Coquettish Rebirth

For example, if we use the mode mentioned by Jia Hongjian to do special effects, generally speaking, it can still cooperate with the material shot by Nolan, at most it can be edited—for example, turning the golden cudgel into After making a circle, this can be done through special effects, and when Tang Monk Drifting is caught, the scene shot by Nolan originally had Monkey King telling the two people to back off and be careful. The two people also hid carefully. Behind a stone, and then still sitting on the ground holding his head!Isn't there something strange about the "circle" that is thrown over together?Originally, when Nolan was filming, he did not use real scene blasting, so what was actually filmed was the action of Monkey King getting up, followed by the action of Monkey King standing in place.Special effects were added in the middle to create a scene similar to a nuclear bomb explosion. It is really not difficult!

In the scene shot by Nolan, after the Monkey King came out, a cave appeared in the film and television, and after the rocks of such a large size as the cave were collapsed into small gravels, there was something like an explosion. As a result, there were movements of the wolves being startled in various ways and then running away in fright, and there were also movements of Tang Monk Drifting who was so frightened that he wanted to dodge flying stones.If these are combined with special effects, it is really not difficult to change it to avoiding the leveling wave or something!

In the following time, Jia Hongjian was really like a nanny plus a mentor, and he really meant to teach Nolan how to make a big scene.Speaking of which, Jia Hongjian didn't think much about it at the beginning, but after a few days, he thought, hiss...it's not right!Jia Hongjian is an outsider.It's a boss who doesn't know many things about movies. He doesn't know any professional skills, but only scolds and gives money!And how could a boss like him become Nolan's teacher in such a hurry?Why is it that Nolan, a great director who can create a single movie with a global box office of one billion US dollars, is now following Jia Hongjian step by step like an apprentice... Does this mean that Jia Hongjian is worse than Nolan? More powerful?

Of course, Jia Hung-chien would not pretend that he would immediately have the strength of a director with a box office of 20 billion US dollars, he was not so arrogant.But from another point of view, a well-known director can learn from behind us, which also proves that we are indeed capable and talented!Why didn't Nolan learn from others?yes?Speaking of it this way, he, Jia Hongjian, is considered to be of average ability in other areas.This filming of big scenes should still have its own characteristics?If our Jia Hongjian is really in the movie business.Especially if you are in the position of director, you can be comparable to Michael Bay, but how can you be famous?How can you not be ashamed?After all, Jiang Wen has said that it doesn't take much skill to be a director.Anyone with no skills can take the position of director.Anyway, others can't tell whether this person is really incompetent.Since people with little skills can dawdle as directors.If he, Jia Hongjian, came to play with the director, how could he play better than their gang?Although Jia Hongjian didn't think about joining the film industry to develop, it's just like what we said before.Whether it is available is one question, and whether it is used is another question!

Whether we have this kind of potential, whether we have this kind of ability, whether we can make a living from this profession is one question, but whether Jia Hongjian can make a living from this profession is another question!Here, Jia Hongjian accompanied and guided Nolan to work on the storyboard script.Originally, at the very beginning, when Jia Hongjian was instructing Nolan, he was only instructing Nolan alone, but after a few times, Nolan also came to his senses, expecting to listen to Jia Hongjian finished speaking, and then he If you want to report it to Pixar's special effects staff, it's better to call the special effects staff over to listen together, at least he will report less, right?Although it seems to be able to "review" Jia Hongjian's ideas by repeating it, but on the other hand, it is more procrastinated and more error-prone!What if I miss a few words when I report back, and the result is not as good as Mr. Jia described, what should I do?As a perfectionist, Nolan can't stand this!

Then, Jia Hongjian told Nolan and the special effects staff about his requirements and ideas.Soon, both Nolan and the special effects staff expressed their understanding of what Jia Hongjian said, and then Nolan digested the concept proposed by Jia Hongjian, while the special effects staff began to follow Jia Hongjian's request to produce simple The storyboard draft—that’s right, even though Nolan has already drawn a rough storyboard before, but that thing is just a schematic diagram, which is still different from the ones drawn by professionals!

