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The importance of the director of photography to a crew is undoubtedly important. Murphy couldn’t get Philip Raschel’s phone and simply contacted his agent, but the agent couldn’t reach Philip Raschel either. , Murphy had to send someone to drive to Philip Raschel’s house to see.

Although his director of photography likes picking up girls and taking drugs, Murphy has rarely seen him late since the two worked together. It is unique that the whole crew is waiting for him alone.

Henry Cavill and Margot Robbie, who were ready on the set, looked at Murphy frequently, and Murphy simply asked them to tell them to go back to rest and wait.

After waiting for another twenty minutes, while Murphy was getting more and more anxious, Gal Gadot hurriedly walked over from the studio office area.

"There was an accident with Philip." She walked up to Murphy and said in a low voice, "On the way here this morning, Philip's car was hit by someone."

"What?" Murphy asked immediately, "How is he?"

Gal Gadot shook his head, "Philip himself is fine, but in his car..."

Having said that, she moved closer to Murphy, her voice lowered, "He has numb and another illegal drug in his car, which were discovered by the police handling the accident and have been taken to the police station. After Li's agent notified me, he rushed over."

Murphy took off the baseball cap he was wearing and threw it on his director's monitor, "Damn it!"

After complaining, he said again, "You go call Robert and ask him to go over and see if he can help, and get Philip out of it as soon as possible."

Gal Gadot nodded, "I'm going now."

Sitting in the director's chair, Murphy cursed a swear word, and there was a feeling of irritation.

No one can predict this unexpected situation.

Without Philip Raschel, his deputy can be in charge of the camera crew temporarily, but before the filming of "The Wolf of Wall Street", Philip Raschel’s deputy was poached by other crews, and the rest is just a little bit. Ability and experience are simply impossible to take charge of the camera assistant of the photography team. The investment in this film is so high, and Murphy's requirements are quite strict. It is impossible for these people to take the shot.

Now that the scene, lighting, actors, etc. are all ready, the entire crew is waiting for his director to give the shooting order.

Murphy hooked back and an assistant director came over.

"Let the crew take a half-hour break," he ordered.

After speaking, he stood up and came to the photography team, gathered all the photography assistants, and prepared to control the photography team by himself.

Most directors have a certain degree of in-depth research on photography, which is a must-have skill. Many lens directors will also shoot in person, and Murphy is no exception.

Although the director also serves as the director of photography to shoot the entire film, it is unrealistic for such a large production, but Murphy's short-term directing of the camera crew is not a problem.

Murphy said lightly as much as possible, "Fili has a little unexpected situation temporarily. I will be the director of photography for the time being."

The photography assistants nodded one after another, and could not say anything other than to cooperate with them.

However, in recent years, Murphy has been less and less involved in the actual shooting work, and more of the shooting is given to Philip Raschel. Now he must make adjustments as soon as possible to adapt to the work and the role. Variety.

Fortunately, Philip Raschel has conducted the necessary debugging and testing of all digital cameras. Murphy only needs to check the effect of the test and make appropriate adjustments according to his own requirements.

In Murphy’s crew, a film project has to start shooting, and the camera test is no longer required to apply for a special request from the director of photography. He has long asked Philip Raschel to prepare it directly during the preliminary preparations. Set aside time and funds for this link.

But even if the director of photography knows the equipment used and the rendering effect well, the crew still needs to test the camera, and every project needs to start from the beginning and perform a machine test.

This is because the crew’s camera test is not only for testing a machine, but for testing three important elements in the project: imaging tools for photography work, subjects for photography work, and tone color for photography work. select.

The final picture of the movie is the result of the mutual influence of these three elements. Regardless of the connection with other elements, the quality of the camera is only a small part.

In the past, when film was used, some films were tested with different lenses, different filters, and a variety of different shooting processes to observe their final performance when imaging actors, hairstyles and costumes, and sometimes even To test their effect when showing the scene.

Then the director of photography will work with the colorist to study these clips, evaluate different lenses, filters and processing procedures, and find out which combination is closer to the effect required by the project. These are the procedures in the film era, but the test did not follow from the film It doesn't matter if it's converted to digital.

