After more than a week of bombardment, the explosion at Edward Air Force Base is finally... Finally stopped.

The crew looked at the smoke and dust floating in the air, and burst into tears of excitement.

This week has been terrifying, John has been bombing day and night since he came to Edward Air Force Base, even if the nerves are in the big bar for a long time, it can't stand it.

Think about it, who can stand a sudden ringing for you when you eat, and a sudden ringing for you when you go to the toilet?

Now that the last aircraft carrier was bombed and sunk at the bottom of the "Pacific Ocean", everyone can rest assured that they can sleep and eat boldly in the future, and they no longer have to worry about John coming from time to time.

After the filming of the blasting scene, John gave the crew a day off to let everyone relax and calm their nerves.

This week is not easy for everyone, especially for those who have not filmed large-scale explosion scenes, it is difficult to adapt to such an environment of heavy shelling, so rest is a must.

The crew is on vacation, but John can't rest, and as a director and producer, the crew has countless things waiting for him to deal with.

For example, aftercare.

After giving everyone a vacation, John found Engel, the special effects supervisor sent by ILM to the crew to direct the shooting of special effects shots.

"Engel! ”

For the sake of timeliness, the special effects shots shot by the crew every day will be handed over to a special person to be sent to Industrial Light & Magic for post-processing.

ILM assembled a special effects team of more than 1,000 people in Hollywood for Independence Day.

There are many people in this team, but there are more special effects shots in "Independence Day", more than 3,000 special effects shots need these people half a year to process, this is because John used miniature stop-motion shooting technology in order to save money, otherwise there will be more special effects shots in "Independence Day".

In this era, films like "Jurassic Park", "Star Wars", and "Terminator" can reach this number of special effects.

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After the crew rested for a day, everyone returned to the set in good spirits and continued to work.

Another hangar at the base has been transformed by the scenographer into the mysterious Area 51.

Originally, these shots needed to be completed in Warner's studio, but John had a good relationship with the military, so the base handed over the vacant hangar to John to use, saving the crew the money to rent the studio.

"Larry, how is the interior set up?" John walked into "Area 51", the set designer Larry was organizing the staff to set up the alien attack spaceship, this ship is very large, it was made by the modeler according to the real scale of 1:1, except that it can't fly, all the other details are perfect, if you drop it in the suburbs, it will definitely be mistaken for an alien flying saucer.

Larry wiped his sweat, looked at John and replied, "It's almost set up, and we can shoot in the afternoon." ”

"Okay, hurry up. John said a word and left the room, the staff was busy, he didn't want to stay here and lick the trouble for everyone.

Out of the room, John prepares to check on the prop production, but Engel, the special effects supervisor, suddenly finds him.

"Director Chris Deng! We've got a little bit of a problem on our side. Engel, the special effects supervisor, frowned and looked anxious.

"What's the problem?" asked John.

"Yes, the model of the lunar surface has been made, but now there is a problem, we cannot express the bright light of the lunar surface. Engel and the photographer and gaffer couldn't solve the problem after thinking about it for a morning, so he had to run to John, and if John couldn't solve it either, then he had to use post-production special effects to solve it.

John listened to Engel's words and stood still and thought about it, the question sounds simple, but it is difficult to do.

Because the Moon has no atmosphere, the sun's rays shine on the surface of the moon more strongly than on the Earth, and such strong rays are difficult to achieve with artificial technology.

However, this problem is not difficult for John, who had studied "Independence Day" in his previous life and seen the solution to this problem, so after recalling it, he said the solution: "Engel! You ask the gaffer to try it with three 20,000-watt lamps, and I believe that it should be possible to create the appearance of the sun's bright light." ”

Engels nodded after listening: "Okay, let's try, if it doesn't work, I suggest using post-production special effects to solve the problem." ”

Post-production special effects can naturally solve this problem, but then the special effects budget will increase.

"Okay, you guys try it first, and if it doesn't work, use post-production effects. John nodded dryly, he didn't want to promise Engel anything that would work, although this method would work, but sometimes it was appropriate to agree to other people's suggestions, so that others could get some respect and be good for the work.

After getting John's reply, Engel immediately returned to the model making room and asked the gaffer to prepare three 20,000-watt lamps, although he had some doubts about this method, he still decided to try, as the special effects director sent by ILM, he could not leave anyone to talk, otherwise others would say that he was working for ILM, which was not conducive to the cooperation between the two parties.

Soon, the gaffer found three 20,000-watt lamps and arranged them in three directions of the model, and after arranging them, the gaffer made an OK gesture to Engel and the photographer Emmanuel.

Engel nodded and asked the gaffer to turn the switch on.

"Click!"

With a crisp sound, the switch was turned on, and the three 20,000-watt lamps emitted a strong light at the same time and hit the model directly, and the people around were squinted by the sudden strong light.

The 20,000-watt lamp is known as an artificial sun, and when the three lamps are used together, the light emitted is absolutely comparable to the strong light of the sun.

The problem of bright light was solved, but there was another problem, which was whether the camera would work in such intense light and whether it would be able to shoot the material it needed.

When Engel saw the light turned on, he walked up behind the photographer Emmanuel and asked, "How is it?" ”

"I think so, you see. Emmanuel said, giving up his place.

Engel stepped forward and grabbed the camera to look at it, the camera was not affected by the bright light, and could shoot.

This problem is solved, and there is no need to use post-production special effects.

"I think so, too. Engel straightened up and replied, though he hoped it wouldn't work, but as a VFX supervisor, he had to stay true to the facts.

The solution was solved, and the rest was to shoot, Engel asked people to put a green cloth around the model, and asked the prop master to place the props before Emmanuel started shooting again.

John doesn't do this kind of material extraction lens himself, he is not a special effects producer, and he doesn't understand special effects lenses, so this kind of material extraction is generally done by Engel and Emmanuel together, and Engel was sent to complete these things, he can't take other people's jobs, which will make others unemployed.