Lan Li fell into deep thought.

Rooney's words, Alfonso's words, and Lan Li's own thoughts collided in his mind, bursting out with countless sparks, not only making the character of Ryan Stone a little more fleshed out and concrete, but also making the way of acting and the content presented gradually become clear.

It's undoubtedly an intoxicating process, getting carried away.

However, Lan Li then realized that their current thinking was too limited to the characters themselves, ignoring the environment.

Purely from the perspective of the environment, "gravity" and "buried alive" do have many similarities, as does the expression and transmission of emotions, but after really going deeper, Lan Li realized that it is wrong to think in isolation from the characters and the environment.

What's more, the difference between the two environments is that one is narrow and cramped to suffocation, and the other is vast enough to suffocate. From a psychological level, it is still different after all, and if you add the psychological changes of Ryan's character, then the difference is getting bigger and bigger, and it can even be said to be completely different.

Raising his head, Lan Li saw Alfonso with a worried face, and Rooney with an expectant face, neither of them spoke, and the chattering discussion fell silent for a while.

"What's wrong?" Lan Li's eyes widened and he cast an inquiring gaze.

Alfonso squirmed his mouth, a myriad of thoughts, but he didn't know how to express them.

Rooney blinked, not hiding her excitement at all, and couldn't wait to say, "How is it? Have you figured out a context? How is this scene going to be performed? God, I thought about it myself, the difficulty of the performance is really too great, beyond imagination!"

Rooney's vibrant eyes shimmered with light, full of curiosity and anticipation to explore the unknown, as if ...... It was as if Lan Li was a research subject, which made Lan Li laugh dumbly, "There are some thoughts, but they are not complete, I still need to think about it further, I don't want to confirm anything too hastily." ”

Then, Lan Li looked at Alfonso, "When I was in London, you mentioned that in order to create a real weightlessness effect, this work will adopt a new way of shooting, can I go and see it?"

The impact of different shooting methods on the actors is also very obvious.

The simplest and most straightforward is the green screen acting, in the manga superhero movie, many times, the actor stands in front of the green screen, does not know where he is, does not know the geometry of his opponent, and even sometimes does not know who his opponent is, just complete the performance out of thin air. This is obviously not an easy task.

During the filming of Edge of Tomorrow, in order to create a realistic sense of space, Paul Greengrass used a half-live, half-green-screen shooting method. This gives the actors more room for reference and reference for performance, and also gives the post-production team more space for realistic reference.

After filming "Fast & Thrill 5" and "Edge of Tomorrow", Lan Li has personally felt the different ways of shooting in the film industry, and now, the shooting method of "gravity" is completely different, and it can even be said to be a new way to subvert the rules of the entire industry. This also meant that Lan Li needed to know more about the entire filming system in order to put himself in the shoes of the performance.

It's as if he was "buried alive" in a coffin for filming. Lan Li doesn't mind coming back if necessary.

"Of course! Alfonso came to his senses, nodded his head, stood up, walked briskly into the studio, and began to ramble on and on to introduce the entire setup, which was one of the sources of his enthusiasm.

Lan Li and Rooney were two steps behind, exchanged glances, and then followed Alfonso one after the other into the studio.

The so-called studios are strange and strange. It can be understood that this is a huge warehouse, which is empty and empty, and then according to the crew's own ideas, all kinds of scenes are built, all kinds of equipment are set up, and decay is magically shot into a movie.

Standing outside the studio, the whole studio looks very ordinary, and it doesn't seem to be much different from any other photography base. If that were the case, they could have done the filming at the studio in Levisden without having to come to Surrey, but they could immediately notice the difference when they entered the studio.

The studios in the Leviston Photography Base are more concrete.

After the shooting, these backgrounds will not be dismantled, they can be recycled, and after the details and patterns are adjusted, they can be used for the next shooting.

The studios in the Surrey studio are even more empty.

There is not much to see in sight, and there are strange devices built on top of large open spaces. In Lan Li's impression, these equipment have never been seen, and if I guess correctly, they should all be special equipment for a movie - in other words, they can't be reused, and after shooting a movie, they must all be dismantled and destroyed.

