The best director ever

Chapter 312 Shooting Without Gravity

The train roared past, it came powerfully, and then left quietly, crushing the road and taking away a few lives.

After this scene, Han Qiu started filming the road chase shootout.

Compared with trains, American citizens are more familiar with gun battles.Almost every day, there are gun battles in the United States, either filming or actually killing people.

Of course, most of those who dare to blatantly shoot guns on the street are actors.

Just like the shot taken by Han Qiu at this moment.

To be honest, Han Qiu's impression of the United States is not bad. This country is not full of gun battles like in Hollywood movies.The real danger is those countries in Africa that are still in war. Even Han Qiu thinks that the United Kingdom is more dangerous than the United States.

Grandma, who the hell is there frequent terrorist attacks in this place?

After all, in Han Qiu's heart, Huaxia is the safest place, and there is no other country comparable to it.
In the evening, after finishing the day's work, Han Qiu returned to the hotel a little tired.After taking a bath, he lay down on the big bed and fell asleep not long after.

In the dream, Han Qiu took Zhou Yuxin's hand and walked on the railway tracks.

The two each stepped on a single track, relying on the pulling force from the other's hand, carefully maintaining their balance.

Han Qiu: "Yu Xin, where do you think we will go if we go on like this?"

Zhou Yuxin: "I don't know, the railroad tracks can't see the end at a glance. But..."

"But what?"

"As long as I'm with you, it doesn't matter where I go."

"Even hell?"

Zhou Yuxin: "Well, even hell."

Hearing this, Han Qiu walked to the middle of the railway track and gently pulled Zhou Yuxin into his arms.A happy smile gradually emerged on his face.

Magic City.

When it is late at night in the United States, it is still broad daylight here.

In the seaside villa, Zhou Yuxin was cooking lunch in the kitchen while Han Xia was helping.

"Sister Yuxin, when will you and my brother get married?" Han Xia asked carelessly.

Zhou Yuxin blushed slightly: "Why do you suddenly care about this?"

"I'm not worried for you."

"Your brother said it will take a while."

Han Xia made a long voice and said helplessly, "I still have to wait~~~~"

Zhou Yuxin smiled and said: "You, you, don't worry about it, your brother and I know it well."

Han Xia pouted: "Okay, okay, anyway, you are the ones getting married, not me."

"Okay, stop pouting, you can hang oil bottles. Come, help me take out the dishes."

Han Xia picked up the dishes and shouted out of the kitchen, "Ha Erxian, come out and eat some bones."

"Ow~~~~~~"

A few days later, Han Qiu finished filming the street shootout scene and transferred to another location in Los Angeles for filming.

This is an abandoned game company building, made of steel and glass, and now Han Qiu is going to temporarily remodel it to shoot an "absurd" scene.

It was morning at this moment, and in the lobby on the first floor of the game company, the staff were setting up the scene back and forth, and the cameras had been fixed in position by the crane.

In addition, many group performances in suits and leather shoes were also prepared, shuttling through the transparent corridors.

In the center of the hall, a huge circular staircase stands in the center.The ladder spirals up in a quadrangular shape, just like the DNA helical molecule, except that the DNA is curved, which is square.

The stairs are about two floors high. After spiraling up to a certain height, a fault appears, and if you go further, it is a "cliff".

Just looking at it this way, it doesn’t really feel like much, just like an unfinished staircase.

But from a specific point of view, this section of stairs has endless magic power, enough to break through the constraints of space.

In a corner of the hall, Han Qiu and Xiao Zhang were "appreciating" a display screen. The picture in it was this staircase, which was captured by a camera fixed above.

It's just that looking at the past from this angle, the fault and the starting point are connected together, making this section of the ladder more and more strange.It is clear that the stairs are getting higher and higher step by step, but the eyes follow the route of the stairs and circle around, and finally find that they have returned to the original point.

Isn't it from low to high?The ladder is also getting higher and higher step by step?
Why did Mao crawl back to the original point?
This is the so-called visual art.

Otherwise, it is impossible for the Penrose ladder, which only exists in high-dimensional space, to "appear" in three-dimensional space.

Xiao Zhang rubbed his chin, looking more and more energetic, "Director Han, how is my Penrose ladder design?"

Han Qiu nodded: "It's okay, it looks like there is a little bit of spatial confusion."

This is Han Qiu's idea to Xiao Zhang, to use visual confusion to embody the geometric paradox of Penrose stairs in the real world.

Similar to this, there are many surrealist works that cause space confusion due to visual confusion.

For example, in some 3D art museums, there are rooms that can make people "bigger and smaller".When a person walks from one corner to the other, you will be horrified to find that he has become shorter.

