Chapter 323 of the text may really be a master

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The handheld camera had never seen Zhang Ran's order so urgent, so he was startled, and hurriedly moved the camera according to Zhang Ran's request, so that the sun was at 135 degrees on the axis.

"Turn the camera on, take a picture and I'll see how it looks. "Anyway, it's a digital camera, and there is no problem of wasting film, so Zhang Ran directly ordered the handheld to turn it on. However, after the handheld was turned on, he saw Zheng Xiaoshuang and Qin Junjie looking at him with a puzzled expression, and said with a smile: "You two little guys continue to play with yours." ”

Zheng Xiaoshuang and Qin Junjie said "oh" and played by themselves. After more than ten days of shooting, they got used to facing the camera.

Zhang Ran stared at the screen of the monitor for a few seconds, then looked up and said, "Hold the camera, the angle of the camera is lower, shoot the sun into the frame, I'll take a look." ”

Hearing this, the people in the camera crew were stunned, this will lead to overexposure, is it a taboo for filmmaking?

Zhao Fei knew that Zhang Ran's level of photography and lighting was very high, and it was impossible not to know such a common-sense question, so he must have his own considerations, and signaled to the handheld machine: "Why are you stunned, didn't you hear?"

Filmmaking involves a concept of tolerance, which is the range of contrasts in the brightness of the scene that the film can correctly accommodate. Film that accurately records scenes with large contrasts in brightness is called high-forgiveness film, and vice versa. Of course, there is also the concept of zài in digital cameras, and in general, digital cameras are more forgiving than film.

Under normal circumstances, neither film nor digital cameras are as forgiving as human eyes. Assuming that the human eye can see the brightness range from 0 to 100, then the film has a latitude of 30 to 70, and the digital camera is slightly higher. If the brightness of the light is 0 to 30, the picture will be black, and if the brightness is 70 to 100, it will be pure white.

If the brightness is too high, the picture will be white, which is called overexposure; if the brightness is insufficient, the picture is easy to form black blocks, sticking together, this is called dead black, overexposure and dead black are the two taboos of making movies.

When filming a movie, the gaffer will use a light meter to measure the brightness of the light to keep the light at the most appropriate brightness. At the shooting site, there are a lot of lights, and they have to be adjusted one by one, so the lighting is very slow.

After waiting for the camera to shoot for two minutes, Zhang Ran asked the palm to turn off the camera and sat in front of the monitor to slowly check the playback. Ning Hao and the others all came around, and Zhao Fei also came over, everyone wanted to know what Zhang Ran wanted to shoot.

Two minutes was very short, and it passed in a blink of an eye, Zhang Ran didn't speak, and directly started to play again.

Everyone thinks that the picture just taken is very beautiful, the two children, especially Zheng Xiaoshuang, have a golden light edge on the side face under the reflection of the sun, and the young face is full of vitality.

In fact, Zhang Ran is not thinking about the beauty of the picture, but this backlight seems to be able to convey a special symbolic meaning, symbolizing the era of the envoy and the realistic predicament of the characters.

While Zhang Ran was looking at the monitor screen, the footage of countless movies flashed in his mind, including the storyboard of "The Aviator", and the footage taken by Zhang Ran himself, but more of it was the backlight and overexposure of other directors' movie shots.

The picture was played eight times, and Zhang Ran was still replaying, and everyone felt strange and didn't know what Zhang Ran was watching. It's just that they didn't dare to ask when they saw Zhang Ran's brows frowning slightly, looking like he was thinking about something, for fear of disturbing his thinking.

At this time, Zhang Ran raised his head and circled around, and saw that everyone was looking at him with a strange look, and couldn't help but exhale lightly: "I won't shoot for the time being, I have a little inspiration now, and I need to sort out my thinking." ”

Everyone is engaged in art, and they know how important inspiration is to a creator, so they silently pack up their things and leave the scene.

After everyone left, Zhang Ran looked at the sun in the sky for a while, and lowered his head in contemplation for a while. Inspiration is something that everyone has, but many people just forget it because of the flash of inspiration. Only a very small number of human brains can calm themselves down, stabilize the inspiration, and then follow that flash, go deeper, and extract the whole picture, and many awesome works come from this.

Zhang Ran now has inspiration, and he knows that if he puts any bit of inspiration into his films, his films will be upgraded to a higher level and will be more fascinating. It's just that what to do, how to fit in, it's really a problem, he has to think about it, if it is not handled well, it will be a disaster for the whole movie.

waited until night fell, and Zhang Ran returned to the crew. However, the first thing he did when he returned to the crew was to announce that he would have a day off tomorrow, and he needed to think about it.

After speaking, Zhang Ran returned to his room and told Zhang Jingchu that he was going to Xiangshan and might stay on the mountain for a day tomorrow. Zhang Jingchu wanted to accompany Zhang Ran, but Zhang Ran didn't agree, he needed to think quietly alone.

Zhang Ran drove to the Xiangshan Hotel to stay, got up at five o'clock the next morning, climbed to the top of the mountain, and waited to see the sunrise.

By six o'clock, there was a light in the sky. The light was first a wisp and then slowly brightened, and the clouds in the sky were dyed golden.

Not long after coming, a fireball that emitted a thousand rays of light slowly revealed a trace, like a shy girl with a veil on her face. A gust of wind blew the veil off the girl's face, revealing her beautiful face, and the red sun finally jumped out of the sea of clouds and radiated a thousand rays of light.

