Chapter 513 Is It a Maniac or a Detective

After Zhou Shaoming led the crew of "Detective" to Hong Kong, it did cause a lot of sensation, for this Hollywood director, and for the Chinese film market, it can be regarded as leading a group of superstars to shoot the movie "Detective", most of the media have given high praise!

However, compared to the North American media, it feels that Zhou Shaoming's crazy move again is incredible! Even many viewers think that Zhou Shaoming's approach this time is indeed a little unwise!

But for Zhou Shaoming, now is not to discuss whether the film can achieve a good reputation and high box office in the North American market after its release, and now the "Detective" crew who are ready can start filming!

Whether it is a lighting engineer, a photographer, or a makeup artist, these crew members are all in place, as for the follow-up processing of the film, Zhou Shaoming still deals with it after returning to North America, after all, this film, in terms of film quality and action screens, must be accompanied by a large number of computer stunts!

Although this film was filmed in Hong Kong, it is fundamentally different from domestic Hong Kong films in terms of scale! Especially in the handling of the film, the Hong Kong team can't handle it at all!

Whether the media in Asia is optimistic or the North American media is not optimistic, for Zhou Shaoming, none of this matters! The first link of coming to Hong Kong to build momentum has been successfully launched, when Zhou Shaoming led the film's starring Bell, Avril Lavigne, Wu Jing, and supporting roles Andy Lau, Jackie Chan, Fan Bingbing and others have caused a lot of sensation in small Hong Kong, and shocked fans in the land of China!

After Wei Jiahui, the gold medal producer, joined, no matter what Wei Jiahui's attitude towards Zhou Shaoming was in advance, after knowing Wei Jiahui's thoughts, Zhou Shaoming understood the Hong Kong producer's thoughts very well, so he took out all his ideas, Wei Jiahui lived up to Zhou Shaoming's expectations, and soon handed over a complete plot to Zhou Shaoming!

Before coming to Hong Kong. Wei Jiahui has written Zhou Shaoming's idea into a script outline, Zhou Shaoming looked at the outline, and clearly divided the roles for the recruited movie stars!

In advance, the roles of Bell, Avril Lavigne, Wu Jing, and Murphy were only determined, but for the new Jackie Chan, Andy Lau, Fan Bingbing and others, Zhou Shaoming had not yet been determined at that time!

With the outline in hand. Zhou Shaoming has determined the above three superstar roles that are more influential in China! Jackie Chan played the role of a retired chief in the film, in the film, this chief is the boss of the protagonist of the film, Chen Guibin, and because Chen Guibin gave his ear to the retired chief before retirement, he was considered mentally ill by the police station and forced to quit his job as a police officer!

Andy Lau plays the role of the police officer Wang Guozhu in the film, because Wang Guozhu disappeared mysteriously, and the protagonist Chen Guibin is no longer a policeman. At Gao Zhiwei's request, he came forward to inquire about this case!

Fan Bingbing, thinking of this, Zhou Shaoming smiled lightly. After familiarizing himself with the plot handed over by Wei Jiahui, Zhou Shaoming knew the role of this Chinese-level little beauty movie star! In this film, Zhou Shaoming wants to use the usual lens effects to let Fan Bingbing play the shadow of the heroine Zhang Meihua! When Zhou Shaoming said the division of labor among actors!

Avril was confused. Isn't the heroine Zhang Meihua played by herself? Why did Fan Bingbing run out again!

Zhou Shaoming smiled lightly at the corner of his mouth, and said a little mysteriously: "You'll know when the time comes!" ”

With all the preparations in place, it was the beginning of February 2005. In the cold weather, the crew of "Detective" began to get everything ready for work!

The first day of filming was carried out, and when the first scene was filmed, the cold weather at this time really brought a lot of trouble to the crew!

