It was dark in the studio, directly opposite Duke, Leonardo DiCaprio had his back to the lens of the main camera, as if he was busy with something, and then the figure of Scarlett Johansson broke into the shot, she looked at Leonardo's back and walked over there. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Are you going to dream alone?" She asked.

"No, no......" Leonardo turned around and immediately denied it, "I was just doing some experiments, I didn't expect there to be people here, so I ......"

"Oh, I'm sorry,"

Scarlett first looked down at the gadget in her hand, and then lit up to Leonardo, "Actually, I'm playing with my totem." ”

"Show me." Leonardo grabbed his pockets and walked over.

Scarlett immediately put it away, and Leonardo just smiled, "You learn quickly." ”

"It's an elegant way to distinguish between dreams and reality." Scarlett nodded lightly and said, "Was that your idea?" ”

"No, actually...... "Leonardo walked closer," was actually Sally's idea. ”

Since the choice of the heroine is not French, Duke changed her name accordingly.

Leonardo pulled out a spinning top and placed it in the palm of his hand so that Scarlett could see it more realistically, and explained, "The spinning top doesn't fall over when it turns in a dream." ”

He spun the top on the table next to him, "Just keep spinning." ”

"Hear Arthur say he's dead?" Scarlett asked.

Leonardo changed the subject, "How's the maze designed?" ”

Duke stepped out of the camera lens and shouted, "U"

Scarlett and Leonardo both looked at this side, knowing very well that the first one had not been turned on, but this scene was not difficult. They don't understand what the problem is.

"Hannah, Cork, John......" Duke called out the names of the three department heads of the crew in one breath. Then he beckoned, "Come here." ”

This shot didn't go through. It has nothing to do with Scarlett and Leonardo's performances, but there is a problem with the lighting, which has been in charge of Corkrundier since Zack Schneider left Duke's team to become a director.

Film can also be said to be a photochemical dream, and the requirements for light are very complex, and although many lights can be adjusted in post-production, the light used for shooting on set is also extremely important.

The so-called light distribution. In layman's terms, it's color grading. The reason why the film has to do light distribution is mainly for two reasons: first, there are inevitably differences between the shots shot at different times and under different light conditions, and if they are not processed and printed directly, the shots will look discordant when edited together; Second, the creator will also make the film present a certain style out of his own artistic pursuit.

The original English word for light distribution is IG, and from the literal meaning of English, many people may wonder what this process has to do with "time".

This goes back to the days of black and white films, when color was not yet involved. Light distribution is only concerned with the control of the brightness and darkness of the picture, so all the phototrilogist has to do is adjust and record the exposure time required for different lenses, hence the term iig. After the advent of color technology. The IIG term is still alive and well in the digital age.

Today's photometric work, completely carried out in the digital environment, the optometrist can obtain the efficiency and degree of freedom are extremely high, these years of electronic photometric technology has developed rapidly, through the electronic circuit of the electronic phototropin machine, the optometrist can directly preview the photometric results, so as to work quickly.

Compared to traditional light distribution, this method is more efficient.

Duke's crews have always used the most advanced technology in the industry. He is not Christopher Nolan, who is still in the film industry today, and will not stick to those traditional and time-consuming and labor-intensive ways to shoot.

How to spend the least amount of money and achieve the best results as quickly as possible. That's what Duke wants, and he doesn't care if it's a tradition. Or use new technology.

The problem of light distribution was easily solved, and in the days that followed, Duke used both new technology and more traditional methods.

The first shocking scene that appeared in "Inception" was the first dream crossing triggered by Leonardo DiCaprio's Daum Cobb being pushed into the bathtub, and Cobb's feelings about water in the upper world were transmitted to the dream of the lower level, producing a surreal effect, and the entire Japanese palace was flooded.

This sensory scene was actually filmed by Christopher Nolan using live action, and his crew built the scenes inside the sprawling palace and stored gallons of water in tanks carefully arranged at the windows of the scenes, which were opened sequentially by the mechanism, and the scene of "flooding the golden mountain" was created.

