Hearing Wen Muye's words, Liu Yifei walked toward the monitor while holding the protective mask of her space suit.
It is normal to fail the first time of filming. In addition, it is the first time to shoot a short film as a heroine, and it is a science fiction that has never appeared in China. Liu Yifei was not expecting it.
It's just that Chu Xuan's state was not mentioned by Wen Muye, so it must be right, but her state was not, which made her very curious and wanted to see where the difference was.
Chu Xuan, Kong Sheng, Wang Bowen and Liu Yifei came to the monitor to watch the replay just now.
Liu Yifei smoothed her hair and sat down on the stool.
In her eyes, Chu Xuan in the picture had slight changes in his expression every time he switched to another scene, or he opened his mouth to breathe, or blinked, or his eyebrows slightly condensed to make his eyes more lively, or his eyebrows
Stretching makes the eyes change again...
As for her, except for blinking a few times, there was almost no change in her facial expression.
At this point, she knew where the gap was.
Liu Yifei took a sip of the mineral water and pursed her lips.
When filming "New Police Story", she asked Chu Xuan about the difference between TV series and movies. During the preparation stage of "Hope", she discussed it with Chu Xuan again.
Compared with the small screen of TV series, the big screen of movies will infinitely magnify the expressions and actions of the characters to the audience.
Under infinite magnification, if the characters do not change in several consecutive shots, the illusion of static characters will appear in the audience's retina. This illusion will make the audience feel calm and difficult to feel the emotions conveyed by the picture.
Therefore, except for special plots, changing one shot at a time is the most basic performance method that film actors need to master.
Only when the characters change and move, and if the movements are consistent with the character's state, can the emotions be conveyed appropriately, and the audience will have the opportunity to feel the emotions conveyed by the characters combined with the picture.
She understands these theories, but the lack of practice makes it difficult for her to implement them even if she understands them.
"Do it again." Liu Yifei put down the mineral water.
She got up and returned to the set with Chu Xuan, getting ready at the designated location.
Chu Xuan glanced at Liu Yifei and saw that Liu Yifei was calmly looking for herself. He did not disturb her.
When filming "New Police Story", since Liu Yifei was only a supporting role, and the role of Ah Si did not have many scenes, the language of the three main characters, including him, Cheng Long and Xie Tingfeng, was not so strict.
It also fits her personality very well, so it’s relatively easy to act.
But now that I am starring in "Hope", even though "Hope" is just a short film, there are only two main characters, which makes the presentation of language in every scene very strict, because there are no supporting characters to set you off, you can only rely on your own
Acting skills to reflect the picture effect.
Based on this situation, Liu Yifei participated in the filming of "Hope" as the heroine. Strictly speaking, it was her first experience in the movie in her life where she could truly appreciate the in-depth art of film.
In this case, the filming has only started once. What Liu Yifei needs is self-understanding. Only when she feels her central state and corresponding state can the help of teachers have the effect of getting twice the result with half the effort.
Because of this, the teachers didn't say much, and he didn't say much either, letting Liu Yifei feel for herself for the time being.
"Start?" Liu Yifei turned her head to look at Chu Xuan and said softly.
Chu Xuan nodded, and Mr. Kong gave a thumbs up.
In front of the monitor, Wen Muye, Li Xue and other teachers watched quietly.
There are forty shots in the last two minutes of CG scenes, which begin when the male and female protagonists open the cabin door.
The first ten shots are for each of the male and female protagonists, five each. The middle 15 shots slowly zoom out to finally show the picture from God's perspective. The male and female protagonists will be as small as ants. The last 15 shots drop rapidly and pass through the entire spaceship.
some information and end.
Therefore, the first ten shots are the beginning of the entire CG scene and are responsible for stimulating the audience's initial emotions, which is undoubtedly very important.
They also understood that Liu Yifei was out of shape during the first filming just now. Just as Liu Yifei thought, it is normal to be yelled at a few times before filming. It is also a science fiction that has never been seen in China, and everyone is in the process of exploring.
It's just that for this second filming, they also hope that Liu Yifei will feel something and make some progress.
Soon, the script was written and filming began.
In the picture, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei started to move.
In the eyes of Wen Muye and Li Xue, Liu Yifei slowly took off her protective mask, raised her head slightly and blinked at the green cloth. This was the first expression showing curiosity.
Then, Liu Yifei opened her lips slightly and breathed slowly. This was the second facial expression, indicating that the planet had air.
Then, Liu Yifei's raised head slowly returned to its normal position, her eyes looking straight at the alien ecological environment from the starry sky. This was the third facial expression, indicating the continuation of curiosity.
Finally, Liu Yifei tilted her head and looked at everything on the alien planet with admiration. This was the fourth facial expression, showing the temporary pleasure brought by the changes in the environment.
"Okay, this time it was good." Li Xue nodded. Compared with the first shooting just now, Liu Yifei has made great progress this time and deserves praise.
"The ability to understand is really strong." Li Lan, the deputy leader of the special effects team and the original painter, praised.
Fumino picked up the walkie-talkie and said, "Ka! Senior sister, there is still one less scene of language in the five shots. Let's do it again after a break."
