Chapter 186

Perhaps influenced by his own experience, Murphy always believes that language is more persuasive than action, and language without action support is nothing more than words.

If you want to persuade Frank Miller, you just find him and say what you will do. It's useless. The other party is over fifty years old and is not a man without knowledge. It's far from being moved by simple words.

In addition to Frank Miller's talent in comic creation, he thinks that he is a suspicious person in the company.

In this world, nothing of value is readily available. If you want to persuade Frank Miller to get the basic conditions for opening the comic book copyright negotiation, Murphy must prove to Frank Miller that he can turn the soul, beauty and black-and-white phantom of the original into a movie.

How can we prove that Murphy chose to shoot a short film level video related to comics to impress Frank Miller with real and convincing images.

After Murphy talked with Bill rosis, Bill rosis called on his collaborators, such as Philip Raschel, Helena espora, Jack Watson and David Robbie, to experience the success of the two films in succession. These people also like to continue to cooperate with Murphy. Just as Hollywood companies are always chasing successful directors, they also tend to cooperate with successful directors.

And the object of cooperation or familiar people.

After receiving bill rosis's call, these people quickly agreed.

In addition to them, Murphy also needs an actress. Because it's an experimental shooting, it's impossible to pay much. Bill rosis found an actress who takes both model and actor routes from many contract clients at the bottom of AA.

In addition, we also contacted a small studio in the digital field, responsible for making special effects for the pictures.

Because this is a self financing experimental shooting, all the funds can only be paid by Stanton studio for the time being. With Stanton studio's current financial strength, we don't have to worry about the expenditure of more than 100000 US dollars at most.

After that, Murphy gathered everyone in a meeting room of AA and had a communication before shooting.

"Felix"

in the conference room, Murphy stands at the front of the long conference table, "you need to use Sony's h950s camera for shooting, you are responsible for renting it, you can do it in one day."

"All right." Philip Raschel nodded.

"Also," Murphy said, "this picture should be very stylized. In the black-and-white field of vision, it points out emotions and emotions through bright colors. The black-and-white tone is also a binary division of morality and human nature, but it also makes it responsible through color, which goes beyond the monotonous spectrum"

the two people have been talking on the phone before, and Philip Raschel has also seen comics, which is very interesting None of this is a problem.

"Paul," Murphy continued, "contact a studio suitable for green screen shooting."

One by one, he said, "Jack, women's costumes and make-up should be bright red enough, and a nude dress should be prepared. Helen, you need to design a cartoon style character background as soon as possible "

finally, Murphy looks to the back left-hand side of the conference table, which is the actress bill rosis got, a British actress who was born and grew up in the United States.

He looked at each other's long blonde hair and said, "Ruth, you need to cut your hair short if you have any objection"

for many actresses, long hair is their second life, and Murphy is not sure if the other person will cut her hair to match the image in the cartoon. If she doesn't like it, change her person.

Sienna Miller, who was sitting there, remained silent, knowing that she was not qualified to speak among these people.

Now the problem is on her head, and Sienna Miller doesn't hesitate, "I can cut my hair at any time."

Although it's only an experimental project now, if the project can be approved, her female role is likely to become an important role in the positive film.

This is a rare opportunity.

As for James Franco, who plays a male role, Murphy doesn't say anything. With his acting skills and the style of the film, it's just a small idea to deal with this kind of role.

After the communication meeting, Murphy asked Stanton studio's financial department to allocate 100000 US dollars for the experimental project temporarily. With enough money as support, the temporary production team also ran at a high speed. Philip Raschel completed the camera rental in half a day, Paul Wilson negotiated with Disney Studios for the studio, and Sienna Miller was in jackwall Accompanied by Sen, she cut off her long hair

the most important post production background. After Helena espora took out the design drawings and modified them according to Murphy's requirements, they went to the special effects studio in Venice and had a full day's communication with the special effects director.

Murphy also prepared a continuous storyboard as a reference for shooting and actors' performance.

