Bright Era of China Entertainment

Chapter 334 Self-contained world
Special effects movies such as "Hope" basically have to be shot in a studio throughout the entire process without any natural light source, so the light effect of the lighting is undoubtedly the most important.

The role of lighting is to simulate natural light, and adjust it to meet the light effects required by the theme of film and television dramas, and finally combine the post-production pictures to present the fine art optical art required by producers and directors.

Among them, how to use light effects to capture the beauty of characters, including profile profiles, facial textures, eyebrows, eyes, nose and mouth, silhouettes, backs, etc., is a practical knowledge.

Every actor has a different sense of beauty, body shape and face size, which requires on-site adjustment by the director, lighting engineer, and cameraman.

After several rounds of trial shooting by Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei, the teachers caught the flaws in the pictures. Under Kong Sheng’s dispatch, a group of lighting teachers adjusted the lighting at different angles, and a group of camera teachers also adjusted the shooting angles. Xuan and Liu Yifei cooperated.

Half an hour later, Kong Sheng checked the pictures of each camera. After seeing him nodding to confirm, Wang Bowen made a fixed-point composition, combining the positions and angles of several groups of lights, the positions and angles of cameras, and the positions of Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei. Universal pen draws down.

"Hope" is the first sci-fi movie in China, and all the transcripts will be of great reference to this kind of shooting situation in the future. This is also a process of accumulating experience.

These records are very precious.

Under the current combination of lighting and search that is as perfect as possible, and the camera angle that is as perfect as possible at present, the scene is recorded, and another round of shooting begins.

In front of the monitor, Wen Muye and others looked at the picture after the lighting adjustment and debugging, and the eyes were full of appreciation.

Li Xue lay back slightly, leaned on the back of the chair, looked at the screen, and said, "The faces of Chu Xuan and Qianqian are quite suitable for the big screen. They are round and contoured, with edges and corners. The images are also quite good. It conforms to the aesthetics of the Chinese people, one is handsome and masculine, and the other is beautiful and classical."

Listening to her comments and looking at Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi in the picture, everyone admired them and nodded in recognition of Li Xue's words.

Wen Muye played with the walkie-talkie, and said: "Senior brother doesn't say anything, his acting skills are always online. Just look at senior sister, have you noticed that senior sister has a rare advantage."

Li Xue, Li Lan and Liu Yi raised their brows, waiting for Wen Muye's next words.

Wen Muye turned his head to look at them, and said: "Once the senior sister makes a micro-expression that fits the characters, combined with the beauty of her face, it is difficult for other actors in the circle to show."

Liu Yi nodded with a smile, crossed his hands, and said, "With a slight expression, you will think that she is a beautiful character. Compared with other actresses, she has to borrow other means to show her beauty. This is indeed Sissi. A big plus."

Li Xue raised her forehead slightly, and said, "The same goes for Zhang Ziyi, there is no need for a grand performance, a small expression is enough."

"Indeed." Li Lan agreed.

Wen Muye tossed the walkie-talkie and caught it, put it on his lips and said, "Crack!"

He turned his head to look at the teachers and said, "The texture is still almost there."

All the teachers nodded, and Li Xue said: "They need to stay for some time to make up for this sense of faith, why don't they shoot the follow-up CG shots first."

Wen Muye picked up the walkie-talkie, "Brother, the quality is still a bit lacking, why don't you stop and find out, and let's shoot the follow-up CG shots first?"

On the set, Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi looked at each other, but Chu Xuan didn't speak, letting Concubine Liu Yi make up her mind.

The tacit understanding over the years allowed Concubine Liu Yi to understand Chu Xuan's meaning at once. She put the protective mask on her elbows into her arms again and said, "I want to feel more."

Chu Xuan said "Yeah" to Kong Sheng, Kong Sheng nodded, and responded to Wen Muye with the walkie-talkie, "Take two more shots."

Concubine Liu Yi put on her protective mask again in preparation for filming.

After several consecutive shootings, she found that she thought about making movies simply. Perhaps it was the experience of supporting roles in "New Police Story" that misled her and made her understanding of the real film art superficial.

Another reason is that she and Chu Xuan went so smoothly along the way. During the filming process, she and Chu Xuan achieved each other and everything seemed to become easier.

Now that she thinks about it, it's because she and Chu Xuan have been filming emotional scenes for a long time, and they are boyfriend and girlfriend. Isn't it easy to film emotional scenes?
As long as the character is imagined as Chu Xuan's girlfriend, then how to play it is right.

