Chapter 122: Shooting
Roland not only saw a green screen in his previous life, but also filmed in front of the green screen, but he has to admit that everything is in accordance with the director's arrangement, and because all the cameras used at that time are digital cameras, there is actually no technical content, because no matter if the shooting is not destroyed, it can be protected infinitely, anyway, it is not burning film, and there is not much money at all.
For example, the green screen that Roland came into contact with in his previous life, and the special effects he came into contact with, are actually the five-cent special effects of "Lonely Fang Doesn't Appreciate Yourself", the big baby kneeling in front of the green screen to take a close-up, and then even if this one is over, anyway, she will only be cut out in the later stage, and then embedded in the pre-arranged beheading picture, and the corners are not rough, and you can go to the star by directly grinding a rough grind.
And with the end of his deduction and going to do the film and television commentary of the grandmother, what he found behind the scenes is actually the content of the dragon mother touching the little green man and filming in the studio, except for the actors themselves, almost everything is fake, at most, it is like "Aquaman", make a boat for the horse king Adams, or just like in "Youth Pi", build a swimming pool by yourself, and then let Sula and the model tiger keep swaying, and that's it.
But now—
After looking at Spielberg's storyboard thrown by Spielberg, the layered picture of real scenes, characters, and CGI, he really had a bit of a head blow - what the hell is this? Why is it so much different from the operation process in the previous life?
To be reasonable, under normal circumstances, the first shot of the crew will not have any difficulty, but considering that the special effects scene needs to be produced for a long time, and the actor dialogue can be filmed slowly, the production picture is shot first, and then the actor dialogue is filmed, which has become the first choice of the crew, so that the first shot that Roland gets in his hand is the exterior scene on Hawaii, that is, in the film, the scene when the founder of Jurassic Park takes the male protagonist Dr. Grant and the female protagonist Dr. Zettler to see the dinosaurs for the first time -
At the lake, I saw Brachiosaurus.
According to the memory process in Roland's head, if he shot this scene in his previous life, he only needed to let the three actors take a picture of his back in front of the green screen, and in less than three minutes, this one could pass, and the rest of the things were all done in CGI, but now......
They can only shoot in real life, because the CGI picture is too fake.
"Come, tell me how this shot should be taken?"
While watching the staff follow the process and set up the set, Spielberg, who was standing on the jeep and looking into the distance, did not lower his head, and directly sent a soul-like torture to Roland.
Hearing this, Roland suddenly had a toothache, to be honest, he ...... I really don't know how to shoot.
But he believes that if he just says 'I don't know', he may not be able to save his head.
With that, he stepped on the jeep seat with both hands and climbed out of the sunroof.
Sitting on the roof of the car, looking at each other's angles, after he saw the lake in the distance, he also took out a pen from Spielberg's vest jacket with his right hand, and drew a blank picture behind the storyboard.
"The first thing we needed was that we needed a picture of three doctors standing next to the lake, looking at the dinosaurs on the other side of the lake."
"Looking at it this way, the main body of the real scene is the lake."
"yes, and then what?" Spielberg nodded, although Roland answered no problem, but this does not need to be praised at all, in his opinion, if Roland has studied for so long that he can't even determine the subject of the picture, then don't shoot it, let's play it well.
Of course, Roland didn't know this, and after hearing the affirmative answer of 'yes', he continued to draw as if he had been reassured, "And then it's about determining the location of dinosaurs and people." ”
"Judging from the scene in front of me, the dinosaur must be a distant view, and the person must be a close view, only in this way will the proportion of the picture not be out of balance, and through the increasing distance between near and far, the insignificance of the dinosaur can also be set off by the insignificance of the dinosaur."
"Go on......" Spielberg nodded again.
"Now that the distance has been determined, then we should find the position next, we have to consider the visual problem of human viewing, in the process of standing, there can be no situation of the dinosaurs, once this happens, the audience will play ......"
"How do you stand then?" Spielberg asked.
How do I stand?