But actually?
A person's height certainly doesn't change that much in just a few seconds, and it's just visual confusion that causes this phenomenon.

Xiao Zhang suddenly said with emotion: "The dream is really a magical place. I used to have nightmares, dreaming that I kept climbing the stairs, but no matter how I climbed, I couldn't climb to the end. Director Han, do you think I met Peng Ross stepped up?"

Han Qiu shook his head.

Xiao Zhang was puzzled: "No? I think it fits the phenomenon of Penrose ladder."

Han Qiu raised the corners of his mouth and joked, "Who would consciously dream about the Penrose stairs? I guess, it should be that the stairs in your dream are too long. If you persist, you should climb to the end." .”

Xiao Zhang: "."

After a while, the filming officially started.

Xiao Zhang watched Natalie and Joseph talking and laughing happily on the Penrose steps, and his heart was filled with pride unconsciously.

Look, I can accomplish the feat of space disorder without special effects, isn't that awesome?
He suddenly felt that it was a very wise decision to take over Han Qiu's mission.

I am a prop master, and if Inception becomes popular in the future, my fame will be world-renowned, right?

Xiao Zhang has this confidence not only because of the Penrose ladder, but also because of other props.

For example, the "gravity-free floating" device.

After completing the shot of the Penrose staircase, the crew moved to Warner's studio to start shooting this "weightless" shot.

This scene took place in the second-level dream, because the owner of the dream was in a state of weightlessness in the first-level space, which directly caused the entire world in the second-level dream to lose gravity.

Without gravity, the person would definitely float.

However, it is 99% impossible to find a natural gravity-free site in the real world.The other 1% is artificially created.

There must be a gravity-free field in the space where astronauts are trained in the space agency, but it is impossible for people to go in and shoot there.

In addition, there are other ways to create a gravity-free field.The gravity of the earth is toward the center of the earth. As long as an opposite force is found to offset the gravity, a gravity-free scene can also be created.

For example, once a director shot an outer space movie, in order to create a gravity-free environment, he used the method of "vomiting comets".It is to let the aircraft perform multiple parabolic flights at high altitude, and each flight can create a zero-gravity state for 25 to 30 seconds.

The crew took advantage of this time to shoot one shot at a time
But this price is a bit high, the lens is not easy to control, and the time is too short to shoot long shots.

In addition, there are other things like simulating a weightless environment in water, or simply using special effects: except for a face, other parts of the body are synthesized with special effects.

But that would be too fake.

Therefore, some directors cannot create a gravity-free environment, so they can simply simulate this effect.

Isn't it just floating?

Then use a puppet device to do it.

Don't tell me, there are really directors who do this.People hired professionals from the puppet drama club, and then tied ropes to the actors' limbs, allowing the professionals to "play" the actors as puppets.

This is the most simple and rude weightless performance.

Brutally outrageous.

Anyway, Han Qiu couldn't imagine the feeling of those actors being hung in the air and their limbs being manipulated by others.

Therefore, Han Qiu would not shoot like this.

In the end, Han Qiu and Xiao Zhang made up their minds and decided to use a technique similar to a puppet device to shoot.

It's just that the rope is only tied around the waist, not the limbs, and there is no puppeteer behind the rope to control it.

Everything depends on the actor's own will to act.

It is also very simple to create a gravity-free floating effect: Generally speaking, hanging wires are hung upright.If it is said that in a hall, people want to float, then just hang a steel wire directly above it.

Just doing this, it is too difficult to express the effect of weightlessness, and actors cannot perform it.Because gravity still exists after all, if you want to overcome gravity in the vertical direction and perform the effect of no gravity in the air, few people can do it.

Therefore, if it is not possible to stand straight, then stand it vertically.

This non-gravity shot took place in a corridor and a room adjacent to the corridor, and Xiao Zhang and Han Qiu erected the corridor.

That's right, one of the two walls at both ends of the corridor has become the "bottom" and the other has become the "ceiling".Like a cuboid placed horizontally on the ground, it stood upright.

The steel wire is still hanging from the "ceiling", and the gravity is still towards the center of the earth.It's just that the camera is not shooting directly, but is shooting from the bottom up along the erected corridor.

This way, from the camera's perspective, gravity "doesn't exist" and the actors perform much more easily.

In fact, gravity is still there, and it still controls the up and down movement of the actor.But in the "eyes" of the camera, gravity controls the forward and backward movement.The gravity in the up and down direction disappears.

This is the ghost idea that Han Qiu and Xiao Zhang came up with.

(End of this chapter)