On the contrary, testing becomes more important, because in the digital age, different elements are easier to obtain, so it is more necessary to pass tests to select the best combination.

Since Philip Raschel conducted a systematic test on the digital camera before, Murphy just carried out on-site testing in accordance with the process of testing on-site shooting before starting to shoot.

Through the results of the test, Murphy made appropriate adjustments to several cameras used for shooting, and then had people notify the crew to prepare to start shooting.

After the extras were in place and Margot Robbie and Henry Cavill got to know the position for the last time, the scene note placed the game card in front of the main camera controlled by Murphy and said loudly, "The Chaos "City", the first scene, the first scene, now begins!"

The lighting on the set seemed a little dim. An incandescent lamp shone on Margot Robbie's face. The heroine she played looked beautiful and determined, as if she had a sacred and unshakable faith in her heart.

Several sturdy-looking men in black lay on the ground without any movement.

In the shadow created by the set, a man in black leaned back in the corner, who could not see his face.

"Insisting on justice is a good thing," the black-clothed man's voice looked a little hoarse, "but in this chaotic and sinful city, if you want to uphold justice, you must first protect yourself."

Margot Robbie turned to look at Henry Cavill in the shadows, his voice was as strong as an expression, "I know what to do! Crimes should be punished by law, not like you. Use violence to control violence!"

Henry Cavill, dressed in black, stood up suddenly, "Only by making these people feel fear can this city be saved and the law can be implemented! This is now..."

"Cut!" Murphy called to stop shooting, came out from behind the camera, and said, "Pause for five minutes!"

Then he said to Henry Cavill and Margot Robbie, "It has nothing to do with you, it's my problem."

After finishing speaking, Murphy beckoned to an assistant camera, pointed at the main camera he was using, and said, "Adjust camera 1 to the left by 20 degrees. When I need to shoot Henry, there will be more shadows."

Next, he returned to the position of director, carefully watched the pictures taken by the second and third cameras, and made appropriate adjustments at the same time.

It is not an easy job to be the director and the director of photography. It is the first time for Murphy to directly serve as the director of photography.

The job of a cinematographer is not as easy to do as it seems.

An excellent cinematographer and technician, a brick wall that usually looks ordinary, through the photographer’s skill, add shadow, mist, light and other visual expression means, and then become the one in the film. The audience feels a mysterious zone full of fear.

To achieve these, photographers need to have a lot of professional knowledge, lenses, filters and laboratories.

Because every conceivable possibility has to go through countless explorations and studies in the course of experimentation. Whenever in the middle of these tools, an excellent photographer will sprout the interest of shooting and creation from the bottom of his heart, and they must work for the film. Create a lot of background atmosphere and emotional power.

For example, to make the heroine of the movie look more noble and charming, and the subtle changes in the character's psychology can be brought out through the change of color. For example, Murphy just requested this. When shooting some complex scenes, the choice of shooting angle is very important. It requires the precise cooperation of the director and the photographer, and how to make their lens in the best shooting position is also the most frequently considered issue for photographers.

Adjusted the camera. The next time I was shooting, because of Henry Cavill and Margot Robbie’s problems, I paused again. This shot was taken until the fifth time, and Murphy went back to the director’s monitor to see the other two. The shot taken by a camera was declared passed.

The next shots are basically two scenes of Henry Cavill and Margot Robbie. There is a strange layer between the male protagonist Chris Dan and the female protagonist Jay Rachel. Murphy needs the two to resonate with each other during the performance.

The shooting was not smooth. After a day’s work, only one-third of the planned shots were completed, but an extremely important position was missing. Murphy did not have a good way. After the shooting of the day, he was the first. Time called Philip Raschel and Robert respectively, learned about the situation, and then heaved a sigh of relief.

Philip Raschel’s car is not drugs like methamphetamine and cocaine, but marijuana and other less serious prescription drugs will not cause him too much trouble, but cooperate with the police to stay in the police station. Forty-eight hours is a must, this is also the lightest treatment.

This also means that Murphy will temporarily serve as the director of photography for a while.