Chapter 115: Classic Kung Fu (Happy Chinese New Year's Eve)

The MV of Raymond's last song officially entered the filming stage, and Tang De rented a Japanese-style karate dojo as the filming scene for the main scene.

On the day of the shooting, Jessica Alba walked up to the camera in a suit custom-made for him by Donde, which was a bright yellow Chinese kung fu costume, which was quite similar to the costume of the heroine in Quentin's "Kill Bill", but the style was more Chinese, and Weiya was tied to her body in order to make various aerial movements.

The reason for choosing this outfit is naturally to pay tribute to Bruce Lee's classic look, which is the best pass to play in Hollywood, as long as you wear this outfit, everyone will naturally know the style of this MV.

And Bruce Lee's fan base is still huge, many older middle-aged people are nostalgic for the once popular Kung Fu of Cinnacle, and the younger generation has always been interested in mysterious kung fu.

So when Jessica put on this outfit, it immediately caused a low cry from the crew members.

"Demolition of Nice...... Fasting! José punched him several times in a row, swept his nose with his thumb, and uttered the words in a broken accent, which immediately aroused the excitement of the others.

"That's called kung fu!" Tang De corrected the irregular pronunciation of several people in Chinese, and then looked at the background wall recreated by the scene group.

Tang De didn't exactly follow the arrangement in "Kill Bill", after all, it's normal for clothes to hit shirts, but it's impossible to tell if the scene elements collide.

And Quentin's style is not his style, he prefers to use large chromatic contrast to emphasize the status of the subject of the picture.

To put it simply, you draw a black dot on a blank piece of paper, and the black dot is the visual center. If there is a small yellow dot in a large area of red, then the yellow is the center of vision.

The human eye is more likely to focus on a different color.

So when you're shooting street or landscape photos and don't know how to look out, the easiest way is to move the lens and place what you want to shoot in a large area of the same color.

For example, the crow flying in the blue sky, such as the yellow warning sign on the blue construction site fence. You don't need to look at the photo, you just need to think about these two images to know what the visual center means.

The same is true for this music video, where Jessica's yellow kung fu outfit is the center of the whole picture. And her enemies, as distinguished from Kill Bill, are dressed in dark red.

At the same time, the scene of their fight was also paved black.

A large black background and continuous dark red enemies will become the main color of the MV, and Jessica is naturally the yellow dot that represents the visual center.

As for how blood behaves? Will it collide with the red outfit?

Don shrugged his shoulders and told Greta, who was skeptical, "Who said blood is red?" ”

"What?" Greta didn't follow Donde's train of thought, not quite understanding what he meant.

Tang De smiled: "In this MV, the blood is green. ”

"Human blood is red!" José doesn't quite understand either.

Tang De spread his hands: "Hey, who told you that these guys are human?" ”

Hearing this, Greta and Jose glanced at each other, and suddenly thought of the plot of the MV that Tang De had told them, and laughed dumbly.

“wtf!”

"It's a great irony."

When the preparations were completely completed, Don De strapped to Steadicam and stretched out his hand holding the camera: "Come on!" Ready to get started! ”

"Good! The first one! Begin! ”

"Smack!" The sound of the board sounded, Don controlled the camera to turn on, and Jessica immediately rushed to the camera, swinging the knife in her hand forward.

Donde's camera panned immediately, and as the blade deflected to the enemies in front of him, the people in this dojo were not Tokyo, but a group of blonde and blue-eyed guys dressed in dark red clothes.

Men and women, some of them, rushed to the camera after shouting, and diverted around Don to continue rushing towards Jessica, surrounding her.

At the same time, Donde leaned down and frantically backwards to pull the camera, seeing that Greta and Jose were in a cold sweat.

You must know that this is not a slow camera movement, but a fast camera movement that goes backwards. It is easy for ordinary people to fall down if they keep retreating, but Tang De can always firmly control the camera in front of him, and his body retreats steadily on the mat without the slightest shaking, which is really unbelievable.

Seeing this, the field attendant next to him hurriedly recorded it with his own digital camera, intending to keep a souvenir for himself.

It's just that this shot was not completed after all, because there was a mistake in the group performance, or twice.

So the scene sounded the roar of the tyrant on the set for the first time for a long time.

