Chatty Hollywood

Normally, the scene under the high-speed photography lens is always amazing.

It's like using a bullet to penetrate a wooden board. In the eyes of normal people, it may only be a brief moment, but under high-speed photography, there will be images of sawdust flying and the penetrated wooden board undulating like water ripples.

If this kind of picture is well designed, it will be very beautiful.

This is also the reason why high-speed photography lenses were used more and more in movies.

However, sometimes high-speed photography alone is not enough, just like the problem Charlotte and the others are facing now——

If it was a real fight and the punches were to the flesh, the shots captured by high-speed photography would naturally show the ripples in the muscles and skin at the location where the person was hit.

But the problem is, you can’t really fight in the movie!

Especially the action scenes. If there was a real fight, how many people would be able to receive a few blows to their vital parts?

——It’s different from Kung Fu movies where you can fight for a long time without any problem. In real life, if a vital part is hit, you will often lose the ability to move in an instant.

Therefore, from a safety point of view, it is impossible to actually hit someone while filming a movie.

Even if the actors are willing to tolerate it, the Screen Actors Guild will not agree.

In this way, how to deal with the muscle feedback on the body of the struck party becomes a problem.

——High-speed photography makes it impossible to hide the fake punches originally used to deceive the audience's eyes.

Of course, it is not impossible to rely on computer special effects technology for post-processing, or simply to retouch images, but in this case, the cost of several shots using high-speed photography will increase significantly.

Therefore, after studying for a while with the assistant director Lao Qiang, cinematographer Addison Young and action director, Charlotte decided to adopt a flexible method——

For normal action shots, a high-speed camera continues to be used to capture the actual action, but when hitting the body for feedback shots, prosthetics are used.

——To put it simply, it means asking the prop master to make some special human models specifically for shooting hit feedback shots.

In other words, let the actors fight the dummies.

Not that this is a problem.

As early as when filming "Sleepy Hollow", Charlotte had gathered several prop masters who were very good at making mannequins.

It’s hard to tell whether the heads they made are authentic or not. The severed heads in “Sleepy Hollow” were all made from these models, and there was no sign of gang involvement at all.

Even when Depp arrived on the set for filming, the prop team made him a head model of his own as a joke. It looked exactly the same, which scared Depp so much...

Therefore, it is not difficult for them to make mannequins of the actors who were hit.

Especially, considering the shooting lens, in many cases it is not necessary to capture the entire body of the actor. The production of this kind of local position model is easier.

On the contrary, it is a problem with the material of the model, which requires them to conduct more experiments.

After all, if you want to look like you are really hitting the human body, the feedback effect of the model needs to be very realistic.

Although silicone and other things are common human fillers, whether the impact effect is ideal after making a model still requires some research.

Fortunately, the workload this time is really not that big——

After a few experiments, the prop team settled on the materials needed to create the model.

In fact, the materials they selected have a more exaggerated impact than the real human body, but movies are inherently an art of deception and exaggeration. As long as the performance is good, in Charlotte's eyes, this is not a problem.

After determining the action design plan, Charlotte first shot several times with high-speed cameras and ordinary cameras to capture the ideal effect.

After that, we specifically identified some segments from this footage that required real muscle feedback, and asked the prop team to make special partial prostheses.

Finally, there is the part dedicated to filming the actors hitting the prosthetics——

"It feels so weird!"

After using the muscle prosthesis a few times at Charlotte's request, Robert Downey Jr. couldn't help but complain,

“Can this really produce the desired effect?”

"You'll know if you see it for yourself!"

Charlotte waved to a few curious actors, including Downey and Jude Law, and motioned them to come to the monitor to take a look.

This actually made several people feel quite flattered.

There is no way, according to Hollywood's default custom, directors generally will not show the finished film to the actors.

This is mainly to avoid disputes——

After all, what should the actor do if the director feels that the shot was well shot, but the actor feels that it did not show his acting skills, or that the shot made him look ugly?

Normally, you should listen to the director. But there are bound to be complaints in the hearts of the actors, which is not conducive to the subsequent work of the crew.

Therefore, until now, most directors will not show the shot footage to the actors unless necessary.

This is not only to avoid disputes, but also a reflection of the director's authority.

Of course, there are exceptions -

If an actor is also a high-powered producer and the entire movie is built around him, he will naturally be able to see the completed shots.

You can even look into the camera and give instructions to the director.

Essentially, it's a question of who has more power on the crew.

For example, when Charlize was filming "The Devil Wears Prada", as a producer, she naturally made a lot of interference in the film that she used to compete for Oscars.

And she is actually pretty good——

In the "Mission: Impossible" series directed by Tom Cruise, it was not once or twice that he finally squeezed the director out due to disagreements with the director.

Even a well-known director like David Fincher cannot suppress Tom Cruise, who has the power to produce...

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In short, directors will not easily show their actors the finished film unless they are forced to do so.

Therefore, now Charlotte said that she would let Downey and the others take a look at the footage that had been edited through high-speed photography, which would make a few people feel flattered.

——You know, a great director of Charlotte's status can completely ignore their doubts and shoot whatever he wants.

Now that the other party is willing to show them the finished film, it can be said to be an extremely friendly gesture.

Of course, they also understood that it was one thing for Charlotte to show them the filmed clips, but another thing for them to be able to comment at will.

In particular, Charlotte's various superb performances during previous filming and her methodical on-set scheduling ability have already shocked several people.

Anyway, both Downey and Jude Law had made up their minds before watching——

I must say it was well shot! !

Even if you feel that the shot is not good, it is a matter of your own aesthetics. You should improve yourself in the subsequent shooting process, not say anything else...

Although this idea is suspected of being a flatterer, considering Charlotte's strong record in the past, Downey and the others don't think there is anything wrong.

After all, thigh pendants for great people are not so easy to use...

However, when they actually saw the footage of Charlotte's film, several people couldn't help but be surprised——

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