Chapter 66: How to Shoot the Crash Scene
After a few rehearsals, the actors' performances became proficient, and the operation of the rocker arm was smooth.
It's time to shoot in earnest!
Zhang Ran picked up the walkie-talkie and ordered: "Each group prepares, let's start shooting!"
As Zhang Ran's command sounded, the arm operator controlled the boom to slowly prop up the car model into the air, the photographer pointed the camera at the car model in the air, and the personnel who had nothing to do with the shooting withdrew from the shooting site, and the crew prepared to shoot officially.
Zhang Ran took a deep breath and said loudly: "Now let's officially shoot and start shooting!"
"Hit the board!"
"Let's go!"
As the command of "start" sounded, everyone in the crew got into the groove and started the official shooting.
The crane arm begins to rotate, slowly turning towards the camera from a distance. The two rocker arm operators carefully control the speed of the rocker arm and maintain a constant motion. The car must be driven at a constant speed, one fast and one slow, which is the state of an accident.
This lens doesn't need to be radio, so Zhang Ran didn't look at the monitor at all, stood directly next to the camera, and commanded loudly: "Keep turning the rocker arm, pay attention to controlling the speed!
"Very good, keep descending!"
"Hold the speed!"
The rocker arm continues to rotate, and as it rotates, it also slowly descends. During this process, the photographer is attentive to the image and keeps the camera in the best condition.
The rocker arm quickly lowered to the ground, and the car model came to a steady stop on the ground. Cui Xinqin opened the car door, stepped out of the car, walked towards the camera lens, and then passed by the camera and walked out of the frame.
"Stop!" Zhang Ran shouted, his words filled with excitement.
The eyes of everyone at the scene were focused on Zhang Ran, and whether this shot could pass or not must be concluded by him.
Zhang Ran played the replay and nodded with satisfaction, the actors were very accurate, the performance was good, and the overall effect was quite good. He stood up and announced loudly, "Very good, this shot has passed!"
Slap -
All the staff at the scene applauded, everyone knew that this shot was very difficult to shoot, and the speed was slightly not well controlled, so they had to do it again, but they didn't expect it to pass in one time.
To be honest, Zhang Ran prepared for this scene for a day, and planned to use a day to complete these scenes, but he didn't expect to finish filming so quickly. Thinking about the crew that was messed up when making a micro-movie before rebirth, Zhang Ran had to sigh that it was still easy to use as a professional.
Zhang Ran looked at the time, it was only eleven o'clock, and he immediately found the production director: "Call Yang Zhi's parents and ask if Yang Zhi can come over this afternoon." If you can, shoot Yang Zhi's crash scene in the afternoon!"
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"Uncle Director, hello!"
Looking at the little girl with a comb and a ponytail in front of her, Zhang Ran nodded with satisfaction, the little girl has a pair of smart big eyes, and a slightly baby fat face with looming dimples, and a smile will give people a sweet feeling.
"Don't call me uncle, call me brother!" Zhang Ran touched Yang Zhi's little head, pointed to Hu Jun next to him, lowered his voice, and said, "This kind of old age is called uncle, you know?"
Yang Zhi obediently shouted: "Brother director!"
Hu Jun next to him said with an embarrassed face: "Isn't this good, director?
Everyone around laughed, only Zhang Ran was dumbfounded.
Yang Zhi immediately said to Zhang Ran: "Brother director, I also call him brother!"
Zhang Ran was happy, and touched Yang Zhi's head: "This kid is so smart, so well-behaved!" and then bent down and said: "Yang Zhi, after you are so smart, you will grow up and be admitted to university, and we will be admitted to our Peking Film Academy and our class, okay?"
Yang Zhi tilted her head and said: "I want to be admitted to Tsinghua University and become a scientist when I grow up!"
Zhang Ran laughed: "This kid is ambitious, it's good to be a scientist, then you should work hard! But if you want to be an actor, you can take the test for our Nortel and our class!"
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In "Time Prisoner", the little girl was hit by a car several times, and if there was only one way to be hit, it would look monotonous, so Zhang Ran designed several actions for Yang Zhi to be hit.
In fact, there are many ways to shoot cars hitting people, and TV dramas are the simplest, people run to the middle of the road, a light hits people's faces, and then people scream "ah", then the sound of car brakes, and the next shot people fall in a pool of blood;
Zhang Ran plans to complete it through a shot, showing the whole process of the little girl being hit and killed by a car in one shot, without cutting the shot, so that the realism can reach the best. Because the more real the shot, the greater the impact on people's hearts. Of course, this can only be achieved by shooting on a green screen and then compositing in post.
Among all the collision methods designed by Zhang Ran, the easiest thing to shoot is that the little girl walks to the middle of the road, and suddenly a car from the side rushes into the picture and knocks the person out of the picture, and the most difficult thing is that the person rolls in the car a few times when she is hit, and then rolls off the car.
