Chapter 95 Sophisticated fighting drama production
photo studio
Zhou Binbin and Yuan Ye tied up the wire. The staff checked it and found that there was no problem. They nodded to Zuo Le and Zuo Le picked up the familiar speaker.
"Attention all units, preparations begin!"
"Hong Miao, try my three-blade ax and split Huashan with all your strength!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou Binbin roared wildly, and with his feet a little bit, he was lifted into the air by Wia, and Xuanhua's double ax struck at Yuan Ye.
"Well done."
Yuan Ye refused to back down and stepped forward with his sword. The Changhong Sword passed between the two axes accurately and accurately, approaching Zhou Binbin's face. Zhou Binbin quickly withdrew his ax to block.
Yuan Ye took advantage of the situation and attacked continuously with a fierce sword. Zhou Binbin was killed while fighting and retreating, with little power to fight back.
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The two people seem to be fighting fiercely, but in fact they have room for action. In the later stage, editing will be used to speed up the action and increase the tension of the scene.
In addition, there are some seemingly unconventional moves during the fight between the two, which are also reserved for later use for special effects.
After all, it is a martial arts, so you need to add some inner strength of sword energy or something to increase the momentum.
"Card."
Zuo Le shouted, Zhou Binbin and Zhou Binbin changed their positions, the camera switched, and the two got together to fight for a while.
From time to time, Zuo Le or the action director will indicate a pause, correct the action, or take a close-up, and then continue the action. Sometimes a set of actions has to be done several times to facilitate shooting from different camera positions.
The process is very boring, and may even look funny to outsiders, but this is how most fight scenes are shot.
The fight scenes that the audience saw were all finished products after post-production editing. When the crew was filming, it was certainly impossible for the actors to use real swords and guns.
Action movies are okay, at least some of the crew can do some hard-hitting, hard-hitting, and hard-horse sparring.
Martial arts movies are mostly about moving moves, with performances rather than actual combat, while fairy tales are even simpler. The actors just stand there and make gestures, and everything else is left to the special effects post-production.
From a professional perspective, the fighting scenes in "Seven Swords" are already extremely sophisticated!
If it were an ordinary martial arts crew, not to mention the post-production special effects, it would be difficult to just spend a lot of money to hire a good martial arts instructor. Just design a few actions and let the actors go up and chop them with swords.
Several people fought for a long time, only somersaults were seen, but the weapons could not touch each other, and the background music was filled with the sound of swords clashing.
That's it, most of the actions were done by a stand-in. Except for a few close-ups, the protagonist's face can't be seen at all...
Compared with them, "Seven Swords" hired top domestic martial arts instructors to be responsible for action design. Every starring role and every important fight will be specially designed based on character characteristics and scene environment.
The actors underwent unannounced martial arts training for more than a month before starting filming. Except for a few difficult actions that required stand-ins, most of the rest were performed by the actors themselves.
Du Lei, one of the three major photographers in China, took the shot, shooting long shots, close shots, close-ups, and shooting the fight scenes from all angles.
Coupled with the post-production cooperation of a top special effects team.
Zuo Le dare not say that the fighting effects of "Seven Swords" can reach the peak level of martial arts dramas, but it can definitely be among the first-class and will not hold back literary dramas.
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Twenty minutes later, Zuo Le announced the suspension of filming.
The actor has no energy left.
This is another disadvantage of filming. Actors are too tired during filming and are easily injured. If they are accidentally injured, the actor will have to stop work to recuperate and may not even be able to continue acting. It will delay things too much.
In addition, the filming of fight scenes is difficult, the director and crew find it troublesome, the actors are not willing to endure hardship, and the audience does not buy it very much. Therefore, there are fewer and fewer action scenes in many film and television dramas. When there is fighting, people generally like to use special effects.
But how effective the special effects are depends on whether the crew is willing to spend money...
While the actors were resting, Zuo Le still had to discuss the next shooting step with the action director. At the same time, he had to look through the already shot materials and go through them in his mind to see if there were any inconsistencies or reshoots.
To be honest, this thing is much more tiring than filming a sitcom. It has only been less than a week since filming started, and Zuo Le has more than twice as much worry every day as he did when filming sitcoms.
Sometimes when taking a break, Zuo Le couldn't help but regret that he had nothing to do but make some martial arts movies.
But now that the stalls are set up, no matter how hard or tired you are, you still have to grit your teeth and swallow. When the actors are almost rested, Zuo Le calls on them to continue filming.
On that day, Zuo Le spent more than five hours filming just the fighting scene.
Zhou Binbin's arms were so tired that he could no longer lift the axe, and his dark face turned slightly white.
Yuan Ye is not much better, he has the most scenes today, and in the later stage he will have to fight one against three.
Fortunately, he was young and recovered quickly. The Changhong Sword in his hand was not as heavy as Zhou Binbin's axe, so he was in good condition after the work was over.
The other actors, Fan Fa and Zhang Ruijin, didn't have much trouble. They didn't have many scenes together, and Hong Tao struggled a little bit. He didn't have too many scenes, but he was fat and couldn't hold up if he exercised a lot.
Fortunately, his weapon is a meteor hammer, which is not very heavy. If he were to use an ax like Zhou Binbin, he would probably fall down immediately.
The next day, Zhou Binbin took a day off. His arms were overworked and now were so sore that he couldn't lift them.
There was no other way, so Zuo Le had no choice but to film other people's scenes, and at the same time he learned a lesson.
Shooting of fighting scenes should be done in moderation and more consideration should be given to the physical condition of the actors.
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February 26, the eleventh day of the first lunar month
The average ratings of "Family with Children" exceeded 1.5, ranking second in the Spring Festival season, and widening the gap with third place.
Dongshan TV took the opportunity to broadcast several programs related to "Family with Children", which had a very good publicity effect. At the same time, as the TV series continued to be popular, it fed back into the program itself, which also led to a certain degree of improvement in the ratings of these programs.
improve.
The head of the variety show department couldn't sit still and kept urging Tian Yan to prepare for the "Zuo Le interview one-day trip". Tian Yan had no choice but to ask Zuo Le for help.
Zuo Le definitely had to give face to his girlfriend's soft-spoken request for help, but he also kept the scandal in front of him. He arranged the filming process of the program's crew, and the crew could not disturb the crew's daily filming.
Tian Yan relayed Zuo Le's request to Dongshantai. Seeing that Zuo Le agreed, Tian Yan immediately agreed to three chapters of Zuo Le's agreement.
Later, when Chen Changshan learned about this, he simply asked Tian Yan himself to be in charge of the film crew. As long as the quality is guaranteed, it is up to you and the young couple to discuss how to shoot the show.
In the afternoon of the next day, Tian Yan drove to Changqing Film and Television Base with the interview and filming team.
To put it into perspective, after Zuo Le returned to Quancheng from Zhao City, he has been busy with the crew of "Seven Swords". Although He Tian Yan kept talking on the phone every day, they did not study Chinese together much.
As the saying goes, seeing each other is like three autumns apart!
That night, someone pretended to be doing business for personal gain. The crew of "Seven Swords" ended work two hours early...
The next day, the film crew regrouped after a night's rest. Tian Yan gave a brief introduction in front of the camera, and then led the film crew to Zuo Le, who was directing the crew to set up the scene not far away.
"Hello, Director Zuo, my name is Tian Yan."
The young lady shook hands with Zuo Le seriously, then asked Zuo Le to say hello to the camera, and today's interview officially began.
