Chapter 216: Special Effects for Military Films

In Lu Lin's original time and space, "Wolf Warrior 1" was launched in June 13 and finished in early September, with a filming cycle of less than 100 days.

However, the market prospects of the film are not optimistic, and the distribution is difficult. It was originally scheduled for the 14th year, but then it was changed to January 15, and it was postponed to March 6, and finally it was set for April 2, 15, which can be described as a series of twists and turns.

In this world, it started in March and finished in early September, and it took half a year to shoot alone.

On the one hand, it is because of the change of the plot and the increase in the number of big scenes. On the other hand, it is also Wu Jing's personal thinking that has changed, realizing that some of the original ideas are not burning enough, and he can strive for perfection and shoot better.

In this way, the filming of "Wolf Warrior" was overdue, leaving a serious shortage of time for post-production, publicity and distribution. If the final schedule is set for New Year's Day in 14, it will be less than 4 months away.

Wu Jing, who had a little idea of the relationship between the schedule and the box office, panicked, and secretly said in his heart: If this can't be released in time for the Chinese New Year or the Spring Festival, the loss at the box office will be difficult to estimate!"

The reason why Wu Jing was in a hurry to find Lu Lin to drink as soon as he finished the film was also for this reason. I don't know the bottom of my heart for doing this kind of thing in the later stage!

Yangcheng is still the seafood restaurant that dined with Xu Zheng and Ning Hao last time, but the box is slightly smaller than last time. Lu Lin wore a white vest, while Wu Jing was a camouflage vest, poured himself a cup of Moutai, and raised it to salute Lu Lin.

"Brother, I photographed this piece, is it seriously overdue?"

Lu Lin smiled and raised his glass: "Well, it's really late, but it's not too big, and it's too late to catch up with the progress in the later stage." ”

Military action movies, there are also a lot of special effects shots. It's just that the special effects of this kind of movie will not be as obvious as those shown in "Avengers" and "Houyi Shooting the Sun". The slightly more conspicuous thing is the bullet flying in the air, firing the director, and the explosion, smoke and dust.

However, when the audience watches some special effects shots, it is difficult to realize this if they don't pay attention to it. For example, in "Wolf Warrior 2", the air wave when the tank fires and the vibration of the ground. Because it is impossible to pretend to be a real cannonball during filming, but the surrounding environment special effects have to be made to make the audience feel that everything is real.

and in "Operation Red Sea", the shot of the transport plane taking off is P, and the Air Force parachute jump is not a real jump, but through a green screen, and it is changed to a blue sky in the later stage. There are also paratroopers who see the desert when they approach the ground, but when they actually shoot it, it is actually a wilderness.

and the downtown scene in Morocco, of course, it is impossible to really bomb people's cities, and the streets that have been beaten into ruins are also "made" with special effects.

There is also a scene of "sniper duel", and the picture of bullets slowly flying out with fire is very shocking. Some viewers may think that only the bullet footage is made by special effects. But in fact, it is the actor lying in front of the green screen to do the aiming pose, and in the later stage, he is first turned into a wasteland behind him, and then P with flames and bullets.

Therefore, the key to the special effects of military action movies is not whether they are good or not, but whether the producer, director and action team are attentive enough.

The crew who don't care about it may just take off on the spot. Anyway, the number of military fans in the ordinary moviegoers is not high, the air wave generated when the tank fires is unreal, and the use of rocket artillery and light machine guns is unreasonable, and ordinary viewers may not be able to see it.

The attentive crew must have invited the special effects team to join the production process when filming, rather than looking for it after filming.

An employee of a special effects company complained: Actually, we are quite pitiful, and the shooting materials are not up to production standards, but every director hopes that the shots we make for him are at the same level as Hollywood. No viewer knows or cares why the footage looks like five cents, but they can easily find out who did it and this company garbage.

The special effects blockbusters in Hollywood are all produced in the early stage. Every time Lu Lin shoots, he will also invite some special effects teams to participate in the film, and how much they pretend.

The filming of "Wolf Warrior" invited a Hollywood action team, and many action scenes had visual dynamic previews before filming. It can be said that the preliminary work is in place, and the special effects are in time.

Wu Jing saw that Lu Lin, the person who is best at playing special effects in China, said that there was no problem, so he put his heart down and said with a smile: "That's good, I'm really afraid that I will miss the schedule, and the sin will be great!"

Lu Lin smiled and said: "When you go back, count the shots that need to be used for special effects, and then classify them according to the difficulty level, and the lower difficulty can be subcontracted to the country, such as Tiangong!"

Yanjing's natural craftsmanship is a powerful one of the mainland special effects companies. He has participated in blockbusters with good visual effects such as "The Grandmaster", "1942", "Painted Skin 2", "Dragon Gate Flying Armor", "Looking for the Dragon" and so on.

Lu Lin's "Alliance of the Gods" and "Hou Yi Shooting the Sun" also subcontracted a small number of special effects shots to them.

Wu Jing nodded and said, "Okay, what about the rest?"

Lu Lin said: "Of course, the rest has to be subcontracted, by the way, there is a company in India that has the right strength and price, and you can hand over some of the special effects shots to them." ”

Wu Jing was stunned, "Isn't it, this hasn't been completely divided yet?"

Lu Lin said with a smile: "If you have enough time, it's too late to hand it over to a company to do it slowly?"

Wu Jing lowered his head when he heard this, and silently took a sip of white wine. Listening to Lu Lin say again: "Then pick a slightly more difficult shot, and I'll take it to Hollywood to do it!"

Wu Jing said: "You are going to the United States, but you have to delay the filming progress here!"

Lu Lin said: "It's okay, you can let the executive director shoot some scenes that are not difficult and not particularly important according to the shooting plan." ”

Wu Jing nodded after listening, it was regarded as approving Lu Lin's proposal, who let him shoot when he seriously overdue!

The brothers and sisters had already decided to talk about some lighter topics. And when men are together, all they talk about is nothing more than career and love, money and women.

"By the way, your senior brother is getting married!" Wu Jing suddenly said.

Lu Lin smiled, "Congratulations, I didn't expect you two to be so fast!"

Wu Jing said: "It's not that I'm fast, it's that you kid is too slow, really, there aren't many good girls in the entertainment industry." Don't hesitate to meet the right one, it's just two words, take it. ”

Lu Lin was thinking about another time and space, the love story of Wu Jing and Xie Nan, one said that the house had arrived, and the family might go bankrupt. One said that I still have a small point, it doesn't matter if the movie loses, I'll raise you!

He has no chance to meet such a girl, and with his upbringing, even if the girl is willing to say so, he will not believe it!