Back in the Los Angeles studio, the filming revolved entirely around Chris Evans' Superman, including all the previous shoots, Superman didn't have a red cape, and such a cape would cause a lot of trouble when shooting in reality, so Murphy simply asked the special effects team to add it in post-production. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

And the film will also explain why Superman needs such a wide red cloak, not for pretending, but to assist balance when flying.

Almost all of the shoots in the studio were set in front of a green screen, and Chris Evans couldn't understand Murphy's specific intentions to make him do some actions, but Murphy didn't need him to understand, as long as he, the director, and the special effects artists from the working light and magic knew which digital effects those actions should correspond to.

The shot can be said to be a very, very rough initial product, and the completion is not even 10%, and the remaining 90% is basically completed by post-production special effects.

This is Murphy's most use of digital technology and CGI special effects to date.

Throughout the December shoot, Murphy led the crew in the mornings and afternoons, and before 12 p.m., he stayed with the special effects artists of ILM, although he did not understand the specifics of CGI special effects and digital technology, but in this way, the two parties could communicate in time to achieve the results he wanted in the shortest possible time.

It's not easy to turn the shots in front of a green screen into the final effect of a movie.

In the action scene, Murphy gave up the fast and slow transition shots during the filming of "Deadpool", and adopted a completely speed-per-hour fight, and at the same time required the team of Industrial Light & Magic to add special effects, there must be no unclear feeling, and every action and editing must be able to see clearly.

This is never easy to do, and Murphy and the action directing team have created a special design for the action shots.

Especially the finale scene, which is being filmed in front of a green screen, after Gal Gadot joins, plus the previous Chris Evans and the Russian-American actor of the motion-captured villain boss, it becomes a veritable smash mayhem.

Often in this kind of chaos, Hollywood will make the characters ...... in order to make the audience distinguish each character Different colors, sounds retarded, right? But it's really useful, like Morphers and The Avengers, which Murphy has watched many times.

The Autobots in "Transformers" are colorful, the Decepticons are all dark metallic, and the same setting is in "The Avengers", which is not so much about creating characters as lazy.

In "Man of Steel", although Superman's clothes are different from the villain, the colors are all dark, and in the quick fight, the audience can be distinguished at a glance without optical illusions.

From the time he started to shoot now, Murphy has barely used aerial photography, as well as the standard shooting methods for blockbusters such as hand-held photography and shoulder-mounted photography, and he wants extremely smooth lenses, not shaky images, so he mostly uses rails and Steadicam follow-ups, which can not only cut the lens frequently in post-production, but also provide stable close-up photography options.

Finally, a large number of smooth camera information can be used to compose a macro perspective of the fight scene, and the level of the entire battle scene can be developed by starting small.

Another major feature of Murphy's shooting is that Philip Raschel frequently uses a large zoom lens to automatically zoom, the basic principle of this technique is that the large zoom lens is easy to switch between large panoramas and close-ups, which is used a lot in news events, and it will be very realistic.

This approach can significantly increase the realism of the film.

In Murphy's words, "The technique in Man of Steel is a rigorous on-the-spot reporting of breaking news, and the action scenes of the whole film must be filled with such a way to show the big picture with a wide angle and quickly push the main points of the news protagonists to highlight the main points." ”

He came up with all the ways to pull the seriously untrustworthy comic hero "Superman" off the altar and let him land, which can be described as well-intentioned.

Since the film was to be released in the summer of next year, it was quite intense for the special effects production, and after Murphy completed the filming of the finale action scene, he paused the filming work, and instead worked with Jody Griffith, together with the special effects team of Industrial Light & Magic, to take the lead in completing the pre-special effects addition of this part of the scene.

After adding special effects, the completion of these shots has reached 60 to 70 percent, but it is still quite far from being completely completed, as long as anyone who knows a little about special effects production knows that the first 80 percent of special effects production will only take 20 percent of time and money, and the remaining 20 percent will use up the remaining 80 percent!

Many films with small investment and five-cent special effects are often completed by the first 80%, ignoring the remaining 20%, and the audience seems to think that the special effects are very poor.

