Liu Xiaoli, Yang Tianzhen get on the bus.
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When we got back to the hotel, it was already eight o'clock in the evening.
Liu Yifei put down her backpack, said hello to her mother, and headed to the suite opposite where Chu Xuan was.
Liu Xiaoli was leaning on the bed and reading a book. Her daughter's behavior of looking for Chu Xuan was no longer something she took seriously from the past.
The door to the suite was open, and as usual, Chu Xuan knew that Liu Yifei was coming.
When Liu Yifei saw the half-open door, the corners of her lips gradually turned upward.
After closing the door with his backhand, Huang Xuan looked over from the room on the right.
Liu Yifei waved to him and walked to the room on the left.
Huang Xuan looked at Liu Yifei's back and recalled what Yang Tianzhen said to him. Be prepared to eat dog food every day?
He smiled.
In the room on the left, Chu Xuan was sitting by the bed, flipping through the special effects information given to him by Zeng Zhengzong.
Liu Yifei walked into the room and closed the door.
"Today was so fulfilling. I learned a lot, including photography, special effects, and original painting." She sat down next to Chu Xuan, put her hands around Chu Xuan's neck, and leaned on Chu Xuan's left shoulder.
She lowered her eyebrows and followed Chu Xuan's gaze to read the information.
"It's not even basic, you have to learn." Chu Xuan put his left hand around Liu Yifei's shoulder, and turned the page of information on his lap with his right hand.
"Then just learn slowly." Liu Yifei said prettyly. She was always willing to spend more time and put in extra effort to learn what she was interested in, not to mention having Chu Xuan by her side.
Chu Xuan and her looked at each other, and due to a tacit understanding, they both reached out and kissed each other's lips at the same time.
Because of this tacit understanding, after their lips parted, their eyes were filled with affectionate smiles.
"Huang Xuan has a movie to shoot tomorrow, and I have to give him classes. You go and call Zhao Liying, and we can teach him together." Chu Xuan put down his arms around Liu Yifei. If he doesn't teach him something, Huang Xuan, who is acting for the first time tomorrow, will definitely appear in the movie.
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"Okay, Teacher Chu." Liu Yifei teased, stood up and walked out the door. She stretched out her hands to brush the hair around her ears, and smoothed it back, letting the waterfall of hair fall behind her back and no longer shawl her shoulders.
Zhao Liying was extremely happy to see Liu Yifei come to see her and hear her idol want to teach her. There were two things that excited her most about coming to "Zhu Xian". One was that she could become a star, and the other was that she could see her idol every day.
For those who are star-struck, this is a very happy thing.
After entering the room with Liu Yifei, Huang Xuan was already in place, sitting on the sofa chair in front of the window.
"Sit." Chu Xuan raised his chin slightly and looked at the other chair.
Zhao Liying crossed Huang Xuan and a coffee table and sat down on a chair. Like Huang Xuan, she held a notebook and a pen in each hand.
Liu Yifei took off her shoes, sat cross-legged on the bed, pulled up a quilt to cover her legs, rested her left elbow on the quilt, and supported her chin.
Chu Xuan was in front of her, sitting beside the bed.
Liu Yifei looked at his back playfully, waiting for Chu Xuan's teaching.
She is very aware of Chu Xuan's acting abilities. She thinks that Chu Xuan's greatest strength in acting is that he can not only act, but also teach others how to act.
Just like herself, under the guidance of Chu Xuan in the past two years, her performance improvement has been a qualitative change, which can be felt by her mother, Brother Zhang and many teachers.
Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying sat at attention, looking at Chu Xuan.
Although Chu Xuan is only 21 years old, Chu Xuan discovered them and was determined to bring them into the set, and also sent them to the mountain set to learn in advance.
In terms of acting, they now have unconditional trust in Chu Xuan.
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei are their nobles. The so-called nobles are rare to meet once in a lifetime. Be obedient and study hard. This is what Huang Bo told them.
