The encounter just now made Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei feel the changes brought about by the sudden surge in popularity.
Perhaps, after "The Condor" is finished, their situation will be different.
However, at the moment in the studio, they also calmed down and focused their thoughts and focus on the short film that was about to be shot.
Even though their roles are coming later, whether they are producers or they are deeply attracted by science fiction films that have never been seen in China, they are curious and eager to learn about the upcoming filming.
Not only Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei, but also Wen Muye and Liu Yi, including Kong Sheng and Li Xue, two experienced directors, also have a learning attitude.
Different types of films will have different camera techniques and lighting combinations.
Science fiction is a new thing, how to use the camera to express the sense of science fiction? How to combine the lighting to show the sense of science fiction? How to combine the camera use with the lighting to create a science fiction feeling?
Without experience, these techniques may only be imagined in advance and must be practiced.
In the huge studio, the central scene is still being set up. Six of the eight scenes have been set up. It will probably be completed in four or five days.
This studio is rectangular, long from north to south and short from east to west.
Therefore, the top of the due north is a bit far away from the center. In order not to interfere with each other, Fumino and the others placed the green cloth CG lens scenes of the extras next to the due north wall.
From the fourth day of the Lunar New Year to nearly half a month ago, through auditions and selections by several teachers including Wen Muye and Liu Yi, a total of fifty performers including special guests, prospects and other extras were prepared to be continued.
The background of the first two minutes of "Hope" is a modern urban background. In order to enhance the authenticity of the characters in the disaster, there are men, women, and children in the ensemble cast.
The extras were chatting with each other in twos and threes outside the set. They were all experienced actors, and they also had a fresh attitude towards making science fiction films.
Seeing Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei approaching, the extras looked around. Some young people's eyes flashed with passion. They just heard that Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei were blocked by many reporters at the entrance of the film and television base. How high does such treatment need to be?
Is it necessary to have popularity? For them who also have dreams of becoming stars, they also had some aspirations for a while.
"Teacher Wang, let's make arrangements first?" Kong Sheng said, turning to look at Wang Bowen.
"Okay." Wang Bowen nodded.
"Thank you two teachers." Chu Xuan said.
"It's not hard work, I'm also very interested in the full special effects shooting schedule." Kong Sheng said with a smile.
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei nodded slightly as they watched Kong Sheng and Wang Bowen speed up and move forward.
"Everyone, come and gather together!" Kong Sheng clapped his hands at the extras.
The extras followed the instructions and gathered towards Kong Sheng. Kong Sheng’s own directing team and teachers also stepped forward to assist Kong Sheng.
As the on-site assistant director, he is responsible for the positioning of actors, camera explanations, and camera lens correction according to the director's wishes.
But when it comes to special effects scenes, and all of them are scenes with special effects as the background, he has never experienced shooting such a scene.
As the leader of the special effects team, Wang Bowen is undoubtedly very important and can be of great help. He even has to listen to Wang Bowen's opinions.
At least Wang Bowen, who has worked in special effects in Hollywood, is definitely better at imagining science fiction scenes than he is.
Which actor should be in which position in front of the green cloth? Faced with a situation where there is no physical object but only a green cloth, this requires a strong spatial imagination.
It would be fine if there were only a few extras, but in this case it takes extraordinary ability to dispatch fifty extras.
Fortunately, there is not much plot in the two-minute CG shot. These days, teachers including camera operators have already read it by heart.
The idea of the script comes from the science fiction story of Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei, and the script was written by Liu Yi after consultation with Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei.
Kong Sheng and the others only need to explain the shooting concepts communicated by Chu Xuan, Liu Yifei, Wen Muye and Liu Yi in a simple and straightforward manner to the group of actors, and the group actors will act accordingly.
enough.
In any case, it still takes some time to arrange fifty extras.
Seeing Kong Sheng and Wang Bowen communicating with the extras, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei did not bother them, and walked towards the surveillance with Wen Muye, Liu Yi and his screenwriting team, producer Li Xue and his team of teachers and original animators of the special effects team.
device.
