"Lance?" Hayden, who was standing in front of him, raised his eyebrows, not very satisfied with Lance's distraction, "If you don't have time right now, we can come back later." ”

Lance raised his right hand and gestured, "Give me thirty seconds." He adjusted his breathing, and after the conversation with Ian was over, the two of them reached a preliminary agreement. But compared to the current Superman project and "Pirates of the Caribbean", which can't even see the shadow, "Sin City" is the most important thing.

This work is not only a comic book adaptation, but also the finale of the crime trilogy, with both "City of God" and "Murder by the Knife" already successful, which also means that the bar for "Sin City" has been raised even further. Not only did Lance want to shoot well, but he wanted to make it a masterpiece.

So, he can't be distracted. If he wants to win both projects, Sin City's success will give him more of a voice; And if neither of these projects succeeds - or fails, the success of "Sin City" will be a guarantee for Chaos Pictures.

As a human being, Lance clearly knows that profit is the core of the world's operation, and everyone is greedy; In the interest game of Hollywood, he wants to change from a chess piece to a chess player, and the success of his work is the only way out, in other words, to increase the value of his interests.

The boiling brain gradually cooled down, and the chaotic thoughts had not yet been sorted out, but they were put aside for the time being, and reason returned to the blood little by little. Lance looked back at Hayden and his assistant Ethan Watt in front of him, and regained his usual composure and composure, "What's the matter?" ”

"We just looked at the work of the special effects team, and I mean, they're really amazing enough to build the comic world on a computer." Hayden said, "But it's crazy, how do you need us to shoot it?" Hayden's eyebrows were tightly knotted, and although his inner excitement could be read in his body language, the tangled expression of his expression showed that he was under tremendous pressure at this time, "I just talked to that bastard Newton Siegel, and he said that if we want to create the strong contrast lighting effects in the comics, we almost have to regress to the days of black and white films, using all hand-lit lighting, and then fine-tuning it little by little......"

"Then we'll use our hands to light the lights." Lance interrupted Hayden's words and said bluntly.

This made Hayden choke directly, and looked at Lance in a daze, hoping that Lance would sue him, it was just a joke, but unfortunately he failed, Lance's expression couldn't be more serious, Hayden suddenly felt speechless, "Jesus Christ, you are really/a madman." I thought you were crazy enough in the last movie, but now it seems that you are even crazier, are you sure that Gawain didn't break your head? ”

Ethan, who was standing next to him, had a hellish expression on his face, Hayden was now almost firing on his power, and the scene of the violent collision made him just want to leave quickly, otherwise he strongly doubted that Lance would kill someone. At this time, Ethan remembered that Hayden had just asked to come and communicate with Lance face-to-face, and Newton had a palpitating expression on his face, and he didn't want to come over, and finally simply excused himself with the arrival of the prop truck, and he had to load and unload the lighting equipment - such an inferior excuse was actually taken out. Now Ethan finally understood what Newton meant, but it seemed too late......

"If you can't do it, you can make it clear to me that there's no need to provoke me to achieve your goal." In the face of Hayden's angry accusations, Lance did not back down at all and yelled back.

Hayden has known Lance for more than 20 years, and there are no taboos for the two of them to talk, let alone verbal confrontations, and even the matter of directly waving his fists is not less, but Hayden knows better than anyone that he annoyed Lance, and it was only himself who suffered as a result, not to mention, there were three unreasonable helpers behind Lance.

Hayden suddenly felt a chill on his neck, goosebumps immediately crawled all over his back, and he suddenly remembered one thing: Ian was on the crew today.

In an instant, Hayden's momentum weakened, "God, I'm not just complaining, complaining, what are you doing so seriously." I'm just saying it's very difficult, not that it's impossible. Although Hayden was still holding his waist straight, he could clearly feel that the arrogance of the whole person was extinguished, "You know what the comic lights are all about, right?" Maybe there is only one light source in a picture, and then there are a lot of shadows in the whole picture, and finally there are anti-scientific highlights in some parts, including details such as clothing, faces, or a certain bracelet, which will add a lot of lighting work, we can't directly use mechanical operation like the last movie, we have to light every shot personally, and then change the angle, the workload is unimaginable, and the shooting progress will be strictly delayed. ”

Now Hayden was no longer angry, but more like complaining, babbling a lot -- or crying.

