Director’s Legend

On a stone cliff on the south shore of Chongming Island, a three-story palace rises from the ground. This is an antique palace, which looks heavy and simple in appearance. In fact, it is a wooden structure building. Those stone slabs and bricks are all plastic products. Otherwise, the palace cannot be built in less than a day.

After inspecting the palace for a while, Shao Shuaijun was quite satisfied with it. He turned to ask the special effects director: "Chris, there is still room for improvement in the appearance of this palace. The antique texture is not enough. Can you improve it with the special effects in the later stage?" It shows more vicissitudes of life. I mean the real sense of historical precipitation?"

Chris Cobbold exchanged a few words in a low voice with the members of the special effects team, and then said: "We have done a rendering of the destruction of the Arc de Triomphe. If it is not a static close-up, I think it should be fine. If it is a flashing lens, Performance will be better.”

"That's enough."

Entering the interior of the palace, the specific decoration has been completed. Only the chandeliers, floors, wallpapers, etc. are still being laid. The staff are rushing back and forth. I believe it will be completed soon.

"Are all the antique props ready?" Shao Shuaijun asked as he walked around.

"It's all ready and can be shipped over by ship in the afternoon."

"The blasting positions of various props must not be confused. Let the workers be careful to avoid accidental injuries."

"Don't worry, we have a dedicated team to supervise shifts 24 hours a day."

While talking, in the middle of the hall, an old man with gray hair was gesticulating something to several foreigners. In front of them was a huge bronze sculpture. It is square and surrounded by four sheep heads spitting water. Wang Wei explained: "This is Mr. Wang, a history professor invited from Zhejiang University. He has in-depth research on the architectural layout of ancient China. Our layout is all completed under his guidance."

Seeing Shao Shuaijun and others, the staff turned around to say hello. Wang Wei took a step forward and said to Mr. Wang: "Mr. Wang, this is Shao Shuaijun, the director of our crew."

"Shao Shuaijun, I know." Mr. Wang adjusted his reading glasses.

Shao Shuaijun shook hands with Mr. Wang: "Thank you Mr. Wang for your guidance, which made us more rigorous in the study of architecture."

"You who make movies should be like you. You must be rigorous about history. This is respecting history, respecting movies and respecting the audience."

"Mr. Wang is right."

After saying hello, Shao Shuaijun started talking to the crew. Point and point in the hall to arrange the shooting angle. And the way of positioning and fighting. this building. It is a Hollywood prop team and a Hong Kong prop master who work together to create a pile of hidden mechanisms. As long as you cooperate in a certain way, the simulated effect will not be inferior to the real effect.

"Would the lighting be bad from this angle? Clamp the camera on a gyroscope, and then take a rotating picture? I mean when the dream begins to collapse, the person falls from the second floor, that kind of perspective?"

Bob looked up, then stood down below and looked at the light: "Basically, it's not a big problem, but it's a bit troublesome to set up the gyroscope. You can only shoot horizontal transitions, not vertical ones. If you need to fix the bracket to the left, it will block the horizontal screen."

Huang Yuetai suggested: "Can we use a sling and cross the ropes in a chain-like manner, with people pulling the ropes on the left and right sides to keep the camera moving? In the later stage, we can cooperate with some editing?"

Shao Shuaijun frowned: "You can't shoot such a shot naturally? Do you have to use special effects? A gyroscope alone is not enough?"

The gyroscope mentioned here is a kind of bracket for photographic equipment, which imitates the rotation of a top, thereby changing the tilt caused by force. The gyroscope can keep the camera at a fixed horizontal angle, and can also create 360-degree rotating shots, so that the camera is not limited by the scene.

"Can we do some shots, and then we skip the damaged footage and edit directly?" Bob asked.

Shao Shuaijun shook his head: "No, what I want is the most shocking picture. If it doesn't work, I will use special effects to erase the traces."

At this time, the assistant and apprentice brought by Huang Yuetai suddenly suggested: "I think there is a way to solve the problem perfectly."

"What method?" Shao Shuaijun asked hurriedly.

The assistant asked for paper and pen from Wang Cuicui and drew a trajectory on it: "Director, look, this is the second floor and this is the first floor. If we use a gyroscope, the trajectory of the shooting will be like this, a spiral curve. If we use a tripod to change the support position of the gyroscope from here, let the gyroscope hang down..."

"So, how do you solve the problem of the camera's secondary return? Once the tripod is filled in and changes its trajectory, the camera will hit this pillar." Photographer David Orr immediately asked.

The assistant added another note on the paper: "If we tie a rope here, which is the root of the gyroscope, and after setting up the tripod, during the design time, pull the rope from the bottom, will the gyroscope be restored to its original shape? ? In this way, the shooting trajectory is a real panoramic rotating shot, but from here to here, the angle is a little sideways and the trajectory is a little delayed, but it does not damage the continuity of the shot!"

Snap, snap, snap.

Everyone applauded, this plan was wonderful, every aspect of it was considered, and it was almost perfect. The assistant smiled sheepishly.

Shao Shuaijun gave his assistant a thumbs up and said to Huang Yuetai, "Old Huang, you have a good apprentice."

Huang Yuetai smiled reservedly: "My skills are not yet up to par, but I still have some brains."

"Ha ha."

While joking and putting forward various ideas, the time gradually reached the afternoon. At this time, Wang Wei received a call saying: "Director, Scarlett Johansson has arrived at the airport."

Shao Shuaijun nodded to express his understanding and handed over the issues on the scene to several assistant directors: "You guys discuss it first, I will bring the heroine to the scene to record a show." There was no show planned this time, and he showed off the leading actor at the entrance of Jin Mao Tower. Coquettish, but participated in an interview with Time Network.

After the development of Time.com, especially the help of bib, coupled with the successive addition of video websites, interactive communities, page games, and websites during this period, it has begun to fully enter the ranks of portal websites. Naturally, Time.com has also begun to move towards the media route. It has just recently launched its own online program - Face to Face with Celebrities.

At the same time, as mentioned by Shao Shuaijun, Time.com has also cooperated with Dream Chase Music Company to develop a voice chat software "Time yy". It will invite previous students of "The Voice of China" and singers who have collaborated with Dream Chase Music to chat on Time yy. Hold an online concert.

Shiguangyy is committed to creating an instant messaging software that can compete with QQ. It has only been online for a few days, but it has attracted a large number of celebrity endorsements with the strong appeal of chasing dreams, and has exceeded 30 million registered users. And it is still growing rapidly, and there are also users who have converted from Shiguang.com and Shiguangyy. As soon as Shiguangyy appeared, it detonated the Internet.

It is said that QQ has held an emergency meeting to develop QQ’s voice chat software to deal with the problem. (To be continued...)

ps:  Thanks to Wild Queer, Wu and Xin, for pretending to be stuck, and asking for recommendation votes!