Coquettish Rebirth

"What is bullet time?" After hearing Jia Hongjian's words, Cheng Long agreed with Jia Hongjian's feeling of wanting to chase after filming, but he didn't quite understand what bullet time is!

"Bullet time refers to extremely exaggerated slow motion. It is so slow that ordinary people look almost stationary when they fly into the air, and then they can even take pictures of bullets moving slowly in the air!" Jia Hongjian just explained half of it here. , Cheng Long was shocked at that time! "What? Is there such a camera? Why didn't I know? There are some on the market now?" That's right!As a filmmaker, can Cheng Long not pay attention to the changes in equipment?

At the end of this century, although digital cameras have begun to appear in the camera field, the imaging clarity and price of these digital cameras are far inferior to traditional film point-and-shoot cameras, let alone video cameras!In the field of professional cameras, this film is still king!And in the field of filmmaking where film is king, the high-speed cameras usually used to shoot slow motion are limited to 48 frames or 72 frames - when the movie itself is played, it is only 24 frames per second!So generally it is a multiple of high speed!

Although there are still cameras with more than 100 frames per second, on the one hand, the price of this camera is too expensive, and on the other hand, the utilization rate is not high enough-because this high-speed camera is more than 24 frames per second. The speed eats film, and the speed of 5 is played back, and the content shot in one second is divided into, for example, 800 seconds. Will the audience be happy?Cheng Long kicked, and the opponent was kicked down for five seconds?This is full?It doesn't cost money to be a film, that is, a film?On the other hand, there may be requirements for higher speeds.But it is really difficult to develop - although scenes such as rocket launches require ultra-high-speed cameras, such cameras are still far from being put into civilian use. People who make movies don't feel sorry for Film's money?So it can be said that in the civilian field, there is no way to buy that kind of super high-speed one!What surprised Cheng Long was the camera that Jia Hongjian said could even shoot bullets. Does this sound faster than a thousand frames per second?The bullet seems to have a speed of 24 meters per second?If you take this thousand frames, the bullet will advance nearly one meter in one frame!Is it almost 20 meters in [-] frames per second?

Can this count as slow movement?Slowly moving about one meter per second, is this called slow moving?But according to this, it would take an ultra-high-speed camera with a speed of almost [-] grids to capture it?Now there is such an ultra-high-speed camera that can reach [-] frames per second in the world?How come he, Cheng Long, has never heard of it?

But at this time, Jia Hongjian smiled and said, "We don't need such a super high-speed camera. All we need are dozens of digital cameras controlled by program!" "Digital cameras?" Cheng Long was stunned. "But...we're making movies...not photos..." That's right.In Cheng Long's view, filmmaking is all about using a video camera. Why did you use a digital camera?No matter how digital this camera is, can it be used as a video camera?

Who knows, just listen to Jia Hongjian explaining with a smile at this time: "Who said that you can't turn photos into movies? Brother, you have to know. When this camera shoots, it just records every second scene into 24 fixed frames. It’s just the 【Photo】. It’s just the continuous playback that makes people feel like it’s moving. Then, if we use computer program control to control 120 digital cameras, then we set the start time of each of these 120 digital cameras. For example Each will start exposure 120/120th of a second later than the previous one, then in the end, we will have 1 frames of photos, we are processing these photos with a computer, and adding 240 frame synthesized in the middle, so does it mean that we Want to make it [-] frames? Even, with the use of non-linear digital editing, can we make it as slow as we want?"

That's right!After Jia Hongjian introduced a non-linear editing machine to their Huaxia TV station and Huamei Animation, he was surprised to find that the speed of the video playback was no longer determined by how fast or slow the machine rolled the film. !This is like the video player of later generations, as long as a few options are selected, it can be played at a slow speed!Because these are digital!It can be more precise than manual control!Although in theory, if it slows down to a certain level, it will produce real frames, causing the action to look incoherent, but flickering, but this can be solved by adding frames digitally!That is to virtualize the blank space between the original two frames!To make up for the missing image in the middle!

wipe?China Satellite TV's non-linear editing is so formidable?of course not!But how did Jia Hongjian know that there was such a powerful technology?Because the "Matrix" in 99 used such a technology!In their bullet time, in those places where they leaned down to avoid bullets, those skills that circled around the characters, how did this come about?That's not to say a cameraman circles the actors in a circular orbit with a camera!Instead, it's done with this kind of digital camera arranged on a circular track!It is to process the images of these cameras through non-linear processing, and use the most advanced and awesome frame complementing technology in Hollywood film technology to supplement the frame number between each photo, so that it looks like a smooth circle around the actor !

