There is a particularly big hole in the VR movie shooting, because it is a 360-degree panoramic shooting, there can be no one else on the scene except the actors. The director, the cinematographer, and where the crew went, was the question. However, Zhang Ran: They are test shooting, so they don't need to think about this problem. Not only are the staff on site, but the monitors and all kinds of equipment are on site.

Soon the preparations for filming were done, Wang Fan put the VR camera on his head with the help of Zhou Qing and them, and lay on the bed, the other actors were also in place, and the staff were all in place.

As Zhang Ran began, the actor standing outside the room began to knock on the door "tuk-tuk".

After knocking a few times, Wang Fan grabbed a piece of clothing and put it on, stepped on the paper and garbage dirty clothes all over the ground and walked to the door, then lowered his head and pointed the camera on his forehead at the door mirror. In ordinary film shooting, the actor does the action of watching the door camera, and then the picture seen through the door mirror is enough. But VR movies can't be edited, so the actor has to look down and aim the camera fixed on his forehead at the door mirror, so that the audience can see what's in the door mirror.

Behind the monitor, Zhang Ran and Zhao Fei were both staring at the monitor tightly. Zhang Ran's VR camera has 12 lenses, and in order to see all the images, they have to set up 12 monitors, but Zhang Ran and they only have 6 monitors, one each on the front, back, left, right, and bottom.

Zhang Ran stared at the camera on Wang Fan's forehead, which simulated the position of the human eye. Through the face monitor, Zhang Ran found that Wang Fan did not completely aim the front camera at the door mirror, and the picture he captured was a little crooked. But it's not a big problem, and after stitching all the pictures together, the problem of a little crooked picture can be solved.

Wang Fan didn't open the door, and shouted angrily: "Who are you looking for?"

"I'm looking for ......" The actor outside the door pulled out a crumpled piece of paper from his pocket and held it up towards the door mirror, with only two words on it: knife hand.

"The kitchen knife seller is in the market, go downstairs and turn left!" Wang Fan replied loudly, turning around and grabbing two bags of milk and a box of cat food from the cabinet next to the door.

In the story of "No Way Home", the black cat Aksha is an intelligent life, and there are many dialogues with the heroine, and the actor needs to move for Aksha during the test shooting and play for the heroine. The actor playing Aksya came up and said, "Looking for a knife man?"

Wang Fan nodded solemnly and whispered, "Move in the afternoon." ”

Aksha scolded, "Which rat-raiser leaked our place?"

Wang Fan puffed on the milk bag and began to throw his clothes into the suitcase, and began to prepare for the move. However, the man outside the house had no intention of leaving, and stubbornly knocked on the door. Wang Fan walked over in two steps, opened the door with a bang, and stood with his waist crossed and scolded: "Why the hell is wrong with your head?"

The man was stunned for a moment, and then whispered, "I'm looking for ...... Knife hand. ”

"Knife, you are big, knife, if you want to commit suicide to buy a kitchen knife and go downstairs to the market, my mother has no kitchen knives to sell here, do you want to send you a rope to hang up? Which mental hospital has not closed the door and released you, and ran to someone's house to buy a kitchen knife, why is your head fart? Hurry up,, my mother is worried about you!"

Wang Fan slammed the door, deliberately made things in the house clang, and then walked to the door lightly and observed the man's actions through the door mirror. In the door mirror, the man sighed softly and left helplessly. Wang Fan exhaled and turned his head to look at the actor who played Aksha: "Have you found out his identity?"

Aksha immediately said: "Cheng Liang, male, 48 years old, professor of the Department of Chemistry of Zhejiang University, the corresponding IP of his home address has been recorded. ”

At this moment, Zhang Ran shouted loudly: "Okay, it's okay! Everyone take a break!"

