Coquettish Rebirth

Where to shoot is indeed a very important question. () Because this is a movie with 90% of the shots shot in the city, since Jia Hongjian and the others want to name the city as Sarajevo, it is natural to make it look like Sarajevo. Some scenic spots in Sarajevo are displayed for people to see, right?Of course, according to the technology of film and television producers, even if the filming is not in Sarajevo, it is not a problem at all to make it look like it was filming in Sarajevo through various methods.For example, the simplest montage method-does not show the action shots of the main character in a long shot of a city in Sarajevo, but tries to separate the close-up and long-range shots as much as possible, and then edit them together in post-production.

In this way, the audience can think that the two are related!What montage pays attention to is to edit together two shots that actually have no logical relationship, so that others think they have a logical relationship.For example, the previous shot is a long-range shot of the entire city of Sarajevo before night falls. This long-range shot can be shot in Sarajevo, and then some decorations are added through special effects to make the whole city look dilapidated by the war.Then when the protagonists want to go out to collect items, they may take direct close-up shots.And such a close-up shot may have been shot in a studio in the United States or Universal Studios—that is, a place similar to China Film and Television City.After the filming was done, some special effects were modified, and then the front and rear shots were edited together. How can people tell whether it was shot in Sarajevo?

However, such an approach is not without disadvantages.The disadvantage is that the visual impact is relatively poor.Because there is no way to show such a figure of the protagonist in the panorama.And besides, it's really hard to find a close-up view of a street corner or something that looks like Sarajevo in the United States!So for a while, Jia Hongjian really thought about whether to find an abandoned ghost town or something to shoot.For example, how about shooting in former industrial cities like Detroit or Cleveland?Such an idea is really good, but it’s not without problems—don’t say whether there are abandoned cities in the United States that look like Sarajevo, just say that in the abandoned cities in the United States, there are many things that are graffitied by bear children. Literal!If you want to shoot something that happened in "Sarajevo", it can't be full of American graffiti, right?And not to mention that if you find an abandoned city, there are traces of English in various places, and these must be removed.Replace the signs with Serbian or something.How big are these projects alone?After the result is finished, the final effect is not necessarily good.Then why do you have to find an abandoned city to shoot?

For this matter, Jia Hongjian returned to Los Angeles and had a good chat with Katzenberg and Spielberg.In the end, who knew that after he brought up the choice difficulties he was facing, Katzenberg suddenly proposed a solution. "If this is the case, why not use CG special effects for movies?" After Katzenberg said this.Spielberg quickly echoed: "Yes. Why not? The current computer special effects are developing very fast. Through the occlusion of green cloth or blue cloth, no matter the close-range or distant view, it can be replaced with computer-mapped special effects or even architectural effects. Model effects. As long as you want, it is not impossible to make a model of the entire city of Sarajevo in the computer. Which building to blow up and how to blow it up, you can do it in one sentence. Then in the studio Let the actors perform with the green cloth without physical objects, and then synthesize it..."

Whoa!Jia Hongjian was taken aback when he heard that! "The cost will be very high, right?" That's right!As a Chinese, although Jia Hongjian was willing to spend money on special effects, he still subconsciously felt that doing special effects was a waste of money, and live-action shooting, even if it was a temporary set, was cheaper than making special effects!So when Cheng Long used to shoot movies that needed special effects, he always tried his best to shoot on location, so as to save money!But who knows that Katzenberg replied at this time, immediately blocking Jia Hongjian's question-"Didn't you say that you want to invest 2.5 million US dollars in this film? Even if it is only 1.5 million US dollars." , You have to spend the money! How much is the total cost of the actors? Bale only needs 700 million US dollars, and Theron is only 1000 million US dollars now. If you add others together, 5000 million US dollars is enough. The rest of the filming and various If you add all these kinds of messy funds together, 2000 million US dollars is definitely enough. This is only 7000 million US dollars. Even if it is 1.5 million US dollars, are you going to use 8000 million US dollars for publicity? It is also very good to use 1000 million US dollars for special effects Normal! If you want to invest 2.5 million US dollars, what are you going to do with the remaining 1.8 million US dollars? Do you want to keep it for a good look? You always have to find a place to spend it..."

