Chapter 50 It turned out to be a fellow believer
""Love Yepu" is one shot fifteen times a time!"
"Click-"
The scene reporter Ah Tang held the clapper in front of the camera and pressed down the clicker hard.
The camera begins in a scene airclave, at the end of the stairs of the ramp, and the supporting actor Jacky slowly appears......
"The first group, on!" The executive director next to the photographer hurriedly pushed a beautiful woman.
The beautiful woman hurriedly twisted her ass and walked up the stairs and entered the painting from the left side of the camera.
"Group 2, on!"
When the first beauty passes by Jacky, two more long-legged beauties enter the picture from the right side of the camera.
Brother Ming began to move the camera, aimed at the long legs of the two beauties for a second, and then quickly pulled it to Jacky.
Jacky was now only five meters away from the camera, and he was smiling at the beauty's long legs......
At this time, Brother Ming began to step back and follow Jacky.
Since he had to control the camera, he couldn't look back at the road, which meant that he was going backwards down the stairs with his eyes closed...... So two camera assistants were holding him on his back to prevent him from falling into the air.
Brother Ming was wearing a black vest, and a mechanical arm protruded from the vest, and the mechanical arm was equipped with dozens of pounds of cameras.
The device, called Steadicam, is a stabilizer for shooting sports footage, which can relieve the camera shake caused by the ups and downs of the photographer's body when walking, and the audience will look more comfortable.
Next, the camera follows Jacky, showing Lan Kwai Fong, one of the city's famous night spots, in a first-person perspective, where cuddles, street tongues, drunken men and women can be seen......
This long shot is planned to last two minutes, but because the scene is too large, the number of group performances is as many as 1,000 people, as long as a group of actors make a mistake, or the photographer deviates, the whole shot will be scrapped.
Therefore, the crew officially started filming from 8 o'clock in the morning to 12 o'clock at noon, and tried 14 times, but still failed to finish the filming, only one barely filmed for a minute and a half.
"Click!"
Qian Dawei looked at the monitor and said angrily into the walkie-talkie.
This means that this attempt, once again, ended in failure.
Qian Dawei threw the walkie-talkie a little irritably, stood up and ran to the position where the final shooting had just failed, pointed to an actor and scolded:
"I'm so big, I can't touch a fart?! I don't even touch my ass so gently!"
"The camera is all on her ass, and you flick your tongue to the ghost above?!"
"Next time, as long as you start shooting, don't stop your hand for me!
The actor suddenly looked aggrieved, but he didn't dare to speak up.
In fact, the reason for this failure was not actually him, but the beautiful woman he was holding said that she had come to her aunt and asked him to be a little lighter......
Now Qian Dawei is furious, let him touch the whole process, which makes him very entangled, whether to touch it or not......
The executive director began to direct all the actors to return to their positions, and Qian Dawei also sat back in front of the surveillance to prepare for the sixteenth attempt.
At this time, the producer came over and reminded Qian Dawei: "Director Qian, this has been filmed for a long time, and I haven't even finished shooting a single shot, do you think we should change the plan......"
Qian Dawei hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded helplessly.
This long shot is very difficult, and Qian Dawei also knows that no matter how much it is consumed, he doesn't know if he can shoot it in the end, and there are so many venues and actors, and the cost is not allowed to shoot for another day......
The artistry and innovation of many films are actually stifled in this situation, especially the more and more commercialization of Hong Kong city films in recent years, constantly pursuing low cost, high efficiency, and high returns......
As for the artistic taste pursued by the director, the position is placed lower and lower.
Brother Cong saw Qian Dawei nodding, so he picked up the walkie-talkie and said, "Everyone rest in place for a few minutes, and the director team and camera crew will come over!"
It is actually normal to encounter this situation in filming, and at this time, the test is the temporary adaptability of the main creative team.
After the cameraman and the director team came over, Zhang Dawei said: "The two-minute long shot can't be filmed, let's take a trick, find a few lens splicing points, and make a fake long shot." ”
Everyone pondered for a moment, and then Brother Fu spoke: "There was a fast forward in the middle of this shot, and when the camera was picked up at the time when the fast forward flashed, there was no trace of splicing. ”
Zhang Dawei nodded and said, "This is the simplest and crudest method, who has a more intentional suggestion?"
Interesting suggestion?
At this moment, everyone didn't have any good suggestions.
Zhang Dawei was still obsessed with his two-minute long-shot challenge at this time, and he didn't have the heart to think about the "cheating" point at all, and seeing that everyone had no constructive opinions, he had to nod and say:
"So be it, split the shot with a fast-forward point!"
Su Xiaofan couldn't help but speak: "I have a suggestion, I don't know if it's suitable for ......."
Several bigwigs immediately looked at Su Xiaofan.
"Using the fast-forward point as the cutting point, the smoothness of the picture is not very high, one or two points may not be visible, but if there are more, it is easy to find ......"
"The safest way is to create a black field, and the black field should be the most fluent. ”
"The opening of "Lord of War" is a three-minute long shot of the whole process from production to use, although it is done in cooperation with real shooting and special effects, but there are actually several black scenes in the middle that can be used as splicing points, and it looks like there is no trace......"
"At about 59 seconds, the bullet fell down from the conveyor belt, and there was a brief black scene in the face, and at 86 seconds, the box was just covered and the picture was black......"
