My Hong Kong Island Filmmaker

Chapter 18 The Movie Starts
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"Everyone, be quiet, we will start the machine immediately, prepare the lights, cameras, props, actors enter the venue, and prepare for the scene. All units listen to my password."

Uncle Li shouted with a loudspeaker.Every time he called a unit, the relevant person in charge answered one by one.

"Aikesh-"

The camera continued to rotate as the field affairs hit the board, and the filming officially started.The crew also watched the filming quietly.

Wu Xiaozu sat behind the picker, staring closely at the actor entering the scene in front of him.

The first scene was filmed when the police found a dismembered stump and a broken foot in the Shing Mun River according to a citizen's report.The scene of the police appearing on the scene to handle the case.

Fei Cheng, Luo Dong, and Zu Liyao entered, followed by a nervous Shao Meiqi.The four played the role of the criminal who handled the case.

"Sister, pick up the broken hands and feet!"

"Why do you want me?"

"You're a newcomer in the whole group, do you want us to go? Why don't you wait for Team Leader Li to come and let him pick it up?" Fei Cheng spread out his hands, clutching his nose and staying away from the stump and broken foot not far away.These props are rented from TVB, but they are quite decent.

Wu Xiaozu sat in the chair and watched the detectives played by Luo Dong, Fei Cheng and A Yao reprimand the policewoman played by Shao Meiqi, while the head girl played by Shao Damei tiptoed and nervously went to collect the bones.

not bad.

The nervous Shao Damei's performance was quite unexpected by Wu Xiaozu, but she didn't expect her performance to be quite good.As everyone knows, this is the mood of Sister Shao at this moment.It's a true performance.

Immediately afterwards, Wu Xiaozu motioned to Qiu Litao to let the other actors in.

"Li sir."

Li Zhaoji was wearing a black suit, fierce and fierce, with a grin, more like a gangster than a bad guy.Her arms were tightly wrapped around a long-haired girl with heavy makeup and a hip-packed skirt, and she walked into the camera with a dashing Tathagata.

The ferocious, full-faced police detective is a good guy in the film, but the gentle and handsome Liang Gahui is a bad guy.

Is there a strange confrontation between the wicked and the good?
Fierce is good, but gentle is evil. The confusing distinction between good and evil is meaningful.Not to mention the connotation of human nature, such a setting itself is very interesting.

It is like Zhong Kui, who has a ferocious face but calms the injustice in the world.

On the contrary, the big villains are mostly honest and honest.Is there any dark humor?
People always like to look at the cover and preconceived, but do not read the content inside.

As for the sexy and coquettish girl next to her, the wild model who paid for it, is officially called the nightclub PR.Commonly known as "toll fort".

Li Zhaoji plays the romantic and ferocious team leader. In the film, he is responsible for logic and interpretation on the side of the poor guy. Fei Cheng is responsible for gag and humor. Adong is wearing a tight vest, acting cool and acting.A Yao is wearing black-rimmed glasses, and he is bullied.

Shao Meiqi?
Take soy sauce.

Shao Damei, who is hard at work, still doesn't know that in the eyes of the director, she has been reduced from the role of vase to the role of soy sauce.If she knew, Sister Shao might cry and faint in the toilet.

This scene is very simple, the main thing is that they found the corpse scene, and there are not many scenes.

Liu Weiqiang followed with the camera, everything was smooth.

Hollywood movies have more shoulders and portables, while Chinese movies are accustomed to using slides.When watching Chinese movies, the motion shots are very smooth, but they lack the sense of movement and are even and steady. The shots lack breathing rhythm and are very rigid and deliberate.

The Hollywood shot is different. Although it is a little shaky, the picture is more lively and more in line with the laws of motion.

The main reason is that Hollywood uses Steadicam to shoot. Before the advent of digital cameras, photographers in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland film circles who were proficient in Steadicam shooting did not have two hands.

