Chapter 481: A New Hope
Fortunately, the "too deep into the play" brought by this adrenaline secretion was quickly alleviated.
Before filming the next scene, Mr. Director made a point of letting Brandon Fisher watch the footage that had just been filmed.
"It's a good performance!"
Hearing Mr. Director's compliment, Brandon Fisher nodded.
- Not bad!
This performance, which lasted less than two minutes, was simply the moment when Brandon Fisher's acting skills exploded since his debut.
Watching his performance on the monitor, Brandon even had a feeling of "is this still me?"
"It seems that Mr. Director's emotional speech just now is really useful!"
Brand Fisher sighed in his heart,
"I just don't know if it will always work, if it has been effective, maybe after the movie "The Mummy", my acting skills will go to the next level!"
At this point, Brandon doesn't care about anything that goes too deep into the play.
In contrast, the old guns, who know some of the inside stories about spells, have a better understanding of what this is all about-
"Did you use spells to influence them when you were shooting?"
In between shooting, the old gun secretly asked Charlotte.
"yes!"
Charlotte nodded,
"It's working out well, isn't it?
“......”
The old gun gave Charlotte a thumbs up.
In the previous lecture to the actors, Charlotte actually used a slight spell to affect the atmosphere around her.
Of course, he also used hypnosis.
However, when the actors were filmed later, they could get into the play like that, but it was by no means possible with these two points alone.
The main thing is that Charlotte gradually introduces them to dreams when she tells them the play.
At the same time, the actors are still awake and are able to carry out various activities in reality.
- This spell, which allows people to dream in a waking state and mix dreams and reality to a certain extent, is a newly developed ability that has recently been developed with the increase of Charlotte's mana.
The essence of this set of spells is an illusion that has been passed down from generation to generation. It's just that Charlotte has found a new way to play and fine-tune.
- Therefore, after listening to Charlotte's narration, the actors will be affected when they are sober.
However, if you want to reach the level where you can use it at will in the legend, you can make people distinguish between real and fake, and Charlotte can't do it yet.
Now, the most he can do is make people see parallel dream scenes in a trance.
But that's enough.
If the dream world he created before was a pure virtual world, more similar to VR (virtual reality technology), then the spell he uses now is based on reality, allowing people to see more unrealistic scenes and reality coexist.
This is more akin to AR (Augmented Reality) technology.
Prior to Charlotte Crossing, the world's most popular mobile game, Pokemon Go, the latest version of Pokemon, used the new technology.
And Charlotte's new spell can be called "Spell AR".
With the help of "Spell AR", Charlotte can enhance the imagination of the actors and make them the best when shooting on a green screen.
- After all, to some extent, the actors can be said to have "seen" those unrealistic scenes with their own eyes.
It will naturally be much easier to perform this way.
Of course, some actors may also wonder why imaginary scenarios can look so realistic.
However, under Charlotte's control, the illusions brought about by this spell did not appear continuously.
No matter what the actors think, in the end, they can only blame the director for the appeal of the play, and everyone is affected.
In short, with the help of this new spell born of illusion and called "spell AR" by Charlotte, the follow-up filming progress of "The Mummy" has improved a lot.
Even, after becoming proficient in using it, Charlotte felt that "spell AR" might be able to have more uses when he was shooting movies-
Not to mention anything else, at least to guide the imagination of the actors, so that they can perform according to their own needs, "magic AR" has great application value.
Not to mention when it's time to shoot special effects shots and shoot with a green screen.
The effective use of "spell AR" can perfectly combine the actors' performances with the computer special effects in the later stage.
- Charlotte thinks that "Spell AR" is really a very useful spell for herself.
Of course, in addition to the fact that the actors' performances are not very realistic due to their lack of imagination during the green screen shooting, the filming of "The Mummy" is not without other technical difficulties.
The most typical problem is still in the motion capture, which is also a computer special effects technology -
When using motion capture technology to create High Priest Immorton in his mummified form before he took on a human form, the technicians at the Ghost Party Studio encountered a problem.
- They can't accurately capture the actors' expressions.
This results in a mummy created by computer special effects, with fairly smooth movements and very stiff facial expressions.
Of course, this is not a problem unique to the "Mummy" crew.
In fact, the motion capture technology of this era is what it should be.
Capturing subtle facial expressions has always been a challenge.
Even the animated film "The Polar Express", released in 2004, is still the same.
You must know that the animation that makes extensive use of motion capture technology is directed by Hollywood director Robert Zemeckis and starring Oscar double actor Tom Hanks.
In the production process of that animated film, a lot of money was burned, but the problem was still not solved.
So how can the technicians of the "Mummy" crew not be stumped by this question?
Even though the technical team in charge of motion capture specifically asked Arnold Voslo, who played the role of High Priest Immorton, to capture facial expressions no less than 20 times, the results were still unsatisfactory.
Fortunately, at this time, Charlotte, who found the problem, took action in time-
Because she admired Cameron before the crossing, Charlotte paid attention to a lot of information about "Titanic" and "Avatar".
He knew that during the filming of "Avatar", which used a lot of motion capture technology, he also encountered similar problems that the facial expressions of actors were difficult to capture.
The crew of "Avatar" overcame this technical problem.
The method is complex and complex, and simple is simple -
They made the proposed helmet specifically for the actors, with a bracket sticking out of the upper part of the helmet and a miniature camera specially hung to capture the actors' facial expressions.
- This is the reason why after the popularization of this technology, in the trailers of Hollywood blockbusters in the future, some actors who do motion capture will always wear green clothes and hats with strange brackets on their heads.
- The hat is designed to capture the facial expressions of the actors, and by the way, collect the actors' voices.