Yoo Jae Suk left the "New World" set with Lim Sung Hoon's instructions to all Al Jazeera TV stations. Lim Sung Hoon was about to start filming the first scene of "New World".
The plot of the movie "New World" is not too brain-burning, and the plot proceeds completely in chronological order. Li Zicheng, the police officer sent to the Kinmen Group, an interest group composed of underworld, worked as an undercover agent for nearly ten years, and was once again beaten by his own
His boss, Section Chief Jiang, deceived him into arranging for his family to go abroad as long as he completed the last mission. In the end, under the arrangement of fate, he accidentally took the position of chairman of the Kinmen Group.
The whole film is full of commercial elements. There is basically no positive energy in the plot and characters. Even Choi Min-sik, who plays an important role and is the section chief (Chief Jiang), a policeman who represents justice, is also trying to achieve the goal.
The end justifies the means; as for Li Zicheng, his personality changes before and after, and his dark choices about the good and evil of human nature are one of the highlights of the movie, but as mentioned before, he is the one who is pushed away.
And Ding Qing is as cunning as a fox, cruel as a wolf, and as vicious as a scorpion.
The estimated shooting period of the movie "New World" is the shortest in all these years, except for the original "The Crucible" by Lim Sung-hoon, which is only three months. Basically, all shooting is done in real scenes, and green screen shooting is used.
There are very few places.
The first scene shot today was an indoor scene, a dialogue scene between Li Zicheng, played by Gong Yoo, and Section Chief Jiang, played by Choi Min-sik.
This kind of scene is particularly common in movies, and three main bidding methods are used: panorama, close-up, and over-the-shoulder shot.
The general shooting technique is to first use a panoramic shot to describe the scene, and then give close-ups and over-the-shoulder shots to the characters to put the actors in a situation and determine the relationship between the characters; however, what Lin Chengxun chose here is to first give the characters close-ups and over-the-shoulder shots to show the relationship between the characters, and then
Panorama, explaining the scene and environment of this two-person conversation.
Because, this is the opening scene. In the movie, it goes straight to the point and lets the characters stand out. This is Lin Chengxun's most common method.
Before the start of shooting, Lin Chengxun discussed the lens with the photographer, and then took Kong Liu and Choi Minzhi to start rehearsing in the performance area, explaining what emotions, eyes, expressions and tone he wanted the actors to show in the next performance.
Unlike Jiang Wen, an actor-turned-director who doesn't allow actors to express themselves too much, he usually clearly puts forward the performance requirements he needs. If he can't do it anymore, he will directly go on stage to make exemplary suggestions.
He doesn't talk much. Except for a few actors with whom he is close, he will patiently polish it over time. For the rest of the actors, he, as a director, needs actors to work in an efficient way to be worthy of everyone's time and investors' money.
Everyone's mobile phones have either been turned off or handed over to assistants to avoid making any noise that may interfere with the radio reception at the filming site.
The lighting engineer is also busy. For this indoor two-person dialogue scene, Lin Chengxun needs the lighting engineer to simulate the midday sun, and as the plot progresses, he changes the light angle to create the light and dark contrast he wants.
The method of using light and darkness to metaphorize the character's heart is an old method that Lin Chengxun has been using since "The Crucible".
Finally, all departments were in place, the two actors who had rehearsed had their makeup done, the scene was cleared, and filming began.
"Hit the board!"
"The first scene, the first shot, the first line!"
In the house, a beam of light fell vertically from the skylight on the roof.
A close-up shot of the character's face and a ferocious scar on his forehead completely destroyed Gong Liu's original warm and handsome temperament. Then a pair of gold-rimmed glasses came into the mirror, covering his ferocious scar with what looked like a finger.
A mask of gentleness that can be broken through.
The scar and the double mask of gold-rimmed glasses have completely changed Kong Liu's previous personality. If I had to describe it, he would be a raptor tethered by a hair.
A close-up shot of a character taken from a top-down, slightly overhead view. The head is big and the body is small, and the whole shot of the character is weird.
Immediately, the camera panned five centimeters laterally, over-the-shoulder, through the shoulder of Li Zicheng (Gong Liu), and at the end of the light beam where flying dust floated, Section Chief Jiang (Cui Minzhi) was sitting on the wooden Taishi chair, with his legs crossed, although he was invisible.
In the darkness, there was a foot that reached into the light pillar and kicked the light wantonly.
The final panorama, the entire external environment of the two-person dialogue scene, is clearly visible in the camera. The dilapidated garbage house, the only light is the light beam projected from the broken skylight above the head, and all kinds of rotten garbage seem to exude an unbearable smell to the audience.
The stench.
The only valuable thing is probably the TV set that is placed sideways.
"Where are the things? Here are the things I want."
"Something? You, Li Zi, have become the number one person under Ding Qing, the third boss of the Kinmen Group. What else are you missing?"
Section Chief Jiang said with a strange tone and a playful tone. He, the light column and Li Zizheng formed three three-dimensional points, which showed a clear sense of layering in the shot, and the depth of the picture was very high.
"Are you kidding me? My boss, Ding Qing, will return to China soon. I must hurry up before he returns to China. My whole family will change their ways and run away to Australia. We agreed that after the president dies, your police will give my whole family a new one."
