Made in Hollywood

The time shifted to December, and some of the filming in the studio ended. Duke brought the entire crew to Las Vegas. After all, Las Vegas is a busy city. The shooting time was Tina Fei and It was finalized after many consultations by the Las Vegas City Hall.

Despite the strong support from the City Hall, Duke did not have much shooting time. The film at the end only has a one-week filming period. Fortunately, all Transformers will be generated in CGI in post-production without shooting their shots.

However, Duke is still engrossed. Before shooting each shot, he must also consider the effects of the Transformers. The shooting speed is not fast, but it keeps running as planned.

But there are always various accidents during shooting, and Duke sometimes comes up with new ideas and temporarily changes the shooting plan.

"Stop, pause for half an hour!"

A loudspeaker sounded on the set. After shouting to stop the entire crew, Duke jumped off the director's camera on the slide, walked to the other side of the street, and then climbed a higher step to observe the entire set condescendingly. .

This is the most famous Las Vegas Strip, but now it is not only temporarily closed, but also looks like a miserable alien invasion just now. The streets are full of used vehicles and tar road fragments.

Standing on the steps, looking at the m1a2 main battle tank in the distance, Duke thought for a while, made up his mind, and decided to increase the scene of the battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons again.

He summoned the heads of various departments including photography, fireworks, special effects, and props of the crew to the temporary studio, and called Andrew Garfield and Amber Heard, the heroes and heroines.

He simply said a few words to Jos Williams and John Schwarzman, "I want to add a set of more impactful shots here."

Then, Duke turned to Andrew Garfield, beckoned to the assistant behind him, "Bring the fire source!"

The assistant immediately fetched the prop fire source. Pass it to Duke's hand.

"So, Andrew."

This is a temporary addition to the scene. There is no such thing as a script. Duke pointed to the tall building in front of him and began to elaborate, "You take the fire source. Run to the predetermined building."

"Follow me and run again."

Duke took off his baseball cap, handed it to the assistant behind him, took off his sunglasses, hung them in the pocket of his shirt, ran forward a few steps, and said to Andrew Garfield who was following, "Then, a one in the sky. The F-22 Raptor fighter fell down."

"Let's run together once."

The two ran to the model car set up by the prop group, about twenty feet away. Duke stopped first.

"Andrew, after you run here." He turned his head to look at each other, pointed to the three cars on the catapult plane, and said.

"Starscream fell, overturned the cars, blocking your way, and then Tinhide and the ambulance rushed from behind. With a fierce exchange of fire with Starscream, you ran past them in the chaos."

"I understand."

It's been so long since I've been in the crew. Andrew Garfield also knows the style of the film, knowing that Duke is going to add more battles and explosions.

"Also." Duke beckoned to him. Andrew Garfield followed him to the fireworks group. Duke pointed to some cords thick with thumbs and said, "This is a detonating cord. There are many arrangements. You must rush over quickly and don’t trip over them."

This is the usual blasting props used in Hollywood. Although the explosion was shocking, it was not powerful, but Andrew Garfield also paid attention. After all, I was really bombed, even if I didn't suffer any injuries, it would definitely be uncomfortable.

The shooting of an explosion scene is not only costly, but also very cumbersome. It only took nearly two hours to arrange the scenes. Fortunately, this kind of scene does not require high actors' acting skills, otherwise Duke would call'cut ', it is no less than a disaster for the crew.

After checking the preparation progress of the crew, Duke stood behind the camera on the slide and shouted in front of the camera lens, "Andrew, are you ready?"

Andrew Garfield took the "Fire Source" from the assistant, gave Duke a thumbs up, took two deep breaths, and looked forward.

"Start!"

Hearing Duke’s shout, Andrew Garfield swiftly avoided the two cars that turned over to the ground and rushed towards the building not far away. He hugged the fire source that could destroy humanity. In his arms.

His speed is very fast, but in more than ten seconds, he ran dozens of feet. Seeing the target getting closer and closer, when he rushed to the door of a Lauder store, Andrew Garfield looked up. sky.

Although there was actually only air there, he appropriately showed a slightly horrified expression after seeing Starscream, and stopped quickly.

"Boom! Boom!"

More than 20 feet ahead, three cars were overturned by Starscream, which did not exist in the filming. Fire and smoke rose up. Three GM-provided cars were flew out by catapults, and speckled sparks rushed up. sky.

