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"Gravity" will use the current top CG technology to build a vast space scene, which will also be another breakthrough in technology for Chinese films.

Chen Yongren believes that this "Gravity" will create a technological storm for many space-themed films from scratch and from less to more.

Compared with the filming of "Interstellar", the shooting equipment and various technologies used in "Gravity" are the most advanced film technology today, which can be called a feast of film technology.

However, when it comes to actual shooting, the difficulty and requirements are also very high, and every shot, every frame, has to pay a lot of energy.

At this time, the scene of the heroine walking in space at the beginning was being filmed.

"The robotic arm is ready, the gaffer is ready, the camera is ready, the actor is ready..."In front of the monitor outside the studio, Chen Yongren said with a walkie-talkie.

This is a huge studio, and inside the studio is not a traditional green cloth, but a space as dark as ink.

There are not many staff inside, only a few staff members such as photographers, and only one actor, Li Bingbing.

Chen Yongren sat in front of the monitor outside.

After the normal light was turned off, the light installed above the mechanical arm began to emit a ray of light, shining on Li Bingbing's body, at this time Li Bingbing's back was controlled by the mechanical arm, her body was about three meters away from the ground, wearing a prop spacesuit, at this time the back was controlled by the mechanical arm, and her hands and feet could move normally.

Then, when everything was ready, Chen Yongren looked at the picture in the monitor and replied with a walkie-talkie: "Start shooting!"

Then, the robotic arm began to rotate, Li Bingbing's hands and legs also cooperated, and the light on the robotic arm was also moving slowly, simulating the sun's rays in space shining on the astronauts' heads and bodies.

In space, it is necessary to overcome not only the problem of the scene after weightlessness, but also the problem of the light source, and other environmental conditions such as light in space need to be accurately calculated and simulated on a supercomputer.

The robotic arm controls the light source simulation system, and when the actor moves on the robotic arm, the light source will also move with it, simulating the movement of cosmic light.

Both robotic arms are in motion, and the camera is also reflecting Li Bingbing and the surrounding light in various positions.

After a long time, Chen Yongren said on the walkie-talkie: "This is over." ”

"Go!" Wang Dali said loudly.

The mechanical arm slowly put Li Bingbing down, after all, Li Bingbing is on the mechanical arm, just a little bit of force on the back, in the long run, the boys can't stand it, let alone the girls, the back pain is very uncomfortable, so this is also a very test for the actors.

After putting it down, Chen Yongren said on the walkie-talkie: "Dali, you go over and ask Li Bingbing, how does she feel?"

Wang Dali hummed, and then walked over to ask Li Bingbing.

In fact, Li Bingbing really has a sore back, which is very uncomfortable, but for actors, this is work, some hardships at work must be eaten, and it is also an actor's professionalism.

So Li Bingbing smiled slightly and said, "It's okay, I feel okay." "Even if I have complained in my heart that this robotic arm is really not a thing, of course it is really not a thing, it is a machine and equipment.

In the big dye vat of the entertainment industry, there are countless beauties, the competition is fierce, everyone wants to break in, want to get ahead, some rely on taking off their clothes to succeed in getting on the top, but after all, it is just inferior, even if it comes up for a while, it is difficult to climb to a higher height.

Stars who really stand at the top of the entertainment industry, in addition to overcoming various rules in the entertainment industry, must also have talent, love this profession, have understanding, and finally be diligent, such people can go long and stand tall.

The entertainment industry says that it is not big or small, there are so many resources, and there are even fewer good resources, so only by cherishing their feathers, and at the same time having professionalism and diligence, can they continue to make progress and grow, and can they sit firmly at the top of the pyramid.

Li Bingbing belongs to this type of person, even if he feels that he can't do it in his heart, but on the surface they can still be full of care, and they can still continue, unless they really can't hold on, instead of scratching a little skin and running to the hospital crying, and the doctors can't look down on you after arriving, because the wounds are healed.

"The actors rest, and the others prepare for the next scene. Chen Yongren sat in front of the monitor and continued, although Li Bingbing said that it was okay, but after all, it was the first time to contact this kind of shooting, and it was fake to say that it was okay, so he would also give the actors time to rest.

The rest of the crew immediately got busy preparing for the set.

Some of the low-level personnel who came in to help are now being commanded to be busy, but everyone has no complaints, although they will be scolded if they make mistakes, but they will not do anything.

The rest of the crew is like a class society, the director is like the emperor, and then they come down one level at a time, and if they do something wrong, they will be reprimanded, beaten and fired.

The filming of a movie is like a huge project, with a large number of personnel, and the crew will be very busy and tired, so it is inevitable that there will be all kinds of problems.

