my movie years

Chapter 195 Zhang Hao Playing with R&D and Technology
In addition to the performance of special effects on the screen, the most important thing in the film "Gravity" is the performance of the actors, so the performance of Da Mi Mi is quite important.

In fact, if acting skills and appearance are considered, Mr. Zhou Xun Zhou, who has worked with Zhang Hao in "The Undertaker", will be the number one candidate for "Gravity".

But Zhang Hao still has a little selfishness, and hopes that Da Mimi can get rid of the path of his previous life and embark on a completely different path as an actor.

Besides, although Mr. Zhou has a good relationship with Zhang Hao, he is not as close as Da Mi Mi.

If Mr. Zhou knew that he lost his role because of this reason, he wondered if he would regret that he was born a few years earlier, or that he didn't know Zhang Hao earlier.

In fact, when "Gravity" entered the preparatory cycle, the investors Bona Films and Penguin Films both politely asked Zhang Hao if they could replace the protagonist with a male.

But after Zhang Hao refused, he didn't mention this matter again.

Objectively speaking, from the perspective of investors, such a one-man film is more attractive if the protagonist is replaced by a man.In the traditional concept of film companies, male movies are far more popular than female movies.

But "Gravity" isn't one of them.

To be precise, there is no innovation in the plot of the movie "Gravity", and it is even a bit too much to say that there is no plot.

There are only two selling points of the film, one is the excellent special effects, the vast and beautiful beauty of space and the earth, and the other is the performance of the actors.

Needless to say, the special effects, the film "Gravity" has been listed as a key promotion film by the scissors, and it is going to be a benchmark for Chinese films, so Zhang Hao has to do well.

Although the big scissors often do not do serious things, when it is serious, it still guides and protects Chinese movies very well.

As for the actors, if they were replaced by men, the shock brought by the film would be weakened a lot.

Men and women represent completely different meanings on the big screen, and men are born synonymous with tenacity and strength in the film.Women represent weakness and are objects of protection.

Of course, Zhang Hao can also choose a sissy and sick little fresh meat as the leading role on a whim.This type of little fresh meat is completely incompatible with the image of a male representative, and it will definitely arouse fans' inner desire for protection.

But if you do this, you don't need to think about the box office. Zhang Hao first has to worry about whether he will be pissed off by Xiao Xianrou's poor acting skills.

Even if he wasn't pissed off, Zhang Hao was disgusted by his pretentious image and posture.

Although Da Mi Mi's acting skills are not very good, but under Zhang Hao's training, it is much better than the poor acting skills in the previous life.

This time it is her special one-man show again. Da Mimi said with a smile that after the filming of this play, her acting skills should also be upgraded.

Of course, although they are male and female friends, Zhang Hao didn't show mercy when Da Mi Mi didn't perform well, and he had to scold him if he should.

As a result, Da Mi Mi complained about Zhang Hao secretly and gave him the title of a studio tyrant.

Complaints belong to complaints, but Da Mi Mi's performance still does his best to complete his role.Hua Zai, who joined the crew as a guest star, said to Zhang Hao: "Keep this state, Da Mi Mi may be able to win several actress awards next year."

The queen award has never been won by Da Mi Mi, but she was nominated in this life, but she didn't win the award.Not to mention those pheasant awards, counting those awards, Zhang Hao probably has more than one hundred best director trophies.

If Da Mi Mi can get her wish next year, she will become a symbol of the Mesozoic actress in the new era, and the No.1 post-[-] actress.

Although Da Mi Mi is now the No. 1 post-[-] actress, she can even compete with Fan Binbing for the position of the number one actress in the mainland.

In this year's Forbes Celebrity List, Da Mimi ranks second only to Fan Binbing, followed by Jay Chou in third, Hua Tsai in fourth, and Zhang Hao in fifth.

The influence of the two actresses exceeds the last three, which is not common in previous years.

Fan Binbing was quite understandable, he was a beautiful parent, and his popularity was unbelievably high.Da Mi Mi suddenly rushed to No.2, which made fans of other actresses somewhat dissatisfied.

For example, the millions of little lions, but the little lions have no time to care about this recently, because their lion queen has recently had a hot fight with Wu Qilong, and there is a lot of official news.

Not every actress is the same as Da Mimi, it’s okay to talk about a relationship, and she is also on the Forbes Celebrity List No.2.Once Shi Shiguan announces his love, it is conceivable that it will be followed by a large area of ​​fans, and the decline in popularity is inevitable.

Back to the filming site, after visiting the first day, ten students from Nortel formally joined the crew on the second day to start their internship career.

Luckily, Lu Zihong was assigned to be an assistant director in the director group, and he was able to learn from senior brother Zhang Hao.

Today, a group of young directors came to visit. After a scene, Zhang Hao explained to the young directors the purpose of making some props.

“While we used this screen a lot to simulate the feeling of being in space, some shots still required CG.

In this regard, the special effects team is far ahead of our shooting work. Before shooting, they have already made multiple versions of the CG effects of space explosions. "

As a fan, Ning Hao came out to speak, and he asked, "Why didn't you use a model to shoot the explosion scene?"

Other young directors also looked at Zhang Hao curiously, Zhang Hao explained: "This is because the explosion in a vacuum is completely different from the explosion on the ground, and we cannot realize the explosion in space scene on the ground.

