The first stereoscopic animation quickly caught the attention of many.

Overall, the fashionable character of "The Witch's Journey" is quite high, and the laughter and tears in the story are relatively abundant, although there are also imperfections, but for a fledgling young director, it is an almost amazing report card.

The image of the heroine is extremely pleasing, and her delicate and wild boy-like perseverance and strength make her almost both men and women, and both female and male audiences like this little girl who is sometimes kind and considerate and sometimes handsome and straightforward. The popularity of the male protagonist is also good.,Although the audience is relatively narrow.,But for this boy who started with a childlike innocence and cruelty.,Later, little by little clumsily learned to understand and cherish his friends.,Most people still love it.。

In addition to this, the other supporting characters also have their own fan bases.

Because of the number of screening halls, the popularity of this film has not risen quickly. But fortunately, there are many screenings - at present, there is only such a three-dimensional film in the country for the time being, so the screening hall is basically scheduled for such a film from morning to night, and the income is quite good.

At least put it for a month, and the return on investment will definitely be enough. Because there are only two screening halls, there is no need to worry about the problem of box office reduction or saturation - they are all in the bustling areas of the metropolis, where tourists come and go, and the two halls will definitely not be able to meet the flow of visitors.

But of course, Lin Shu will not let a piece go forever. Don't forget, Lin Zewen's "Afterimage of Death" is already on the way.

Qi Ziyan, the love of the public's dreams, was not invited, but the crew also had a substitute - Lin Zewen's senior sister from the same school, Tang Mengzhu, the flower of the last Yanying School. This girl was already filming before she graduated, and she made persistent efforts this year after graduation, and has played several supporting roles so far, and the protagonist has also been mixed twice, one film is very popular, and the other is Pupu.

But no matter what film it is, no matter how the director is, what the other actors are, and what the quality of the TV series is, she plays very well anyway. According to Ju Mingfeng's comments, this girl is super hard.

In the same scene, they are all novices who are not very good at acting, and in one scene, everyone is reading lines with wooden faces, and she says every word with true feelings, and every action is impassioned.

instantly highlighted her acting skills.

Acting, it's not difficult to say, it's not easy to say. Lin Shu is a layman, and it is absolutely impossible to act by himself, but that is mainly because he is not suitable for the camera, his shame is too heavy, and he can still appreciate it.

Whether the performance is good or not, in his opinion, lies in whether it is "attentive" or not, and whether it is "dedicated" or not.

It's simple, but to the point.

The audition of Star Shadow is not large, but there are a lot of people who come. Tang Mengzhu's appearance is excellent, and her information and acting skills are dominant, and she won the heroine crown. In addition to the heroine, there are also other acquaintances who have mixed up with the role - Liang Zhongxi's girlfriend Wei Ruolan was lucky to be mixed into the role of the heroine's best friend in the play. There are not many scenes, but the characters are likable, and she herself is quite satisfied.

This was followed by nearly two months of shooting.

This filming period has gone through the pinch and the tail. Before the casting, in fact, Xingying has already begun to make preliminary preparations. The main filming locations were a villa in the coastal city, several important city attractions, and some petty bourgeois shops.

The set and character props are ingested separately. The set is directly scanned and modeled in motion, and a set of scanning equipment has a total of 25 light-sensitive lenses, exactly nine of which are in each plane, forming an outer cube.

These light sensors form a group of three to seven to dynamically scan the people and objects in the center of the device, and at the same time, carry out stereoscopic gradient or color restoration processing according to the received picture information during scanning, outlining the entire dynamic image.

The background system is undoubtedly more convenient, through the restoration of the scene in advance, the actor will no longer need to shoot on location, as long as it is matched with the right set light, he can be on call in the dark and white night, but it saves a lot of things.

Of course, the test for actors has also been raised. Anyone who is covered with a big cage will be emotionally difficult to enter the play, and this sense of disobedience will only take time to slowly dissipate.

What's more, even the exterior scenes can be post-processed.

But when it comes to shooting, the situation is much more troublesome.

Unlike ordinary film shooting, the actors need to pay attention to the camera and position at all times, and the actors don't need to care about this kind of non-performance content when they are stereoscopically recorded, because they have a camera directly on their body that is 360 degrees and no dead ends.

This has both advantages and disadvantages for the actors.

The good thing is that I don't have to worry about being maliciously stealing the show, and the disadvantage is that under such a fine lens, every bit of stiffness and unnaturalness in the performance will be infinitely magnified.