However, in Chen Yongren's crew, there will be a situation of scolding, after all, if you don't scold, you don't have a long memory, if you make a mistake again and again and affect the filming progress of the movie, you will lose a lot, but there will be no fighting, and the staff at the bottom will also feel respect here, plus the treatment is also the highest in the industry, so people from outside can't get in if they want to.

Chen Yongren is not used to scolding, so there are very few cases of scolding in his crew, and the whole crew is very harmonious and cooperates tacitly.

In addition, Chen Yongren is now constantly improving the treatment of low-level personnel, so Chen Yongren's crew can be regarded as a national demonstration crew, and bad incidents in other crews have never happened in Chen Yongren's crew.

Therefore, a group of low-level personnel are also happy to be instructed to work, because sometimes they really don't know what to do, so they need a leader to direct them to do it, so that they also know what to do and what not to do.

At this time, Li Bingbing also took off the helmet of the cosmic suit, and the makeup artist came up to touch up the makeup, which was still a little uncomfortable to wear.

Chen Yongren walked in from the outside, came to Li Bingbing's side and said: "Bingbing, you did a good job just now, but I still have to remind you to always pay attention to your hands and feet, you must know that you are in space, and you must imagine yourself as a weightless astronaut, not an actor who is held by a robotic arm, and some movements are still a little stiff just now." ”

"I see, Director Chen. I may have just been a little unaccustomed to the first contact. In the crew, Li Bingbing still gives Chen Yongren a lot of face, after all, private friendship is friendship, and you have to take it seriously at work.

"Another point, the robotic arm can only ensure that you tilt at a maximum angle of forty-five degrees, otherwise you will fall up from above, and you have to be careful on top, you have to keep your balance, and you can't let yourself fall. Your right leg is meant to maintain balance and allow the rest of your body to perform better, so you don't have to think about your right leg. Got it?" said Chen.

It is also a bit dangerous if the whole person needs to perform in any part of the body, so Li Bingbing's right leg will be made with special effects in the movie, and she can stretch out her right leg to maintain the balance of her body, so that she will not always feel like she is going to fall.

"Okay, I see. Li Bingbing nodded and replied.

"I've touched up my makeup, and I'm ready for the next one. Chen Yongren said to Li Bingbing, and then walked out of the studio to shoot and returned to the monitor.

After nearly half an hour of preparation, the mechanical arm was raised again, and at this time, Li Bingbing had already acted slowly as required, Chen Yongren looked at the screen on the monitor and nodded, now it is much better than just now.

It is well known that astronauts enter a state of weightlessness in space, and in this state, the legendary flight becomes very likely to be realized.

Shooting a weightless environment, human beings have explored too much from scratch, but until now, it is still a big difficulty in shooting.

The most dick filming was to have the actors jump forward on the springs, simulating the scene of the weakening gravity on the moon.

Now, the shooting method used by Chen Yongren is to use a robotic arm to hold up the actor under a specific light source in this large studio, and then use a camera at a specific angle to shoot the weightless picture of the actor.

After all, weightlessness on the big screen is only weightlessness in the perspective senses, not really weightlessness.

The robotic arm can adjust the angle and orientation of the actor at all times, plus the robotic arm adjusts the lights and cameras, and the effect of weightlessness is also very realistic, but this method is a pain for the actor, because it is also a very sinful thing to be hung all the time.

After today's footage was filmed, it was already more than seven o'clock in the evening, Li Bingbing and the others left first, while Chen Yongren and Wang Dali were watching today's replay.

The footage of a movie is usually watched countless times, and if you watch it on the same day, you have to reshoot it on the same day if you find a problem, or make a reshoot, so after a movie is born, many shots are seen by the director and want to vomit.

And now, when Chen Yongren watched a shot, Chen Yongren pointed to the problem of this shot and said to Wang Dali: "That shot just now is not good, I have to reshoot, I have to pay attention to it tomorrow." ”

"Well, I also feel like I need to remake it, and I'll pay attention to that tomorrow. Wang Dali replied.

After all, now that everyone is gone, it's too late, and it's impossible to shoot again now, so we can only reshoot it tomorrow.

After watching a few other shots, Chen Yongren said to Wang Dali: "Do you feel that our lighting efficiency is a bit low?

Wang Dali looked at it, nodded and said, "Yes, I feel a little bit like this." ”

"Gravity" requires a lot of special effects, so between live shooting and post-special effects production, it must be very precise, and one of the difficulties is the lighting problem, just like the use of special effects post-production light source, it must be a little unnatural, and the use of mechanical arms to control the light source now seems to be a little insufficient.

