my movie years

Chapter 351 Large-Scale Post-production Special Effects Production

To some extent, the various minority groups in the future may not be the product of Western society using magic to fight magic.

At this time, not only the black community, but also the boxers are very fierce.

Later, black boxers were all gay, and true magic depended on minorities.

Disney's "Little Scavenger" was correct on the surface, but after it was released, it caused strong dissatisfaction among the audience.

Judging from the results, it's hard not to say that Disney did this on purpose.

This turmoil can be said to be unexpected and reasonable.After all, there was no age when minorities were born, and it is rare for someone to dare to shoot at the black group.

The black group, which had been angered and resented for a long time, was immediately besieged.

Black people in Hollywood have never had a harder time.Black actors in Hollywood seem to be going back to the days of the last century, a time when they were suppressed.

But the black group in Hollywood is like this, bullying the weak and fearing the hard.If you are soft, they will push forward. If you are hard, the genes of the plantation era in their bodies will be awakened, and they will immediately be counseled.

This incident has not affected the post-production of "The Dark Knight" at all, and everything is proceeding in an orderly manner.

Zhang Hao is already very good at special effects work for A-level productions.

Different from domestic ones, the post-production of "The Dark Knight Rises" is done by many Warner Pictures' subcontractors.

There are many aspects of post-production, including film lighting, editing, sound effect production, soundtrack, combination of special effects and real shooting, etc.

According to Zhang Hao's plan, the film "The Dark Knight Rises" will be at least two and a half hours long.

How to put enough content in such a long time without making it look cluttered is a test of editing skills.

In addition, although a large number of real shots were used in the filming process, the total number of special effects shots still exceeds 2500.

What's the concept? Guo Fan's new film "The Wandering Earth" has 2000 special effects shots, which is already the third most special effects shot in a domestic film.

Needless to say, the top two are both Zhang Hao's movies, namely "The Martian" with 2350 and "Inception" with 2490.

Although the whole film of "Gravity" is basically special effects, but because of the majority of long shots, there are not as many special effects shots as "The Wandering Earth".

In terms of quantity, so many special effects shots are the characteristics of this type of film.

This also fully reflects the cutting-edge film production concept in the world today, which has become the norm in today's advanced special effects lens processing.

Even Zhang Hao, who insists on real shooting, never lacks special effects shots in the film.

Famous Hollywood movie magazines judge the production level of a film by special effects shots, and more than a thousand special effects shots that need to be processed belong to the category of A-level large-scale productions.

As early as the beginning of the pre-preparation, the post-production team invested a lot of time in document production, surveying, terrain scanning, and crew members accurately recording the scene lighting and so on.

In order to achieve better results, Tiangong Yicai's engineers also developed a key tool specifically for this film, which is a ray tracing rendering system that can work under the existing pipeline and lighting settings.

In fact, this technology is more used in hardware development and game development.

MiHoYo, a game company invested by Zhang Hao, and engineers and programmers from Game Science all joined in to complete the iteration of this tool.

The tools developed are also used by several companies.

This system can accurately calculate the energy exchange between different surfaces and create realistic lighting effects for different surfaces.This process requires powerful computer capabilities to perform calculations, and the effects produced using this technology will be quite perfect.

Because it makes objects such as the Batbike and Batman's motorcycle look inherently realistic, it can be easily tweaked.

It is worth mentioning that this new toolbox does not need to give precise grading instructions when creating effects, such as making the surface look brighter and canceling the contrast effect of the highlighted area.

Now you only need to adjust the light and shade, and the effect can meet the requirements of the lens, which not only simplifies the operation steps, but also makes the post-production work more efficient.

There are similar technologies in foreign countries, but they won’t give you free access to them; they all cost money.

Although the production is a Hollywood superhero movie, most of the technology used is domestic technology, which is enough to prove that domestic film production technology is sufficient to undertake Hollywood A-level productions.

Movies are often an art of deception. How to use the lens to deceive the audience's eyes is the key to post-production.

For example, there is a scene where Batman reappeared on the streets of Gotham, and was chased and intercepted by the police. He needed to drive the Batmobile to jump up the slope to escape.

But during the actual shooting, the crew found that the Batmobile was too heavy and could not achieve the expected effect.

So the crew used another lightweight stunt bike to complete the shot, and then replaced it with a digital bat bike in post-production, and then adjusted it to the physical effects of a real bike jumping.

In addition to this shot, another important special effects clip is the hijacking at the beginning.

In this scene.The actor parachuted from a transport plane onto another CIA jet, broke into it, escaped with a prisoner and destroyed the jet's wing before it snapped in two.

A high-precision sample was produced in the early stage of this lens.Including how to display special effects and so on.

The detailed samples can make it easier for Zhang Hao to study how to deal with stunt performances and live-action shots, as well as what special effects need to be produced to match this shot.

The final effect is also a mixture of various production methods, miniature models and special effects, the production of the aircraft wing break scene, green screen keying replacement, and then cooperate with the real aircraft model and two live-action actors.

Finally, the CG animation of skydiving was added to complete the realization of this difficult shot.

Another large-scale special effects shot is the scene of the stadium, which also uses the combination of real shooting and special effects.

In fact, in the second part, Zhang Hao would have adopted this method if he hadn't found an abandoned hospital.

In the film, Bane the Destroyer detonated explosives on the football field and created a scene where the field collapsed, in order to create a realistic on-site effect.

The team used previs to plan the live-action shoot. In this scene, the stuntman falls through a crack in the platform above the set.

To match the effect, the team animated some additional actors in CG, and the entire sports field was also made in CG.

The challenge with this shot was that the entire set was physical, and the team needed a high level of production ability to control the realism of these simulations and get those physics in sync with the actors' movements.

The crowd was also expanded in this shot, and some shots on the court were made based on the fact that about [-] people were sitting in the stands watching the game.

In addition to the production and editing of these large-scale special effects shots, another important job is the soundtrack.

He has cooperated with Zhang Hao many times, and Hans Zimmer can be regarded as an old partner.

He immediately sent the soundtrack he made, and Zhang Hao listened to all the soundtrack in the Warner Music Studio in Los Angeles.

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