Gu Cheng took care of his business at home for half a month, and he was busy recording a disc. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info seeing that the days have passed the Lantern Festival, it is almost time for him to return to Wanwan to film.

During this time, Chen Tianqiao, who was about to move, was unsurprisingly settled by Gu Cheng, and the two parties finally signed a cooperation contract for electronic payment. Chen Tianqiao promised that Shengda would pay Legend Entertainment 3 million development fees in batches before April 1, in exchange for Legend Entertainment to develop an improved version of the recharge software that can be used for "Dragon Family" recharge.

Legend promised that by the end of 2001, the recharge system would never be used by third-party online games. Otherwise, it will also pay 3 million to Shengda.

After the contract was signed, Gu Cheng was very refreshed in his heart, and said that Chen Tianqiao was simply giving him money. With such a narrow regional audience as "Dragon Clan", even if he joins this system, it is estimated that it will increase sales by one or two million a year, and most of the gross profit is still for him Gu Cheng to work.

Moreover, this transaction also frees up a window of about half a year for his recharge system. At least in the first half of 2001, there will be no other domestic action with the idea of "making a fixed MAC physical address version of Alipay".

Half a year later, the online game payment market and even other virtual item payment markets have long been swept away by Legend Entertainment, and it will be even more difficult for others to enter - in Gu Cheng's eyes, this harvest is more important than making more money by making games.

On February 8, Gu Cheng flew to Wanwan, entered the group on time, and also brought the final payment of the investment to "Meteor Garden".

Producer Chai Zhiping greeted Gu Cheng with a smile for the sake of investment, and also invited everyone to have a dinner with Director Cai, and the whole crew looked harmonious.

The next day, it was the day to restart.

A group of people have incense, Chai Zhiping encouraged: "Let's work harder!" Work hard for 20 days and finish the last eight episodes before the end of the month, and it will be released next month! ”

From Gu Cheng to Zhou Yumin, from Xu Xiyuan to Lin Zhiling, everyone was in high spirits, and with the vigor of the new year, they devoted themselves to filming 100%.

Everyone has long been accustomed to Gu Cheng's well-informed and rapid progress, but in just half a month, Gu Cheng has given everyone the feeling that he is becoming more and more mature. A lot of progress that was originally just a sponge absorbing water and flashing light has become more and more perfect after more than half a month of self-reflection and self-sorting in his spare time.

If you talk about Gu Cheng last year, his acting skills are still limited to a top honor student who has just graduated from Beiying for a year or two. So now he seems to have added two or three years of on-set experience out of thin air.

Only Gu Cheng himself knew that it was the inertia of the assisted learning system in his deep mind that was at work.

Every day when acting, he can "look inside" into the "subtitles" in his mind, such as "episodic memory - crying, mastery of 85%, basically crying anytime and anywhere", or "anti-appearance/anti-skipping photography spatial sense, mastery of 75%" and so on.

Every time, he can find his own shortcomings, and then compare them with the excellent films he picks out himself, find out the details, and change them in detail. Especially those skills that are more objective, and traditional art students do not master well because of poor science grades and poor spatial imagination ability, in Gu Cheng's eyes, they are like fingers, and they can make rapid progress all of a sudden.

As a result, not only was his own performance well received by the crew, but even the people who worked with him felt that it was invisibly saving a lot of trouble.

For example, the 20th episode has been filmed on this day, where there is a scene where Hua Ze and Daoming Temple compete for basketball and fight for Shancai.

This scene was originally just for the men and men to pretend to be handsome, and by the way, to set off the bloody friendship.

Because it is a basketball game with a lot of movement, the problem of over-axis and skip-axis photography is inevitable. The photographer set up several cameras to shoot together, including 1 panoramic push and pull, 2 medium pan, and the last 2 close-up photos of Daoming Temple and Hua Ze's faces.

But Rao is five machines together, washed out after filming at night, and when he wanted to play back the editing, Director Cai still felt that the shaft skipping was very serious, and he didn't know how to cut it at all.

The so-called jumping axis, in layman's terms, refers to the problem that there is a problem between a group of multiple spliced film and television pictures that makes the audience feel that the relative movement is inconsistent and not on a motion axis.

For example, in a running scene, the camera is placed on the right-hand side of the track at the beginning, and the actors filmed are all running from the left side of the frame to the right. If you suddenly cut to a camera in the opposite direction and let the audience see the actors running from right to left, the audience will feel that the space is disorganized and dissonant. If you have to switch, the orthodox approach at this time is to intersperse a short shot of forward and backward shooting in the middle to prevent the axis of motion of the shooting from jumping in the opposite direction instantaneously.

This is what Director Cai is currently seeing. He cut the film until late at night, and couldn't help but pick up the photographer and teach him a lesson: "Lao Yang, this material can't be used, it's too messy." Why don't you try not to change the camera so much, just like filming sports scenes like 'Japanese drama run', isn't it good to shoot with two or three cameras? ”

The photographer covered his face and said, "Lao Cai, this is a basketball scene!" How can it be handled the same as a running scene. In running scenes, everyone only pursues to see the speed of running, and I won't jump the axis when I pull the panoramic mirror. However, basketball has to highlight the details of the dribblers' movements and facial expressions, and many times they have to pull a close-up, and 5 cameras is already the minimum. ”

Director Cai sighed, knowing that what the photographer said was the truth: "But if you do this, as soon as I edit too many times, the audience will be in a fog; I don't even think 'who's attacking and who's defending' isn't even good - or you might as well write a camera book and tell them which camera to play in each close-up action, and we'll reshoot it tomorrow. ”

Director Cai's words are actually not wrong at all. Because if there was no Gu Cheng's appearance, the historical "Meteor Garden" did make this basketball scene extremely sporty, and it was simply a house chat.

