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.
The field attendant reported the route next to the driver. The driver understood, started the car, and sped away.
More than half an hour later, the nanny van stopped at an affiliated hospital.
This hospital is in the suburbs, and it is not a simple hospital, it is a mental hospital.
After Liu Xiaoli got off the car, she looked at the hospital sign, and the word "mental illness" was very dazzling.
If it hadn't been for Chu Xuan's request, she might never have come to a place like this in her life.
In the morning, Chu Xuan called her and asked her to come back as early as possible, saying that he would take Sissi to a special place and give Sissi an advanced acting class.
When she heard it was a mental hospital, she was really confused. What did acting classes have to do with a mental hospital?
She doesn't understand.
But she knew very well that Chu Xuan would not harm Qian Qian, and he asked her to accompany him, so she came.
"What are you doing here?" Liu Yifei asked, holding Chu Xuan's hand.
"Find a sense of faith." Chu Xuan turned his right hand and clasped his fingers with hers.
Liu Yifei stared, came to a mental hospital to find a sense of faith?
Liu Xiaoli and the bodyguards couldn't help but twitch at the corners of their mouths. This operation was a bit confusing to them.
"Mr. Chu Xuan?" A doctor walked out of the small house next to the gate.
"Doctor Xu?" Chu Xuan greeted.
"It's me." Dr. Xu nodded, and after shaking hands with Chu Xuan, he said with mixed feelings: "Apart from inspections from above, this is the first time I heard that someone wants to visit our hospital. Mr. Chu can just visit as long as he doesn't make any noise or talk.
Just go into the closed area."
"Thank you." Chu Xuan nodded and walked in with Dr. Xu.
This hospital has good greening. There are green plants all over the entrance from the front door, and there is also a central flower bed.
There are two paths branching off from the central flower bed, one to the left and one to the right.
Follow Dr. Xu and go right, then turn left for about ten or twenty meters and then turn right. A shady green space blocked by a barbed wire fence comes into view.
On this green land, there are corridors, pavilions, small fountains, and many backrest benches.
Among them, men and women wearing hospital gowns were walking around, sitting on chairs, chasing butterflies, or calling something "ahhhh" to the sun.
Liu Yifei tightened Chu Xuan's hand. Like her mother, if Chu Xuan hadn't brought her here, maybe she would never come to a place like this in her life.
Is it just that Chu Xuan came here to find a sense of faith? She was really a little confused, this was beyond her understanding.
"I've been to a similar place before." Chu Xuan suddenly said, stopping in front of the barbed wire fence and looking at everything inside the barbed wire fence quietly.
"Why are you here?" Liu Yifei asked curiously. Liu Xiaoli and Dr. Xu were equally curious. Which normal person would come to a mental hospital? Unless there are relatives in the mental hospital.
"Do you know "The Silence of the Lambs"?" Chu Xuan asked, tilting his head.
Liu Yifei nodded, "Hannibal."
"I imitated Hannibal for a while." Chu Xuan said.
Liu Yifei was stunned for a moment and said: "Why imitate Hannibal?"
Chu Xuan blinked and said: "This character is very charming. Good and evil merge. The emotional transition between black and white only takes a moment. I want to experience how it is done."
Hearing this, Liu Yifei suddenly remembered something and said: "So your performance of Guan Xuan is so good because of this experience?"
"You can say that." Chu Xuan nodded.
"Then how to do it?" Liu Yifei asked. She seemed to understand Chu Xuan's purpose of bringing her here. Chu Xuan wanted to teach her in his own way.
Although it was unbelievable for her to come to a mental hospital, she suddenly recalled what Chu Xuan said to her a few years ago - actors are mentally ill.
Perhaps, Chu Xuan’s original explanation was only one-sided, and he wants to give her an in-depth explanation today?
Chu Xuan glanced at the scene inside the barbed wire fence. Some people were squatting on the ground and playing with grass, some were scratching the soil with stones, some were holding a fake doll in their arms like a child, and some were holding a flower.
The flower was placed on another person's head with a smile.
"What do you think if these people are actors?"
Hearing this, Liu Yifei's eyes widened, Liu Xiaoli's expression was startled, and the bodyguards' expressions froze.
Dr. Xu's mouth twitched sharply and said: "Mr. Chu, don't scare me!"