Therefore, in the past, her and Chu Xuan's mutual achievements were to give each other emotional and emotional help.

But now she and Chu Xuan no longer acted as lovers, but as rivals instead, which made her unable to feel Chu Xuan's emotions at once.

She knew that her performance level and understanding level were still far behind Chu Xuan's.

In other words, she and Chu Xuan's mutual achievement has advanced, and she has risen to a level, which caused her to be a little unresponsive.

Even though Chu Xuan was still the male protagonist who gave her a sense of security and help in acting, her understanding of her own characters seemed to be broken, and she couldn't find the feeling she wanted in her heart. The so-called sense of faith can't give her room for imagination as a character.

She and Chu Xuan had also read the script many times before, and basically understood the characters thoroughly from beginning to end, but understanding is understanding, but how can understanding be turned into performance?

This is a conflict between theory and practice.

It's also a tension between how to imagine and how to express.

This is also a question of how she and Chu Xuan will blend together on the road to further mutual achievement.

——You have to think about it carefully.

After "Golden Powder", she once again experienced the difficulty of filming.

But for her, who has the dream of being an actor, she is enjoying hardships.

"Crack!"

"The texture of the characters is still a bit poor."

I took two more shots, but I was called out for the same reason.

Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi took off their protective masks and went to the dressing room.

After changing back into their daily clothes, they went to the monitor to watch the replay.

In Concubine Liu Yifei's eyes, although there were slight changes in the state of her performances in the next few times, and she was praised by the teachers for being a little more emotional than Chu Xuan, but overall she still did not jump out of the box.

In Teacher Li Xue's words, he did not jump out of the "human" box.

In the words of Mr. Kong Sheng's professional comments, there is no personalization of the characters, and no highlights of the arc of the characters, that is, no personalization of the characters belonging to the clones, and no highlights of the clones after they grow up.

"This kind of personalization is not reflected in expressions, eyes, and movements, but a sense of character."

"Just like some actors come out like the president, and some actors look like a boss at a glance. What you have to do is, when you come out, people can see the difference between you and normal people, but you can't It's too out of the realm of humans."

"I don't know if you understand this."

Listening to Teacher Kong Sheng's explanation, Concubine Liu Yi nodded repeatedly.

"I understand," she said.

"It's the feeling that Chu Xuan performed." She looked at the screen and said.

"My performance was a bit poor, but I can do better." Chu Xuan said with one hand propped on the back of the chair.

Wen Muye twisted the cap of the bottle of mineral water, and said: "Brother, you acted so well that we all think it's okay. If you insist on increasing the difficulty, then I have nothing to say, and I must support it."

Chu Xuan shook his head, and said: "It can be better. I have only acted in one movie in the past few years, and it has been two years. I have to find my sense of faith in this aspect."

All the teachers nodded. The texture of movies and TV dramas is different, and the corresponding characters’ belief requirements are naturally different. Actors who don’t usually make movies suddenly start making movies, and it’s easy to feel that everything is wrong. It's normal and it takes time to get used to it.

Concubine Liu Yi straightened up, turned her head to look at Chu Xuan and said, "How do I find it?"

Chu Xuan looked at her and said, "When your mother comes, I will take you to a place."

Concubine Liu Yi pouted at Chu Xuan's trickery, but the annoyance of the lack of faith in the characters disturbed her, making her sit down disapprovingly, and read the script on her own, continuing to study and understand.

The stop of Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei's side did not affect the progress of the filming.

Wen Muye and his teachers began to prepare for the follow-up CG shooting. Based on Wang Bowen's laser positioning and composition concept, the cameraman moved the mirror against the green cloth, which piece was the stars and the sea, which piece was the alien ecology, and which piece was the The falling spaceship needs to be imagined to move the mirror, which naturally takes a lot of time.

Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi talked while reading the script.

I had a meal at noon, and it was three o'clock in the afternoon when Liu Xiaoli came back from a trip.

"Let's go first, let's find our feelings first, you are busy." Chu Xuan closed the script and said.

"Goodbye, Senior Brother and Senior Sister." Wen Muye waved his hand, and the teachers also greeted.

Concubine Liu Yi followed Chu Xuan to get up, and put the script in Chu Xuan's hand with hers into the small backpack.

"Are you serious?" Liu Xiaoli was wearing a thin brown windbreaker, with a black bag on her right shoulder, and her hands in her pockets.

"En." Chu Xuan nodded.

"What serious?" Concubine Liu Yi was at a loss.

