Made in Hollywood

"Adjust the No. 4 machine to the aerial shooting!"

The set was busy but not chaotic. Duke held up the loudspeaker and kept giving orders, "Cruz, you have a problem with the aperture of the second unit, readjust the white balance. The third unit, you just need to stare at the heroine!"

Throwing the loudspeaker to Sofia Coppola next to him, Duke walked into the built bus, nodded to the actors who greeted him, and walked directly to the driving seat.

"Uma, you also had a problem during the trial shooting."

Sitting in the driving seat is a blonde woman who is five feet ten inches tall. Like most Hollywood actresses, she is very skinny. It may be an exaggeration to describe it as skinny, but she is almost as thin as this body. limit.

"You were too wild just now." Duke reminded her, "Retract, and don't stare at your eyes. This is a very bad habit. Your facial lines are already tough, and the staring look is too fierce!"

Turning around, Duke looked at Keanu Reeves again, maybe he had been mingling with Johnny Depp and Revan Phoenix for many years, or maybe he hadn't completely got rid of the previous role, he was hanging on him. ｀｀Dang's prodigal breath is a bit much.

"Keanu, put away all your cynicism! I don't expect much of you. I tighten your face and show the most serious expression!"

"I know."

Keanu Reeves waved his hand casually, not too much to buy Duke's account.

Glancing at him again, Duke turned and walked into the back compartment. Since entering the crew, Keanu Reeves looks like this. Perhaps he should also be thankful that at least the other party did not take drugs. After he has taken drugs, come back to the crew. Filming.

"And you!"

Sitting in the carriage were Asian, Russian, African, Latino, and white actors including Naomi Watts. Duke’s gaze swept over them one by one, “You’re not a display, every expression of yours , Will have an impact on the male and female protagonists, don’t let me see your stupidity again! Otherwise I will replace you!"

After getting off the temporary bus, Duke returned to his position, deployed the various departments, and shortly after calling for the clearance, the shooting continued.

For this kind of film, the requirements for the actors are not particularly strict, and Duke does not need difficult long shots. After more than ten days of running-in, the efficiency of the crew has improved somewhat, although he will adjust the camera position in many scenes. Re-set the scene to make up for the mistakes caused by lack of experience, but in general, it is much smoother than the first week of booting.

The meticulous study of previous lives still has a little effect.

Especially in Duke's plan, the length of the final release version of the film is between ninety and one hundred minutes, and he will not shoot many shots that are unnecessary and consume film and funds.

Although there is no say in financial matters, the film’s production budget is only $15 million, and Duke must plan carefully when shooting.

But when it comes time to spend money, Duke will never shy away, just like a few explosion scenes to be filmed.

After the shooting in the morning, Duke did not eat lunch. With several teams including photography and special effects, they left Universal Studios in several cars and rushed to a small town on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. The crew was there a few days ago. An independent house that is about to be demolished and suitable for shooting was found there.

I bought hamburgers and cola casually on the road to serve as lunch temporarily, which is normal for the busy crew.

"Not to your appetite?"

Sitting in the back of the pickup truck, Duke saw Sophia Coppola never touched her burger.

"This kind of thing is a woman's natural enemy." She didn't even look at the hamburger exuding alluring fragrance.

Hearing this, Duke remembered that Sophia was once an actor, even now, it can be described as skinny.

Duke’s appetite was not very good. He ate a quarter of the burger and threw it aside. He also wouldn’t touch a carbonated drink like Coke. Taking advantage of his rare free time, he simply closed his eyes. I was too mentally stressed and fell asleep in the car. By the time Sophia Coppola awoke, the car had already driven into the small town.

"Thank you!"

Pulling off the blanket covering his body, Duke said to the side, Sophia shrugged, "You are welcome."

The crew of the crew traversed the town, came to the far east, turned into a fork, drove for about five minutes, and finally stopped in front of a white wooden house.

The house is not big, that is, it looks like one hundred square feet. Because the crew just renovated the house a few days ago, the house is not dilapidated from the outside. The most important thing is that the house is quite far away from the surrounding neighbors. Even if there is a Tomahawk missile-scale explosion, it will not affect other people.

All the formalities have been completed, and Duke and others got busy immediately after getting off the car.

The special effects team and the pyrotechnic team are busy arranging explosives, the two producers are communicating with the owner of the house, and Duke directs the camera team to arrange the seats.

This is a field shooting. There is no chance to come back after shouting ‘cut’. The only thing to be thankful for is that he used to shoot many explosion shots independently.

"Cruz, place Unit 1 and Unit 2 on the front."