But fortunately, the first shot was just a large number of shooting rooms, Zhou Shaoming said to the leading actor Bell after preparing the scene: "Bell, at the beginning, it must be shown that the character of Chen Guibin is a dedicated police officer, although his case-solving skills are very unusual, but after all, he is a flesh and blood, think about it, a person gets into a suitcase and rolls down the stairs after the painful look, all of which have to be performed!" ”

After Bell heard Zhou Shaoming's words, he promised: "Got it, Director Zhou!" ”

The shot taken by Zhou Shaoming at this time is the shot of Detective Chen Guibin! At the beginning of the film, Zhou Shaoming showed all the detective's case-handling skills in front of the audience!

There is no need to talk about the suitcase murder case, only the camera needs to be filmed, when the victim died, Detective Chen Guibin began to go out, and when he came to the scene of the incident, Detective Chen Guibin constantly observed everything in the room, and Gao Zhiwei, who happened to come to report, witnessed the method of this detective Chen Guibin's case!

After Zhou Shaoming saw the gaffer and the photographer everything in place, he said to the camera: "The camera tries to keep the front of the protagonist as much as possible, and when Wu Jing enters the sight of everyone, stay too long, so that the audience can remember this character!" ”

After Zhou Shaoming finished telling everything, "action." Zhou Shaoming shouted loudly, although he came to Hong Kong to shoot, Zhou Shaoming knew that here in Hong Kong, the global media community is watching himself shoot this movie, and the success or failure of this movie is very critical, if it fails, it will undoubtedly be a big blow to himself and Supernova Entertainment Film and Television Company!

As Zhou Shaoming shouted loudly that the filming began, Bell was in the room, constantly looking around, observing everything in the room, this is the scene of Detective Chen Guibin staging a wonderful detection of a bizarre death case!

Just when Chen Guibin, played by Bell, was engrossed in thinking about the clues of this case, He Jia'an, played by Wu Jing, came to the scene, saw Chen Guibin, who had been admired for a long time, and hurriedly told his identity!

A newcomer who came to report, Chen Guibin didn't pay much attention, looked at the young He Jia'an, and said urgently: "Put me in a suitcase and push me down the stairs!" ”

At this time, if a normal person hears such a request, of course he will be stunned!

Zhou Shaoming frowned and shouted, "Stop!" ”

"Wu Jing, your expression is still not smooth enough, hearing Chen Guibin's request, you naturally began to put Chen Guibin in the suitcase, why? Because Detective Chen Guibin's fame has become a good story in the police station, I believe that every police officer already knows a little bit about his methods of handling cases, so there is no need to be surprised. There is no need to be pretentious, just agree to Chen Guibin's request, put him in the suitcase, and then push the suitcase down the stairs! ”

Zhou Shaoming explained to Wu Jing, who was a little at a loss, and at this time, maybe even Wu Jing himself didn't notice the slightest change in his demeanor!

After Wu Jing heard Zhou Shaoming's words, he finally understood where he had gone wrong, so he nodded and said, "I understand, Zhou!" ”

Zhou Shaoming nodded and started shooting again!

played He Jia'an without the slightest hesitation and agreed to Chen Guibin's request. skillfully put Chen Guibin into the suitcase! When Wu Jing successfully completed this shot!

Zhou Shaoming shouted: "Stop! ”

With the help of the staff, everyone untied the suitcase again and let Bell, who played Chen Guibin, come out! Then pack some clothes and stuff like that!

Zhou Shaoming came to Wu Jing's side and said to Wu Jing: "The following shot is simple, but you can't be careless, the movements are smooth and natural, of course, although the suitcase is not filled with Bell himself, he pushed the suitcase down very casually." The process of pushing the box must be rhythmic, not in a hurry, there must be people inside! ”

Wu Jing listened to Zhou Shaoming's knowledge and pondered. Understood: "I know, Zhou! ”

Zhou Shaoming said to the camera: "Wait for the camera to focus on Wu Jing, but then point the lens at the suitcase!" ”

Wu Jing kept pushing the suitcase down in the staircase until it reached the staircase!

Zhou Shaoming shouted again to stop. Bell got into the suitcase again, and the staff placed it at the top of the stairs!

