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Chapter 466 Storm! (The first update asks for a subscription!)
"Are the props ready?"

"It's all inside and ready."

"How many powerful blowers have you prepared?"

"8 units, have been simulated four times, the effect is no problem."

"Where's the monitor?"

"Four weeks have been installed."

"Make sure you have a clear line of sight and do a final simulation after filming the scene."

"Good Director Tang."

On May 5th, "The Martian" is preparing for today's shooting in the super-large studio specially built by the western film and television base.

Since there are very few scenes in this film, this large studio occupies more than half of the scene, so it is basically shot according to the order of the film, saving the time for rearranging the scene.

Each department was making its own preparations. Several actors had put on their makeup and put on their space suits early in the morning, and Tang An called them together.

"When you perform later, you should all act more relaxed. When sampling the surface of Mars, you should behave the same as picking up shells on a shark beach. Just treat it as a tourist."

"Understood the director." Everyone nodded.

Jiang Wu smiled and said, "Director, your lines are designed like a normal chat."

Tang An nodded, "Brother Wu is right. Although the aerospace industry is risky, astronauts in outer space are also dangerous, but astronauts should also use appropriate jokes to make the atmosphere easier when they are working, and in the movie The character designs are not newcomers, they are all old astronauts with rich experience, and this is commonplace.”

After an explanation, let them figure out the script and lines by themselves. After half an hour, the crew was ready, and the assistant director Zhang Yiping took them through it.

Then the filming started.

"All departments are ready, this is the first scene of our movie, I hope we can get off to a good start and strive for a pass!"

"The actors are in place!"

"Scene three, one shot, one shot!"

"start."

Near the spacecraft, Liu Ye, Li Binbin, and Wang Kai are sampling the soil of Mars.

The techniques, movements, and amount of sampling have all been contacted countless times in advance, and every step has been taught by experts from the space agency.

A wide range of angles of view captured all three of them.

"Most of the soil particles here are very coarse, but those in District [-] are finer, which should be more suitable for chemical analysis."

The camera slowly zoomed in, and Liu Ye was talking about putting a soil sample into a container.

Then Jiang Wu's teasing voice came from the media in the headset.

"Look, here's what we found."

"Captain, should we notify the director immediately and give him credit for it?"

"I think it's better to report directly to the director general, and maybe hold a celebration banquet."

While talking nonsense through the communicator, while working, there is no sense of alien tension.

"Crack!"

After one shot after another, Tang An yelled to stop.

He rubbed his chin, looked at the two images on the monitor in front of him, and leaned back slightly.

After thinking about it, I called the photographer Zhang Li over.

"Old Zhang, the telephoto lens just now has a wider range and a wider angle of view. When shooting close-up shots of people, there is no need to consider the three-dimensional effect, and it should be reduced."

Zhang Li thought for a while and asked, "But if the angle of view is wider, the depth will be smaller."

"The depth doesn't need to be so big, just be natural, and the characters don't need too much three-dimensionality, and the large-scale scenery needs to be strengthened."

After discussing with Zhang Li, the filming continued.

Although the farther the lens is pulled, the more scenery will be presented and the depth will be smaller, but it will be more natural to properly control it within a suitable range.

And the wider the lens, the better it can show the entire Martian ground, a sense of quaint desolation.

The three-dimensionality of the characters can be relatively reduced compared to the scenery, especially the close-up, which makes it more comfortable to see.

If you pursue depth too much, it is better to shoot in 2D and then convert it, which can create a greater sense of depth than real 3D shooting.

Totally pointless.

The first scene was shot twice and ended successfully. There was not much to test the acting skills, and the actors were all in spacesuits.

This is the first time that the crew used 3D real shooting, using the latest 4K 3D digital camera produced by RED.

Although it is not as good as the Red Epic Dragon6K camera used for the first time in "The Martian" a few years later, it is already top-level photographic equipment for this era, as well as for today's screens and projection equipment, and other components are also top-notch. of.

There is also an Arri digital camera that specializes in shooting characters running and vehicle movement. Many car chase scenes in Hollywood use this brand of camera.

Although Zhang Li is using 3D real shooting for the first time, he has been tinkering with it for two months beforehand. The distance between the two lenses is well grasped, and the aperture, focal length, brightness, etc. are almost exactly the same.
At 6:[-] in the evening, I had dinner and rested for a while, and then filmed the scene of the storm.

In the afternoon, I tried the effect once. After cleaning up the scene, I started shooting directly when I was ready.

"Okay, all departments are ready!"

"The actors are in place!"

"Scene six, one shot, one shot!"

"start!"

With Tang An's order, the entire studio went dark, only a beam of light from the spaceship and the lights on their helmets.

Then nearly ten high-power blowers started simultaneously.

The yellow sand is all over the sky and the mud is flying!
Liu Ye, Li Binbin, and Jiang Wen walked out of the human base slowly, and walked towards the spaceship with difficulty against the storm.

Tang An nodded in front of the camera, the effect was very good, and the flashing close-up of Li Binbin and Liu Ye was also very good.

At this time, the voice of Wang Kai, who had already been prepared on the spaceship, came from the communicator.

"Captain, the spaceship has tilted 10 degrees now, if it tilts 13 degrees, the spaceship will fall!"

Liu Ye, who was walking at the end, shouted loudly, "Captain, we must prevent the spaceship from toppling over!"

"How?" Li Binbin responded concisely.

"Using the cable from the communication pole, tie him to"

Liu Ye pointed to the communication pole on the side, but before he could finish speaking, he was thrown away by something like a large pot lid.

The wire rope led Liu Ye to circle twice in the air, and then disappeared.

The scene of a storm took four hours to shoot, and three blowers were added in the middle.

As the captain, Li Binbin could not give up on any of the team members, but after searching for a minute without any results, he could only return to the spaceship with a sad heart.

The space suit is damaged, and the theoretical survival time is less than 1 minute.

"Everyone has worked hard today, pack up quickly, the supper is ready, go to rest after eating, and start work on time tomorrow."

Tang An also moved his body a bit, he was quite tired after sitting for a whole day.

A few of the actors also took off their helmets and space suits, Tang An invited them to have supper together.

(End of this chapter)