Reborn to create a virtual world

The first three-dimensional animation soon attracted the attention of many people.

Generally speaking, the characters in "The Witch's Journey" are quite fashionable, and there are plenty of laughs and tears in the story. Although there are some imperfections, for a fledgling young director, it is completely close to Amazing scorecard.

The image of the heroine is very pleasing. Her girly charm and wild boy's perseverance and strength make her almost universal. Both female audiences and male audiences like this little girl who is sometimes kind and considerate, sometimes handsome and straightforward.The popularity of the male protagonist is also good. Although the audience is relatively narrow, most people still embrace this boy who was innocent and cruel like a child at the beginning, but then gradually learned to understand and cherish his friends clumsily. with favorite.

In addition, other supporting roles also have their own fan bases.

Because of the number of screening halls, the popularity of this film did not rise fast.Fortunately, there are so many screenings—there is only one [-]D movie in the whole country for the time being, so the screening hall basically only arranges for this one movie from morning to night, and the income is quite good.

At least put it on for a month or so, and it will definitely be enough to pay back.Because there are only two screening halls, there is no need to worry about box office reduction or saturation—they are located in the bustling areas of metropolises, where tourists come and go, and the two halls will definitely not be able to satisfy the passenger flow. If there are no other films, it is estimated that they can. Let it go forever.

But of course Lin Shu won't let a movie last forever.Don't forget, Lin Zewen's "Afterimage of Death" is already on the way.

Qi Ziyan, the lover of everyone's dream, was not invited after all, but the crew also had a substitute—Lin Zewen's schoolmate, Tang Mengzhu, the flower of the previous Yanying school.This girl was already filming before she graduated, and she continued to work hard this year after graduation. So far, she has played several supporting roles, and she has been in the lead role twice, one film is very popular, and the other is popular.

But no matter which film it is, no matter how the director is or what the other actors are or how the quality of the TV series is, anyway, she plays very well.According to Ju Mingfeng's comment, this girl is super hardworking.

In the same scene, they are all novices with poor acting skills. In one scene, everyone is reciting lines with a dumb face, but she speaks every word with sincerity, and every action is impassioned.

Instantly highlighted her acting skills.

Acting is not difficult to say, easy to say is not easy.Lin Shu is a layman, and it is absolutely impossible to act by himself, but that is mainly because he is not used to the camera, and he is too ashamed, so he can still appreciate it.

Whether the performance is good or not, in his opinion, is whether it is "attentive" or not, and whether it is "dedicated".

The reasoning is simple, but it hits the point.

The audition for Xingying was not a big one, but there were quite a few people who came.Tang Mengzhu performed well, with both data and acting skills at the top, and won the title of heroine.Besides the heroine, there are also other acquaintances who got into the role——Liang Zhongxi's girlfriend Wei Ruolan was lucky enough to get into the role of the heroine's best friend in the play.There are not many roles, but the characters are pleasing, and she is quite satisfied.

Then there was nearly two months of shooting.

This filming period has gone through a process of cutting the beginning and the end.Before the casting, Xingying has actually started to make preliminary preparations.The main shooting locations this time are a villa in Binhai City, several important city attractions, and some petty bourgeoisie shops.

The scenery and character props are taken separately.The scene is directly scanned and modeled dynamically. A set of scanning equipment has a total of 25 light-sensitive lenses, exactly nine on each plane, forming a cube covered by the outer layer.

And these light-sensitive lenses form a group of three to seven to dynamically scan the people and objects in the center of the device, and at the same time perform three-dimensional gradient or color restoration processing according to the received picture information during scanning to outline the entire dynamic image .

In terms of background production, this method is undoubtedly more convenient. Through the restoration of the scene beforehand, the actors no longer need to shoot on location. A lot of things.

Of course, the test for actors has also increased.Anyone who is in a big cage will be emotionally more difficult to enter the drama, and this sense of disobedience will probably only take time to slowly eliminate.

What's more, even the exterior scenes can be post-processed.

But when shooting, the situation is much more troublesome.

Unlike ordinary movie shooting, actors need to pay attention to the camera and positioning at all times. During stereoscopic recording, actors don’t need to care about such non-performance content at all, because they are directly covered by the lens in 360 degrees without dead ends.

This has advantages and disadvantages for actors.

The advantage is that there is no more worrying about being maliciously robbed of the spotlight. The disadvantage is that under such a detailed lens, every bit of bluntness and unnaturalness in the performance will be infinitely magnified.

