This director needs to apologize

Chapter 326: Making movies is just a daydream

The supervisory work of "The Usual Suspects" is almost done to this extent. After all, he is not the director, so he does not need to overstep his duties.

And to be honest, Wang Wei and the others have done a very good job. It was the first time they took control of a crew to make a feature film overseas, in an unfamiliar place. To complete such a long material in two weeks has proven the ability of the three young directors.

Chen Yiming's "picking" required the front crew to be busy for about an extra week. Compared with the relatively loose shooting schedule of the entire film, it was not considered a fatal delay.

In fact, if a producer who is not a director is replaced, the existing materials can be directly used for editing. Chen Yiming's criticism is mainly due to the style of the film and has little to do with the quality.

Clicking to send the email with the modification comments, Chen Yiming was able to get involved in the preparation work for "The Thirteenth Floor" again.

The good days of Chen Yiming's beauty have finally come to an end. Next, he needs to go to Chongqing, while An Meizi returns to the imperial capital to adjust and prepare to join the filming of "500 Days of the Summer Solstice".

During this time, Xiangrui has finished adjusting the script, and the team building work was completed one month in advance. The shooting can be started as soon as the filming permit is issued.

She didn't even need to go to the Phantom Factory to borrow people. Just the nutty classmate who recently came to join her, and the two sets of people were rich.

You must know that most film and television majors who study abroad can only film low-profile online dramas or do wedding planning after returning to China. Not everyone can be like Xiangrui, and their graduation works are supervised by double-gold directors.

Buildings of 20 to 30 floors stand staggered on ramps with huge height differences, and different floors are connected by corridor bridges.

After jumping from the 16th floor, it seems that you fall directly to the 8th floor, but there is an invisible 13th floor as a buffer in the middle.

She has confidence in the scenery of her hometown. Qindao is a coastal city with four distinct seasons. Each season has unique beauty. It is perfect for filming a lingering "romance film" like "500 Days of Summer Solstice".

You can imagine that although the corridor bridge is built between floors with widely spaced heights, there is an invisible transition floor in the underlying rules of the world, which is also the 13th floor in the movie title.

"Thank you, teacher, please take a look, that's probably what it means.

However, at a glance, Xie Tianfang is in his forties, his movements are crisp and clear, and he still displays the elegance of an action elite back then.

This is a handsome old man. His slightly flabby cheeks and forward-leaning back reveal his true age, which is nearly sixty years old.

Before coming here, MISS Hou told me about parkour instruction, but now it seems that such a height difference is not just as simple as parkour, it can be called bungee jumping.

After bidding farewell to An Xixi, Chen Yiming met as scheduled on Tuesday with Xie Tianfang, the action coach he had been thinking about for a long time, who came from Hong Kong City.

And unlike the last time "Love Letter" was hastily started, the preparations for "500 Days of Summer Solstice" were very leisurely. Xiangrui learned from Chen Yiming's experience and combined the movie with the urban scenery to consider everything.

Xie Tianfang flipped through the storyboards one by one, and after a while he answered, "Don't be so polite, call me Brother Xie.

Qindao is currently planning to vigorously develop the film and television industry. When he heard that the "number one" female director in China was going to return to his hometown to film a sequel to the hit movie "Love Letter" (that's how people understood it, Xiangrui was helpless), naturally he was Green light all the way.

Chen Yiming took out the storyboards involving the chase sequence and compared them to explain.

After a few pleasantries, the old man asked about the project directly, and said rather humbly, "I don't know if I can be of help. I'll contact you as soon as possible to avoid any delays."

The location she chose for the movie was her hometown, Qindao, a port city on the coast of the Yellow Sea in the north of Shanghai.

Xiangrui plans to start filming during the summer vacation and strictly follow the timeline in the script until next spring. All outdoor scenes will be shot in natural locations.

Xiangrui also knows that love education films have inherent disadvantages in terms of word-of-mouth communication, so he deliberately makes up for it in terms of filming.

Chen Yiming replied, "It can be said that there is, or it can be said that there is not. They have some kind of power of rules. Although they are not supermen, they have some ability to take shortcuts.

Look at this picture, you can see someone falling straight down from the 16th floor to the 8th floor. It is far from enough to roll to relieve force at such a height. I heard that this is a science fiction movie. Are the actors supposed to have super powers or future technology? "

The Fu family is considered a big family in Qindao, with deep connections in all aspects. There is no need to work hard like in "The Thirteenth Floor" to engage in government public relations.

The effect I hope to present is to use the covered bridge to chase between buildings. "

Every building in the movie has an invisible 13th floor. Since the foundation elevation of each building in the building group is different, it is equivalent to the entire building group having many invisible buffer pedals. "

Xie Tianfang understood this setting immediately, because the high-rise buildings in Hong Kong City also jump directly from 12 to 14, or they have to get a 12A instead.

