Chapter 1871

In the past two years, more and more large-scale commercial productions have been participated in by lanli, and more and more people have been exposed to different ways and contents of performance. This time is no exception. In order to shoot the dinosaurs in the "Jurassic world", the computer special effects is undoubtedly the most important work for the whole crew. The special effects of the whole film will run through all the time, which also puts forward higher requirements for shooting methods and content presentation.

Generally speaking, there are two ways to shoot this kind of film. One is shooting in the shed, mainly with green screen, which is the case for films such as "gravity", "Avengers alliance" and so on; One is field shooting, with special effects as an auxiliary, "Star Trek", "Mad Max: the road of Fury" and so on.

Jurassic world chose the latter.

Colin trevoro still hopes to create a truly immersive viewing effect, which is also the source of the shock brought by the Jurassic Park series. Considering that the wild environment such as virgin forest is the main scene of the whole movie, compared with the urban high-rise buildings of the Avengers alliance, the computer special effects are still easy to produce more distortion effects.

In 2016, "fantasy forest" was built and manufactured with computer special effects, but the forest images in the film are faced with severe distortion problems. Jon Favreau, as a director, came up with a way to reduce the light intensity, because the background of the film is the virgin forest where torches have not yet been fully popularized, This also makes the whole movie diffuse in a very dark environment, avoiding the distortion of computer effects.

The whole story must take place in sunny Central America; At the same time, Colin also hopes that the film's tone will remain more positive, which is also the style that Universal Pictures expects, because the success of Marvel series films proves that relaxed and cheerful popcorn is still the mainstream of the market. Well, field shooting combined with computer special effects is the best way to shoot.

However, the combination of computer special effects has become another test for the crew, because the shooting site has completely entered the real primeval forest, and the difficulty of the shooting process has added more difficulties to the production of special effects in the later stage. The special effects team once again demonstrated the super wisdom of the masses and successfully arranged the shooting site

In the open space right in front of the dense jungle, they built the whole cage similar to the Colosseum, which is used as the environment for raising wild raptors. The cage is built with real materials in the background of the environment, and the staff can walk up and down freely on the top platform——

Although there are no wild animals or dinosaurs in the cage, there is no shoddy workmanship in the whole building, which ensures that the cage can also be used as a scaffold for the crew to shoot and present a more realistic effect in the camera.

Then, a three sided blue screen environment was built abruptly in the center of the cage. Because all the surrounding forests were green, the blue screen was chosen. However, some sand and grass were symbolically arranged around the blue screen environment, which reduced the workload of special effects in the process of computer matting and provided reference for special effects engineers.

"Crossing the line" just now means not to enter the blue screen range. Otherwise, there may be errors in post production matting. For example, there is only one head floating in the center of the picture, which somehow turns into a horror film shooting scene. This is a very unusual situation. These careless mistakes and errors occur, It's often impossible to prevent it - it's possible that there are few staff members in the picture, but it's more frequent for personal belongings to fall off accidentally.

The actors and crew will be exposed to such an environment to complete the shooting. The blue screen area can be used to put dinosaur special effects, while the surrounding environment can be used as a reference for the post production of special effects, so as to create more realistic and delicate visual effects in the way of interlacing virtual and real and combining true and false.

Next, the crew is going to shoot Owen training the Raptors.

At this time, in the blue screen environment, four doubles are moving their limbs. They are the actors who are going to play the role of "Velociraptor".

Some of the scenes here are also particular. The director can choose to let lanli perform completely in the air. In the later stage, all the dinosaurs will be produced through computer special effects. However, it is easy to cause the performance out of focus. Because there is no reference object, lanli can't accurately focus on the focal distance, so the performance is easy to become vain.

In the "Lord of the rings" movies, Ian McKellen, the actor of Gandalf, is just like this. Because the hobbits are very short, Gandalf has to enter the hobbits' house, which makes it impossible for the hobbits' actors to relax in the room. Finally, Ian can only speak to the air and perform.

Later, in the behind the scenes gags, Ian said, "I'm really lonely", because he may be the only person in most scenes chatting in front of the camera. That kind of performance experience is really... Hard to say.

