The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 528 Most Challenging Movie
"This is Zhao Xiaoning, my old classmate and the treasure of our National Film Studio."

Jiang Ruoping smiled and introduced a thin and unremarkable man.

"Teacher Zhao, I have admired your name for a long time."

"Director Chen, where is it? I have admired your name for a long time."

Chen Jingxing shook hands with this man and complimented: "With Mr. Zhao at the helm, I have more confidence in the production of this movie."

Of course, Chen Jingxing's words are not entirely polite. The old man in front of him is one of the top photographers in China. He is the earliest student of the Beijing Film and Television Department. .

Not only has he won all the five major domestic film awards including the Golden Horse and Golden Statue, but he has also won many foreign awards, which is enough to be called a master of photography.

Zhao Xiaoning acted as the photographer for the great cause great industry trilogy of the national film industry. The fifth generation director and Jiang Wen basically worked together.

However, in recent years, Zhao Xiaoning has mainly appeared as an art director, and in the crew, he has also focused on cultivating newcomers. He is more low-key and basically does not appear in public, even if it is an award show such as the Golden Rooster Awards.

So both Chen Jingxing and Zhao Xiaoning had heard of each other's famous names, but this was really the first time they had seen each other.

"[-]" was jointly produced by DreamWorks and National Film Group, and because of the special shooting method, the requirements for the production team of this project were quite strict, so National Film Group also did its best to send elite troops, even It was somewhat beyond Chen Jingxing's expectation to send out a master like Zhao Xiaoning.

Of course, DreamWorks has its own top photographers, such as Wang Chuan, the photographer who just finished filming "Interstellar" with Chen Jingxing, and has won all the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers awards - the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers awards in the past four years, including the best photography Most of the technical awards in the film went into the pockets of DreamWorks, which also allowed DreamWorks to have a top production team in China.

Moreover, Wang Chuan himself can actually be regarded as Zhao Xiaoning's apprentice. In fact, Zhao Xiaoning's apprentices and grandchildren are indeed spread across half of the movie circle.

It's just that DreamWorks' booth is also big, and there are many big productions. In addition, "[-]" is indeed a drumbeat even Chen Jingxing himself, and the challenge is too high.

It is too cheap for Guoying Guang to pay for it and only divide the bills. The talents in front of it are useless, and there are great masters in Guoying.

State-owned studios like China Film are somewhat rigid in terms of innovation and output, but this is caused by many reasons, and it does not mean that they do not have high-level talents.

For the production team of "[-]", Chen Jingxing's principle is that high-level talents are always welcome, and a luxurious creative team must be formed.

Zhao Xiaoning is also very curious about this legendary young man in front of him. The influence of this biggest waver in the domestic film and television industry in the past five years is almost omnipresent. His own students and colleagues have all told him about Chen Jingxing and DreamWorks.

His impression of Chen Jingxing had experienced several changes.

In the early days, Chen Jingxing appeared as a creative director with a relatively big brain hole, winning with brain-burning or creative stories. As for the composition, color, light and shadow of the film itself, and the lens language that academics value, it is lackluster.

Of course, this matches well with Chen Jingxing's non-academic and non-film industry background.

At that time, Zhao Xiaoning didn't care much about it.

But starting from "Source Code", Chen Jingxing's films have undergone considerable changes, and the composition, color, light and shadow, and lens language have made great progress.

Until "Gravity", those long shots and the amazing audio-visual language shocked him extremely.

Although "Gravity" can almost be said to be a CG animation movie, and the so-called long shots were not actually shot, this is exactly the reason why Zhao Xiaoning was amazed.

Because this can exclude the contribution of the photographer, the sub-shot script was designed by the director, and it is definitely the director's credit that those few classic long shots and the composition scene with a very high level of the whole story can be presented by CG special effects.

In Zhao Xiaoning's eyes, Chen Jingxing immediately became a monster.

What is the concept of a director with extremely high creative screenwriting talent and master-level lens language ability?
And the subsequent "Matrix" and "The Martian" have repeatedly proved that "Gravity" is definitely not the result of a sudden blessing by an expert.

It is difficult to accept the phenomenon of a sudden huge leap in the presentation of audio-visual language overnight. Is there a sudden enlightenment?

Usually the lens language is indeed a talent, but it is a talent that can be displayed at a young age, and it is difficult to say that it can be cultivated and trained slowly.

Therefore, many film critics and movie fans are inclined to believe that Chen Jingxing did not have talent in camera language before, but that he shot brain-burning sci-fi sketches.

Looking back at "Fatal Identity" and "Signal", the well-regulated shooting techniques have a sense of ingenuity and inefficiency.

