Chapter 670

The night shrouded the sky of New York. As the time gradually came to the early morning, Manhattan, which used to be noisy, was much quieter. The traffic on the crowded roads was also significantly reduced. The broad streets looked a little empty. Only the street lights and neon lights on both sides of the road still lit the whole Manhattan.

It's a financial center all over the world. It's also a city that never sleeps. It's also one of the most popular locations for Hollywood movies.

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

So, after consulting with the New York City authorities, Murphy put all her shots in the late night and early morning when there were fewer people, and so did some close-up daytime scenes.

For close range scenes, it is not difficult to change the background from night to day through color matching.

Several police cars flashed red and green and roared, occupying two ends of the street respectively. Then one car after another came in, including trucks with containers, more than 10 police cars and SWAT special police cars provided by New York police.

Then, some of the staff came down from the car, a few of them took some small gifts to persuade the few pedestrians off the street, and more people began to arrange the location under the command of Murphy.

Here are some hot car chasing scenes.

Due to the full support of the New York City Government, the crew had enough time to temporarily close this section of the block for shooting. Although in the early stage, they shot a lot of relevant scenes in the studio through models and green screens, some scenes still need to be shot on the spot.

Murphy is in charge of the operation of the whole crew in an orderly way. From time to time, he will go to the actors to have a look. Here, a large number of stuntmen will be used to shoot some thrilling scenes. Safety measures must be in place.

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

In addition, several Chris Dann super motorcycles specially made by Mercedes Benz were also delivered. These vehicles are divided into two parts. In addition to the normal ones, there are also the modified ones specially used for setting up micro cameras.

Except for the first view of Chris Dann motorcycle, all the other scenes here will be shot with IMAX cameras.

Murphy first came to the film crew, and Philip Raschel was taking several assistants to debug the IMAX camera mounted on the camera car. Due to the strict control and scheduling of the scene, Murphy did not plan to shoot in person, but gave the shooting task to Philip Raschel's film team.

While the crew was still setting up the venue, Murphy and Philip Raschel exchanged a few words, and checked the IMAX camera again. The camera can be said to be the most important equipment on the set. Without a camera, you can't make a movie.

Of course, it's just as important to have a good photo director like Philip Raschel.

The director is responsible for the operation of the whole crew and the shooting of the film. The senior creative member under the director is the photography director. The director is responsible for coordinating the shooting of all groups of films, including the production team.

The most important position in the whole production team is photography director. For example, in Murphy's team, Philip Raschel not only manages the photography team, but also manages the lighting team, lighting assistant and field service, which are also under his jurisdiction.

Most of the time, Murphy will communicate with Philip Raschel before shooting or when making plans, and clearly tell his photography director what he wants the lens to look like, and then work together to select the appropriate camera, lens, filter, composition, lighting design and other aspects.

In addition, Felipe Raschel is not only the director of photography, but also the first pilot in Murphy's team, who is responsible for controlling the main camera. In different situations, the first pilot of the crew may be different. For example, Murphy sometimes goes on the stage to shoot in person, but 90% of the time, the first pilot in Hollywood is the director of photography in the crew.

A sober minded person like Murphy knows very well that one person can't complete the shooting and production of a film at all. Especially for this kind of action film with large investment and production, the key is to coordinate and give full play to the ability of the whole team.

After leaving the film crew, Murphy went to the parking place of the camera car. First, he made a circle around the police car, and then went to the van used by the magician to attack Chris Dann. He just took a look and found the wrong place.

"Marty, come here."

Calling over the person in charge of the props group, Murphy pointed to a line of letters outside the truck container and said, "are you missing something?"

After a close look, the man named MartaI said, "I'm sorry, Murphy. I'll have them painted right away."

"As soon as possible," Murphy said with a slight nod, "you still have half an hour. Don't delay the shooting."

With that, he went to the location of the director's monitor.

The props group didn't make a big mistake. They just forgot to paint a letter, but the meaning of the jargon on the outside of the truck container completely changed.This sentence is“ Laughter.is.the . best.medicine ”Laughter is the best medicine, but this sentence does not meet the needs here, and the magician can not agree with this view.

So, in the original design, in the front of this sentence, Murphy added a striking red "s" like blood, that is“ Slaughter.is.the . best.medicine ”Slaughter is the best medicine.

According to Murphy's request, "s" was painted on the side door of the container, where the magician would appear to shoot during the shooting.

After the preparation, the shooting soon began. Although the speed of the vehicle is not fast, it is more to use the motion of the camera to create the illusion of high-speed driving of the vehicle. The shooting is still divided into countless pieces. Except that James Franco's magician is fixed on the truck container with a safety belt, the rest are mostly stuntmen.

In particular, Chris Dann, who chased all the way on his motorcycle, didn't show his face here. Murphy didn't even think about letting Henry Carville play.

And in his plan, on the movie's alphabetic cast, the names of the three stuntmen will be behind the dark walker, because 90% of the masked scenes are done by them.

Henry Cavell's name will only be put after Chris Dane.

Police cars, SWAT special police cars, bulletproof prison cars carrying prisoners, police cars, police cars, in addition to a helicopter in the air, appeared one after another. During the shooting, the scenes of explosion and rollover also appeared.

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

Such a big scene is a test for any director except Michael Bay.

Frankly speaking, it's the first time for Murphy to shoot such a hot car chase and big scene.

In the past, there were many big scenes in his films, such as "body of steel" and "city of chaos", but the big scenes in these films were not shot on the spot, but generated based on computer CG technology, in which the ratio of real shooting and CGI production often reached 2:8, or even more.

This time, it's different. The big scenes are basically from real shooting, and then modified by CG technology. The proportion between the two is just the opposite.

For example, in action blockbusters such as "city of darkness", it is inevitable that car chasing plays are inevitable. As planned by Murphy, it can catch the tension of the audience, which is dangerous, but it can also make the audience have a strange pleasure. The roaring sound of car engines and the sweaty palms are exactly the tension and excitement brought by car chasing plays Shadow experience.

As the first director to shoot such a hot scene, Murphy's first principle on the set is always safety!

Because safety can ensure the safety of the cast, the photographer, the car, the equipment and the surrounding area, avoid all kinds of annoying trade union organizations, make the crew shoot smoothly, and let Murphy play freely.

Shooting car chasing drama requires the director to have a strict control, good rehearsal and creative mind, so as to arrange an exciting car drama.

Every extreme problem encountered in shooting, whether the overall shooting is a problem of detail, can be traced back to the imperfection of the pre script and production level. Considering this, the complexity of shooting car drama can be imagined, so a strict, detailed script that has been formed in the mind is even a very important problem.

In this respect, Murphy has a perfect plan. He has never been the kind of fool who thinks that if he plays any script and doesn't even make a plan, he can eat all the movies.

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

To really control the whole scene set, he needs to clearly define and lay out the whole environment, including all the areas that the camera will see when it moves, and the "buffer" space around which to protect the actors and crew from any accidents, car accidents, and actions.

Just as Murphy never let Henry Carville drive that complicated super motorcycle, the protagonists in the car chasing drama use super skilled people, and the realistic basis is to select professionals, including car stunters, and use professional car drivers!

Unless the car scene is a fixed car on the green screen, professionals must be invited to perform complex car driving.

Because it can only be shot at night, the action drama here has been shot for a full week, and also attracted the attention of a large number of media reporters.