After Valentine's Day, the crew of "Zodiac" began to part ways, with the two Suns filming their own storylines.
The eldest brother Cheng is going to film a scene in which he leaps over an active volcano to save the copper head, which can be regarded as corresponding to Fang Yi's flying scene. The filming location is on the mountainside of an active volcano in Vanuatu. The crew laid a high-pressure catapult on the scene to launch the eldest brother into a car.
It jumped more than 3 meters high. After landing, it quickly rolled out of the area protected by the sponge pad and fell heavily on the slope of an active volcano covered with volcanic rocks and filled with volcanic ash.
His scene is very difficult and a tough battle. Vanuatu is located in the South Pacific and is one of the least developed countries in the United Nations. There are only a few fishing boats in the country. Even the tuna close to Chichi has to be jointly developed with the help of foreigners.
, there is no industrial foundation to support the crew's filming.
All expenses had to be airlifted from mainland China and Hong Kong to the scene. Every kilowatt-hour of electricity and water were all paid for by money. This scene cost a lot of money. Fang Yi thought it was unnecessary to film it, but his eldest brother Cheng always insisted. Money is British.
It was produced by Huang He Zhongying. Fang Yi stopped talking after trying to persuade him several times.
Let it go, maybe this is how veterans make movies.
At least Brother Cheng didn't build a film and television city.
Fang Yi led a group of mainlanders back to the capital to officially shoot his flying scene. In his mind, this would be a milestone scene in a domestic film, and he gave himself two weeks to polish the scene.
There are currently three types of speeding movies in the industry: speed type, violent type and performance type. The speed type simply emphasizes the visual experience that racing brings to the audience, while the violent type is more straightforward and emphasizes rampage, explosions, destruction, rollovers and other big scenes.
, the last expression is often seen in literary films, such as the end of the 1991 Hollywood film "Thelma and Louise", where three women drive a sports car out of a canyon and leap in the air, implying the power of women's rights to break through the cage.
Obviously, the ones that cost the most and have the most solid scenes are the violent ones. This is also the reason why Fang Yi booked the "milestone". Previously, domestic films (especially mainland films) did not have the financial strength to afford it, and he was the first to make such a film. Of course
It's a milestone.
In addition to the largest video studio in Asia, the Huairou Film and Television Base also has smaller studios ranging in area from a few hundred square meters to 1,500 square meters. Fang Yi rented the larger one and removed the windows on that floor.
, on the day of filming, the AMG was loaded into the studio using a crane.
When he started shooting, the scene had already been set up and surrounded by a green screen.
A racing stuntman hired from Japan got into the AMG and demonstrated the process to everyone: the AMG drove down from the booth and accelerated straight away. The villains who came to stop the car threw things at the car, and some tried to climb on the car and fight.
The glass of the car was broken, and AMG realized that the road was blocked. It swerved and knocked down a group of villains. It turned around, and in front of it was the window of the building and another building.
AMG started to accelerate until it broke through the window...
The plot is designed like this. This was not the case during filming. It is impossible for people to really fly out. At the end of this acceleration lane, there is a blocking cable purchased by China Film Group Co., Ltd. at a huge sum of money. It is enough to intercept small aircraft and can intercept data.
The ton-heavy machinery came to a stop within 0.3 seconds.
Correspondingly, the driver himself has to encounter an extremely strong inertial force, which is called the G value. 1g is the weight of a person's own body in a stationary state, and in this scene it will be close to 5g, which is close to the selection standard for pilots.
Of course, Fang Yi could have the stuntman film the whole process, and then take a picture of himself sitting in a car with his face leaning forward, sweating profusely, pretending that he had done everything. But he didn't want to use cuts, he wanted to give a long shot,
His physical fitness can do it.
He has been training for racing since last year, and it can be said that he has been working hard for several months for the five or six minutes he shot.
Everyone stared nervously at Fang Yi, watching him sit in the AMG driver's seat and follow the racing driver's demonstration route five times. Then, after the Mercedes-Benz engineer checked the condition of the car, he stretched out his hand to make an "ok" gesture.
The psychological evaluator asked Fang Yi several questions:
"How do you feel now?"
"very good."
"Are you feeling nervous? Fang Yi, your watch shows that your heartbeat is accelerating."
"I'm not nervous, I'm just excited."
"You are completely sure that you are capable of completing this scene, and your answer was completely from a sober state..."
Fang Yi waited patiently for him to finish, then nodded heavily and said, "Yes."
So the psychological evaluator also said that his condition was fine and his cognitive abilities were normal.
This time it was Guo Fan who shouted "a". He didn't write ink, so he raised the horn and shouted: "a!"
After tuning, the AMG burst out with surging power and immediately sped out. In order to ensure the safety of other extras, Fang Yi limited the speed of the car to a not too fast level. He rushed into the center of the crowd and made a neat drifting move, and the actors
They immediately jumped back in cooperation, some added to their own drama, and suddenly started coughing, as if they were smoked by the exhaust fumes.
Multi-angle, multi-directional, multi-camera.
AMG started to accelerate. Fang Yi in the car stepped on the accelerator. There were only two thin blocking ropes in front of him and the dark wall. He felt his heart beating wildly and breathing became difficult. The huge acceleration pushed him
Pressed on the seat and unable to move, Fang Yi had to work hard to express his expression... Two seconds later, the AMG hit the blocking rope. Fang Yi's chest felt tight, and he felt nauseous for a while, so he vomited.
Then he started coughing, opened the window, and gasped for air.
Everyone immediately gathered around to see his condition, the assistant wiped his sweat, and the psychological evaluator asked him questions with a notebook, but Fang Yi didn't respond at all.
After calming down for a while, I got out of the car and looked at the footage I had taken earlier.
He first asked Guo Fan: "How is the effect?"
Guo Fan stood up from his chair and made way for him: "Perfect!"
Fang Yi smiled and said: "Real or fake, you can pull it down."
Because there were multiple cameras at the same time, there were many pictures on the monitor. By the time Fang Yi finished watching them all, ten minutes had passed.
He felt dissatisfied: "No."
Guo Fan reminded him to take a look at the messy scene: "Director Fang, if we shoot again, it will have to be rearranged, which will be troublesome... What do you think is wrong?"
Fang Yi pointed to the part where AMG rushed down the booth: "Because we took care of the safety of the actors, the car was a bit slow, and the contrast with the back was a bit big."
The next part is when Fang Yi accelerates in a straight line. Because the speed really picks up, his expression is inevitably a bit ferocious, but he can still maintain his demeanor in the front.
This is the problem with his acting skills. It was the first time he acted in this kind of play and he didn't consider the unity of before and after.
Guo Fan suggested that the camera can be shaken slightly, which will give people a nervous and exciting psychological hint and make it appear that the car is fast, so there is no need to retake the shot.
Fang Yi shook his head: "No. Although I save money, I should also spend enough money."
It is said that the eldest brother Cheng, who is far away in the South Pacific, had red eyes and volcanic ash got into his eyes. He could only put in temporary eye drops and continue to apply them. Compared with the desperate efforts of the eldest brother Cheng, he took various measures better.
We are better equipped to strive for excellence.
"Okay," Guo Fan felt helpless, "anyway, it's not our money that's spent, and it's not me who's doing the hard work."