Chapter 1396

"Jesus Christ, what the hell is going on here?"

Damien stood beside him and let out his discontent and depression, only to find that Simmons and Langley completely ignored his existence and communicated with each other, which made Damien extremely depressed: he is the director, isn't he? Why is his long speech not listened to?

But gradually Damien tasted the change.

The air field between Simmons and Langley is quietly changing. It's an invisible air flow that can't be seen or touched, or even described accurately. But every pore on the surface of the skin can really feel the subtle dynamic.

Just now, Simmons was in a state of impetuous uneasiness. His whole aura was disordered and fragile, as if he might fall into collapse at any time; However, lanli was calm and quiet, and the powerful atmosphere seemed to be enough to control everything in his hand.

Now, Lan Li became flustered and fragile, and the helpless blankness flowed out slowly, as if hanging on a high-altitude rope; Simmons, on the other hand, became determined and sharp, and his shoulders and eyebrows were gradually stretching out to control the whole court.

Once up and down, together and back and forth, the unintentional confrontation between the two actors quietly completed the conversion of attack and defense, just like all the dominoes that disturbed the order were rearranged, orderly, clear-cut, row upon row, and the seamless sense of fluency was really pleasing to the eye.

"Why, what's the matter?" Damien's curiosity arises spontaneously, such a chemical reaction is really wonderful, but how to complete the conversion? In my mind, the picture just taken reappears. After analogy with the scene in front of me, a kind of wonderful impression emerges, which is difficult to express in words.

It's like

It's like the second dimension barrier has been broken, reality and illusion are completely intertwined, true and false, false and true, all of which are completely confused, and even awaken Damien's memory of high school, recalling the days and nights spent in the rehearsal room, and the cruelty and coldness of the demon teacher.

"Damien?" There was a call in his ear, which interrupted Damien's thoughts. He turned his head and saw his own business. "They are ready to shoot again."

There was a pause. "Damien, are you... OK?" At this time, Damien's whole forehead was covered with sweat. He looked as if he had just been fished out of the lake. Even his face looked very pale.

Damien, a little stunned, waved, "it's OK, I'm fine." As if to convince himself, he repeated, "yes, I'm fine." Then Damien straightened up, turned his head and looked around. "All departments and all personnel are ready. Let's do it again."

Damien hesitated when his eyes fell on Langley and Simmons again: should he ask for help? Face to face? What about the key parts? Do you want to emphasize the key points of the performance again and again? Put more pressure and motivation on the two actors?

After thinking about it, Damien finally obeyed his intuition, turned around and went back to the back of the camera, shouting to the crew, "everyone ready." After looking around for a week and making sure everyone was ready, he gave the order, "shoot!"

The shooting started again, from the beginning.

Because the difficulty of the play is not trivial, the whole mood is coherent, the ups and downs of Fletcher and Andrew's two characters are completely outlined, it can be imagined that the shooting difficulty is not unusual, Damien conceived a variety of different shooting methods, but most of the shooting techniques are too difficult——

For the rhythm and emotional state of the actors, for the cameraman's shooting and camera scheduling, as well as for the continuity and consistency of other amateur actors, all put forward extremely strict requirements.

Shoot once, no problem; Shooting twice, no problem; But switching from different angles, shooting five times and six times repeatedly, even without counting the number of mistakes in each link, every angle and shot is passed once, which is also an unimaginable test for the whole crew.

The simplest and most intuitive, Simons and Langley's slap scenes are so difficult at one time, not to mention that after changing the angle, they tossed five times and six times in a row? Moreover, according to lanli's requirements, everything is real. In order to create an effect, Simmons can't be merciful. So if lanli's cheek swells, how should they switch angles to shoot?

Damien once considered one shot to the end, using a super long lens to capture the whole scene of all living beings in the lens, and then through the scheduling of motion lens, from full coverage to focus, all the attention focuses are on lenley and Simmons; But having conceived many long lens schemes, Damien gave up the idea.