"I asked Liao Juntao to contact the manufacturer to get that thing, how did it go?" Thinking of this question, Chen Yongren asked.

"That thing, it may be almost ready, but after all, there are nearly two million light bulbs, and it will take some time to catch up. Wang Dali returned.

Chen Yongren nodded: "Okay, let them get it out as quickly as possible." ”

"Director Chen, you still have to think about it, nearly two million light bulbs, if they are lit together, it is estimated that staying in it is no different from waiting in the oven, and you have to work for more than ten hours a day, it will be very uncomfortable at that time, right?" Wang Dali said.

Chen Yongren nodded: "It's definitely uncomfortable, but in order to make the movie show the best effect, this is also the hardship that an actor should endure." ”

Wang Dali replied: "This is also true. ”

After chatting for a while, the two discussed the shooting issue and went back.

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The shooting on the second day was still the same as yesterday, so detailed that no mistakes were allowed, and Chen Yongren also went on the robotic arm several times to shoot during the period.

On the mechanical arm, many things are so simple, not to mention that he still moves his hands and feet together, Chen Yongren also felt more and more pain in his back, but he can still endure it, after all, he has also trained, and it is not so scary to get used to it, but he admires Li Bingbing a lot.

Then, according to the arranged movements, Li Bingbing also rose up, and the two rehearsed before filming officially started.

With such detailed shooting, it seems that the progress will be slow, but as long as the run-in period in the early stage is passed, it will be very fast later.

By the time of the four, a huge installation had been installed.

It is a cuboid, about six meters high, and inside this huge installation, the four walls are all composed of LED screens, which play videos or pictures that simulate the surrounding environment, and the camera controlled by the robotic arm rotates flexibly in this space.

In this way, the VFX team creates a pattern of the virtual scene on the LED screen to match the subjective vision of the actors, so that the picture displayed on the LED screen will illuminate the actors and put them in the middle of it, as if space is revolving around the actors.

This large lightbox installation also solves two major problems.

The first problem is the lighting problem, and one of the major problems brought about by the large number of special effects production in "Gravity" is how to make the real-life picture and a large number of CG environments synthesized seamlessly.

After all, in a live-action shooting situation, the actors' lighting is usually different from the CG environment, but if the lighting is not right, the composite effect will look unnatural, which requires finding a way to match the live lighting and CG ambient lighting.

The previous method of lighting with the robotic arm is not enough for long-term shooting, and it is difficult to simulate the light in space.

Now, with this LED headlight box, the actor will be completely solved by the LED screen controlled by the special effects team.

For example, to shoot a shot of an astronaut spinning in space, it would be very cumbersome to set up the lights in green screen conditions, but in a light box, you only need to adjust the content on the LED screen.

After all, this large lightbox is no joke, and the production cost is as high as nearly 10 million US dollars.

The second problem is that it solves the problem of actors' performances to some extent.

It is undeniable that Li Bingbing is indeed an excellent actor, which has been seen before the shooting of this device is ready, and the heroine of "Gravity" must also be an actress with particularly delicious acting skills.

But a good actor also needs a good opponent and a good environment to help him enter the play.

For example, when filming a costume drama, there will always be some problems in how modern people act, and with the help of props and scene layout, everyone sees that everyone is wearing armor and tied their hair, and they will be taken to this environment.

And "Gravity" is a space-themed movie, so all the space scenes need to be produced in post-production, so when the actors shoot, they only see things like cameras, and they can only rely on imagination to get themselves into the play.

With this device, you can rely on the control of some lights in the LED light box to make the actors adjust their mentality, better integrate into the environment, and enter the play much faster.

Chen Yongren also wanted to see the effect of this LED, so he immediately began to inspect it.

After all, no one has tried it, so in order to avoid danger, a substitute staff member was sent to try it out, but it doesn't matter if it's not a crew, and the question of who is important to the crew members, obviously if the actor has a problem, the entire crew will be affected, and the filming of the movie will be delayed.

Chen Yongren was in front of the monitor, looking at the screen, simulating several lights, it felt very good on the screen, and after the staff member came out, Chen Yongren watched the playback again, and the effect was really good.

Wang Dali and the members of the special effects team were also very excited, so that the lighting problem was solved, and now this thing is done, everyone on the scene is very happy, in their opinion, this idea is really amazing.

However, while being happy, Huang Zihua, the head of the special effects team, said: "The problem of lighting has been solved, but the cutout is a lot more troublesome." ”

The principle of cutout is to use the color difference between the two places to carry out, which is why the principle of green screen is needed to shoot a movie, green screen is a solid color, post-production is relatively easy, many times as long as the steel wire is erased.