Roland directly drew four lines on the sketch with a ratio, and used the rule of thirds to match the four focal points, and when he lifted the paper, peeked through the sunlight, and peeked into the natural scene, the intuitive visual experience directly made him laugh, "Let people stand in the lower left corner of the picture, dinosaurs stand in the center and right, the selling point of the whole movie is dinosaurs, they are the protagonists we want to embody......"
“…… The audience will be excited to see the realistic dinosaurs, and our box office will be high, so, in this scene, people can't steal the show, their role is to reflect the tall and shocking ...... dinosaurs"
“Oh! Bingo! After hearing the word selling point, Spielberg snapped his fingers happily, Roland can integrate the selling point when considering the picture, which is equivalent to grasping the core of the special effects film!
Look, you can't usually see it...... sense, not in the daily life...... touch, there is no ...... in reality
This is the meaning of the existence of special effects films!
Use technical means to bring fantasy to the screen, and attract the audience to enter the theater continuously by shocking the picture.
Focusing on the picture and slowing down the narrative is actually not extreme, let alone regressive, because film itself is a visual art!
Why is Chaplin liked?
During the silent film period, there was no sound in the film, his movements, his eyes, and everything he did were all conveying joys, sorrows, and sorrows to people through visual senses, and even with the development of sound films, the existence of sound was also strengthening the sensory feelings.
Watching movies, watching movies, watching is always at the forefront, the quality of the script, the quality of the story, is indeed the key to the success or failure of a movie, but more people can actually accept a mediocre story, but the premise is that its picture has to have a breakthrough.
Why did "Jaws" win the first place in film history?
It's because the picture at that time gives people a sense of reality.
Why did "Star Wars" win the first place in film history?
It was because of the picture at that time that it satisfied people's space fantasies.
Why did "Jurassic Park" win the first place in film history?
It pioneered the use of computer-generated imagery (CGI), which gives people a greater fantasy in lifelike images.
Why did "Titanic" win the first place in film history?
No matter how beautiful the love of the century is, it will have to die completely if it encounters five seconds of money special effects.
Avatar ......
Not to mention this one.
Actually, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, are all one type of person.
Use a popular script above the level line, infuse the most awesome technology of the current era, and then ......
It worked.
They know better than anyone that the story is out of the blue, the plot is extremely brain-burning, and it is not as brilliant as the visuals.
Because the audience is not here to listen to the story, but to see the movie.
When people sit in the theater, the first thing they see is the picture on the screen, not the story at hand.
If you really want to listen to the story, wouldn't it be good to just buy a book and go home and ponder it?
You can also pick up a pen and paper and draw the relationships between the characters slowly.
And by the time you draw the network, you don't know where to put the movie!
Movies do have to tell good stories, but if you feel that storytelling is the root of movies, that is to erase everything in silent films, even if Martin Scorsese sprayed Marvel is not a movie, he still gave his own thoughts, "Greedy film and television companies pursue routine creation, if you like this kind of work, there is nothing wrong with it, but the position of other movies (picture) is occupied by them, and I just want to call on people to protect the art form in commercial films." ”
There is nothing wrong with pursuing money, but if you don't pursue profit, you are sick in the brain.
Even the old Martin sprayed not special effects, but the assembly line behavior of capitalists.
Special effects, not guilty.
And deliberately hindering the development of technology for the sake of money, it is not the movie that is ruined, but also the love of the audience itself.
What's more, whether it is the film party or the digital party, the root of their argument is actually the picture.
What film is more textured and closer to nature, and what digital is brighter and clearer......
Nolan's persistence, Cameron's development, all ** revolve around the picture!
A picture that can make the audience feel immersed in the scene is the foundation of their pursuit.
In this way, when Roland integrated the selling point into the picture, Spielberg pointed to the real scene of the lake in the distance and said: "After figuring out the relationship between the real subject, the characters, and the dinosaurs, then we can shoot ......"
"First of all, let's shoot the lake live."
"Then, set up a green screen and have the actor with his back to the camera, and shoot the actor's view."