Even though he was a doctor in this mental hospital, the first time he heard such remarks really shocked him.
The patient I take care of every day is an actor?
Just thinking about it makes people numb.
"Look at them as actors, and then look at them from an actor's perspective, so that we can accept their behavior."
"After accepting their behavior, we look at it from the perspective of a producer and director. Our eyes are cameras to capture their words, deeds, and facial expressions."
"Then ask yourself, how can I act in such a state as them?"
Liu Xiaoli and Dr. Xu were speechless because they couldn't understand Chu Xuan's words anyway.
While listening to Chu Xuan's remarks, Liu Yifei mustered up the courage to look at the patients carefully.
Think of them as a group of actors?
Consider yourself a producer or director?
In other words, this barbed wire fence is the filming scene, and everyone inside is acting.
"But..." Liu Yifei struggled: "Why should we act in their state?"
Chu Xuan said: "You must first understand why they are in this state?"
"Because they are sick." Liu Yifei blurted out.
"You still don't understand what I mean." Chu Xuan shook his head.
Concubine Liu Yi frowned slightly and looked at Chu Xuan.
Chu Xuan said: "To put it another way, you can think of them as Oscar-winning actors and actresses. Their acting skills are as smooth as real mental patients."
Chu Xuan looked at Liu Yifei and said: "So, why do these Oscar-winning actors and actresses have such acting skills? How do they perform? Does this require a strong sense of belief? And where does their sense of belief come from?
"
A series of questions made Liu Yifei's head a little confused, but after thinking about Chu Xuan's questions carefully, she seemed to have some clarity.
Yes, ordinary people have a sense of belief, and actors also have a sense of belief, so these patients also have a sense of belief.
Because only a sense of belief can make people act subconsciously.
This is true for ordinary people, actors, and these patients.
According to Chu Xuan's view, compared to ordinary people and actors, these patients' sense of belief is undoubtedly super strong, even unmatched by anyone in the world.
So the question is, where do these patients’ sense of belief come from?
At this moment, Liu Yifei understood clearly the reason why Chu Xuan brought her here and said she wanted to find a sense of faith.
If we could really understand the source of these patients’ sense of belief, what role would we not be able to play in the future?
With the support of such a strong sense of belief, becoming an actress is no longer a dream.
Seeing that Liu Yifei seemed to have some understanding, Chu Xuan smiled slightly.
"I have been teaching you acting in college. I started practicing it in "Dragon", and then experienced "New Police Story", "Sword" and "The Condor". In the first stage of acting, I think you have reached the level you should be."
."He said.
"The first stage?" Liu Yifei blinked.
"The first stage is when the actor enters the play. From the first time you enter the play in "Dragon", to the fairy island scene in "Sword and Fairy", you gradually enter the play, and finally in "The Condor" you can enter the play at any time. I
I think you succeeded." Chu Xuan said.
"Then you brought me here today to teach me the second stage?" Liu Yifei raised an eyebrow.
"The second stage is when the character enters the play. Taking "The Condor" as an example, when Liu Yifei enters the play, the little dragon girl also enters the play." Chu Xuan said.
Liu Yifei frowned and said, "Isn't my little dragon girl included in the show?"
Chu Xuan looked at her and said: "Think about it for yourself, how much of the facial expressions you express through emotions belong to you? How much of them belong to Xiao Longnu?"
Liu Yifei was silent, lost in thought.
She understood what Chu Xuan meant. The role is the role, the actor is the actor, the character's expression is the character's expression, and the actor's expression is the actor's expression.
If you are acting out your own expressions and emotions while acting, you are acting yourself.
On the contrary, you are acting a role.
What Chu Xuan wanted to tell her was how to enhance the content of the character and throw away the content of herself.
At the same time, she also understood that if we look at the progress of her acting skills, she will act like and be what she is.
Chu Xuan added: "80% of the role is played and 20% of the role is played by oneself. This is what I think is the highest level of acting in the world. As for 100% of playing the role, you may not be able to act in your life."
Liu Yifei nodded and said, "What should we do?"
Chu Xuan looked at the scene inside the barbed wire fence and said: "When actors who are new to the industry, or actors in the first stage, take a script and look at the character they play, they will basically think about one question immediately: What if I touch
In such a situation, what would I do? What should I say? What would be my expression? What emotions would I have?"
