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As a director, there are some habits and rules that are best developed early in your career, and even known to everyone in the crew.

For example, how to get along with actors.

On the Saw crew, these are not problems, the film is independently invested by Murphy, and the most famous actor, James Franco, has a good personal relationship with him, and no one else has the right to dictate him as a director.

What if it is changed to other projects in the future, and there are more well-known actors in the project?

From a certain point of view, it is normal for actors to love vanity, and even most actors admit it.

So why did Murphy show them what they had all done? When they catch a glimpse of the screen, they want to see more, to see if the shadows are appropriate or if they show off their double chins.

As a director, Murphy wants an authentic performance, and as actors, most of the time they want a perfect appearance in addition to their acting skills.

Who will win in the end? In order to avoid this problem completely, it is better for the director to keep the actors away from the monitor, and not to invite them over if they are not necessary.

From the last shoot, when people like Carey Mulligan or James Franco asked how their performances were, Murphy always repeated one sentence – your watch is really perfect, dear.

This was the end of the first day, and before the filming of the second day began, Murphy called the heads of various departments together for a brief meeting.

From the time he completed the script, he began to do a lot of pre-shooting preparations, and made a lot of ideas and imaginations for every scene, every character and even some subtle actions of the script.

After the start of shooting, a daily pre-work shooting meeting can be used to implement the shooting down to the smallest details.

Of course, even if sufficient preliminary preparations have been made, due to various reasons on the shooting site, the heads of various departments still need to face the situation of on-the-spot performance, and in such an emergency moment, the entire crew will wait for the director's next move, and Murphy has also encountered such a problem in the later shooting.

The most important thing for him as a director is to have active thinking, and at the same time, he also needs to have excellent basic skills.

The support of technology and thinking is the premise and confidence of the director to deal with problems, and it is also the guarantee for the smooth operation of the crew.

When Murphy has a new idea during filming, he will first ask the actors to express the scene in the simplest way, let them find a good position in the scene, and see what kind of effect it has.

However, if the actor's ideas are far from his thinking, Murphy will find a way to get the actors back on track with the film, rather than letting them lose themselves in their own direction.

This requires planning, and storyboards that accurately express the plot and the thoughts of the characters are most useful at this time.

After a week of continuous filming, the scene of James Franco and Seth Rogen alone in the secret room gradually came to an end, and after the crew carefully prepared, the filming of a * scene was ushered in.

Behind the two cameras, Murphy and Phil Raschel each operate one, and Raschel's assistant sets up the Steadicam, standing slightly out, ready to come forward and capture the picture at any time.

On the set, James Franco picked up the hacksaw on the ground like crazy, took off his shirt and tied Baker Kleber's special prosthetic leg, the saw blade fell in the middle of the prosthetic leg, and sawed wildly.

He sawed the resin surface slightly, and the bright red liquid poured out instantly, some of which even sprang up and landed on his face, and James Franco had no intention of stopping, and continued to sawing his legs while letting out a howl of pain, and the red juice flowed to the ground, staining a large piece of red, and splashing everywhere with a large sawing movement.

It was as if there was a rain of blood around him, and it looked so cruel.

Two underage girls, Lily and Carey Mulligan, Murphy let Bill Rosis take away before filming started, especially Kerry Mulligan, he can't say why, always worried that she will affect her mental health when she sees this.

However, his busy schedule also left him with no time or energy to think about these things.

Above James Franco, a huge microphone hung silently, recording his wails of pain, plasma splattering to the ground, hacksaws slicing through skin muscles......

These sounds all need to be recorded live.

Due to the constraints of the scene and cost, it was impossible for the crew to use the boom here, so an intern had to hang the microphone with a pole, which seemed easy, but it was actually a tiring job, and from Murphy's point of view, the intern's forehead was covered with sweat.

The intern focused on live recording at school, otherwise he wouldn't have been working as a recording engineer for a while.

The work of holding the pole seems simple, but in fact, the professional process is quite high, and the pole and the microphone line can affect the effect of the live recording, even if the simple line has a lot of attention, such as the line to be closed quickly, put fast, the male end of the line to the recording equipment, the female head to the microphone on the pole, there can be no stumbling in the middle of the wire, no knots, and can not be too close to other power cords such as lights, otherwise there will be interference sound.

And there are many ways to lift the pole, this intern is the ear of the recording engineer, it can be said that he is not doing well, and the recording engineer is also blind.

This job is not just a job that can be done by just someone who can go to that microphone, the microphone should be pressed low enough, and it will not appear in the camera, and it will take a lot of practice, like this intern, because he has done similar work before, just look at the monitor to know what the lowest position of the microphone is the limit.

Holding the microphone high in order not to be a goof, is unprofessional and irresponsible, and the recorded things will always be wasted.

This physical activity also requires strong willpower, Murphy has to put a 20-foot long pole when shooting a large panorama, plus the movement of the characters, and a slightly longer shot, which is so tiring that his hands are broken, and no movement is allowed on the intern's hands during this period, because every movement of the fingers will be clearly transmitted to the tape recorder.

Some people may think that with wireless recording, Murphy still uses this stupid method, which is simply outdated.

Wireless is good, but wireless can not receive ambient sound, and its frequency response range is also very limited, far less than the sound quality recorded by the wired microphone.

And the sound of James Franco's character sawing his legs can undoubtedly add to the atmosphere of the film and bring a more terrifying auditory effect.

After filming this scene, Murphy announced that filming was temporarily over, and everyone in the crew, including him, moved to an empty space in the warehouse to change needles for tens of thousands of needles.