The original painter members of the special effects team are from Zheng Min's original painting class, and the leader is Li Lan, a teaching teacher in the original painting class who has profound qualifications.
Under the recommendation of Zheng Min, he is currently the deputy leader of the special effects team of "Hope" and the art teacher of "Hope".
Unlike Mr. Qi, the art teacher of "The Condor" and "Zhu Xian" who specializes in real scenes and real scene props, in the face of science fiction films with a large number of special effects elements, original painters who specialize in special effects scenes are used as art teachers.
It seems that it may be more relevant to the science fiction theme.
"Brother and sister, this is what we are going to shoot today." Wen Muye handed two sub-shot scripts to Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei.
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei took it respectively, sat on their chairs and started reading.
[Screen number: 1; Scenery: Large panorama of the scene; Movement: Fixed to the east; Angle: High-altitude overhead shot 30; Content: An earthquake occurred in the city, and people fled in panic on a certain cross street; Sound: People cried and panicked. 】
[Screen number: 2; Scenery: Large panorama of the scene; Movement: Fixed to the west; Angle: High-altitude overhead shot 60; Content: An earthquake occurred in the city, and people fled in panic on a certain cross street; Sound: People cried and panicked. 】
[Screen number: 3; scene: panoramic scene; movement: panning from east to west on the west side of the street; angle: flat shot; content: panoramic group shot of people on the street fleeing in panic; sound: the sound of high-rise buildings and houses collapsing, and people crying
and sounds of panic.]
[Screen number: 4; Scenery: Panoramic view of characters; Movement: Crane panning lens to follow the shot; Angle: Backward overhead shot 15; Content: Someone ran away in panic, escaped crisis after crisis, and was eventually killed by steel and concrete falling from the sky.
;Sounds: nearby cries and panic.】
[Screen number: 5; Scene type: Close-up of the character; Movement: Pull the lens to follow the shot; Angle: Frontal flat shot; Content: Someone saw the reinforced concrete falling from the sky, found that he could not hide it, stopped and looked up, his face became more and more frightened, and then
Being crushed to death; sounds: nearby cries and panic.]
"This set of shots is really good. It not only expands the overall vision, but also thinks about the local part." Chu Xuan praised it, lowered his head and continued to read the script.
"That person was crushed to death in the end. This shot is a bit amazing." Liu Yifei agreed and nodded slightly.
"According to the audience's normal camera sense, whoever the camera is following in the picture will subconsciously think that this person is the current protagonist, and they will get a certain sense of security," Fumino said.
Everyone nodded in approval.
In usual film and television dramas, many tracking shots basically follow the protagonist to show the protagonist's strength and charm.
The audience is also accustomed to this. Whichever camera follows whomever, that person is treated as the protagonist.
The protagonist will basically not be abused.
This routine has allowed the audience to adapt.
"We do the opposite, break the audience's sense of security, and let the audience feel the excitement and tension of the backlash. If we can do this, then I think this set of shots will achieve the effect." Wen Wen
Kino Road.
"I like this set of shots." Li Xue, who has been a director before, praised: "Novel science fiction requires novel camera techniques and novel shooting angles to break the convention and make the audience feel different. I think this
The idea is right."
"Teacher Li Xue said it well." Chu Xuan agreed.
Liu Yifei nodded slightly and agreed with Li Xue's statement. She changed the topic and said: "Brother Liu's storyboard script is very detailed this time, and all five shots have a sense of imagery."
Hearing this, Wen Muye shook his head and said: "It won't work if I don't write it in detail. Brother Liu used to write martial arts scripts and it's okay to write them briefly. We are all familiar with martial arts, and we can figure out many things by ourselves. But science fiction, if you don't write it in detail,
If the script is written in more detail, it’s very likely that we won’t be able to understand Brother Liu’s train of thought.”
Liu Yifei nodded and praised again: "Brother Liu wrote the script really well for this scene."
