Poverty story after Tokyo actress

Chapter 170: Jiang Bai's Lighting

How to shoot, for Jiang Bai, is nothing more than the normal three axes, camera position, lighting, and movement.

Basically, photographers rely on these three points to make a living. The camera position is to design the position of the camera. There are many people who can be responsible for this. The storyboarder can design, the director can design, and the cameraman can design.

Moreover, there are generally multiple cameras in a scene, and the director chooses the best shots among them to edit into a film.

But it is a coincidence that Jiang Bai happened to be in charge of these three positions at the same time. It can be said that no one in the crew knows the camera position better than her.

Lighting is the most important thing, and many well-known photographers rely on this thing for dinner.

Even the photography style of many photographers can be seen directly from the light and shadow of the film.

For example, Wong Kar-wai's royal photographer, Du Kefeng, this Australian photographer can be said to be a master who uses lighting to perfection. He is very good at using light and shadow to project the characters' faces to outline the inner emotions of the characters, so as to create unique Wong Kar-wai films. Alienation between people.

This big guy's use of artificial light is a must. The changes in warm and cold tones, and the layout of light and shadow depths, not only conform to the sense of space, but also give a visually dreamy experience.The ambiguous and psychedelic ambiguity adjusted by light and shadow makes every audience who loves Du Kefeng's works want to stop.

Each photographer's lighting has its own characteristics. Du Kefeng's lighting is ambiguous and psychedelic, while some people choose to use the natural light instead of artificial light.

For example, Greg, the photographer of Villeneuve's "Dune", relied on the reflection of sand grains to increase the brightness of the environment to shoot pictures of dunes, pursuing a single light source, low brightness, minimizing artificial light, and restoring the most realistic luminosity.

And the final film formed a generally gloomy gray tone film. It stands to reason that the real light source environment would not have such low brightness.

But it’s not that Greg didn’t restore it, it’s that the camera can’t do it. The camera’s light sensitivity is not comparable to that of the human eye, and the captured images are always much lower than the brightness of the human eye.

No matter how many generations the camera has been updated, it has always been difficult to match the human eye. Therefore, lighting can not only artificially create light and shadow, but also guarantee the picture that the camera can shoot.

Most of the previous photographers’ photography has always been around lighting, but in recent years, with the improvement of photography technology, a new trend is gradually born, which is to reduce the intervention of artificial light and use as much as possible The natural light that comes with the frame is used for photography, and Greg is one of the best.

The impact is that in recent years, more and more movies have the characteristics of low brightness, and the screen often appears dark, and it is basically difficult to see the situation in other places except for the key positions of the characters.

This kind of blank lighting also has its own taste, which has a strong effect in creating an atmosphere, but many people say that the picture is too blurry, and many of them cannot see clearly.

And which faction does Jiang Bai lean towards?

She prefers the former, relying on the light and shadow formed by artificial light to construct the picture, which is what she loves.

However, she does not reject the latter. After all, academics are commonplace, so why not use the latter if it has its own excellent results.

The last thing is movement, the movement of the camera lens, the lens moves following the movement of the actors, and this kind of movement is not simply following. An excellent photographer knows how to introduce the environment and characters during the movement, which is the so-called use of the lens say.

Which photography requires the most camera movement?long shoot.

This point is about the director of "The Revenant", Alexandro Gonzalez. This director is extremely good at long shots. In "The Revenant", there is a long-shot melee between the native Indians and hunters It took nearly 10 minutes from beginning to end, and it was hearty in one shot.

In this scene, the camera only relies on simple displacement to show the melee, from wide-angle focusing to small details, and then returning to the big scene from small details, with a certain degree of relaxation, which really makes many feel that long shots should be boring and long. Eye-opening.

This kind of long shot is naturally something Jiang Bai can't learn at present. After all, long shots not only rely on the photographer, but also rely on the director's ability to control the operation of the entire set.

Of course, shooting a TV series of "Parasite" and pursuing so many high-end things is indeed a bit demanding, and Jiang Bai will naturally not come up with a bunch of harsh shots to make things difficult for the crew.

For now, Jiang Bai doesn't mean to pursue any long shots. She is now mainly focused on how to light.

The scene that Jiang Bai is going to shoot now is the very first scene, which is the scene where Quan Xinyi meets the parasitic beast Mickey in the bedroom.

