The set of "Gravity" is very different from the set of other movies

Accompanied by a Warner Bros. executive, Christopher Nolan walked into the studio, probably because Warner Bros. had already made a good friend, and no one came to stop him, and when he walked near the light box, he took the initiative to stop, because the crew was filming, and he was also a director, although he was only in the ** film industry before, he knew that no director liked others to disturb his own shooting. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Standing here, Christopher Nolan watched the crew's intense shooting, not saying a word, just observing carefully and carefully.

The reason why he appeared in Warner Studios is because a film project about space was favored by Legendary Pictures, and Legendary Pictures will cooperate with Warner Bros., this film will be a commercial masterpiece with an investment of more than 100 million US dollars, whether it is Warner Bros. or Legendary Pictures, they are a little less confident in him.

Christopher Nolan also knew that this was his first time entering the mainstream film industry, and he must not mess up, otherwise he would probably not have a second chance, so he specially asked people from Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. to visit Duke Rosenberg's space studio, which can be regarded as accumulating experience for subsequent filming.

After watching it for a while, Christopher Nolan found that the light box was very cleverly designed, and the scene of Scarlett Johansson that was being filmed, was just the light box on the set, plus the mechanical equipment and Arriala's camera, and it was gone.

The big boom trucks and big props that used to be needed on space sets are gone, but here, Duke Rosenberg seems to be enough for the actors, a lightbox, the creators, and a group of technicians with laptops.

With his arms folded over his chest, Christopher Nolan looked around the set with a light box as the main body, and during the shooting, the actors and the camera moved a little, and on the right you can see something like a basket. The actor can stand inside, rotated and aligned by a computer.

But Christopher Nolan watched it for more than ten minutes and found that the device rarely turned 4 degrees, as if the crew was deliberately controlling it.

I thought that the crew was shooting a space movie. Christopher Nolan quickly understood why, and once that happened, you could see the tension between the muscles in the actor's body, and the shoot had to be completely free of tension, as it should be in zero gravity.

If the actor is completely reversed. Then all the blood will run to their heads, and all the muscles will press down on their necks.

"So always try not to move them, try to leave the action to the camera, let the camera move around them."

After this thought flashed through Christopher Nolan's mind, he couldn't help but secretly admire Duke Rosenberg's clever methods

When filming entered a short break, Christopher Nolan saw that the crew was preparing for the next scene, so he didn't bother and said a few words to the Warner Bros. executive.

The other party obviously comes here often and knows the crew and filming very well.

When he asked if the crew had any other ways to shoot weightless scenes. The Warner Bros. executive said, "There's another technique to create a zero-gravity effect." ”

He pointed to Christopher Nolan to the other side of the studio and said, "In some shots, Scarlett Johansson is hung from a device and manipulated like a puppet to create a zero-gravity effect. ”

"The stuntman hung her up with four dots, each connected by three different induction wires." "So it's basically a matter of dividing her point into triangles, and the stuntman only needs to shake and swing to control her." ”

At this time, the crew switched to that side. When filming started again, Christopher Nolan saw it as if the Warners were saying that the stuntmen were really manipulating Scarlett Johansson, and Scarlett Johansson was really going to be reversed. They can also skillfully move the whole device up, down, left and right.

And it's clearly a combination of manual and computer-controlled devices.

So the team of this crew also has to coordinate the work of the people who manipulate the different parts, the work of the computer personnel, the work of the camera personnel, the use of lighting, and the performance of Scarlett Johansson......

As a director, in the eyes of Christopher Nolan. These should be viewed as a whole.

He naturally thought of the space film he was preparing, which also had similar scenes, and it seemed that Duke Rosenberg's way of filming was the best solution.

Although he is a well-known live-action maniac and traditional technical supporter in the film industry, Christopher Nolan understands that it is impossible to make space films without computer technology.

Before coming here, Christopher Nolan had considered many traditional weightless shooting methods, such as having the actor hang a wia, but these basic methods were only suitable for shooting simple shots.