The old man was inspired by this idea and asked, "Does this invisible pedal have real physical feedback?"

Xie Tianfang is worthy of being a self-taught filmmaker, and he immediately grasped the pain points of this scene. Chen Yiming himself was hesitant.

Just invisible steps will definitely not work. Without the specific environment, the chase will look very crazy. It is just two supermen fighting with the air in mid-air. But Chen Yiming didn't want to break through the basic rules of physics and make it look like Neo vs. Smith in "The Matrix". He always felt that it was too frivolous.

If the object that is set to be bound by the rules touches the rules, it will trigger the visualization effect of the underlying architecture, which can solve the force feedback problem of the "void steps".

But this brings another problem, which is how to present the 13th layer of visualization.

This setting was derived from the real scene of Chongqing City. It has broken away from the categories of "copying" and "magic modification". It is really his own fault.

Chen Yiming could only admit embarrassedly, "Brother Xie, I haven't thought about this problem yet. Do you have any ideas?"

Xie Tianfang chuckled, "To be honest, before I retired, I was still preparing to shoot a parkour-themed action movie, but of course I gave up later, which was the main reason why I came here.

At that time, I felt that climbing, running and jumping from a height of 2 stories was not cool enough. When Wu Lianjing was young, he jumped over 4 stories, which was considered the limit of stunts.

I also admit this, there is no point in raising the level, except to prove that martial arts is not afraid of death.

My idea at the time was to use the movie setting to redesign the parkour segment by simplifying the force-driven movements.

For example, a certain kind of future technology glove can amplify the buffering effect on the force of falling, allowing the actor to land directly on the 8th floor by just touching the edge of the floor. "

Chen Yiming's eyes lit up when he heard this, so action design still needs professionals to do it.

Xie Tianfang's thoughts reminded him of a Hollywood movie "Dragon's Den" starring Jet Li in his previous life. In it, the agent played by Jet Li descended from the top of a skyscraper with his bare hands and parachuted in through the gap in the balcony.

Of course, this section was shot in sections with the help of editing. Even if Jet Li is very good at it, there will only be one result, that is, he will be smashed into dumpling stuffing.

But when this scene was combined with Xie Tianfang's idea, it perfectly solved the problem that Chen Yiming was struggling to solve.

It's a genius idea to build it up. In this way, the invisible 13th floor only needs to expose a small area of ​​​​actual contact, which greatly enhances the fun and suspense of the parkour sequence.

As expected, ginger is very old. The old man has been making action movies all his life, and he has too much stuff in his stomach. Even taking out the semi-finished product has a deafening and enlightening effect.

Chen Yiming excitedly told all his thoughts, and Xie Tianfang nodded, "Very good, this is the parkour I wanted to present.

It is not a skill to transfer extreme sports into movies as they are. You must have your own creation when filming, so that the audience will feel that it is impossible in real life. "

Chen Yiming suddenly felt like a confidant. This sentence simply spoke to his heart. Isn't making a movie just a daydream?

The two of them immediately got into a great conversation, and they simply went through the drafts page by page in the office, how to shoot this one, how to deal with that one, and the conversation got out of hand.

This aspect is Xie Tianfang's area of ​​strength. He is very experienced in visual deception in stunt shots.

What's even more commendable is that the old man is not a serious martial artist, he does not reject the so-called "sneaky" technical methods, and he has the spirit to keep pace with the times.

"When we were filming, there were no computer special effects, we had to really throw and beat them, and the brothers just traded their lives for money.

If there had been a green screen at that time, it would have caused all my old friends to get injured.

I have worked with both Wu Yue and Aaron. Youngsters are lucky to have caught up with them at a good time. "

Xie Tianfang explained his action design plan in detail. To summarize briefly, he used green screen keying and CG imaging technology to move the void chase scene to the studio to complete it.

The first step is to capture the scene outside the location, completely copy the corresponding real scene of Chongqing into the computer, and draw up the pursuit route based on it.

The second step is storyboarding, which divides the entire scene into shots. Each shot is modeled independently, and the buildings involved are fully reproduced on the computer.

The third step is to insert 13 floors, and add borrowing points to the route based on Newton's law and the relevant building height.

The fourth step is solid modeling. Each room, balcony or window sill that jumps out of the building is reconstructed in the studio and hoisted to a high place. The studio and the ground are surrounded by green screens, and the shelves in mid-air are also painted with green screens. Curtain wrapped.

The preparations before shooting are basically completed here. The actors can start parkour after tying safety ropes. If you want to save money, you can shoot the chase scene inside the building. Of course, if you have enough budget, it is better to build a tent, which will make it easier to control the progress. .

From now on, it is not the scope of the old man's work, but the work of the special effects studio.

(End of this chapter)