Director: The special effects are too expensive, so I had to make real shots

Chapter 136 The birth of a muscular man!

In the northeast of Yuzhou City, there is a small town with the architectural style of the Republic of China.

This small town is a film and television shooting base in Yuzhou City. Many movies related to the period of the Republic of China will be filmed in this small town, and it is also a tourist town.

The background of Xu Nuo's new movie "Dragon Squad" was during World War II. Therefore, in terms of architecture, it is perfect to choose this film and television base town with the architectural style of the Republic of China.

Of course, this is just one of the locations where "Dragon Squad" was filmed.

One of the scenes in the hero injection experiment using super soldier serum today was filmed here.

Because the entrance of the experiment site is a very ordinary tailor shop, the female agent brings the male protagonist here and enters the secret super soldier serum laboratory.

However, since the town can only provide one tailoring shop shooting scene, to shoot the scene plot of the underground super soldier serum laboratory base, you need to go to another filming set.

The filming set was based on an air-raid shelter in Yuzhou City. It took the crew of "Dragon Squad" a long time to complete the arrangement of the air-raid shelter. Among them, the city hall of Yuzhou City The building also provided some procedural assistance.

Today, Xu Nuo was in the small town first, and filmed the scene where the female agent brought the male protagonist to the tailor shop.

"Sun Xi, you will take Xiong Li's stuntman and drive over from that street over there in a car later."

Xu Nuo was on the scene carefully guiding the actors' roles and how to shoot.

The Sun Xi that Xu Nuo mentioned was the actor that his assistant Wen Ruohan recommended to him last time, and he was also a graduate of a film and television school signed by his real media company.

With a background in majors, his understanding of acting is also very professional.

After Xu Nuo communicated with her, she felt that Sun Xi was a very malleable actress, and she played the role of Agent Carter in the original Marvel movie, one of the founders of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Xu Nuo thinks that Sun Xi's face looks a bit like Carter in the original "Captain America", which is one of the reasons why Xu Nuo chose her to play the role of Dragon Team Lover.

"Yeah, good Director Xu."

In the period before the filming started, Sun Xi had already memorized her roles and lines thoroughly, which is the most basic skill for a professional actor.

She was naturally very happy to be selected by director Xu to shoot his new movie, which is something that countless actors dream of.

Because director Xu's films represent quality, reputation and box office.

Being able to become an actor selected by director Xu will have a huge bonus in the film and television industry in the future. For this, Sun Xi can refer to actresses Cheng Zhixin and Zhou Youqing who have starred in director Xu's films before.

Although Cheng Zhixin is no longer the heroine of Director Xu's follow-up films, since she participated in Director Xu's first word-of-mouth work "Terminator", she has been very popular in the film and television circle From the beginning, at least there is no shortage of filming resources.

In Zhou Youqing's words, "Transformers" made her a famous actress, but Sun Xi didn't know why she didn't act in any subsequent film and television dramas.

Gossip rumors say that Zhou Youqing's acting is just a pure hobby, and she doesn't intend to join the film and television industry. I have to say that this is the envy of countless people. She just wanted to act casually, but was rejected by Director Xu's "Transformation" The crew of "King Kong" was selected as the heroine.

What a happy thing this is!

Director Xu's new work "Dragon Squad", which Sun Xi starred in this time, also plays the heroine.

She has only one idea, and that is to firmly seize this opportunity. After all, as long as she can successfully act in Director Xu's new movie, then she will definitely have a steady stream of resources in the domestic film and television circle in the future.

However, Sun Xi still doesn't know how important the role she plays is. She will affect the life of the superhero Dragon Team, and she is also one of the founders of the S.H.I.E.L.D. organization.

Xu Nuo may also create an agent web drama for her in the future. The target is "Agent Carter", which tells the story of this character building SHIELD with Iron Man's father and others after the movie "Dragon Squad". Of course, this name will definitely not be used at that time.

One is to improve the story line of the movie universe that I want to create, and the other is to enrich the movie library of the AI ​​entertainment platform after the movie universe is established and her web drama is released.

After all, Real Media’s AI entertainment platform currently lacks film sources. Except for some high-quality film and television dramas Xu Nuo will let the company buy webcast copyrights, Real Media itself must continue to create high-quality film and television dramas. .

Otherwise, if the resources on the AI ​​entertainment platform cannot continue to increase, then the user experience will decline, and it will be difficult to attract new users.

After about 10 minutes.