Zhang Ran's heart is bright, the sun is a very symbolic thing, and the sunlight in different time periods has different characteristics, which can be used in the movie.

Zhang Ran watched the sun on the mountain, while thinking about the picture of his movie, and stayed until sunset before going down. Through Guò's observation and thinking on this day, he knows what he wants, and he also knows how to make his next movie.

Back at the hotel where the crew was located, Zhang Ran convened a meeting of the director team and the camera team. Seeing everyone looking at him expectantly, he smiled and nodded: "I found what I wanted." But his next words made everyone dumbfounded: "So, all the things we shoot these days are invalid, and all the things we shoot are scrapped, and all over again!"

After hearing this, the people present all thought of a sentence in their hearts, Zhen Nima is willful, she has been filming for more than ten days, and she sees that the juvenile part of the scene is about to be filmed, and now she has remade all of them.

Zhao Fei was a little surprised, the footage taken these days is very good. Just reshoot, part of the retake is fine, how can it be all remade, and asked, "I don't know what effect you want?"

Everyone else is also very curious about this, what kind of effect does Zhang Ran want, and he wants to reshoot them all, and the shots taken these days are obviously great.

Zhang Ran smiled and said, "The picture of the movie should be overexposed, and the lighting is mainly backlight. ”

Backlit shooting is very difficult, and the light is very difficult to handle, and that's it, but Zhang Ran also wants a lot of overexposed shots, which is simply insane. Huang Lei shouted directly: "Can you still watch the picture of the movie?"

It is true that making movies is taboo to overexpose and die black, but it is not absolute, and it can become a highly symbolic artistic technique in the hands of an excellent director. In the movie "Love Letter", the male Fujii tree stands at the window reading a book, blowing up the white curtains of the library, and Iwai Shunji deliberately exposes the camera slightly, creating a dream-like beauty;

Zhang Ran smiled and began to state his reasons: " Our movie has three periods, 78 is the juvenile period, it is the best part of Liu Jiao's memory, and it is also the most vague part, and this period is more special; so the picture of this period should be overexposed, so that the picture has a sense of hazy and dreamy, at the same time, the picture is overexposed in the backlight and is prone to dead black, the double very normal state of overexposure and dead black just symbolizes the mental state of people in that era, Qiao Zhengfei rebelled against fate in a dual environment. In 92, there was a major event in the southern tour speech, economic development is the theme of the times, and Qiao Zhengfei pursued his dream at this time, which was completely against the times, so in this period not only to be overexposed, but also to use light to focus on backlight, in order to highlight the realistic predicament of the characters; 97 years is the closest day to us, symbolizing the return, this part of the backlight to reduce, the sense of fantasy and glitch to disappear, at the end of the movie, Qiao Zhengfei piloted the plane to fly into the sky, towards the sun. Under the backlight, the whole plane condensed into a kind of black, majestic like fire under the canopy!"

Huang Lei was stupid directly, he really wanted to knock open Zhang Ran's head and see what was inside, this guy was really too thoughtful.

Ning Hao is from the Department of Photography, and studied art before studying film, and has a deep understanding of light, shadow and pictures, after listening to Zhang Ran's description, he rubbed his hands excitedly: "Great! Director, what are you waiting for, let's do it!"

Ding Sheng was also very excited: "Director, let's shoot it quickly!"

Zhao Fei said with emotion: "I basically know all our domestic directors, and there are only two who are particularly creative on the camera, one is Zhang Yimou and the other is Jiang Wen, and your lens is more creative than them." Maybe in China, we really have to produce a master!"

The art of film, tracing its roots, is actually the lens. The greatness of many great films is not just what they reflect, what they express, or how many tears they shed, but the continuous exploration and development of the power of the lens and the innovation on the basis of inheriting the tradition.

Zhang Ran shook his head: "Forget it, I don't want to be a master, and I don't have that ability." I just want to make movies that I love and make stories that I love. As he spoke, he looked at the crowd and said, "Let's stop talking nonsense, let's discuss the problem of using light, and then redraw the storyboard." ”

Huang Lei raised his own question: "The storyboard is very time-consuming, and if you redraw it all, it will take at least a month or two, right?"

"It won't take that long!" After speaking, Zhang Ran took out a piece of paper, drew a shot with a few brushstrokes, and then marked out the lighting, camera position, position and other information, and pushed it in front of Huang Lei, "Draw like this, it won't be long!"

"That's okay!" Huang Lei sprayed directly. Zhang Ran's drawing of the human head is a circle, and the body is a vertical line, which is too simple, right?

Zhang Ran smiled and said: "You haven't seen the storyboard of Jiang Wen's "Sunny Day", he doesn't draw as well as this, everyone can understand the meaning." ”

In the next few days, the entire crew has been in a state of shutdown, and Zhang Ran and the main creator of the crew are working hard to formulate a new lighting plan. For this film, the lighting effects were extremely important, and the lighting effects had to be sketched so that they could be quickly put in place when it was time to shoot.

That night, Zhang Ran was woken up by a phone call. He muttered, "What a this is!" he looked at the time at two o'clock in the morning, and realized that he had just slept half an hour before he was woken up by a phone call.

Zhang Jingchu asked, "What's wrong?"

Zhang Ran said speechlessly: "A few boys from our crew are looking for Miss and let the police arrest them!" (~^~)