Film-copy cameras are bulky, huge, complicated to operate, and difficult to control.Steadicam is also very difficult to operate.

Unlike later generations, the Steadicam is lightweight and easy to use. You can buy one for a few thousand dollars. You can play sports shooting by pressing the SLR, and even the old man has played with the SLR.

"stop!"

Wu Xiaozu and Qiu Litao covered the cloth and went in to look at the monitor. They called up the scene just shot and watched it carefully. After watching it, they pressed pause to watch it again.

"Take a look at the camera and the radio"

Qiu Litao nodded and walked towards the metal film camera with Wu Xiaozu.

For movie shooting, the lens of the monitor is very small, and the resolution is only a few tenths of the screen.Color accuracy is negligible, the performance and composition can only be seen vaguely, and the one with a bright white wireframe is the composition.

The image is very unclear, so it is difficult to watch with a cloth to block the light.

At this time, the director needs to look at the camera plug-in.

Liu Weiqiang held the camera, and his assistant Qian Wenqi next to him was in charge of the focus. The focus was the most important part of film shooting technology, and it was easy to soften.

The picture of the camera is clearer, and the composition is more complete. After watching it, the performance, camera, and light ratio are all fine. Wu Xiaozu asked the radio engineer again, and he was relieved.

The crew started filming the first scene, and there was no room for sloppyness, nor did he blame him for being nervous.

Liu Weiqiang's technology is very high. Although he doesn't have a Steadicam, the lens is very stable and not stubborn.And it wasn't just Liu Weiqiang who surprised Wu Xiaozu even more.After all, he has the famous endorsement of later generations.

The most amazing is the lighting engineer Zou Lin.He is young, but he controls the amount of light and the ratio of light very accurately, giving Wu Xiaozu a sense of finding a treasure.

The importance of the lighting engineer is no less than that of the camera.The lighting group belongs to the group that started the earliest work and finished the work last. Just like the camera, it takes more than an hour for each installation and arrangement.

With Liu Weiqiang and Zou Lin, two technical masters, the crew cooperated a lot more smoothly.

After filming for a while, Qian Wenqi, the assistant and film changer beside Liu Weiqiang, showed everyone the basic skills of a camera assistant - changing film.

First take out the dark bag, put the filmed cooked films into the metal film box, and seal them with tape. This process leaked a little light, and everyone was busy before.

The result is in Qian Wenqi's hands, but there is no mess at all, and the whole process does not exceed 20 seconds.Then loop the green film into the camera without wasting a foot.Swapping is like magic.

"Damn, Archie, you must teach me this skill, so handsome that I have no friends."

Fei Cheng, who had already learned some shooting common sense and was very interested in shooting, saw this scene, his eyes glowed, and he screamed again and again.

Not to mention him, even Director Wu was quite surprised by the camera assistant who was behind Liu Weiqiang. There were no weak soldiers under the strong cheeks.

This hand is very laborious, and it will not be so neat if I have never worked hard.

……

Liu Weiqiang held a camera, and the lens captured a pair of leather shoes.

Slowly pulling back from the close-up to the medium shot, a back figure appeared, and the dim yellow light above his head kept shaking.

"Crack!"

Wu Xiaozu beckoned and called Qiu Litao, Uncle Li and Liu Weiqiang over, and they got together and pointed at the picker.

"The depth of field is good, but the close-up transitioning into a medium shot is too abrupt."

"How about shooting separately?"

"The choice of long lenses here can create more atmosphere."

"Would you like to try it with a boom?"

Several people discussed for a while, and Wu Xiaozu shared his creative intentions with everyone, and exchanged their own ideas, and then started again.Film itself is an art of compromise and collaboration that requires the whole team to work together.

One day's shooting, if it follows the way of later generations, it may also shoot several sets of shots.

But what Heung Kong pays attention to is efficiency.

Not only are the actors running together in different crews, but the behind-the-scenes staff are also rushing to the stage, which requires that efficiency must be improved.

(End of this chapter)