Disaster Artist

"Zizzizi, Zizizi..."

"Chen Mu, how does the picture look now? The results I tested here are just right."

"Could it be a little brighter? The light in the top half is still a little darker, and I'd like the gradient spectrum to be a bit more pronounced throughout."

"Wait a minute, let's adjust the angle of the reflector..."

Huhu, the cold wind is cold and the wind is blowing.

At this time, the "Tourist" crew was on the summit of the medium-difficulty snow trail in Wildmane, preparing for the first scene since the movie started.

Taking into account the objective existence of weather and seasonal factors, Lu Qian decided to shoot outdoors first, and complete the skiing scene when the visibility and brightness are sufficient.

The main part of the story of "Tourist" takes place in the resort, and the indoor dialogue takes up most of the scenes, but there are six scenes before and after skiing, and each skiing scene contains dramatic conflicts and emotional transitions. For the whole story The impetus is vital.

After comprehensive consideration, there is no way for the film to be shot in chronological order. The skiing scene needs to be completed first, and then go back indoors to complete other shooting.

It is precisely because of this that the movie starts at the top of the mountain, and the first scene chooses the easiest one of the six outdoor scenes, hoping to start smoothly and lay a smooth good for the whole movie shooting. omen.

However, there are many factors that need to be considered in outdoor field shooting scenes, and even the simplest scene is not simple.

Just like the scene in "raid" waiting for the blue hour, they need to wait for natural light, and then adjust the light according to the requirements of photography, and create the picture in the director's mind as much as possible on the basis of natural light. The whole shooting is more difficult than the studio. It is a geometric multiple growth-

Moreover, the production cost consumption will inevitably rise.

Leonardo DiCaprio (Leonardo-) starring "The Revenant" is like this, this work that won him the Oscar for best actor, the whole process was shot naturally in the snowy forest, the most important work of the entire crew every day It's "waiting for the light," and of course the days when Blizzard stops.

In the end, the film cost a whopping $135 million to make, and it was done with little to no computer effects.

Compared with the "Revenant", the difficulty of shooting "tourists" is just sprinkling water, but the work that needs to be put into the outdoor shooting of ski resorts still exists objectively.

Today, the local sunrise time in Yemane is 7:42. The crew arrived at the top of the mountain at 7:00 and started setting up equipment, and they have been "waiting for light" and dimming after sunrise, but because of the thick fog lingering In the valley, the sun has never been fully revealed, which has indeed created a lot of difficulties for the crew.

For such a thing, it is necessary to see the face of God, and there is no other way but to wait patiently.

In a twinkling of an eye, it was already half past seven, and the sun finally quietly showed a small face. Su Ziyi and Chen Mu were busy leading the work team for a while. It was almost eleven o'clock, and the dimming work was also busy. Still not over.

Huhu, another gust of cold wind blew, but at this time, I couldn't feel too much cold. On the one hand, it was not so cold because the thick snow had not melted yet; on the other hand, it was because Spending too much time outdoors numbs the nerves and reduces perception.

Still, he couldn't help but take a breath.

"Director, all right."

Chen Mu confirmed all the details of the camera lens, and finally made an "OK" gesture to Lu Qian.

Lu Qian turned his head to look at the drama manager, motioned him to let the actors who had been sheltering from the wind come out to stand by, while he came behind the monitor, looked at the picture carefully, looked at the composition and lighting, and then picked up the walkie-talkie.

"Slightly adjust the level of the camera position."

The first scene is actually a fixed long shot, which does not require positioning and scheduling. Once filming starts, Chen Mu can relax.

But what's special about the movie "Tourist" is that Lu Qian put forward almost perverted strict requirements on the scheduling of the camera-

Everything must remain perfectly horizontal.

What's the meaning?

That is, when moving horizontally, it must be horizontal to the ground; when moving vertically, it must be vertical to the wall; when pushing deep or zooming out, it must be vertical to the subject.

Not only that, even the camera's movement route and movement track are all straight lines, maintaining a mechanical sense.

You can see the difference by comparing it with the camera movement of the "raid". In fact, most of the time, the camera movement needs to be kept on the horizontal line, otherwise it is easy to cause visual abruptness, but it is impossible to strictly enforce the actual shooting. With such a shooting method, the shaking of handheld photography is of course needless to say. Even orbital photography may need to set different mirror movement lines according to the actual situation.

And this time, Lu Qian specifically made such a request.

Why do you want to do this?

To put it simply, Lu Qian hopes to form an invisible frame through such a movement method, and when composing a picture, create the visual effect of line shackles all the time.

At first, Lu Qian also considered that, like the movie "Rome", every time the camera moves, it follows the law of lateral movement from left to right, creating an effect of "slowly unfolding the picture" and telling the story Come; but later Lu Qian himself denied this plan, because the mechanization is too obvious, but there is no sense of reality.

Of course, Lu Qian did not intend to maintain such a mechanical feeling throughout the film, but to highlight such effects in specific scenes——

What scene is used, it needs to be eaten with the script, that is to say, whenever the scenes that show the middle-class "performance state" are shot in this way; whenever they break the frame to reveal the real scene, the frame will also be beaten. chaos.

These details~www.novelmt.com~ are invisible to most viewers, and it is difficult for even senior movie fans to find them unless they pull the film and analyze it frame by frame; but these details can be passed on silently. The sensory hints quietly change the emotional judgment of the audience.

So Lu Qian made such a request, and Chen Mu also scolded Lu Qian as "perverted" without hesitation.

"...I actually used a spirit level."

Chen Mu couldn't believe that he still has such a day. After all, the photographer's job is to inject life and vitality into the film, but now he needs to get rid of these and show the stiffness in a mechanized way.

It's absurd, but thinking about it seriously, Chen Mu thinks Lu Qian is a genius.

When Chen Mu was adjusting the horizon, the actors had already arrived at the shooting site. Looking around, they could see that they were a family without words:

Father and son, dark blue ski suits; mother and daughter, goose yellow ski suits. Although the same color still has a slight color difference, the four people are standing bustlingly together, and at a glance, they know that they are a family who "love each other".

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