"The reason why we have to shoot people and scenes separately is to prevent the situation where the picture is out of harmony and the background cannot be found to be re-modified."
"People and scenery are the same, and they are used as separate materials."
"In the end, I handed these things to the post-production, and asked them to synthesize all the characters and dinosaurs made by computer CGI into the real scene, and when all the above three were superimposed into one picture, the draft on the storyboard script came out."
That's right, the special effects pictures of this year can only be shot so troublesomely.
Large-scale scenery can only be done with real scenes, because CGI can't do it.
Dinosaurs in the distance also have to determine the proportion according to the people looking at the real scene, because this kind of creature made of CGI can blur the appearance, and in addition to the long view, there is no need to make it too fine.
As for why people and scenery are separated?
In addition to preventing the scrapping of materials and the violation of the picture, it is still because of the real scene, which is not easy to pick people......
It is precisely because each link has to be dismantled, so the shooting of a lens is extremely cumbersome, and when Roland watched Spielberg directing the staff and filming the camera process, his whole head was blown up......
It's too hard to be a director these days, right?
Not only do you have to understand the script, but you also have to understand the acting, not only do you have to analyze the characters, but you also have to compose the picture yourself, and most importantly, if you are making a special effects film, these guys have to fantasize about the finished product first, and then dismember and shoot?
Compared with the kind of digital imaging in later generations, the difficulty is simply a geometric increase!
To be honest, when Spielberg spent an hour to get this shot, Roland's whole body was a little painful.
He felt that this kind of shooting technique might be abandoned by the times, and he ......
It seems that you don't need to learn?
Yes, he did.
People are inert, who doesn't want to be like ***, and earn money while lying down?
And like Xing Ye, he made eleven movies starring himself in one go in 90, and by the way, he made a TVB TV series, and continued in 92, filming six more, and making persistent efforts in 93 to produce seven...... Twenty-four movies have come out in three consecutive years, and no one has complained about the feat of being a drama - Roland doesn't want to learn either!
How nice is it to shoot casually like "Home Alone 2"?
Anyway, Spielberg's current method has been eliminated by the times in less than five years, and when the time comes to make special effects films, it will be easier.
What's more, special effects have to be done by the team after all.
Even if he can't figure out the doorway, it doesn't matter, just invite the people of Industrial Light and Magic to come to the scene and stare at it?
Visual effects is like making a game, as long as the idea is right, the money will definitely be done.
It's a pity that before the inertia in Roland's heart spread all over his body, and the whole person slipped into this kind of outdated technology in his eyes, Spielberg had already grabbed him by the collar and dragged him to the filming location of the next scene-
Compared with those guys who are happy as soon as they have results, Roland, who has a billion box office results, can't float at all......
There's no way, these guys up there are better than him......
After becoming famous, enjoy the glitz, be excited, and make money everywhere is not that it can't happen, but there is no chance at all!
Rivan Phoenix, Leonardo DiCaprio, that kind of situation where fame floats away, Roland probably can't experience it in his life, why? Because there is no one to hold them down, because a mountain is higher than a mountain!
The box office is very good, can the role be played?
So will you shoot?
No?
There's a bunch of material here, so let's learn it slowly......
When Roland followed the old man, after filming the lake and the plain, after shooting the long shot and shooting the close-up, and after shooting the brachiosaurus and shooting the triangle......
That's really what Xiao Shenyang said, as soon as his eyes are closed and opened, a day has passed......
This whole day, he took a total of a scene of meeting with the triceratops, and the rest of the time, he was running and running, answering and answering, and during the filming, all kinds of strange questions almost blew up his head!
At dinner, when Mary shook his arm and told Roland that she wanted to eat meat and drink soup.
Roland, who helped her cut the lamb chops, had weak eyes.
And when he took the mushroom soup for Xiao Loli, smelling the fragrant black pepper, Roland didn't mean to taste it at all.
"Brother?"
"Huh?"
"Aren't you hungry?"
"No appetite ......"
"You want to sleep?"
"What, do you want to hang out? We're in the Gurani Ranch right now, far from the city......"