My identity made me run away."
Li Zicheng took a step forward suddenly, and his whole body seemed to be crashing into the beam of light. Unfortunately, as if it was a trick of fate, the light was half covered by the sudden clouds. It seemed as if the light was avoiding him, and it seemed as if the light was avoiding him.
He pushed away the light.
"Li Zicheng, 35 years old, appears to be a member of the North Gate Alliance gang, the second-in-command, and is a director of the Kinmen Group, but is actually an undercover police officer; his wife Jiang Zhiyuan, childless, had a miscarriage three years ago and is now pregnant; her lover Xinyu, appears to be a police undercover agent
As the proprietress of the Go club, she is actually the communication bridge between Li Zicheng and the police..."
Section Chief Jiang stood up, half of his body merged into the beam of light, and his eyes formed an inverted triangle, "My boss Ding Qing? Your police? Li Zicheng, have you forgotten that you are actually a police officer!"
"If I forget that I am a police officer, what I am pointing at you now is not my finger, but my pistol!"
Li Zicheng suddenly turned his head and pointed one finger at Section Chief Jiang. The camera quickly changed to a tilt shot, allowing his eyes to communicate directly with the audience outside the screen. The forbearance and anger in his eyes were instantly presented to the audience, which was full of impact.
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Just like the last shot in "Memories of Murder" that the audience remembers deeply, the male protagonist first looks at the little girl next to him, it is just an ordinary close-up, nothing special, and then the male protagonist turns his face to face the audience,
Eyes are in direct contact with the audience.
This is a lens technique that makes the audience feel immersed. It is used in many movies. For example, in "The King of Comedy", Yin Tianqiu and Liu Piaopiao's very classic "I will raise you" and "I will raise you first".
After the plot of "Take care of yourself", Liu Piaopiao gets into a taxi. The camera first shows the scene flying by at high speed outside the car window. Then it cuts in and looks directly at Liu Piaopiao, who is facing the pear blossoms, rain, and tears streaming down her face.
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Lens expression techniques that have the same purpose include Hollywood director Michael Bay's explosion scenes. The reason why he is called a bad movie maker by film critics, but is extremely popular at the box office is because he likes to shoot explosions while filming explosions.
The way things are blown towards the camera gives the audience in front of the screen a strong sense of immersion that they are about to be hit.
In audio-visual art, the sense of substitution is a very important element.
On the set, the two actors pointed their respective cameras and showed off their acting skills.
On Section Chief Jiang's side, he showed no change in his expression when facing Li Zicheng's anger. He is an old man. In his many years of police career, he has experienced many life and death. Li Zicheng's anger is obvious to him.
He was still so young that he could even put a smile on his face like he was watching a comedy clown show.
However, Li Zicheng is such a useful undercover agent, so he still needs to be comforted.
So Section Chief Jiang stepped forward and patted Li Zicheng on the shoulder.
"Just kidding, just kidding, you still want to call me father-in-law. As a father, I said a few words unscrupulously because of my son-in-law's cheating. You should be able to understand."
Li Zicheng took a few deep breaths and said, "Chief Jiang, do you mean to say that? Whether it is my wife Jiang Zhiyuan or my lover Xinyu, aren't they all the people you arranged to monitor me? Maybe, in a place I don't know,
There are people with you who are silently looking at me, looking at me, looking at me, waiting for the last lesson of betraying me, aren't they?"
"After all, you often say"
"After all I always say"
"Obvious betrayal is nothing to worry about. What is really scary is the unknown. This is the so-called open sword, which is easy to hide and hard to prevent."
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"stop!"
Lin Chengxun raised his hand and said loudly, then sat down and started to check the return interview. He played it back and forth twice. Although it seemed that there was no big mistake, after all, one of the two people was Choi Min-sik, the winner of multiple Best Actors; and the other Gong Liu was also
Li Zicheng has been preparing for this role for more than half a year.
But he always wanted to see something else, so let’s take a look at a few more. Anyway, there is a lot of investment money in the movie "New World". As long as it is not too excessive like the King of Sunglasses, basically there will be no pressure to invest.
People jumping off buildings.
"Senior, if you are like this, please change your expression and speak in a more domineering tone, because apart from the relationship between Weng's son-in-law, the policeman and the undercover, Section Chief Jiang and Li Zicheng also have a relationship between superiors and subordinates, and seniors and juniors."
"Li Zicheng, you are a bit cowardly, but the sadness and indignation on your face still needs to be shown. Let's try a pair of black-rimmed glasses this time."
In this way, Lin Chengxun filmed this scene dozens of times. He tried it out with a long shot, and then tried the idea of short shot editing and splicing. The actors had more expressions and their looks changed.
Come on, just for the character Gong Yoo's look, there are several options including whether to wear glasses, not wearing glasses, gold-rimmed glasses, black-rimmed glasses, or whether to wear a suit jacket in the house.
Anyway, when this shot was taken, it was already dark, so Lin Chengxun clapped his hands and announced that the filming was over for the day. The actors clocked out one after another, but he, the director, held a discussion meeting with the directing team.
While holding a discussion meeting, he had dinner with takeout. By the time Lin Chengxun finished the meeting with the members of the directing team, it was already past midnight.