my crew is not human

Chapter 20 Shooting
"CUT!"

In the big villa, the crew is busy.

Following Li Xianyun's shout, the filming stopped.

Li Xianyun walked over, came to Jiang Meier and Yang Enjun, and said to Jiang Meier: "Meier, you are using too much force. Take it easy, a really strong woman does not need to be too hysterical. On the contrary, she will restrain her emotions and put all her strength in her heart..."

After all, Jiang Meier is not a professional actor, and her emotional expression is always a bit inadequate. Li Xianyun can only try her best to tell her plays.

Fortunately, when Li Xianyun revised the book, he also deliberately redid the character design according to Jiang Meier's temperament, so after repeated NG several times, Jiang Meier gradually found some feelings.

"CUT! That's fine, there's nothing wrong with this one, just keep it safe, let's make another one." Li Xianyun wrote down the scene quickly.

The so-called one guarantee means that this one can roughly pass, but for better results, take a few more, so that it can be screened when editing later.

Looking at the script at this moment, Li Xianyun opened another video, and said to the crew: "The next group will follow this."

The video shows clips from other movies.

Compared with storyboards, this method of copying other people's shots is easier for the crew to understand-after all, the storyboards are sometimes drawn sloppily and the content is not specific, so the staff may not be able to understand.

In the past, some directors liked to do this. They never did storyboarding, and every time they wanted to shoot, they would point to the edited video and shout "click this for the next set".

Li Xianyun once thought this was very unprofessional.

But when it came time to actually do it, the rookie director realized: Fuck!This is indeed much more convenient than a mirror.

It saves trouble for those who do it, and peace of mind for those who watch it.

Therefore, being able to transfer is an important magic weapon for beginners—especially the transfer of camera language and scene layout, which is completely invisible to lay audiences, and it is not even considered plagiarism in the industry.

That's a tribute! ! !

I took a few more shots that were okay, and then the ghost will appear.

Li Xianyun waved his hand: "Except for the arranged staff, all other irrelevant people left the venue."

In order to avoid being exposed, Li Xianyun tried his best not to let other people intervene, so after finishing the arrangement, most people left the house one after another. Ren Zhi wanted to come over to join in the fun, but Li Xianyun stared at him and told him to get out.

Even so, there are still quite a few people left on the scene, including photographers, pole pickers, sound engineers, and actors, etc. These must be on the scene, and Li Xianyun can't help it.

The lights dimmed, and following the director's order, Jiang Mei'er came out of the kitchen holding a knife.

Under normal circumstances, the special effect is to have someone wrapped in green cloth and even appear with a bunch of sensors, but this time the shooting is obviously different.

Just as Jiang Meier walked out, a white female ghost floated up behind her, hovering behind her.

Everyone was startled by this scene. The photographers in the two camera positions shook their hands at the same time, causing the picture to shake.

"CUT! What are you doing?" Li Xianyun dissatisfied: "Didn't I tell you before? This is a holographic projection, and everyone is making a fuss."

Both photographers were a little embarrassed, and one photographer said, "Director Li, where is your projection equipment? Why can't we see it? Who operates it?"

Li Xianyun snorted: "The equipment is hidden, it's a commercial secret. Meier, come over and take a look at the scene just now, and be mentally prepared, so as not to be surprised and then NG."

Jiang Meier ran over and saw a female ghost appearing behind her. She was not afraid, but excited: "Isn't this too real? Director, let me see it again."

Li Xianyun bared his teeth and pointed to the door: "Go over there."

Jiang Meier ran to the door, and the female ghost reappeared, Jiang Meier looked at Zhang Yan curiously, poked her finger, and a puff of smoke rose where her finger landed, she said excitedly: "It's amazing, it's really virtual. "

Zhang Yan looked at her coldly.

You actually poked me?

Believe it or not, I will physically beat you up right now?
She bared her teeth at Jiang Meier and said, "Come on, be happy!"

Li Xianyun stared: You always say this to women?

Jiang Meier became excited: "Director, she can talk, huh?"

"Uh, there are playback devices." Li Xianyun had a headache.

"But this is not a well-designed line."

