Chapter 242 There are more and more tea masters

August 6th.

Zhao Donghuai and the crew of "Wanted" went to Tung Chung. In three days, the "Wanted" team was established under strong appeal, and filming officially started today.

Although as a producer, not a director, Zhao Donghuai does not need to stay on the set all the time, he only needs to come and sit in occasionally, but few people in the world except him understand the camera array shooting of bullet time.

He had to preside over the filming of Bullet Time in The Matrix, which had a total of 120 cameras. Zhao Donghuai's family was even more prosperous, with a total of 180 cameras, including 180 photographers.

Yes, the Matrix used digital cameras to shoot Bullet Time, and asked professionals to write electronic programs to control 120 cameras. But this was only 1988, and there were no mature digital cameras on the market yet.

The first digital camera sold on the market was in 1991, priced at 1.7 million yen. By 1994 and 1995, digital cameras that were common in later generations basically swept the world.

At present, for camera array shooting, you can only ask the photographer to use a film camera to shoot. After taking the photos one by one, develop them and then put them into a supercomputer to process them frame by frame.

In other words, Zhao Films doesn't care about the cost issue at all. If you switch to an ordinary film company to shoot the film, who can afford 180 photographers to shoot bullet time for you repeatedly?

Of course, Hong Yanbao, Cheng Long, Yuen Biao, Jet Li, Andy Lau, Lin Zhengying, Bruce Willis, Jean-Claude Van Damme... Well, as soon as this project was spread, the business community in Haowan, Hong Kong was excited, and even Tokyo, South Korea

The same goes for business districts.

There are too many commercial companies that want to sell commercials. They just look at the lineup, don't read the script at all, and don't care about what you want to film. They all just wave checks or deliver a lot of products to make things happen.

Cheng Long was familiar with Mitsubishi Motors, but also European and American Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi, Cadillac, Ferrari, etc. After hearing that the crew would shoot a lot of racing scenes, they also sent a large number of Asia-Pacific presidents and the like to come.

Delivered car.

It's free, you can drive it as you like, it doesn't matter if it gets damaged.

This lineup is too strong. In the field of action movies, this is simply cheating!

The two Ip Man films have grossed US$100 million or US$200 million globally, Police Story 3 has grossed US$200 million, and Lam Ching-ying's Rescue 3 has also grossed US$300 million globally. Bruce Willis is at least the most popular in North America.

You can get 70 to 80 million knives in one place.

Ajay's Once Upon a Time in China has a global revenue of US$150 million.

When this group of superstars had the strongest appeal, they came together to form a ceiling lineup. You can imagine how attractive they were to advertisers. Under normal circumstances, let alone eight action superstars, new stars would come together to form a lineup.

If you can get three of them in one movie, it's a luxury.

After successfully hosting the opening ceremony in the old-style Destiny Loom nest that was built smoothly, Zhao Donghuai came forward and asked hundreds of photographers to spread out and set up several different photography positions according to the 360-degree model. Each photographer

They also have the same electronic watch on their wrists.

They just need to control it and take photos in batches within a few consecutive seconds.

One group of people took pictures in the first second of bullet time, the second group took pictures in the second second, and the third group took pictures in the third second...

Of course, some shots need to be divided into batches and tacit understanding, and some do not need to be shot at the same time. For example, when shooting the actual bullet coming out of the gun and its flight trajectory, you have to divide it into several batches in a few seconds, and the shot has long been empty because it was too slow.

This team needs to train for a while before the actual shooting. After training for a long time, they gradually have a unified rhythm and feeling.

In the afternoon, Hong Yinbao, Yuan Biao, Laura Fangna and others gathered together in the shooting area of ​​Destiny Loom Factory's shooting range. They looked at the photographers standing in layers starting more than ten meters away.

Shivering, he said, "Although I have long been used to facing cameras and photographers, this time it feels very different."

Isn't it? Hundreds of photographers were standing at different heights, near and far, and there were multiple video recorders placed in different areas. They turned on the camera and took the first set of real shots.