Zhang Ran and they plan to shoot the simplest crash method first, Yang Zhi is too young and has no experience in acting in this kind of scene, so they have to give her an adaptation process.
The shooting method of this kind of shot is very simple, Yang Zhi runs towards the large green cloth erected, and when she is halfway through, she makes a backward movement. In the later stage, it was cut off by the green background and merged with the shot of the car speeding by, making the waist bent backwards next to the front of the car, the car drove forward, and the person also moved forward, and a shot of being hit out of the picture by the car was completed.
When the shooting officially began, Yang Zhi controlled her stride and ran towards the green screen with a sweet smile. After running two steps, he leaned back and made a backward movement.
"This shot has passed!"
The tight camera is even more difficult, Yang Zhi will be hit by the car on the hood, and then roll off the car and fall to the ground without moving.
The props team pushed out the props needed for filming, a flatbed cart with a bed of Simmons on it, two beds of cotton wool on top of Simmons, and a huge green cloth wrapped the cotton wool and Simmons.
Zhang Ran pulled Yang Zhi to his side and explained to her: "Wait for you to go forward, and then Uncle Field Worker will push the car to hit you, and when it hits you, you go to Simmons, and then roll down and lie on the ground without moving, understand?"
"Understand! But, the director's brother is a trolley, not a car, is it okay to shoot it?" Yang Zhipian looked at Zhang Ran, with a puzzled face, how could the little head can't figure it out, it's obviously a trolley, how can it become a car?
"Of course, I'll tell you what's going on when the filming is over. Now I'll show you how to do it!" Zhang Ran walked to the center of the field and said to the two people in charge of the cart, "Ready, I'll go forward, and you guys will push the cart towards me!"
"Okay, director!" the field worker prepared.
Zhang Ran took two steps forward, and the field worker pushed the trolley towards Zhang Ran and hit him on the leg. Zhang Ran fell directly on Simmons, rolled twice, and then fell to the ground.
Simmons didn't hurt at all on her body, and she felt even softer when she rolled on it, so she hit her elbow on the ground when she fell off the car, which hurt a little.
This is a problem, and the little girl must be careful so as not to fall.
Zhang Ran called Yang Zhi over, gave some guidance, and let her rehearse. On the car was Simmons, and there was cotton wool, very weak, not only did it not hurt to fall on it, but it felt very comfortable, and the little girl rolled around on it, but had a lot of fun.
After rehearsing a few times, Yang Zhi's movements were familiar, and she was taken to make up.
Zhang Ran explained to the field workers of the two carts, and then exchanged opinions with the photographer with the storyboard, and determined the camera position again. Everyone else is also busy, preparing for the filming of the live shoot.
"Zhang Ran, can this work? The rehearsal just now doesn't look real!" Zheng Dongdong felt that the effect of the rehearsal was not very good, not to mention the rolling speed and height, the key was that the whole movement looked unnatural.
Zhang Ran smiled smugly, it is normal for an old filmmaker like Zheng Dongdong to be suspicious of the effect of green screen shooting before he has seen the real effect. In fact, with enough technical support, the green screen can create magical effects beyond imagination, and this kind of crash shot is too simple to shoot!
Zhang Ran smiled and comforted: "Teacher Zheng, don't worry, there will be no problem." This is a very simple technique, just leave it to the post-processing process, and it will definitely be done. ”
Zheng Dongdong frowned when he heard this, worried that Zhang Ran would take the wrong path: "Special effects are good things, they can create magical effects, but we can't make special effects for the sake of special effects, then it will be out of the essence of the movie!"
"Thank you Teacher Zheng for the reminder, I will keep this in mind!" Zhang Ran nodded, he agreed with Zheng Dongtian's words. More than ten years later, many viewers are complaining that Hollywood blockbusters are getting more and more ugly, because many special effects blockbusters, in addition to shocking special effects, the story is often relatively thin.
Zheng Dongdong didn't say more, he knew that Zhang Ran was a smart person, and smart people didn't need to say too much.
Yang Zhi quickly put on makeup and stood in front of the green screen, and the relevant personnel of the crew were also quickly in place, ready to start real shooting.
Zhang Ran grabbed the shouting microphone and shouted: "All groups are ready!
The camera's lens is aimed at Yang Zhi from the oblique side, and from this angle, the street will be a diagonal line, that is, a diagonal composition. This kind of composition has a strong sense of depth, and is often used in large scenes, and Zhang Ran's diagonal composition is mainly to be able to shoot the whole process of people colliding.
Yang Zhi ran forward happily, and the two field workers pushed the trolley and hit her directly, hitting her. Yang Zhi fell on the cart, rolled around, then rolled off the trolley and lay motionless on the ground.
"Stop, it's a great performance!" Zhang Ran picked up the microphone and shouted. He was very satisfied with this performance, this kid is really good, very talented in acting!
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