Coquettish Rebirth

After finishing such a matter here, Jia Hongjian put aside the matter of the restaurant for the time being, and focused on the movie again. ¤ Vertex Fiction, as far as movies are concerned, the movie "Batman" is still in the post-production process. What Jia Hongjian needs to focus on now is the preparations for "Inception".What are you preparing for?On the one hand, it is necessary to start customizing various props that will be used in the future - as for "Inception", Jia Hongjian does not want to use a large number of special effects to produce according to the method of Hollywood in the United States.He is not as old-fashioned as Nolan, and he doesn't like to use old-fashioned things so much.Seriously, if Nolan hadn't insisted, if this story hadn't been Nolan's story, then Jia Hongjian would have used digital cameras instead of film cameras!After all, post-processing is more convenient in this way, isn't it?In this way, the overall efficiency is higher!What Jia Hongjian wants to pursue is efficiency!Besides, Jia Hung-chien was actually not very patient. He didn't like to wait a year or so for post-production after the filming was finished.That would torture his patience too much. After a year or so, he, the main creator, has forgotten many details in the movie, and the movie will only be released at this time... What's the point of this?

He, Jia Hongjian, is the boss of a film company, not a wage earner. If he is a film director or something, a wage earner has no choice but to let the film company do it.But Jia Hongjian was different. He was the owner of a film company. What did he say? Who could stand up and say no?As long as he wants to see the finished movie faster and decides to use various physical props to shoot, then the people below can only follow his Jia Hongjian's request!For example, in the movie script, the newly recruited female dream maker returned to the stronghold and wanted to join in the absence of the protagonist, and then the assistant brought the girl into the dream again. Inside, there is a completely enclosed staircase that seems to be an optical illusion!

Such a staircase is composed of four staircases.Each staircase seems to be going from bottom to top, and finally the stairs are connected together. It feels as if walking inside can never get out, and it seems that each other is the starting point!If such a thing is obtained by another film company, it must be made into computer special effects.Because the special effects are so simple to do, there is no need for headaches at all.Direct computer animation synthesis chant!But Jia Hongjian didn't like it, he didn't want to shoot like this, he wanted to use props to shoot like Nolan!It would be troublesome to get this prop up!Because if you want to make such a closed staircase in reality, how do you do it?This kind of thing should not exist at all in reality!

As for the special effects team, it really is the special effects team.You must know that during World War II, American film special effects artists and various magicians were recruited into the U.S. military, and they began to engage in various deception operations!But in modern times, these "human flesh special effects artists" really lived up to Jia Hongjian's expectations, and soon they came up with a solution for stairs-of course, the stairs cannot be closed to each other.This is physically impossible, but visually possible!Why?As long as it is made to be closed to each other when viewed from a specific angle, isn't that the end?Who said that props in movies must be shot in one shot?When the time comes, shoot a fixed shot like this first, let the audience see it first, let everyone think that the four stairs form a rhombus and close each other, and then follow the camera with the actors, won’t it be enough?At this time, although it seems that the actors are walking on the closed stairs, the film is originally the art of editing!It is entirely possible to let the actor walk up the ordinary stairs, and then use various editing to make the audience think that the actor is going up the stairs in a circle!

And in the dream on the second level, there is a scene where the hotel as a whole starts to rotate.That's even easier to do—we just follow the real size of the hotel rooms and corridors, and make a room and corridors that can be rotated, isn't it over?In this way, the camera itself also rotates some angles and so on.Does it look like the actors are walking on the walls and on the ceiling?This is the simplest illusion!Just like in the early days, Hollywood filmmakers started to simulate some special motion effects by shaking the camera, such as simulating the subjective perspective of a character sitting on a horse. They just put the camera on a thing like a wooden horse and shake it. Then in order to simulate the shaking of the ship, it is placed on a spring platform that shakes from side to side, so that the camera shakes.That gives the audience the feeling that something like a character or a "ship" is shaking!

Of course, there are also scenes like the street scene in Paris, that is, when Xiao Lizi and the female dreamer enter the dream for the first time, Xiao Lizi shows various scenes of street explosions, which is a bit difficult to get, but really Let's talk about it.The special effects team also had a solution—not to use computer special effects as a whole, but to actually make the explosion, shoot it, and then shoot the characters separately, and finally cut out the characters and combine them with the explosion scene!In this way, the investment is small, the risk is small, and the construction period is short. It can be said that it fully meets Jia Hongjian's various requirements!Of course, the people in the special effects team considered a series of factors and felt that if a Parisian street scene was completely replicated in reality, it would be too nonsense and the construction period would be too long. The streets of Paris actually detonated!