Apparently Shimizu was not joking when he said that he would reshoot.

This part belongs to the night scene, of course it is impossible to really wait until the night to shoot, the progress is really slow, and it does not match the work and rest time.

So the method chosen by the crew is to build a stage in the studio.

Night scenes are the most challenging type of lighting. Whether you can produce light with texture is the standard that can judge whether a photographer is good or bad.

And Jiang Bai watched the set for a long time, thinking about how he should not know the light source in this bedroom.

First of all, should the light source be designed indoors?Since it is in front of the water, it is best not to have light in the room, because this is not in line with common sense, and there is no one who turns on the light before going to bed.

Since no light source is designed indoors, how to let the outdoor light source shine in, and how to make the brightness of the light sufficient for photography while shining in.

Going so deep, Jiang Bai suddenly felt a little stressed. If this photography is really not a simple job, he watched the venue for a long time, and finally Jiang Bai came up with a way.

A ray of light outside the window shone into the bedroom as a light source.

But a single light is obviously not good, and the light coming in from the window can only illuminate a small area. The part that is the bed is obviously in a backlit environment. How can the part where the bed is located be illuminated by light?

Jiang Bai, who was at a loss for a while, scratched his head and looked around the set to find his way of thinking. Finally, her eyes were attracted by the dressing table not far away. What attracted her was not makeup but the huge mirror on the dressing table.

Immediately, Jiang Bai had an idea. She could use a mirror to reflect the quiet light projected outside, so that the corner of the bed could be illuminated by the light.

Finally, under Jiang Bai's tinkering, the environment in the bedroom was under the light outside, creating a hazy cold light environment. Jiang Bai also tried to blow the wind outside the window to drive the curtains, and use the swing of the curtains to flicker the incoming light. Lighting makes the whole environment lively.

"Perfect."

Looking at the current lighting environment, Jiang Bai showed a satisfied smile, and this operation was as fierce as a tiger, but after all, there are still a few people who can understand it. Many crew members watched Jiang Bai move the bright light and move the The mirror, and the hair dryer, the ultimate purpose is to light up the room, and the game is suddenly unclear.

"That...Associate director, if you want to brighten the light, we can place strong lights indoors." A young photographer suggested to Jiang Bai.

"..."

Regarding this kind of suggestion, Jiang Bai could only silently ask him to go aside and do what he should do. Therefore, if Bronze wants to understand the operation of diamonds, it still needs experience.

If anyone in the crew can understand Jiang Bai, then there is none other than the lighting engineer. When Jiang Bai fiddled with the lights at first, they watched it with the idea of ​​watching a joke.

After all, it’s fine if you, an assistant director, intervene in photography, and you’re still playing with the lighting. Can you adjust the brightness?Can you design the light source?

Although your acting skills are very good, but you have a specialization in the art field, and you already have something you are good at, so don't think about crossing borders to engage in fields that you don't know, and don't use your interests to challenge other people's food, assistant director, don't Look down on the lights!

And following Jiang Bai's smooth operation of adjusting the lighting, adjusting the brightness, and using mirrors to guide the projection of light, the group of lighting engineers suddenly discovered... This young assistant director seems to really have two skills.

"What do you think?"

"Ah? What do I think? I can only say that at least I can't figure it out. To be honest, my idea is to put a desk lamp indoors to adjust the brightness, but obviously the assistant director's lighting is more in line with the lighting environment in life. After all Who would turn on a desk lamp before going to bed?"

"Indeed, if you look at it this way, it looks like the light from the street lamp outside the house is projected into the house through the window. It's really ingenious. Apart from acting, this assistant director also knows how to light... I heard that he is also in charge of storyboarding. After all What else can she not do?"

"Probably... this is a genius?"

"So, watch and learn. This kind of lighting idea must be remembered in the future. Don't always stick to the rules and think that it is right to shoot the characters against the strong light. What is advanced lighting? This is called Advanced lighting! The assistant director is indeed a talent."

An older lighting engineer commented on the lighting environment built by Jiang Bai, while a stunned young apprentice on the side asked curiously: "But, master, didn't you just say that the deputy director should not be so young at a young age?" Challenge the domain you use to eat?"

For a moment, the surrounding lighting assistants instinctively distanced themselves from this stunned young apprentice, brother, you can't hit someone in the face, especially your boss's face!