This is the scene in "Wanted Order" where the villain and boss, played by Hong Yinbao, demonstrates his gun fighting skills for the first time after the male protagonist joins the Loom Organization.

Hong Qinbao had to make a shooting action like throwing a knife, and fired the gun forward. There was a fan of pork hanging twenty or thirty meters in front, blocking the flight path of the bullet. The pork was a gun target thirty meters further forward.

The picture presented by the gun fighting technique is that after the bullet comes out of the barrel, it turns around and flies around the pork, and then circles back to hit the bull's-eye.

This time it's not a prop gun, it's a real gun and real bullets. Hong Yinbao needs to shoot first and let hundreds of cameras capture the flight path of the bullet. First, move the pork away and shoot the target normally. After taking pictures of the trajectory of the bullet, then let him

San Mao used a prop gun to perform the shooting action of throwing away a knife in a gun fight.

Yuan Biao hadn't started the performance yet, so he joked and complained, "Brother, can you do it? If you can't hit the target at the fifty-meter shooting range, you'd better use a stand-in. There are so many people, and if you miss the target, something big will happen."

Hong Qinbao, "..."

There were no people or obstacles on the fifty-meter straight road ahead. He felt that he should be able to do it? After all, it was not like he had never practiced shooting, including firing a real gun.

He is not a gun shooting enthusiast, but for men, if there are conditions, environment and opportunities, it is not a bad thing to occasionally shoot some guns to practice. For example, when Yuan Biao and Laura Fonna were filming (Mr. and Mrs. Smith), including shooting for real

Gun training.

Laura's special training lasted for nearly three months, and Yuanbiao's training lasted for one month.

Sanmao was silent for a few seconds before he smiled and said, "I'll try firing a few shots first. At least I won't miss the target."

After saying that, the three of them rehearsed before officially starting filming...

When Aikesh shouted, Fatty Hong just stood there indifferently. He was originally standing or sitting at a table with Laura Fanna and Bruce Willis to talk. Then he turned sideways after him.

He grabbed the pistol skillfully and fired at the target.

At the moment of the gunshot, a large number of flashlights flashed. This time, the 180 photographers all took the same action as Hong Yinbao when he pulled the trigger. It was just that the 180 cameras took pictures in different areas.

Zhao Donghuai put on sunglasses and shouted "click" behind the viewfinder, "click once, start again..."

In this era of bullet time and camera array shooting, it only consumes a lot of manpower and material resources, allowing photographers to capture the flying movements of bullets again and again. If you go slower, you will miss the shot and have to start over.

This is just to shoot the flight of the bullet after it comes out of the barrel, which is very easy to shoot. When you need to add various landscapes and actors and characters and start shooting action scenes, it will be repeated again and again, and the film will be consumed again and again.

But it's all worth it. As long as a satisfactory finished product is produced, Bullet Time will have the same impact as the dinosaurs standing on the big screen for the first time, and the sci-fi creativity of Source Code will amaze the world of film circles.

To put it bluntly, (Wanted) is filled with a lot of bullet time backgrounds, special effects and coherent scenes. Compared with The Matrix, it is an upgraded and optimized film and television project.

The gun fighting scene shows the flying bullets and the many turns? Those are all similar creative ideas made by the director from the director's shooting scenes on TV.

In the opening chapter, the male protagonist's father kills Mr.

Separation from the warhead, etc., shown in flashbacks.

If this kind of scene were shot and completed, it would definitely belong to the violent aesthetics of gunfights shown by Wu Yusen in "A Better Tomorrow", and would be enhanced to the level of seven or eight.

That flashback shot lasts for more than ten seconds, but if you want to shoot it well at this stage, it will cost a lot of manpower and material resources. In terms of cost calculation, 180 photographers, multiple video recorders, etc., to supercomputing...

Forget it, since the preparation period, we have already received a huge amount of advertising cash and in-kind sponsorships from various advertising investors, so just build it as you like, it won’t be a pity.

One day of busy filming didn't end until 6 pm. Zhao Donghuai stood up and said with a smile, "Let's go, let's have a launch party. There are so many big stars, we have to go celebrate."

