Chapter 65: The Documentary Begins

Two days later.

Shen Zhengyuan got up early in the morning and prepared to go out.

Today is the first day of documentary filming, and the photographer arranged by Jin Dazhou has already started to follow the members of "Infinite Challenge" according to the arrangement.

And Shen Zhengyuan also chose a somewhat unexpected candidate as the starting point for the filming of this documentary.

"I need to shoot too?"

Standing behind the camera all the year round, and suddenly appeared openly in front of the camera, Kim Tae-ho was obviously a little unaccustomed, he moved his body a little unnaturally, poked his head at Shen Zhengyuan behind the camera and asked, "The director doesn't have to shoot." ”

“……”

In this regard, Shen Zhengyuan was silent, abiding by the iron rules of documentary shooting, talking less and focusing more on shooting.

In the process of filming, documentaries are different from other films, not only to strengthen the characteristics of authenticity, but also to choose different shooting techniques and techniques according to the needs of the shooting content, among which shooting skills have an important impact on the shooting quality of documentaries. Therefore, mastering the necessary filming skills is of great significance for documentary filmmaking.

Although Shen Zhengyuan's [documentary shooting skills] have been strengthened and have some understanding, after all, it is still only in the initial stage, and it is far from a real documentary master. Therefore, when filming this documentary, he chose a more ingenious shooting method, which is the shooting technique of objective recording.

Purely from the perspective of a third party, except when necessary, do not deliberately insert the actor's conversation, simply put, it is best not to say anything or interfere, just focus on the shooting, as for the main conversation, it will be interspersed and cut into the shooting in the later interview.

You might think that this kind of shooting is not the easiest thing to do.

But in fact, this is not the case, it is precisely because of the simplicity of the shooting that it tests the photographer's mastery of details even more.

In documentary, details are an important element to show the content of the documentary, and through the shooting of details, the content of the documentary can be better interpreted and the shooting effect of the documentary can be fully displayed. At the same time, it is also based on the importance of details to documentaries, so in the process of documentary shooting, enough attention should be paid to the details of the picture, not only to add the content of detail capture to the shooting plan, but also to pay attention to the capture of details in the specific shooting process.

It enables the documentary to fully reflect the changes in the details and highlight the details to ensure that the shooting of the documentary can achieve positive results. Therefore, paying attention to the capture of details is the key to improving the quality of documentary shooting, and it is of great practical significance for documentary shooting.

In addition, although documentaries are mainly narrative-based, beautiful pictures and high picture quality are also important factors that add points to documentaries. This can be glimpsed from "A Bite of China", which was once popular in China, and "A Bite of China" was filmed with high-definition video equipment, so that the food in the film was filmed so beautifully and mouth-watering.

It can be said that if you leave aside the high-definition photographic images, although "A Bite of China" may not necessarily fail, it will definitely not be as successful as it is now.

Therefore, the delicate and beautiful pictures can directly improve the viewing of the documentary. Especially for some documentaries with relatively special themes, it is necessary to focus on the quality of details and highlight the picture effect, so it is even more necessary to improve the picture quality during the shooting process to make it more delicate and realistic.

The reason why Shen Zhengyuan chose a high-definition camera to shoot the documentary of "Infinite Challenge" is actually to make up an idea, since he is still relatively weak in documentary shooting skills, then use clearer pictures and more comprehensive details to cover up his weaknesses in documentary shooting.

When it comes to high-definition camera equipment, there are actually some hiccups happening.

In fact, Al Jazeera doesn't have that many high-definition cameras for Shen Zhengyuan's documentary.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, you will understand that Al Jazeera has never had the experience of shooting documentaries before Shen Zhengyuan, and has never thought about what documentaries to shoot.

As a result, Kim Tae-ho knew Shen Zhengyuan's request and specially transferred a batch of high-definition cameras from MBC TV for Shen Zhengyuan's documentary shooting.

This incident made Shen Zhengyuan sigh, sure enough, his Al Jazeera TV is still a long way from a big station like MBC, and it is a big step behind other TV stations just from the complete camera equipment. This also made him sober up from his complacent mood because of the ratings of "Please Refrigerator".

However, pressure is the driving force, and recognizing the gap between his Al Jazeera and Big TV has only aroused Shen Zhengyuan's motivation even more.

Make a good documentary, earn more popularity, and hope to change the status quo.

Seeing that Shen Zhengyuan didn't react to his words, Kim Tae-ho basically understood his shooting method, didn't deliberately force anything, and started his day's schedule.

In the car, Shen Zhengyuan sat in the passenger seat, aimed at Kim Tae-ho and continued to take pictures of him driving.

Because documentaries have high requirements for authenticity and do not need to use a variety of lens changes like film shooting, therefore, in the process of filming, most of the documentaries choose to shoot at normal angles to reflect the shooting content, so that the scenery in the lens can give people a real feeling, meet the shooting needs of documentaries, and achieve the purpose of improving the shooting quality and shooting level of documentaries.

These are all skills that Shen Zhengyuan obtained from [Documentary Shooting Skills], and at the same time, they are also applied to realistic shooting.

After driving for a while, Kim Tae-ho's mood was relatively relaxed, and Shen Zhengyuan also raised his own question in a timely manner: "Director Kim Tae-ho, are you going now?"

Regarding these questions, Shen Zhengyuan will cut them out during the post-editing, only keeping Kim Tae-ho's answers, and try to maintain the authenticity of the documentary, otherwise his voice will give people the feeling of drama.

"Today is the recording time of "Infinite Challenge", and I have to go to the TV station first to prepare for today's shooting with the production crew. Today is the filming of the 400th episode of "Infinite Challenge", so I plan to make a special feature with a special point, and the shooting will be very hard, and the shooting time will be very long, and it will take more than a whole day or so......"

The whole day that Kim Tae-ho said is the real whole day, 24 hours.

"Wouldn't it feel hard to make such a heavy shooting arrangement?" asked Shen Zhengyuan.

"Well, hard work is definitely hard work, there are hundreds of people in the crew of "Infinite Challenge", but compared to hard work, they are more focused on and do not pass on what they want to shoot to the audience, and when it comes to hard topics, in fact, the members of the show work harder than us. After thinking for a moment, Kim Tae-ho replied.

"Have you decided what to shoot today?"

"I haven't decided yet, in fact, I just discussed the initial answering session with the production team, and the next part will wait for the results of the members in the answering questions to do group ......"

"Don't you just find it annoying to shoot in this way?"

"The trouble is for sure, after all, neither the actors nor our production team know what the grouping will be, it may be what we expected at the beginning, but it may not be as expected, but it is precisely because of this unknown that the show is more interesting. ”