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Chapter 279 Multi-camera Shooting

Everyone knows cinematographer-style cinema.

Take some of Lao Mouzi’s films as an example, the screen has a strong sense of ritual, and pursues various forms of composition. The shots are as beautiful as landscapes and portraits of characters, but the storyline is always criticized and ridiculed.

Zhou Xia naturally didn't want Zhao Xiaoding to influence his creative thinking.

He respects this senior's opinion very much, but he knows what he wants even more!
"Charlotte" is a youth comedy movie, the picture composition and photography style are all for the storyline.

Therefore, there is no need for many "Heroes" and "Housing Daggers" with prominent tones and beautifully symmetrical compositions.

Any sense of form and formality, and non-lifelike composition are taboos!

Some dramatized scenes require special composition, and Zhou Xia will let Zhao Xiaoding completely dominate. In most cases, he sticks to his personal ideas.

Zhao Xiaoding is Lao Mouzi's royal photographer and is well-known internationally.

If it hadn't been for Zhou Xia's hard work when he was filming "The Hawthorn Tree", Lao Mouzi was still preparing for "Thirteen Hairpins" during this period, and he happened to have time, so he would not have participated in this film.

And there are rules in the industry. In the movie industry, the rule of the game is that the director has the final decision. After all, the director is responsible for whether the movie is good or bad.

Photographers with professional ethics put forward professional opinions, and the decision-making power is left to the director.

Of course Zhao Xiaoding understands the rules, he only puts forward his views and opinions, and doesn't force Zhou Xia to do what he wants.

Overall, the two have been a pleasure to work with.

At the beginning, as a senior, Zhao Xiaoding felt that Zhou Xia, a newcomer director, didn't accept his opinion because he pretended to understand and was arrogant, and occasionally questioned and argued.

But as Zhou Xia's filming progressed, Zhou Xia and the editor edited the film together at the end of each day's work.

Zhao Xiaoding watched from the side, listening to Zhou Xia's requirements for the editor, some of his creative concepts and ideas, and seeing the style of the cut movie clips.

He also gradually understood why Zhou Xia insisted on his personal ideas so much.

He only offered his opinion, whether Zhou Xia accepted it or not, he would not say anything more.

The cooperation between the director and the photographer has become more and more tacit, and the shooting work has naturally been smoother.

Zhou Xia strives for excellence and her serious work attitude also affects the entire crew.

No one dares to work with the idea of ​​messing around.

Under the pressure of Zhou Xia, the two lead actors, Sisi and Yang Xiaohu, also tried their best to make their performances meet the requirements.

After all, there are so many people in the production team, and it really hurts face to be reprimanded by Zhou Xia face to face.

And they also have a bit of luck in their hearts!
I hope that Zhou Xia's first movie will be as popular as his first TV series.

Then what kind of hard work and hard work you put in now, what kind of harvest will you have, and everything will not be in vain.

The three assistant directors, Gong Chun, Yan Fei, and Da Mo are also doing their own duties on the set, sharing the pressure for Zhou Xia and studying hard.

The main creators of "Charlotte", from the director, assistant director, photographer, and actors, have all entered a state of concentrating on creation and working actively.

All the shooting work is naturally more efficient, and many plans are completed in advance.

Zhou Xia led the entire film crew to shoot for a week, and has taken more than 100 shots, completing one eighth of the shooting tasks.

Seeing that the three assistant directors and several photography assistants fully understood his shooting concept and the required effects.

Zhou Xia simply divided the filming crew into two more, let Gong Chun and Yan Fei each take charge of one, and filmed some scattered scenes of supporting roles and other scenes.

Only by giving the directors under him the opportunity to direct, can they grow up and be able to be independent in the future.

Originally shooting this first movie, he planned to take care of everything.

But as the roles of the two leading actresses were switched, he knew that some things could not be forced, and he had to follow the rules.

Even if he spends more time and strives for perfection, it is impossible to make "Charlotte Annoyance" into a classic.

Sisi and Yang Xiaohu's performance, even if he took hundreds of shots for each scene, it is impossible to train them to the level of the international chapter!
For those supporting roles and some scattered cutscenes, Zhou Xia believes that the two assistant directors will complete them well.

This saves at least a quarter of the shooting time.

He only needs to lead the shooting of Group A, staring at himself and several leading actors, and filming this part well.

The scenes surrounding the school's plot accounted for about half of the movie.

Following the easy-to-difficult working method, Zhou Xia first finished filming some small scenes, so that the protagonist and supporting actors could find their own sense of role, and then arranged for the group scenes of large scenes.

Especially the scene where Charlotte returned to the classroom in her dream: hitting the teacher, kissing Qiuya, disturbing the director and the principal, burning the curtains, seeing her mother, jumping off the building, etc.

After the scene was edited, it took up 7 minutes in the original movie, but it was one of the most exciting scenes in the movie!

Zhou Xia plans to spend two or three days, or even more time, polishing the scene.

On October [-]th, after everything was ready, the filming of this big show officially started.

The extras who play the role of students are ready in the classroom, and there are rarely four cameras in the classroom!

Zhou Xia seldom uses three cameras, and basically shoots with one or two cameras.

He used four cameras to shoot this scene!
The main reason is that this scene involves all the protagonists and supporting roles in the entire movie.

If the expressions and changes of the leading actors and supporting actors were filmed separately, the expressive power of the actors and the appeal of the whole scene would be greatly weakened.

Multi-camera shooting at the same time, and then editing and joining, can solve this problem very well.

On the corridor outside the classroom, Zhou Xia stood behind the monitor, with four cameras in front of him. He was holding a loudspeaker, and the cameraman Zhao Xiaoding was standing next to him. The other camera assistants were all standing in the shooting position.

They determined the camera position and lighting one by one, as well as the position of the actors in the classroom.

"Camera No. 1, lowered by [-] degrees, pay attention to making the faces of the actors bigger when shooting, so that their exaggerated surprised expressions will be stronger!"

Zhou Xia looked at the screen on the No. [-] camera of the monitor, and gave instructions to the assistant photographer.

"Camera No. 2, the light, the light is stronger. You are facing the door. Charlotte pushed open the door of the classroom and came in. It means that he is back in high school. He must be dazzling. Bright light is very important!"

"Unit 3..., Unit 4..."

Zhou Xia directed and adjusted over and over again, until finally he felt that there was no problem, and he entered the scene as the protagonist to prepare to start shooting.

"Scene No. 19, first shot, first shot, click!"

Zhou Xia, who was wearing a white shirt, had wet face and hair. This was the beginning of Charlotte dipping her head into the washbasin, entering a dream, and returning to high school.

He pushed open the door of the classroom and walked in. Machine No. 2 was facing him, and the lighting assistant shone yellow nostalgic lights on his face.

His eyes were wide open, and he looked at the students in the classroom with a look of astonishment, and the students also looked at him with all their leisure.

Especially Yin Li and Yang Xiaohu, who played the roles of Yuan Hua and Qiu Ya sitting in the front row, were very disdainful and arrogant.

Zhou Xia had an expression of disbelief on his face, and he fell backwards.

"Stop! Where's your mother?"

Camera No. 3 shot, Mr. Wang stood on the podium, knocked on the podium with a folding fan, and shouted to him who was in a daze.

　Chapter 1 has been updated, updated, there are many things today, and the update is late.

　　
　
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