But with the continuous update and progress of shooting technology, Colin can choose the most advanced motion capture technology to complete the shooting of Velociraptor.

In fact, the first mature application of motion capture technology was in the "Lord of the rings" series - they created the image of Gollum. In the past decade, this film shooting technology has also been developing rapidly and reached a peak through "Avatar", Later, the "rise of scarlet ball" series uses motion capture technology to shoot all the characters of apes, which is an epoch-making work.

Compared with the anthropomorphic images created by computer special effects, motion capture technology can give full play to the advantages of real actors, further complete the anthropomorphism, and make the screen images have more vivid and delicate actions, expressions, and expressions. In short, it gives those screen images more "humanity".

Of course, the fidelity of this "image" also needs a lot of financial support“ The budget cost of "Jurassic world" project has not reached the level of "Avatar", and there is no way to focus on the similar image of "rising scarlet ball", which makes Colin have to make a choice.

In the movie, the most spiritual key role, the four raptors, is also the role that has direct communication with Owen. Colin will complete the shooting through motion capture technology; And other dinosaur images are all produced by computer special effects in the later stage. Different shooting techniques, the ultimate goal is to show the best viewing effect.

Four doubles will be in charge of performing four raptors.

At this time, they have replaced the hot spot capture action clothing - in fact, a set of all black close fitting sportswear, and then pasted a lot of hot spot capture points outside the sportswear, all connected to form a line, connecting all the joints of the body, thus providing heat for the computer to capture the actor's body movements, Because each capture point is connected with a long wire, which also makes the actor hanging wires all over the body, so it's not very convenient to move.

Standing in the range of blue screen, it looks very happy; If you leave the blue screen and stay in the jungle, it's even more ridiculous.

The scene staff may not be unfamiliar with the motion capture technology, but they are very interested in the shooting technique of blurring the line between reality and illusion in the jungle. Only with the continuous progress and improvement of film production technology, can this become possible. Everyone is quite surprised - just like "gravity", which can only be realized in the studio, The five dimensional space in "interstellar crossing" is also the same, and there are still many constraints and restrictions in the field shooting.

Lanli took the initiative to greet him, waved and said, "Hey, I'm your work partner, Owen. I need to trouble you for the next period of cooperation." Not surprisingly, they will play the four Velociraptors in the whole movie, which means they have a lot of "rivals" with Langley.

"I'm Scott and I'll be in charge of Charlie."

"I'm Pete and I'll be in charge of delta."

"I'm Brad and I'll be in charge of playing Ike."

"I'm Samuel and I'll be in charge of blu."

The first four names belong to actors, and the last four names belong to raptors. Everyone has their own responsibilities. Although Raptors seem to be the same for the audience, actors need to distinguish them so that they can give more details to the characters. Among them, Blu is the leader of the four raptors, and also the one with the most drama.

Just a self introduction, Lan Li immediately understood, "so, which one is the most fierce? I mean, it's only brave but not intelligent. "

"I, I'm Delta!" Pete immediately raised his right hand, and a surprise expression appeared on his face. He looked around at the other guys. "Lanli, I mean, don't you mind? As a matter of fact, each of us has discussed and given each Raptor a different personality. We hope to distinguish a little bit, but we are not sure... "

I'm not sure if big name actors like it.

In fact, it's just like what the "king of comedy" tells us. If there are too many plays, it's very impolite to add them or even rob them. For the big name actors, they naturally do not want the rhythm of the performance to be disturbed, let alone robbed of the focus.

The four substitute actors are a little nervous, because they just play the role of Raptor. They don't even have face and name in the movie. Their relatives and friends can't see their roles in the cinema, but they hope to endow Raptor with personality in a limited range? What if it offends Langley?

"Ha, let me guess? Is ike a woman? And then Charlie's a nerd? As far as I know, blue is the youngest but the smartest? Of course, this is my own brain tonic. I think you should be able to give me more things. What's the content I need to know in advance? " Lan Li did not say much, but expressed his views with practical actions

Welcome to the world of performance.