He also delved into the weightless filming methods used in two of Hollywood's most famous space classics, "A Space Odyssey" and "Apollo".

In the past, among the many shots that expressed weightlessness, one of the most classic methods should be the early film master Stanley Kubrick's "Space Odyssey", in a circular room, a camera is fixed, and then the actor is asked to run, and the camera records the picture as if the actor is running along the roof.

This method, which was born in the year, made Christopher Nolan admire Kubrick's ingenuity, but it solved very limited problems, could only express a few shots, and could not solve the problem of weightlessness of objects other than people.

Since then, almost no one has used a similar method again.

Another great space movie, Apollo, once again showed the magical, incomparably realistic weightless footage on the silver screen.

In "Apollo", the shooting of the inside of the space capsule was all done in NASA's training device "Vomit Comet", Christopher Nolan specially asked someone to investigate, it was a Boeing K, which took all the crew to high altitude and then fell into free fall for a period of time, during this time, all the objects and environment in the cabin were relatively weightless, and a flight could get about a second of weightlessness time.

Director Ron Howard had the luxury of playing weightlessness flight, where he shot a large number of weightlessness time shots, which solved the weightlessness problem very thoroughly, but could not shoot weightless shots outside the capsule.

And not everyone can rent and can afford AA equipment.

Christopher Nolan asked himself if there was no such weight.

Compared with these two methods, Duke Rosenberg's shooting is obviously more realistic, and it can also solve many problems, and Nolan can also realize the take-it-or-leave-it doctrine, after the other party has finished shooting, these settings can be used to properly meet his shooting needs, and they can be directly used in future shooting.

Christopher Nolan confirmed that his visit was worth it, and that Duke Rosenberg was inspired by just standing on the sidelines and watching.

Especially the lightbox, which simply opened Christopher Nolan's eyes, and he could only praise the other party as one of the representatives of Hollywood's technology stream directors.

There are a number of huge L lights in the light box, basically like a large hanging TV screen, Nolan understands these very common technologies, which are based on the same huge screens commonly used by rock bands and gymnasiums, but these ordinary technologies, after appropriate modifications, greatly facilitate and simplify the shooting process, the most direct effect is that if the lights here or where on the set are dim or want to change the color, the crew does not have to move the lights around as before, Just control it directly on the big screen.

And after watching most of the day's shooting, Christopher Nolan also saw other benefits, this thing is not just as simple as correct lighting, but also gives the actor a sense of realism about the surroundings, filming Scarlett Johansson descending to the space station, she can indeed see through the L screen that the space station is getting closer and closer to her, and she has an awareness of what is going on around her.

Also, during the shoot just now, the director Duke Duke Rosenberg told her to look at something on a certain screen and reach for a doorknob, and she could actually see these things on the screen.

"The lamp itself is relatively coarse, and it is not well blended."

As soon as the Warner Bros. executive's voice fell, another voice sounded next to him, "Jamie, it's not going to be good, because there are too many lights, and when they are mixed together, they look good." ”

"Hey, Duke, you ...... guy"

After greeting Jamie Johnson, Duke turned to look at the British director next to him, who was about his age, and in fact he noticed it when he first entered the studio, but he had been busy with work until now.

"Hello, Director Rosenberg, I'm Christopher Nolan, and I'm also a director."

Christopher Nolan took the initiative to reach out to Duke, and Duke shook his hand, "Hello, Director Nolan." ”

Duke is very calm, as if he has not had any connection with Christopher Nolan in the past, in fact he is also very calm, some things are done, he is neither weak nor guilty, and Christopher Nolan's project can be supported by Warner Bros., and it is also related to him.

When he went to Warner a few months ago, Duke heard the name of Christopher Nolan and a space project, and asked Tina Fey to check it out, and then recommended him to Warner Bros., otherwise a first-class film director may get a huge investment of hundreds of millions of dollars from Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. in the first project to enter the mainstream film industry. To be continued.

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