"Take you to see the patient." Liu Xiaoli felt amused and speechless.

"Ah?" Concubine Liu Yi blinked, feeling a little dazed.

Chu Xuan waved to the field manager, and the field manager hurried over.

"Please lead the way," he said.

"Alright Mr. Chu." The field manager responded.

A group of people came to the entrance of the film and television base and got into the waiting nanny car.

The field manager reported the route next to the driver, and the driver understood it, started the car, and sped away.

Half an hour later, the nanny car stopped at an affiliated hospital.

This hospital is in the suburbs, and it is not a simple hospital, but a mental hospital.

After getting out of the car, Liu Xiaoli looked at the signboard of the hospital, where the word "mental illness" was very eye-catching.

If it wasn't for Chu Xuan's request, she might never come to this kind of place in her whole life.

In the morning, Chu Xuan called her and asked her to come back as early as possible, saying that she wanted to take Sissy to a special place and give her an advanced acting class.

Hearing that it was a mental hospital, she was really puzzled. What does acting class have to do with a mental hospital?
She doesn't understand.

But she knew very well that Chu Xuan would not harm Qianqian, and she also asked her to accompany her, so she came.

"What are you doing here?" Concubine Liu Yi asked Chu Xuan's hand.

"Look for a sense of faith." Chu Xuan flipped his right hand and clasped his fingers tightly with her.

Concubine Liu Yi stared, came to the mental hospital to find a sense of faith?
Liu Xiaoli and the bodyguards couldn't help twitching their mouths, this operation was a bit confusing for them.

"Mr. Chu Xuan?" A doctor came out of the small room next to the gate.

"Doctor Xu?" Chu Xuan greeted.

"It's me." Doctor Xu nodded, and after shaking hands with Chu Xuan, he said with mixed feelings: "Besides the inspection from above, this is the first time I've heard that someone wants to visit our hospital. President Chu can look at it casually, as long as he doesn't make too much noise and Just go into the closed area."

"Thank you." Chu Xuan nodded, and walked in with Dr. Xu.

This hospital is well greened. It is full of green plants from the gate, and there is also a central flower bed.

Two roads diverge from the central flower bed, one to the left and one to the right.

Follow Dr. Xu to the right, then turn left for about [-] to [-] meters, then turn right, and a green field blocked by barbed wire comes into view.

On this green space, there are corridors, pavilions, small fountains, and many benches with backrests.

Among them, men and women in hospital gowns were walking, sitting on chairs, chasing butterflies, or yelling "ahhhh" to the sun.

Concubine Liu Yi tightened Chu Xuan's hand, just like her mother, if Chu Xuan hadn't brought her here, maybe she would never have come to this place in her life.

It's just that Chu Xuan came here to find a sense of faith?She was really a little confused, which was beyond her comprehension.

"I've been to similar places before." Chu Xuan said suddenly, and stopped in front of the barbed wire, looking at everything inside the barbed wire quietly.

"Why did you come?" Concubine Liu Yi asked curiously. Liu Xiaoli and Dr. Xu were equally curious. Which normal person would come to a mental hospital?Unless there are relatives in the mental hospital.

"Do you know "The Silence of the Lambs"?" Chu Xuan asked with his head tilted.

Concubine Liu Yi nodded, "Hannibal."

"I imitated Hannibal for a while." Chu Xuan said.

Concubine Liu Yi was startled, and said, "Why imitate Hannibal?"

Chu Xuan blinked, and said: "This character is very attractive, good and evil merge, and the emotional transition between black and white is only in an instant. I want to experience how it is done."

Hearing this, Concubine Liu Yi suddenly remembered something, and said, "So your Guan Xuan's performance is so good because of this experience?"

"You can say that." Chu Xuan nodded.

"Then how do you do it?" Concubine Liu Yi asked, she seemed to understand the purpose of Chu Xuan bringing her here, Chu Xuan wanted to use his own method to teach her.

Although coming to the mental hospital was unbelievable for her, she suddenly recalled what Chu Xuan said to her a few years ago-actors are crazy.

Perhaps, Chu Xuan's explanation at the beginning was only one-sided, and he wants to give her an in-depth explanation today?

Chu Xuan glanced at the scene inside the barbed wire. Some people were squatting on the ground to play grass, some were scratching the soil with stones, some were holding a fake doll in their arms as if they were children, and some were holding a flower The flowers are inserted into another person's head with a smile.

"If these people are actors, what do you think?"

