Bright Era of China Entertainment

Chapter 291 Master
The members of the special effects team were relatively young, and most of them were not a few years older than Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei.

Those who work on special effects are all men, and those who work on original paintings are more women than men.

When Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi returned to the production team, they each took a small notebook to record something, and they had already initially integrated into the working rhythm of the production team of "Zhu Xian".

Sitting and watching Zhao Jian filming for a few hours, during which time I chatted with Zhao Jian about the idea of ​​the screen presentation, Zeng Zhengzong and Zheng Min led the team to officially start the preliminary work of special effects, observing the environment near the scene of Caomiao Village and depict.

Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei also joined in to learn more about the production of special effects, and also to learn new things, not to mention learning how to do special effects by themselves, but at least to understand the whole process and details.

Whether as a producer or as a director in the future, if you don't understand these things, it will be unprofessional, and the time cost of communication will also cause a waste of money.

The Caomiao Village in "Zhu Xian" is a real scene, and the special effects of the scene must be faked, so the production process must be based on the real scene.

Walking and chatting along the way, after Zheng Min's explanation, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei also learned some information about the original painting profession and related work.

Original painter is a professional provider and designer of basic pictures for film and television drama special effects work. Original painter is just a general term for this profession, which is subdivided into several professions, each with different professional tendencies, to meet the different needs of customers and the market.

Just like Zheng Min is an original painter, but in their industry, the refined occupation is also called a concept designer, also known as an artist; the team members she brings are all her students, and there are also digital matte painters, distribution Mirror artist, visual effects designer.

Under Zheng Min's explanation, take the special effects of the first scene of "Zhu Xian" as an example.

The concept designer first draws the frame diagram, which is a large-scale scene diagram of the mountains and rivers near Caomiao Village;

The storyboard artist draws the special effect scene diagram under different sub-shots according to the frame picture decomposition diagram, and provides reference for the director and producer;
If the director and producer approve it, the digital matte artist will use the decomposition diagram to remove the special effects and then detail the scene to optimize the texture, and the final picture will become the scene picture after replacing the green cloth;
Taking the scene map that replaced the green cloth as the first special effects map, the visual effects designer began to design detailed special effects on the scene map, such as rolling rocks, grass fires, and waves on the river, which needed to be drawn frame by frame.

For example, in the first frame, the rocks start to fall freely; in the second frame, the rocks fall 10 meters freely; in the third frame, the rocks fall 20 meters freely...

When these pictures are processed and rendered by special effects technicians with computers in the later stage, and played at a rate of multiple frames per second, they become shocking special effects scenes that cannot be distinguished from real to fake in the eyes of the audience.

"Understood." Concubine Liu Yi closed the small notebook, and recorded the knowledge she had just learned. She put the notebook and pen back into the backpack. Perhaps she thought it was troublesome to carry the backpack on her back, so she carried it on one shoulder.

After preliminary understanding, she has a clear idea of ​​the production of the original painting of special effects, and she can also make up the pictures under the special effects lens in "Zhu Xian" step by step.

Her thinking also expanded, and it turned out that the tsunami, earthquake, ice and snow in those foreign blockbusters... were all drawn.

"It's amazing." She thought so.

"Go back." Chu Xuan said next to Concubine Liu Yi, the two stood on a hill overlooking the lively scene of people coming and going under the lights in the village.

At this time, the afterglow of the setting sun is about to dissipate, and it will soon be night.

Under the twilight, when you climb high and look far away, the surrounding landscapes also have a different kind of beauty.

Through the communication just now, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei understood the pre-production process of special effects. At least in the future, when the crew communicated with the special effects, the two of them would no longer appear so amateurish.

The road to a qualified producer has taken another step forward.

It was already night when we returned to the crew, and the crew was ready to call it a day.

"Brother Chu, is the filming of Caomiao Village finished?" Huang Xuan asked, and walked towards the commercial vehicle with Zhao Liying, Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi.

"The rest of the scenes will be filmed in the studio of Shendiao Film and Television City in Zhejiang Province." Chu Xuan said, his mouth was a little spicy after eating, so he took a sip of mineral water from Yang Tianzhen.

"Scenes related to special effects are usually shot in a studio." Concubine Liu Yi added, walking beside Chu Xuan.

