The biggest reason for the success of "Titanic" - disaster and love, and the presentation of the disaster comes from the most popular CG stunts later, the most shocking of which is naturally the scene of the shipwreck, when the terrible scene is presented very perfectly through CG technology - you can see the scene of people breaking arms and legs when they fall from a height of 230 feet, the scene where the chimney falls on them, the scene where the rope makes a crackling sound and breaks, Even the expressions on the faces of the panicked characters are enhanced by the digitization of faces to simulate the realism of people, adding some details.

There is no doubt that this is a progress and breakthrough of James Cameron in CG technology, and it has also had a very big impact on the development and application of CG technology in the future, but it is the real model of the hull that the media boasted that it cost almost 60 million US dollars to manufacture, and it is not very good, he even only half of the right is fully completed, as for the cost of 200 million US dollars, it is even more nonsense, and the whole film only cost 200 million US dollars.

Of course, because of this half-pulled finished product, coupled with the technical cooperation of CG, the final and most perfect effect came out.

The hero and heroine's "wing-****", which is another success factor, that is, love, puts a romantic love story in a tragic disaster movie, which is very perfect, when love sinks with the Titanic, the shock is incomparable, and unforgettable, the sentence "Youjump!" Ijump！ It has become an eternal classic.

Everything is ready to start filming officially, here I have to thank James Cameron again for that he has been preparing for so long, and his contribution is still quite large, the most important of which is that the pictures of the Titanic wreckage that need to be filmed at the beginning and later have been completed, and the rest is just stunts, think about it, he dived more than ten times and spent almost 20 million dollars to get it all done. This really saves the playboy a lot of time, and in other words, this is called real peach picking.

Zang Mang is still the first assistant director this time. After this time, I will probably be able to go out of school, and like He Wei, I can go to shoot independently, and the scene of the official shooting of the first act - set sail.

Mexico is not a rich place. It's about the same as our countryside in the 80s, the only outstanding thing is that it's sparsely populated, there's a lot of land, and fortunately, the shot of setting sail was shot on a green screen. The requirements for the venue were negligible, so Chen Jin casually cleared a flat open space next to the main shooting location and set up a green screen in front of him for shooting.

The green screen technology in CG is, in a nutshell, to shoot an actor acting imaginatively on a green screen, and then, in the post-production, the computer special effects fill in the surrounding environmental factors that the actor thinks, and the waves in the shipwreck scene behind. Panic of passengers. Glaciers and so on are all done like this, this technology is used in the shooting of blockbusters and historical blockbusters, one is because the scene cannot be realized, the other is dangerous, of course, saving money is also one of them.

The scene of the setting sail is in 1912. The pomp and circumstance of that pier is naturally difficult to replicate, but. Interestingly, this time. Playboy didn't use any extras, because Mexican extras honestly don't look like white people with a very thick foundation, and besides, extras are easily distracted, don't listen to commands, and it's hard to be disciplined with hip-hop.

Sometimes, Playboy understands some of James Cameron's practices, and under tremendous pressure, he is not a suave man himself - "the guy that Hollywood stars fear the most", "the perfectionist who is uncompromising, difficult to control and command!" "A 300 decibel screamer! ”。“ Modern-day Captain Bligh, the maniac who swooped down from a 162-foot crane with a megaphone and walkie-talkie, filmed the actors' facial expressions! ..., James Cameron later admitted that he himself was very strict with his own shooting requirements - "I was very strict with myself and my group. I firmly believe that when dealing with a large number of extras, professional actors and such a large filming location, I have to take some military measures to ensure that no one has an accident. I think if you were to command so many people, you would have to take strict measures. ”

But the playboy still wants to solve all this gently, he has done the hardest work in another time and space, and he has also been sneered at in the most vicious language, he understands that no one will be happy to have someone point to his nose and give him a lecture, and besides, the shooting of the set-off, although it requires N more extras, but, since the green screen technology is used, then, a few hundred people are enough, and the crew has hundreds of eggs.

In the filming in front of the green screen, there are not too many people who need to be busy with the crew, so all the vacant people rushed to the green space for the playboy, howled, promised a little sweetness, and got along with the playboy for a few days.