Everything is ready for the shooting location.

Xu Nuo came to the surveillance screen.

Suddenly, there was a feeling that it had been a long time since I sat in front of the monitor screen and watched the camera footage.

Because the last time when "Iron Man" was filmed, Xu Nuo had to act by himself most of the time, and this job was handed over to He Feiyang. At most, he would come to the monitor screen to see the effect after shooting .

At this time, actors Sun Xi and Xiong Li's stuntmen also came to that car.

This is a car with a very Chinese style.

When the crew prepared this car, they also carried out a lot of research, which fully conformed to the car style of that period.

Considering that this type of car is different from modern cars, Xu Nuo did not let the agent played by Sun Xi drive, but had a special driver.

Moreover, the female agent played by Sun Xi is also very professional. Otherwise, it would be impossible to get access to the highest level of confidentiality projects such as super soldier serum, so it is reasonable to have a driver.

If Xu Nuo remembered correctly.

In the original "Captain America", when Agent Carter took the US team to conduct super soldier serum experiments, there was also a driver driving.

"Come on, take your seats."

Seeing that Sun Xi and the others had gotten into the car, Xu Nuo was ready to start filming.

At this time, there is also a cameraman and a camera seat on the co-pilot seat of the car, mainly filming the conversation between the female agent played by Sun Xi and the dragon team played by Xiong Li when they are in the car.

It was the city of Yuzhou that the two were talking about.

At that time, Yuzhou City was already the hometown of the captain of the transportation team, and the male protagonist played by Xiong Li and the female agent played by Sun Xi were both Yuzhou in the setting of "Dragon Team" adapted by Xu Nuo. A native of the state city.

The reason why this super soldier serum experiment was conducted in Yuzhou City in China is that Xu Nuo also made some reasonable adaptations in "Dragon Squad".

Although it is still set in the overall movie universe that the super soldier serum was developed by the German scientist Erkins, the experiments of soldiers from various countries of the Allied Army failed. In the end, Dr. The captain of the transportation team found the hero, a soldier who might succeed.

At this time, because Iron Man's father was also one of the main scientists in this super soldier serum experiment, he advocated that the experiment should be carried out in China.

The purpose is naturally that if it is successful, then the country can rely on the Dragon Team to fight against the Neon Little Days.

If the experiment is carried out on the side of the United States, it may be taken away and used by the United States after it is successful!
"Director Xu, everything is ready."

"Start shooting!"

Xu Nuo issued an instruction to start filming through the walkie-talkie.

On Sun Xi's side, the car, driven by the driver, crossed the street and drove towards the superficial tailor shop where the secret experimental base was located.

At this time, the outside camera position is responsible for taking the shots of the car driving.

The ensemble performers on the street also entered a state of natural performance after receiving Director Xu's command to start filming.

The two actors in the car and the driver actor had only Sun Xi's own lines, and the thin Xiong Li sitting beside him was also playing against Sun Xi. The two were talking about the city of Yuzhou. Shancheng, but there needs to be AI face-changing processing in the later stage, and the lines will also need to be re-dubbed by Xiong Li himself.

Xiong Li's stand-in actor is mainly responsible for the mouth shape of a line.

This part may be due to Sun Xi's stand-in for Xiong Li, which made her a little unnatural, and did not show enough of the unknown feeling of taking the male protagonist to conduct super soldier serum experiments. Of course, her performance is quite good.

But Xu Nuo is a relatively strict director. If he does not meet his satisfactory expectations, then Xu Nuo will shoot such shots and pictures again until the effect he is satisfied with is achieved.

"Come on, let's do this scene again, Sun Xi, you may be a little nervous, relax, relax, the performance is fine, it's just that you are a little too tight."

When Xu Nuo was filming, he basically didn't put pressure on the actors, because the more pressure you put on the actors, the more nervous the actors might be.

Instead, I calmly talk to the actors about the problem, and they can usually solve it by themselves in the next reshoot.

This shot is basically not difficult, the main thing is to watch the performances of the actors, Xu Nuo estimated that it should be able to pass two or three times.

really.

During the second filming, Sun Xi had already adjusted his nervousness, and his whole performance looked more natural.

"Okay, let's go."

Xu Nuo nodded, and said very satisfied: "Get out of the car after you arrive at the location, then walk into the tailor shop, and enter the experimental base according to the code."

Although this is a short plot, due to the different scenes and camera positions, it will be divided into several subsections for shooting.

