Chatty Hollywood

In the West, since the era of Shakespeare, the easiest way to play a role without a head but requiring movement is to put a shoulder pad on the actor.

An oversized shoulder pad.

The actor will directly use this shoulder pad to cover his head, which means he has no head.

This method is simple, practical and time-tested, and it is also used by the current crew of "Decapitated Valley".

But to talk about the problem, it is not without it.

First of all, this will make the actor's upper body look particularly tall. After all, shoulder pads are equivalent to lengthening the upper body. If the actor's legs are not long enough, it will look very ugly.

Moreover, it is easy to cause the actual height of the character to be the same when it has a head and when it does not.

Although this problem can be confused and circumvented by many methods such as lens, borrowing, or replacing doubles, it is a trouble after all.

Secondly, this will make the actor's shoulder movements less flexible and not to mention the hindrance of shoulder pads. What if the shoulder movements are too large and the shoulder pads are exposed?

This is not bad in traditional dramas. After all, the venue is limited and the movement range is generally small.

But when it comes to movies, especially those in which the actors have a lot of action scenes, it's more troublesome.

The headless people photographed in this way, let alone those in the industry, are audiences with more experience in viewing movies, and you can find inconsistencies in them under careful observation.

Of course, this inconsistency is actually minimal. If the film quality is high, it will not cause any impact.

But for Charlotte, who really knows spells and knows ghosts, these are the places he likes the most.

"Is there a way to solve this problem?"

Charlotte frowned and thought.

For him from later generations, there is actually a ready-made method

That is green screen photography.

After the green screen technology matures, just ask the actor to put on a green head covering from the head to the neck, and then perform in front of the green screen.

When it comes to post-production, the technical staff will directly use the cut-out technique to directly remove the actor's head. In this way, a headless man appeared.

In fact, even now in 1995, this technology is still available.

At the Oscar that ended not long ago, Ken Rolston from the crew of "Forrest Gump" won the best visual effect award for similar technology.

In this movie, the missing legs of Captain Dan, A-Gump's friend, boss and partner, are his masterpieces.

Presumably, no one would think that Gary Sinis, who plays Captain Dan, would really cut off his legs just for the show, right?

In the early and mid-stage of the film, Captain Dan can still use something to cover the appearance of his legs without legs, but in the later period of A-Gump's wedding, the appearance of prostheses must be relied on special effects.

However, Charlotte did not intend to ask Ken Ralston for help.

You know, now in 1995, if you can complete this special effect, you can get the Okas Award.

Although the technical awards of the Oscars are far less valuable than the performance awards, they are also Oscars after all!

what does this mean?

Means a word

expensive!

This alone has already discouraged Charlotte.

What's more, there was no such budget in the previous plan of the crew of "Drop Head". Now I feel that there is a problem here, and it is entirely the result of Charlotte's sudden onset of entanglement.

Charlotte is not Cameron's great god, and has no interest in forcing the props team to re-create a large number of props because of entanglement.

That means a huge budget overrun!

It means money!

Not everyone can be a little money-burning expert.

It is a great **** like Cameron who nervously prepared a blade for cutting his throat before "Titanic" was released.

Although this is a bit exaggerated, if the ship's box office fails, his fate is really not much better.

At least from then on being blacklisted by major Hollywood studios is absolute.

Because "The Wind Whisperer" killed MGM's white pigeon Wu, isn't this the same treatment?

That person is only joint and severally responsible, and the money burned is far less than Cameron.

If the big ship fails at the box office, Fox is really ruined, and among those crazy shareholders, there may be someone who will tie the cement pillar and sink the sea...

Based on the lessons learned, Charlotte didn't want to put so much pressure on herself.

In particular, he still has spells available.

"That's right! I can use magic tricks!"

Charlotte suddenly patted his head and thought of a way.

"Christopher, Annika, and Rob, wait a minute, I'll get something. Ah, no, it's for some technical support!"

With that, he ran out like a gust of wind.

*******

Annika was speechless for a while.

Because of the deputy director of the old gun, she was directly appointed by Charlotte as the head of the makeup team of the "Decapitated Valley" project.

Charlotte, who is also a producer, has this right.

However, considering that "Driftwood" is a costume film, the trouble is the work of setting and costume, and the makeup is not difficult.

The other two producers, Judy Foster and Andrew Kevin Walker, also acquiesced in this appointment.

After all, Annika has been doing this business for a long time, and the basic level is still there.

For this, Annika is a little grateful to Charlotte.

Just think about this guy who always likes to be inspired, so he ran to find his partner, the old gun, to study the vices, and the gratitude quickly disappeared.

Too bad!

It affects life too much!

Especially, Lao Qiang and Annika, who have moved to live together, prefer to go to bed early and wake up early and "exercise" in the morning because of their relatively older age...

Fortunately, Charlotte did not appear frequently in the morning, otherwise Annika would have refused the villain to come.

Of course, the perception of the director does not affect Annika's work attitude.

In this regard, she is still very professional.

However, seeing the director's requirements for the image design of the Headless Horseman, Annika felt bad instinctively.

This reminded her of the problems Charlotte created for her in the makeup design of the mutant weird when filming "Fatal Turn".

Sure enough, UU reading www.uukanshu. com her premonition has been tested.

The makeup team’s image design of the Headless Horseman was actually very successful. Everyone in the crew, except Charlotte, even the actor Christopher Walken had no objection.

It happened that the director who put forward the image design requirements at the beginning, but at the last moment changed his mind.

Seeing Charlotte there, looking left and right, and always saying something was wrong, Annika had the urge to give him a "touching" with a very useful makeup pen for a moment.

And when Charlotte said that he had thought of a way, and then ran out without saying anything clearly, Annika's bad feeling in her heart became more obvious.

I hope he doesn't make any strange things!

Then

"This is just a black stocking, right?"

After studying for a long time with what Charlotte brought back, Annika asked with a puzzled face.

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