The best director ever

Chapter 275 Bullet Time
At the beginning of September, Han Qiu's crew shifted again, from Yang's Martial Arts Hall to the streets of Melbourne, and then back to the original factory.

Here, Han Qiu will complete some of the most classic special effects shots in The Matrix.

It is not so much a lens as a classic shooting technique.

In the previous life, the reason why The Matrix became a classic is also due to this shooting method.Moreover, because of this movie, it has also been crowned with a unique and angry name.

Its name: Bullet Time!

Chinese name: Bullet Time!

The name of the person, the shadow of the tree, look at the name, the shooting technique of bullet time is indeed related to the bullet.

But it’s not just a shot of a bullet blowing something up, or a slow motion shot of a bullet flying through the air.

Just pure slow motion, of course, cannot be called bullet time.

A real bullet shot involves two factors, one is time and the other is space.

Combining the two, it becomes a spatial displacement in extreme time changes or no changes, commonly known as: bullet time.

To put it simply, it is to shoot a series of spatial changes when time is limited, or when time stops altogether.

Expressed in numbers, for example, under normal conditions, it takes an athlete ten seconds to run 100 meters, and the audience's sense of time and space are normal.

Under the normal slow motion state, it took 100 seconds for the 50 meters, and the audience's sense of time was abnormal. It took 50 seconds to finish the scene that could be watched in ten seconds, and the camera was fixed. The space seemed to freeze.This is slow motion.

Under the bullet time state, the 100 meters took 50 seconds or more, and the camera was still shaking around the athlete in all directions without dead ends, as if the space was not frozen and was still in a free state when time was slowed down .

It can be said that bullet time is a slow motion in which space is not bound.

This feeling of disorganized time and space has an unparalleled charm, and the audience will have a surge of adrenaline after watching it.

In The Matrix, the classic bullet time is the scene where the protagonist hides the bullet.In this shot, time is infinitely slowed down, the speed of bullets flying and the movement of the protagonist are also infinitely slowed down, but the space around the protagonist is still in a normal and free-moving state.

In the previous life, this technology became famous because of The Matrix, and it was even given the professional term bullet time.In this life, this technique has been used by people, but no one has defined the term bullet time for him, and people only attribute it to a shooting technique in slow motion.

Now that it has appeared, Han Qiu does not want to take this technology for himself, but he wants more audiences to feel the charm of this technology.

September [-]rd, inside the factory.

At this moment, green screens have been set up around a site in the hall, which looks like a green house from a distance.

In its very center, a full 120 cameras are placed in order from low to high, forming a large arc circle.

At first glance, it looks a bit like a helix like DNA. Each camera is a deoxynucleotide, and the whole link is a deoxynucleotide chain.It's just that the arc of the chain is not as steep as that of DNA.

In front of the 120 cameras, a green plastic board was also blocked.

In the center where countless cameras are facing, Heath is wearing a black bodysuit with a black cloak on the outside, combined with the black sunglasses on his head, the whole person is like a mass of cold black mist , extremely cool.

In this shot, Heath only needs to make a very simple action.

That is similar to the leaning back of an iron bridge, but there are steel wires hanging on it, so he doesn't have to use his hands to support the ground.

On the side of the computer terminal, Andy was debugging all of this, while Yuan Meng watched quietly from the side.She undoubtedly felt very fresh about this novel, large-scale shooting technique.

Han Qiu walked over and stretched his neck to look at it. In fact, when it comes to specific details and techniques, Han Qiu doesn't quite understand, after all, he doesn't do special effects.As a director, he also proposed a rough and feasible operation plan.

Sensing Han Qiu's gaze, Andy turned his head and said with a smile, "Director Han."

"Well, how's it going? Can we start filming?"

"Almost, just test it again." Andy clapped his hands and said excitedly, "Director Han, how did you come up with this shooting method? It's so cool."

"Uh..." Han Qiu narrowed his eyes and said perfunctorily, "When I was studying at school, the teacher taught me."

"Oh, your teacher is really a genius." Andy admired sincerely, "I must visit her when I have time."

"Ahem, let's talk about it later." Han Qiu coughed dryly, but the face of the old witch kept appearing in his mind.

Beside him, Yuan Meng also looked at Han Qiu curiously, "I didn't see it, Han Qiu, you know quite a lot of tricks."

"Hehe, didn't you say that, I also learned it from others." Han Qiu smiled "modestly", and joked: "How, have you learned it?"

