Chapter 70: The Soil Method
Zhu Bajie's matter of taking a cold shower to cure a cold has also become the most popular joke in the crew in the next period of time.
As the protagonist of the incident, Ma Dehua often introduces his experience during meals, what posture should be used to enter the water, and how long to soak in the water to achieve the most ideal treatment effect.
Every time I hear him talk about it vividly, it always causes the "audience" to laugh.
Gu Bei also admires the spirit of TV workers in this era.
It's not true to say "bitter" at all.
Even if the conditions of the crew are placed at the moment, they are very poor.
The food and housing are almost a little bit, everyone overcomes it and survives, the real "bitter" is the shooting conditions, which is not something that can survive by gritting your teeth at all.
Not to mention a problem that can be solved by a qualified on-site co-ordination, even if Gu Bei has the ability, at most, he will coordinate the work of various departments at the shooting site, and he will need to prepare in advance.
There's no way to conjure up a lot of high-tech equipment out of thin air to assist in the shooting!
The lack of hardware is already a commonplace, filming such a large-scale mythological drama as "Journey to the West", the crew only has an old camera, which is a myth in itself.
When filming any scene, you can't just cut the picture in one direction, but what if you only have one camera, you can only shoot a scene back and forth, shoot it repeatedly, and wait until all angles of the picture, close-up and close-up shots are all filmed before it can be over.
If it is filmed like this, the actors will feel that the repeated shooting is boring at most, and the photographer Wang Chongqiu is really tired.
After arriving in Yangzhou, Yang Jie called Lian, wrote a report, and applied with the station more than a dozen times, hoping to add at least one more camera.
But the station's reply was: Comrade Yang Jie, hello, regarding the question you raised, there is currently no idle camera in the station to provide, and I hope that the comrades will carry forward the spirit of hard struggle, strive to overcome all difficulties, and successfully complete the tasks assigned by the leaders.
Best of luck in your work!
Hehe!
After Gu Bei learned of Taili's reply at that time, he was also really drunk.
There are not enough cameras to shoot a TV series, you come to overcome one for me?
Is it difficult to let a group of people paint on the spot and draw everything to be filmed?
All right!
Director Yang Jie has also given up seeking support from the stage.
It's all in vain.
It's in vain, and it's a lot of idleness, so why bother.
The problem of the camera cannot be solved, and the problem of special effects is even more difficult.
When the preparatory team was just established, everyone's biggest headache was the stunt part, Sun Wukong's ever-changing, calling for wind and rain, soaring clouds and fog, a heel of 108,000 miles, and all kinds of gods and demons with vast magical powers......
At the meeting a year ago, everyone proposed a lot of local methods, but when they really started up, they found that many of them were not used at all.
In this age when we don't know what stunts are, I've only heard of a blue screen key that can cut people on any background?
But no one has ever seen it, let alone experimented with it.
Now that the problem is in front of us, even if it has not been done before, it can only be bold.
The first stunt used in the filming of "Demon Removal and Black Chicken Country" was the scene where Sun Wukong turned into a little monkey jumping on the table and talking to the prince.
On the day I tried to do the blue screen keying, the crew completed the shot very smoothly, and the synthesis with the keying bottom was also very smooth, Zhang Jinlai made a jumping action, used the ADO machine to make him smaller, and lifted it up to the rhythm of his beating, and went to the table.
After completing this compositing, everyone was overjoyed, and some people felt that the so-called blue screen keying was nothing more than that, and it was easy to master.
But no one expected that the problem would soon arise, and things were far from being as simple as imagined.
This ADO stunt machine specially imported from Da Lao Mei in Taiwan, the picture presented is not three-dimensional, trying to make the little monkey rotate, the result is the same as letting the rolling mill run over, it feels like a shadow puppet show.
At the beginning, everyone thought that it was because they used it for the first time and didn't have a good grasp of it, so they tried again and again, but it still didn't work.
Later, I called Taili and asked about it, and I learned that this machine is just hardware, and if it wants to work properly, it also needs software cooperation, and a software will cost 50,000 US dollars.
At the beginning, the people sent by Taili to order this machine did not want to spend this money and did not buy it, that is to say, the machine itself without software does not have the conditions to make people three-dimensional.
That's not!
Yang Jie was so angry that she scolded the street for half an hour.
The old lady roared so loudly that her voice was hoarse.
After scolding the purchasing department in Taili, he then scolded the old man for being black-hearted.
The machine doesn't have much money, and a piece of software actually costs 50,000 dollars, so why not grab it.
Gu Bei was embarrassed to tell Director Yang Jie that Jingying also has such a machine, and for the same reason, it can only be used as a teaching aid now.
The scolding was painful.
Director Yang Jie can only shake off her spirits and go into battle again, and those who can make do can only make do first, and those who can't make do will have to be solved by local methods.