After speaking, he smiled at the teachers and said: "Teacher Zhang Jizhong said before that with senior brother as a template, senior sister's understanding will be the same as cheating, and there is no need to teach."
Liu Yi raised his eyes to read the script and said: "This is the truth. When filming "The Condor", no one gave them any guidance on how to act correctly. This is also the result of the mutual trust between the two of them. Only trust,
Only then can you subconsciously accept and learn from it.”
Hearing this, everyone's lips slightly raised. Is this the magic of mutual success? The filming was very efficient, and they could truly appreciate the charm of Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei who helped each other.
"This time is good." Kong Sheng praised Liu Yifei next to the photography light.
The corners of Liu Yifei's mouth gradually turned upward, and the teacher's praise naturally made her happy.
It's just that Fumino said that there is still one camera language missing, that is, one expression and movement.
Here, she pondered for a moment.
"Don't just think about facial expressions, the movements of hands and feet are also one of the ways that camera language can express emotions." Chu Xuan glanced at her and said.
Liu Yifei was slightly startled, her eyes moved for a moment, then suddenly she said with a flash of light: "Start?"
Seeing that Liu Yifei seemed to have figured it out, Chu Xuan happily gave Mr. Kong a thumbs up.
Soon, the recorder made the call and the third shooting began.
In the eyes of Wen Muye and Li Xue, Liu Yifei's first four facial expressions and movements were the same as during the second shooting, and became more and more natural. They also nodded in appreciation, which was another improvement.
In the last shot, Liu Yifei moved her hands holding the mask, let go of her left hand, and bent her right elbow to hug the protective mask. This was Liu Yifei's fifth facial expression and the fifth lens language she wanted to express.
"This action is good." Li Xue squinted slightly and nodded: "Director, did you feel it? It is obviously a very ordinary action, but it conveys a shocking effect."
Fumino picked up the walkie-talkie and said, "Click!"
He looked at Li Xue and the others and said: "Senior sister was so shocked when she saw the bright and magnificent environment of the starry sky and alien planets that she couldn't help but move her hands. Combined with the imaginable pictures, this shocked emotion passed through
You can feel what Senior Sister did just now."
Li Lan and other teachers nodded. In some movie scenes, some subtle and seemingly ordinary actions of certain characters can indeed convey unexpected emotional effects. Liu Yifei has initially achieved this.
"Now that Chu Xuan and Qian Qian have their own languages for each of the five scenes, let's start discussing the others." Li Xue said.
At this time, Chu Xuan, Liu Yifei, Kong Sheng, and Wang Bowen came over.
"How is it?" Chu Xuan asked.
"The lens language is OK, but there are still some problems in other aspects." Fumino said.
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei sat down and looked at the playback. In Wen Muye's frame-by-frame playback mode, the expressions and movements of the two people in the five groups of shots were clearly displayed, and they also understood the situation of their performance.
, nodded.
"Is there something wrong with the lighting?" Chu Xuan asked. The overall effect of the character made him frown.
"Yes." Li Xue crossed her arms and nodded, tilting her head to look at the faces of Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei in the picture, and said: "We didn't use flat light at the beginning, just to prevent your facial texture from being smoothed by the light, but then
When you look up at the green cloth, the overhead light is like a flat light. It's too white and makes your faces look a little distorted."
Kong Sheng took a sip of water, put down the mineral water bottle and said: "There is also a problem with the back and side lighting. Chu Xuan and Qian Qian have to tilt their heads. Once they tilt their heads, the back and side light will shine on their backs and backs of their heads, and they will appear.
A shadow that shouldn’t be there.”
Wen Muye lowered his head and thought for a moment, then raised his head and said: "In this case, two sets of side lights, one on the left of the senior brother, and one on the right of the senior sister, are 180-degree offset, focusing the light source on the side of the senior brother and senior sister, thereby shining the senior brother
Senior sister’s facial contours are shown to the greatest extent.”
"The overhead light is changed to the upward light. It tilts 60 degrees upward from the ground and hits the upper body of the senior brother and sister in a fan shape. It forms a side angle light with the side light. The light source of the side angle light is dispersed, and the teacher can be photographed.
The facial texture on brother and senior sister’s face.”
"Then I added a set of lights and placed them behind the seniors. Instead of shooting the seniors' backlight, I shot the green cloth over the tops of the seniors' heads so that the green cloth would have a light source."
"Finally, I used a zoom lens to shoot from above to capture the light and shadow focused on the senior brother and sister."
Li Xue crossed her arms and lowered her head to think.
Kong Sheng sat down on the chair and crossed his legs, lost in thought.
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei listened carefully. They were not even beginners in terms of lighting. They could only listen to what they said, and then slowly analyze and understand.
"You can try." Li Xue came out of her thoughts.
"I'm going to adjust." Kong Sheng put down his crossed legs, got up and walked to the set.
Watching Kong Sheng walk to the set, Li Xue turned to him and said, "Qianxi, I have another question. Although the language of the five shots is available, in terms of the overall texture of the picture that can be imagined, your character is still missing something.
"
Liu Yifei blinked and said inexplicably: "What's missing?"