Zhang Ran walked to the VR group, the 360-degree picture of the movie is composed of multiple pictures shot from different perspectives together, Zhang Ran has 12 lenses in their camera, so they need to put 12 shots together. To this end, Century Summit has developed a special stitching software, the camera can stitch the picture in real time while shooting, and the picture output to the VR team is a 360-degree panoramic picture.

After Zhang Ran finished reading the content of the shooting, he gave the VR glasses to Zhao Fei and asked them to see the effect. After a few main creators finished watching it, Zhang Ran and the others sat together to discuss the problems with the shot just now, and whether there were other better ways to shoot.

After some discussion, Zhang Ran called Zhou Qing over: "Everything else in this camera is good, but the picture is too shaky." Many people are already dizzy when they watch VR, but if the screen is so shaky, there will be more vertigo. If it's a short film of a few minutes, it may not be a big problem, but this is a feature film, and there are a lot of action scenes behind, so it definitely won't work. This problem must be solved. The helmet should be equipped with a shock absorber, preferably a Steadicam for VR cameras. ”

Zhou Qing also knew that camera shake was fatal to VR movies, so he said: "There is no VR version of Steadicam now, and there is no three-axis gyro stabilization device. If we were only starting development now, it could take months, if not longer. The movie is going to be made in June, and it's too late!"

Zhang Ran said: "Our scene is an experimental film, it is not filmed in one go, it must be filmed intermittently; the first part of the movie is a literary drama, there is no drastic action, and it can be done without Steadicam." You develop slowly, this is not in a hurry. ”

Zhou Qing heard Zhang Ran say this, nodded and said, "We will start VR Steadicam research and development as soon as possible!"

In the afternoon of this day, the Organizing Committee of the Cannes International Film Festival held a press conference in Paris to announce the list of films screened for this year's film festival. Among the 19 shortlisted films in the main competition unit, Zhang Ran's new work "Scorching Sun" will compete for the Best Film Palme d'Or, becoming the only representative of Chinese films.

Of the 19 directors shortlisted for this year's new films, 13 of them are all regular customers who have been shortlisted for the main competition unit of Cannes, which makes this year's Palme d'Or competition very exciting, and Zhang Yimou's new work "Return", which was originally expected to be shortlisted for the main competition unit, only appeared on the list of "non-competitive screenings" unit, which caused huge controversy in China.

Two days later, the Cannes Film Festival's "Director's Fortnight" section announced that this year's Golden Carriage Award would be awarded to Zhang Ran. Zhang Ran is the first Chinese director to receive this award, and the award ceremony will be held in Cannes on May 15. The Golden Carriage Award is a lifetime achievement award created by Directors Fortnight in 2002, named after the masterpiece "The Golden Carriage" by French film guru Jean Renoir. Prior to this, film masters such as Clint Eastwood, Nanni Moretti, David Cronenberg, and others had been awarded this distinction.

Domestic fans were stunned after hearing the news, in everyone's impression, the Lifetime Achievement Award is awarded to the old man, and Zhang Ran is not yet 40 years old. It is too much of an exaggeration to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at Cannes at such a young age!

"I'm going, Cannes has been drawn, how old is the boss, and he is even given a lifetime achievement award?

"I just saw this news on Weibo, cheer for Zhang Ran! But Zhang Ran is only in his 30s, isn't it too early to give out the Lifetime Achievement Award now?"

"Zhang Ran is really amazing, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Cannes Film Festival in his thirties!"

"Winning the Lifetime Achievement Award, does it mean that Cannes does not plan to give Zhang Ran the Palme d'Or? I have always thought that Zhang Ran is the most promising Chinese director to win the Palme d'Or! It's not a good thing that the Lifetime Achievement Award will be awarded so early!"

When Zhang Jingchu heard the news, she also felt incredible. Because the Lifetime Achievement Award is often awarded to old men in their seventies and eighties to commend their entire film career, but Zhang Ran is only 37 years old, and he has only been making movies for more than ten years. It's a bit strange to give him a lifetime achievement award now. She even joked with Zhang Ran about this: "Old man, congratulations, you have won the Lifetime Achievement Award!"

