China Entertainment: Indulge in Vanity Fair

Chapter 298 I played with some technological equipment in the movie
"Oh...so that's it, I learned it again. Director He, why didn't you ask us so? We can also make a breakthrough." Wu Jing asked excitedly.

He Fang looked at Wu Jing with a strange look, "Please, this is a commercial movie. What I want is your stereotyped performance. You are here to tell me that you want to change. What are you guys doing? What you want is an actor who is close to the role, and then you can save the link of polishing the performance during shooting. Who the hell makes a commercial film and still spends half a day with you here?"

"What's more, audiences of commercial movies not only watch the performances of actors, but also scenes, compact plots, imagination, the impact of pictures, etc., understand?"

Wu Jing understood immediately, and then his enthusiasm disappeared like a basin of cold water was poured on him.

"Understood, an actor in a commercial film is a commercial tool. A star who can afford the box office and complete basic performances is fine."

"That's the reason. If you can carry the box office to prove that your basic acting skills are passable and have high commercial value, that's enough. Do you know how difficult it is for many actors to get to your level? You still want to ask What does this require?"

"It also makes sense. There are thousands of actors, and not all abilities can be applauded." Wu Jing nodded in agreement.

"In addition, I remembered that you said that you think the performance of the actors in your movie is too heavy. In addition to the unnatural writing of the plot and the emotional chain of the performance, there must be layers, and there is something wrong with your camera movement. Too rigid.

In order to let the audience see clearly, many directors carefully add some turn or crane shots, or add some close-up shots under the three-shot principle of shooting front and back and adding panoramic shots.This kind of shooting is very safe, and it is true that there will not be too many mistakes, but it also loses the creation of the shocking power of the movie screen to the audience.

If it is too safe, it will become a TV series. The magical use of the lens can sometimes only need to give the actor a scene where he appears, and then add dubbing, plus other pictures in the scene are the same so that the audience can understand, and even let the audience see Very enjoyable.

Let’s use a very simple analogy. For example, you are sitting on a train and see a beautiful woman sitting opposite you.According to the normal shooting, both of you are sitting, and you can only add a panoramic shot from the front and back, or add a top-down shot with the roof down at most.

Then if you use the camera skillfully, such as using the reflection of the glass, there happens to be a person reading a manga on the reflected glass. The content of the manga is that a pair of strange men and women meet by chance, then look at each other, and finally a romantic thing happens...

Adding some pictures outside the seats of two people to show the inner drama of the two people, will this enrich the boring three-shot scene?At this time, the director who wants to play some tricks will definitely make a reversal. The audience thinks that when the director uses the reflection of the glass to imply that the couple is about to have a romantic affair, both of them have shown their weapons in their hidden hands under the table, and then At the moment the train entered and exited the tunnel, they completed a lightning-fast fight.

This kind of mirror and design is much richer than your dry three-camera shooting. You must learn to use the camera lens skillfully. Filming is not just about using the camera to shoot actors, which will limit your creativity.The director wants to enrich and vivid the plot of the script. When you feel that the scene you are shooting is too rigid and unattractive, then use the lens to break the scene without changing the plot. rigid.

Using this principle, you can do many things. If you think about using the lens to enrich every scene, the problem of your actors' performances being too heavy will be covered up.Do you know what is the biggest weapon in the hands of a director?is the lens.

The script cannot be visualized, it is only imagination.The director uses the lens to concretize the imagined things. This is the difference between the director and the screenwriter. Then all the abilities and intentions of the director are reflected in how to use the lens. It is the basic creativity of a director. "

He Fang was smoking while talking, and then both Wu Jing and Zhang Hanyu listened with gusto. It’s different to make a movie with a famous director. As long as the director leaks a little knowledge, you can learn a lot.

"Well, I knew that I would ask you for advice before filming "Wolf Warrior". I filmed a few films with you before, and I thought I had learned the same. Unexpectedly, it is still far behind, but , as long as "Wolf Warrior" can continue to shoot without losing money, I will definitely improve the next one." Wu Jing said with regret but confidence.