“fxxk! What the are you doing! Is your brain a World War II mine dug out of the ground? Why don't I help you clean the soil from it now? ”

"To the left! Left! If you keep going to the right, I'll break your leg with a gun!" You know! ”

"Son of a bitch! Are you going to ruin this music video! Are you responsible for the wages of so many people on site? Give me a position to remember! If I make another mistake, fuck me off! ”

"Jessica! Don't be stunned! Are you holding a knife like this to apologize for your sins? ”

"Don't! Feet! You're not one of the wildlings dancing around the fire in Africa! Jessica! Did you leave your cerebellum home today? ”

"Yes, that's it! One more time! Lift up the spirits. ”

In fact, the reason why Jessica made two mistakes was because she was a little uncomfortable when she saw Donde for the first time.

Although Cameron is also a tyrant, or Hollywood has many directors who are synonymous with vitriol, none of them are as contrasting as Donde.

To be honest, when such a handsome face scolds you, even if you don't make a mistake, you can't help but wonder if it's your own problem.

That's why Jessica didn't choose to fight back.

And Tang De is indeed more restrained than other directors, because some directors will not say what mistakes the actors have made, but will only repeat: "You ruined the movie!" You ruined everything! You suck! ”

This kind of scolding that only outputs emotions is more likely to make people's blood pressure soar and increase mental pressure.

Jessica's friends met this kind of director on the set, and after the act, she went directly to the psychiatrist and mentioned moderate depression.

Tang De is undoubtedly better than this kind of person, although it is not much better.

However, there are also people who have the opposite view of Jessica, such as how to stop, his perspective is not the emotions of the actors, but the progress of the crew.

If there was no Tang De, I don't know how many times this scene would have to be filmed, and it was because of the director's determination and firmness that the crew shot a lot of useless shots.

He has mixed with many crews, and many directors don't know what they want at all, don't dare to make judgments, and only know to let the photographer repeat the shooting back and forth.

I also don't know much about the tuning of actors, lenses and lighting, and I have to rely on the photographer and gaffer to try it out by themselves every time.

It's good not to encounter problems, but when there is a problem, the crew often has to stop working for a few hours, why do many actors say that the waiting time is too long, but in fact, the shooting time is very short, mainly because the lighting and camera position are adjusted for too long.

But under Tang De's high-intensity supervision, this situation does not exist at all, he can always find the problem with a sharp point, and then give a solution.

So next, except for a few group performers who were kicked out with really poor psychological quality, everyone else completed their roles very well and quickly.

When the time came to ten o'clock in the evening, the whole scene was finally finished.

"Whew!" Exhausted, Jessica immediately lay on the ground.

Don De walked up to her, his expression returned to his usual appearance, and Jessica, who just looked up at him with his chin up, smiled bitterly, "I know why you are called the devil, Don, you scared me." ”

"But I'm not sorry for that......" Tang De squatted down and helped her remove the bangs that were blocking her eyes: "Is there a gain?" ”

"Yes, it's big." Jessica honestly admitted.

This may also be the reason why Tang De's crew is gradually fixed, because with him, he can really learn something, whether it is visual aesthetics, camera movement, or even acting skills, he can always learn what he wants.

Jessica found that Donde was basically unreserved on set, as long as he asked him questions, he would give answers, not saying that he hid everything to death, and he liked to explain some practical tips and principles to everyone.

Every time there is an intermission, there will be crew members around Tang De to listen to his small class.

In this atmosphere, many of the field staff are now able to handle some lighting issues, and one of the small workers has been promoted to camera assistant.

This situation is very rare in other crews, because the default division of labor is detailed, and each position is clearly distinguished. Everyone only cares about their own affairs, and even if they want to ask, no one will teach them, and if they want to learn, they can only rely on their own understanding.

She is also one of the beneficiaries, and Don De is also very good at training her acting skills, he will play it out for Jessica first, and then tell her how to capture that emotion.

Jessica felt that she had learned a lot, so she didn't care so much about Donde's devilish speech.

"That's good." Don De smiled.

But his next words made the smile a danger signal in Jessica's eyes.

"We'll continue filming tomorrow, and half of the scenes are not over yet, but this time you have to work hard, you can't just be ruthless."

“omg! Don, can you tell me some good news? ”

"Of course that's good news, because it means you're almost done shooting, are you happy?"

Jessica covered her head and rubbed her bangs in front of her face, looking not very happy.

It's a pity that things won't go the way she thought, and after a day, filming continues.

The rest of the scene is the banter plot that Tang De said, although there are not as many actors in this scene as in the previous scene, but more attention is paid to the performance of a single actor.

So the filming of this scene took two days, and it was completely completed after entering the green screen studio to make up some shots.

It was also after Tang Dexin's MV was announced that it was completed, the Toronto Film Critics Association Awards, known as the Oscar outpost in the industry, announced the list of winners this year.

The song and dance film "Chicago" filmed by Don De is impressively listed!

(End of chapter)