Su Xiaofan relieved his breath and continued to explain: "Everyone should have seen this shot, and I personally think that the reason why its black field is so smooth is because the black field is very natural, and it is in line with the fact that the bullet perspective is ......"
For example, there are so many people in this scene, is it possible for the camera, as a person's subjective perspective, to collide with someone...... For example, if you hit a beautiful woman's ass, thighs, or boobs...... Isn't the camera blocked out of the black field?"
Qian Dawei's eyes suddenly lit up, and he patted his thigh vigorously and said, "I'll rub it, you kid is really a talent!"
In fact, hearing Su Xiaofan's previous analysis, Qian Dawei was a little impatient.
After all, several bigwigs here have read a lot of films, and a classic movie like "Lord of War" has naturally been studied several times.
It wasn't until Su Xiaofan introduced the old and said the specific proposal that he was suddenly excited,
With such an exciting shot as hitting milk with a camera, who would pay attention to the fact that there is a black field here that will be a cutting point?
When everyone looked at Su Xiaofan, they couldn't help but show a little approval.
Brother Fu patted Su Xiaofan on the shoulder and said, "The young man can, I didn't expect that he was also a fellow practitioner!"
Everyone immediately laughed, with an expression of understanding.
Seeing that there was a countermeasure, Qian Dawei patted the assistant director next to him and said, "Hurry up and find a big wave girl, the kind that is big enough to block the camera!"
The assistant director nodded hurriedly, smiled lewdly and ran to choose actors......
Although Su Xiaofan was a little shy by everyone's laughter, he was able to give advice to the crew, and he was also able to get the money steadily, so he was a little happy in his heart.
Suddenly, he felt that there was an unkind gaze looking at him, so he looked up and saw that little Lei Ge was staring at him tightly, and the jealousy and hostility in his eyes were unabashed......
Xiao Lei couldn't have imagined that this unattractive young man had taken a shit chance that Qian Dawei had taken a fancy to him......
He has been an apprentice with Brother Fu for several years, and he hasn't come out yet, why can this guy who has just been in the industry for a few days sit leisurely next to the director and hide under the parasol to watch the show?!
Now the entire crew knows that Director Qian values Su Xiaofan very much, and everyone calls Su Xiaofan's name, and they all change from "Xiaofan" to "Brother Xiaofan" by the way...... Isn't this on the same level as him?
Every time he thought of this, Xiao Lei felt a little indignant in his heart, not to mention that this kid had rushed into him with no one in his eyes before.
Belch...... Not before, now is!
Su Xiaofan did not shy away from Brother Xiaolei's eyes, but raised his eyebrows at him slightly provocatively, and then sat proudly on the director's chair, picked up the Sprite on the table and drank it leisurely......
Brother Fu also sat down in front of the monitor again, and when he saw that Xiao Lei was still stunned here, he immediately said, "Why are you still stunned? Go and help Brother Ming pretend to be a Steadicam!"
"The villain has a will!"
Xiao Lei couldn't help but curse in his heart, and then ran into the set through gritted teeth, and together with his junior brother Zhao Yong, he helped Brother Ming put on Steadicam again.
This long shot of more than two minutes was finally cut into four sections for shooting, and the pressure of scene scheduling was suddenly reduced, and the shooting was finally completed an hour earlier than originally planned.
When the filming was about to end, Qian Dawei opened his mouth and asked Su Xiaofan: "While the group performances are still there, what other relatively large scenes can be filmed here by the way?"
Su Xiaofan recalled for a moment, and then spoke: "Scenes 16 to 35 of the thirty-first scene, the scene of the male protagonist looking for the heroine on the street with gauze tied to his head. ”
Qian Dawei nodded, and asked Brother Cong again, "Is it too late?"
At this time, Brother Cong had already turned the storyboard script to that page according to Su Xiaofan's words,
After watching it, he roughly estimated the length of time it would take to shoot in his heart, and replied: "One hour is not enough, but we can move the scene of Che Zhen back and finish it half an hour later?"
Qian Dawei nodded: "You just have a good idea." ”
Brother Cong hummed, and then said to Su Xiaofan, "You go and bring the field record from Ah Jun's side and summarize it." ”
Su Xiaofan hurriedly stood up and walked into the set.
The division of labor between the three of them is very clear, Ah Tang is responsible for the clickboard, Ah Jun is responsible for filling out the scene diary, Su Xiaofan joined temporarily, and he is familiar with the script and storyboard script, so he and Brother Cong assisted him next to the director.
Su Xiaofan walked a few steps before he saw Niu San squatting in a corner - today's shooting was all about using Steadicam, without rails and rocker arms, so he was quite relaxed, and he kept squatting next to him to enjoy the sexy babes on the street......
Niu San also saw Su Xiaofan, and hurriedly beckoned to him: "Brother Xiaofan!"
Su Xiaofan walked up with a smile and asked, "Aren't you tired after watching it for a day?"
Niu San smiled and said, "If you are ugly, you have to learn more......
“……”
Su Xiaofan now knows that Niu San is simply a guy who is lustful, but he is as timid as a mouse......
"Click-"
Su Xiaofan was about to tease Niu San for a few words, when he suddenly heard a crisp sound.
He hurriedly looked back and saw that not far away, a camera was falling and rolling on the ground......
Next to him, Xiao Lei Ge was turning his back to him, looking at the camera on the ground at a loss......