Because of the original agreement, Frank Miller agreed to transfer the film copyright of sin city or invest in shooting by himself. In order to impress this famous stubborn guy, Murphy completed this experimental short film with the requirement of making a full-length film.After a week's preparation, all the work has been ready, and Murphy's temporary crew has also assembled in the Disney Studio. As the rental time is only one day, the shooting must be completed as soon as possible.

In the morning, Helena espora's team built a prop balcony, and set up a green screen around the balcony. The shooting will take the green screen as the background.

As soon as lunch passed, the crew entered the stage of field shooting.

There are only James Franco and Sienna Miller in the whole play. Murphy completely leaves the shooting to Philip Raschel. He sits behind the director's monitor to watch the actual effect of the shooting.

Before shooting, Murphy went to the venue to see Sienna Miller's make-up effect. As the only character with strong color in the film, the red she represents must be gorgeous enough in the black-and-white world.

Sienna Miller's hair was cut short, probably because of her makeup. Her eyes looked very deep. Further down, her retro red lips were just stained with blood, and her clothes were also blood red.

"No problem," said Sienna Miller, a little unsure.

Murphy nodded to her. "Relax, you're fine now."

After that, he turned back to the director's monitor and said in a loud voice, "start shooting in three minutes"

everyone in the temporary crew is doing the final inspection, and James Franco and Sienna Miller are also in their respective positions.

The shooting started on time. Sienna Miller was wearing a gorgeous red dress and walked towards the edge of the balcony. Filie Raschel gave a panoramic close-up from behind.

Seeing this close-up, Murphy immediately raises her right hand and yells, "stop"

Sienna Miller turns her head to Murphy's side and doesn't understand what she did wrong.

However, Murphy didn't take charge of the actors, and yelled to the makeup and costume group in charge of Jack Watson, "Jack, come here"

Jack Watson immediately trotted all the way. Murphy didn't talk nonsense and said directly, "the clothes are still not bright enough."

"This is the reddest dress I've ever seen." Jack Watson scratched his head. "I'll have someone look for it again."

Murphy looked at Sienna Miller's red dress again, shook her head and said, "in this way, I'll let the special effects studio solve the problem through the later special effects."

As soon as Jack Watson was about to leave, Murphy called out again, "Jack, red lips, change to nude."

Since the effect of clothing and make-up can't be achieved, it's better to use digital special effects. Murphy is not stubborn and doesn't know how to adapt, so he made a decision immediately.

The shooting was not very smooth. Philip Raschel made two mistakes in his photography. After all, this was different from his previous photography style. After he found his state, James Franco and Sienna Miller also made mistakes in their performances. Fortunately, they were performing against the green screen, and they didn't need to show their shocking acting skills. When the outside sun turned to the west, Murphy announced that this was only a few minutes This is the end of the minutes.

A busy week, just for this short few minutes, the preparation work of film shooting is far more time-consuming than the shooting itself, and also more energy consuming for a director.

One day's shooting is just the most basic shot material. Murphy personally sent this shot to the special effects studio in Venice and told them to finish it as soon as possible.

If you want to finish it as soon as possible, you have to pay enough. This is the simplest business rule.

After Murphy paid half of the money in advance, the studio took out two teams to make and render the shot and background at the same time.

After waiting for ten days, Murphy didn't get the finished version of the scene until mid September. He reviewed it for the first time, and the effect was basically satisfactory. The picture also conforms to the style of the original cartoon.

Then he ran to the Death Star building where AA was and found bill rossis.

"Bill, help me confirm Frank Miller's itinerary as soon as possible," Murphy said as soon as he walked into bill rosis's office. "I need to know whether he's in New York or Los Angeles."

Bill rosis nodded, picked up the phone, dialed several numbers in succession, and waited patiently for a while. About 15 minutes later, a phone call came back. He picked up a few words, wrote down a place name in the book, cut it off and looked at Murphy.

"Frank Miller has been in Los Angeles all this time," he said, looking down at his notebook. "He's on vacation and doesn't want to be disturbed."

Murphy frowned, and bill rosis said, "he's going to a party in Malibu tomorrow night, and I'll find a way to get tickets for you." It's not finished yet.