［… And now good-morrow to our waking souls，Which watch not one another out of fear… ］

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Now say good morning to our awakened souls, two souls trust each other and need no warning.

This poem "The Good Morrow" is the work of the British metaphysical poet John Donne, and what is even more sultry is actually Yan Qing's deliberately hidden previous poem:

"If I've ever seen. Pursue and obtain beauty, it is all, and justly, I dreamed of you. ”

After responding to Professor Weng with good morning and good night, Yan Qing continued to make the final preparations before the start of filming with high morale, and he asked the special effects team of Wu Zhi to have a meeting in the busy interior studio.

In order to shoot a better effect of wearing flowers and moons and reflecting the undefeated martial arts of the East, Yan Qing introduced a special lens language of bullet time into this martial arts film, and he dispatched the crew to build a simple green screen scene in advance to test and show the bullet time shooting system.

According to Yan Qing's requirements in advance, the prop master used a steel pipe to make a circular track as a camera mount, and the annular track can be freely adjusted according to the actual shooting distance, with the shooting object as the center and the shooting distance as the radius, and 36 digital cameras are densely erected on the rail.

With the help of lighting director Liao Jingxi, Yan Qing used the existing equipment of the Whisper Film and Television Base to use the Godox AD200 high-speed lamp as the trigger, and hung a 400W flash on the top light frame as the main light source to ensure the consistency of each frame of light at different angles as much as possible.

Zhang Yameng, who was dispatched in the play, greeted Zhao Mu: "Fuselage shot? ”

After reconfirming that the 36 Canon 600D cameras and the compatible EF18-55/F3.5-5.6 IS lenses mounted on the annular steel rails were all activated and controlled, the drama supervisor Zhao Mu replied with a walkie-talkie: "Stand ready!" ”

Zhang Yameng looked at Liu Yuze again: "Teacher Liu, framing and composition?" ”

Switching each shot to "MF" mode, the lead editor Liu Yuze used Kafei's own control software to call up the reference line of "9 grids", and double-clicked the frame screen to switch the laptop screen to "36 grids".

Comparing each frame, he communicated with the camera assistant one by one to manually finely focus and compose each camera to maintain the consistency of each camera's receiving and framing.

After confirming that the lens group had been pre-positioned, Liu Yuze responded: "Cam-group stand by!" ”

Zhang Yameng, who controls the console, bows her head and begins to do technical adjustments, and the wireless shutter remote control of this system is connected to 36 high-definition digital cameras at one end and the computer host at the other end through the switch in front of her.

The difficulty of shooting momentary dynamic images is inherently high, not to mention that it must be coherent, the picture must ensure a relatively smooth transition, and every photo taken by each camera on the guide rail is one of the frames of the entire video, Yan Qing and Zhang Yameng have repeatedly emphasized that triggering synchronization is as important as framing composition.

After several rounds of synchronous remote control trigger tests, Zhang Yameng reported to Yan Qing that he could test shoot at any time.

"An embroidery needle that is not more than an inch long, it can be said that the wind blows, and the water does not sink, I have been thinking about how to convincingly express the undefeated Dongfang with its long sword, and even directly swing away other weapons that weigh a thousand pounds... Here's what I came up with..."

Yan Qing explained to the confused Wuzhi team: "Fast to the extreme, that is, slow, after the embroidery needle flies out, it uses itself as a reference, and everything around it instantly becomes as if time stands still." ”

"Relativity?"

Huang Jinbai and Cheng Chaoping both showed interest: "Let me be healthy!" ”

“Action！”

With Yan Qing's order, the embroidery needle was shot out of the projector, and the moment it flew out, 36 cameras were triggered synchronously, filming the flight process of the embroidery needle and the process of its rapid injection into the needle hole of the prop's long sword.

At the same time, the switch automatically sent the photos back to the computer, and Liu Yuze and Zhang Yameng cooperated to synthesize these photos into videos and play them on the projection screen.

With this embroidery needle, time seems to be frozen in the lens, stretching 360 degrees, perfectly interpreting the figurative process of the embroidery needle piercing the long sword.

"Director Yan uses such a lens language to perfectly interpret the strength, speed, and accuracy of the embroidery needle in long-distance combat, which is simply imaginative, wonderful!"

"The East is undefeated and gives the embroidery needle a thousand powers with a wave of his hand... The force value of being alone in the world coupled with this unheard-of Qimen weapon, so it was not Dugu Jiujian who defeated her in the end, but love. ”

After this video, which Yan Qing called "bullet shot", was played many times, the PPT document on the screen projection in the conference room clearly marked all the sketches of the martial arts action design of the crew of "Laughing East", and was intimately accompanied by the corresponding text description.