Stereoscopic movies do not have close-up shots, but the screen is huge and the audience is close to each other, so the movements and expressions of the characters can basically be seen clearly.Everyone in the production team went to the three-dimensional projection hall for on-the-spot investigation, and some even directly measured the distance from the last row of the projection hall to the projection crystal wall—because the terrain of the auditorium is inclined, it basically presents an included angle of 60° with the crystal wall , so the distance between the last row of spectators and the crystal wall is only about 12 meters, including the aisle.

And the audience in the first row is only a few feet away.

This spatial distance also appears to be more suitable for body-sized shooting techniques.

In fact, most of the shooting time in these two months was spent on training the actors. Expression and action acting skills are one thing, but filling the scene is another.

Stereoscopic photography has too many new elements, and Lin Zewen lacks understanding of many elements, so he can only experiment while learning about them during the shooting process.The most troublesome thing is the way the actors perform-normally, when shooting, the camera has its specific landing point, and there is no need for any performance outside the camera.

But it is different for stereo photography. Although the lens will focus on the main character, other people will not leave the field of vision during the interaction.Therefore, even supporting roles must continue to perform, which is a test of skill.

When Lin Shu came to see the situation that day, Lin Zewen was getting irritable about this matter.This scene is in the kitchen. The younger sister pretends to be her older sister. The purpose of making snacks in the kitchen is to make self-defense potions just in case. In the middle of the scene, she deliberately made the illusion of being "possessed by herself", which shocked the cook. , and later spread the rumor that "the eldest lady was possessed by the deceased second lady".

Lin Zewen is struggling with this point - the actress who plays the cook is basically not good at acting, it is not the part that is frightened, but the part of the "cook".

Although she tried her best to pretend that she was cooking, her movements were very chaotic.Three-dimensional movies can't allow her to put on a show, the process still needs to be relatively continuous, and actresses can't do it.

After hearing this, Lin Shu said, "Actually, that's not difficult. Just ask her to learn how to cook a few dishes."

Lin Zewen: "!?"

Lin Shu smiled and said, "It's just that you draw up the recipes for the dishes for her first, and we find someone to teach her how to make them. After the teaching, just cut out the process of her cooking and put them in. There is no need She's going to 'play' the cook, let her really be the cook for half a day, and just take this part seriously."

He said with a smile: "In this case, she is not acting, but really doing it. 'Acting' must be more realistic and natural."

Lin Zewen thought about it for a while, and felt that the idea might be true, so he arranged it.

He thought about it carefully, discussed it with Tang Mengzhu and her "stepmother", set the menu for their family, and then picked out a few simple ones for the cook to learn from others.

He didn't say "If you don't perform well, I will replace you", but "Don't think about acting, you just cook these dishes honestly. If the dishes you make are not delicious, then this character You don't have to act any more."

This request is strange, and the actor can't figure out what's going on.But Lin Zewen was very serious and definitely not joking, so she really nervously learned the dishes honestly, and then made all the dishes seriously while surrounded by photography equipment.When she finished laying out the dishes for everyone to taste, she unexpectedly found that there were a few more difficult dishes on the table—she waited nervously for the evaluation, but the director stopped, indicating that the shooting of this scene was completed.

Only then did the actress know that the scene just now was being filmed, but no one reminded her at all, so she wasn't acting either.Lin Zewen's mouth was more venomous, and he said, "You can act much better when you are not acting than when you are acting."

He was the director, and the actress didn't dare to retort, she just curled her lips after his eyes shifted.

After Lin Shu and Lin Zewen went to watch the recorded clips, the whole scene did look much more natural, and there were no more blunt scenes of the cook standing in a daze or posing next to her.

From this passage, Lin Zewen seemed to have found the door to a new world, and then began to use similar methods to direct the supporting actors - let them ignore the camera frame when buying things in the store, bargain with the clerk sincerely, and spread rumors For his colleagues, he directly asked the other party to squat on the set and gossip while shooting—he canceled the original lines and let them start to play freely. Everyone made up some gossip about the heroine to tell others, and then he directly chose Appropriate fragments are cut in.

These measures sound a bit crooked, but the effect is unexpectedly good.At least the performance of the general supporting roles or supporting roles is much more natural, not as dull and blunt as before.

But the role of the protagonist and the main supporting role cannot be done in this way, and Lin Zewen still needs to explain and guide again and again.

The past two months have been completely spent on this.

The author has something to say: After shooting:

Lin Zewen and a group of staff dispersed separately and began to dismantle the equipment.

The girl who plays the cook: ...Wait a minute, whoever agreed to taste my dishes?

The girl who plays the cook: what I cook is really edible.I practiced it several times!

The girl who plays the cook: Director?screenwriter?Miss Tang?Brother Zhang?

The girl who plays the cook: TATTT

Lin Zewen (black line): Do you really consider yourself a chef?