Zhou Shaoming looked around and said to the camera, "Point to the left." Yes, Bell will come out of the suitcase later, and the camera must have captured Bell's expression and demeanor at this moment! ”

"Let's go!" As Zhou Shaoming started, Wu Jing quickly ran down the stairs and hurriedly opened the suitcase, and Bell's figure came out of the suitcase!

"Stop!" Zhou Shaoming looked at the moment when Bell stood up from the suitcase, came to Bell, and said solemnly: "You have to imagine the look and behavior when you fall down the stairs in the suitcase, first make a move that makes people look uncomfortable on the spot, and then stagger to stand up!" ”

Bell hesitated for a moment, Zhou Shaoming looked at Bell's expression, obviously he hadn't thought of what kind of action to use for a while to show the scene of the character Chen Guibin falling down the stairs in the suitcase at this time!

Zhou Shaoming looked at the police badge hanging on Bell's body and found inspiration, and said lightly: "Try to see if you will have a visual feeling of falling down the stairs when you fall down and collapse to the ground with your police officer's sign in your mouth!" ”

After Zhou Shaoming's reminder, Bell's eyes lit up! With a roll of his eyes, Bell obviously became a little confident and said, "Thank you Director Zhou for reminding me, I know what to do." ”

After Zhou Shaoming watched Bell find inspiration, he let Bell enter the suitcase again! After Zhou Shaoming started filming again, Wu Jing ran down to untie the suitcase, Bell collapsed to the ground, staggered to his feet, and said to Wu Jing beside him: "The murderer is the boss of ice cream!" ”

The shots of Detective Chen Guibin's miraculous solving of the case have been filmed, and this set of shots also highlights the reason why Chen Guibin used his own unique way to find the murderer through personal experience in the process of solving the case!

The detective is dispatched again and solves the bizarre suitcase murder case in one fell swoop!

This is the atmosphere that Zhou Shaoming created for the audience at the beginning of the film, the detective movie is not to highlight how the protagonist obtained the title of detective, but to shoot Chen Guibin, who has already won the title of detective, after being resigned from the police station, to serve the police station again, so as to discuss human nature of a film with depth!

The beginning of this set of shots is completely to create a preconceived visual experience for the audience! Only then do we get to the filming of the real content of the film!

Zhou Shaoming clapped his hands and said, "Okay, the opening scene of the film has been filmed, let's take a break, and dare to take another set of shots in the afternoon!" ”

Just when he was resting, Wu Jing came to Zhou Shaoming's side and asked a little puzzled: "Director Zhou, when I was pushing the suitcase just now, I always felt that the things inside were very light, I don't know if it will be distorted when it is filmed?" ”

Zhou Shaoming frowned, and in response to Wu Jing's question, Zhou Shaoming hesitated for a moment and said: "It is indeed filmed, as long as you look at it carefully, it is impossible for the suitcase to really contain Bell himself!" However, the reason why I didn't plan to shoot here for real was to put Bell in a suitcase and keep rolling down the stairs. It will cause damage to the actors! ”

Zhou Shaoming took a deep breath, and then said: "Even if you find a replacement, you will inevitably be injured, I have a better way, that is, to use computer stunts, after calculation, the computer stunts will calculate the weight of the human body in the suitcase, and then roll down the position and angle!" With the actions you and Bell make, it is a perfect combination, and this set of shots is truly completed! ”

Facing Zhou Shaoming's explanation. Wu Jing, who was still a little worried, was immediately relieved!

Zhou Shaoming couldn't help sighing, a little worried about Chinese film and television works, and said: "Actually, now in North America, this kind of special effects shot abounds, and the audience no longer cares whether it is filmed or not!" Is it really necessary for actors and superstars to risk their lives in exchange for a dangerous shot? ”

Zhou Shaoming said: "The audience's taste is getting heavier and heavier now, and with the advent of 3D, I think the film market will also change dramatically. "Speaking of which. Zhou Shaoming is very confident, and Blizzard, a subsidiary of Supernova Entertainment Film and Television Company, can be described as the originator of the 3D model and the next commercial blockbuster. Zhou Shaoming has also thought about it a long time ago and is developing towards a 3D model!