Lan Li had noticed before that the classic scenes in the movie "Inception", the fight scenes in the revolving corridor, were filmed here.

Now the studio in front of me is like this, with a large open space, stacked with all kinds of equipment and tools, which looks like a garage or a do-it-yourself studio for an engineering otaku.

On the left-hand side, a strange piece of machinery caught Lan Li's eye. It looked like an octopus, an octopus mounted on a four-wheeled electric vehicle.

After a closer look, I found that there was an electric wheelchair below, a folding lifting table in the middle, and a mechanical table—or operating table—on either side of the operating table, two robotic arms, one with a camera and one with a light.

In the end, the entire machine was wrapped in countless wires and gears, which looked like they had just been taken out of the garage and put together haphazardly.

"That was our first version of the tool. Alfonso noticed Lan Li's gaze and actively explained, "Our original idea was to fix the actor on the operating table, and then adjust the angle and speed through the control of the lifting table and the robotic arm to create the effect of weightlessness, and at the same time give the help of lighting, creating a complete loss of control of the visual effect. ”

With Alfonso's words, Lan Li made up the picture, he could imagine how the shooting was carried out, but he couldn't imagine what the captured picture was like, and he couldn't imagine how his performance should be presented. Sure enough, engineering things are still too difficult for liberal arts students, even if he is a human being in two lives, he still has no talent in this area.

"But?" Lan Li noticed the foreshadowing left by Alfonso's words, so he asked.

"However, this way of shooting was eliminated by us. First of all, it is too clumsy, the robotic arm is still not flexible enough, and the displacement effect is not obvious enough, which means that we have to speed up the running rate of the film, but it is a disaster for the actor's performance; secondly, the lighting is too rigid, or the problem of the robotic arm, the conversion of the light source is not flexible enough, which is bound to be distorted for the weightlessness effect in space; finally, the weightlessness effect is still not obvious enough. ”

"After the test shoot, we got more inspiration and set up the lightbox. ”

As he spoke, Alfonso took the lead and walked to the right-hand side and shouted, "Tim, Tim! Lan Li has arrived on the scene, and we can now explain the theory and try to see how it looks." Tim?"

Between shouts, a middle-aged man came out of the corner, with a chubby beer belly, his hairline had receded to the middle of his head, his messy curls looked sparse, and he was dressed in a shirt and suit, but he looked extremely sloppy and simple, as if he was ...... It's like a high-level mechanic in a garage.

For the layman, maybe the person in front of him is a senior technician, and it is estimated that no one knows him, but for the insider, the person in front of him is famous and admired.

Needless to say, because his works are the best endorsements and showcases: "Avatar", "Children of Men", "Batman Prequel: The Dark Knight", "Harry Potter".

The scruffy middle-aged man is Timothy-ebber, and he's a VFX supervisor. Collaborated with James Cameron to create "Avatar" in 3D, and teamed up with Alfonso Cuarón to create a complete baby with computer effects in "Children of Humans".

In the industry, Timothy is a truly respected behind-the-scenes hero, with George Lucas, James Cameron, Robert Zemeckis and other bigwigs all close friends and highly respected.

Instead of approaching him, Timothy stood next to the corner, rolled up his shirt and suit sleeves, "Now, test it, or take a tour? If it's just a visit, it's enough for us to turn on the studio lights, there's no need to turn on all the lights." ”

"Testing. "If it doesn't bother, I'd like to be able to sit on top of the machine and really feel the effect and check the status of the shot, and if we can, we can try to shoot a short section to further check the state of the shot." ”

Although today is only the first day of arriving at the crew, the long journey and the dust are not the best, but at this time, Lan Li's mental state is extremely good, and the mood of eagerness to try is always surging.

Timothy didn't ask or say hello, just shrugged, "As you wish." Then he looked back and said, "Ben, Matt, get the lightbox up and running, and we'll test the actual shooting now." ”

With the approach of Lan Li's footsteps, and then suddenly the lights came on, as if hundreds of millions of stars gathered together to become a sun, blooming at close range.