"Haha, I believe you will get better and better. It's okay, it's okay, hurry up and shoot, I really don't want to stay in this damn place, everyone is tanned." He Fang took the last puff of cigarette in his hand, and then Throw away the cigarette butts.

"Hey, dark spots are not good? Healthy, you see that foreigners are deliberately tanning." Zhang Hanyu said, he just looks dark, and he wants to refute it.

"Come on, I think it's better to be white, to cover up all ugliness, don't you know?"

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Filmmaking is a technical thing, you say it is complicated, but it is not complicated, and you can understand everything.But you say it is very simple, in fact it is very difficult, the difficulty is not that others cannot learn the so-called "advanced and good technology", but the difficulty is that basically filmmakers will form their own personal film after a few years of film learning. It will be very difficult to change the established pattern of making movies in the future.

It's like acting. An actor is used to acting like this, so no matter what script he receives, his way of acting will always be like this.

Similarly, the same is true for directors. When a director is used to filming in that way, when he encounters a dialogue scene, he uses the three-camera method, adding a panoramic shot for front and back, where A speaks to A, B speaks to B, and then In order for the audience to see the dialogue scene between them and the relationship between the characters, give a panoramic view of the environment.

This is why it is said that many TV drama directors can't make movies, because once they shoot movies, their shots are just TV drama shots, and they can't play well.

It’s the same for some film directors who can’t shoot TV series. You ask a film director to shoot 40 minutes of effective scenes in three days?are you crazy?Wouldn't it be possible to finish shooting a 120-minute movie in 9 days according to this shooting method?
Not to mention, there are really movies that are finished in 9 to 15 days, and that is TV movies, customized movies for movie channels.

There are a lot of film school directors who want to make a quick success and become directors quickly.

However, directors who are used to filming TV and movies can only become directors of TV dramas, because this kind of film is not made to express the lens language of the film. The film lens in the hands of these directors is only for the auxiliary storytelling of the actors, not the protagonist. .

Of course, there is no distinction between high and low directors, and if someone can be a TV drama director well, that's pretty awesome.

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The filming of "Operation Mekong" is continuing, and the release of "Dallas Buyers Club" is also continuing. After three days of release in the first weekend, the film has won a total of 2.37 million US dollars in box office in mainland China and 3823 million US dollars in North America. $3248 million at the box office.

This kind of data surprised his colleagues in the United States. The box office of the same movie in mainland China would exceed that in North America. Leonardo felt that he should pay more attention to the Chinese market in the future?
In addition to the box office in mainland China and North America, the rest of the world also won a box office of 8141 million US dollars. In the first three days, the world received a total of 1.52 million US dollars in box office.

This is a very impressive statistic. What does this box office statistic represent for an award-winning literary film?It means that the final global box office can break through the minimum of 4 million US dollars, and if it is more, it can reach [-] or [-] million US dollars.

Not to mention that literary films earn [-] billion or [-] billion U.S. dollars at the global box office, even commercial films earn this amount at the global box office. There are at most [-] films per year.

Hollywood filmmakers already knew that the Chinese market was strong, but now they find that the Chinese market is stronger than they thought.We have to get a share of the pie, we can't do it.

So, quietly this year, a lot of Sino-US co-production projects have been approved...

Not to mention these, the combination of He Fang and Leonardo is indeed a bit invincible, and there are no blockbuster films to compete in this schedule, so it seems that "Dallas Buyers Club" only relies on the box office of more than 8000 million US dollars in three days. The scenery is infinite.

It will soon be November, and the shooting of "Operation Mekong" has officially reached the sprint stage. After 11 to [-] days of cooperation, the entire crew has become very familiar with each other, and some even know each other's length and depth. It's clear.

So when the opponent rushes and when you shout in cooperation, the routines are very familiar.It will not only prevent the other party from finding out that your yelling is fake, but also save the other party's face.

With such a smooth cooperation, half of the last twenty days were heavy scenes, and advanced jungle combat weapons such as remote-controlled unmanned small tanks, helicopters, and small unmanned combat drones were used. It was allowed to be displayed, but it was still used under the repeated demands of the main complaint.