Hearing this, Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying understood.

They had heard in the Shancheng crew that one scene would be filmed in a centralized manner.

There are still some scenes in the drama in Caomiao Village, among which there is a very important fight scene, and now the crew will call it a night, and the village committee only allows one day of filming, which means that tomorrow they will not be able to film here, but the scenes are still there. It wasn't over yet, which made them feel weird.

After hearing Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei's explanation, they understood, the studio is just hanging green cloth to shoot, right?The fabled non-physical show?
Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying were full of imagination and full of anticipation.

"Huang Xuan, go back and find out how you are. Tomorrow you will have a lot of scenes, so wear a thicker undershirt and go up the mountain." Zhao Jian said to Huang Xuan in front of a commercial vehicle next to him, and immediately stepped on car.

Huang Xuan paused for a moment, he knew that he would be filming tomorrow, after Zhao Jian reminded him, a sense of tension suddenly arose in his heart, he stretched out his hand to grab the car door, stomped on it, and together with Zhao Liying, followed Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi , Liu Xiaoli and Yang Tianzhen get in the car.

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When we got back to the hotel, it was already eight o'clock in the evening.

Concubine Liu Yi put down her backpack, said hello to her mother, and went to the suite opposite Chu Xuan.

Liu Xiaoli leaned on the bed and read a book. She was used to her daughter's seeking out Chu Xuan from the past, but now she doesn't take it seriously.

The door of the suite was open, as usual, Chu Xuan knew that Concubine Liu Yi was coming.

Concubine Liu Yi saw the half-closed door, the corners of her lips gradually curled up.

After closing the door with his backhand, Huang Xuan from the room on the right looked over.

Concubine Liu Yi waved at him and walked to the room on the left.

Huang Xuan looked at Concubine Liu Yi's back, recalling what Yang Tianzhen said to him, be prepared to eat dog food every day?
He laughed it off.

In the room on the left, Chu Xuan sat by the bed and flipped through the special effects materials, which were given to him by Zeng Zhengzong.

Concubine Liu Yi walked into the room and closed the door.

"Today is very fulfilling, I learned a lot, camera, special effects, original painting." She sat down beside Chu Xuan, put her arms around Chu Xuan's neck, leaned on Chu Xuan's left shoulder and said.

She lowered her eyebrows and followed Chu Xuan's gaze to read the information.

"Not even the basics, there is something to learn." Chu Xuan stretched out his left hand to wrap Liu Yifei's shoulder, and flipped through the information on the page with his right hand.

"Then learn slowly." Concubine Liu Yi said prettyly, she was always willing to spend more time and [-] minutes of effort to learn the things she was interested in, not to mention having Chu Xuan to accompany her.

Chu Xuan and her looked at each other, out of tacit understanding, they reached out and kissed each other's lips at the same time.

Also because of this tacit understanding, after the lips parted, the eyes of the two people showed affectionate smiles again.

"Huang Xuan has a filming tomorrow, and I'm going to give him get out of class. You go and call Zhao Liying, and we can teach together." Chu Xuan put down his arms around Liu Yifei. question.

"Good teacher Chu." Concubine Liu Yi laughed teasingly, got up and walked out the door, she stretched out her hands to brush the hair around her ears, and stroked it back, so that the waterfall-like hair fell behind her back, no longer shawl.

Seeing Concubine Liu Yi come to see her, and hearing that her idol wanted to teach, Zhao Liying was 1 happy. There are two things she is most excited about coming to "Zhu Xian", one is that she can become a star, and the other is that she can see idols every day.

For those who follow stars, this is a very happy thing.

After entering the room with Concubine Liu Yi, Huang Xuan was already in place, sitting on the sofa chair in front of the window.

"Sit." Chu Xuan raised his chin slightly and looked at the other chair.

Zhao Liying passed Huang Xuan and a tea table, and sat down on a chair. Like Huang Xuan, she held a notebook and a pen in her hand.

Concubine Liu Yi took off her shoes, sat cross-legged on the bed, pulled up a quilt to cover her legs, propped her left elbow on the quilt, and supported her chin.

Chu Xuan was in front of her, sitting on the edge of the bed.

Concubine Liu Yi looked at his back playfully, waiting for Chu Xuan's teaching.