On the one hand, the technical difficulty is too high. From all living beings to individual focus, the control of scene scheduling needs to be particularly accurate. The tight atmosphere is presented by switching from surface to point. This is only Damien's second work, and his ability has not yet reached such a high level; On the other hand, even if it's really finished, the dazzling technique is higher than the shooting needs. On the contrary, it's easy to make a fuss and take away the style of the two actors.

After careful consideration, Damien adopted the multi shot shooting technique of American TV series.

In the United States, before the strong rise of Nafi mode, TV dramas were all shot while broadcasting, and scripts were also written while shooting, to ensure that they could keep pace with the social events of each week, which also made the post editing work very tense and difficult. In order to reduce the time as much as possible, the crew came up with a new way of shooting, but only suitable for the studio.

The crew set up multiple cameras in different corners of the studio, including parallel stands, overlooking stands, positive and negative stands, and so on; When shooting, actors must be familiar with the location of the camera in advance to ensure that their performance will not deviate from the focus, and then start shooting, video recording and performing at the same time.

In this way, the scenes of multiple actors and multiple stands only need to be shot once, and all the angles, roles and positions can be shot in one shot. The post production can carry out different arrangement and combination of editing according to the needs of the director, which not only saves the shooting time of repeatedly changing the lens, but also saves the time of post editing.

Of course, this is an assembly line industry, which is very lazy and rigid.

In the process of real film art creation, the camera is an extremely important link. The photographer's position and angle, the photographer's capture of light and shadow and composition, itself is a work full of inspiration. Those top photographers are very important in the industry.

If all the photos are taken in fixed position, the charm of photography will be lost.

However, it is harmless for TV series, because TV series are the art of screenwriters. What really attracts the audience is the preparation and control of the plot. The roles of photography and director are weakened and reduced as much as possible.

Now, Damien is ready to use this technique in "pop drummer". Although this is the last choice, Damien still tries to restore the spirit of artistic creation - not a fixed position, but by using two photographers walking around the camera.

To put it simply, the whole scene was filmed smoothly, without switching between different positions or angles. Instead, two photographers took part in the shooting in person. There was no shooting track or tripod, and they were completely hand-held. One photographer aimed at Simmons, and the other aimed at Langley. Through their transposition, all the tension and sparks of the whole scene were captured, At the same time, avoid the lens to capture each other.

This is undoubtedly the most difficult part.

First, there is no need to say more about the difficulty of an actor's performance.

Second, the photographer's position must be accurate and in place, not only the lens can not capture each other's figures, but also to avoid the shadow on the ground exposing their position, at the same time can not block the actor's line of sight.

Thirdly, the work of the lighting engineer is very important, and we must ensure the uniformity and stability of the lighting.

In fact, it's no less difficult to shoot like this than a long shot in the end, but Damien can give the shot more "drum" sense of rhythm through the power of post editing, just like the heart, and become the vitality of the whole film.

So, for the sake of the play, the photographer, the lighting engineer and the two leading actors have been rehearsing for the whole three nights, just like rehearsing a stage play. Under the guidance of Langley, they constantly rehearse their positions. In order to avoid the potential flaws brought by the complicated positions, they must reduce each other's positions as much as possible, Complete the most effective shooting and performance with the most accurate pace.

It's like walking in waves.

Because of this, the shooting just now is so smooth and smooth, but because of Simmons' retreat, Damien is so upset and depressed, and uses all his strength to express his depression.

Now they have to start from the beginning again, just like domino. If one link goes wrong, they have to overthrow it all and start again.

Under Damien's direction, the whole scene starts from scratch.

Fortunately, this time, both lenley and Simmons have not been affected at all, and the whole shooting is still in accordance with the established track, without any mistakes; Moreover, the mood is fuller and more in place. The mood revealed in Lan Li's eyes is quietly moving the rhythm of the whole play.

Then, at last, the play came again.

"Start counting."

"Five six seven..."

"Count to hell four! Look at me

Fletcher is like a terrible devil, pressing step by step!