"Wrong recording." Li Xianyun yelled upstairs: "What is the technical team doing, don't mess around, or the salary will be deducted."

Upon hearing that the salary was deducted, Zhang Yan shrank her neck, and said in a low voice: "Then you are not happy, you are a woman anyway."

Jiang Meier was surprised.

Li Xianyun smiled: "Someone dubbed it behind, it's a spoof."

Jiang Meier looked at Zhang Yan in surprise, and reached out to pinch Zhang Yan's face: "It's so real."

Zhang Yan shrank her neck to avoid it.

Jiang Meier was shocked: "She still hides?"

"It's all backstage operations. That's enough, Meier, let's do it again." Li Xianyun quickly stopped: "Don't mess around in the backstage, or you will really deduct wages."

Zhang Yan had no choice but to make a ferocious expression.

So what happened next was an eye-opener for them.

In an instant, they seemed to have entered the world of magic. Everything in the room seemed to be controlled by a pair of invisible hands. They could all fly, and even deformed. The tricks of the machine house fighting the female ghost.

The outrageous scene shocked all the people present. Everyone exclaimed at the advancement of modern technology, and at the same time wondered why such advanced film and television technology was not spread, and even lamented that it was used in such a bad movie.

Yes, despite the amazing special effects and cool action, the truth is that this is still a bad movie.

As a director, Li Xianyun is immature. He has become a monk halfway, but there are still too many things he doesn't understand, and even made some jokes.

This makes the film have too many problems in terms of non-special effects, whether it is lens language, scene layout, or actor performance.But on the other hand, the combination of "holographic projection technology" and "trick house magic special effects" has allowed the film to successfully achieve shots that many great directors could not complete.

For example, there is a scene where a female ghost fights a flying wine bottle. It is a long shot that lasts for more than a minute.

In addition, because of the "real shooting with special effects", Li Xianyun also used multi-angle and multi-camera shooting in all directions, 360-degree surround and other techniques-a common problem of new creators is to use everything that can be used. on, whether it fits or not.

But at least in terms of special effects, the movie is indeed greatly sublimated.

If it weren't for the fact that space transformation is really hard to talk about, Li Xianyun might really ask Xu Liangshan to teach everyone a great method of teleportation - space transformation is so awesome in reality, but in the movie it's just a scene cut, which is the least valuable.

pity!

By the way, what are you sorry about, even if it is worth money, you really dare to use this?
In short, Li Xianyun's approach makes this movie destined to be an extreme movie. Some classic shots are mixed with a lot of bad shots. It feels like a dung beetle with a bluefin tuna sashimi... What the hell is the dung beetle is still a staple food.

Because of the real scene shooting, the actual shooting progress is much faster than using traditional special effects.Jiang Meier's role in the living room was quickly settled, and the next thing was Yang Enjun facing the starving ghost Jingui.

Standing in the living room, Yang Enjun looked at Jingui, even though Li Xianyun had greeted him in advance, he was still trembling at this moment.

Li Xianyun knew what was going on, and was prepared: "Enjun, I know you had bad memories before, but what I want is your mentality. Anyone who sees ghosts will be afraid at the beginning. Fear comes from the heart, so facing such a ghost, your emotions in terms of fear will be very real. What you have to do is to try to suppress this fear, and then show your courage... This will be your last Great performance and you might even get famous and win an award!"

Hearing this, Yang Enjun's eyes lit up.

There is nothing that can move an actor more than fame, and what Li Xianyun said is right, the sense of panic in the face of the previous nightmare is very real, and there is no need to pretend at all.

This will be my best performance!
Thinking of this, Yang Enjun became excited: "Understood, director, come on!"

Full of energy.

"Very good." Li Xianyun smiled with satisfaction.

Young people are easy to fool, all they want is your energy.

After a day of shooting, the expected progress was finally completed.

Li Xianyun looked at the effect of the finished film, well, although it is still young, there are indeed many eye-catching shots.

As a novice, it is relatively easy to be satisfied, Li Xianyun said: "Very good, everyone performed well today, add chicken legs tonight."

The starving ghost opened his mouth wide and smiled, expressing his satisfaction.

(End of this chapter)