Chapter 655: Special Effects Production
Readx;?Top Recommendation:、、、、、、、
In the Hughes Aircraft Factory's converted studio, several agents protect an old man with gray hair, constantly shooting shotguns at the opposite side, as if there was a powerful enemy in the air on the opposite side. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"The Air Force has already responded!"
A lean black agent hid behind a computer desk and shouted, "They're going to send an F-22 Raptor to Las Vegas." ”
“cut!”
Behind the director's monitor, Duke shouted to stop, "This is over!" ”
More than a dozen staff members immediately walked into the filming site to clean up the mess on the ground, and Duke led the crew to transfer to filming.
In the shot just shot, the black man can be said to be a very necessary choice, but Duke didn't make a funny non-mainstream, he is not Michael? Bey, who won't join the absurd and funny, directly cut off the black character and was reassigned by a black agent in the seventh district.
Every director has his own style, even if he shoots the same commercial film, Duke and Michael? There is also a huge difference in the style of Bei.
The crew left the venue, which had been almost completely destroyed during the shooting scene, and moved to the other side of the studio, where the most striking thing was the tall Megatron model, although only made of polystyrene, but it was also vivid, let alone processed by camera lenses, even to the human eye, it seemed to have vitality.
As Duke said, the film does not require a large, stout and cold machine, but an advanced intelligent life like a human being.
Duke commanded the operation of the entire crew in an orderly manner, and it has been nearly a week since he returned to the studio to shoot, compared to the filming of "The Dark Knight", his requirements for the performance of "Transformers" are not so strict, and there is not much room for actors to play in Sam or Michaela, let alone Andrew? Garfield and Amber? Hield acting better than Hiss? Ledger vs. Christian? Bell is more than one level behind, and even if their acting skills are similar, these two roles make it impossible for them to play.
Sam is just the face of the teenage audience on the screen, and Michaela's existence is simpler, that is, a vase.
Relatively simple requirements. It also made the filming go quite smoothly, although Duke noticed that Andrew? Garfield and Amber? Hilde had a sharp contradiction, but he didn't pay much attention to it, after he had warned him. Both of them were smart and did not substitute contradictions into the shooting.
At least it didn't affect the filming process.
That's enough for Duke, the Hollywood crew never gets along, as long as it doesn't affect the film, Andrew? Garfield and Amber? Even if Hild regarded each other as the number one enemy, he had nothing to do with him.
Duke wouldn't be stupid enough to think he said a word. Andrew? Garfield and Amber? Hilde will let go of the contradictions and become friends who love each other.
In fact, most of Hollywood's crews are in this state now.
In this circle of fighting for fame and fortune, there are not no actors who have a strong relationship, but no one will casually believe and approach other people.
Shoot a film, and then the main actor of the film will become his friends, and only a director with a head in water will do such a stupid thing.
Like Tom? Hanks and Steven? Spielberg, no matter how you look at these two are friends, but Duke, who is in the circle, knows that the relationship between the two is far greater than the friendship between them.
Most of the actors who have worked with Duke. It's just a simple working relationship.
After so many years of fighting in Hollywood, Duke knows the complexity and changeability of this circle, let alone friends, even Nicole? Kidman and Naomi? Watts, a former best friend, will turn against each other because of competing for a role.
It can also be said that none of the actors Duke has worked with will become members of his team, including Tom? Hanks.
His production style also determines that the actor's acting skills are not a particularly important part.
From entering Hollywood to the present, Duke has shot films. There are only two roles that can really give full play to the actors, Captain Miller and the Joker.
The various departments of the crew were in place one after another, and Duke also walked in front of the huge Megatron model, and talked to Andrew? Garfield and Amber? Heard confessed. The former has to explain Megatron's true purpose for coming to Earth through lines, while the latter basically has no lines, but the camera will still take proper care of her, and she must show her sexy figure as before.
Scene 27, Act 19 ......
The voice of the field reporter soon sounded. "Let's get started!"
A group of people looked at Megatron in amazement as they walked towards it, and Agent Simmons of Ward 7 introduced, "This is NBE-1!" ”
"I'm sorry, sir." Andrew? Garfield clutched his hands in his pockets and interjected, "I didn't mean to interrupt you, but this is Megatron!" He is the leader of the Decepticons! ”
"He has been frozen since 1935." Another agent pointed at Megatron and said, "Your great-great-grandfather discovered it, and it's the greatest discovery in human history." ”
Close-up camera from Andrew? Garfield and Amber next to him? Hilde swept in front of him, deliberately in Amber? Hield stayed on her body for two seconds, giving her a close-up before moving on to Agent Simon.