"Well... so, is she an actress?" Compared with the lighting that the lighting engineer mainly talked about, Kayuno, who had been watching Jiang Bai's work, fell into doubt.

Are you Jiang Bai not an actor?What about photography and lighting?Are you afraid that you have taken the wrong career?

As for these two professions, Kayuno naturally doesn't know much about them. She watched Jiang Bai operate for a long time, but she didn't see the tricks. In her eyes, Jiang Bai just put a bright light outside the window to shine, and then there were a bunch Inexplicable behavior.

"Of course she is an actress, but what she is good at is not only acting." Eri Fukatsu explained on the side: "She is also an actress and an assistant director of the crew, responsible for the design of the storyboard."

"...also in charge of storyboarding?!"

For a while, Kayuno felt that she couldn't understand. She really didn't understand. Didn't Jiang Bai just become an actor a few months ago?How can you be a director now?

You are no longer a rising star, what kind of Wuhu rocket are you!

Chapter 170 Seven: Addicted

"..." Jiang Bai watched the performance of Someya Shota in the camera, thinking about how to render the facial gloss in the later stage.

And Someya Shota was quite uncomfortable with the reshoots, because Jiang Bai seemed to like close-up shots very much. Not only were there many camera positions, but there was always a camera very close to the cheek.

The camera that is too close is still a bit awkward for Someya, so that from time to time there will be some drama because of the existence of the camera.This kind of thing is not just for Someya, other actors have this kind of discomfort.

After actually entering the photography, the staff of the crew discovered the characteristics of Jiang Bai’s photography. First, there are many camera positions. Three camera positions can complete a scene, but Jiang Bai must arrange at least five camera positions.

Second, the camera position is tricky, not only there are a lot of close-up shots, but also tricky angles are often designed to adjust the camera position.And often close-ups of actors.

Third, I like handheld photography. Although Jiang Bai looks like a weak and beautiful girl, but after everyone got in touch with her, they found out that this weak woman is a double A of speed!A camera is less than a dozen catties, but Jiang Bai not only lifts the weight lightly, but can also run and jump in various ways, without the slightest feeling of weight.

Most male photographers are out of breath after finishing this kind of thing, but Jiang Bai never tires of it.

But for Jiang Bai, there is no way. Her photography skills are still immature, and her understanding is there, but the technology is still in the groping stage, so she uses this "stupid" method to adjust the camera position.

Although it costs a lot of resources, and there are bound to be many waste shots, fortunately, there are fewer mistakes.

And she likes the feeling of chasing light and shadow very much.

"Crack!"

Following Qing Shui's order, the filming of the last scene of the day was over, everyone relaxed and started chatting about what to eat tonight.

And Jiang Bai handed over the material he took to Qing Shui to watch.

Looking at it, Shimizu is emo, not to say that Jiang Bai's shots are not good, on the contrary, Jiang Bai's shots are very characteristic, it should be said, very stylish.

This style is obviously compared with the material captured by the previous one-sided ordinary photography method. From the same angle, the characters captured by Jiang Bai always have a different charm.

As for the photography of the first scene, Jiang Bai gave the whole environment a pale cold light, and put on the waste of gauze curtains on the window, making the light of the whole environment mottled and shaking.

Cooperating with Someya Shota's fierce dispute against the parasitic beast to parasitize himself, the light and shadow swayed on his cheeks, making the atmosphere of the whole scene tense and gloomy.

Comparing with the first version of the shot, the gap between the two shows instantly. In the first version of the shot, the whole scene basically relies on Someya's acting skills to adjust the atmosphere, and the ambient light is a desk lamp emitting warm light.

In terms of light rendering atmosphere, it directly lost to the light source environment designed by Jiang Bai. The final result is that the first version of the lens does not look a little tense, and the dispute between Quan Xinyi and the parasitic beast seems to be without fluctuations. It's like describing an ordinary little thing.

However, the version shot by Jiang Bai has an atmosphere almost thriller-like. In such an environment, a strange creature similar to an alien creeps out of the window and prepares to sneak into the protagonist's room. His head already felt shuddering.

Tsk, it's a pity that this girl doesn't make horror movies.

And this is the biggest difference between the scene under Jiang Bai's photography and the original photographer. In Jiang Bai's shots, the background is always very suggestive, the light is warm and cold, and the structure of the space is large.