The 60 to 70 percent of the shots at the end of the battle don't look very good, and some people in Warner Bros. have complained that the action design does not conform to the action mode developed on the basis of kung fu in North America and Hollywood, and will deviate from the basic aesthetics of the audience.

In their eyes, the scene where Wonder Woman is removed from the ending battle is simply bumping around, and it may seem that this is indeed the case.

But with Murphy in power and the support of Warner Bros.' board, he stuck to his own point.

Just like when it was originally designed, having a character like Superman play those fancy fights is simply insulting to the audience's IQ, and the emphasis on destructive passages will be appropriately added by Murphy to the appropriate tricks.

The action scenes set by Murphy, the places that were criticized by those at Warner, and the destructive power of Superman and Wonder Woman.

Although the footage of this section is still relatively low, the amazing destructiveness is already on display, not just in terms of feeling and visual, but also in reality.

For example, the Wayne Group's buildings in the Metropolis will collapse like papier-mâché in the battle between Superman and the villain, and a large number of buildings will be destroyed by three characters with amazing abilities.

This is the effect that Murphy deliberately pursues, and he wants to make the action scenes of "Man of Steel" break the "moral bottom line" of the previous actions of Hollywood heroic movies.

In the studio, several people sat together and drank coffee during the break, and Gal Gadot, who had barely entered Hollywood, asked curiously, "Is there a moral bottom line for Hollywood's mainstream commercial movie action scenes?" Is this true? ”

"Yes," replied the strange-looking Nicolas Cage, "and I can tell you responsibly that it's true!" Even those R-rated action movies I've shot in the past have a moral bottom line for action scenes. ”

Chris Evans, knowing that Nicolas Cage knows much more about this circle than they do, asked, "Can you tell me more about it?" ”

"For example......" Nicolas Cage thought for a while and gestured and said, "Everyone recalls the destruction scenes in many mainstream big-budget movies, although they are full of momentum, but there are few scenes of direct victims of innocent people, the ground of the bombed plane must be the sea or wasteland, the people in distress will definitely be rescued, and the object of destruction must not indicate the existence of people." ”

Gal Gadot has seen a limited number of movies and is still reminiscing, and Chris Evans next to him has begun to nod.

Nicolas Cage continued, "These can be called the moral bottom line of action scenes, but our film ......"

At this, he shook his head, "Murphyry broke it all. ”

In the script, it is clearly written that a large number of innocent people are implicated.

Gal Gadot sighed in a low voice, and was about to say something, when an assistant director suddenly came over to inform him that due to the latest problems encountered by Murphy going to the special effects department to communicate with ILM, today's shooting was here, and they could get off work.

While going to the makeup trailer to change clothes, Gal Gadot sent a text message to Murphy and got a reply telling her not to wait for the night, and he didn't know what time he would be able to go back.

Gal Gadot had to leave Warner Studios first, knowing that if Murphy went to the special effects department, he would be very busy until late in the evening.

Murphy went to communicate with the special effects department because he thought of a new problem, "Man of Steel" has a lot of special effects shots, but there must be a certain amount of restraint in the production and use, and it can't be turned into a Michael Bay-style naked showmanship.

It's not that this kind of showmanship is bad, but the showmanship doesn't match the theme and atmosphere of the film.

Most of Hollywood's commercial film directors have a penchant for showing off their skills, and Murphy thinks that many directors are like this, showing off skills has a growth process, just like expecting money to spend when you have no money, and suddenly you really have money, you have to have a good time, huh...... It's the nouveau riche mentality.

In terms of special effects, it is necessary to make some special effects that are "visible" to the audience or the boss of the film company, and ...... I did spend the money on the place, and when they were almost done, they would start to learn how to use the special effects well.

And those who were "rich" from the beginning did not have this process, such as a few directors such as Spielberg.

The effects of Man of Steel can be divided into biotic effects for living creatures and non-mob effects as background items.

In terms of non-biological effects, Murphy doesn't plan to use any breakthrough technology, which is basically just general rigid body collisions, particle systems, and compositing.

But in all the high-running action scenes, there is basically not much room for these special effects, whether it is Superman or Wonder Woman, the speed is too fast, and Murphy does not plan to use high-speed slow motion, the picture will run at high speed with Superman.

This is a huge difference from the special effects of previous action movies. (To be continued.) )