"Jesus—hell—God, what the hell is going on?"

Damien stood next to him, babbling out his frustration and depression, only to find that Simmons and Lan Li completely ignored his existence and communicated with each other, which made Damien extremely depressed: he is the director, isn't he? Why is no one listening to his tirade?

Gradually, however, Damien began to taste the change.

The aura between Simmons and Lan Li is quietly changing, it is an invisible air current, which cannot be seen or touched, and it is not even possible to describe it accurately, but every pore on the surface of the skin can really feel the subtle dynamic.

Just now, Simmons's whole person was in a state of impetuous restlessness, and his entire aura seemed disordered and fragile, as if he might collapse at any moment, while Lan Li seemed calm and serene, and that powerful aura seemed to be enough to control everything in the palm of his hand.

Now, Lan Li had become flustered and vulnerable, the helpless dazedness slowly flowing out, as if hanging from a rope in the air, and Simmons had become certain and sharp, his shoulders and eyebrows gradually spreading out to control the audience.

Up and down, down together, back and forth, the unintentional confrontation between the two actors quietly completed the offensive and defensive transition, as if all the dominoes that disrupted the order were rearranged, orderly, layered, and row upon row, and the seamless fluency was really pleasing to the eye.

"Huh, what's going on?" Damien's curiosity sprung up, such a chemistry was wonderful, but how did it complete the transformation? The image he had just shot came to mind again, and after comparing it with the scene in front of him, he developed a wonderful perception that is difficult to express in words.

It's like......

It's as if the two-dimensional barrier has been broken, reality and fantasy are completely intertwined, true and false, false and true, everything is completely confused, and even reawakens Damien's memories of high school, recalling the days and nights spent in those rehearsal rooms, recalling the cruelty and ruthlessness of that demon teacher.

"Damien?" interrupted Damien's thoughts as he turned his head to see his work, "they're ready to shoot again." ”

The drama manager paused slightly, "Damien, you...... Are you alright?" Damien's entire head was covered with sweat, and he looked like he had just been fished out of the lake, and even his face looked extremely pale.

Damien was stunned for a moment and waved his hand, "It's okay, I'm fine." As if to convince himself, he repeated again, "Yes, I'm fine." Gradually, Damien straightened his waist and turned his head to look around, "All departments and all personnel are ready, let's do it again." ”

His eyes fell on Lan Li and Simmons again, and Damien hesitated: should he have a face-to-face conversation? a face-to-face conversation? a re-admonition for the key scenes, a re-emphasis on the key points of the performance, and a little more pressure and motivation on the two actors?

Mixed thoughts surged back and forth in his mind, and after thinking about it, Damien finally obeyed his instincts, turned around, returned to the camera, and shouted to the crew, "Everyone prepare." After looking around and making sure that everyone was ready, he directly gave the order, "Let's shoot!"

Shooting began again, from scratch.

Because the difficulty of this scene is not trivial, the whole mood is coherent, and the images of the two characters of Fletcher and Andrew are completely outlined in the ups and downs, and it is conceivable that the difficulty of filming is by no means unusual, Damien conceived a variety of different shooting methods, but most of the storyboard shooting techniques are too difficult-

The rhythm and emotional state of the actors, the shooting position and camera scheduling of the cameraman, and the consistency and consistency of other amateur actors are all extremely demanding.

Shoot once, there is no problem, shoot twice, there is no problem, but switch to different angles and shoot five or six times, even if you don't count the number of mistakes in each link, every angle and shot is passed at one time, which is also an unimaginable test for the entire crew.

The simplest and most intuitive is that Simmons and Lan Li's slap scene is so difficult at one time, not to mention throwing it five or six times in a row after changing the angle? Moreover, according to Lan Li's requirements, everything is a real fight, in order to create an effect, Simmons can't be merciful, so if Lan Li's cheeks are swollen, how should they shoot when they switch angles?

Damien once considered taking one shot to the end, using a super long shot to capture the whole scene into the shot, and then through the scheduling of sports shots, from full coverage to concentrated focus, all the focus of attention fell on Lan Li and Simmons, but after conceiving a variety of long shot schemes, Damien still gave up on this idea.

