my movie years

Chapter 405 Experience and Technology

After finishing the cornfield scene, Zhang Hao took the crew to Qingdao Film and Television City, where they filmed the space center and space scenes.

Just like when filming "Gravity" and "The Martian", when filming "Interstellar", Zhang Hao still used a tall display screen to simulate space, paired with CGI green screen technology to ultimately present the best effect on the screen.

Another advantage of this is that it allows the actors to perform immersively.

In front of the green screen, you still need to imagine, but there is no need for this. When you look out the window of the spaceship, you will see space, which is particularly immersive.

Except for the filming in the studio, everything else was basically shot on location.For example, in the huge wave section, the crew found a natural shallow lake in Weihai, not far from Qingdao.

Then CGI technology and real photography are combined to create huge waves thousands of meters high.

The Gargantua Black Hole was renamed by Zhang Hao as the Solar Candle Black Hole. Movies made by Chinese people should also have Chinese-appropriate names.

The Sun Candle is a mythical beast in ancient mythology. It is transformed from the most yang energy and the essence of the sun into two forms of chaos and one energy.

It is the most powerful and noble divine beast in the universe and was once called the Holy Spirit.

The image of the sun candle is a sphere that is white on the outside and black on the inside. It represents the ultimate justice and also represents that when things go to the extreme, they will oppose each other, so it is black.

The solar candle represents the brightest star in the sky, the source of human light, the sun.

However, whether it is the origin of the more ancient second version or the first version of the solar candle, the solar candle represents not only the sun, but everything that belongs to the solar side, including the sky.

Its black appearance embodies the concept of things going as far as they can go and things going as far as they can go.

To a certain extent, this setting fits the characteristics of a black hole, so Zhang Hao used it as the name for a black hole.

The huge gravitational pull of the black hole illuminated by the sun can set off huge waves thousands of meters high. In order to create huge waves of this scale, the special effects engineers had to re-examine the previous process of making water.

Gong Jun, the director in charge of special effects, explained to Zhang Hao: "If you want to make water of this scale, the various parameters you usually use, such as water splashes and the curling of the top of the waves, will not work.

Because in the face of such a huge amount of water, these parameters are insignificant.

Therefore, we took advantage of the proportional relationship between the huge waves and the landing ship. You can see that the huge waves hit the landing ship, easily overturning the landing ship, and then being submerged in the huge waves.This way you can feel how big the waves are. "

For the general shape and movement of the wave, the special effects engineers used manual animation to create it. For the large number of bubbles, waves, water splashes, etc. on the surface of the wave, they developed an in-house software to simulate it.

The special effects of this scene were completed in IMAX resolution, so the special effects team did not have much time to make repeated revisions.

Gong Jun introduced to Zhang Hao: "After I saw the composition of the giant wave and thought it was OK, I told the artists to make the water splash on the surface of the wave, and then I could see the final result after a month and a half.

This is the result of IMAX resolution, we don't have enough time to make multiple revisions. "

However, the actual shooting part of the Big Wave Planet needs to be completed later.Currently, the filming in the studio is mainly about the scenes inside the spaceship.

The first scene after the spaceship passes through the wormhole is the scene where the four people discuss which planet to go to.

The powerful short hair looks knowledgeable and elegant. Coupled with the past few months of study, she has the temperament of a female scientist.

Maybe he can pass the exam to play Cheng Xin in "The Three-Body Problem" later, Zhang Hao thought in a wicked way.

Zhang Yi plays Dr. Zhao, Wu Jing plays Dr. Liu, plus Andy Chen Fei and Da Mi Mi play Dr. Lu Xinru, this is the last hope of mankind.

Before starting the shooting, Zhang Hao inspected the cabin where he was shooting. The prop team was very attentive and made all the features that Zhang Hao explained.

The actors did not have to wear heavy space suits and felt much more relaxed when shooting in casual clothes.A few days ago, I was filming a space scene and needed to wear a space suit. Although the props team made it very light, in order to show the texture, it was still much heavier than ordinary clothes.

The production of the entire space suit is completed by the model team.The simplified design was made with reference to the space agency’s active space suits and NASA’s space suits.

Today's space suits are too bulky, not very beautiful to wear, and not very sci-fi.

Therefore, the spacesuits in "Interstellar" were designed to be tight-fitting.The helmet design is smaller, allowing actors to speak more clearly.

In addition, a ventilation system was also designed to prevent actors from feeling painful while acting in the spacesuit.

Due to the use of softer materials, actors can sit or lie down without any problem, and can get up by themselves without the help of manpower.

However, because it is troublesome to put on, and there are no zippers, it requires the cooperation of other people to put on the space suit.

The disadvantage of this spacesuit is that it is not convenient to go to the bathroom, so in order not to delay the performance, the actors rarely drink water before filming.

One time Andy drank too much coffee and went to the bathroom four or five times a day during filming. When he came back, he saw that Zhang Yi and Wu Jingda had not even been to the bathroom once.

So Andy asked curiously: "Why didn't I see the three of you going to the bathroom?"

Zhang Yiliang showed off his little trick, a pack of diapers: "Brother Hua, we are all experienced. When I was filming "The Martian", I brought diapers with me."

"What about you?" Hua Zai asked Wu Jing.

Wu Jing said with a smile: "The misfortunes I suffered on Lao Guo's crew were much more serious than this. I couldn't even sit down and rest while wearing a space suit, let alone go to the bathroom, so I was prepared with diapers."

There is no need to ask about Da Mi Mi. The movie "Gravity" that made her famous was wearing a space suit. Da Mi Mi has experience.

Andy suddenly realized that he also came with diapers for the filming the next day.

In fact, Andy is quite experienced, having guest-starred in "Gravity", but during that filming period, he never encountered the problem of going to the bathroom.

This shooting took a long time, so I gained experience.

A few days later, Guo Fan, who was filming "Iron-Blooded Pine Bone Ridge", also came to visit the team.He focused on the layout of the shooting scene, model construction, and space suits.

When chatting with Zhang Hao, Guo Fan said: "I always thought that the gap between you and me was not big, but after watching this shooting scene, I realized the gap."

Zhang Hao smiled and said: "What's the gap? It's not like you can't use my people. When the time comes, you can pull over all the people who filmed "The Wandering Earth 2"."

"Then you have become a polished commander, haha..." Guo Fan joked.

"That's not the case," Zhang Hao said confidently: "My work in the past few years has not been in vain. I have trained four to five thousand talents at least. Now it is not a problem to support two large-scale film projects at the same time."

Regarding Zhang Hao's contribution to Chinese-language films, it is not just becoming a major international first-line director, but also being a former national director.

The most important thing is that it has trained many talents for the industry.Even though they are all people behind the scenes, without these people behind the scenes, the actors in front of the stage would not be able to shine.

But the biggest problem now is the lack of people who can use these talents.

There are a lot of talents, and how to utilize them is a big issue.

(End of this chapter)