But now, they're trying to cut out a more complex image lightbox.

After all, the light box is only used for lighting, not for simulating space scenes, if it is a movie that claims to invest hundreds of millions of dollars, using LED screens to simulate space, it is estimated that it will also be recorded in film history, but it is a film history that has been ridiculed.

Therefore, in post-production, the picture of the lightbox has to be erased, so the difficulty of cutout is much higher, but these are the things of special effects personnel.

Special effects are a time-consuming and laborious task, and behind every frame of the picture is the painstaking efforts of the special effects staff.

That's why the post-production cost of this movie is so high.

Chen Yongren pursues the ultimate texture of the picture, and the problem of post-production is left to the special effects production staff to worry about, after all, so much money is not spent in vain.

With the lightbox, the efficiency of the next shooting has increased a lot.

After filming for more than half a month, the real footage of "Gravity" has been completed a lot, and this more than half a month is a new experience for everyone in the crew.

And Chen Yongren's version of "Gravity" must be better than the original version, and it must be more refined, and where is the driving force? Of course, it is the investment of capital, so this is why the production cost of these films is so high.

Fortunately, "Gravity" was filmed in Longteng Film and Television City, so it saved a lot of money.

The real cost of special effects is in the post-production of special effects, so the cost of post-production accounts for more than 100 million dollars.

Of course, the biggest thing is publicity, and high publicity can be exchanged for high box office.

"Gravity" has a lot of shooting tasks every day, and things are very troublesome, plus Chen Yongren has to be both a director and an actor, so Chen Yongren's pressure is also very great, unlike "Three Fools" and Zhou Xingxing to help shoot.

Under the pressure of such a crew, Chen Yongren has very little rest time every day.

After staying up for more than 20 days, a lot of footage of "Gravity" has been completed.

As time passes, the filming of "Gravity" is becoming more and more difficult, and it is becoming more and more tiring, but everyone is already very familiar with each other, and with each other's cooperation, the progress is not slow.

In a blink of an eye, in mid-May, the actual filming of "Gravity" was almost completed, so Chen Yongren also allowed reporters to visit the crew.

On May 16th, Chen Yongren just came out of dinner, and was immediately surrounded by reporters, and now not only the Chinese film industry, but also the world film industry is very concerned about the filming progress of "Gravity".

Therefore, seeing that "Gravity" allowed to be explored, many reporters came over one after another.

"Director Chen, may I ask if the filming of "Gravity" is almost finished now?" a reporter asked.

"Yes, although the filming of "Gravity" also encountered many difficulties, the filming progress was still good, and the actual shooting of "Gravity" could be completed by the end of the month, and then it would move on to post-production. Chen Yongren smiled and said: "In terms of specific shooting, I encountered a lot of difficulties, but in this regard, I want to thank the heroine, Li Bingbing, although there are many difficulties and obstacles in the shooting, she has never complained, the filming progress is so fast, and it is inseparable from her dedication, so I want to thank her." ”

Chen Yongren smiled and shifted the topic to Li Bingbing, and then slipped away quickly, although he opened up the class, he didn't want to deal with reporters very much, mainly because he wanted to take this opportunity to promote a wave, and by the way, show the high-end production of the movie.

Then the reporters focused their attention on Li Bingbing, and a bunch of crackling questions were smashed over, and Li Bingbing also calmly answered the reporters' questions one by one.

After the crew visited the class, they also released various news, and these things were also shown in various news about this visit.

[Gravity crew's mysterious big light box]... Such a title also makes the outside world very curious about the crew of "Gravity".

In addition to such reports, there are also reports of some other equipment, the early stage of "Gravity" is always filmed secretly, and there is no information revealed, and now so many things are suddenly revealed, which immediately caused widespread discussion.

"Li Bingbing is so beautiful in a spacesuit, this is probably the most beautiful astronaut, right?"

"Brother Da Ren is super invincible and handsome in a spacesuit, and I am looking forward to it!"

"I'm looking forward to this movie more and more, I hope it will be released soon, I can't wait!"

"It is said that post-production takes more than half a year, I don't know if it's true or not!"

And the stills of the first batch of visits to "Gravity" have also been released to the world.

"Gravity" bears the name Chen Yongren, so the publicity effect is also twice the result with half the effort, after all, the name Chen Yongren has already spread all over the world and countless fans, so fans in many countries are also talking about this movie.

After seeing the stills of Chen Yongren wearing a spacesuit, he was also very satisfied with the look of his new movie, and he was even more looking forward to "Gravity".

In everyone's expectation, after two months of shooting, "Gravity" completed all the actual shooting tasks on May 30, officially completed, and the film began to move to post-production.

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