"start."

After Xu Nuo's voice fell, the camera quickly turned on it.

The male protagonist and the female agent in the car got out of the car, and then walked towards the tailor shop. After the shot was finished, Director Xu called to stop again, because at this time the cameraman needed to shoot at the entrance of the tailor shop. shot.

The owner of this tailor shop is an old woman with some white hair, she looks very kind, she is also an old actor in the film and television industry, this time she came to "Dragon Squad" for a cameo.

The old lady can be said to express the sense of fusion between ordinary people and secret agents very well. You can see her appearance and expression, and she feels like a very ordinary tailor shop owner, but if you look closely at her temperament, you will know She was definitely not simple before.

Then came the rivalry between the old lady and the heroine.

Xu Nuo took a total of five shots for this short section, and it went well.

Afterwards, the shots of the small town were temporarily finished, and Xu Nuo and the crew needed to go to the underground experimental base set up in the air-raid shelter for a special scene.

In fact, when Xu Nuo was filming in the small town, Xiong Li and other main actors had already been familiar with the props and environment in the air-raid shelter.

Xiong Li and others had to lament that Director Xu was still the same Director Xu. Even under the background of World War II, such a scene arrangement looks very sci-fi style.

Laboratory equipment like this would definitely not be able to be produced by relying solely on the strength of the transportation team leader.

But after seeing that there are foreign actors on the scene, and Dr. Erkins and American characters in the plot, then all this is understandable.

At first, Xiong Li didn't know that Director Xu's "Dragon Squad" was a part of the sci-fi movie universe. , I thought it was an anti-Japanese movie.

As a result, after getting the script, I realized that it was based on the background of that era, incorporating science fiction elements, and telling the story of the birth of a super soldier.

If there are no sci-fi elements such as space gems and super soldier serum, then it is understandable for you to say that it is an anti-Japanese drama.

But once such a basic setting is added, then Xiong Li can only say that Director Xu is really very thoughtful.

"Director Xu is here."

Among the crowd, there was an unknown voice shouting.

After everyone heard the words, they all looked towards the entrance of the experimental center, and saw the director Xu Nuo came to the filming set with a thin version of the actor's stand-in and Sun Xi who played the heroine.

"Director Xu."

After Xiong Li saw this, he came forward to say hello to the director: "Everything here is almost ready."

At that time, a crew member who was in charge of the set arrangement here also came to Xu Nuo, nodded and said, "Director Xu, we can start filming anytime."

"Uh-huh."

Xu Nuo responded, then walked down the stairs, and carefully looked at the scene of the experimental center carefully arranged by the crew.

The whole scene is set up pretty well. Although it seems that it has surpassed the technological level of the captain of the transportation team, the super soldier serum experiment center in the setting was won by Iron Man's father and established in Yuzhou City by the allied countries. With the support of the United States and other countries, then this seems reasonable.

"Okay, come on, everyone move."

Xu Nuo saw that there was nothing wrong, so he was ready to start shooting.

There are quite a few actors in the plot scene of the male protagonist conducting the super soldier serum experiment. Basically, the main core actors of this movie are all there, including Xiong Li himself, the heroine Sun Xi, and the actor who plays Iron Man's father wait.

There is also an actor who is a "spy" sent by Xiaotian through Wang.

Dr. Erkins, the developer of the super soldier serum, was killed by this spy, which led to the loss of the super soldier serum formula after "Dragon Squad".

The leading actors, extras and crew members quickly took their positions.

Xu Nuo started the filming of the laboratory section.

Because everyone had made sufficient preparations, Xu Nuo's shooting was as smooth as expected, and some small-point shots could be passed through at most three or five times.

Xu Nuo first took a few shots of the female agent bringing the actor to the experimental center and communicating with Dr. Erkins, Iron Man's father and others.

Afterwards, the footage of the dragon team being born by injecting super soldier serum was officially filmed.

First, the thin stand-in actor lays down and completes the super soldier serum injection, of course, he doesn't actually inject him with anything.

If Xu Nuo really had the super soldier serum, then maybe according to the system requirements, he really had to inject the super soldier serum into the actors in real shots.

But now Xu Nuo has not, just like the previous filming of "Transformers", Xu Nuo can't make the car deform, so the special effects of post-production can be used in the lens of Transformer.

Xu Nuo also wants the real super soldier serum formula, but only after finishing filming "Dragon Squad" and completing all the tasks of this movie project, the final wave of generous rewards will be given to Xu Nuo [Super Soldier Serum Formula] .