Standing on the lawn in front of the house, Duke confessed to the director of photography Cruz, "These two cameras use wide-angle shooting. The third and fourth cameras are arranged at an oblique angle of forty-five degrees to capture close-up shots of the explosion. Picture. And, what about the wireless high-speed camera I want?"

"Ready." Cruz asked Duke to look at the prepared camera.

"This is the fifth machine." Duke looked at the dummy in police uniform placed on the side, "put the camera on it."

Obviously, Duke will use it to capture internal explosions.

Just as Cruz was about to leave, Duke grabbed his arm and reminded, "The camera must be placed two hundred feet away!"

Although he valued this filming very much, Duke did not want a tragedy.

After explaining this, he entered the house again, turned the corridor, and walked into a bedroom. The prop group was setting the scene here, trying to restore the scene of the studio, which was also the first explosion point.

Seeing the pyrotechnic group with explosives buried in the support point of the house, Duke suddenly felt itchy in his hands. He was a good player in this industry in his previous life, but now he will not grab someone’s job. For him, shooting explosions More important than making an explosion.

Stepping out of the house, the four cameras on the front and the **** have been set up. Duke walked across the lawn and walked behind the cameras to check the shooting angles. After confirming that there was no problem, he returned to the vicinity of the first machine.

"Why use line control?"

Looking at the people who were wiring in the distance, Sophia Coppola asked him curiously, "Isn't wireless remote control more convenient?"

"You don't know?" Seeing her blankly, Duke briefly explained a few words.

Wire-control explosion is a rule that the crew must follow when shooting. Many people think that the explosion was operated by a pyrotechnician with a remote control. In fact, it is not. Because there are too many communication tools, it is easy to interfere with the signal and cause false explosions. Safety.

This kind of misunderstanding is also inseparable from Hollywood movies. The characters in the movie always press the button smartly, blasting vehicles or buildings to pieces, but never look back at the flames of the explosion...

Under normal circumstances, the explosives used by the crew for filming are also completely different from military or mining explosives. The principle of the latter two is that solids instantly turn into gas and the explosive power is huge; for filming, special soft explosives are used, and the principle is that combustion produces pressure. The explosion is much less destructive.

In some shots of bomb explosions, the power of soft explosives is obviously insufficient, and the shooting effect is not good. In fact, it is easy to solve. You can fill some dust inside the bomb made of plastic foam, and dust will appear after the explosion. effect.

Of course, if you want to shoot a shot that blows up a ship, a large car, and a house, you must use military explosives.

What the pyrotechnics group is controlling is military explosives!

If you want the explosion scene of the building to meet Duke's requirements, the amount of explosives required is quite large. The pyrotechnic group has placed nearly 30 pounds of explosives in various key parts of the house. Obviously, it is not only to blow the house, but to let it. Thoroughly enjoy the treatment of a local plane.

"You mean..."

After hearing Duke's words, Sophia slowly opened her mouth, "They used military explosives? There are still thirty pounds?"

"Because I want an earth-shattering explosion!"

With his arms folded, Duke calmly looked at the house in front of him that was about to fly into the sky.

"You're crazy!" Sophia squeezed out the words from her teeth, hardly without a nasal sound.

"I want the best visual effects." Duke's face was faintly filled with enthusiasm, "There must be crazy spirit!"

"Robin didn't stop you?"

"There are no stars in the film, and the director is also an unknown little character like me." Duke suppressed the frenzy in his heart and regained his peace. "Only if it is thrilling enough to attract the audience."

It took three full hours before the site layout work was over. All the cars drove far away. Duke stood behind Unit One and raised the loudspeaker.

"Clearance?"

"The clearance is over!"

"photography?"

"Ready!"

"..."

After the routine questioning, Duke raised his finger to the firework crew, and the firework crew immediately replied with an "ok" gesture, and another person shouted the countdown in the loudest voice.

"10, 9, 8, 7... 3, 2, 1!"

"Detonate!"

The invisible electric current activated the detonated ** along the line, a deafening explosion sounded suddenly, and the orange-red fire rushed into the mid-air about fifty feet. The white wooden house instantly disintegrated, and countless fragments scattered all over, hot. The air wave came like a sea tide.

A large number of debris fell on less than fifty feet in front, the frantic air wave pressed the hair backwards, the ears with earplugs buzzed, and the ground under the feet seemed to be trembling...

None of this can distract Duke. He is engrossed in manipulating the camera, like the most fanatical religious man, using the lens to worship the flames of the explosion!

"God! God!"

Shaking her hands, Sophia Coppola slowly took off her earplugs, bent over to support her thighs, and stared at the guy who was still controlling the camera. She and Duke have been together on the set for the past half a month. I'm familiar with it. At this time, where is Duke still calm and indifferent, he is simply a lunatic!

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