At the end of the day, the entire shooting action of Hong Ping-bao and the flight trajectories of different bullets were filmed. These were finally integrated into the movie, which is the few seconds of Hong Ping-bao's first demonstration of gun fighting.

But the idea of ​​bullet time has just come out, and it requires photographers to cooperate with each other and work as a team.

After finishing work, the big team took the cruise ship to Yong Kee for charter. It was a cruise ship... Amin and Azhen's New World Passenger Transport had bought several second-hand and third-hand transnational cruise ships after the stock market crash, similar to the original Cheng Long (City Hunter)

The kind of Fuki Maru in the store.

Routes to Hong Kong, Haowan, Malaysia, Thailand, including Incheon and Tokyo are now in operation.

Now that a new big project has started, Zhao Tung Huai directly asked one of the passenger cruise ships to serve it. After all, it requires 180 photographers to regularly accompany the team to shoot scenes in Tung Chung, Yau Tsim Mong, Central and other places.

A large-scale wanted project requires a behind-the-scenes team of several hundred talents, which is more than just a supporting cast!

………………

a new day.

Zhao Donghuai had just arrived at the Tung Chung crew, and when he got off the plane with Guan Jiahui, he saw Xu Ke mixed in with the director team, chatting and laughing with Hong Yinbao, Lan Naicai, and Yuan Heping.

Miss Jiahui was surprised and said, "Didn't he start letting Li Lienjie to shoot? Director Xu didn't care about his son being a self-improvement crew member?"

Director Zhao laughed and said, "I think I'm here to see the bullet time shooting method just like you."

That's right, Kwan Ka-wai didn't have a role in "Wanted", nor did she make a cameo. She just came to play out of curiosity after knowing how to shoot bullet time.

Jia Hui, who was well fed, was considered the oldest among Zhao Donghuai's several girlfriends. Adjani was not counted as she was just helping out on a voluntary basis.

However, the 26-year-old Sister Guan is really mature in her style. When actresses such as Laura Fangna see her and take the initiative to say hello, Sister Guan can even outshine Laura.

When Xu Ke and a group of directors came to Director Zhao, they also directly stated their intention to come. Zhao Donghuai guessed right. Lao Xu was very interested in the camera array shooting method and came to learn from it.

Director Zhao laughed, "Just study and learn. I think today I will continue shooting as I did yesterday. After the shooting, I can wash it out first, select slowly, and then send it to the special effects base to try out the effect. A few seconds of bullet time slow motion will make the film."

come out."

"You directors know what this is."

Yuan Heping also laughed happily, "You don't even need to watch a few seconds of the finished film. The color comic-level scene script drawn by Zhao Sheng is already very exciting, and the display is very clear..."

"As long as the live-action movie shows the flashback scene of Mr.

Even the old people in the film and television industry, big directors and famous actors were shocked after reading the storyboard script, not to mention ordinary movie fans? It's like seeing Jurassic Dinosaur Park in comics, which is a visual stimulation and a big movie.

It's another kind of stimulation.

After joking and being polite for a while, the crew started working...

The daytime shooting went smoothly, but we worked from yesterday until the evening of the 7th. The entire crew only shot a few seconds and finished filming the scene where Hong Yanbao demonstrated bullet time and gun fighting skills.

There is no way. There is still a difference between manually controlled camera arrays and electronic program control. Electronic programs operate more than 100 digital cameras. Compared with manual operations?? That is the difference between computer calculations and human calculations.

After the work was over, when Zhao Donghuai flew over in a helicopter, Kwan Jiahui exclaimed, "It took hundreds of people to shoot a few seconds of scenes in two days, so how long did it take to shoot this movie? It was longer than Jurassic Park?"

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Zhao Donghuai shook his head, "No one understands the initial running-in. It is naturally a learning state. Once you get used to it, it will be much faster."

Sister Guan blinked and said, "Do you want me to make a cameo? I feel like this movie will be very sensational... After Yuan Biao was successfully trained, didn't he also kill a few ordinary bit parts according to the list given by the big villain?
To be continued...