Li Xue frowned and thought for a moment, then straightened her brows and said: "Let me briefly explain my understanding of the entire character plot."
Liu Yifei nodded, with a serious look on her face.
When facing new things, everyone is learning a new process, and she is the same.
With her lofty respect for actors and her pursuit of performing arts, she must hone herself over and over again in order to present the best movie picture.
Facing Teacher Li Xue's lecture, she adopted a learning attitude.
"The male protagonist Chu Feng and the female protagonist Liu Qian suddenly woke up from a strange place with no previous memories."
"They found some information, learned about human life, and began to learn everything about humans."
"Then they found their own secret and discovered that they were clones."
Li Xue pointed to the script and said: "One of the problems arises here. You didn't express the difference between clones and humans. Your five-shot language made me feel that you are still human. The second problem is that clones are also
Divided into men and women, in my imagination, women are more curious and excited than men when facing a brand new thing. In other words, your emotions in this scene should be slightly more emotional than Chu Xuan's."
Chu Xuan took the topic and said: "I have thought about this before and discussed with Liu Yifei how to show the difference between clones and humans through words, deeds, and facial expressions in the eyes of the audience, and how to distinguish between me and humans.
The differences between the two clones of Liu Yifei need to be discussed, pondered and experienced."
Liu Yifei nodded and said: "In this script, the result of the discussion between Chu Xuan and I is that clones are pseudo-humans. They also have everything human beings have, but they also have high-intensity scientific knowledge that humans cannot have."
"Because Chu Feng and Liu Qian have been evolving and awakening the knowledge in their minds, their learning ability is very fast. Finally, after a month, in the emergency situation of insufficient oxygen, they opened the hatch and discovered
The outside world."
"I think at this time, even clones, after a month of study, should be almost as good as humans."
Li Xue smiled and said: "Yes, it can be understood this way. As actors and story creators, there is no problem with your understanding being the main one. However, the root cause is that the male and female protagonists are essentially clones, so right?
It should reflect the human texture of the clones, not the human texture?”
Chu Xuan nodded slowly while thinking: "I understand what Teacher Li means. Teacher Li's point of view is right. The male and female protagonists are essentially clones. No matter how similar they are to humans, they are also clones. They are one constant person.
If it is a character design, then we must maintain the characteristics of this character, and we must not lose it no matter how we change it.”
"That's what I mean." Li Xue smiled and nodded.
"If you look at it this way, then the shot I just took doesn't seem to work either." Chu Xuan shook his head.
Fumino moved his stool and said: "As my senior sister just said, the male and female protagonists in the script are making rapid progress and becoming more and more human. Therefore, your last shot is the simplest, because it is the closest to human performance.
So when we were making the shooting plan, we decided to shoot this scene first, as the previous scenes were all difficult."
"Although it is difficult, it is all exciting." Li Xue said: "One suspense after another, one reversal after another, the plot is compact and interlocking, and Teacher Liu's plot design is amazing."
Liu Yi smiled and waved his hand.
"What are the characteristics of human cloning?" Liu Yifei frowned slightly.
Wen Muye spread his hands and said: "I don't know either, and I have never seen a clone. This requires you, senior brother and sister, to understand it yourself and supplement it with a strong sense of belief."
Li Xue nodded slightly and said: "Forgetting that you are a human being does require a strong sense of belief. We can't even talk about it. This is a concept that does not exist in real life. It is difficult to figure it out. I can only
It’s all about faith.”
"But I think Chu Xuan, your performance just now has feelings." Liu Yi suddenly spoke up, looked at Chu Xuan and said: "For a moment, the texture of the characters you performed made me feel that you are inhuman."
Chu Xuan raised his lips slightly and said, "Brother Liu, are you praising me or hurting me?"
Everyone laughed, and Liu Yifei smiled slightly and leaned closer to the monitor to watch the playback again.
In the replay, she mainly watched Chu Xuan's performance.
Non-human?
How to perform it?
How are the specific differences between clones and humans presented?
All kinds of questions inspired Liu Yifei's pursuit of progress, and she watched Chu Xuan's performance in the picture several times.
She finally discovered that Chu Xuan's expression was normal, his eyes were normal, and he was very human.
However, Chu Xuan's state and unspeakable temperament really made her feel different, a feeling that was incompatible with normal people.
"How did you do it?" Liu Yifei held Chu Xuan's hand, her coquettish tone full of curiosity.
"My state is not right either, my inner emotions are a bit off." Chu Xuan shook his head and squeezed her hand.
"But it's much better than me." Liu Yifei wrinkled her nose.
At this time, Kong Sheng's voice came out on the intercom.
"The lights and cameras have been preliminarily adjusted. Chu Xuan and Qian Qian can come over. We need to adjust them again according to your positions."
Hearing this, Chu Xuan stood up and said, "Take a few more shots and see."
"But I can't find the same feeling as you." Liu Yifei stood up and the texture of the so-called clone was beyond her imagination.
Arriving at the set, Chu Xuan found a stage manager who was a local.
Chu Xuan said a few words to him, and the manager was surprised and said: "Mr. Chu, it should be no problem. I will contact you."