"Are all the props ready?"

"It's all in there, it's ready. ”

"How many powerful blowers do you have?"

"8 units, it has been simulated four times, and the effect is fine. ”

"Where's the monitor?"

"Four weeks have been installed. ”

"Make sure you have a clear line of sight, and then you can finish filming this scene and simulate it at the end. ”

"Okay Tang Dao. ”

......

On May 13th, in the super-large studio currently specially built by the Western Film and Television Base, "The Martian" is preparing for today's shooting.

Since there are very few scenes in this film, this large soundstage occupies more than half of the scenes, so it is basically shot in the order of the films, eliminating the time to rearrange the scenes.

Each department made its own preparations, and several actors painted their makeup early in the morning, put on their spacesuits, and were called together by Tang An.

"Later, you will all be more relaxed when you perform, and when you take samples on the surface of Mars, you should behave like picking up shells on the shark beach, as if you were here for tourism......."

"Got it, director. The crowd nodded.

Jiang Wu opened his mouth and smiled, "Director, your line design is like an ordinary chat." ”

Tang An nodded, "Brother Wu is right, although the aerospace industry is risky, astronauts are also dangerous in outer space, but astronauts should also make the atmosphere lighter through appropriate jokes when they are working, and the characters in the movie are not newcomers, they are all old astronauts with rich experience, this is commonplace." ”

After explaining it, let them figure out the script and lines by themselves, and after half an hour, the crew was ready, and the assistant director Zhang Yiping took them through.

Then the shooting began.

"All departments are ready, this is the first scene of our movie, I hope to get off to a good start and strive for a pass!"

"The actors are in place!"

"The third scene, one shot, one time!"

"Let's go. ”

In the vicinity of the spacecraft, Liu Ye, Li Binbin, and Wang Kai were sampling the soil of Mars in the surrounding area.

The techniques, movements, and the amount of sampling have been contacted countless times in advance, and each step has been taught by experts from the space agency.

A wide range of viewing angles took pictures of all three of them.

"Most of the soil particles here are coarse, but Zone 19 is much finer, which should be more suitable for chemical analysis. ”

The camera slowly zoomed in, and Liu Ye said as he put a piece of soil sample into a container.

Then the headset was ridiculing Jiang Wu's ridiculous voice.

"Look, here's what you've found. ”

"Captain, shouldn't we notify the director immediately and give him a credit. ”

"I think it's better to report directly to the director, maybe there will be a celebration banquet. ”

While talking nonsense through the communicator, he worked at the same time, without the slightest sense of alien tension.

"Click!"

After one scene at a time, Tang An shouted to stop.

He touched his chin and looked at the two images from the monitor in front of him, leaning back slightly.

After thinking about it, he called the photographer Zhang Li over.

"Lao Zhang, the range of the long lens just now is a little larger, the angle of view is a little wider, and you don't need to deliberately consider the three-dimensional sense when shooting close-up shots of people, so reduce it a little bit. ”

Zhang Li thought for a while and asked, "But if the angle of view is wider, the depth will be smaller." ”

"The depth doesn't need to be so big, it's good to be natural, and the characters don't need to be too three-dimensional, and the scenery needs to be strengthened in a wide area. ”

After discussing it with Zhang Li, the shooting continued.

Although the farther the camera is pulled, the more scenery and depth there is, but it will be more natural to keep it within the right range.

And the wider the lens, the more it can show the entire Martian ground, a quaint sense of desolation.

The three-dimensional sense of the characters can be relatively reduced compared to the scenery, especially the close-up scene, which is more comfortable to see.

If you pursue depth too much, it is better to shoot in 2D, and then switch to make a greater sense of depth than in 3D real shooting.

It makes no sense at all.

The first shot was shot twice and ended successfully, and there was not much to test the acting skills, and the actors were all in the spacesuits.

This is the first time the crew has used 3D live shooting, using the latest 4K 3D digital camera produced by RED.

It's not as good as the Red Epic Dragon6K camera that "The Martian first used for the first time" a few years later, but it's top-of-the-line for this era, as well as for today's screens and projection equipment, and the rest of the components are top-of-the-line.

There is also an Arley digital camera that specializes in filming people running and vehicle movements, and many car chases in Hollywood use this brand of camera.

Although Zhang Li is using 3D real shooting for the first time, he has been working on it for two months in advance, and the spacing between the two lenses is well grasped, and the aperture, focal length, brightness, etc. are almost identical......

At half past six in the evening, I had dinner and rested for a while, and then filmed the scene of the storm.

In the afternoon, I had already tried the effect, and after cleaning up the scene, I was ready to start shooting.

"Okay, all departments ready!"

"The actors are in place!"

"Sixth, one shot, one time!"

"Let's go!"

Tang An gave an order, and the entire studio went dark, only a beam of light came from the spaceship, and the lights on the helmets of several of them.

Then nearly ten high-power blowers started at the same time.

Yellow sand and dirt flying!

Liu Ye, Li Binbin, and Jiang Wen slowly walked out of the human base and walked towards the spaceship with difficulty in the face of the storm.

Tang An nodded in front of the camera, the effect was very good, and the close-ups of Li Binbin and Liu Ye were also in place.

At this time, the voice of Wang Kai, who had already been prepared on the spaceship, came from the communicator.

"Captain, now the ship has tilted 10 degrees, if it tilts 13 degrees, the ship will topple!"

Liu Ye, who was walking at the back, shouted, "Captain, we must prevent the spaceship from toppling!"

"How?" Li Bin replied succinctly.

"Tie him to the ...... with a cable from a communication pole"

Liu Ye pointed to the communication pole on the side, but before he finished speaking, he was violently swept away by something similar to a cauldron lid.

The wire rope took Liu Ye around in the air twice, and then disappeared.

......

A storm scene was filmed for four hours, with three more blowers added in the middle.

As the captain, Li Binbin couldn't give up any of the team members, but after searching for a minute to no avail, he could only return to the spaceship with a sad heart.

The spacesuit is torn and theoretically survives for less than a minute.

"Everyone has worked hard today, hurry up and clean up, the supper is ready, go to rest after eating, and start work on time tomorrow. ”

Tang An also moved his body, and he was quite tired after sitting for a day.

Several of their actors also took off their helmets and spacesuits, and Tang An beckoned them to go to supper together.