Chapter 63: A Conversation for Two
This scene is Cao Lin standing at the door of the hotel, a conversation with Cai Yan about the street lamp, which is a typical two-person dialogue scene. This kind of scene is especially common in movies, and the vast majority of movies have such dialogue scenes.
The most important thing in this kind of scene is the three shots, the panoramic shot, the close-up of the actors, and the over-the-shoulder shot. An over-the-shoulder shot is a close-up or close-up shot of another actor through the shoulders of another actor. The role of the over-the-shoulder shot is to determine the relationship between the characters, including the positional relationship, and who dominates the scene.
The filming method of dialogue scenes is generally to give a panoramic shot first, explain the scene, then give an over-the-shoulder shot, determine the relationship between the characters, and finally give a close-up shot, and gradually progress;
It may seem simple to say, but it's not. The shots of the movie are all grammatical, each shot has a meaning, a shot is like five centimeters to the left, five centimeters to the right, the effect is completely different, and even the position of the characters in the lens changes slightly, and the meaning of the lens may be different.
Many viewers still remember the last shot of the Korean movie "Memories of Murder", the picture of the camera is first the male protagonist looking at the little girl next to him, just an ordinary big close-up, nothing special, but then the male protagonist turned his face and faced the audience. At this time, the camera becomes a riding axis shot, and the actor's gaze communicates directly with the audience, presenting the inner world of the characters, and the impact comes out at once.
However, Zhang Ran didn't plan to play any tricks on the camera, he just wanted to tell the story in a proper manner, and they first shot a panoramic shot.
At this moment, Hu Jun stood at the gate of the hotel, looking up at the sky, his eyes were melancholy, and the whole person exuded a depressed atmosphere. The lights in the hotel hall behind him are on, and the depth of the picture is very layered.
At this moment, Zhang Jingchu walked out of the hotel, stood beside Hu Jun, glanced at him, took a breath, and looked up at the sky.
After the monitor, Zhang Ran opened his mouth and shouted, "Stop!"
The camera turns off and the actors relax.
Zhang Ran clicked on the playback of the monitor to check the performance of the two, there was no problem with the performance of the two actors, Hu Jun's performance was particularly good, Cao Lin's sense of depression after losing his wife and children was not a performance, it simply came out of his bones. At this moment, he is Cao Lin, not Hu Jun, and the whole person has completely entered the role.
However, whether a shot can pass or not, it is not enough to just watch the performance, and there must be no problem with photography and recording to pass. Because there is a difference between what the monitor sees and what the camera captures, there may be focal length problems, there may be foreign objects in the lens, etc., which cannot be seen on these monitors, and if these problems occur, they must be reshot, and the same is true for recordings, if other background sounds are recorded, the sound of cars and airplanes, such as the improper operation of the boom operator, causing the actor to be too far away from the microphone, etc., need to be reshot.
After Zhang Ran shouted to stop, assistant director Ning Hao immediately confirmed with the photographer and recording engineer whether there was a problem with the shot just now.
After getting an affirmative answer, Ning Hao came back and told Zhang Ran: "Director, there is no problem with recording and photography!"
"This shot has passed! The next shot is ready, Hu Jun's external reverse camera position!" Zhang Ran stood up and shouted.
It's time to film the dialogue between Cao Lin and Cai Yan next, it's just an ordinary dialogue scene, Hu Jun says one sentence, Zhang Jingchu says one sentence, and then Hu Jun says another sentence, and Zhang Jingchu takes another sentence......
This kind of drama is in an exquisite crew, it will definitely be Hu Jun who says a sentence to a shot, Zhang Jingchu who says a sentence to give a shot, and a shot by shot. Of course, if the crew has money and wants to save time, they can take multi-camera shooting, put a camera on Hu Jun's camera, and put a camera on Zhang Jingchu's camera, and turn on the camera at the same time, so that multiple shots can be completed at one time.
However, the crew of "Time Prisoner" has no money, but they want to save time, and these two methods are obviously not suitable, so Zhang Ran adopted the third shooting method.
First of all, the camera is aimed at Hu Jun, and let Hu Jun and Zhang Jingchu complete the whole trick, then there is only Hu Jun's picture in the lens, and Zhang Jingchu only has sound; Next, the camera is pointed at Zhang Jingchu, and the scene is shot again, and the picture of this shot is only Zhang Jingchu. When it was time for post-editing, the editor cut these two very long shots one by one and turned them into many short shots, and then crossed and combined the shots of Hu Jun talking and Zhang Jingchu's speaking, and most of the shots were completed.
This method of shooting is more time-saving, and it also ensures the coherence of the actor's emotions, but there are also shortcomings, and the lighting is not as elaborate as shooting one shot at a time. However, Zhang Ran and they are shooting TV movies, and the lighting modeling is not so high, so there is no problem at all with this kind of shooting.
The camera crew quickly moved the camera and placed it at 60 degrees of the axis, which is Hu Jun's external reverse camera position.
"Power on!"
"Let's go!"
Zhang Jingchu glanced up at Tianyuan and said with a smile: "The weather is so good!"
"yes, the weather is nice. Hu Jun still looked at the sky, his eyes were depressed, and he said with some emotion, "But I really hope that it will rain, and I have seen it rain for a long time!"
