After yesterday's footage was completed, John is ready to take photographer Emmanuel to shoot the set shot of the film "Stealing Love" today.

Set shots are the opening of a film, but they are also used for transitions to new scenes in the film, usually using long shots to shoot a large panorama of a city or building, in order to give the viewer a sense of place and make everyone aware of where the story in the film takes place.

And if you want to get a long-range shot of Los Angeles, you have to shoot it from the air, and if it is a later generation, you can use drone aerial photography, but in the early 90s, not to mention civilian drones, even military drones have just invested resources in research and development.

It wasn't until 1994 that supplements in the U.S. were developed by General Atomics.

The Global Hawk was not developed by Northrop Grumman until 1995.

So if John wanted to shoot a long shot of Los Angeles, he had to shoot it with a helicopter.

Wanting to use a helicopter was very simple for John, as simple as a phone call. The 11th team of the Secret Service, which is responsible for his security, is specially equipped with three Black Hawk helicopters, which is parked at the airport not far away, and can be reached in half an hour by car.

Half an hour later, John arrived at the airport with Emmanuel in a car, and saw a dozen people standing next to three Black Hawks in the distance, including six drivers, a random mechanic, and six Secret Service agents.

As soon as John got out of the car, he looked at one of the heavily armed Secret Service agents and said, "KA! ARE YOU ALL READY?"

KA is his code name, and his real name is Duncan Williams, a native of HSD, a fifth-level Secret Service agent, and the captain of Team 11.

In order to prevent anyone from knowing the background of the Secret Service agents and coercing them with their families, they are all named after the number of the protected person within the Secret Service.

John's internal number in the Secret Service is 011, and the 11th place in the English alphabet is K, and the captain is the meaning of the leader, and the leader in the English letter is A, so it is connected to KA, as long as it is an insider, the meaning will be known by the insider, and the layman will naturally not understand.

And in order to prevent internal leaks, only agents of the eighth or ninth level have access to their files, that is, the head of the secret service and several deputy directors.

"It's all ready, boss!," Duncan saw that an outsider was there, and didn't call John JK directly. The best way to protect John is to hide John's true identity.

"Okay, get ready, let's go!" John had limited time, he needed to photograph the city of Los Angeles at sunrise, so the time given to him was very short, and he had to hurry.

After the camera was secured to the helicopter, three Black Hawks were lifted into the air, with John, Emmanuel, Ka, and KJ on board One, and other Secret Service agents on Second and Third flanking First with them.

In this way, the three Black Hawks flew away in the darkness towards the imminent sunrise.

John sat in the cabin and was ready to talk to Emmanuel about the requirements for filming before filming began: "Emmanuel!

John likes to construct the picture with thick ink and heavy color, so that the image reflects the texture of an oil painting, so as to bring the audience into the world of the film and enjoy a visual feast.

"Yes......," Emmanuel affirmed without hesitation when he heard John's request.

Since he got on the helicopter, his heart has changed a little, when Nancy recruited him into the crew, because he saw that John was younger than him, so he had some disapproval of John in his heart.

But today, seeing John get three Black Hawk helicopters with a phone call, it made him change his heart.

The Black Hawk helicopter is a military helicopter, not everyone can be mobilized with just a phone call, and as a military fan, he naturally knows that these three Black Hawks are all carrying live ammunition, and there are only a handful of people in the United States who can fly over the city with Black Hawks with bullets.

So he not only became curious about John's identity, but also had a little awe of John.

And John on the side could naturally find the changes in Emmanuel's heart, and also understood why Emmanuel was like this. It's just that he didn't care, because that's what he wanted.

In a crew, the director must have absolute authority, so as to better lead the entire crew and realize the shooting plan.

And John is too young and has no qualifications at all, and it is obviously impossible to suppress these crew members by age and seniority, so sometimes they can only take other ways.

"Emmanuel, I heard you're a military fan?" John said as he looked at Emmanuel beside him.

"Yes, boss" Emmanuel didn't know why John was suddenly talking about the topic, but he answered John's words anyway.

"Do you like fighter planes?" asked John after hearing Emmanuel's answer.

Emmanuel nodded, "Like......"

After seeing Emmanuel nodding, John said, "Emmanuel, when this shooting is over, I will give you a model of the fighter, which is definitely better than any military store on the market." ”

John knows that sometimes the people below can't just be suppressed, and the best way is to occasionally care or give some benefits to buy people's hearts.

"Thanks... Thank...... Thank you...... Boss!" Emmanuel didn't react for a moment when he heard that John was going to give him a model of a fighter.

And John looked at Emmanuel's performance and knew that he was doing the right thing to buy people's hearts.

Fighter models are too simple for him, when weapons companies develop warships, planes or tanks, they will make some models, and when the time comes, they will go to Grumman to order a few planes, and they don't even need to pay for it.

After talking about the model, John started to discuss the shooting with Emmanuel, and when Emmanuel understood John's intentions, the sun gradually rose.

John looked at the sunrise in the east and said, "Let's start shooting!"

Emmanuel nodded, and with the assistance of the secret service personnel, after taking security precautions, he picked up the camera and began to shoot.

This kind of outdoor long-range shooting, which seems very simple, does not require actors and has no lines, but it is actually the most time-consuming and film-intensive, because the time in the plot is the time when Los Angeles goes to work in the morning, so the shooting must also be at this time, which brings a time limit to the shooting.

And in order to ensure that you can select qualified pictures from them, it is absolutely not possible to shoot one group, and it is usually necessary to shoot more than a dozen groups. And shooting more than a dozen sets of film, not to mention film, will take more than ten days of light time.

Finally, in order to ensure the beauty of the picture, it is also necessary to carry out picture color grading, first digitize the film, and then convert the digitization into film after the color adjustment.

In a movie, it may be a dozen seconds of playtime, but in the production it takes more than ten days and dozens of reels of film.