"No, I just wanted to call my mom."
"No problem, we'll fight when we go back after eating, it's only eight o'clock now, and they definitely haven't rested."
When Roland yawned, his eyes were moist, and he looked at Mary with sleepiness, and the whole person was written that I was sleepy, and I wanted to sleep, he finally felt that people were busy, and what was the state of not thinking about anything.
It's good that James guy stopped Roland from bringing Elizabeth over!
In his current state, where is there any interest in teasing each other!
Not to mention believing in love, he doesn't have the energy to talk to each other when he gives him a woman!
James, you're such a nice guy!
When I go back, I must buy a bunch of physics books to repay you!
Not only that, Roland also understands that a well-made commercial film is an art film, how should this sentence be understood.
Yes, they still work eight hours, but the intensity of the shooting, that's a world of difference.
When filming "Terminator 2" and "Captain Hook", although special effects will be done in those movies, the basis of special effects is all people, just like the T-1000 will eventually become a human body, and the little fairy is just a real person to shrink out, the director's camera is shot at people after all, and now? When a virtual object is added, the director's way of thinking suddenly changes......
To be honest, when he was photographing a triceratops in the afternoon, Roland was stunned by Spielberg's questions when he saw the staff get into the model, force it up with their own bodies, and then imitate the state of the dinosaur's abdomen when it breathed and the way its eyelids and eyeballs moved.
What animal can a triceratops mimic when it has a bulging belly when it breathes?
How should a dinosaur's pupils be positioned when blinking?
When you are injured, how should you reflect your sluggish eyes?
Roland admits that although he has done pre-study, he ......
Well, he confessed that he and Spielberg were 108,000 miles apart......
In Spielberg's view, the special effects artist should be responsible for all these things, but in the words of the other party, the director must understand these things.
"If you don't have a picture in your head, how do you shoot it?"
"If you don't know where the reference is, how do you get it to be done later?"
"If you don't know what his 'reasonable' image should look like, then if there is a disagreement in the later stage, who will you listen to?"
After three consecutive questions, Roland stopped talking......
He felt that he had nothing to say, because the question was too much to say.
The vast majority of Hollywood directors let go after filming, because the final editing rights are not in their hands.
But Spielberg is different, I said I can't cut it, then I can't cut it, have an opinion? Fuck off!
It's not that he's omnipotent, it's power that makes him omnipotent.
And in order to keep his rights, he had to become more omnipotent.
So, in this case, he doesn't feel that there is anything wrong with his teaching, and Roland ......
Who's going to want someone to interfere with their creation?
Because of this, even if Roland feels that this shooting technique will not last for five years, the skill of complete control of each frame is what he needs, so even if he is tired, he enjoys it.
And this also made the crew have a strange situation-
At six o'clock in the morning, Roland went to the gym to exercise, went back to the room at seven o'clock to take a bath, went to the cafeteria to eat at eight o'clock, and at nine o'clock, it was time for him to fight, during this period, who was Mary? He doesn't know!
And as soon as you fight, it is easy to cause disputes -
"Roland, can you slow down when you run with Mary? What are you doing running so fast with people on your back? ”
"Steven, on the storyboard we draw, there are a lot of dinosaurs chasing us in this scene."
"I know there are a lot of dinosaurs chasing you! But you're the ones who are the ones in this scene! The center of gravity is on you! ”
"But the problem is that we need a dinosaur close-up, and a bunch of vistas!"
"I won't explain it to you, you come back and draw it for me!"
When Ivanka took what Roland needed and stepped on the Gurani Ranch in Hawaii with sincerity, the first thing she saw was Spielberg with his hands on his hips and a sneer, looking condescendingly at the scene where Roland was drawing.
The expression of 'if you don't explain this paragraph to me clearly, I'll beat you' made Ivanka shiver.
This...... Are you filming?
How is it very different from the river crab in the crew of "Home Alone 2"?
Didn't Uncle Carl say that Roland was Spielberg's apprentice?
How......
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