Soon all the equipment on the shooting set was connected.

Dr. Erkins looked at Iron Man's father Xu Zhenhua, nodded and said, "Start!"

Iron Man's father mainly controls the energy of the equipment, because after injecting the super soldier serum, a large amount of electric energy is needed to complete the transformation of a super soldier!

In Xu Nuo's version of the movie setting, this experiment almost used the electricity of the entire Yuzhou City.

As Iron Man's father turned the energy-giving control device, a light prop in the device with the male protagonist continued to shine and the brightness was gradually increasing. The displayed effect was like continuously injecting energy into the device. energy.

"Ten percent!"

"20.00%!"

"30.00%!"

Dr. Erkins plays out the tension of that experiment well, while Iron Man's father reads his progress lines.

"All indicators are normal."

A laboratory member reported it, and according to Director Xu's explanation, the cameraman even gave him a close-up shot.

"50.00%, 60.00%!"

At this time, the male protagonist in the device is no longer a stand-in actor, but Xiong Li, whose upper body has been stripped off. With the injection of energy in the device, he needs to let out a painful roar at this time.

"what!!!!!"

Then the actors on the scene had to act out their reaction to the painful voice of the hero.

For example, the heroine of the secret agent played by Sun Xi needs to show that she is particularly worried about the safety of the hero.

"Turn it off!"

Sun Xi came to the railing and shouted at Dr. Erkins and Iron Man's father in the experimental center.

"Turn back, Mr. Xu Zhenhua, turn off, turn back!"

Dr. Erkins was also very worried that the hero would not be able to handle such a powerful energy, so he quickly asked Iron Man's father to stop and reduce the energy injection.

"No! Don't stop!"

"I can bear it!"

Following Xiong Li's sonorous and powerful lines, everyone immediately showed a look of astonishment.

Dr. Erkins then exchanged a glance with Iron Man's father.

The experiment continues!

Until the energy is given to [-]%!
"It's [-]% already!"

The flashing light on the experimental equipment has reached the extreme.

"Come on, blasting team, the electro-optical blasting point of the experimental platform is ready to start."

Xu Nuo said to the blasting team through the walkie-talkie.

At this time, due to the overload of the voltage, it is necessary to explode a small explosion on the console and other equipment to generate that kind of electric spark to set off the horror of the energy injected in this experiment.

呲~呲~
呲~
The blasting team has already made preparations, and arranged small electro-optical spark blasting on the operating table and other facilities and equipment.

For a very mature blasting team, they can give you any visual effects you want, not just mindless explosions at the scene level.

If these shots were replaced by other directors, they would definitely choose post-production special effects.

"Old Zhang, the camera is slowly approaching the equipment."

Xu Nuo said to cameraman Lao Zhang through the walkie-talkie.

"Uh-huh."

After receiving the director's instruction, the camera began to gradually zoom in on the male protagonist's experimental equipment.

After the shot was over, there was the reaction of all the actors at the scene of the experiment center, and everyone's eyes turned to the equipment where the male protagonist was.

"Mr. Xu Zhenhua!"

Dr. Erkins called Iron Man's father to tell him to turn on the device.

bang~
With the device turned on!

Xiong Li's shiny muscular body was displayed in front of everyone's eyes.

Although it certainly didn't look so shocking during the live shooting, because everyone had already seen Xiong Li's huge muscles and strong body on the set.

But in the movie shown after the post-editing, it will be different. At that time, the audience will see a thin male protagonist who has become a strong muscular man after completing the super soldier serum experiment.

Xu Nuo can even imagine that when the audience sees this scene, they will definitely think, after using this serum, they will directly transform into a muscular man. This is too awesome, so why not me?
"This kid really succeeded!"

The general shook his head, feeling unbelievable but also slightly relieved.

After seeing the hero's success, the spy also showed a tricky smile, because he was about to start acting next.

"It's a good shot."

Xu Nuo was very satisfied with the experimental shooting of the super soldier serum just now, so he planned to let everyone take a break before continuing with the next shooting.

Ding!
At this moment, a voice sounded in Xu Nuo's mind.

[Your movie project "Dragon Squad" has started shooting, please complete a movie promotion, and at least get more than 1 million people's movie attention! 】

Appeared, the small task of the "Dragon Squad" film project appeared.

It’s a movie promotional type of assignment, like it was done with Transformers.