Not to mention the individual equipment, such as T5000 sniper rifles, Type 95 automatic rifles, AK-47 series submachine guns, M1911 pistols, and even the Desert Eagle, which was carried by the drug lord Naw Kham.

Night vision imaging helmets for individual soldiers, ultra-long-distance eavesdropping, palm-sized DJI micro-drones... This micro-drone was made by DJI for shooting, in order to show advanced , and an advertisement for DJI.After all, he also has investments and shares in DJI.

In order to show the strength of China, He Fang also built a small robot dog, whose performance is comparable to that of future battlefield robot dogs.Of course, this is not true. This is a prop made to show the advanced nature of technology. At the beginning, this plan was not agreed, because it is false propaganda, exaggerating our strength, and causing unnecessary suspicion by others. , but it was still adopted under the insistence of He Fang and the approval and communication of many parties.

After all, this is just a movie, who knows?There is nothing wrong with disturbing the audiovisual.

It's just...some people are too sincere, afraid that we will scare others if we promote ourselves too powerfully. .

Everyone has seen that you are the top three in the world, but you just want to show weakness and say that you are not in the world.Then keep showing, keep showing, and finally completely blinded the confidence of our own people, and our own people think that we are really rubbish.

Why is it inconvenient to express any opinions on such things, he is just a director.He felt that since it is a movie to show our majesty, it should be shown as much as possible.Moreover, movies, how can there be no exaggeration?
Hollywood movies often show advanced American "helicopters without sound" and "unmanned fighter jets" and other weapons that do not exist in reality. Why should we be afraid of causing misunderstanding?

It's just a movie. Could it be that He Fang's "Pacific Rim" is even worse?It also said that China has advanced aircraft carriers and aircraft. These are all factors that cause discomfort to the enemy... Also, at that time, many domestic audiences criticized He Fang for being too obsessive, causing others to misunderstand us.

It's just a movie, sometimes it's not good to be too serious, to rise to too high a height to control.

No matter what, it's enough for He Fang to implement his ideas smoothly.

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He Fang is sprinting and finishing with "Operation Mae Company", and the entertainment circle is not idle, and something new happens every day.

For example, Wang Feng sang at the 8-person stadium in Shanghai. Before singing "I Love You So Much", he suddenly staged an 8-minute confession. The ridicule of public opinion.

Another example is the death of the director of a certain TV station, and Guo Degang wrote a poem on Weibo to satirize karma...

There is also a photo of Yang Mi wearing a diamond ring on Weibo, suspected of being engaged...

The most interesting thing is that Liu Shishi, who is also "Four Beauties of the Celestial Sword", announced her love affair with Wu Qilong, who is 17 years older than her...

This November is really very lively, are they all grabbing headlines?still?

In fact, this November, firstly, there are so many things happening in itself, and secondly, Weibo is also fueling the flames. They are under a lot of pressure now. The rise of Toutiao today is too fast, and it is faster than everyone expected.

The official announcement of the international version of Toutiao was launched on January 2014, 1. He Fang and many celebrities, as well as some international stars that He Fang found, signed contracts to settle in and received advertisements for the presence.

Today’s Toutiao’s model is still very competitive, allowing users to become merchants of content, and users make money from content to become merchants, but in turn they are readers of others.In this way, you will gradually get used to the platform, and you will become more and more tied.

This is a very attractive model for users, and it is simply a blow to dimensionality reduction.

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When the time came to the 24th, after the last scene of "The Mekong" was filmed, Gao Gang talked with Fang Xinwu on the balcony.

Gao Gang asked: "Will you return to China after completing this mission?"

Fang Xinwu: "Kunsha was arrested 15 years ago, but Nuoka came. I don't know who will be next."

The two were silent...

"Okay, click... Take a picture, play it back." He Fang shouted holding the walkie-talkie.

After He Fang finished reading, he nodded in satisfaction, and then shouted through the walkie-talkie: "Okay, it's over, it's over..."

(End of this chapter)