Chapter 348: The Charm of Movies
How to measure whether an actor is excellent or not? With a deep foundation of lines and expressive movements, he can be rightfully called excellent.
And how to measure whether an actor has reached the top? It is necessary to add emotional control to the slightest degree on the basis of excellent actors, and play steadily, and maintain the peak of the state at all times.
As long as the above points can be achieved, top actors deserve it, and Mickey's group has always been the standard for measuring top actors, but Lu Ze broke their perception of top actors in a very short period of time, and even redefined the standard of top actors.
Mickey didn't think about the first scene being filmed on the same day, although the difficulty of this scene can only be regarded as medium to high, but due to the rush of the start-up time, the actors also need to understand and adapt to the role, and the group performance is still a group of farmer children who have never filmed, and the difficulty is really not low.
But Lu Ze gave Mickey a huge surprise...... Or it is more appropriate to be frightened, first of all, to master the script at a very fast speed, to familiarize yourself with the characters, and to master all the context of the script, this is a difficult task that cannot be more arduous, but Lu Ze has mastered everything that Mickey has sneaked around without paying attention at all.
Not only that, but he also drove the emotional state of everyone in the audience, including the group performance, even these children, who had never seen how to make a movie and were always curious to look at the camera, were inadvertently distracted by Lu Ze, completely forgetting that they were under the camera, and completely regarded the environment as an ordinary but not ordinary lesson.
can seduce the attention of others so lightly, if this skill is passed on, Lu Ze, the title of a showbiz shooter, will probably not be able to run.
What is the final result? The scene that was going to take a day, but didn't plan to finish filming, passed at one time, and after Mickey shouted to stop, everyone was a little stunned, only the two actors who participated in the filming of this scene, that is, Lu Ze and Fanny, were not overly surprised.
Fanny is Mickey's daughter, she got the script months in advance, she is already talented, and it is easy to understand that she plays consistently and well, but this excellence still needs to have a reference.
If you compare with excellent actors of the same age or older than her, her performance is indeed very eye-catching, but if you compare it with Lu Ze...... From language to actions, to emotions, it inevitably seems a little immature, not at all a level.
But this is already the ceiling of Fanny's level, and Mickey also knows that when Lu Ze drives her state, being able to shoot like this is actually Fanny's super level performance.
Seeing that everyone was still stunned, Lu Ze was used to being looked at with adoring eyes during filming, without any hands or moves, he smiled and said to the children below that class would be over, and turned to Mickey and raised his head.
"Didn't you say you'd buy a children's set for the kids?
"Oh yes, Abby, can you please take a trip?"
Mickey greeted his ex-girlfriend, she didn't have any opinion on Mickey's instructions, but she looked at Lu Ze's eyes with a hint of surprise, probably sighing that Mickey had found an inconspicuous god somewhere, and after looking at it twice, she nodded, picked up her satchel and walked out of school.
"What's next?"
"The devil knows what to shoot, I was going to do a test shoot for a day, but it didn't take two hours in total, including the time to set up the venue, the plan was completely messed up, you said you asked me to do it, forget it, I'll call Lola, it's just over an hour from Liverpool to here, let's take some shots of the children playing first." ”
Lola is a special actor who plays the principal of the school, and Chris is at the same level, both are small actors, and they didn't hesitate after receiving a call from Mickey, and they were really on call.
Don't think that British young actors live a comfortable life, in fact, they are not much different from the special survival conditions of Hengdian, without work, there is no food.
Originally, she would only come over next weekend, which was the day of the official filming planned, but now she is called a week in advance, and she is really unsure of her status.
But there is really no way to do it, after all, the crew has arrived, and the equipment has been moved down, if it is only filmed for two hours, and the scene just now is finished and the work is over, then today's labor costs are too expensive, how can you shoot more, otherwise it will not be able to meet the price, and if you change one scene at a time, no crew can afford to survive.
While waiting for Lola to arrive, Lu Ze took the children to the playground to shoot the playful scene, and the children liked this good person who reminded the "boss" to buy children's meals, and they followed Lu Ze very cooperatively and started to run, playing the football that every British boy must know how to use two feet.
Parents got the news in advance, and they had already brought their children's equipment over, British farmers actually earned a lot of money, at least their lives were quite rich, and the prices of Adinike's brands in the UK were not high, each child was a famous brand, it looked like a good one, there were a few good children who played football, Lu Ze really couldn't kick them, and even tripped and fell several times.
After a few shots, the kids have changed their clothes, and just as they are feeling a little tired, Mickey's ex-girlfriend and Lola enter the school behind their feet.
