Chapter 595 Bullet Time
The stronger the enemy, the more motivated Lin Han will be. No matter what the winner is, you can shoot the movie to the extreme, and leave the rest to the audience. .
The audience is not the same as before. They know how to distinguish the quality of the movie, and will not blindly follow the trend, and their tastes become more and more picky, so what Lin Han has to do is put his conscience in front of the audience!
What left the deepest impression in "The Matrix" is the scene of time solidification, which is the various slow motion scenes in the movie, such as the heroine Trinity kicking over the police in a hotel, the savior Neo avoiding Agent Smith's bullets on the roof, and Neo and Agent Smith flew into confrontation with two guns in the subway, etc.
These shots magnify the action time of a moment. Such a picture is presented to the audience, and Lin Han can drive the audience to appreciate this moment from all angles!
This non-realistic view of time can actually be more integrated into the story background of the movie, forming a unique visual impact, and will leave an extremely unforgettable impression on the audience.
Of course, the most classic shot in this movie is the magical "bullet time", which is famous throughout the history of film.
In terms of visual effects, this is actually a disguised slow motion. It uses normal camera speed to display high-speed movements such as bullet flight, fighting, etc., so these movements seem to slow down, but ordinary people not only don’t feel the drag, but instead expand the pleasure of speed infinitely!
When Lin Han was watching this movie, he was shocked by the amazing creativity of the Wachowski brothers. Neo slowly leaned towards avoiding the bullet in the rotating mirror. For the first time, people really saw the operation of the bullet and saw the panoramic scene of 360° rotation when the bullet was frozen. He used slow speed to reflect the speed, and the effect and visual impact were enough to make people remember it.
At present, the scene they are about to shoot is the famous bullet time, but except for Lin Han, the rest of the people are not aware of the shock this shooting method will bring to the world.
In front of the green screen, Chu Guang, wearing a black windbreaker, was hanging an extremely small steel wire around his waist. Without the help of this Wia, he would not have made those difficult moves. This is the legendary "Iron Banqiao" posture!
Judging from the scenes in the movie, Neo seems to have broken through the limitations of gravity, and his whole body is parallel to the ground. This leaning posture with a flying windbreaker looks crazy and cool!
Lin Han knew that there were about five ways to shoot bullet time, but he had never tried it. After all, he was just an ordinary reader in his previous life.
What is bullet time?
Many viewers think that bullet time is to shoot bullets to break things or slow motion, which is wrong!
Only when space displacement is performed during extreme time changes or unchanged is this bullet time!
The asymmetry between time and space has caused this surreal visual effect and turned into God.
Simply put, time is limited, but the concept of space is free. It is very expensive to shoot such lenses, either using an ultra-high-speed camera with a robotic arm, or using a camera array.
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"Director Lin, I really can't shoot the effect you mentioned." Photography director Zhao Yuankun said with a hint. He tried it several times, but it didn't work at all!
Lin Han touched his chin and asked, "How did you do it?"
Zhao Yuankun pointed to the shooting scene not far away, "I tied a small transmitter to the camera so that the camera can move at a very fast speed."
"Actually, I have a better idea. Do you think it's okay to put a circle of cameras on the green screen shooting side, allowing the camera to capture each lens in a row quickly, and then post-process these lenses?"
Lin Han is just talking about it on paper now. This method was seen in his previous life. He didn't know how to use it, how many cameras to put on, and how to quickly start shooting these cameras, so he had to ask Zhao Yuankun, a professional.
This is the role of photography director. Lin Han does not expect that he will be an all-round person with professional knowledge in photography to provide directors with professional knowledge in photography!
Zhao Yuankun patted his head with his hand, and he said to himself: "It is feasible in theory. Using many cameras to release the shutter at the moment of the actor's performance, capture the instantaneous images, and then continuously display them. But we don't know how many cameras we need, how many pictures we need to take, and what angle and direction to shoot. These problems cannot be solved without solving them!"
Isn't this easy to deal with?
Lin Han snapped his fingers, "Now that computer technology is so developed, we can just find someone to make a computer model for analysis. Everything is possible in the computer era!"
The entire crew started to move for Lin Han's idea, and the actors were all happy and relaxed. At least they didn't have to work too much, but Chu Guang couldn't do it.
Lin Han used a video camera to capture Chu Guang's performance in front of the green screen, then transmitted the image to the computer, analyzed Chu Guang's movements through software, and created his actor model!