Zhao Xiaoning became more and more curious about Chen Jingxing, so when Jiang Ruoping told him that there was a challenge to shoot a gift film, and when the director was still Chen Jingxing, he agreed without thinking.

However, the lineup in front of him still exceeded his expectations.

"Xiao Chuan... Lao Hu... Lao Ding... We haven't had this gathering for several years, right?"

"Teacher, Mr. Lin is in good health..."

The entertainment industry is small, and the film industry is even smaller.

Thanks to the efforts of DreamWorks and China Film Group, this conference room is indeed full of people who are familiar with each other.

Everyone is the top professional talent in the industry, and has won at least five awards in Chinese.

Zhao Xiaoning looked around, and after greeting old acquaintances and apprentices one by one, he was a little curious: "What kind of movie is this going to be? Director Kai Ge's "My [-]" is not so exaggerated, right?"

Under Chen Jingxing's signal, the assistant director of "[-]" presented the script in front of everyone one by one.

"[-]?"

"It's quite mysterious. I just saw the script now."

"The teacher doesn't know, DreamWorks has always kept strict confidentiality measures, and the entire filming crew of "Interstellar" is only me who has read the complete script."

In theory, "[-]" doesn't need to be too secretive. After all, unlike "Inception" or "Interstellar", even if the plot is leaked, it doesn't make much sense, and it doesn't even matter as a spoiler.

The plot itself is very simple, just like "Gravity", the story is simple, but the focus of the movie is how to express the story.

So in fact, the confidentiality measures of "[-]" are not too strict. After all, the script is not made on special paper, but it is very new to Zhao Xiaoning and other non-DreamWorks team members.

Chen Jingxing watched the crowd browse the script, and said: "The script of this movie has been under development before, and neither China Film Group nor DreamWorks has disclosed much information to the outside world, so there must be many teachers who are puzzled by such a mobilization.

After all, movies with huge investment such as "My [-]", "Beacon Fire and Cloud Mountain", "Shangganling", and "Changjin Lake" did not have such a big investment.

What I want to say is that the production cost and scale of "[-]" are not larger than "Beacon Fire Cloud Mountain" and "Changjin Lake", or even lower. This is not a super blockbuster.

I think many people who are familiar with me or not familiar with me should know that I am the kind of person who likes toss and challenges. I like new ideas and creative elements.

I haven't made a similar war-themed movie before, but for the project "[-]", my idea is to make a challenging war movie.

The reason why I invited all the talented teachers this time is that I want to combine the two elements of film aesthetics and war theme in an unprecedented combination to create a unique chemical reaction.

I want to show the effect of one shot to the end in this movie! "

There was an uproar in the meeting room.

"One shot to the end? A war movie?"

"Director Chen, are you saying that you don't want to edit?"

"It's too exaggerated."

"Director Chen, I know you are very imaginative, but this is too crazy to be enforceable."

"interesting……"

Chen Jingxing clapped his hands and suppressed everyone's shocking comments: "Note that I mean the effect of showing a one-shot to the end, not the actual one-shot shooting. This is currently unachievable."

There are very experimental movies with one shot to the end in the world, but they are usually realized in a fixed and stable scene. It is almost impossible to realize such a war movie with a large scene schedule and a large number of actors.

"The shooting method of "[-]" is based on my expectation. The time synchronization between the inside and outside of the screen will be adopted, and then the traces of editing will be erased through post-production, so that the whole film is composed of one seemingly continuous long shot.

Therefore, "[-]" is of course not a one-shot in the strict sense. It still needs to be stitched together from multiple longer-term shots, but the traces of editing between shots need to be subtly hidden. Create a smooth visual experience in one go.

I think some teachers have already seen the clues from the script. The whole script has only 23 acts, [-] scenes, and each scene is a take.

Of course, this is only the upper part of "[-]", which is a movie with two consecutive plots, and one shot is only the shooting method of the upper part. "

Zhao Xiaoning quickly turned the script to the end, a total of [-] pages, and couldn't help but uttered in shock: "Two hours?
Let me confirm again, there are only 23 scenes in total for a two-hour movie, and each scene has only one take, which means that there are only 23 shots in the whole movie? "

Chen Jingxing nodded: "That's right, this was determined after repeated scrutiny by our pre-production department, otherwise there may be flaws in the edited shot. Ideally, only 23 shots are needed. Of course, there will be various scenes in the actual shooting. Such difficulties may not be achieved, but we need to work towards this goal."

"Two hours, 23 shots, an average of 5 minutes per shot?"

Zhao Xiaoning exclaimed with both excitement and disbelief: "Is this going to be a war drama? Director Chen, your challenge is to climb Mount Everest."

(End of this chapter)