"What about the storyboard? What are the requirements for depth of field and angle? Or do you shoot according to the feeling of the first scene just now? ”

Hayden's question made Lance shake his head, "I want the sudden feeling that everything happens without warning, as if we arrived in the City of God on the first day, and the shootout happened out of nowhere, and everyone was caught off guard; But this qiē disappeared so quickly that it was swallowed up by this pool of stagnant water before it even had time to react. Even the local inhabitants of the City of God felt that a qiē happened in an instant, that feeling of suddenness. ”

Lance's understanding of photography is still limited, and it is difficult for him to clearly express his ideas in professional terms, so he can only present them according to the director's sense of the picture, and leave the rest to the professionals.

Hayden propped his chin in his right hand, frowning as he pondered his words, "So you're saying, it's like color contrast, and we need to emphasize that sense of confusion again. Hayden groaned for a moment, then shook his head, but didn't know what he was denying, "Are you looking for that feeling somewhere between a documentary and a feature film, with a strong sense of motion to further accentuate the messy, realistic, close-up viewing effect?" ”

In fact, the two sentences that Hayden said mean the same thing, but judging from his body movements, he is now in a state of seeming to understand but not understand.

Lance didn't rush to answer, but looked back at his surroundings, and finally his eyes fell on Albert and the group of children who were listening to the filming of the next scene.

Although Lance's watch today has always been very calm and sophisticated, and he seems to be very experienced, only Lance himself knows clearly: this is the first time he picked up the guide tube, and the experience of a theater director in the previous life has given him the ability to control the set and the overall situation, but the biggest difference between film and drama is the lens.

Theatergoers sit in the audience and enjoy the play from the same angle, but moviegoers follow the camera lens and are immersed in the story. Shots presented by different angles, lights, trajectories, and methods will have different effects, and those masters of photography and directors can often use the simplest lens to make psychological hints to the audience without lines and plots.

For example, the oppression brought by cold colors, such as the warmth and beauty brought by backlighting, and the restlessness brought by sports shots. Etcetera.

Lance had a clear picture of the movie in his head, and now all he needed to do was accurately convey to Hayden, "Take a five-minute break!" Candle suddenly shouted without warning, and the sudden burst of sound made everyone stunned, and Hayden, who was standing next to Lance, was frightened enough, but then Hayden saw that the children around him were stunned, and then scattered in all directions, Albert tried to stop the children, but to no avail - the discipline of these children was still bad.

But the funny thing is that although the children ran away, everyone just ran to the side, gathered together in twos and threes, and soon stopped, not knowing where to go, and not daring to leave the set - leaving the set without permission was to be kicked out of the crew, so after everyone ran away, they all stood to the side in amazement, at a loss. No one has the experience and knows what to do and what should be done during a break in filming......

Albert looked at Lance with a speechless face - Lance's sudden move directly made his work go down the drain, and he hadn't finished explaining the filming content and focus of this scene!

But Lance didn't pay any attention to Albert's complaining expression, and said straight to Hayden, "See? Hayden came back to his senses and carefully examined the chaos in front of him, "What I want is this feeling of fragmentation, the camera shakes and skims quickly, the audience hasn't even had time to see the face in the camera clearly, the next picture may be messy and fleeing footsteps, and then the next second is a magnified frightened face, but it is just a glimpse of the floating light, then it becomes a panorama, and the next second the camera is ......"

"Just follow the three young men and the three people to move forward quickly." Hayden took Lance's words, and all the images in his mind instantly became extremely clear, like a spring, "We should carry the camera on our shoulders, record every detail in a documentary way, run with the children, and then shoot the real picture up close, showing the chaos and restlessness, but closer to the actors, more oppressive and dramatic than a documentary, incorporating the uncertain restlessness of the City of God into the lens." Finally, through guò editing, the kind of fast and sharp shots are neatly edited, seemingly chaotic but hiding a kind of order and emotion, which permeates little by little. ”

Hayden didn't look at Lance, his eyes quickly caught the children fleeing but quickly stopped, and then quickly surveyed the space around him, his thoughts raced and inspiration burst out, and he felt that the whole movie picture was vividly and realistically spread out in his mind like never before.