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Embroidery needle: the only weapon used after the undefeated martial arts of the East, the world's martial arts are only fast and unbreakable, and the needle used for embroidery can also be hard and strong after the extreme and even the cold iron hook that I can control with all my might.

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Linghu Chong: Huashan swordsmanship, Dugu nine swords: swinging sword style, leaving the sword style, breaking the sword style, teasing the sword style, falling sword style, cutting the sword style, frustrating sword style, flat sword style, wave sword style.

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Fuso Ninjutsu: Escape techniques that come and go at will, hidden weapons all over the world, and boomerang that fights the wind.

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Star Absorbing Dafa: With the shape of a dry pickaxe that is locked in a water prison, but after sucking the bones and sucking the marrow of a few people, he instantly regains his vitality to reflect the Star Absorbing Dafa to absorb the internal force of others and gain his own powerful power.

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"In addition to the embroidery needle presented with bullet shots, other fight designs are shot through short shots and some special techniques, and then processed with fast editing, I want to pursue the action style is that kind of sharp and weird, so the action design should ask a few more people to think of ways to think of a way in the artistic conception."

Yan Qing picked up a three-foot Qingfeng and bowed it to Huang Jinbai and Cheng Chaoping, which was actually an antique prop sword made of PVC material that he borrowed from the Yanqi Lake Film and Television Base of Whispering Pictures.

"I hope that the specific fighting scenes will be designed with beautiful postures and stretched moves, showing obvious characteristics of dance and drama, and the movements of Dugu Jiujian are probably similar to this style..."

The long-term insistence on physical training has been fruitful, Yan Qing is like a martial artist in Peking Opera, dancing the prop sword between his wrists impenetrably, quite a chic without leaving the sword, and the sword does not leave the body.

Yan Qing deliberately drew the wonderful Dugu Nine Swords of Linghu Chong's night battle to Wentian in the sketch of the split shot.

He took this opportunity to describe in detail how he would turn around, flip his wrist and throw the sword out of his hand from different angles, and then use the method of reverse shooting and post-editing to complete the miraculous, comparable to the fighting effect of the special effects production.

"When I shoot backwards like this, I keep throwing the sword outward, and when I finish editing and playing it in the normal order, I will see the sword keep coming back to my hand from the air, and it will always be wrapped around my hand, on my body, retracting and releasing freely, and rotating as I wish, so as to achieve the realm of the unity of man and sword."

"Reverse shooting? It's a genius idea! Combined with the diffused dust and smoke and the blooming blood mist, the invisible sword qi is revealed..."

Cheng Chaoping clapped his hands and exclaimed: "In this way, the image of Dugu Jiujian stands up all of a sudden!" ”

"Director Yan's idea is really imaginative..."

After savoring all the action sketches, Huang Jinbai also sighed: "The so-called light power grass flies up, I didn't expect to be able to express the ethereal light power with the touch of a reed!" ”

"In layman's terms, in fact, the actor must be well placed under the Weiya hoisting..."

Knowing that he was just picking up people's teeth, Yan Qing said modestly: "Director Huang, Chao Ping, you are the expert martial arts experts, many of my ideas are not mature enough, and they may have to be further improved, all in all, please two." ”

"Director Yan is too modest, where is this showmanship, in fact, the freehand style of martial arts looks very interesting, we can try to fill it in with more dancing and dramatic movements..."

The sedan chair was carried by everyone, and Yan Qing's excellent martial arts ideas and peaceful and humble attitude were recognized by Huang Jinbai: "Dean Qian Dejun, Teacher Luo Xuyang, and Director Yan are all senior actors with profound drama skills, and Weng Huaijing teaches classical ballet dancers, and this fighting style must be handy to interpret." ”

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Through the storyboard script, the elaboration of editing ideas, the introduction of special shooting techniques, the dismantling of moves and illustrations, everyone finally reached a consensus on a unified action style - smart and elegant, tumbling and jumping, high and high, turning the virtual into reality, and turning the invisible into the tangible.

In this way, scene surveying, interior scenes, art, costumes, props, special effects, martial arts, and group performances, Yan Qing, who directed almost every matter with the specifications of a commercial film for the first time, did almost everything himself.

On Wednesday afternoon, with the assistance of Shao Qing and Luo Bing of the production team, Yan Qing coordinated the management leaders of each team to submit the final version of the requirements list.

Photography, lighting, and sound recording are based on the list of photography, lighting equipment, and recording equipment submitted by them, and the equipment provided by Whisper Pictures is debugged and tested.

The props team and the art team have also sorted out a list of props, art, makeup, and costumes, which will be arranged by the production team to purchase or lease them as soon as possible.

On Wednesday night, Yi Yi and two Fusang actors entered the group as scheduled, and Yan Qing led a team of more than 160 people to start the filming of their first night battle after a three-life start-up ceremony and a lively eighteen-table start-up banquet.