Chapter 185: A Warm Corpse (The New Month Begins)
"It's a little gloomy!"
Cinematographer Addison Young looked through the camera at the scene that was about to start shooting, and he always felt eerie.
But when he looked up, he saw that the sun seemed to be no different today.
"Is it my delusion? or is it the effect of a filter?"
Unlike when he was on the scene, before the official filming began, director Charlotte gave him a whole set of filters, saying that this set of filters was specially used with the special effects technology of the Ghost Party Studios.
Addison, who had already seen it once, did not object again.
This time, in particular, he was able to see a different image from the filtered camera.
This was actually Charlotte's intention!
After the last experiment, Charlotte found that the filter blessed by her own spells could indeed take pictures of those scenes that ordinary people could not see with the naked eye.
There is a small problem, though
Because those special scenes have to be treated by Charlotte to see, photographers can't adjust the lens well according to these scenes.
If you want to shoot delicate and beautiful pictures, this is not possible!
As a result, the special effects technology of the Ghost Party studio was "upgraded".
Of course, that's what he told cinematographer Addison Young and assistant director Lao Gun.
In fact, he just adjusted the spell so that some of the relatively simple special images could be shot directly by the camera without the need for secondary processing.
This is the same reason that after the development of green screen technology, some of the more powerful technical teams can load the draft version of the special effects directly onto the director's monitor during shooting.
Even, compared to the green screen technology that requires cutouts, Charlotte's spell rendering is much simpler.
To a certain extent, it's really just a layer of filters.
It's just that whether it's the weird fog, the stealthy ghost, and the abnormal light and dark effects, it's not just the effect brought by ordinary filters.
Of course, it is not difficult for those who will, but it will not be difficult for those who are difficult
For Charlotte, who has mastered spells, it is indeed relatively simple;
But in the eyes of photographer Addison Yang, this kind of "special effects rendering" technology, which can directly see the effect at the time of shooting, is simply black technology.
"When I make a blockbuster with these new technologies, I must go to Cameron and have a good chat!"
Regarding the past with James Cameron, Addison Young has always been haunted.
He has always wanted to make a movie that he can be proud of, but calmly said to Cameron, who is now a big director of commercial films:
"Although I was wrong back then, I haven't achieved nothing over the years!"
And now, the "special effects technology" of the Ghost Party Studio has given him hope......
Charlotte didn't know that in her photographer's heart, there was an ambition of "I have worked hard for 20 years just to have a cup of coffee with you on an equal footing".
At this time, he was carrying the assistant director's old gun, inspecting the set and props one last time.
"Charlotte, why did you choose this as the first scene?"
Looking at the "lifelike" corpse in the center of the set, this description is a bit strange, but in short, this prop corpse is very real Old Gun frowned and asked.
"Because this is the scene that best expresses the character of the male protagonist Ikabukaran!"
Charlotte looked at Johnny Depp, who was putting on makeup in the distance,
"Because of Winona Ryder's matter, Depp is probably not in great shape right now. I need to get him into character as quickly as possible with an impressive scene!"
"Kind of makes sense!"
The old gun touched his red beard,
"So, I'm afraid Depp will be ng many times today?"
"If there is a need. ”
Charlotte smiled slightly, and between her words, there was a bit of sharpening the knife.
Before the box office explosion of "Happy Death Day", Charlotte would not be so straightforward in the face of a star actor with a certain status like Depp.
No way, at that time, he was just a young director who had just made a movie, and he didn't have enough qualifications to yell at the stars.
Junior directors who use stars to film often can only coax each other to work like children.
But now, "Happy Death Day" is a box office hit, and the reputation is also very good. is obviously a youth campus horror film, but because of the peculiar infinite loop structure, many curious viewers watch it repeatedly.
This makes the long-term box office curve of "Happy Death Day" very beautiful, and after a long period of screening, the box office of the film, which has just been released, has crossed the $100 million mark.
Comparing the $5 million production cost of "Happy Death Day", even if the publicity and distribution costs are added, the ultra-high input-output ratio is enough to make Hollywood film companies of all sizes shocked director Charlotte for a while.
Now he is already a commercial film director who has sold two consecutive movies and one movie has crossed the 100 million dollar mark at the box office.
Such a director unceremoniously guides those star actors who have not yet reached the first line, and the actors themselves will not have any opinions.
This is the reality of Hollywood!
Of course, when it comes to the future Captain Jack Sparrow, Charlotte doesn't actually mean to take him seriously.
After all, because of Winona's matter, Charlotte is actually equivalent to holding Depp's pigtails, and there is really no need for any more moves.
He wants to use a scene to grind Depp, really because he thinks Depp is not in much shape.
And the facts
Just listen to the endless "cut", "restart", "cut", "restart" and "restart" after the shooting starts......
knows that Charlotte, as a director, is still reliable in many judgments about actors.
Johnny Depp actually knows he's out of shape.
Because of Winona's matter, before joining the crew, although he had read the script, he had not studied it specifically.
This made him a little unable to grasp the characteristics of the Iqabkaran he was going to play.
Therefore, in the face of director Charlotte's repeated requests for reshoots, he also had nothing to say.
It's just that after reshooting more than 20 times in a row, he also became agitated.
"Johnny, come here!"
Charlotte also saw Depp's impatience, but he didn't mean to tell the latter about the play. He just pulled each other and came to the center of the set
There is a "corpse" carefully crafted by the prop team.
This scene, in the script, is actually the murder scene of the first person killed by the Headless Horseman after Iqabkaran, as a police officer, was sent to the Sleeping Hollow.
In simple terms, it can be said to be a crime scene investigation of the late eighteenth century.
Here, Iqabkaran wears all sorts of strange investigative tools he makes himself, investigating the bodies of the dead like a Frankenstein.
As for the other characters around them, they just need to do some cooperation at the right time to show their distrust and surprise at the young and strange Iqab.
It can be said that the focus of this scene is the performance of Depp, who plays Ikabukaran.
But Depp has not entered the state for a long time.
Charlotte decided to do her own way to help
He pointed to the "corpse",
"Johnny, you don't care about the script or anything now, just go close and look at the 'corpse' and say 'interesting'. ”
"Huh!?"
Although I don't know what Mr. Director means, the good actor Depp still decided to do it.
He leaned on his knees and got very close to observe the severed neck of the "corpse".
As mentioned earlier, in the script, this "corpse" was killed by the Headless Horsemann and his head was cut off.
Therefore, Depp can only stare at the broken neck.
While watching, I kept saying "interesting......
The surrounding staff kept quiet at Charlotte's request.
Slowly, Depp felt that his anxious mood was slowly calming down.
He looked at the gap in the neck of the "corpse", and suddenly felt that there seemed to be some warmth there.
Next, a huge beetle suddenly crawled out of it.
"interesting!!"
Depp's voice suddenly became sharp and high-pitched......