Hollywood Road

Night shrouded the sky over New York, and the time gradually approached the early hours of the morning. The noisy Manhattan seemed much quieter, and the number of vehicles on the crowded roads also decreased significantly. The wide streets looked a little empty, with only street lights and neon signs on both sides of the road. Still brightly illuminate the entire Manhattan map. ??

This is the financial center of the world, and it is also a veritable city that never sleeps, and it is also one of the most popular locations for Hollywood movies.

However, on-site shooting here will face quite a lot of difficulties, especially when there are many people, pedestrians who break into the camera from time to time are enough to make any crew and director collapse.

Therefore, after negotiating with the New York City authorities, Murphy put all his shooting in the late night and early morning hours when there were fewer people, as did some close-up daytime scenes.

For close-range shots of small scenes, it is not difficult to change the background of the night to the background of the day through color correction.

Several police cars whizzed forward with red and green lights, occupying both ends of the street respectively, and then one after another drove in, including large trucks pulling containers, more than a dozen police cars, and New Yorkers. The aT special police car provided by the police.

Immediately afterwards, some staff got off the car, and a few of them took some small gifts to persuade the few pedestrians on the street to leave. More people began to be busy setting up the location under Murphy's command.

What will be filmed here will be several hot car chase scenes.

Since the crew has received the full support of the New York City government, there is enough time to temporarily close this block for filming. Although many related scenes were shot in the studio in the early stage through models and green screens, some scenes still need to be filmed. Shooting on the spot.

Murphy directed the operation of the entire crew in an orderly manner, and would visit the actors from time to time. A large number of stunt actors will be used to shoot some thrilling scenes, and safety measures must be in place.

No one wants to see accidents between the crew and actors.

In addition, several Chris Dann super motorcycles specially made by Mercedes-Benz were also shipped over. These vehicles were divided into two parts. Apart from the normal ones, there was also a modified type specially used for erecting miniature cameras.

Except for the first perspective of Chris Dann's motorcycle, all the rest of the scenes here will be shot with Imax cameras.

Murphy came to the filming crew first. Fili Raschel was leading several assistants to adjust the Imax camera set up on the camera car. Since this big scene requires strict control and scheduling, Murphy is not going to personally Instead, the filming task was completely handed over to Philip Lascher's filming team.

While the crew was still setting up the venue, Murphy and Philip Raschel exchanged a few more words, and checked the Imax camera again. The camera can be said to be the most important equipment on the set. Without a camera, no movie can be made.

Of course, a great director of photography like Philip Lascher is just as important.

The director is responsible for the operation of the entire crew and the shooting of the film. The senior creative under the director is the director of photography. The director is responsible for the shooting of the complete movie screen by coordinating the various groups of the team, including the film crew.

In the entire film crew, the most important position is the director of photography. For example, in Murphy's team, Philip Lascher not only manages the photography team, but also the lighting team, lighting assistants and scene management. within the jurisdiction.

In most cases, Murphy will communicate with Fili Raschel before shooting or when making plans, and clearly tell his director of photography what he wants the shot to look like, and then choose the right camera together , Lenses, filters, composition and lighting design and other aspects of work.

In addition, Philip Raschel is not only the director of photography, but also the first operator in Murphy's team, responsible for controlling the main camera. In different situations, the first operator of the crew may be different. Faye sometimes goes on set in person, but ninety-nine percent of the time, the number one operator in Hollywood is the director of photography on set.

A clear-headed person like Murphy knows very well that one person cannot complete the shooting and production of a film, especially this kind of action film with large investment and production. The ability to coordinate and exert the entire team is the most important thing. The essential.

Leaving the film crew, Murphy went to the place where the filming vehicle was parked. First, he circled around the police car, and then walked to the big truck that the magician used to attack Chris Dane. After just one glance, he realized that wrong place.

"Maltai, come here."

Calling the person in charge of the prop group vehicles over, Murphy pointed to a line of letters on the outside of the truck container and said, "Did you miss something?"

After looking at it carefully, the man named Maltai hurriedly said, "Sorry, Murphy, I'll get someone to paint it right away."

"As soon as possible," Murphy nodded slightly, and then urged, "You still have half an hour, don't delay the shooting."

After speaking, he walked towards where the director's monitor was located.