When Zhou Shaoming said this, he began to remind Wu Jing: "You should know that with the development of computer stunts in the North American market. Many action scenes, after using computer special effects, the gorgeous shots are all shocking. Those actors really know kung fu, no, they will only do one action, maybe show their faces, and the computer will do everything! When China is still silent in the kingdom of martial arts, North America has greatly surpassed the pride of Chinese films! ”

Zhou Shaoming took a deep breath and said: "It is a good thing to use your own martial arts to show the action scenes that make people applaud on the screen, but now you have to think carefully about how to give full play to your advantages under martial arts, better show the characteristics of the characters on the screen, and add the processing of stunts to create a unique screen visual effect for the audience!" ”

Zhou Shaoming said and got in the car slowly, it must be in February, the weather in Hong Kong is still a little cold!

When the Chinese film and television market is proud of some martial arts kingdoms, everyone knows that the excellent production team in North America has already surpassed this field with high technology, and Chinese actors can rely on their own martial arts foundation to bring the audience a very real martial arts effect!

The North American film market has begun to use computer stunts, not only to let the audience see the shocking visual effects in martial arts, but also to give the audience an immersive atmosphere!

With the downturn of the Chinese film market in recent years, a large number of Hollywood blockbusters have entered the Chinese market and reaped high box office results.

Even if they recognize the status quo, it is impossible to recover such a huge gap in a short period of time! Even Zhou Shaoming can't do it!

Zhou Shaoming believes that in recent years, the Chinese film market is still in the doldrums, but as a large number of Hollywood blockbusters begin to enter China, the film and television works of small martial arts action are deeply rooted in the hearts of Chinese audiences, Hollywood blockbusters with film stunts will open up a new glory in the Chinese film market!

At that time, Zhou Shaoming believes that the Chinese film market will begin to recover slowly, and people will go into the theater to watch movies will become the need of everyone to go to work!

The weather is cold, except for the actors, the staff of the detective crew are basically wearing thick clothes, but today's shooting is all indoor shots!

In comparison, the actors can't help but feel a little lucky!

"I didn't expect that the first time I filmed, it would be my turn to fight." Jackie Chan is a little excited! Although the weather is cold, compared to the burning flame in Jackie Chan's heart, Jackie Chan does not show any coldness!

Wearing very thin police inspector clothes and a hat, Jackie Chan, who was standing on the set, looked at the surrounding scenery and reminded from time to time!

Zhou Shaoming saw that all the actors were in place, and the focus of this shooting was all on Bell.

The senior police inspector played by Jackie Chan retired smoothly, and on this day, colleagues from the police station sent him off, and the protagonist of the film, Chen Guibin, cut off his ears in front of the police inspector and gave them to his commander!

Zhou Shaoming watched the staff glue Bell's ears and put another fake ear for Bell, Zhou Shaoming asked Bell, "I don't feel like there is any problem!" ”

The following shot is indeed a bit dangerous for Bell himself, this shot, Zhou Shaoming didn't plan to make it directly with computer stunts!

In fact, just like the shot of Wu Jing pushing the box just now, Zhou Shaoming must first obtain Bell's live shooting on the spot before he can process computer stunts!

The processing of computer stunts is just to increase the visual effect of the film, and it is impossible to do it without actors performing on the spot, or Zhou Shaoming spent so much effort to go to Hong Kong to do something, and spend money to hire actors and superstars!!

Bell always felt a little uncomfortable with his ears being touched, and a strange feeling came, and the staff reminded: "It was indeed a little uncomfortable at the beginning, but it was good to wear it for a long time." ”

Bell couldn't cry or laugh, just one shot like this, how many more to bring?

Zhou Shaoming seemed to see Bell's doubts, and said lightly: "When I came to such ears, I asked the staff to prepare three!" You can suffer later. ”

Bell, who has been making movies and is very demanding of himself, said with a smile in his mouth: "When I make movies, I am never afraid of hardship or tiredness!" (To be continued......)