Furthermore, Huang Bo also told them how great Chu Xuan is. In terms of acting, he is no worse than the best actor, and in terms of teaching, he is no worse than the teacher from Beijing Film Academy.
Hearing this evaluation, they were shocked, but believed it.
After all, Chu Xuan's series of achievements up to now are not something ordinary people can achieve.
"Tell me the lines first," Chu Xuan said.
Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying acted like they were listening, with the pens in their hands ready to record at any time.
"Lines are the basis of performance. Stress, pause, intonation, length, timbre, and volume control are the basic skills of lines. If the same line is expressed using different techniques, the meaning conveyed will be different."
"The quality of an actor's line skills will directly affect the appeal to the audience. If the actor's line skills are not good, the sense of shaping the character will be weakened, so the actor's line skills are very important."
Chu Xuan paused for a moment while Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying were taking notes.
Chu Xuan turned to look at Liu Yifei. Liu Yifei leaned down and took the bag in front of the pillow and handed it to him.
"I'll give you a book." Chu Xuan took out two books from the bag and gave one to each of Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying.
Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying reached out and took it - "My World View", [written by Einstein].
"A book sent by an idol." Zhao Liying said excitedly.
"Turn over the first page." Chu Xuan said.
Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying did as they were told.
"What's the first sentence?" Chu Xuan asked.
Huang Xuan raised his eyebrows to look at him, then lowered his eyebrows to read the book, and said: "We who are mortal are so strange."
Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying understood the reason why Chu Xuan sent the book, probably to let them practice their lines.
As for why this book was given, they couldn't figure it out.
But Liu Yifei knew that Chu Xuan gave them this book because he wanted them to feel the connotation and profound meaning of the book while practicing their lines.
This book "My World View" describes Einstein's ideological changes throughout his life. His three views are very correct.
Under her and Chu Xuan's interpretation, this book told them to keep the purest heart, live the purest life, do what they are most interested in, and achieve the purest success.
Therefore, Chu Xuan had a certain purpose in sending this book to Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying, but everyone's interpretation was different. Chu Xuan didn't say it, so she didn't interrupt. It just depends on whether Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying can do it in the future.
Find your own life value.
Chu Xuan crossed his arms and said: "Add accents to 'always', 'death', and 'strange', and read it again. Do you know what accents are? If you have studied in elementary school, the literal meaning should not be difficult to understand."
Hearing Chu Xuan's joke, Liu Yifei curled her lips behind his back.
Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying pursed their lips and smiled, and followed Chu Xuan's instructions and read the corresponding words with accents.
"Is the mood different?" Chu Xuan said.
Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying nodded. After adding the accent, they felt that this was the feeling of reciting.
"Pause, is this clear?" Chu Xuan looked at the two of them.
"It's equivalent to a comma interval. Stop when you need to say a sentence." Zhao Liying said.
"When speaking lines, there is a sudden pause, and the emotion expressed will instantly rise to a higher level, giving the audience a more nervous, exciting, or expectant feeling. But if the pause is random, it will destroy the context.
It will create a sense of fragmentation for the audience, and the character creation will be distorted," said Chu Xuan.
Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying listened and took notes.
"Intonation, the tone of speaking. For example, when I played Li Xiaoyao, before he grew up, his speaking tone was very naughty. After growing up, the tone of my lines changed. Just like Zhang Xiaofan, who spoke before becoming Ghost Li.
The tone of voice is definitely different from the tone of speaking after becoming a ghost.
"As an actor, if the character has an obvious growth line, the character created by the actor must allow the audience to see the changes before and after the character grows up. The tone of the lines is the basic element that makes the character change."
After hearing Chu Xuan's words and looking at Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying who were taking notes quickly, she couldn't help but recall the roles played by Chu Xuan.