"The weather forecast says it's going to rain tomorrow!"
"It's a pity that I will never see it!" Hu Jun sighed, his words filled with regret.
"What?" Zhang Jingchu was startled, what do you mean by this?
"It's nothing!" Hu Jun smiled, looked at the street lamp not far away and asked, "Do you see that street lamp?"
"See, what's wrong?"
"Has it been there?"
"Of course, it's always been there!
"Haven't been broken?"
Zhang Jingchu thought for a while, she was a little unsure: "No, right? But there are a lot of naughty children around here, I've only been here for a month, and I didn't know before!"
Hu Jun turned his head to look at Zhang Jingchu and asked with a little expectation, "Have you ever seen the fragments of the street lamp flying up from the ground and regrouping in the air?"
What kind of nonsense is this? Zhang Jingchu only felt creepy, looked at Hu Jun in horror, and was speechless.
"I'm kidding!" Hu Jun saw that Zhang Jingchu was scared, smiled, and turned away from the camera.
Zhang Jingchu looked at Hu Jun's back and was stunned, she instinctively felt that what Cao Lin said was true. What the hell is going on? Cao Lin is so weird, so weird!
"Stop!" Zhang Ran shouted, and then began to check the replay.
I put it twice and there was no problem at all. Zhang Ran rubbed his hands excitedly, he was very satisfied with Hu Jun's performance, the state of the characters was very accurate, and it was a perfect performance. He looked up and asked, "Ning Hao, how is the sound and photography?"
Ning Hao nodded and said, "Director, there's no problem!"
Zhang Ran stood up and shouted loudly: "This shot has passed! The next shot, Zhang Jingchu's external reverse camera position!"
The people in the camera crew began to move the camera and quickly placed the camera in Zhang Jingchu's external reverse camera position.
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"That's all for today, everyone has worked hard! Tomorrow I will shoot in the studio of Qingying Studio, and everyone will go back early to rest. Call it a day now!" Zhang Ran clapped his hands and announced that today's shooting was over.
At this time, it was eight o'clock in the evening, and the crew's shooting plan for today was successfully completed. Zhang Ran originally wanted to add more drama, but after all, the crew was filming on the first day, and it was not good to squeeze the enthusiasm of the big guys too much, so he announced his disbandment.
"Director Zhang, goodbye!" Zhang Jingchu packed up her things and said goodbye to Zhang Ran.
Zhang Ran said goodbye to her with a smile, but had no plans to leave. The actors in the crew can go, but he, the director, can't go back to rest yet, so he has to summarize today's work with the members of the director team, and he has to go through tomorrow's scenes.
However, Zhang Ran is in a very good mood, today's shooting is very smooth, although Zhang Jingchu is not up to the level of "Peacock", but fortunately, the role of Cai Yan itself is relatively simple, Zhang Jingchu worked very hard to present Cai Yan well, and Hu Jun's performance really made Zhang Ran speechless, accurately grasped the essence of the character, and simply brought the role of Cao Lin to life. Zhang Ran had to praise his vision, these two actors were so well chosen, if they were to change them, it would be really difficult to perform this effect.
After the meeting with the members of the director team, it was almost ten o'clock.
Zhang Ran had the camera in his mind and slowly walked back to the bachelor dormitory, but he didn't rush back to his room, came to the door of 506, stretched out his hand and patted the door.
"It's coming!" Li Xinyue's crisp voice came out, and then the door opened, and Li Xinyue appeared in front of him, "Zhang Ran, are you only coming back now?"
"yes, just came back. Zhang Ran nodded, looked at Li Xinyue and said, "Xinyue, I've worked hard for you today." The students in the class are well-behaved, aren't they making trouble?"
"The students in the class are very well-behaved, they just clamoring to come and see you filming! I was afraid of disturbing you, so I didn't agree. Li Xinyue smiled and comforted, "Don't worry, there is me in the class, I will take care of them!"
Zhang Ran smiled and said, "I'm going to work hard for you these days, and I'll invite you to eat when the time comes!"
"It's okay for me. Li Xinyue looked at Zhang Ran, who was bearded, and was a little worried about his state, "But you have to pay attention to rest, you can't be like this every day, and you're not a robot, your body will cross over after a long time." ”
"It's okay! I'm well. I still have to go back to study the script, otherwise I won't be able to talk to the actors tomorrow, so I won't talk to you! Good night!" Zhang Ran waved his hand at Li Xinyue.
"You have to pay attention to rest!" Li Xinyue reminded again.
"I'll pay attention!" Zhang Ran smiled and Li Xinyue gestured with scissor hands, turned around and went back to his room.
The profession of director is not as glamorous as imagined, many people only see the scenery of the director, but they don't know the sadness and hard work behind it. Directing is definitely a profession that requires getting up early and being greedy for darkness, which makes people nervous. Of course, hard work is relative, Zhang Ran likes this profession, although he is tired, he doesn't feel hard.
Zhang Ran returned to his room, opened the script and continued to be busy. By the time he finished all his work and lay in bed at home, it was already two o'clock in the morning. He didn't think about anything, as soon as his eyes closed, he went straight to sleep.
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