Moreover, Jiang Bai is obviously using the light tone of the environment to distinguish the rhythm of the plot on purpose. For example, in the plot of danger coming, Jiang Bai will make the environment darker, colder, and plain, giving a sense of cold oppression.

In an environment where the danger has not yet come, but the atmosphere is very tense, Jiang Bai likes to add flickering light to the environment. For example, add an electric fan near the light source of the environment, and let the rotation of the electric fan make the light flicker uncertain.

In a mild environment, Jiang Bai will design the color of the environment to be warmer, such as the small park that appears many times in the plot. Originally, this park was a park that the crew found randomly, and there was no intentional design.

However, in order to enhance the environmental hint, Jiang Bai asked the staff to paint the color of the public toilets in the park from blue and white to beige, and some park equipment was modified, which can be said to have cost the crew a lot of money.

And this is one of the reasons for Shimizu emo.

Although the renovated park is obviously more warm, but such a waste of money just to improve the atmosphere of the background environment, this willful behavior still caused the producer in charge of the budget to criticize Shimizu.

"Tsk, Miss Miyano, you really make me scolded."

Looking at the material section by section, Qing Shui muttered to Jiang Bai with emotion.

"Ahahahaha, I'm sorry, director, I'm a bit over the top."

"You are really expensive. It is reasonable to say that our daily budget is 500W yen, but you took a day of shooting today, and you have already spent 800W." Kenichi Shimizu scratched his head in distress. , There are obviously more hair strands that have fallen out.

One of the reasons for Shimizu's emo is Jiang Bai's serious shooting, but it is not the only reason. The second reason is...the volume is too large!

As I said before, Jiang Bai’s camera position design is twice as much as that of the former photographer, and the material captured by Jiang Bai is also more than double that of the former photographer. You have to read it slowly.

Because he didn't finish watching, he didn't know which ones could be cut out and which ones could be kept. The quality of the materials taken by Jiang Bai really surprised Shimizu, but after the surprise, he was distressed. With so many high-quality lenses, which ones should he keep? .

It seems that I don't want to go to bed early tonight...

…………

"Husband, are you still asleep?"

It was already midnight, and Shimizu Kenichi was still sitting on the desk facing the computer and sorting out the materials he had shot today. His wife, who had been lying on the bed for a long time, asked with concern, frowning.

"Ah, yes, there are a lot of materials shot today, and they need to be sorted out."

Although it is already midnight, Kenichi Shimizu's spirit feels extremely excited, because it is really a kind of enjoyment to watch the materials shot by Jiang Bai. .

So although he talked about tidying up, in fact, Shimizu had been doing it for a long time, just slowly brushing the camera one by one, and tidying up was out of the question.

"A lot? Tidy up? I remember that your attitude was not like this before."

"Oh? What attitude?"

"In the past, no matter how many materials you stacked, once it was ten o'clock, you would stop working directly and prepare to rest. According to what you said, there is still more time anyway, so don't rush for a few hours."

The wife obviously knew Qing Shui's temperament very well, and even said accurately: "Besides, tidying up, don't you always like to push this kind of thing to the editor? Why did you suddenly change your temper and do it yourself?"

If something goes wrong, there must be a demon. Mrs. Shimizu got off the bed and leaned against Qingshui's table, wanting to see what her husband was looking at.

It is said that it is best to get married in a well-matched family. Shimizu and his wife are typical well-matched couples. They both came from a film family. Therefore, although Mrs. Shimizu does not work in the film and television industry, she has a very strong ability to appreciate movies under the influence of her ears and eyes.

Looking at the camera in Kenichi Shimizu's computer, Mrs. Shimizu's eyes lit up. Due to her female thinking mode, Mrs. Shimizu is much more sensitive to the beauty of the camera than her husband.

She could see the extraordinaryness of these shots at a glance, because the scheduling of light and shadow inside is really beautiful, the blending of light and dark, the division of cold and warm, most of the shots can be used as wallpaper if you just pull out a frame.

"Hey, hubby? Where did you find such a powerful photographer? The lighting arrangement is so beautiful, can you introduce me? I want to see his other works."

Seeing his wife being instantly captured by the materials shot by Jiang Bai, Qing Shuijian paused and said, "... Is there a possibility... I took all these materials?"