The props team made a small mistake, just forgetting to paint a letter, but the meaning of the jargon on the outside of the truck container has completely changed.

This sentence is "", that is, "laughter is the best medicine", but this sentence does not meet the needs here at all, and it is impossible for people like magicians to agree with such a point of view.

Therefore, in the original design, at the beginning of this sentence, Murphy had people add a striking "s" that was as red as blood, that is, "", so the meaning of the sentence became "Slaughter is the best medicine".

According to Murphy's request, the "s" was painted on the position of the side door of the container, which is where the magician would shoot when shooting.

After the preparations were completed, the shooting kicked off quickly. Although the speed of the vehicle was not actually fast, it was more about using the movement of the camera to create the illusion of the vehicle traveling at a high speed. The shooting was still divided into countless pieces, except James Fran Cole's magician was fixed to the truck container by additional seat belts, and the rest were basically stuntmen.

Especially Chris Dann, who was chasing all the way on a motorcycle. There is no scene showing his face here. Murphy never considered letting Henry Cavill play.

And in his plan, on the cast list corresponding to the letters of the film, there will be the names of three stuntmen behind the night walker, because 90% of the scenes with masks are done by them.

Henry Cavill's name will only be placed behind Chris Dane.

Police cars, aT special police cars, bulletproof prison cars carrying prisoners, police cars, police cars, and a helicopter in the sky appeared one after another, and shots of explosions and car rollovers also appeared continuously during filming.

There is not much difficulty in performance in these stunt scenes, but the shooting speed is not fast, and a lot of preparation work took too much time. A crash and rollover scene with only a dozen seconds often takes an hour or even longer to complete. prepare.

The hot scene of such a big scene is a test for any director except Michael Bay.

Frankly speaking, this is the first time for Murphy to shoot such a hot car chase and a hot big scene on the spot.

In the past, there were many big scenes in the movies he shot, such as "Man of Steel" and "City of Chaos", but the big scenes in these movies were not shot on-site, but generated based on computer cg technology. The ratio of real shooting to cgI production can often reach a ratio of two to eight, or even more.

This time it is different, the big scene basically comes from real shooting, and then it is modified by CG technology, the ratio between the two is just reversed.

In an action blockbuster such as "Dark City", the unavoidable, or the highlight, must be the car chase. Just like Murphy planned, it can capture the audience's nervousness, which is dangerous but also allows The audience has a bizarre pleasure. The rumbling sound of the car engine and the sweaty palms are exactly the tense and exciting movie-watching experience brought by the car chase scene.

As the director who is shooting such a hot scene on-site for the first time, the first principle that Murphy upholds on the set is always safety!

Only because of safety can we ensure the safety of the crew's actors, crew photographers, crew cars, crew equipment and the surrounding area, and avoid all kinds of annoying trade union organizations coming to make trouble, so that the crew can go on shooting smoothly, and let Murphy swung wildly.

Shooting a car chase scene requires a director to have a tight control, good rehearsal and a creative mind to choreograph a gripping car scene.

Every extreme problem encountered in the shooting, whether it is the overall shooting or the details, the reason can be traced back to the imperfection of the pre-script and production level. Considering this, the complexity of shooting car scenes can be imagined I know, so a strict, detailed script that has been formed in my mind is a very important issue.

Murphy has a perfect plan in this regard. He has never been the kind of fool who thinks that he can take everything from the film industry by simply pulling out a script without even formulating a plan.

With a complete plan, what Murphy, the director, does the most on set is to control the shooting scene, that is, the overall environment. This applies not only to the car interior and the space around the camera.

For him to really control the entire set, the entire environment needs to be clearly defined and laid out, including all the areas that the camera will see as it moves, and the surrounding areas used to safely protect the actors and crew from any accidental car accidents, and the action "buffer" space.

Just like Murphy never let Henry Cavill drive that complicated super motorcycle, the protagonists in the car chase are all people with good driving skills, and the basis of this reality is the use of professionals, including car stunts. People, use the car to drive professionally!

Unless the car scene is a stationary car shot on green screen, a professional must be called in to perform the complex car drive.

Since it can only be filmed at night, the action scene here was filmed for a full week, which also attracted the attention of a large number of media reporters. 8 For more exciting novels, welcome to visit our Reading Academy