Lola is a fat woman, she looks about forty years old, and her actual age is really hard to say, after all, white people are recognized all over the world for aging fast, Mickey briefly chatted with Lola and asked how well she mastered the script, seeing that she was confident, Mickey didn't say much, and beckoned the photographer to return to the teaching building.
"Lola, you go change your clothes, camera...... I'll take a look, let's put it up here. ”
The equipment was rearranged, and there was nothing to do with Lu Ze, so he found a place to sit down, but his eyes kept paying attention to every command of Mickey, and when he heard Mickey say where the camera was placed, Lu Ze frowned unconsciously, got up and walked to the camera to take a look, and then pointed to the camera and asked Mickey in confusion.
"Put it here...... It's a little narrower, isn't it? ”
No matter what device people use to watch movies, such as TVs, theater screens, mobile phones, and tablets, these devices are two-dimensional and flat-plane, but the picture inside is three-dimensional, that is, whether you use a video camera, a mobile phone, or even a landline to shoot a video, what you shoot is not a picture, but a space.
So the so-called depth refers to the length of the space, this movie, when Lu Ze and Mickey talked before, the shooting technique was basically determined from the storyboard, mainly with cold and open as the basic color and space use, but with the current position of the camera, the space is obviously narrower, and it looks a little boring.
"Don't you think I know? ”
It wasn't until the moment he raised his head that Lu Ze understood Mickey's helplessness, the ceiling of this school was hung with a shed, and the shelves were originally low, but the shed was even lower, although there was no problem for two and a half people to walk here, but for filming, the problem was a bit big, not only the ceiling was too low, but the captured picture would still be a little stuffy, and most importantly, the ceiling was a little particular in the film and television industry.
Most of the films, if you pay close attention, you will find that there is probably not a single shot of the ceiling in the whole movie, because in many films, they are not shot on location, but in the studio, and there is no ceiling above the studio, because the position of the ceiling is now used for lighting and lifting the recording equipment.
So once there is a ceiling shot in the movie, don't be confused, since it appears, it must be useful, it may not bring a turning point between the previous and the next, but at least it will also use space to express the atmosphere and mood at the time, if Mickey still shoots the ceiling, but only to increase the depth of the space, then once it enters the film festival selection, shooting a useless ceiling shot is definitely a big loss of points.
Lu Ze and Mickey both fell into contemplation and entered a dilemma, if you don't change the lens, you will lose points if the ceiling is exposed, change it, the spatial characteristics of the script are mainly the pursuit of spaciousness, and suddenly a dull shot, even for a second, is nothing in the eyes of ordinary audiences, but in the eyes of professionals, it is inevitably a little abrupt.
If you want to talk about the solution, there are simpler ones, just dig a big hole in the ground, walk the camera in the pit, and stretch the space high, you can solve this matter, but ...... Who would dare! Crazy to say that a school is a school?
For a while, Lu Ze's brain began to run continuously, and he began to recall the system course to see if it helped.
In fact, Lu Ze has more experience than Mickey, after all, the actual combat experience of the system is here, he has seen countless transparent directors shoot with various methods, and gradually, he thought of a way.
In the system space before, there was also a problem like this, because in addition to the plot shooting with special effects, the system space usually does not enter the studio, it is all real scenes, and the last time the problem appeared, the transparent director did not think of a way on the lens, but ...... Wrote on the characters.
"Hey Lola, please come over here, please stand still, wait a minute, Mickey, what do you think of her hair? ”
"You mean ......"
"It's boring, it's boring, the integrity of the lens can't be moved, it's boring, it's boring, why it's boring. ”
Mickey came to his senses and looked Lola up and down, he didn't think about finding a way to play the role, but his thinking was not very clear, and it was a waste of time, and he couldn't be sure what the final effect would be, so he dispelled his thoughts.
But Lu Ze said this, anyway, today is also a test shooting, Lu Ze has passed this over and over again, so simply let Lola try it.
"Lola, you try Lu Ze's suggestion just now, let's wait a minute, the camera is placed in the original position, okay." ”
Seeing Lola return to the dressing room, Mickey smiled and crossed his legs in the chair, took out the script and flipped to the principal part played by Lola, took out a pen and turned two strokes casually.
"You have a lot of ideas, but if you really plan to move, although Lola's role has no impact on the overall plot, the character is more complicated. ”
"It's because it doesn't affect the plot, otherwise I dare to say it?"
The two got together, staring at the script, their mouths kept teasing, but their brains were racing, and the two of them did not have any boredom with this kind of detail modification, and even liked it very much.
Because a simple detail has been modified, the meaning of the entire shot has changed, and even become the finishing touch of the whole movie, countless changes, countless possibilities, is the charm of film art.
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