Hearing this, Concubine Liu Yi stared, Liu Xiaoli was stunned, and the bodyguards froze.

The corner of Dr. Xu's mouth twitched suddenly, and he said, "Mr. Chu, don't scare me!"

Even though he was a doctor in this psychiatric hospital, it was the first time he heard such remarks, and it really shocked him.

The patients I take care of every day are actors?
At this point, everyone is numb.

"Think of them as actors, and we see them as actors, so we can accept the way they behave."

"Accepting their behavior, we look at it from the perspective of producers and directors, and our eyes are cameras to capture their words, deeds and facial expressions."

"Then ask yourself, how to act, to act in their state."

Liu Xiaoli and Dr. Xu were speechless, they couldn't understand what Chu Xuan said anyway.

While listening to Chu Xuan's remarks, Concubine Liu Yi plucked up the courage to look at the patients carefully.

Think of them as a group of actors?
Consider yourself a producer or director?
In other words, the barbed wire fence is the shooting scene, and everyone inside is acting.

"But..." Concubine Liu Yi struggled, "Why should we act in their state?"

Chu Xuan said: "You have to understand first, why are they in such a state?"

"Because they are sick." Concubine Liu Yi blurted out.

"You still don't understand what I mean." Chu Xuan shook his head.

Concubine Liu Yi frowned slightly and looked at Chu Xuan.

Chu Xuan said: "To put it another way, you can regard them as Oscar winners and actresses. Their acting skills are so smooth, just like real psychopaths."

Chu Xuan looked at Concubine Liu Yi and said, "So, why do these Oscar winners and actresses have such acting skills? How did they perform? Does this require a strong sense of faith? And where does their sense of faith come from? "

A series of questions made Concubine Liu Yi's head a little confused, but after thinking about Chu Xuan's question carefully, she seemed to have a little understanding.

Yes, ordinary people have a sense of faith, and actors also have a sense of faith, so these patients also have a sense of faith.

Because only a sense of belief can make people act subconsciously.

Ordinary people are like this, actors are like this, and so are these patients.

According to Chu Xuan's point of view, compared with ordinary people and actors, these patients' sense of faith is undoubtedly super strong, even unmatched by anyone in the world.

So the question is, where do these patients' sense of belief come from?
At this moment, Concubine Liu Yi understood the reason why Chu Xuan brought her here and said she was looking for a sense of faith.

If you can really understand the source of these patients' sense of belief, then what role can't you play in the future?

With the support of such a strong sense of belief, the actress is no longer a dream.

Seeing Concubine Liu Yi seemed to understand something, Chu Xuan smiled slightly.

"I have been teaching you acting in college. I started to practice in "Dragon", and then experienced "New Police Story", "Sword" and "Sculpture". I think you have reached the level you should have in the first stage of acting. ."He said.

"The first stage?" Concubine Liu Yi blinked.

"The first stage is when the actors enter the play. From the first time you entered the play in "Tianlong", to the role of the fairy island in "Sword and Sword", you gradually entered the play, and finally you can enter the play at any time in "Sculpture". I think you have succeeded." Chu Xuan said.

"Then you brought me here today to teach me the second stage?" Concubine Liu Yi raised her eyebrows.

"In the second stage, characters enter the play. Take "Sculpture of the Gods" as an example, when Concubine Liu Yi enters the play, Xiaolongnv also enters the play." Chu Xuan said.

Concubine Liu Yi frowned and said, "Didn't my little dragon girl join the play?"

Chu Xuan looked at her and said, "Think about it yourself, how much of your facial expression through emotional outbursts belongs to you? How much belongs to Xiao Longnu?"

Concubine Liu Yi was silent, lost in thought.

She understood Chu Xuan's meaning. A role is a role, an actor is an actor, a character's expression is a character's expression, and an actor's expression is an actor's expression.

If you play a character with your own expressions and emotions, then you are playing yourself.

On the contrary, it is playing a role.

What Chu Xuan wants to tell her is how to improve the content of the character and get rid of his own content.

At the same time, she also understands that if she looks at this kind of acting progress, then she will act like what she is and what she will be.

Chu Xuan also said: "Eighty percent of the roles are played, and 100 percent of himself is played. This is the peak acting level in the world in my opinion. As for [-]% of the roles, he may not be able to act in a lifetime."

Concubine Liu Yi nodded and said, "Then what should I do?"

Chu Xuan looked at the scene in the barbed wire, and said: "Actors who are new to the industry, or actors in the first stage, hold a script and look at the characters they play, and they will basically think about a question immediately: If I touch In such a situation, what should I do? What should I say? What is my expression? What kind of emotions will I have?"

