The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 178 Artistic Talent
After DreamWorks launched the announcement of "Source Code", Chen Jingxing devoted himself to the filming of "Gravity".

Lei Jiayin also just finished filming the second part of "Xiu Chun Knife". After all, he is not the leading actor, and the scene ended early.

Lei Jiayin sat on a rather sci-fi mechanical device, and was placed in a hollow light box. The inner wall of this light box was composed of LED panels, showing pictures of space, the space station and the earth.

"To be honest, this is the first time I've experienced this shooting method, and it's too difficult." Lei Jiayin laughed awkwardly. Chen Jingxing mercilessly interrupted his performance just now.

Sitting beside him and resting, Wu Yue, who was also wearing a bulky space suit, nodded in sympathy.

Although "Gravity" is a heavy industry movie, for the two actors, the performance is much more difficult than the scenes they have filmed before.

Most of the actors in Huaguo are method school and experience school. In fact, these two schools are generally regarded as a genre. They need reference objects, anchor points, and interaction, so actors will emphasize their opponents.

However, the filming process of "Gravity" made the actors completely lose their "opponents". The opponents are not only the actors, but also the venue, and the imagination of the scene in the actor's brain.

The presence of an opponent can make the actor's performance more realistic and less embarrassing.

In this way, actors can accurately grasp their own reactions and emotions, and whether their performance range is exaggerated or not enough.

And usually an experienced actor can directly judge the effect of a scene after shooting a scene, and he can even imagine the effect of the scene.

However, Lei Jiayin and Wu Yue couldn't imagine the final effect of their performance during the filming of "Gravity", which made them lose their grasp of the scale of their performance, and often fell into embarrassment. To the point of comicality.

The shooting of "Gravity" is a completely virtual shooting. To put it more bluntly, there is no essential difference from making 3D animation.

Of course, the advantage of doing this is that Chen Jingxing can make very powerful shots as he likes, especially long shots.

There are several long shots in the original movie that are amazing, of course, this is not the credit of the photographer, and Chen Jingxing also believes that the several shots designed by Cuaron are perfect to be impeccable - although the long shots of "Gravity" are realized There is no need for the superb performance of the photographer, nor does it need to test the director's precise scheduling of the crew, but being able to design such a long shot itself reflects the director's extremely high artistic level.

So when Chen Jingxing asked Mo to make these long-shot CG previews, Xu Sheng and Xiang Xuan, the leader of the special effects animation team, who were present at the time looked at Chen Jingxing with surprise and admiration. Director, even if you switch careers to become an animation director, you will definitely achieve outstanding achievements."

Animation directors also need to draw storyboards, and even because animation is not limited by the actual shooting conditions, the expressiveness of the sub-shots can reach a higher upper limit, or even no upper limit, which in turn requires higher artistic design levels for animation directors—— Only the director's artistic aesthetic level and imagination can limit the expressiveness of a part of an animation.

The several sets of long shots and many storyboards "designed" by Chen Jingxing in "Gravity" made a senior animator like Xiang Xuan extremely surprised.

We must know that in the several films that Chen Jingxing has shot so far, the artistic level of light and shadow performance and lens is not too outstanding, and the success is entirely based on stories and narratives.

Including Xu Sheng and Xiang Xuan, many of Mo's employees have a high level of appreciation for movies, especially the animation department. After seeing Chen Jingxing's amazing artistic talent in "Gravity", these people appreciate Chen Jingxing's The evaluation quickly changed from "he is good at telling stories, not good at playing with cameras and lighting" to "he just doesn't want the lighting and cameras to overwhelm the audience".

The most exciting thing about movies like "Comet", "Fatal Identity" and "Signal" is his story and narrative. As the director, Chen Jingxing does not want the audience's attention to be drawn away from the story itself, so he adopts unpretentious shooting techniques , the so-called ingenuity seems clumsy.

But in the film "Gravity", which has an extremely simple story, Chen Jingxing began to show his artistic talent to the fullest, preparing to stun the audience with stunning shots.

After making up his mind, Xu Sheng sighed with admiration: "Director Chen, I dare not say how the box office will be when this movie comes out, but it will definitely shock the film critics."

After all, the film critics had the same opinion of Chen Jingxing as they did—good at storytelling, clumsy at light and shadow, a purely commercial director without much artistic talent.

Although virtual shooting can allow Chen Jingxing to "show his talents", it is naturally more deceitful for actors. Most of their shooting scenes are in built-up light boxes. In fact, Chen Jingxing made it easier for actors to bring in. The inner wall of the light box has been covered with LED screens, showing the images of the CG preview to help the actors perform.

It’s okay for Lei Jiayin. After all, he doesn’t have many roles and the character arc is not full. Wu Yue’s performance is more difficult. However, Chen Jingxing thinks it’s just that Chinese actors are rarely exposed to this shooting method. Wait until they get used to it. After a while, it shouldn't be a big problem.

After each shot is shot, it will be sent to the Legacy pre-production processing center built on the other side of Dapeng. After processing, it will be sent back to the headquarters in the United States for frame-by-frame rendering, and then sent to Mo for 3D conversion. .

"Gravity" is of course a 3D movie, which is also a major source of its image shock, which is no different from the use of 2D in another classic science fiction movie "Interstellar".

"Interstellar" was filmed on film. In fact, there are not many special effects in this movie. The spaceship is a model, and even the five-dimensional space is a model. Only 2D can truly reflect the texture of his shots.

And "Gravity" is fundamentally a 3D cartoon, and turning it into a 3D effect will only enhance the expressiveness of its shots.

However, "Gravity" is not shot with a 3D camera, but converted into 3D in the later stage. The reason for this is that the 3D camera cannot fit in the light box firstly - the 3D camera used for filming is beyond the imagination of many people. .

Secondly, it is a virtual shooting itself, and there is no need to use a 3D camera at all.

一部3D动画转制成3D不会出现大部分真人电影做3D转制的劣质感，或者只有字幕和子弹3D，所以陈景行有信心《地心引力》的3D效果在所有3D电影中都是数一数二的。

Most of the movies shot with 3D cameras in this plane are Hollywood comic movies, and almost all of them are shot with 3D cameras, so the 3D effect is definitely far better than other 3D movies. The degree of shock that the 3D effect brings to the audience is definitely not as good as that of "Gravity".

(End of this chapter)