Liu Yifei nodded slowly, that's true, that's how she is.
For example, in the scene where Xiao Longnu and Yang Guo separated, she was thinking about what she would do if Chu Xuan separated from her?
The emotions brought about by such an illusion made her continue acting like this.
"I was thinking about 'me' from beginning to end. I just sketched a scene in my mind and imagined a picture." Chu Xuan said.
As he spoke, he pointed and said, "Look at the 'female movie queen' holding a fake doll in her hand. This 'movie queen' has a kind and warm face just like her mother."
Liu Yifei followed his hand and nodded.
"How was this 'acted'? We can use divergent thinking to imagine the scene in her mind."
"One day, her child disappeared. After searching to no avail, she broke down and cried, searching all over the mountains and plains."
"She traveled across mountains and rivers, crossed oceans and seas, and went out of villages and into cities. I don't know how many falls and tears she shed during this process."
"Later, a kind person found her child and gave it to her. She cried with joy and her anxious heart calmed down. She sat on a bench and held her child in her arms. She only had the child in her eyes and would not let go for a moment."
"Finally, outside the barbed wire, we watched."
Liu Yifei was stunned for a moment, who was the kind person? Is the child a fake doll? This story was a bit weird, but it seemed very real, and she was speechless for a while.
Liu Xiaoli and Dr. Xu were also silent. Chu Xuan's little story made them feel strange and frightened at the same time.
"What I said above was 'her', not 'me'." Chu Xuan said.
Liu Yifei raised her eyebrows and nodded, "Don't think about what will happen to you, think about what will happen to 'her/him'."
Chu Xuan smiled and said: "It is no longer a scene, but a world; it is no longer an image, but a life."
Liu Yifei's eyes lit up and she said, "I seem to understand!"
Chu Xuan glanced at the scene inside the barbed wire fence and said, "Now let's imagine a world, a world with only clones."
"Look at the 'clone' who has the same hands and feet. Does he look like the one in the script who just woke up and doesn't understand human life?"
"Look at the curious 'clone' holding a leaf. Does he look like the person in the script who is curious about everything about human life?"
"Look at the 'clone' bathing in the sun. He is the most normal. Doesn't he look like the last shot in the script, facing the starry sky? But although he behaves normally, in our eyes he is kind
Not a normal feeling."
“How do you achieve this feeling?”
"Because there is a world in their minds, and they all live in this world."
Liu Yifei was suddenly startled. She was in a daze for a moment and then looked astonished.
"I understand what you mean!"
"Outline a world based on the script framework, imagine a life based on the character's plot, and depict various emotions based on the character's experiences during this life!"
"As actors, we just have to act out the various emotions depicted!"
Chu Xuan looked at her and said, "As long as you understand it, with this understanding, the way you read scripts and understand the characters will be improved by several levels in the future."
Chu Xuan reminded again: "However, entering 'her/his' world will make you uncomfortable, and it is extremely uncomfortable, because this is an emotion that does not belong to you and a world that does not belong to you. You can only force it
I believe in this world and this life."
Liu Yifei's eyebrows were slightly lowered. When she thought about the teachers in the studio saying that the texture was not enough, and when she thought about Chu Xuan's intention of bringing her here, she suddenly raised her eyebrows and said, "Did you feel uncomfortable when you were practicing your acting skills before you debuted?"
Chu Xuan was startled, then nodded slowly.
Liu Yifei nodded, smoothed her hair, her eyes became firm, and she said no more.
Chu Xuan took one last look at the "clones" and said, "Let's go."
"Mr. Chu, you opened my eyes." Dr. Xu smiled.
"Although I don't understand acting, what you just said sounds really awesome. In my heart, you are an artist." He added.
"Thank you, just say whatever you want." Chu Xuan shook his head.
Liu Xiaoli didn't quite understand what Chu Xuan was trying to express in his words, but seeing that Sissi benefited a lot, that must be a good thing.
Chu Xuan has been helping Sissi in her performances since the first year of college, and then the two of them helped each other.
This happened suddenly today, she guessed it was because the two of them had encountered a problem during the filming.
She couldn't help these two children in terms of performance, so they could only figure it out on their own.
The group of people returned to the hospital entrance, got into the nanny car, and drove away.