"That means we need at least four cameras, two close-ups, which follow the actors as they run completely, a medium shot, to capture the entire content of the picture, but use the frame of the street to confine the picture, and the last panorama is placed in a fixed position to record the entire escape process in a documentary way."

Hayden's thoughts became extremely clear, his eyes flashed with excitement, and he finally realized at this moment what Hugo called "the sense of the picture of banter between documentary and drama", the blur that wanders between the real and the novel will penetrate little by little, making it difficult for people to distinguish the boundary between reality and film, truly showing the cruelty, blood, violence, and chaos of the City of God, but at the same time awakening people's subconscious, this is just a movie.

Thinking of this, Hayden couldn't help but be stunned, and turned his head to look at Lance, "But, don't you want to highlight the realism of this movie?" Let people know that this qiē is real in real life. That's why you want to shoot in a documentary-like way, but if you do it in the way you just said, it will seem a little detached, and the exaggerated colors and close-ups will only make the audience play. ”

Lance knew that Hayden truly understood his thoughts, but not his intentions, "and that's the sense of isolation I was hoping to achieve. Remember how you felt on your first day in the City of God? It's as if you've come to another world - the world of movies. ”

For most people, including many Brazilians, the City of God is non-existent, as if it had been deliberately fabricated in movies and novels, a different world entirely; But in fact, the city of God is real, very real and cruel, and it is also a part of people's lives that cannot be ignored.

Lance hopes that the film "City of God" will tell such a "special world", and the audience will always think that it is just a fictional world in the film - cruel, bloody, cold, chaotic, dark, violent, and the realism is shocking; And at the end of the movie, that sense of reality will come to people's faces, clearly and clearly making people realize that this is not fiction, this is real, and after the "sense of isolation" is broken, the shock created before will invade again, and it will be more turbulent, more surging and more powerful, and then form a secondary high/tide, detonating a tsunami of reflection.

After the movie is over, the real drama will appear.

There was a hint of surprise in Hayden's eyes, then he smiled helplessly and patted Lance on the shoulder, "That's why, why you can be a good director, and I can only be a good photographer." Hayden let out a long breath and returned to his profession, and then felt a headache, "God, this is the second scene!" It's already that difficult, Lance, you know? What a jerk you are! ”

In the face of Hayden's scolding and irritability, Lance was indifferent, and even his eyebrows did not move, "So, can you do it?" ”

Hayden's sullen breath was blocked in his chest, and under the motionless gaze of those blue eyes, all his anger poured out, "Grass! Hayden scolded sullenly, threw the cigarette in his hand on the ground, and extinguished it with the soles of his feet, "Nonsense, how could I not do it!" Hayden immediately shouted, "Ethan, come here!" ”

Ethan-Water, Hayden's camera assistant, was one of seven crew members that Lance brought with him from the United States.

"In a moment, the two of us will shoot up close with a camera in hand......," Hayden began to explain to Ethan how the shot was done and what needed to be done. After Lance finished his work, he turned around and was about to leave, but was stopped by Hayden, "Lance, you are in charge of the camera in the middle shot, it needs to move with the movement of the whole shooting, you can just walk sideways along that street......"

Lance stood next to him and was stunned, not expecting that he was also assigned a task, but Hayden glanced at Lance, "I said, we need four cameras, we don't have enough manpower, so you have to take over." Don't forget about jì, it's your own request. Seeing that Lance seemed to have something to say, Hayden added the latter sentence, which directly left Lance speechless. You go and tell Albert that we need a rehearsal, one is to determine our shooting angle and trajectory, and then set the camera position to ensure that there will be no flaws in the footage; The second is to let the children adapt to the tracking of the camera, not to look at the camera, and to master the pattern of the whole scene before they can be put into filming. ”

After saying that, Hayden ignored Lance and turned his head to discuss with Ethan.

Poor Ethan was called over, and without saying a word, he was directly indoctrinated with a whole bunch of things, and he was already a little dizzy. Seeing Ethan's confused eyes, Lance turned around without hesitation and shouted, "Bert, we need a rehearsal!" ”