After watching it, the audience knew that "Hua Ze and Daoming Temple were indeed forced in terms of ball skills", and there was only one impression left: chaos!

The photographer spat out bitterness helplessly: "You know me, it's not that I don't want to." The key is how did those rookies master such profound acting skills? As soon as the ball starts, it is good to make sure that the movements and expressions are not out of shape, and you still expect them to turn their faces sideways to camera A a few seconds ago, and switch to a 45° oblique position to camera B after 3 seconds? This is simply not possible. You can make do with it. ”

Director Cai was unwilling and went to talk to Chai Zhiping, and Chai Zhiping said that he would report the situation tomorrow and give it a try.

The next day, the group was called to the basketball court again to make up for the scene.

Director Cai took out a mirror book and instructed Gu Cheng, Yan Chengxu, Zhou Yumin and Xu Xiyuan: "The effect of yesterday's shooting is too bad, and when you cut it, either the jumping axis is very serious, or although you don't jump the axis, you can't see your face." Today, let's learn according to this camera movement, and we have figured out which direction the body should look in and which way the face should look during each movement. ”

After Director Cai finished speaking, producer Chai Zhiping also added: "Don't be reluctant, if you really can't do it, forget it." This scene is very expensive, 5 cameras are shot at the same time, that is 5 times the film consumption, and most of it has to be cut out in the end. If you can't hold it, let's stop wasting film. ”

Yan Chengxu and Zhou Yumin felt very pressured when they heard it: this kind of drama is wasted for one filming, and usually there are five single-camera scenes.

Everyone looked at Gu Cheng: You paid for the play, if you are willing to waste more money on film, then reshoot. The rest of us are just spending some time with you.

Gu Cheng took the mirror book, looked at it for a full fifteen minutes, and imagined in his mind a top view of the relative movement trajectory from the perspective of God.

Then, in front of everyone's attention, he spoke: "Well, I think we can try it, and take the digital empty run first." ”

"Okay, let's try it. No film is wasted anyway. The photographer shrugged and said helplessly.

"Wait, I'm not done yet." Gu Cheng's words drew everyone's attention back, and then said slowly:

"When filming for a while, you first find a scene behind the main station and hold a small red flag according to the camera movement book, so that the actors on the field can see which camera they should be playing in front of at the moment. Based on my own experience, I will judge whether the current performance has crossed the axis in this position.

If my own first-person perspective space feels off-axis, I'll add a small gesture when dribbling the ball - for example, I usually use my wrist swing to dribble, and when I feel like I'm off-axis, I'll wave my whole arm to shoot the ball - and then the field notes will raise the flag behind the camera that is the host for a few seconds according to the settings on the camera book, and everyone will play with their faces roughly facing the new camera. How is it? ”

"Such as ...... How is it? The photographer was stunned for a while, "How do you ask me?" Of course I'm fine, I can shoot like this, I'm so happy, the key is that you can handle that rhythm well? ”

According to common sense, when shooting, whether there are axis jumps, off-axis and other things that do not require the actor to pay attention to it, that is the problem of the director and the photographer. At best, the actor's cooperation is only to avoid appearing on camera, even if he has done his duty.

However, it is not excluded that some particularly awesome old drama bones can be prompted through some small actions when encountering the anti-jump of the CUT machine: when the cameraman sees his small action, it means that it is time to focus on the next camera; When the post-production staff sees this action, it means it's time to cut the film.

When encountering such an old actor, the photography and post-production will feel extremely smooth and very willing to cooperate.

The problem is that this kind of old drama bone, in the domestic TV circle at that time, only the guys like Chen Daoming and Tang Guoqiang could do it. Even Jin Chengwu has to be sharpened for another seven or eight years before he can see his way.

Now Gu Cheng actually said that he has such a strong "spatial imagination ability" and "God's perspective", Director Cai and the photographer are not surprised.

Director Cai stabbed Gu Cheng with his elbow uneasily: "Hey, can you do it?" ”

"And don't waste film, try it." Gu Cheng said indifferently.

"Okay, let's go once." The photographer said happily, and then instructed the scene reporter and his assistant to prepare five small red flags.

“ACTION！”

With a bang, Hua Ze, played by Gu Cheng, faced the camera holding the red flag behind him, turned sideways and began to dribble, pass, and shoot. Just after he shook the Daoming Temple, he estimated that his movements were about to cross the axis, and he suddenly increased the amplitude of the slap.

The field reporter at camera 2 stared at his movements, and after seeing the dribble he had explained, he hesitated for half a second. Seeing that he didn't react, Gu Cheng slapped it again, and the scene reporter confirmed that he was not mistaken, and raised the flag behind the No. 2 position.

Several other actors turned their bodies slightly along the flag to ensure that the new articulation position could be filmed clearly. Their movements were a little jerky and a little unprepared, which was completely incomparable to Gu Cheng's reaction, but at least it was much better than the original chaotic performance without any concept of camera.

Then, it's the second, third, and fourth jumps.

Director Cai breathed a sigh of relief, but his eyes widened wider and wider.

This is the first time he has been an idol drama director for more than ten years to see an old actor command the photographer to prevent jumping through the "first-person perspective".

This is "Meteor Garden"! It's not "Kangxi Dynasty" or "Long March"! How could there be an old drama bone with such a strong spatial expression ability crossing over?

"Great, just follow this! Hurry up and get on the film and shoot while it's hot! ”