So now Jia Hongjian mentioned this frame-filling technology, and by the way, he also mentioned this technology that can surround the actor in 360 degrees: "If we use this technology, we can also show off! There is a circle of cameras painted in green around them, and when you jump, these cameras are controlled by the program to take pictures one by one. After the shooting is finished, we fill in the number of frames in the middle, so it becomes when you are flying slowly in the air, we have A camera hovers around you for a week! How cool! How dazzling!"

Cheng Long was shocked at that time!I'm really shocked!He has been in the Hong Kong and Hong Kong film industry for so many years, which is more about the evolution of "software", and the evolution of hardware or shooting technology is very rare!And in the "Fast Food Truck" he shot in the 80s, the various animations of the on-board computer in the car when the car was "unfolded" were all high-tech that is rarely seen in Hong Kong movies!He really never dreamed that a "layman" like Jia Hongjian would come up with such a strange way of shooting!It was actually fixed-point shooting, and then the defects between several shots were made out of nothing with a computer!This, this, this... This simply changed the way the entire movie was shot!It's too shocking, isn't it?

"Mr. Jia! Your idea is great! It's... amazing!" When Cheng Long was admiring at this time, he gave Jia Hongjian a feeling that he seemed to be a bit reserved, as if he had something to say. The way it came out... So of course Jia Hongjian asked: "What's the matter? What else do you have to say!" That's right, the method he Jia Hongjian said was used in "The Matrix" in history. What a sensation it caused in Hollywood that year!How many people learned later!Even after Korean variety shows imported advanced nonlinear editing, this technology was used in variety shows!The "pause" shooting guests who can circle half a circle jump!Could this native Cheng Long have any other views on the advanced technology that the reborn Jia Hongjian stole from others?

Just when Jia Hongjian was so puzzled, he heard Cheng Long quietly walk up to him, then looked around, then leaned into Jia Hongjian's ear embarrassedly and whispered: "If you want to take a hover 360-degree surround... why don't we hang the actor in mid-air, then hang the photographer on the track to circle the actor, and then remove the special effects of the track and the wire...? This is cheap and easy to use, even if The actual movements are different, but the audience will not feel the specific position in the air has changed if you switch the camera..."

"Pfft..." At that time, Jia Hongjian almost spit out a mouthful of blood, okay!Nima!Jia Hongjian looked at Cheng Long with wide-eyed eyes, and felt the blood spurting on his face!In the end, he could only grit his back molars, and uttered such a sentence to Cheng Long—"You bastard...you can forget about the death of a slut! You'll be a slut forever!" Turn around angrily and leave!He is really mad!Nima Cheng Long, you used to say that you don’t have money to do special effects, okay, now I’ve given you money and ideas, and I’ll give you a chance to shock Hollywood and let you be the leader of the world’s film shooting technology, but it’s your sister!You actually came up with a method that saves money and can achieve almost the same effect, just like the local method in the mainland!your sister!Doesn't this make Jia Hongjian very angry?All of a sudden, Jia Hongjian's previous "high-end and high-end" foreign technology, in front of Cheng Long, has become a rush of "people are stupid and quick to make money"!If the technology of "The Matrix" is used, such a shot may cost 10,000+ dollars or even hundreds of thousands of dollars!And what did Cheng Long and the others do?The additional investment is estimated to cost hundreds of dollars!Isn't this comparison a fool's money?

Could this make Jia Hongjian angry?His first time!In the past, he gave advice to others and plagiarized successful ideas in the future, when was he not shocked as a celestial being?Originally, he thought it was the same this time, and he was waiting for Cheng Long to worship him, but who knew that Cheng Long actually hinted at him as a "stupid and fast" that "people are stupid and quick to get money"!

When Jia Hongjian left, Cheng Long and the people in Hollywood were dumbfounded!The people in Hollywood didn't know what was going on, and neither did the people in the embassy, ​​so they watched Jia Hongjian leave angrily.But Cheng Long couldn't help it. He just said it in a low voice because he was afraid of hurting Jia Hongjian's face!Why was Jia Hongjian still angry?He hesitated for a moment, then announced that he would close the team!I hurried to catch up and apologized to Jia Hongjian or something - I can't offend the rich man!Besides, apart from being a rich man, Jia Hongjian really likes Cheng Long in the cooperation these days!The cooperation between the two parties is quite tacit!This can't be really annoying! (To be continued..)