But if you think about it with your brain, you know that no government of any country will allow the crew to go to the streets of the city to set off explosives!So, the special effects team is going to use high-pressure nitrogen to detonate—to put it bluntly, explosion is such a physical and chemical process, isn’t it that explosives change from solid or liquid to gas quickly, and then cause the volume to increase by nnn times?Therefore, the burst point of high-pressure nitrogen is suddenly decompressed, and the effect is the same as that of an explosion!It's just that there are no lights of any kind, but Jia Hongjian didn't say that there must be lights!The original script did not ask for fire lights!So the special effects team is going to use high-pressure nitrogen to solve this matter.

And in such a scene, according to the requirements of Nolan's script, to achieve such an effect that the debris of the explosion is like flying snowflakes, it is really... simply achievable.Jia Hongjian managed to shoot with dozens of digital cameras a long time ago, and then through digital post-processing, the frames between the digital cameras are completed, and finally an effect similar to a 360-degree rotation is produced. what?The same explosion scene was shot with dozens of ultra-high-speed cameras, such as the kind of camera that shoots [-] pictures per second, and the battle was set up, and then dozens of machines started shooting at the same time. Edit the appropriate film and edit it together, and then use digital processing to supplement the missing frames in the middle, wouldn't that be enough?This can achieve the kind of detritus of various explosions on the street flying in the air, and then suddenly become very slow after the explosion-nonsense, a camera with [-] frames per second will be very slow to shoot anything!In this way, let the actors make up shots in front of the green cloth, and finally combine them together according to the time axis. Isn't the time speed of the two different?The protagonist, Xiao Lizi, and the supporting actress can speak and act at a normal speed, while all kinds of explosive debris in the air can be expressed at a super slow motion speed!

Of course, if such a high-pressure nitrogen is used as the explosion point, the effect of the explosion must not be as good as using real explosives. After all, the Paris government may not allow us to destroy any buildings, and the owner may not agree at all.So it is impossible for us to really remove a brick and replace it with a fake one that hides the explosive points. In the end, it may be that the various explosive points are covered with various debris and then exploded.In this way, if no corrections are made after the shooting, the audience will definitely see the hot spots on the ground and walls-then do a little special effect in the later stage to deduct these hot spots?In this way, the post-production period is greatly shortened, and the overall effect is similar. Doesn't this just meet Jia Hongjian's requirements?

And the scene where a train passes through the streets of central Los Angeles in a movie is completely fake-who said we must use real trains to do it?Let's find a tractor or a big car, and put a shell that looks like a train on it, isn't it over?Go back and get a few carriages behind. Is it okay to drive this thing on the street?Afterwards, post-processing the wheels and so on, isn't it troublesome?Then the construction period is very short?The effect is very real?It can be said that such a cooperation between Jia Hongjian and the special effects team really made the special effects team very happy-they haven't had such a big job for many years!

Over the years, their work has become less and less, and more and more movies have begun to use a large number of computer special effects for effects, instead of the effects made by real people using various machines and whimsy.But at this moment, Jia Hongjian actually wanted to cooperate with them in such a way. Could that not make them happy?Besides, because Nolan, who worked with Jia Hongjian, used imax to shoot, the stock of imax company, whose stock had fallen for several years, went up against the trend!So if these special effects teams cooperate with Jia Hongjian, maybe other film companies will give up using computers for special effects and come to them to do real props and special effects after seeing the effect!

For example, Jia Hongjian hired more than 200 special effects artists for such an "Inception" this time, specifically 235!With more than 200 people, it can be said that almost all the well-known special effects artists for movie props in a country like the United States have been brought here!It can be said that this film is simply a carnival for props and special effects artists, their carnival!And in such a movie, Jia Hongjian is not going to use the imax camera he used before, it is too bulky, and after Jia Hongjian used it, he did not fall in love with it, so this time he still He plans to continue to use 35mm film—this is also for Nolan’s face. In order to shoot such a film, he has prepared 5000 meters of film for shooting. If there is not enough film by then, he can add more at any time!However, it is estimated that 5000 meters is not enough, because generally speaking, 3000 meters of film is enough for filming!Although there is a high-speed camera this time, the film of the high-speed camera is counted separately... (to be continued...)