Chapter 882: Live Grading
Atlanta is known as the "Dogwood City", because you can enjoy a tax credit of up to 30% for filming film and television programs here, making the film and television industry here very developed.
A lot of blockbuster movies like to come here to shoot and shoot.
In "The Avengers", Atlanta and Cleveland are the two main filming locations.
After filming in New York, the crew went straight to Atlanta.
Here's the highlight.
However, today's scene is relatively relaxed, and it is a cameo drama.
Qualified to come to a cameo role in a movie like "The Avengers" is certainly not trivial.
That's right, he is the father of Marvel - Stan Lee!
Stan Lee is dressed as an old cop and rides an old-fashioned motorcycle. When the "start" command sounds, he gets off his motorcycle and walks towards the Beetle driven by "The Wasp".
However, the "Wasp" had an urgent task at this time, and was in a hurry to get through the relationship between S.H.I.E.L.D., contact people, and form the "Avengers".
The whole car disappeared into thin air.
Then Stan Lee was stunned for a moment, and then shook his head again and again and sighed: "When you are old, you will always have hallucinations." ”
Unexpectedly, as soon as I looked up, I found that the vanished Beetle sedan appeared in the distance.
Stan Lee was stunned and rubbed his eyes vigorously and then again.
This is a typical flattering popcorn plot that doesn't help the main line of the movie in any way, but contributes to the box office.
A director of Donn's level, of course, is not willing to simply finish filming.
In this scene, he plans to use a waiting-style long shot to shoot it.
It is to have the actor walk in the direction of the camera, and then pass by the camera, presenting a "sense of waiting". Then, through a non-stop long shot, he shot Stan Lee's back and shot Rose Byrne in the car into the shot.
This kind of waiting can be suppressed first and then raised, paving the way for the follow-up funny plot.
At the same time, this kind of lens has a strong sense of depth and space, which is also symmetrical for the follow-up "Wasp" to start the shrinking device and change the rules of space.
Of course, this level of expression is not understood by ordinary audiences at all, mainly an explanation to industry insiders.
With Donn's order, the show began.
Stan Lee stepped off the motorcycle, and the swaying steps were full of comedy, but Rose Byrne, the "Wasp" in the Beetle, was a little helpless, as if she had thought of something, and her face changed slightly.
Donn was pleased with the performance.
Next, it will be easier to shoot Rose Byrne and Stan Lee separately.
"Director, noise interference. ”
Just as Don was about to pass through and shoot a set of shots, the voice of the sound engineer came from his ears.
Don walked over strangely, "What's going on?"
The studio's expression was a little odd, "The sound is not quite right. ”
Then, he put on the headphones for the Tang man and turned on the sound.
"Bang!"
Don was shocked!
What's the situation?
This...... Is this the sound of a fart?
This kind of sound is really a bit earth-shattering when listened to with headphones.
There are no lines in this scene, and the main thing is to capture live sounds, including Stan Lee's footsteps, and the sigh of Rose Byrne in the car.
In particular, the capture of sighs requires an increase in volume, which leads to the capture of some untimely sounds......
Tang En was really angry and funny, and in front of everyone, he couldn't say it clearly, so he said, "Rose, your performance just now was very good, especially ...... There is a pause in the middle, and your face changes slightly, and the effect is very good, showing your helplessness, boredom and anxiety at the moment. Keep it up, we're taking a picture!"
Rose Byrne coughed violently as if she had been stimulated by something. His face was slightly red, and he secretly glanced at Tang En with resentful eyes.
Shooting restarted and everything went well.
Don was on the verge of shouting.
However, for the sake of safety, he took a safe seat and went to the DIT digital workstation not far from the monitor to check the shooting results. (DIT, Digital Imaging Engineer, described above)
Here, there is the world's most advanced technology equipment - real-time preview!
The picture in the monitor is not the same as the picture captured by the camera, and the focal length, color, brightness and shade cannot be reflected in the monitor.
In traditional film shoots, directors tend to shoot for one day and then urgently send the film for development in the evening. The next day, the sample comes out, and the producer and director have to check it twice.
If it's okay, keep shooting;
If there's a problem, reshoot it.
It's troublesome.
Previous digital shoots had similar problems. The content of each day's shooting is simply processed by the computer in the evening, and the next day it is reviewed and meets the expectations before filming the follow-up parts, and if it doesn't work, it will be reshot.
However, with live preview technology, it's different!
This real-time preview technology is the latest technology developed by Cameron specifically for "Avatar" and the digital field, not to mention the real-time preview of real-time effects, even the special effects of green screen shooting, can be previewed in real time!
Very powerful!
However, the live preview image of green screen shots is very poor. Fortunately, the green screen part of "The Avengers" will not be filmed until the summer of next year, and there is still 1 year to upgrade and rectify.
Real-time preview of live action, that's too pediatric.
At the same time as shooting, the digital camera will have a wireless transmitter to send the captured picture to the DIT workstation, and feedback the final shooting effect through a set of receiving signals and a set of signal simulation system, which is stored in the computer.
It's not a high resolution, but it's very practical!
Even editors can use this part of the computer screen to edit on the spot.
Much better than a monitor!
The application of digital image engineers in the film industry, Donn has made it clear to Hollywood when popularizing the production process of film and television special effects.
However, the real-time preview technology is the first time in the world!
Not to mention Rose Byrne and Stan Lee, even Nina Jacobson, Timo Beckmanbetov and others were very curious, and they came over to watch and learn to see how it worked.
Especially Teemo Bekmambetov, who is a Russian director, uses filming equipment, film concepts...... It's still the same as in the USSR thirty years ago.
He was recommended by Abramovich and brought to Hollywood by Donn, and was also appointed as the assistant director of "The Avengers", which is called "accumulating experience".
At this moment, he was really shocked.
The digital workstation was connected to a laptop, and the DIT engineer skillfully operated it, and soon the footage that had just been shot appeared in the frame.
"How?"
"Very good!"
"Nothing was faultish!"
"Composition, zoom, performance, camera sense, no problem. ”
Tang En nodded with satisfaction, "Tune down the color and see, this leaf is too green, I want the effect of early spring in March." ”
Timo Beckmanbetov was a little dumbfounded.
On-site color grading?
Real or fake?
Isn't this the post-production process after the film is finished?
I saw that a young DIT optometrist replied neatly: "Roger!"
Then, under the attention of everyone, he operated, opened a color grading software, selected the outline of the leaves, and easily adjusted the color......
Not to mention the stunned Timo Beckmanbetov, even Ninaya Cobson and others were all surprised.
"Donne, you have such good equipment, why didn't you take it out sooner?"
"The New York scene is very simple, and you don't need it. Don shook his head and frowned again, "Can it only go so far?"
The DIT engineer said helplessly: "Equipment limitations, although this notebook is a high-performance machine specially made by Dell, there is still a big gap between it and the mainframe computer used in real movie post-production." A lot of professional software, this notebook can't run yet. ”
Don sighed.
Yes, he can promote the technological development of the film industry, but this is computer technology after all!
Be subject to the performance of your computer device!
Today's portable computers are not very high-performing.
Just when Donn was a little disappointed, Timo Beckmanbetov exclaimed excitedly, and even burst into a foul mouth: "It's so advanced! It's too easy to make a movie like this by directly grading colors on the spot and watching the image effects on the spot!"
Tang En took a deep look at him, "The advanced shooting technology has indeed lowered the threshold of the movie a lot." However, if you think that the bar is lowered, it will be easier to make a good movie, you are very wrong. ”
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