Liu Yi flipped through the script and smiled slightly: "I was also carrying stones across the river. After finding some practical information, I also used my imagination to make up for what the disaster would look like, and gave it a certain amount of drama. Finally, I described the scene.
Anyway, as we discussed before, it should reflect the film and television effect of disaster, how to stimulate and how to create tension."
Chu Xuan nodded slightly. This was indeed a theme effect they had discussed before. It was only a two-minute CG scene, and the fast pace made the audience feel exciting and nervous. It was the first step to success.
But how to capture such a picture effect depends on the overall level of everyone's concerted efforts.
"Each set of shots has five storyboards?" Chu Xuan flipped through the script and discovered this pattern.
"There are 15 sub-shots in one minute, and five sub-shots are a group. Each sub-shot is 3 seconds, and one group of shots is 15 seconds. Under the plan of Brother Liu and I, one group of lenses will shoot earthquakes, one group will shoot tsunamis, and one group will shoot
Ice and snow, one group shoots ultraviolet radiation, one group shoots the spread of poisonous gas, two groups shoots spacecraft construction and hope plans, and the last group shoots excessive scenes, and then enters the theme after the spacecraft crashes." Fumino explained.
"That's the plan, but it still depends on the post-production effect. If you need to edit, you still need to edit. If you need to add elements, add elements." Liu Yi added.
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei nodded. When they heard something moving in front of them, they looked up and stood up.
After half an hour of scheduling and explanation, communication with the fifty group performers was initially completed.
The wall is covered with a green cloth about 50 meters long, and a wooden wall is built on the opposite side of the wall ten meters wide and also hung with green cloth.
The west end of this green cloth passage is also hung with green cloth, but only the east end is empty.
Fifty extras stood in the 500-square-meter green cloth space according to the position in the space composition, waiting for the camera to be turned on.
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei came over and looked down at the drawings in his hand with Wang Bowen.
The composition is very complex and easy to be confused.
The red line represents the route of the main character, and the blue line represents the route of the supporting character. There is only one red line, but the blue line crosses vertically and horizontally. Even though the lines are marked with numbers, the two of them couldn't understand them for a while.
But the very clear red line can still be understood. Based on the proportions of the composition, Chu Xuan couldn't help but ask: "The straight line of the red line is only ten meters, which means that the main character will die as long as he moves ten meters, right?"
"That's right, Mr. Chu." Wang Bowen raised his hand and pointed at the green cloth, where a red laser was used to locate it, and said: "The location of the laser is at the intersection. A huge piece of reinforced concrete will fall from the sky, and the main character will be killed at that location.
Smashed to death."
Liu Yifei took a look and said in admiration: "Teacher Wang, you are also awesome. It only took half an hour to draw the spatial composition according to the proportions of green cloth. Where is the intersection, where is the residential area, and the high-rise buildings are all marked."
Wang Bowen said modestly: "I must admit that the special effects work in Hollywood is very professional. It took me five years to steal my skills to achieve this ability."
"But..." Liu Yifei hesitated, paused and said: "So many extras have their own walking routes. Isn't it too troublesome to plan? When I was on the set before, many extras except certain ones
After the action, it’s all free play.”
Wang Bowen glanced at Liu Yifei and said: "Producer Liu, do you know why the basic work of film shooting in China is not as good as that in foreign countries?"
"One of the reasons is that foreign directors and producers like to be more realistic. Even an inconspicuous extra has strict regulations. It is what it is and how it should be positioned."
"Even if it's a supporting role, it's still part of the movie's splendor."
"That's right." Chu Xuan nodded in agreement and said, "There are some good things that we can apply."
After hearing their conversation, Kong Sheng also came over and said: "Learn their successful experience and practice it to strengthen the experience. When glory fades away and the waves behind push away the waves in front, let them learn from our experience."
Kong Sheng's sudden words made everyone slightly startled.
"Teacher Kong's words made my blood boil." Chu Xuan said happily.
"Teacher Kong said it well!" Liu Yifei gave a thumbs up.