Hmm... Well, Katzenberg's words really left Jia Hongjian speechless.Indeed, if he wanted to make a big investment in making a film, he would have to spend the money no matter what!If you want to save some money, the investment in literary films these days is 8000 to 1.5 million US dollars. If he doesn't spend money on special effects, then wouldn't it be the same as filming?Doesn't that mean there is no special effect?Even if you invest 1000 million US dollars, you can spend 1000 million US dollars for special effects.And what level of special effects can be produced with 1.25 million dollars?Let's put it this way, for a disaster film like "The Day After Tomorrow" released this summer that freezes the entire United States, let alone the investment in special effects, the investment in the entire film is only [-] million US dollars!

To put it bluntly, "Transformers 2011" in 3 had a total investment of 1.95 million U.S. dollars, and this family spent an extra 3000 million U.S. dollars on 3D shooting, so in fact, if you only shoot ordinary 2D, then the investment is 1.65 million USD is enough!How many special effects scenes are there in "Transformers 3"?So if you compare it, you can see that a film like Jia Hongjian’s is not a sci-fi film, and it doesn’t need too many big scenes, so if you really want to do special effects, 2000 million US dollars can do a good job already!That is an investment of 1.5 million US dollars, which is basically enough!No matter how much money is invested, it is actually not necessary, but it is a bit superfluous!

Since the cost of special effects is not much and the effect is good, then it is better to shoot directly like this!At that time, the actors only need to shoot in the big studio in the DreamWorks campus. At most, they will find a slightly suitable corner in the parking lot of the park or something, paste green cloth around it, and then put some Jia on the green cloth. Hung-chien wanted "decorations" like plants or bricks, so the actors could start filming!When you combine it with the special effects you made, the effect will be as real as it is!In this case, why not let the special effects do it?After such a policy is settled, the next thing to do is to find various crew members.First of all, Jia Hongjian, the prop master, was introduced by Spielberg. By the way, the producer asked Spielberg’s old acquaintance Catherine to act—in such a play, Jia Hongjian was the producer and the director. Director's.But after all, I have two jobs, and sometimes I can't do both, so it's good to find someone to help me.

After Catherine came, she quickly recruited the rest of the staff.Then, when Jia Hongjian began to conceive the drawing of each shot, that is, the draft of the shot, Catherine directed the crew members to start the preliminary preparation.As far as costumes are concerned, the preparation in advance is to prepare the costumes.These costumes are not just for one person or two. According to the progress of the plot in the play, each person must have n sets of costumes.For example, suppose the protagonist and his family first arrive in Sarajevo, wearing T-shirts, sweatpants and skirts. As the survival progresses, these clothes will definitely wear out to a certain extent, right?These clothes with different degrees of wear certainly cannot be said to be a set of clothes for actors to wear and wear.After all, in the movie, maybe the character will wear such a suit for three years in summer, and maybe in winter, he will just put on some thick clothes that he searched outside. After three years, the clothes can be the actors who were filmed in two or three months. Can it be worn out?Certainly not the same degree of wear ah!Therefore, it is necessary for the costumer to prepare clothes with different degrees of wear!

From the t-shirts I wore at the beginning, to the sweat-stained and dirty versions, to the various dirty versions, and then to the version that is washed once in a while and then carefully washed, Then to the final version that is worn out and worn out, all this needs to be prepared.It can be said that it is normal to prepare five or six sets of clothes for a set of clothes, and it is also necessary to prevent the clothes from being damaged during shooting, so it is normal to have a backup of the same clothes.In addition to different clothes in different seasons, it is very normal for the last character to have 34 sets of clothes!Next, there are preparations for the makeup artist. The makeup artist needs to prepare the character's face and makeup at different stages.For example, at the beginning, the protagonist may be clean, and after a while, he starts to grow a stubble, and so what after a while.This involves different hair lengths, different cleanliness, different beard lengths, etc., and even fat and thin issues.These are all prepared by the makeup artist in advance, and after Jia Hongjian's approval, the makeup is basically finalized.When the actors are in place, then use the makeup to match the actors to see if it fits well, and then after the details are finalized, there will be a makeup photo.

On the other hand, there are also things like looking for a composer to make a soundtrack for a movie.Tell them a general story trend, let them make episodes based on the inspiration of such a story trend, these are all things to do.As a whole, it is extremely complicated and piecemeal, but all these things must be done to make a movie.Fortunately, Catherine helped Jia Hongjian do all these things. What Jia Hongjian had to do by himself was to sign all the actors, and after finishing the makeup photos, wait for various costumes and so on. After that, it was basically ready to shoot! (To be continued..)