I used to use that machine as a treasure, but now I can't count on this thing at all, it's just a job, and it's useless.
A small part of the lens will work for the job, but some parts will not.
In the episode "Demon Removal Black Chicken Country", Demon Dao and Sun Wukong have a fight scene, after the fight on the ground, they have to continue to fight in the sky, obviously this requires stunts.
At the beginning, the crew put the two actors in front of the blue screen to shoot the "keying" picture, but no matter how the actors performed, there was no feeling of vacancy.
What to do?
Of course, Gu Bei has a way to hang Wei Yabei.
But he couldn't help but say this, and didn't dare to mention it to Director Yang Jie.
Because he only has a very general concept of Weiya, and he was not in the film and television industry in his previous life, he doesn't know what equipment Weiya needs to ensure the safety of actors!
If he really told Yang Jie, Gu Bei would dare to guarantee that in the next shooting, the actor would dare to go to the sky with a wire rope tied to his waist.
That's not Wia, it's playing with life.
The actors who were finally selected, Gu Bei didn't want to reduce the crew again because of his immature suggestion.
Don't think that Gu Bei is worrying about the sky, these days, people are very easy to get into the brain, and the sentence "revolutionary work needs", in front of the sword mountain and the sea of fire, dare to charge.
This road doesn't work, but Gubei has another way, a ......
Dirt method.
Gu Bei was a sports fan in his previous life, and he must watch every competition, especially the Olympic Games, and he has to pay attention to staying up late, and his favorite event is gymnastics.
And gymnastics has a small item called trampoline.
After Gu Bei and Director Yang Jie talked, they went to the Jiangsu Sports Brigade the next day, and when they came back, they took a few ...... Divers.
There was no trampoline at all these days, but divers used it in training.
Therefore, while borrowing people, Gu Bei even borrowed the trampoline together.
Then found a very open place in the field, the two athletes put on the clothes of Sun Wukong and the demon road, spread all kinds of flashes and moves on the trampoline, and rose into the air.
Seeing that the effect is good, by the way, many of Sun Wukong's jumps, take-offs, somersaults and other actions were also recorded, maybe these shots can be used in the future.
The local method was used, and then the other departments of the crew simply took out the stupid method.
For example, the problem of recording, with the existing conditions of the crew, there is no possibility of simultaneous recording.
Of course, even if they did, there was no way to record at the same time, because the actors came from all over the country, their accents were southern and northern, and they often spoke lines to each other, and no one could understand what the other was saying.
"Idiot!"
"Brother Monkey, what did you say?"
Gu Bei soaked on the set every day, and often laughed so hard that he couldn't straighten up because he talked to the actors in the play.
Moreover, the filming environment was very noisy, and after learning the news that the crew of "Journey to the West" was filming in Yangzhou, within a few days, a large group of onlookers came.
Every time the crew appears, it will immediately cause a sensation, during the shooting, there are people all around, and there are many lying on the trees, as soon as Sun Wukong appears, the scene is like a carnival, a burst of cheers.
Gu Bei said it countless times to the onlookers, but it didn't work at all, Director Yang Jie came forward in person, and he promised very well at the time, but when it was time to speak and shout, he didn't delay at all.
In the end, the recording engineer of the crew came up with a solution, when filming during the day, he simply did not record the sound, and took it as a silent film, and waited until the crew finished filming and the crowd dispersed, and then came to the live recording.
In order to achieve the on-site effect, the recording team dubbed in the place where the crew was filming.
If it is a play in a cave, go to the cave to match, if it is a play by the river, go to the river to match, so that the sound of flowing water, the chirping of birds, and the echo of the cave can be perfectly presented.
In addition to voicing the actors, they also went to various places such as woods, ponds, and even graves in the dead of night to record the noise of the environment for the background.
After Gu Bei heard about it, he simply admired the five-body throwing himself to the ground, and in the middle of the night, he ran to the cemetery to record, and the recorded story was still a mythological story, aren't you afraid?
However, it didn't take long for this approach to be found to be unworkable.
Although the idea is good, the workload is too great, and the recording team needs to work overtime day and night, and the body can't hold on to it for a long time.
The crew needs to add a lot of staff for this, and the gains outweigh the losses.
This time it was Li Chengru's turn to appear, and the ideas he provided were wonderful, and the crowd didn't love to watch!
No problem, the crew simply staggered the peak and played the time difference with the onlookers.
If it doesn't work anymore, just spread false news and tell people that they are going to film in Nanshantou today, but by the time people all ran over there, the crew had already finished filming in Beishantou.
"Brother Li, you said that if I told people that you came up with this idea, would they kill you?"
Gu Bei's fluttering words directly made Li Chengru's smug smile freeze on his face.
I shuddered at the sight of hundreds of people kicking in circles around him.