Wang Bowen also raised the corner of his mouth, appreciating this sentence.
Kong Sheng walked to Chu Xuan's side and said, "The arrangements have been made and the lights have been adjusted. Let's try it again?"
Chu Xuan raised his head and looked at the sun simulation light on the seven or eight-meter-high ladder. The brightness of the strong light was like the strong and dazzling sun at noon in summer. He nodded and said: "Let's get started."
Kong Sheng took out the walkie-talkie and said, "Director Wen, you can turn it on."
In front of the monitor, Wen Mino was a little excited when he heard that the computer could be turned on.
Although the crew is small, it is well-equipped.
Firstly, there is no shortage of funds, secondly, he is shooting a science fiction film that has never been seen in China, and thirdly, he has so many teachers to help him. As an executive director, he is very excited and honored.
He picked up the walkie-talkie and said: "Turn on the phone!"
The videographers waiting in various directions turn on the cameras in their hands or on the racks and report.
"Unit No. 1 is OK."
"Unit No. 2 is fine."
"..."
"Counting down to tens, the game recorder is ready to make a call." Wen Muye directed.
As soon as the words were spoken, the extras got ready.
Chu Xuan, Liu Yifei, Wang Bowen and Kong Sheng were looking in at the entrance of the green cloth passage to the east.
Several teachers from Kong Sheng's team were standing in front of the green cloth to provide guidance at any time.
Ten seconds later, the voice of the recorder came from in front of the green cloth.
""Hope", one scene at a time, begins!"
The field recorder also came to Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei and looked inside together.
"Ah——" screams spread.
"Bang -" the sound of someone being knocked down was heard.
"Save my child!" A woman cried.
The scene was extremely chaotic, but it fit the description of the script.
Until the special actor looked out of breath, ran to the position of the infrared laser, and looked up in horror for two seconds.
"Ka!" Wen Muye shouted to stop.
"No, the camera was too messy. I didn't even see the face of the special brother." Wen Muye's voice was filled with a helpless smile.
Hearing this, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei turned towards the monitor.
Everyone came to the monitor and watched the replay.
"The extras were in the wrong position, the camera was shaking violently, the shooting angle was wrong, and there was something wrong with the camera's parameter settings. Good guy, even the faces of the special brothers were not captured." Kong Sheng couldn't laugh or cry.
Faced with such a tragic situation, everyone couldn't help but laugh.
"Let's do it step by step. The camera movements in our split shots are originally unconventional. The follow-up shot is one shot to the end. The master in charge of the crane is probably not skilled in this kind of camera movements." Li Xue said.
"Try slowly, take your time." Chu Xuan patted Wen Muye on the shoulder.
"I'll go talk to the masters." Wen Muye took off his headphones, got up and walked to the set.
The CG scene of "Hope" is a big scene, and it has to be shot to create a sense of disaster, and there are so many extras. Obviously, this scene will not end with just one click.
Everyone has this premonition.
As Fumino came and went, it turned out that there were still problems with the second shooting.
If there is a problem, just solve it. Directing is a profession that requires patience, and art also takes time to refine.
Wen Mino is good at this and is very patient. He told Kong Sheng and the cameramen about the problems time and time again, and then solved them time and time again.
For this scene alone, which only had five storyboards, it took five hours to shoot from noon to afternoon, but it still failed to produce the desired effect.
During this period, the parameters of the camera, the adjustment of the lighting, and the positioning of the group performances... were constantly changing.
When facing things that have not been tried and are relatively unknown, you need to proceed step by step like this. Once you have experience, everything will be easy to say.
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei understood this and did not feel that the filming progress was too slow. Instead, they watched and learned with great interest.
In this way, the filming of "Hope" fell into a dilemma of repeated learning and tempering from the beginning, which lasted for several days.
But as the saying goes: The road is long and long, so I will search up and down.
Facing an unfamiliar field, everyone slowly explored it step by step.
As for the outside world, there will be another craze due to the re-broadcast of "The Condor".
