Chapter 665

After adjusting the camera, the rest of the crew was ready. Murphy immediately announced the start of shooting. As before, he continued to operate an IMAX camera himself, but this time it was no longer a panoramic shot, but a close-up shot of Henry Carville.

As in other films before, close-up shots are often used to create characters.

This is the crucial moment before the final confrontation between Chris Dann and the magician. Murphy will definitely give Henry Carville enough close-up shots.

Although not a professional photographer, as a director for many years, Murphy also has unique experience in photography, especially for this kind of important close-up shot. After several important assistants of Philip Raschel changed jobs, the newly recruited photographers don't talk about their ability, just their style needs a period of time to adapt, so they control an IMAX camera in Philip Raschel Apart from the camera, if there is an extremely important part in the play, he will go on the stage in person to hold the mirror.

IMAX cameras are more difficult to operate than ordinary cameras, but Murphy knows very well that to be an excellent photographer, you need to observe first and understand the light, not the camera itself. The operation of the camera is not particularly difficult. It's easy to do a standard operation, but it's difficult to do a non-standard operation.

Just like directors, most photographers have their own styles and preferences. For example, some people like black and white, like to look for things in black and white, and also like the changes in the depth of color. These things can be different every day. Other people may like other things. The most important thing is to present their own image style after deep feeling.

That's why Murphy went on stage to shoot.

Close up is one of the basic shots in film shooting. Close up is always a shot to show the details. Different close-up shots also have specific meanings and can play a different role.

The shooting started soon. According to the shooting plan, Murphy took the lead in giving Henry Carvel a standard close-up. Because Henry Carvel was wearing a mask, the focus of the close-up was not his eyes, but his mouth.

Murphy skillfully manipulated the camera to fill the lens with Henry Carvel's face, but instead of putting Henry Carvel in the middle of the picture, he composed the picture according to the golden three-point method.

After shooting the picture he wanted, he moved the lens slightly to put Henry Carville's face in the center of the picture. When the lens was shown on the screen, the actor Chris Dann was looking directly at the audience.

Through this shot, Murphy wants to present a calm and calm hero in a tense situation, which is also the best use of close-up shot.

Murphy continues to adjust the lens to make Henry Carvel's vision slightly deviate from the lens, but the image on the black Kevlar helmet forms a perspective composition with Chris Dann as the focus. He uses this close-up lens to make Chris Dann's search for the magician and the conversation with Sheriff Lynch more exciting.

Although he is shooting close-up shots, Murphy does not stay the same. Instead, he uses different shooting methods according to different periods of time. He slightly widens the lens and further expands the range of view, from the top of Henry Carville's shoulder to the top of his head, which is the widest close-up shot he will use.

Then Murphy pushes in again, and the picture becomes a standard close-up again.

In the post editing, these medium shot close-up shots will serve as a bridge from wide shot to standard close-up, which can make the tension in the play suffocating.

Here, Murphy learns from George Lucas' shooting technique in Star Wars: the phantom threat. Although Star Wars fans are very disappointed with the prequel series, they have a common understanding that Darth Moore is definitely a tough character. One of the best shots in the film is the close-up of Darth Moore with a little push closer movement in the ending of the big fight, Darth Moore and Obi- As soon as the lightsaber duel between Wang and qui gon Kim is over, this shot is cut immediately. The composition makes Darth Moore's ruling power more attractive.

In addition, when Murphy made the shooting plan here, he also watched Stanley Kubrick's "flash". In the film, Jack cuts the door open and pokes his head in. The close-up catches his evil peeping look. At this time, he says one of the most famous lines in film history: "Johnny is here!".

It's perfect to cut into the scene from this lens, because it draws the audience into the movie space and creates a sense of horror into the voice.

Then, Murphy changed the lens again, and the shooting picture became a typical big close-up. The big close-up mainly switched between Henry Carvel's mouth and firm eyes, but most of the time, the shooting object of the big close-up was Henry Carvel's firm eyes.

In the post editing, this kind of close-up shot is used in the shot switching with Christopher waltz, which can easily establish the echo between the characters and effectively enhance the tension of the drama.