On the one hand, the technical difficulty is too high, from the appearance of the saviors to the individual focus, the control of scene scheduling needs to be extremely precise, and the tension of the atmosphere is presented by switching from face to point, which is only Damien's second work, and his ability has not yet reached such a height;

After much deliberation, Damien adopted the multi-camera shooting technique of American TV dramas.

In the United States, before the strong rise of the Netflix model, TV dramas were filmed and broadcast, and scripts were written while filming to ensure that they could keep pace with social current events every week, which also made post-editing work very tense and difficult, in order to reduce the time as much as possible, the crew came up with a new way of shooting, but only for the studio.

The crew set up multiple cameras in different corners of the studio, including parallel cameras, overhead cameras, front and back camera positions, and so on.

In this way, the scenes of multiple actors and multiple cameras only need to be filmed once, and all angles, roles, and directions are all in one place, and post-production can be edited in different permutations and combinations according to the needs of the director, which not only saves the shooting time of repeatedly switching shots, but also saves the time of post-editing and production.

Of course, this is an assembly line industry, which is very lazy and very rigid.

In the process of real cinematic art, the camera is an extremely important part, the photographer's position and angle, the photographer's capture of light and shadow and composition, which is itself a work full of inspiration, and those top photographers are very important in the industry.

If all of them are shot with a fixed camera, the charm of photography will be lost.

However, it is harmless for TV dramas, because TV dramas are the art of screenwriters, and what really attracts the audience is the screenwriter's foreshadowing and control of the plot. The roles of cinematography and directing have been diminished as much as possible.

Now, Damien is ready to shoot like this in "The Burst Drummer." Although this was a forced choice, Damien tried to restore the spirituality of his artistic creation, not in a fixed position, but in the form of two photographers walking shoulders against the camera.

To put it simply, the whole scene was shot smoothly, without switching different camera positions or angles, but by two photographers in person, without shooting tracks or tripods, completely handheld shooting, one photographer aimed at Simmons, one photographer aimed at Lan Li, through their cross-transposition, all the tension and sparks of the whole scene were captured, and at the same time the camera was prevented from capturing each other.

This is undoubtedly the hardest part.

First, the difficulty of the actor's performance goes without saying.

Second, the photographer's position must be precise and in place, not only because the camera cannot capture each other's figures, but also to avoid the shadows on the ground from revealing their movements, and at the same time, not to block the actors' view of the performance.

Thirdly, the work of the gaffer is crucial, and it is necessary to ensure that the light is uniform and stable.

In fact, after shooting like this, the difficulty will definitely not be less than that of a long shot in one shot, but Damien can give the shot more "drumbeat" rhythm through the power of post-editing, like the heart, which becomes the vitality of the whole movie.

Therefore, for this scene, the cinematographer, the lighting engineer and the two leading actors have been rehearsing for three whole nights, just like rehearsing a stage play, under the guidance of Lan Li, they are constantly rehearsing and moving, in order to avoid the potential flaws caused by the intricate movements, they must reduce each other's movements as much as possible, and complete the most effective shooting and performance at the most precise pace.

It's like a limbo microstep.

It is precisely because of this that the shooting just now was so smooth and smooth, but it fell short because of Simmons's retreat, and Damien was so annoyed and depressed, and used all his strength to express his frustration.

Now that they're back on film, they're having to start all over again, and it's like domino, if one thing goes wrong, they have to overturn it all over again.

Under Damien's instructions, the whole scene starts from the beginning.

Fortunately, this time Lan Li and Simmons were not affected at all, and the whole shooting was still advancing according to the established track without the slightest mistake; moreover, the emotions revealed in Lan Li's eyes were quietly driving the rhythm of the whole scene.

Then, the main event finally came again.

"Start counting. ”

"Five, Six, Seven......"

"Count to the hell four! Look at me!"

Fletcher is like a terrible devil, pressing forward step by step!