"You can post some set photos to promote it first, and see how the popularity is."

Xu Nuo thought that if he wanted to complete this movie promotion task, then the "outflow" set photos would be the most suitable. If the set photos were not enough to complete the task, then he would need to edit a trailer.

"Dragon Squad" is different from the previous "Big Hero Marines". The Super Hero Marines can use cute and cute medical and health robots like Dabai to attract people's attention.

"Terminator" has artificial intelligence as a gimmick, "Transformers" has transforming cars, and "Iron Man" has handsome steel suits.

In the case of "Dragon Squad", it is estimated that it can only attract the attention of netizens through the movie setting of "Super Soldier Serum" and the contrast between the thin and strong Dragon Squad.

Of course, Xu Nuo can also use the fact that all super soldier serum experiments in allied countries except Huaguo have failed to spark the topic.

"Old Zhang, your camera crew took some photos of our set, um, here are a few more photos for the skinny figure of Xiong Li's stuntman."

Xu Nuo gave instructions to cameraman Lao Zhang.

It is planned to release the thin version of the dragon team first, and the strong version is temporarily left as a suspense.

"Alright Director Xu."

About half an hour later.

Xu Nuo asked his artificial intelligence Guan Ju to perform an AI face-changing on the stand-in actor, changing the face to Xiong Li's, and the thin body is still a stand-in actor.

I have to say that Guan Ju's AI face-swapping technology is superb, and there are almost no flaws.

So Xu Nuo sorted out nine sets of photos, and used his own account, Guan Ju's account, and the official account of "Dragon Squad" to send the first official message of the film on the AI ​​entertainment platform, mainly based on the set photos. .

"Has Director Xu's "Dragon Squad" finally started?"

"Is this actor Xiong Li? Is he the leading actor?"

"What a thin figure!"

"It seems that there is nothing special about the movie "Dragon Squad"."

"It doesn't feel as good as "Iron Man"."

"@Director Xu Nuo, Director Xu, our "Dragon Squad" is said to be related to "Iron Man"?"

"This should be the story of another protagonist in Director Xu's movie universe. Iron Man will be filmed first."

"Let the hero eat more, this is too thin."

"One thing to say, during World War II, our domestic soldiers were really not very strong. At that time, it would be good to have a stutter, and it was normal for them to be thin."

"This reminds me of those anti-Japanese dramas before, when the war was fought, I even hated eating noodles."

"I don't know if Director Xu's "Dragon Squad" will become an anti-Japanese drama. If it really becomes an anti-Japanese drama, @文东, will you come and complain violently?"

According to Xu Nuo’s feedback from netizens on several large domestic platforms such as AI Entertainment and Weibo, it seems that "Dragon Squad" has a much lower sense of expectation for netizens than the previous "Iron Man" .

After all, the movie "Iron Man" has too many attractive points, while "Dragon Squad" is a little bit less interesting.

On the original earth, Marvel's "Iron Man" box office results are also much better than "Captain America".

This can't help but make Xu Nuo worried. If the response of his "Dragon Squad" is not enough to explode, what if the box office target task set by the system cannot be achieved?
Anyway, Xu Nuo knew very well that the box office of "Dragon Squad" would definitely not be as big as "Iron Man" or "Transformers".

It doesn't matter if the box office hits or not.

The main thing is to be able to successfully complete the movie project, get the entertainment points and [Super Soldier Serum Formula] rewarded by the mission, which is what Xu Nuo cares most about.

Xu Nuo can only make "Dragon Squad" as exciting as possible, but there is no other way. After all, the upper limit of the movie "Dragon Squad" is there. It is difficult to make "Dragon Squad" a global hit!
However, there were "Transformers" and "Iron Man" before, and the research and development of super soldier serum in "Dragon Squad" is more or less related to the United States, so it should be able to attract a wave of box office overseas.

"At that time, there will be overseas bonuses at the box office, plus domestic ones, it shouldn't be too bad, right?"

Xu Nuo couldn't help thinking this way.

After the release of the nine Jiugongge set photos, the response to "Dragon Squad" was not as intense as expected, but there are also many netizens who like Xu Nuo's film style, and those who are looking forward to Xu Nuo's film universe. He is also very concerned and actively participates in discussions on related topics.

however!
To say that those who pay the most attention to Xu Nuo's new movie "Dragon Squad" must be the American CIA and the Black Palace on the other side of the ocean.
(End of this chapter)