But this kind of location and shooting are extremely time-consuming and money-consuming, and Duke just thought about it for a while and gave up the idea of real shooting.

When he filmed, Leonardo was standing surrounded by a green screen, and the scene of the palace being flooded was shot in miniatures, which were then combined with GI technology.

According to the calculations of professionals, this can save at least half of the preparation time and a third of the shooting money.

In Duke's style, there's no reason not to choose this way of shooting.

And in some ways, Duke also made extensive use of traditional techniques for filming.

For example, Arthur's action scene in the corridor was disturbed by the upper dream, and the phenomenon of gravity change several times in the second dream, in fact, they were all generated by real physical laws during filming.

In the film, Joseph Gordon Levitt is seen flying through the walls of the hotel corridor because the entire corridor set is built on a giant rotatable "Vientiane Ring" installation.

As the corridor began to rotate and tilt, the actors hanging from the coercion simply adjusted their balance, while the fixed camera made it look like the direction of gravity was changing. To keep the actors safe during the rotating set, many of the props, including the walls, are made of soft materials.

There are also many props used for dream shooting, which are also built by the crew.

The first is the Penrose Ladder.

Anyone who has studied illusion a little should know that the famous paradox of perspective is the "Penrose Ladder", an imaginary infinite loop ladder that can only hold up in two dimensions, and once tested in three-dimensional space, it becomes a paradoxical structure.

Referring to the Penrose Staircase depicted by the illusion master Escher, the special effects team realistically built an enclosed staircase in the studio of Warner Studios, the filming location, which looks like an infinite loop of ascending and descending from a certain angle, of course, from any other angle, the set will instantly goof, because it is not closed at all.

It is precisely by taking advantage of this that Arthur, played by Joseph Gordon Levitt, is able to clearly explain the phenomenon of the maze in dreams to Adrian played by Scarlett and the audience.

The second is the memory elevator.

In his dream, Daum Cobb built an elevator that led to thirteen floors to store his memories. The elevators of this memory are the best sets in the shooting, and they are all real props made by the crew.

For example, the elevator on the top beach was built by Duke when he was filming Nancy Josephson's private beach.

There are also subliminal trains.

The most exaggerated props prepared by the crew for filming are probably the trains that appear in the dream on the first floor, and this train is indeed a real prop.

The big guy is powered by trucks and a few trailers on the inside, a fiberglass train shell on the outside, and finally a computer gi that replaces the car tires with train wheels.

In Hollywood, almost all big-budget commercial films are completed with computer special effects and live-action shooting, and special effects blockbusters with an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars without the use of GI special effects lenses simply do not exist.

Not to mention that Duke's version of "Inception" uses more than one GI special effects shot, just talking about the former Christopher Nolan, many people's impression of Nolan is that this gentleman is a complete film maniac and extremely resistant to and even contemptuous of digital technology, which is correct from a certain point of view, but this does not see the whole truth.

In fact, GI special effects have been widely and even critically used in the production of the previous "Inception".

The rewinding Paris is one of the signature shots of this film, and it can be seen that this is a GI-generated scene without going into details, but in addition, there are more than one GI shots used in the whole film

Curly Paris is also one of the iconic images of Duke's version of the entire film, and in his hands, it will be a 100% digital special effect.

As early as the preliminary preparations, ILM's special effects team had already arrived in Paris, where they took a large-scale photograph as material, from the exterior structure of the building to the rooms inside, down to the smallest detail.

These high-resolution photos are eventually pasted onto the 3D model as "baked maps" to make the entire virtual scene believable.

However, it is not enough to have a real texture, the whole scene needs to consider the changes of many elements, including the light source that occurs in the whole scene during the day, and the simulation of skylight is very difficult to simulate the shadow casting perspective, etc., and how to hide the penetration between buildings.

While Duke planned to see the city curl in the film being cut into several shots, ILM's initial special effects were just a complete shot.

According to Duke's request, the special effects team could have cheated by switching cameras, but they rose to the challenge and handed him a beautiful answer sheet that exceeded expectations, from details like street lamps and curtains to the interior structure of the building. To be continued.

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