Concubine Liu Yi nodded slowly, indeed, she is like this.

For example, in the scene where Xiaolongnv and Yang Guo separated, she was thinking at that time what would she do if Chu Xuan separated from her?
The emotions brought about by such illusions made her act like this all the way.

"I was thinking about 'I' from the beginning to the end, just sketching out a scene and imagining a picture in my mind." Chu Xuan said.

As he spoke, he pointed his finger and said, "Look at that 'Queen of Film' holding a fake doll in her hand. This 'Queen of Film' is just like my mother, with a kind and warm face."

Concubine Liu Yi followed his fingers and nodded.

"How did this 'act' come out? We can diverge our thinking and imagine the picture in her mind."

"One day, her child disappeared. She broke down and cried after searching for nothing, and searched all over the mountains and plains."

"She traveled across mountains and rivers, crossed oceans and seas, and went out of the village into the city. I don't know how many falls and tears she shed during the process."

"Later, a kind person found her child and gave it to her. She wept with joy, and her anxiety eased. She sat on a bench and embraced her child. She only had her eyes on the child, and she never let go."

"Finally, outside the barbed wire, being watched by us."

Concubine Liu Yi was stunned, who is the kind person?The child is a fake doll?This story was a bit weird, but it seemed to be very real, which made it difficult for her to speak for a while.

Liu Xiaoli and Dr. Xu were also silent. Chu Xuan's little story made them feel strange and throbbing at the same time.

"In the above, I said 'she', not 'me'." Chu Xuan said.

Concubine Liu Yi raised her eyebrows for a moment, nodded and said, "Don't think about what will happen to you, think about what will happen to 'her/him'."

Chu Xuan smiled and said, "It's no longer outlining a scene, but outlining a world; it's no longer imagining a picture, but imagining a life."

Concubine Liu Yi's eyes lit up, and she said, "I seem to understand!"

Chu Xuan glanced at the scene inside the barbed wire, and said, "Now let's imagine a world, a world where there are only clones."

"Look at the 'clone' with the same hands and feet, does he look like the one in the script where we just woke up and didn't understand human life?"

"Look at that curious 'clone' holding a tree leaf, does he look like we are curious about human life in the script?"

"Look at the 'clone' bathed in the sun, he is the most normal, does it look like our last scene in the script, facing the starry sky of the universe? But although his behavior is normal, in our eyes he just has a kind of Not a normal feeling."

"How do you get this feeling?"

"Because, there is a world in their minds, and they all live in this world."

Concubine Liu Yi was startled suddenly, and after a moment of trance, her face was stupefied.

"I understand what you mean!"

"Outline a world based on the framework of the script, imagine a life based on the plot of the characters, and describe various emotions based on the encounters of the characters in this life!"

"And as actors, it's right to act out the various emotions depicted!"

Chu Xuan looked at her and said, "It's good that you can understand. With this understanding, your way of reading scripts and understanding of characters will be improved a few levels in the future."

Chu Xuan reminded again: "However, substituting into the world of 'her/him' will make you uncomfortable, and it is extremely uncomfortable, because this is not your emotion, it is not your world. You can only force I believe in this world, I believe in this life.”

Concubine Liu Yi lowered her eyebrows slightly. Thinking of the teachers saying that the texture was not enough in the studio, and thinking of Chu Xuan's intention for bringing her here, she suddenly raised her eyebrows and said, "Did you feel uncomfortable when you honed your acting skills before your debut?"

Chu Xuan was startled, then nodded slowly.

Concubine Liu Yi nodded, stroked her hair, her eyes became firm, and she didn't speak any more.

Chu Xuan took one last look at the "clones" and said, "Let's go."

"Mr. Chu, you have opened my eyes." Dr. Xu smiled.

"Although I don't know much about acting, what you said just now sounds really good. In my heart, you are an artist." He added.

"I'm overwhelmed, just talk about it." Chu Xuan shook his head.

Liu Xiaoli didn't quite understand what Chu Xuan was trying to express, but it must be a good thing seeing how Qianqian benefited a lot.

Chu Xuan has helped Sissy in her performance since the first year of college, and then the two of them helped each other.

It came out suddenly today, she guessed that the two of them encountered problems in filming.

She can't help the two children in the performance, so the two children can only figure it out by themselves.

A group of people returned to the entrance of the hospital, got into the nanny car, and drove away.

(End of this chapter)