Yuan Meng hugged her chest and looked away angrily, "I'm too stupid to learn."

Han Qiu shrugged: "Diligence can make up for weakness, then you should learn more from Andy."

After finishing speaking, Han Qiu looked at Yuan Meng's malicious gaze, smiled sarcastically, and quickly slipped away.

After a while, Andy finished debugging, and the filming officially started.

Heath was dressed up and wired.He has also rehearsed the backward movement that is about to be performed countless times.

Right in front of Heath, behind the camera, Xiao Zhang moved a blower to stand ready, and he will use this thing to blow Heath's cloak "in high spirits".

After everything was ready, Han Qiu nodded and shouted: "action!"

In an instant, at the moment Heath fell backwards, Andy also started the bullet time shooting.

In just a few seconds, that is, within the time of blinking his eyelids a few times, Hiss quickly fell backwards, and at the same time, his hands were swinging irregularly beside him.

The 120 cameras in the surrounding circle completed the capture of their respective shots in the blink of an eye.

If the analogy of virtualization is that a ray of light flashes along the camera chain in this short period of time.

From directly in front of Hiss, it circled a large circle to the side of Hiss, in an arc of nearly 360 degrees, and every 0.1 second of Hiss' movements were clearly photographed.

This is bullet time.

"Cut!" Han Qiu waved his hand and shouted to stop.

Yuan Meng opened her mouth, "Uh, is this the end?"

Han Qiu looked at Yuan Meng speechlessly, "Yes, what else do you want?"

Yuan Meng: "."

Ignoring Yuan Meng, Han Qiu continued to shout: "Okay, let's take another shot."

In The Matrix, there is more than one scene where the bullet lens is used, including the battle between Heath and Hugo, the battle of Annie, etc., can be used.

Speaking of bullet time, this shooting technique is not only used when dodging bullets, but the scene of Heath dodging bullets is more classic.

Later, after the shooting of the bullet time shot was completed, the filming of the first part of The Matrix gradually came to an end.

Compared with the second and third parts, the plot of the first part is relatively short, and the human gathering place of Zion did not appear, so of course Han Qiu filmed it very quickly.Moreover, there are still many shots that cannot be photographed and can only be synthesized through special effects.

Therefore, near the end of September, the first part of The Matrix lasted for three months, and finally the filming was completed, and the rest was post-production and dubbing.

When Han Qiu announced the filming, many members of the crew showed happy smiles. The months in a foreign country were finally over, and they were finally able to return to their homeland.

but
After the final banquet, Han Qiu announced a cruel news.

"We also filmed for three months. I know that everyone works day and night and is very tired."

"So, I decided to give everyone a one-month vacation. After one month, we will continue to work."

Immediately, a staff member was puzzled and asked, "Director Han, isn't the filming of the film over? Besides, we are not in the special effects team, so why do we still have work?"

Han Qiu raised his brows lightly, as if he was stating a very simple fact in a casual manner. "Who said we're done? There's a second part to The Matrix."

"Part two??"

"Why did I only see the first script"

"Damn it, I never heard that the second part is being filmed before the first part is released."

"Director Han, you are playing with us."

Hearing everyone's chatter, Han Qiu was very calm, and said lightly: "How can I play with you? Didn't I give you a month's vacation? During this time, when you are resting, you can also familiarize yourself with the script."

Everyone: "."

"Well then, I'll pay for this month's expenses." Han Qiuhao said angrily, "Anyone who travels locally in Australia can go to the Finance Department for reimbursement after returning. If you want to go to other places or return to China, I will It doesn’t matter, you can only be self-sufficient.”

Seeing everyone's mood rising from the trough, Han Qiu added, "Of course, there is an upper limit to reimbursement expenses. You can't buy a villa in Australia and you have to be reimbursed by Huaxian, right?"

After hearing the last sentence, the arrogance of the crowd dimmed a bit, but everyone still applauded enthusiastically, supporting Han Qiu's proposal very much.

"Long live Director Han!"

"support!"

"I'm not going back to China, so I'm going to hang out with Director Han!"

And in everyone's heart, they all thought maliciously: Damn, how much can be reimbursed, let's see if I don't come out here to play and drink!

Don't worry about eating and drinking with public funds!
(In terms of bullet time, the more classic one in recent years is the X-Men Apocalypse. There is a scene of a school explosion in it. The scene where "Quick Silver" rushes in to save people is a typical bullet time.)
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