There are no close-ups in stereoscopic films, but the screens are huge and the audience seats are close together, so the movements and expressions of the characters can be seen very clearly. All the crew went to the stereoscopic screening hall for field investigations, and some even directly measured the distance from the last row of the screening hall to the projection crystal wall - because the terrain of the auditorium is sloping, and the crystal wall basically presents an angle of 60°, so the distance between the last row of audiences and the crystal wall is only about 12 meters, including the aisle.

And the audience in the first row is only a stone's throw away.

This spatial distance is also more suitable for life-size shooting.

In fact, most of the filming time in these two months was spent on □□ actors, and the acting of facial expressions is one thing, and the filling of the scenes is another.

Stereoscopic photography has too many new elements, and Lin Zewen also lacks understanding of many elements, so he can only understand and experiment in the process of shooting. One of the most troublesome is the way the actors perform - normally speaking, when shooting, the camera has its own specific landing point, and there is no need for any performance off-camera.

However, for stereoscopic photography, although the lens will focus on the main person, when interacting, other people will not leave the field of view. Therefore, even if it is a supporting role, it must be performed continuously all the time, which is a test of skill.

When Lin Shu came to see the situation that day, Lin Zewen was angry about this matter. This scene is in the kitchen, the younger sister disguises herself as the older sister, and the snack in the kitchen is actually to make zuò self-defense potions just in case, but halfway she deliberately made the illusion of "being possessed by herself", which frightened the cook, and then spread the rumor that "the eldest lady was possessed by the deceased second lady".

Lin Zewen is struggling with this point - the actress who plays the chef is basically not good, and it is not the frightened part that is not good at acting, but the part of the "chef".

Although she tried her best to pretend to be cooking, her movements were very chaotic. Stereoscopic movies can't allow her to pretend, even if she is pretended, the process still has to be relatively continuous, and actresses can't do it.

Lin Shu listened and said, "Actually, it's not difficult. You just let her learn how to cook a few dishes. ”

Lin Zewen: "!? ”

Lin Shu said with a smile: "It's that you first prepare the recipe for the dish to be made for her this time, and we will find someone to teach her how to make it." After teaching, cut her cooking process directly and put it in. There is no need for her to 'act' the cook, let her really be a cook for half a day, just shoot this part seriously. ”

He smiled and said: "In this case, she is not acting, but really doing it, and the 'acting' must be real and natural." ”

Lin Zewen thought about it seriously for a while, and felt that this idea was really uncertain, so he arranged it.

He thought about it carefully, discussed it with Tang Mengzhu and her "stepmother", set their menu, and then picked a few simple ones for the cook to learn from.

He didn't say "I'll replace you if you don't play well", but "You don't have to think about acting, you can honestly cook these dishes." If the food is not delicious, then you don't have to play this role again."

It's a strange request, and the actors can't figure out what's going on. But Lin Zewen was very serious and definitely not joking, so she was really nervous to learn the dishes honestly, and then surrounded by the camera equipment, she made all the dishes seriously. When she finished setting the dishes for everyone to taste, she unexpectedly found that there were a few more difficult dishes on the table - she waited nervously for the evaluation, but saw the director stuck, indicating that the filming of this scene was completed.

Only then did the actress know that the scene just now was being filmed, but no one prompted her at all, so she was not acting. Lin Zewen's mouth was more vicious, and he said: "When you are not acting, you can act much better than when you are acting." ”

He was the director, and the actress didn't dare to talk back, only pouting after his gaze shifted.

Lin Shu then went to see the recorded clips with Lin Zewen, and the whole scene looked indeed much more natural, and there was no longer a blunt scene of the cook standing in a daze or posing next to him.

Lin Zewen seems to have found the door to a new world from this paragraph, and then began to use similar methods to direct the supporting characters - let them ignore the camera frame when they buy things in the store, and bargain with the clerk with real feelings, and the colleagues who spread the rumors directly let the other party squat on the set and shoot while talking about gossip - he canceled the original lines and let them start to play freely, everyone made up some gossip about the heroine to tell others, and when the time came, he directly selected the appropriate clip and cut it in.

These measures may sound a bit crooked, but they have worked surprisingly well. At least the general supporting roles or dragon sets are more natural, not as wooden and stiff as before.

But the roles of the protagonist and the main supporting role can't be done like this, and Lin Zewen still needs to explain and guide him again and again.

For more than two months, it was completely spent on this.