Huayu, my wife, I support myself

The news of conferring the gods came one after another,
The first is "King Zhou" by Wu Dao.

Followed by Guo Dao's "Emperor of Heaven",
After that is "Jiang Ziya" by Chen Hui.

Now there is "Shen Gongbao" directed by Chen.

Being a fan of Fengshen really couldn't be happier, and everyone will find that,
The characters who are adapted into movies are basically the first batch of characters,

Belonging to the first few characters who appeared after the opening of the Conferred God Universe,

this means,
Lu Chen is seriously planning to seal the gods.

The industry had to admire Lu Chen's courage again.

and long-term vision.

However, Lu Chen obviously has no time to entangle with others on such issues. In the following days,

While supervising the preparation of "Shen Gongbao",

While sitting on the set and doing filming work for "Joker", one shot at a time,

Completed under his orders one by one.

The completed shots also exude the charm of blood and passion,

photographed rising,

He will even play some BGM in his mind,

Then let the music department come over,
See if the other party can make a song that meets your requirements.

The scene filmed today was a little difficult.

A prop is needed,
That is television.

Television is an important prop in the film,
Also appears many times in "Joker".

such as.

The film begins with the background sound of a TV show playing in the background before the picture appears, and it continues to accompany the next few shots.

The film explains the social background of the movie "Joker" in the form of news reports-the garbage piles up in the city, and the situation is very serious.

The first shot of the film is a push shot.

The picture itself has a sense of perspective.

Objects on both sides are inclined towards the middle, which acts as a visual guideline.

The audience's eyes are directly focused on the clown who is putting on makeup in the middle.

The camera gradually advances towards the clown from the side and back of the clown.

From the very beginning, the camera is not facing the back of the clown, but the side and rear of the clown.

So that we can look through the mirror and see the face of the clown on the mirror.

The camera slowly advances towards the clown from behind the side of the clown.

In the second half,
The camera pans slightly to the left so that the clown and the mirror are always close to the center of the picture, that is, the clown and the mirror are always at the visual center of the picture.

The medium and close shot of the first shot needs to jump directly to the close-up to show the clown's makeup action, while also showing the clown's demeanor and reflecting the clown's inner emotions.

As for the second shot.

That is to say, the first close-up shot is first directed at the actor's hand, because in the first shot of the film we can see that the clown's right hand is drawing red lips with a pen.

So the connection between the first shot and the second shot is a regular cut.

But the second shot doesn't end with the hands and lips on the lips for a few seconds. Instead, the camera pans to the actor's face showing a clown look.

At this time, the shot changes from a neutral shot without emotional expression to a shot with emotional expression.

There are three main light sources in the first scene of the movie.

They are the natural light from the window, the light from the roof and the light from the dressing table.

The light outside the window can be said to be the main light source of the first shot. This kind of light in movie shots is generally artificially lit to simulate natural light.

But the lighting here in this movie should be mainly natural light,
This scene is completely shot in real scene, and the building outside the window really exists.

This is the difficult part of this lens.

The first shot of the movie shows the clown from behind.

The second shot captures the clown’s face from the side and behind.
The third shot is a depiction of the clown's hand.

The fourth shot is shooting the face of the clown from the side,
The fifth shot shows the clown's front face on the mirror,

The sixth shot shows the front of the clown.

That is,

The film does not show the clown's facial expression right from the start, but reveals the clown's face bit by bit from behind.

create a sense of mystery,

Gradually lead the audience into the clown's emotions and into the rhythm of the movie.

In the six shots of the first scene of the film,
Only the second and third shots contain any depiction of the Joker's hands.

That is, the specific description of makeup,
The other four shots and the second half of the second shot focus on the Joker's emotions.

Lu Chen also wanted to start from the beginning of the film,
Just bring the audience into it.

And these shots are the killer feature to bring the audience into it.

The light outside the window can be said to be the main light source of the first shot.

But the main light source for the next five shots seems to be the light from the dressing table.

The camera slowly moves from the clown's rear to the clown's front.

The light on the clown's face that we can see also gradually changes from backlight to front light.

The film's fifth shot uses the technique of shifting focus.