She is very clear about Chu Xuan's ability in acting. She thinks that Chu Xuan's best performance is not only in acting, but also in teaching others to act.

Just like herself, under the guidance of Chu Xuan in the past two years, her improvement in performance can be described as a qualitative change, which can be felt by her mother, brother Zhang and many teachers.

Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying sat upright, looking at Chu Xuan.

Although Chu Xuan is only 21 years old, but after discovering them from Chu Xuan, he is very determined to bring them into the group, and let them go to the mountain city crew to learn this series of things in advance.

In terms of acting, they now trust Chu Xuan unconditionally.

Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi are their nobles, the so-called nobles are hard to meet once in a lifetime, be obedient and learn hard, this is what Huang Bo told them.

Furthermore, Huang Bo also told them that Chu Xuan was amazing. In terms of acting skills, he was no worse than the actor, and in terms of teaching, he was no worse than the teacher of Beijing Film Academy.

Hearing this evaluation, they were shocked, but believed.

After all, Chu Xuan's series of achievements up to now are beyond the reach of ordinary people.

"Speak the lines first." Chu Xuan said.

Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying made a listening sign, and the pens in their hands were ready to record at any time.

"Lines are the basis of performance. The control of stress, pause, intonation, sound length, timbre, and volume are the basic skills of lines. The same line is expressed with different skills, and the meaning conveyed will be different."

"The quality of an actor's line skills directly affects the strength of his appeal to the audience. If the actor's line skills are not good, the sense of character creation will be weakened, so the actor's line skills are very important."

Chu Xuan paused, while Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying were taking notes.

Chu Xuan turned to look at Concubine Liu Yi, Concubine Liu Yi leaned down and took the bag in front of the pillow and handed it to him.

"I'll give you a book." Chu Xuan took out two books from his bag and gave one to Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying.

Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying reached out to take it——"My World View", [by Einstein].

"The book from the idol." Zhao Liying said excitedly.

"Turn to the first page." Chu Xuan said.

Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying followed suit.

"What's the first sentence?" Chu Xuan asked.

Huang Xuan raised his eyebrows to look at him, then looked down at the book with lowered eyebrows, and said, "How strange are we mortals."

Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying understood the reason why Chu Xuan sent the book, probably to let them practice their lines.

As for why they sent this book, they couldn't figure it out.

But Concubine Liu Yi knew that Chu Xuan gave them this book to let them feel the connotation and deep meaning of the book while practicing their lines.

This "My World View" describes the trajectory of Einstein's ideological changes throughout his life, and the three views are very positive.

Under her and Chu Xuan's interpretation, this book tells them to keep the purest heart, live the purest life, do what they are most interested in, and achieve the purest success.

Therefore, Chu Xuan sent this book to Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying for a certain purpose, but everyone's interpretation is different. Chu Xuan didn't say anything, so she didn't intervene. Find your own life value.

Chu Xuan clasped his hands together, and said, "Add accents to 'always', 'death', and 'strange', and read it again. Do you know what accents are? If you have studied in elementary school, the literal meaning should not be difficult to understand."

Hearing Chu Xuan's joke, Concubine Liu Yi twitched her lips behind his back.

Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying pursed their lips and smiled, and read the corresponding words with accents as Chu Xuan said.

"Is the mood different?" Chu Xuan asked.

Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying nodded. After adding the emphasis, they all felt that this was the feeling of reciting.

"Pause, is this clear?" Chu Xuan looked at the two of them.

"It's equivalent to the space between commas, stop when you say a word." Zhao Liying said.

"When speaking a line, if there is a sudden pause, the emotion expressed will instantly be elevated to a higher level, causing the audience a feeling of more tension, excitement or expectation. But if the pause is random, it will destroy the context. It creates a sense of fragmentation for the audience, and the portrayal of the characters will be distorted." Chu Xuan said.

Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying listened and took notes.

"Tone, the tone of speech. For example, when I played Li Xiaoyao, before I grew up, my tone of speech was rough. After I grew up, my tone of speech changed. It's like Zhang Xiaofan, who spoke before becoming Ghost Li. The tone of voice is definitely different from the tone of speaking after becoming Ghost Li.

