Chapter 19: The Film Begins (Part II)
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"Everyone be quiet, we will start the camera immediately, the lights, cameras, props are prepared, the actors are entered, and the field is prepared. All units listen to me. ”
Uncle Li shouted with a loudspeaker. Every time he called a unit, the relevant person in charge answered them one by one.
"Eksh—"
As the field service board, the camera continued to rotate and officially started shooting. The crew also watched the shooting quietly.
Wu Xiaozu sat behind the pick-up, staring at the actors entering in front of him.
The first scene was filmed when the police found dismembered limbs and severed feet in the Shing Mun River according to a citizen's report. The scene where the police go out to the scene to solve the case.
Fei Cheng, Luo Dong, and Su Liyao entered, followed by Shao Meiqi, who looked nervous. The four of them played the role of a bad case-handling guy.
"Sister, pick up the broken hands and feet!"
"Why me?"
"You're a newcomer to the whole group, do you want us to go? Why don't you wait for Team Leader Li to come and let him pick it up?" These props are all rented from TVB, and they are decent.
Wu Xiaozu sat on the chair and watched the detectives played by Luo Dong, Fei Cheng and Ah Yao reprimand the policewoman played by Shao Meiqi, while the sister played by Shao Damei tiptoed and nervously went to pick up the bones.
Not bad.
The nervous Shao eldest sister performed quite unexpectedly to Wu Xiaozu, but she didn't expect to act quite well. As everyone knows, this is exactly the mood of Sister Shao at this moment. It's a true performance.
Immediately afterwards, Wu Xiaozu motioned to Qiu Litao and let the other actors enter the scene.
"Li sir. ”
Li Zhaoji was wearing a black suit, fierce and vicious, grinning, like a big guy more than a bad guy. hugged a long-haired girl wearing a hip-wrapping skirt with heavy makeup tightly around her arms, and walked into the camera as if she had come to collect money.
The fierce and vicious, meat-faced Detective Bad guy is the good guy in the film, but the handsome and handsome Liang Jiahui is the villain.
Is there a strange confrontation between the wicked and the good?
Fierce is good, Sven is evil, and the confusing distinction between good and evil is inherently meaningful. Without mentioning the connotation of human nature, such a setting is interesting in itself.
is like Zhong Kui, with a vicious face but uneven in the world.
On the contrary, the big treachery and the big evil are mostly loyal and honest. Is there any very black humor?
People like to look at the cover preconceived notions, but don't read the content inside.
As for the sexy and coquettish girl next to her, the wild model who paid for it, the official name is nightclub public relations. Commonly known as "toll battery".
Li Zhaoji plays the role of the amorous and vicious team leader, who is responsible for the logic and explanation of the bad guy in the film, Fei Cheng is responsible for gags and humor, and Ah Dong is wearing a tight vest, acting cool and taking action. Ah Yao is wearing black-framed glasses, submissive, and is bullied.
Shao Meiqi?
Hit soy sauce in charge.
Sister Shao, who worked hard to perform, didn't know that in the eyes of the director, she had fallen from the role of a vase to the role of soy sauce. If you know, Sister Shao may cry and faint in the toilet.
This scene is very simple, the main thing is that they found the scene of the broken corpse, and there are not many scenes.
Liu Weiqiang followed with a camera, and everything was very smooth.
Hollywood movies have more shoulder resistance and hand-held, while Chinese movies are accustomed to using slides. Watching Chinese movies, the movement shots are very stable, but they lack a sense of movement, they are flat, and the shots lack breathing rhythm, which is very rigid and deliberate.
Hollywood shots are different, although they are a little shaky, but the picture is more vibrant, and it is more in line with the laws of movement.
The main reason for this is that Hollywood uses Steadicam to shoot, and before the advent of digital cameras, photographers in the Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland film circles who can skillfully operate Steadicam shooting have no more than two hands.
Film copy cameras are bulky, huge, and complex to operate, making it difficult to control the lens feel. Steadicam is also very difficult to operate.
Unlike later generations, Steadicam is light to use, you can buy one for a few thousand yuan, you can play sports shooting by pressing the SLR, and even Lao Mouzi has played the SLR.
"Stop!"
Wu Xiaozu and Qiu Litao put on a cloth and went in to look at the monitor, called up the lens they had just taken, looked at it carefully and carefully, and pressed the pause to watch it again after watching it.
"Take a look at the cameras and the radio"
Qiu Litao nodded, and walked with Wu Xiaozu to the metal film camera.
For film shooting, the lens of the monitor is small, and the definition is only a few tenths of the screen. The color accuracy is negligible, and only the performance and composition can be faintly seen, and the composition is the one with a bright white wireframe.
The image is very unclear, so it is difficult to watch it by blocking the light with a cloth.
At this time, the director needs to look at the camera plug-in.
Liu Weiqiang is in charge of the camera, and his assistant Qian Wenqi is in charge of the focus, which is the most important part of the shooting technique, and it is easy to soften.
The picture of the camera is clearer, the composition is more complete, after watching, the performance, camera, and light ratio are no problem, Wu Xiaozu asked the radio again, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.
The crew started filming the first shot, and he couldn't be sloppy, and he didn't blame him for being nervous.
Liu Weiqiang's skills are very high, although he is not Steadicam, but the lens is very stable. And what surprised Wu Xiaozu even more was not only Liu Weiqiang. After all, he has the endorsement of later generations.
The most amazing is the lighting artist Zou Lin. is not very old, but he controls the amount of light and the light ratio very accurately, which makes Wu Xiaozu feel like he has picked up a treasure.
The gaffer is as important as the camera. The lighting group belongs to the earliest start and the latest finish, and like the camera, it takes more than an hour for each installation and arrangement.
With Liu Weiqiang and Zou Lin, the two technical masters, the crew cooperated a lot more smoothly.
After filming for a while, Qian Wenqi, the assistant and film changer next to Liu Weiqiang, showed everyone the basic skills of a photography assistant - changing film.
First take out the hidden bag, replace the cooked film with a metal box, and seal it with tape, this process leaks a little light, and everyone is busy before.
The result is in Qian Wenqi's hands, but there is no chaos, and the whole process does not take more than 20 seconds. Then circle the raw film into the camera, without wasting a foot. Changing the film is like magic.
"Damn, Archie, you must teach me this hand, so handsome that I have no friends. ”
Fei Cheng, who has already learned some common sense of filming and is very interested in shooting, saw this scene, his eyes lit up, and he screamed again and again.
Not to mention him, even Director Wu was quite surprised by this camera assistant who followed Liu Weiqiang, and there were really no weak soldiers under the cheek gang.
This hand is very hard-working, and it won't be so neat if you haven't worked hard.
……
Liu Weiqiang held a camera, and the camera captured a pair of leather shoes.
Slowly pulling back from the close-up to the medium shot, a back figure emerges, the dim light above the head constantly shaking.
"Click!"
Wu Xiaozu beckoned Qiu Litao, Uncle Li and Liu Weiqiang to gather together and point at the picker.
"The depth of field is good, but the close-up to the medium shot is too abrupt. ”
"How about shooting separately?"
"Choosing a long shot here is more atmospheric. ”
"Do you want to try it with a boom?"
After a few people discussed for a while, Wu Xiaozu told everyone about his creative intentions, exchanged their ideas, and then started again. Cinema itself is an art of compromise that requires the whole team to work.
A day's shooting, if you follow the way of later generations, then you may also shoot several sets of shots.
But Hong Kong is all about efficiency.
Not only are the actors in different crews playing, but the behind-the-scenes staff are also rushing to the scene, which requires that efficiency must be improved.