This shoulder-to-shoulder shot captures the clown in the mirror. The focus of the lens shifts from the clown's shoulders to the mirror, making the clown in the mirror change from blurry to clear, showing a progressive reveal of the clown's face. .

In the six shots of the first scene, apart from the obvious movement in the first shot, there are slight shakes in the next few shots.

It should be used to express the clown's restless heart.

In the sixth shot, the tears in the clown's eyes are left with the color of the makeup, further showing the clown's forced smile, inner annoyance and pain, and at the same time visually matching the clown's action of breaking his mouth with his hands to form a better visual effect. Perception.

However, the teardrops were not intentionally designed by the director.

Instead, there was a shot that happened to fall with the paint mixed in during the shoot.

The production staff felt that this lens was good, so they finally chose this lens.

This is the difficult part of this movie.

Although the scale is not very large.

But some details really need to be enhanced, otherwise, it is really difficult to shoot that effect.

While the picture is stable, the tension must also be sufficient!

Simply put.

Many scenes in the movie need to be carefully designed.

For example, the scene of the telephone booth and the stairs,
But at the same time,
There are many wonderful shots that were not designed in advance, but improvised by the actors, such as the scene where the protagonist gets into the refrigerator.

Lawrence, the original director, recalled the situation when filming this clip,

When Phoenix slowly opened the refrigerator and took out all the contents, the staff present were full of question marks. Lawrence said: "I remember thinking, 'What is he doing? He wants to climb into the refrigerator. ?'

It was really fun to see the whole process on set, and it was weird at the same time, and it was a one-shot. "

Other than that,

Although there are one or two relatively important dance scenes in the script, the lead actor admitted that he improvised several dance scenes in the film.
For example, the part about dancing at home.

Because he thinks Arthur is a person who uses dancing to express emotions and release stress, and he likes the dance elements in the film.

Excellent actors will extend their own understanding of improvisational performances based on a deep understanding of the role, while excellent directors can judge which improvisations will enhance performance.

There are not a few examples in film history that use excellent impromptu performances to add charm to characters and enhance the style of films.

The same character "Joker",
The clip of Heath Ledger clapping impromptuly in prison in "The Dark Knight" is often talked about by movie fans. This is the actor's understanding that extends the charm of the character.

For a movie,
It can be described as "rare" to have such a global influence and such a positive word-of-mouth feedback.

In the past two years, only Marvel's "Avengers 4" has caused such widespread and strong global reactions.

It is also a superhero film, but the difference is that "Joker" became the world's first superhero comic film to win the Venice Golden Lion Award.

The style and subject matter of "Joker" are also destined to be completely different in the "Super British" category, which is both an advantage and a disadvantage:

The advantage lies in the depth of expression and the upper limit of word-of-mouth,
This kind of theme can make the creators ignore the commercial elements,

He thoroughly and skillfully integrated all the topic elements he wanted to discuss into the movie,

When a movie performs well, there is also a huge space for theme analysis, and word-of-mouth based on visibility and depth can also be pulled up.

The disadvantage is that the serious and depressing film style does have a certain threshold for moviegoers, and the graded sensitive themes and pictures prevent some countries and regions from being released.

In addition, "Joker" wants to succeed,
Music is also very important,
And here Lu Chen has to admit,

In terms of music attainments in this area, the West is indeed more powerful. Many songs are copyrighted by foreign countries. As for domestic scenes, there are also some scenes that require domestic soundtracks.
But in movies like this, foreigners are almost always hired.

Fortunately, Jiaxing Media has a soundtrack engineer who is good at foreign music, and he can choose a variety of background music that meets Lu Chen's requirements.

This is quite interesting.

Lu Chen didn't think it was too early to consider the background music of "Joker".

This is the rhythm he prefers.

In the process of shooting, the background music that needs to be used should be considered, and it will not be so hard when the post-production is performed later.

and.

In Lu Chen's opinion, it is more comprehensive at this time.
The head is hot.

Wait until it cools down.

It will be difficult to think of satisfactory background music.

In a blink of an eye, two months have passed.

"Emperor", which has been in preparation for a long time, has finally been launched.

On Lu Chen's side,

"Joker" has also entered the final stage.

