Chapter 55: Filming Begins
Yes, Pao Hui has never given up his determination to bring the national teacher closer to the world of Huiwen!
He's a sign, after all!
Not weaker than Feng Xiaogang's big IP!
In fact, in the original time and space, after the two broke up, Zhang Yimou and Lay's got very close, and Lay's also pulled many stars with the help of Zhang Yimou...
After "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling", Lao Mouzi made two movies, "Return" and "The Great Wall"...
The former once again proved that Lao Mouzi deserves to be a master-level director!
Integrating a love into the ruthlessness of the big era, the general director is estimated to be able to shoot this thing movingly, but Zhang Yimou's tone is forbearance, and the mood of the whole film does not have too many ups and downs!
The sensationalism of "Tangshan Earthquake" is so hard, it's like poking you in the face with a stick and asking why you don't cry!
Feng Xiaogang is far from Zhang Yimou, not a gap that can be erased by one or two awards...
"Return" is definitely a 'return' in the sense of Zhang Yimou, he uses a more calm and introverted narrative to show the fate of ordinary people like the ancestors he admires, and to express the joys and sorrows in the depths of people's hearts, which is the Zhang Yimou that most of us like, and it is also the Zhang Yimou that this era needs.
A true master can shoot a sad story like clear water, but as long as you think about it, it will immediately turn into a storm!
"Schindler's List", does director Spielberg use that kind of strong pen and ink to directly hit the audience's perception?
"The Pianist", director Roman Polanski tells a tragic story, and the world described is very clean...
As for "The Great Wall", uh, after all, there is a mysterious power in Da Tiantian, so let's not mention it...
"What I'm saying is true, today's Chinese films are becoming more and more commercialized, we don't need Zhang Yimou to make any more big productions, just return to the previous state!"
"However, he has worked with Zhang Weipin for sixteen years..."
"Yang Guo and Xiaolongnu are also sixteen years! What is the result, didn't Xiaolongnu give birth to someone else's child?"
"Little Dragon Girl has someone else's child?
The two of them were stunned at the same time, could it be that I watched the fake "The Condor Heroes"?
"Yin Zhiping!"
"Get out!"
Yu Feihong and Wu Gang scolded in unison...
Hey, these seniors haven't even watched "Never Expected", and failed!
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The inn in the martial arts film evolved from the traditional opera stage, Hu Jinquan believes that it is the most dramatic place, and there are few places like it where time and space are concentrated, and all conflicts may break out here, so he successively filmed "The Drunken Man", "The Storm of the Spring Pavilion" and other "Inn Tetralogy"!
The inn, where several people appear one by one, has become a gladiatorial arena that occupies the main part of the movie. They seem to meet unexpectedly, but they haunt the light and darkness, like the tide surging from all directions, testing and competing with each other, and then clashing and fighting, and finally converge into the turbulent waves of the plot.
Hu Dao is a craftsman who works in the craft, careful and elegant, steady and steady, his inn has corn farm tools, full of life, that is the force of justice, the layout is warm, at home.
In the fights he designed, the actors stepped on the beat of gongs and drums, dissolving the rhythm of the drama, and having the grace of dance, but also with traces of pre-choreographed and deliberately carved.
"New Dragon Gate Inn" has added the role of gold inlaid jade, and "New Dragon Gate Inn" draws on the setting, the main story line, the difference is to add emotional dramas, and even love triangles, and the rhythm is faster.
The Dragon Gate Inn focuses on a chivalrous word, and the new focuses on a love word.
The biggest difference from the original is the meaning that the Dragon Gate Inn represents!
No longer so clear between the good and evil sides, the thirst for profit and sexuality of the gold inlaid jade makes her constantly circulate between the positive and negative factions, the guest room on the top of the inn, the middle welcomes the black and white, and the secret road is dug down, providing more layers of narrative space, and thus enhancing the interaction and conflict between the gold inlaid jade and the positive and negative factions.
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On the first day of filming, Pao Hui first shot Zhou Huai'an's appearance.
This shot is very simple, a long shot is fine, but Xu Hui is ready to shoot in a day!
The reason is simple, he needs to be familiar with 3D shooting technology.
Just like Xu Laowei once said, "A long time ago, people in Europe and the United States who had advanced technology said that Chinese people should not engage in special effects, so I asked why we can't do it? I have always wanted to make a film to establish Chinese technology, and we can't let a technology that is already so mature in other people's world be completely unfamiliar in our industry." Someone must take the first step, and technological innovation has helped a lot in artistic expression, enriching the artistic techniques of the film and making the film continue to improve. ’
3D shooting, to put it simply, is a way to record images with two cameras at the same time at a certain distance and angle.
However, there are two difficulties in actual shooting: the first is how to set the focus of the two eyes to focus, representing its three-dimensional effect, in the process of shooting 3D, when two machines shoot an object together, there will be ghosts if it is not handled well; in addition, when the picture should be convex and when should be recessed, which is called positive jet lag and negative jet lag.
For this 3D shooting team, Xu Hui found Base FX as usual.
In three days, Pao Hui almost figured out a bunch of messy things, to put it bluntly, what needs to be controlled is the photographic equipment plus computer equipment, as well as the control of distance, three-dimensional sense and depth setting during the shooting process.
These are the things that the staff are supposed to do.
These staff members have experience with groups abroad, so they have a good time...
Pao Hui wasn't too worried.
In fact, there are so many pseudo-3D domestic movies, because they are 2D when they are filmed, and the effect is of course different when they are converted in the later stage!
But it saves time and money!
True 3D videos require more than 60% of the pre-3D camera shots!
It's a waste of money and not just a joke...
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A person's first appearance can show a person's personality or hint at the character's fate.
Zhou Huai'an walked slowly from the desert, on the one hand, showing his courage and wisdom, and on the other hand, hinting at his fate as a son and daughter of the troubled times.
The two cameras were pointed at different angles in the desert, wearing green clothes and hats, riding camels, and slowly walking towards the main lens...
"Yes, again!"
Xu Hui looked at both monitors, nodded, and motioned for Nie Yuan to go again...
Nie Yuan had long been mentally prepared, and he also knew that he was an experimental subject...
So, several onlookers saw Nie Yuan riding on a camel and walking back and forth twenty-five times!
"Alright, it's over!"
Finally, after a few words of communication with the person in charge of 3D shooting, Xu Hui decided on the best plan.
“… Will our directors be too technical? Forget to shoot the story well?"
"Probably not, he's Xu Hui, one of the best storytellers in China..."
In response to Xu Hui's ravaging of the actor, Wan Qian and Yu Feihong discussed it in the actor's rest area.