Zhang Ran couldn't cry or laugh: "What are you calling me?"

Zhang Jingchu smiled and said: "Old man, aren't all old men who win the Lifetime Achievement Award! If you win the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Cannes Film Festival, doesn't it mean that you are old!"

Zhang Ran looked at Zhang Jingchu, pinched his throat and learned the Hong Kong and Taiwan accent: "Auntie, your crow's feet are so beautiful!"

Zhang Jingchu said angrily: "I hate it, people don't have crow's feet, you talk nonsense!" She hugged her daughter, kissed her daughter's little face, and said: "Xiaoxiao, we ignore Dad, he is dead, and he actually laughs at Mom!" The little girl seemed to be very happy and giggled. Zhang Jingchu said to Zhang Ran: "You see that your daughter is laughing and laughing at you!"

Zhang Ran took her daughter from Zhang Jingchu's hand, and said with a smile: "Xiaoxiao, you said to your mother, Mom, even if you are really old, with gray hair and wrinkled faces, you are still the white moonlight in your father's heart." ”

Zhang Jingchu's heart was sweet when she heard this, but she pretended not to care: "I don't believe it!" She looked at Zhang Ran and asked: "Your films have never been shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Cannes Film Festival, and you are so young, how can Cannes give you a Lifetime Achievement Award?"

Zhang Ran explained: "It is true that this Golden Carriage Award is a Lifetime Achievement Award, but it is not a Lifetime Achievement Award of the Cannes Film Festival, it is a Lifetime Achievement Award of the French Directors Guild, and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the real Cannes Film Festival is called the Honorary Palme d'Or." Although the Director's Fortnight unit is a unit of the Cannes Film Festival, it is not organized by the Organizing Committee of the Cannes Film Festival, but by the French Film Association, and is listed under the name of the Cannes Film Festival. The Golden Carriage Award is chosen by the Directors Guild of France to recognize true cinematic genius. He triumphantly said, "Just like me!"

Zhang Jingchu rolled her eyes: "Narcissist!"

Zhang Ran stared at his daughter and smiled: "Xiaoxiao, tell Mom, Dad is not narcissistic, Dad is the most handsome, talented, super invincible genius!"

The little girl thought that Zhang Ran was teasing herself, giggled, and then shouted: "Dad!"

Zhang Ran heard a vague "Dad" from the little girl's mouth, and couldn't believe his ears, turned his head to look at Zhang Jingchu, and asked, "Did you hear it, just now Xiaoxiao seemed to call my dad?" Zhang Jingchu was about to speak, and the little girl shouted "Dad" again. Zhang Ran was excited: "Xiaoxiao really shouted at me, she can speak!" He looked at his daughter and said excitedly: "Xiaoxiao, I'm my father, you shout again, you shout again!" Sure enough, the little girl shouted very hard.

Zhang Jingchu was also extremely excited, and took the little girl from Zhang Ran's hand: "Xiaoxiao, I'm my mother, call my mother!" The little girl looked at Zhang Jingchu and shouted "Dad" vigorously. Zhang Jingchu hurriedly corrected: "It's not Dad, it's Mom." I'm Mom, call Mom!" the little girl shouted "Dad" again.

Zhang Ran hugged the little girl from Zhang Jingchu's hand, and said proudly: "My daughter is smart, she knows who is the best for her, and she knows who she is closest to!" He kissed the little girl twice on the face, "Trojan Horse", and said: "Smile, call Dad!"

The little girl was very well-behaved and shouted "Dad" very hard.

Zhang Jingchu was a little sad and began to count down her daughter: "You little conscienceless, your mother was pregnant in October, how much suffering you have suffered, and your mother has taken you more in the past few months." You call your dad so smoothly, you will call your dad for anything in the future, and mom and I will stay aside!"