It was drawn by a professional, which is really a praise.If what Nolan drew before was a simple so-called artist's sketch, then what this professional person has drawn now can be said to be a line drawing, which means that it is much cleaner than the sketch, and compared with the final result. It's just not colored, it's just a picture drawn from the edge of a simple line.But even if it is such a picture, it is enough to break it - it is like painting such a distant scene in Chang'an City. When this professional person draws it, he will not draw a few strokes of East Asia like Nolan It seems that the flying eaves and walls are over, but the eaves and walls of each house are drawn in detail!Although it is not possible to draw the tiles on every house, it is definitely much more detailed than Nolan's painting!This is also necessary, because this picture itself was drawn by the artist, and the artist will use this as a standard to compose the picture later, and do CG modeling according to this!

So looking at the picture made by this professional, Jia Hongjian really likes it!In many respects, this professional artist is amazing, and the pictures he makes are beautiful!Then, after Jia Hongjian roughly affirmed the schematic diagram of a sub-shot of the whole, the artists began to work hard again.The next thing they have to do is basically the same work as a cartoonist-express the movement of the camera through different pictures.

What I showed Jia Hongjian at the beginning was a rough schematic diagram, which was basically static—for example, the scene where Monkey King was about to be released, maybe the first one was a drawing of a pack of wolves, used to Conceptually, Jia Hongjian agreed with the composition of the picture, and then the next one was a long-distance nuclear explosion effect, that’s all, so what I showed Jia Hongjian at the beginning was a “schematic diagram” "!"But up to now, they have drawn a series of pictures to show some details after the picture moves.For example, the appearance of the wolves barking, such as the appearance of attacking, and the appearance of Monkey King pulling out the nuclear bomb, and the appearance of various shock waves.Basically, that is to cooperate with the cut shots one by one, and the artist also draws different paintings to express how to do the special effects in each shot.For example, when Tang Seng and Drifting Monk are hiding behind a stone and are hit by a shock wave in the circle surrounded by the golden cudgel, the scene is that Tang Monk and Drifting Monk are shivering, and then there is a strong wind and flying sand and rocks!

How did such a scene go?Of course great!However, Jia Hongjian felt a little dissatisfied.What are you dissatisfied with?The main reason is that he feels that there are still some minor problems with some specific lens settings.For example, when Sun Wukong got the help of the Drifting Monk, he has "reached an agreement", and then he is about to get up and cause a "nuclear bomb explosion", can we create a kind of excitement through a change in the rhythm of the lens? Where's the rush?

For example, the Monkey King is about to get up, and then the screen goes black, and the percussion music starts, and then, as if deliberately matching the drumbeat, the shot also starts to be edited synchronously.For example, after the screen is black, every time the drum beats, the screen will "brighten" for a while, and briefly use slow motion to show Monkey King's movement to stand up, to show that pure sense of power!Then after the drumbeat fell, the screen went black again!Through such fast alternating pictures and black screens, coupled with the strong rhythmic percussion music, can the audience's emotions be mobilized at once?At least Jia Hongjian thought so!

Regarding Jia Hongjian's judgment, Pixar's special effects staff could only nod in agreement, and Nolan also agreed with the same.At least from their point of view, if you imagine it according to Jia Hongjian's description, it's really exciting!And then, Jia Hongjian even incorporated a lot of his own style into the film's shot editing.But having said that, although many camera cuts were directly based on his suggestions, most of the film cuts are still in Nolan's style, and they are all Nolan's works.What Jia Hongjian modified was nothing more than big scenes that Nolan was not good at.Moreover, the edits in these big scenes are still trying to maintain a fast editing style, that is to say, at least in terms of editing speed, it still matches the style of Nolan's entire film!

Soon the overall editing style was determined, and after the editing style of each scene was determined, the production of this special effect was finally about to start.In the following time, the production of these special effects will take about half a year in total, and this is because Nolan left less space for special effects to play when he was filming!If you really want to shoot a film like "The Avengers" in the future and rely entirely on special effects, let alone half a year in the post-production of a film, it is possible to do it for two years! (To be continued..)