Hundreds of people, imagining walking past the dock, three or five friends laughing and chatting and leaving; Or lovers hugging each other with sweet smiles, slowly walking up to the side of the boat, and cheering with the people on the dock, all kinds of character expressions, behaviors with teary eyes, and various props in their hands or dragging.

Professional actors naturally need professional performances, and if the extras are spoken, the camera will sweep by, and most of them will be improvised, and after these are filmed, in post-production, the playboy can combine these virtual extras at will, and then join the required scenes, and the scene of this set sail is done, flawless.

Now that CG technology is not yet developed, in another ten years, it will be possible to use computerized cameras to capture the actors' appearance characteristics, expressions, movements, and various performances with digital technology, and make them into blueprints of the human body, and create virtual characters on this basis, which is beyond imagination.

The scene of setting sail is simple and simple, but the trouble is that there are too many people, props, costumes, etc. need to be coordinated, from morning to night, it took a full ten hours of busy work to complete, this is still because the weather is fine, and the weather in May is not too hot, if it is July, it will be troublesome birds.

But the playboy is not in a hurry, and at night he really starts a bonfire party as he said during the day, one is to work slowly and carefully, and the most important thing is that he shoots much faster than James Cameron, and it is not an exaggeration to say that double, because he doesn't need to spend even a little more effort, and James Cameron shoots more, and the clips that were cut out later are almost half.

For example, in the story of the famous Californians, James Cameron also deliberately filmed the scene where they turned off their Marconi radio equipment to pave the way for the sinking of the Titanic, but later, both the producer and he himself realized the danger of that shot, which was a kind of questioning of the entire Californians, so he had to cut it later.

Also, in the original ending, Brooke and Leeds see the elderly Rose on the railing of the stern of the research ship, fearing that she will commit suicide by jumping into the sea. Rose reveals that she had always owned the Heart of the Sea, but never sold it, and was able to live without Carl's money.

She told Brooke what the diamond meant to her, that it was priceless, and at first, she wanted to throw it back into the sea and let it all end, but, later, gave it to Brooke. Brooke, after taking the priceless treasure, began to understand her feelings and laughed at his own foolishness. Rose then returns to her cabin to rest, and that's how it begins. ..., however, this scene was only changed to the simple scene we saw - Rose threw "Heart of the Ocean" into the sea, because James Cameron later decided that the audience was not interested in Brooke and had long forgotten about him, and it made no sense to add him.

Another example is the first test version, which is about ten minutes long, after Jack and Rose escape from the flooded first-class dining room, they meet Carl's servant, and Jack fights him, but the audience doesn't like it.

This scene is meant to create some suspense - Carl tells his servant that if he can get the "Heart of the Sea" from Jack and Rose, Carl will be able to provide the servant Lovejoy with what he needs. So, Lovejoy follows a couple of heroes and heroines to the first-class dining room, and sadly the two find that they have slipped away, but later, the servant notices the moment Rose's hand slides off the stage, and finally discovers where she is hiding.

At this time, in revenge for Lovejoy's witch accusing him of stealing the Heart of the Ocean, Jack secretly attacks him and slams his head against the glass window, which explains why one of the servants died in the full version of the movie with a deep wound on his head.

Unfortunately, the audience didn't buy this scene, saying in an interview that they felt it was unrealistic to use a person's life in exchange for wealth, because they didn't think that even Lovejoy would use such a despicable act to gain wealth. Therefore, James Cameron later deleted this clip, which was a coincidence, which shortened the time of the film and increased the smoothness of the film.

These are just a few examples, and there are many other scenes that have been cut for similar reasons, think about it, a ten-minute shot, no matter how smooth the shooting is, whether it is manpower, material and financial resources, or time, it is a huge consumption.

James Cameron doesn't have much to criticize, after all, he has too many ideas, and if he wants to make the movie as he imagined, then he needs to think slowly, slowly consider and experiment.

Playboy doesn't need it, and he doesn't want to make this movie as good as it gets, so his job is much easier than James Cameron's, and then, time and money are naturally greatly saved, and finally, it's naturally easier to shoot, because he's really not in a hurry! (To be continued......)