This is a foreign aid specially hired by the crew. Tang Rui, an expert invited from the Tsinghua University Computer Research Center, placed multiple cameras in the three-dimensional software according to the set trajectory, and then generated a virtual picture from the position of each camera. After they were continuously displayed, they obtained the effect of booking for cameras.
"Teacher Lin, what do you think of this?"
The picture simulated by a computer looks pretty good, but Lin Han thought it could be more refined, so he dragged a chair and sat next to Tang Rui, and gestured to him on the screen with his finger: "Will the number of cameras be a little small? Also, you can test the shooting speed slightly faster or a little slower. Let's test as much as possible to avoid wasting time when shooting."
This is the benefit of the technology era. If there is no computer, how much film will be wasted if you start shooting directly?
Now we can simulate the best solution directly on the computer, saving time and money!
Tang Rui was not impatient. He slowly and carefully debugged according to Lin Han's requirements. After a whole day, he decided on the shooting plan.
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The next morning, Lin Han came to the studio. He was shooting this shot in his dream last night, and now he wants to go to the scene to shoot it.
Although this scene is Neo facing Agent Smith avoiding bullets, Chu Guang completed it alone during the shooting process, and Xu Jiayan will be produced through editing!
In front of the green screen, Chu Guang was a little nervous because he had too many cameras around him, and even celebrities had never seen so many.
Hundreds of cameras are placed accurately on a route set by the computer tracking system, and the shutter control is concentrated, which facilitates the selection and adjustment of shooting moments.
Xu Jiayan, who has no scenes for the time being, looked at this posture in a daze. He turned his head and asked Lin Han: "Director, how many cameras are there? It's so scary!"
"122 units." Lin Han, who was checking the monitor screen, replied without raising his head. This was the result of the crew busy for two hours early in the morning!
Xu Jiayan breathed a sigh of relief, "The cost of so many cameras must be very high, right?"
Lin Han smiled bitterly, and he sighed and said, "This is not taking photos, this is burning money!"
"You took our pay off to play this. I have been filming for so many years and haven't seen any crew filming in this mode. What should I do if I suddenly want to experience it?"
"Don't even think about it. I rented these cameras with shamelessness. I'll lose 100,000 yuan in one stroke. But the effect is really good, it looks very good, and it can stop time completely! This is incomparable to other shooting methods."
At the shooting site, these Nikon cameras were neatly arranged, and wires of different colors were extended from each camera, which was impossible for laymen to understand at all.
After the preparations were ready, Lin Han shouted with the loudspeaker: "All departments are paying attention, the shooting will start soon, please let the unrelated personnel back a little! Chu Guang, are you ready?"
Chu Guang, who was standing in front of the green screen, made an OK gesture, and the shooting began with the knocking of the scene record!
The large electric fan in front of Chu Guang began to roar. The feeling of a windbreaker fluttering in the studio was only artificial wind. With the help of the wind, Chu Guang slowly leaned back with the help of the pressure, and the bullet began!
The camera shutters surrounding Chu Guang began to ring one after another, and they started taking pictures according to the pre-programmed computers and time intervals.
At the starting position, this high-speed camera accurately grasps the posture of bullets flying in the air. The high-speed camera with up to 12,000 frames per second is very powerful!
The 122 Nikon cameras took photos at an average speed of 300 frames per second. The images of each frame were scanned into the computer for processing. It was obvious that in just a blink of an eye, a considerable number of photos have been taken!
In these few seconds, a lot of film was consumed, and Lin Han felt distressed when he burned money.
The most important thing is that he is not sure that the shooting will be done this time, so he must wait for the computer to process the results before preparing for the reshoot.
Tang Rui was already busy at this time. He used image mode to identify the photos he had just taken, and virtually repaired the differences between the two adjacent chapters of the photos. After rendering, he generated coherent and smooth movements of the subjects under a 360-degree lens!
Then, after using a computer software that Lin Han didn't understand at all, the final synthesis and correction was performed, and the coherent dynamic image and the background were integrated. After seeing this semi-finished product, all employees were so surprised that they couldn't speak for a long time!
Too shocking!
It's simply an epoch-making idea!
It's not slow motion, it's better than slow motion!
Originally, many employees were curious about how to shoot Neo's scene of dodging bullets, but after seeing Lin Han's creative shooting method, they were all shocked!
"What's the name of this shooting method?" Xu Jiayan said blankly. He only regretted that he was not Chu Guang and failed to enjoy such treatment.
Chapter completed!