"What you see is the source of modernization." The agent of District 7 walked around with his hands behind his back and his toes proud, "Chips, lasers, space flights, cars, they were all obtained by reverse engineering him. ”
Did he go to Andrew? Garfield's side deliberately accentuated his tone, "NBE-1, that's what we call him!" ”
Maybe it's because the actors' performances are not very demanding, a few scenes in the morning are very smooth, even if it is a group scene, the number of ng appearances is relatively small, and in the afternoon, a few scenes involving tinder sources and robots don't take a few shots, they are announced, and the crew can end work early.
Although the crew called it a day early, Duke didn't finish his work, and when he returned to Warner Studios in Burbank, he went to the special effects studio set up by Industrial Light & Magic to check the progress of the special effects production.
The number of special effects shots used in this film far exceeds that of "Iron Man".
The opening work of "Transformers" can be said to be the best professional reputation and the most organized plot in the entire series, but it is also the one with the least appearances of Transformers, not to mention that the first actor Optimus Prime is late, even if it is other shots, Transformers is basically a flash.
In Duke's hands, he performed quite a major operation on the film, the most typical of which was to streamline the plot and characters, so as to give more time to the Transformers.
Especially Optimus Prime, according to his conception, at most about twenty-five minutes into the film, Optimus Prime must appear.
This has led to a reduction in the role of human beings.
This will inevitably lead to criticism from some professionals, but who cares about them?
After the film is released, the audience will care about the fate of the Transformers, fight scenes, audio-visual effects and special effects.
The number of Transformers appearances will increase, and the number of special effects shots will also increase, and a year is quite tense for the completion of the special effects of such a film.
However, Duke also limits the reliance on computer graphics for Transformers and background elements in action scenes, and most of the crashes and explosions are filmed in live-action, with camera footage placed in vehicle crashes and explosions to make the scenes look more exciting.
The Transformers design is extremely complex, even a simple action like turning a wrist requires dozens of visual components, each gun of the Iron Sheet is made up of about 10,000 parts, Bumblebee uses a panel to act as an eyebrow, and multiple parts of the face need to be turned to show the effect of a smile, and all Transformers characters' eyes are dilated and brightened.
Among them, Duke also deliberately told Industrial Light & Magic to brighten the eyes of characters such as Optimus Prime moderately, so as not to distinguish between Autobots and Decepticons because of the chaos in the scene.
The difference is very simple, with red eyes for Decepticons and blue-green for Autobots.
ILM has spent the last few months designing and producing computer animations of Transformers' transformations, carefully comparing every detail on the car model, and at first they designed the transformation process to follow the laws of physics, but the result is that it doesn't look exciting or smooth enough
For such a movie with special effects as its main selling point, this is simply a fatal wound.
Later, ILM also proposed an unreliable plan to use liquid metal on the surface of King Kong's character, and was trained by Duke to be bloody, and he only replied to ILM - this is a Transformer, not a T1000!
Until now, ILM has chosen the 'Rubik's Cube' style that completely abandons the laws of physics, so that whether it is static or dynamic transformation, Transformers will look more interesting, realistic, dynamic and fast, rather than like clumsy beasts.
An important decision in the ILM stunt process was to keep the wheels touching the ground for as long as possible, so that the Autobots could maintain their movement while deforming, thus maintaining a basic sense of realism.
These plans were also approved by Duke, who knew exactly where the selling point of the film was, and the boxy, thick and bulky Transformers would be a disaster for such a commercial sci-fi film.
In addition, Duke specifically let the action director Jimmy? Carter collected several kickboxing performances and footage of action movies that incorporated judo, Muay Thai and other fighting styles, and provided them to ILM's special effects animators to look at in order to make the fight scenes in the movie look more beautiful.
The special effects production was undoubtedly the top priority of the film, and during the studio shoot, Duke and ILM continued to communicate and exchange opinions on the subject, and by the time Duke left Los Angeles for Las Vegas, the special effects production was basically on track. (To be continued.) )
PS: Ask for monthly passes and recommended tickets!