Of course, this is a commercial film after all, so we have made trade-offs to find a balance. "

On the set, the visiting young directors also discovered a robotic arm, which is different from the ones commonly used by film crews today.

Faced with doubts, Zhang Hao explained: "Actually, this robotic arm was originally used to produce cars. When I was filming Batman movies, I invented this usage and found it very useful for filming.

This robotic arm has a movement speed of 4 meters per second, a movement radius of 3.1 meters, an action accuracy of 0.04 mm, and up to 7 joint axes.

It is also equipped with a track of more than 10 meters, which is enough to complete various complex and fine movements, and shoot shots from various tricky angles as you like. "

"No wonder people say that you are a skilled director. Even if you go to Hollywood, you can still come up with some new technologies." Ning Hao laughed.

Zhang Hao said helplessly: "However, during the actual filming, I found that the mechanical arm was not so useful. When shooting weightless scenes, Mi Mi was placed on a machine that can have a small amount of movement.

There are two robotic arms beside her, one is equipped with a camera, and the other is equipped with a light source. This is our idea to solve the problem of weightless lens in early shooting, changing the angle of the lens and moving the light source.

Supplemented by hoisting wires, hoisting real shots, etc. to achieve the weightless effect, but the effect is not as expected. "

"Then senior brother, how did you solve it?" As a trainee assistant director, Lu Zihong shouldn't have spoken, but he couldn't help being curious.

Zhang Hao didn't mind either, but explained: "I studied with the special effects production and photography team, and finally made a light box based on the robotic arm."

Zhang Hao led the visiting group to show in front of the light box, Qiao Xin, as the designer, explained: "The whole light box is used together with the simulated space scene built by the studio, and it is mainly composed of an LED screen, a movable basket, and a mechanical arm camera. .

We specially built a cubic box with a height of about six meters and a width of about three meters, surrounded by LED screens composed of 180 million light bulbs, and a simple movable basket in the center. The actor was in this basket when shooting Performance.

But this light box is not without flaws, it is relatively hot, so the actors have to endure the high temperature shooting environment. "

In fact, the function of the light box is far more than that. When Zhang Hao first designed the light box, he thought of a way to design it to protect the safety of Da Mi Mi. The light box is already the best solution that the crew came up with in a short time.

When Diao Weiya was filming weightless scenes, actors and models had to go up to a height of seven or eight meters, and Da Mi Mi's abdomen had to bear a lot of pressure.

With this light box, it is more dependent on angle transformation and robotic arm to control the camera to shoot.

For example, when showing the effect of an actor hitting the camera, Da Mi Mi basically does not move, but the robotic arm controls the camera to 'slam' Da Mi Mi.

In addition to the solutions for these weightless scenes, the LED screen of the light box and the large screens around the studio solved many lighting problems.

During the production, Zhang Hao required that the shooting scene must simulate the real lighting effect in space, so as to realize the real lighting physical feedback of the lighting effect on the actors.

Solving the lighting problem falls on the LED screen in the light box and the large screen in the studio.

The LED screen and the large screen in the studio play videos or pictures that simulate the surrounding environment, and the lens controlled by the robotic arm rotates flexibly in this space.

The visual effects team is responsible for printing the pattern of the virtual scene on the LED screen and the large screen of the studio to match the subjective perspective of the actors.

This way the image displayed on the screen illuminates the actor and puts the actor in the environment, as if space revolves around the actor.

According to the previously designed lighting scheme, half depends on the screen light, and half depends on the robotic arm for lighting.But in the actual shooting, the screen light has achieved unexpected good results.

This device is highly efficient and works surprisingly well, completely solving the problem of real lighting effects in space when shooting.

To shoot a shot of an astronaut spinning in space, it was a hassle to set up lights for a green screen shot.Many films shot with green screen have a strong oil painting-like feel to the picture.

However, the oil painting-like picture effect does not match the picture effect required by "Gravity", although it can be solved through post-processing, after all, CG technology is now very developed.

However, Zhang Hao still insisted on using LEDs with screens for actual shooting to achieve the picture effect he expected.

In Hollywood, where green screens are prevalent, it is extremely rare to produce such a large-scale real-effects shot without using green screens.Not to mention the Chinese film industry, no one has done this before.

Many directors in China don't even know how to play with green screen, let alone use robotic arms, develop light boxes, and use LED screens, which are unheard of shooting techniques.

The visiting directors admired Zhang Hao's team.

It was said before that Zhang Hao has a wild imagination, like a wild horse running wild.But now it seems that people not only have rich imagination, but also have the ability to turn imagination into reality.

Such a device, such a shooting method, could not be imagined by any domestic director.

When they heard about making a space sci-fi movie, it is estimated that the first reaction of all directors was: this job can’t be done, whoever loves to do it.

But Zhang Hao told them: Not only did I do it, I also achieved this level, turning imagination into reality.

Among the young directors who visited before, many people thought that Zhang Hao was playing tricks and did not believe that he could make a Chinese science fiction film.

But after a tour, they believed that Zhang Hao could really make a domestic sci-fi film.

Even seeing the methods Zhang Hao used to solve each of the difficult technical solutions, all the directors who visited instantly had a feeling that I can do it myself.

(End of this chapter)