Lance didn't interrupt Hayden this time, but listened quietly, and when the sound died down, he raised his eyebrows and seemed to say "no" again, which made Hayden touch his nose in frustration, and then heard Lance say, "Good, that's what I want." In the process of performance, the body language increases the dramatic effect, and even exaggerates to the extreme, for example, after a shot, the opponent is directly lifted away; For example, if you punch the car on the hood, the whole car will be dismembered......"

Hayden nodded again and again, and said impatiently, "I know, I know, it's all comic effect." ”

Lance didn't get angry either, and pursed the corners of his mouth, "Look, you totally understand." A sarcastic tease made Hayden roll his eyes speechlessly, "But the details of the expression need to be magnified, just like 'borrowing a knife to kill someone', I need the camera to capture every detail of the performance." Therefore, the lights must be so big that every shot is hit by hand, even if the shooting schedule is delayed. ”

The use of lighting in "killing people with a knife" has deep meaning, creating a virtual world that is free from reality; Sin City, on the other hand, is a real virtual world, not only to show off the comic effect, but also to create a sense of distortion from reality, and then supplemented by images of plasma bursting, fist-to-flesh, and explosive shootouts, pushing the suppressed violence in the previous two works to the extreme and magnifying this shocking effect.

Hayden couldn't help frowning again and looked back at the actor's rest area, "They? Although he didn't say much, the expression and gesture showed his doubts.

Lance took this into account when selecting the actors for "Sin City", although the concentration of acting in this work is not as good as "killing with a knife", and the distinctive shots will steal most of the attention, and then weaken the excavation of the core, but he will highlight this point through the use of guò shots and the arrangement of editing, so that the actors' performances can be combined with the lines and plot to further excavate the story. But objectively speaking, none of the actors in front of them can be said to be superb in acting.

Lance shrugged his shoulders and said nonchalantly, "Didn't the previous two works come like this?" ”

A simple sentence made Hayden stunned, and when he thought about it carefully, "City of God" used all amateur actors, and "Murder with a Knife" only had three core actors, but Tom and Kate were not actors known for their performances, while Lance was a rookie actor. In this way, the cast of "Sin City" is the most powerful.

Hayden chuckled speechlessly, "Very well, this time it's up to you to turn decay into magic." ”

Many people overlook the importance of directing to acting, but only true insiders know that a good director is often able to capture the best moments of a performance and even transform the quality of an actor's performance.

Lance didn't answer, but calmly spread his hands and accepted the statement. Hayden took a deep breath, "The lighting thing, anyway, it's not my responsibility. Newton didn't come over to participate in the discussion, and he didn't even have a chance to defend himself, so he took on great pressure again, and Ethan, who was standing next to him, had an inexplicable urge to laugh, "But in terms of photography, do you plan to use a black and white lens or a color lens?" ”

In the footage that the special effects team completed in advance, all the backgrounds are black and white, which is why Hayden asked this question.

Lance hadn't thought of this question, it wasn't his specialty after all, "What's the difference?" Can't you just use a black and white lens? "Because the original idea was that the whole film would be black and white, and then the colors would be made using computer special effects, which is what they did when they shot the three-minute dailis at the beginning of the film.

Hayden shook his head, "I know what you mean, the first three minutes of demos. In that shot, there were too few colors, only red and green, and they were very concentrated, so it was very fast. However, after the actual shooting, the moving lens will change colors, and the workload will increase. I just talked to the VFX team, and they said maybe the cost would go up. ”

"Moreover, the colors will be strictly distorted." Hayden adds, "For example, in a storyboard, you want to be able to show the way blood is spilling more daringly, more daring than Quentin Tarantino. If we use black and white lenses, it is difficult for us to express the vividness and excitement of blood, and the post-production zuò ......"

Lance nodded, "You have to render it bit by drop." "This will undoubtedly make the post-production of special effects extremely difficult.

Hayden nodded in agreement, "We tried to use phosphor to achieve such a lens effect, using the characteristics of phosphor to create contrast in the black and white lens, but the shooting effect was strictly distorted and looked too fake." Hayden let out a long breath and quipped, "You want a comic movie, not a farce made by students." ”

Lance's eyebrows couldn't help but lean slightly towards the middle, "What about shooting with a color lens?" (To be continued.) )