Chapter 20: Shooting
The style of the whole movie of "Dallas Buyers Club" completely restores the southern United States in the eighties of the last century.
Matthew's outfits, whether it's worn-out jeans, slightly curly long hair, including the worn-out Cadillac that Matthew drives. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The most quintessential southern cowboy image.
Filming soon began, with Matthew and Kevin Rankin standing on the sidelines before the cowboy race.
"You just need to hold on for 8 seconds!"
"Look, that's six hundred and eighty dollars, and it only takes eight seconds for you to get it all!"
Matthew picked up the crumpled wad of banknotes in his hand and continued, "After eight seconds, all the beauties will be lying under your thighs!" ”
Kevin: "Heh, I'll try to hold on! ”
With a whistle, Kevin rode a manic bull.
Speaking of which, this is a real shot!
Shen Lin doesn't need the two actors to play well in literary drama, as long as there is a normal level, this scene is just to show that Ron, played by Matthew, is a gambler.
He controls Camera 1 to slowly reverses through the slide.
"Oh! Shit! ”
Seeing his friend only hold on for 6 seconds before the angry bull fell off the saddle, Ron's knee-jerk reaction was to curse irritably, then turned his head to look behind him, and was about to run out of the bullring.
"Stop!"
Shen Lin paused shooting, raised his head from behind the monitor, and reminded, "Matthew, your expression just now was a little too depressed, it's better to put it out a little, you're a cowboy." ”
There are many sayings that Hollywood films insist on the producer-centric system, yes, this statement is very correct, but that is for the six major A-level productions, independent films, or non-mainstream films, Cut films are not among them!
There is a good thing about independent films, absolute director-centric system!
Shen Lin has never made a movie in Hollywood, but he is a famous screenwriter, and his next work has been determined, an A-level production.
In the entire "Dallas" crew, no one has greater rights than Shen Lin, how he asks the actors to perform, the actors must do what they do!
Of course, the premise is for the sake of the film.
Matthew thought for a moment and was about to make adjustments, Shen Lin turned his head and said loudly to the people in the other departments, "Everyone reset, and start shooting again in five minutes." ”
Everyone else was busy making adjustments, but Shen Lin walked up to the camera director and asked him to try shooting with a long shot.
The so-called long shots mostly have a broad field of view, and are often used to show the time, environment, scale and atmosphere of the event, such as showing open natural scenery, mass scenes, war scenes, and so on.
But Shen Lin used it here not for these reasons at all, but to show the character's personality and a series of changes that arise from it.
Photographers usually don't use long shots to show the character of a person.
But Shen Lin just wanted to give it a try.
Filming and production is never a matter of copying and pasting, and if you pay attention to and develop the use of lenses like this, you can bring more variety to the film.
The whole "Dallas" needs a lens language to show Wren's personality changes.
It can be done just in the form of dialogue, but hopefully it will not be as shocking as the camera switch!
Sure enough, in the long shot, Shen Lin's most satisfying part is that Matthew is being chased by a group of people, and behind him is a huge bullring!
No one cares what is happening in this corner.
Apathy is the film's greatest emotional catharsis.
Throughout "Dallas", Shen Lin not only wanted to show Ron, played by Matthew, fighting for his own life, but also to reflect the discrimination and disregard for the AIDS group in society at that time as much as possible.
The shooting went smoothly, regular lenses were definitely essential, and there were only a few shots for long shots.
After all, this is a movie that resembles a biography of a character.
At the end of the day's shooting, Shen Lin did not return to the hotel where he was resting, but came to the temporary film pulling room on the set to inspect all the shots shot today.
It was getting dark, and Georgia in May was already feeling a little hot that could not be concealed.
Turning on the electric fan, Shen Lin checked the camera while discussing tomorrow's shooting with the assistant director next to him.
For the photographer of "Dallas", Shen Lin is still very satisfied, although the shooting technique is not amazing, but at least the shooting task assigned by Shen Lin has been successfully completed.
These days, good cinematographers are even harder to find than good directors!
A director who cares about his film should pay attention to every shot taken by the photographer.
Superb lens design can be said to be a gift from the photographer to the audience.
Shen Lin has never had his own director of photography, but many famous directors have preferred photographers, such as the Coen brothers and Roger Deakins; For example, Paul Anderson and Robert Eswaite, etc.
As soon as the director and the cinematographer call, there will be a wonderful chemistry, and often the better the DP is in shape, the better the effect of the film lens.
Due to the limitations of funds, it is impossible for Shen Lin to find a famous photographer.
In fact, Shen Lin himself can also be the director of photography, but if he does that, he is really a bit flawless.
It affects the shooting progress too much.
The director of photography this time is named Yves Bélanges, who has participated in many independent films and has a lot of experience.
On the second day of filming, the film's heroine Jennifer Garner came, this woman is also an acting school, has played a bunch of supporting roles, and of course, the death "Juno" that really made her famous won the Oscar nomination for Best Actress.
It's a pity that this "Dallas Buyers Club" gives her little room for performance, and it can't be said that there is not much room for performance, mainly her light is completely overshadowed by the actor and supporting actor!
There's also a bunch of supporting characters.
What surprised Shen Lin a little was that even these little-known small supporting roles, their acting skills were not inferior, and they could even be said to have exploded many popular stars!
The most typical example, Kevin Rankin, who played T.j, that is, Matthew's friend, and the actor who didn't know where the touchstone came from, performed very well.
The actor who surprised Shen Lin the most was Matthew McConaughey, who almost didn't stop since the filming started.
The investment in the whole movie is 10 million dollars, and excluding the salaries of a few actors, there is not much money left.
Moreover, independent films do not have the habit of test shooting, and start shooting directly.
Often a shot lasts four to five minutes, and after the shooting, Shen Lin will call Matthew and assistant director Mark Valley to sit behind the monitor together, look back at the shooting footage, and discuss whether there is a better way to express it.
The benefits of this are many, and Matthew's performance can be more coherent and less dramatic.
Of course, there are also disadvantages, if Matthew is not in good shape, he needs to shoot many times.
Fortunately, it's rare for Matthew to be in bad shape.
As soon as he enters the set, Matthew immediately enters the role, and then he doesn't need to be out of the scene for the whole day.
Sometimes, Shen Lin is even a little worried about Matthew's psychological condition, whether he will not be able to play or something.