Whether it's Li Xiaoyao or Yang Guo, Chu Xuan's interpretation changes according to the plot's growth line, especially Chu Xuan's Yang Guo's naughty in the early stage, to the transformation of the Condor Hero later, the changes in the tone of the lines, the interpretation
Regardless of the change in approach, Brother Zhang and others said that Chu Xuan gave the best performance.
"Not just for one role, you should also pay attention to the tone of your lines when you play other roles in the future. If the tone of your lines does not change for different roles, it will lead to the result that the audience will think that you are the same, no matter which role you play.
They are all a template." Chu Xuan said.
"Yes." Liu Yifei said behind him.
"The sound is long, just like the eunuch in the palace, saying: Xuan so-and-so came forward to have an audience. The last word "meeting" is very long, expressing a sense of majesty."
"Tone, the conversion between true and false sounds, based on the tone of speaking in a flat tone, through the breath, suppressing a certain word or raising a certain word."
"Volume, the loudness of speaking voice."
Chu Xuan glanced at the two people who were taking notes and said: "The common function of these line skills is to help actors shape their characters through lines and convey emotions that fit the characters and adapt to the current situation."
Zhao Liying paused for a moment while taking notes with her right hand, then raised her head and said, "Isn't there dubbing?"
Chu Xuan put down his arms and said calmly: "Professional dubbing teachers have better acting skills than most actors. These teachers need to lip-synchronize your dubbing. Your line skills are not up to standard, and your mouth shape is wrong. The dubbing teacher
If his acting skills are better than yours, then he can only lower his lines to dub you."
"In other words, the better the actor's line skills, the better the dubbing teacher can perform and create a more fulfilling character."
Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying nodded to express their understanding.
"Go back to the beginning and open the first page of "My World View"."
After hearing Chu Xuan's instructions, Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying opened their books and looked up at him again, waiting for him to continue.
"I said, if you remember, just write it down in the book."
Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying were stunned for a moment. Isn't it too wasteful to use a brand new book for taking notes?
But when Chu Xuan spoke, they could only follow it and each took a pen to prepare for recording.
"We who are mortal are so strange." Chu Xuan said in a flat tone, making this sentence seem ordinary."
"[I] flat tone; [we] use falsetto when the timbre goes down, [these] flat tones, [always have] accents, [one] use falsetto when the timbre rises, [dead people] accent, [how] flat
"Tune, [strange] accent, [yah] sound is deep, use a falsetto and keep it long for two seconds." Chu Xuan said one sentence at a time to make it easier for the two of them to take notes.
When the two of them finished taking notes and looked up at him, he said: "Follow what I said and mark it and read it in Mandarin. Each person will read it once. It doesn't matter if it's not right."
Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying looked at each other, Huang Xuan first, Zhao Liying second.
Chu Xuan didn't tell him to stop, so the two of them kept reciting it one at a time.
For a moment, Lang Lang's voice sounded in the room like a primary school student reciting a composition.
Under Chu Xuan's training, Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying focused on this sentence and became more and more in line with the standards marked by Chu Xuan.
"Do you know what the various techniques in the lines are like?" Chu Xuan said with a smile.
Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying nodded happily. Chu Xuan's step-by-step detailed teaching allowed them to touch the threshold of professional lines in an instant. This feeling was very refreshing, and they could only understand it but not express it in words.
For the two of them who wanted to be actors but were starting from scratch, it was undoubtedly a big step forward.
Once the door is open, everything can be done easily.
"It's time to eat." Liu Xiaoli knocked on the door, opened the door and looked at the door.
"Eat first, continue later." Chu Xuan stood up.
"Okay Master!" Zhao Liying said happily.
"Master?" Chu Xuan looked at Zhao Liying, who pursed her lips and looked obedient.
Chu Xuan shook his head, said nothing, and walked out with Liu Yifei.
Zhao Liying looked at Chu Xuan's back, and when she saw that Chu Xuan did not refuse, her nervous heart slowly dropped.
"That's great! The idol is my master!" She was filled with joy and trotted out the door.