Holding the fire source tightly with one hand and covering his head with the other, Andrew Garfield turned his head and shouted to the back, "Ironhide! Ambulance!"

After waiting for about three seconds, several places in the front and rear were detonated at the same time. The smoke and the fire showed that the battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons had begun.

"Ironhide! Ambulance!"

According to the setting of the role, the male protagonist Sam is not the kind of high school student who used to be. He is not lacking in courage at the critical moment, "cover me! Cover me and rush over!"

After finishing speaking, he rushed forward again, dodging a burning car on the side of the road, gradually speeding up, and at the same time quickly jumping over the detonating cord arranged on the road.

Andrew Garfield's speed is getting faster and faster, wherever he rushes, fire and gunpowder are exploded, adding post-stage special effects, that is Starscream is chasing him!

"Boom!"

Just over twenty feet to his left, another car was bombed and flew into the air.

Against the floating smoke, Andrew Garfield rolled over on the black mat laid on the road, hid behind a small truck, took a few quick breaths, and stretched his head to look in the direction he came. .

Naturally, I can’t see the two robots that need to be added by cgi in the later stage, but explosions and fires are still appearing frequently. Cars flying or rolling or colliding, seem to prove the fierce battle that does not exist. .

Three cameras have been chasing Andrew Garfield, a camera assistant set up a Steadicam, ran out of the hidden camera position, and got close to him to give him the largest close-up.

"Ok!"

The explosion finally came to an end. Although not particularly satisfied, it basically achieved the desired effect. Duke raised the loudspeaker and said, "Good job, this one is over!"

Both the props group and the pyrotechnic group have worked with Duke for more than a decade, and the tacit understanding between the two parties is beyond doubt.

A successful director represents not only himself, but also a large and successful team behind him.

"Duke, great job!"

Taking advantage of the filming break, Hasbro’s CEO Brian Goldnor came over, "We have ruined a street in Las Vegas."

Although this is a bit exaggerated, the closed shooting of this street is really terrible.

Even if no roads and buildings were damaged, the destroyed cars and the props ‘tar blocks’ that sprang up after the explosion are everywhere on this road.

Don't worry too much about this. The crew has already contacted a special cleaning company, and someone will enter the street after a while to clean it up.

"Here, the US military will help kill several Decepticons."

This is the person in charge of Hasbro, and Duke also briefly said, "Since Transformers are life forms, they will also die. They are not invincible."

"I support your point of view."

Standing behind the camera with his arms folded, Brian Goldnor looked at the ravaged, disfiguring street, and said to Duke, "I think we have reached a consensus on this point. Transformers are powerful, but not invincible. Yes, although I don’t understand military affairs, I also understand that any powerful existence has its limits."

"Humans are indeed very weak compared to these huge alien life forms." Duke took a step aside and pointed to the bumblebee model lying on the trailer not far away. "But we are facing these mechanical life The body is not completely without the power to resist, as you said, they are very powerful, but not invincible. Some human heavy weapons can also harm them."

"You can measure this." Brian Goldnor is very clear. Duke said this, in fact, respecting Hasbro, the original manufacturer.

According to the agreement between the two parties, Hasbro does not have much say in the script and filming. Even if Duke does not explain, Hasbro has no right to interfere.

But Duke understands the importance of smooth communication and tacit cooperation to the success of the film, not only with Hasbro, but also with the US military.

The Pentagon has provided numerous sponsorships for the filming of the film. If it is calculated at the market price, it is worth tens of millions of dollars, and the cooperation between the two parties will not be only this time, and proper consideration must be given to promoting the image of the US military.

Although the situation in the previous life where the U.S. military cannot find an opponent on the earth and can only fight aliens, but human beings are too weak, they will not be welcomed by the audience. After all, the people who watch movies are still a group of humans. It is not a mechanical life form on the planet Cybertron, nor is Duke James Cameron. It will not come up with some movie plots in which aliens encircle and destroy humanity.

While Duke was shooting in Las Vegas, Anna Prinz led a camera crew to the Hoover Dam to shoot, where some heroes and heroines will be filmed, but more of it is to provide footage for post-production.

With Anna Prinz's ability, it is not difficult to deal with such a shooting. (To be continued...)