In front of the camera, Henry Carvel ends Christopher Waltz's conversation, turns around and walks out. Murphy adjusts the camera lens in time, follows the camera in close-up mode, and uses the character's movement to create a telepresence effect.Murphy uses a very wide-angle lens to reduce the range of the standard close-up, but at the same time, he combines the wide-angle and close-up to convey more visual information.

In fact, it all depends on using the right visual language to help narrative at the right point.

When Henry Carville walked out of the set, Murphy finished shooting, stood up from behind the camera and said, "OK! This one has passed! "

Then he said to Henry Cavell and Christopher waltz, "Henry, Chris, you've done very well!"

As in the past, when Murphy was shooting, he encouraged the actors more than scolded them.

Murphy looked at the time and said, "that's all for today's shooting!"

He left the follow-up work to the deputy director Michelle Williams, and accompanied by the press and public relations personnel of 20th Century Fox and IMAX, he went into the temporary news hall outside the set.

According to the plan made last week, Murphy will be interviewed jointly by the media in order to cooperate with the promotion of the film.

In addition to "virus marketing", fox did not relax its conventional propaganda methods in the 20th century. Dark city is still the Hollywood film that uses IMAX most. IMAX company is also using appropriate resources to promote the film.

The topic of this joint interview is mainly about IMAX technology.

"Director Stanton..."

At the beginning of the interview, probably inspired by IMAX company, a reporter wearing gold glasses couldn't wait to ask, "you've used IMAX cameras in your projects several times. Do you like this technology very much?"

"I especially like to shoot with IMAX camera."

facing the reporter's recording pen, Murphy recited the answer he had prepared before without hesitation, "because it can enlarge the picture and play to the extreme scale. In the last "city of chaos" and other films, I have already appreciated its extraordinary skills. Through continuous learning and research, our technology is becoming more and more mature, and the exposure index and other aspects can better serve the film. With the continuous updating of technology, our shooting standard has been improved

Nowadays, IMAX cameras are widely used in a film, which is one of the selling points. These words are also for publicity.

"Murphy..." Another middle-aged reporter then asked, "can IMAX technology effectively improve the audience's viewing experience?"

"Yes! There is no doubt about that! "

After confirming this argument, Murphy explained in detail, "from the perspective of picture and sound quality, IMAX technology provides an immersive viewing experience, because the format and clarity of the picture present a broad and immersive feeling in front of human eyes. Combined with high fidelity surround sound, it is difficult for people not to forget their feelings. We spent three months working with Sony electronics and IMAX to reorganize the viewfinder on the camera and improve the lens, so that we can take extremely good pictures even in the dim environment of the machine. All these improvements have achieved many details that we couldn't do in our previous two films. "

However, during the shooting, the bulky phantom.65.imax camera brought a lot of trouble to Philip Raschel and his photography team. It's enough just to set up these big guys on the camera car and lift for shooting. The crew had to cut and weld them on the lift again in order to place these bulky guys more firmly.

When shooting the ground play in the studio, because the camera car could not enter, the crew placed the thick aluminum plate on the micro mobile track, thus building a horizontal working platform for phantom.65.imax camera.

In all the scenes taken with IMAX cameras, Murphy requires dual camera shooting. Among the three technicians assigned by IMAX company, at least two must be on the set to assist Philip Raschel's photography team in dealing with some difficult shooting operations, and carry out temporary repair work, so as to ensure the smooth progress of the crew's work.

In general, there is no difference between phantom.65.imax camera and other cameras in terms of loading, moving and operability. However, many accidents will occur during film changing, which will lead to card failure. If the card phenomenon is too serious, this phantom.65.imax camera can only temporarily leave work and drag it to the workshop of IMAX branch in Los Angeles to do it Professional disassembly and maintenance.

To some extent, these bulky big guys are more delicate than ordinary cameras, and the number of IMAX cameras in the world is extremely limited. If two phantom.65.imax cameras fail, Murphy will either stop shooting or switch to ordinary film cameras.

In Murphy's hands, phantom.65.imax camera is mainly used to shoot motion, panorama and impact shots, while other ordinary shots are mainly taken by ordinary digital cameras.Even up to now, the cost of IMAX cameras is still high. It is not convenient to use IMAX cameras in the whole process, but also too luxurious.

With this interview published in the newspaper, 20th Century Fox also promoted another virus marketing plan.