"As an actor, if the character has an obvious growth line, then the character created by the actor must let the audience see the changes before and after the character grows. The tone of the lines is the basic element that makes the character change."

Hearing Chu Xuan's words, looking at Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying who were taking notes quickly, she couldn't help but recall the roles played by Chu Xuan.

Whether it's Li Xiaoyao or Yang Guo, Chu Xuan's interpretation is changing according to the growth line of the plot, especially Chu Xuan's Yang Guo's mischievousness in the early stage, and the transformation of the Condor Hero later, and the changes in the tone of the lines. The change of the method is also good, let Brother Zhang and the others say that Chu Xuan performed the essence.

"It's not just a role. You should also pay attention to the tone of your lines when you play other roles in the future. If the tone of your lines does not change for different roles, it will cause a result. The audience will think that you are the same, which role you play It's all a template." Chu Xuan said.

"Yes." Concubine Liu Yi said behind his back.

"The sound is long, just like the eunuch in the palace, saying: Xuan so-and-so came forward to meet, and the last 'meet' was very long, expressing a sense of majesty."

"Tone color, conversion of true and false sounds, based on the tone of speaking in a flat tone, through the mouth, a certain word is depressed, or a certain word is raised."

"Volume, the size of the speaking voice."

Chu Xuan glanced at the two people who were taking notes, and said: "The common function of these lines skills is to help actors create characters through lines, convey emotions that fit the characters and adapt to the current situation."

Zhao Liying's right hand that was taking notes paused for a moment, then raised her head and said, "Isn't there a dubbing?"

Chu Xuan put down his embracing hands, and said peacefully: "Professional dubbing teachers have better acting skills than most actors. These teachers have to match your mouth when dubbing you. Your lines are not good enough, and your mouth is not right. The dubbing teacher His acting skills are better than yours, so he can only lower the level of his lines to dub you."

"In other words, the better the actor's line skills, the better the dubbing teacher can perform to the level he should be, and make the characters more full."

Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying nodded to express their understanding.

"Go back to the beginning and turn to the first page of "My World View."

Hearing Chu Xuan's instructions, Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying opened the book, looked up at him again, and waited for him to write.

"I said, you remember it, just write it down in the book."

Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying were stunned for a moment, isn't it too wasteful to use a brand new book for taking notes?

But when Chu Xuan spoke, they had no choice but to follow suit and each took a pen to prepare for the record.

"How strange we mortals are." Chu Xuan said in a flat tone, and this sentence seemed ordinary. "

"[I] have a flat tone; [we] have a low tone with falsetto, [these] have a flat tone, [always have] accent, [one] have a high tone with falsetto, [dead people] accent, [how] flat Tune, [unusual] accent, [Yeah] with a deep falsetto and a long tone for two seconds." Chu Xuan said one sentence at a time, making it easier for the two to record.

After the two finished the notes and looked up at him, he said, "According to the marks I said, I read it in Mandarin, and each of them read it once. It doesn't matter if it doesn't sound right."

Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying looked at each other, Huang Xuan first, Zhao Liying second.

Chu Xuan didn't call to stop, and the two kept chanting one at a time.

For a moment, Lang Lang's voice sounded in the room like a primary school student reciting a composition.

Under Chu Xuan's training, Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying aimed at this sentence, and it became more and more in line with the standard marked by Chu Xuan.

"Do you know what the various skills of the lines are?" Chu Xuan smiled.

Huang Xuan and Zhao Liying nodded happily. Chu Xuan's hands-on teaching of details made them touch the threshold of professional lines in an instant.

For the two of them who want to be actors but start from scratch, it is undoubtedly a big step.

Once the door is opened, everything is easy to handle.

"It's time to eat." Liu Xiaoli knocked on the door, and looked at the door after opening the door.

"Eat first, and continue later." Chu Xuan stood up.

"Good master!" Zhao Liying said happily.

"Master?" Chu Xuan looked at Zhao Liying, Zhao Liying pursed her lips and looked cute.

Chu Xuan shook his head, didn't say much, and walked out with Concubine Liu Yi.

Zhao Liying looked at Chu Xuan's back, seeing that Chu Xuan did not refuse, her nervous heart slowly dropped.

"It's great! The idol is my master!" She was overjoyed and ran away from the door.

(End of this chapter)