As for Chen Sicheng’s editing,
It's basically finished, but there's still music and so on.
Don't worry about these things for now.

It's not the director's business, we have to wait for the soundtrack engineer's news,
Simply put,
Chen Sicheng has time.

At this time, the crew of "Shen Gongbao" also began to prepare.

Every director has a style!

Chen Sicheng also has style,

His style is quite obvious,

In contrast.

On the contrary, Lu Chen's style is not so obvious.

Only those who really understand movies know this. Lu Chen's greatest strength is his sense of rhythm.

a movie,
The same plot is told in different lengths and shown in different shots, which will bring different feelings to the audience.
And what Lu Chen shows always makes the audience feel very comfortable and has a feeling that is very in line with their hearts——

This thing is called rhythm.

The rhythm of the camera and the rhythm of editing are all present, especially in commercial films, which pursue this kind of vision. Lu Chen is known as the director who is best at making commercial films in the world.

Relying on the unparalleled sense of rhythm,
He knew what shot to take at what time.

This is why Chen Sicheng is the most stupid to ask Lu Chen to help him edit.

"Tang Detective 3" lacks such a sense of rhythm.

It’s not that the version he edited doesn’t have a sense of rhythm, but it’s just not enough!

The sense of rhythm is not enough.

But no way.

This is already his full strength.

Although it is not as sharp as Lu Chen's editing, the exciting shots are quickly switched, and the various shots are gorgeous.
In this regard,
He thought he was inferior to Lu Chen.

Say without hesitation.

Lu Chen has grasped the essence of commercial films, and each of his works can be just right.

People can't help but be dumbfounded.

Thinking of this, Chen Sicheng still made a request to Lu Chen with some reluctance.

"You have to come and look at it for me."

Regarding Chen Sicheng's request, Lu Chen thought for a while,
Finally nodded.

He knows what Chen Sicheng wants!
He doesn't mind giving the other person some pointers either.

soon.

Lu Chen took the time to take a look.

Then he gave Chen Sicheng several opinions.

"Are you the devil?"

Chen Sicheng felt a little unbelievable.

He obviously made this movie by himself, but the feeling Lu Chen gave him made him feel that Lu Chen was the one who knew the movie best.

In Lu Chen's opinion.

There are three most obvious shortcomings of Tang Detective 3.

First reasoning is too weak:
This is what many fans expect from this movie,

In particular, he chose the country where he had a good life as a child.

I thought there would be a wonderful reasoning in the original case, but it turned out to be really weak,
This style is not this style,
The social school is not deep enough, so the reasoning part is not up or down.

Although the setting of q is round,
But the surprise is not enough,

It's really a pity that the overall skills of various detectives have not been shown.

The second is the fragmentation of the overall plot: the so-called sense of rhythm, this movie gives people a feeling of weird connection, lacking that thrilling feeling, and the overall feeling is a bit messy.

In the end, it is impossible to set up: Sinuo in the first part and Song Yi in the second part both have very exciting points,

There is nothing particularly impressive about this one.

Other detectives are like tool people,
Without proper development of skills,
For example, Lin Hei Quan in the web drama actually just became a driver. The expectations he had for other detectives in the past were not linked at all. It would be more exciting if he used his own skills to help the protagonist.

therefore,

After Lu Chen pointed out these problems.

Chen Sicheng was instantly stunned.

Is it that great?

Is the gap between me and this guy so big?
Lu Chen smiled and said, "I pointed out the problem to you, you can correct it yourself."

Chen Sicheng nodded repeatedly,

Subsequently.

After he revised it again according to what Lu Chen said.

The result still surprised him.

The development of the plot is indeed in line with his original intention.

After Lu Chen read it again,

nodded.

"The sense of rhythm is almost the same as that of your first two films. Long shots, close shots, fast switching, gorgeous close-ups, creating an atmosphere, and finally detonating it, it is very hot. If the editing is completed so quickly, the film may be released in a few months. "

"I think so too."

Lu Chen said: "If it can catch up with the Spring Festival period, it should have a good box office. Of course, if you choose this period, the competition will be greater."

"I will think about it."

Chen Sicheng smiled, (End of chapter)