Chatty Hollywood

"Silk stockings are a good thing. Women can conquer men when they wear them, and men can conquer banks when they wear them."

Charlotte had heard such a sentence before traveling, and thought it made sense.

He liked it very much, especially the way Charlize wore it.

However, girls don't often cooperate with his hobbies...

Of course, today he brought stockings to the makeup department, which has nothing to do with his hobbies.

"It does look like a stocking."

He explained to a bewildered Annika, Christopher Walken, and stuntman Rob Inge,

"It's actually a new technology test product of Spectre Studios."

"tester?"

The one who spoke was the photographer Addison Yang who was pulled by Charlotte while still holding the camera,

"Charlotte, does it really have the magical effect you described to me?"

"I can't say that well either."

Saying so, Charlotte's expression is full of affirmation,

"Alexis, who helped us research the special effects technology before, mentioned to me the feasibility of this technology, but we haven't done the experiment yet."

"Then let's experiment now!"

Edison Yang looked excited.

"..."

Several people present were confused by their words, but Charlotte did not explain.

He directly instructed Annika to remove the shoulder pads for Rob Inge, who was still dressed in the Headless Horseman costume, and then redressed, and then—

"Put it on!"

Charlotte handed the black stockings to Rob Inge, who finally showed his head.

"...Are you really going to rob the bank?"

The young man acting as a stand-in had a wry smile on his face, but he still took the stockings and put them on his head honestly.

"Is it okay?"

"You can't see it that way."

Charlotte greeted Annika and Christopher Walken, and walked to Addison Yang who had already set up cameras and monitors,

"You have to look through the monitor!"

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Christopher Walker couldn't understand the director in front of him.

As an old actor who appeared on Broadway at the age of sixteen and won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 1979 for "The Deer Hunter", Walken has worked with countless directors.

In his opinion, Charlotte Booth, a young director, is a bit strange.

This is not to say that the other party's director level is not good——

Walken observed secretly, and felt that the other party's set scheduling ability was very good, and the entire crew was running in an orderly manner.

Looking at that alone, this doesn't seem like a bad director.

What's more, Walken has also watched "Fatal Turn" and "Happy Death Day".

Especially the latter, the label of over 100 million box office in North America is simply the best description of the director's level.

What Walken finds strange is the way the other party directs the actors——

Johnny Depp was scared and screamed by the beetle crawling out of the "corpse", but he saw it with his own eyes.

This is the first time he has seen a director who guides actors' acting skills like this.

——However, it seems that the effect is not bad?

Thinking of Depp's miraculous performance in the next few days, Walken felt that this might set a bad precedent.

"But what's the use of these stockings?"

Walken is not too surprised that Mr. Director is entangled in the shape of the Headless Horseman.

After all, that's what a director does.

Among the ten directors, four have obsessive-compulsive disorder, five have obsessive-compulsive disorder, and one has both obsessive-compulsive disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

If a movie is shot and the director doesn't struggle at all, then the movie will either be a masterpiece, or it will be a piece of shit.

What Walken was curious about was the other party's solution to the entanglement——

"Since you said you were looking for technical support just now, then the stockings must have been treated in some way?"

Before seeing the shooting effect, Walken was very curious and full of expectations.

Then--

"WTF!!!"

Even if you are mentally prepared,

The scene seen through the monitor used by the director still surprised Walken——

The knight's black clothes and armor didn't change much, but on the head, Rob Inge's head in black stockings disappeared entirely.

Instead, there was a cloud of black smoke that looked like a burning flame.

"this……"

Walken looked up in disbelief.

—Rob Inge's head in stockings still resting on his neck.

"how did you do that?"

Having been in Hollywood for decades, Walken naturally knows how special effects are produced.

The reason why post-production special effects have the prefix "post-production" is because it needs to be specially processed after the shooting is completed.

When will this effect be completed synchronously when shooting! ?

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It wasn't just Christopher Walken who was taken aback. Neither Annika, who was in charge of makeup, nor the photographer Addison Yang, expected to see such a scene.

Especially Addison Young.

Although the new set of filters provided by Charlotte during the previous shooting was already surprising enough.

But that is the rendering effect of the overall picture after all.

For Addison, who is used to filters, this effect is not difficult to understand.

Although he didn't know how the special effects people did it, but since it passed through the filter, it was not much different from the principle of the filter after all.

But now the effect of making people's heads disappear is a bit beyond his comprehension.

"This uses a principle similar to green screen photography."

Charlotte explained,

"Simply put, it's just a replacement—"

"Just like in green screen photography, the green parts are replaced by post-production effects. Here, black smoke is used to replace Rob's head in black stockings."

"I see!"

Mr. Photographer thought for a while, then shook his head randomly,

"But even so, it should be replaced later! Why now—"

"That's why it's called a new technology!"

Charlotte shrugged.

"The set of filters I gave you before are actually special effects filters made with digital technology. Each of them has a set of unique rendering effects, such as fog and black smoke."

"Then those special effects are superimposed with the normal shot through the filter!?"

Addison Yang nodded.

This line of thinking is similar to what he had guessed before. However, what Charlotte said didn't seem to explain his problem just now.

etc--

Addison Yang took a closer look at the captured picture,

"The effect of this black smoke is very similar to the effect of one of the filters you gave me before, does this mean—"

"It's the same special effect!"

Charlotte directly affirmed Addison's guess,

"That stocking had been impregnated with a special paint - non-toxic, of course."

Seeing that Rob Inge, who was still wearing stockings, trembled, Charlotte hurriedly explained,

"The non-visible spectrum of light reflected by this paint is a set signature for our digital filters."

"After encountering it, will the entire area be replaced with the special effect of black smoke?"

"It can be understood in this way."

Seeing everyone's suddenly enlightened expressions, Charlotte smiled secretly.

—it was fooled.

PS1: "As You See It" is a documentary released in Poland in 2012 PS2: Do you know how much I want to tear up the script after seeing the comments you guessed in advance in the chapter?