Entertainment World: The Wild God of Gourmet

The crew was located in Jiuquan, which was rented and converted from a large factory building. The nearest star-rated hotel was more than 20 kilometers away, so it was very inconvenient to eat, wear and live.

But the benefits brought by setting the crew in Jiuquan cannot be brought by more conveniences in life.

In 1993, a great space movie "Apollo 13" showed a miraculous and extremely realistic weightless lens on the screen, and it is still hailed by many fans as an unsurpassable classic.

How was it filmed?

The shots in the space capsule in "Apollo 13" were all done in NASA's training device "Vomit Comet": that is a Boeing KC135, which takes the crew to high altitude and then free The falling body falls for a period of time. During that time, all objects and environments in the cabin are relatively weightless, and a flight can obtain about 25 seconds of weightlessness.

With the budget of Chen Ergou's crew, it is absolutely impossible to create such an environment.

The original production cost is claimed to be 150 million US dollars, even if there is an exaggeration, it will not be less than 100 million US dollars. He has online cheats, and he has already cut off the most expensive special effects. In addition, the shooting environment is in China, and the cost is greatly reduced. I thought that the budget cost of 50 million US dollars was appropriate, but it seems that I am still a little nervous.

The backing of "Gravity" is not comparable to that of NASA, but as the first space movie in China to cooperate with the National Space Administration, Jiuquan Space Center gave them far more support than NASA gave to American movies.

Astronauts usually have similar space capsules for training. Although there is not much time available for shooting, and it costs a lot of money to open it once, Chen Ergou is also counting the days eagerly. He will go in and take a picture when the space capsule is free. Enough.

Opportunities are rare, and on-site shooting is naturally reserved for the most difficult shots.

A long shot, 18 minutes, a long shot beyond imagination.

For this shot,

The entire crew was exhausted, and a commissioner from the command center was invited to act as a consultant. It's really hard work, creating a zero-gravity scene is already very difficult, and it will be ten times more difficult to show a zero-gravity scene with a long lens.

I deal with the robotic arm every day, and use the iris robotic arm to operate all the camera pans, all the actors' action timings and the displacement of the camera's perspective, all of which are accurately calculated and arranged, which is something that has never been programmed before. reached the length.

After the shooting of this set of shots, the entire crew and creators couldn't help cheering in unison.

Even Gilmour was amazed by it. When facing the sideshow interview, he was greatly moved: "In order to show panoramas, close-ups, and action scenes one after another in a continuous long shot, you have to find a plan that can It’s definitely the hardest part to have all the different things going on in a single shot. So it’s really, really hard to combine zero-G with long takes.”

"It's not uncommon in Hollywood to direct and act in different industries. Hero-chen is not like a newcomer director at all. He seems to have a complete story replaying in his mind all the time! Even the editor is asking me , Have the resources sent over been edited once, and even the extra shots are pitifully small. This is the first time I have encountered such a situation after making a movie for such a long time...”

At the beginning, he joined the crew mostly for investment and "beautiful knife", but now he has more confidence in the film.

Of course, there are dissatisfaction.

Hollywood is a producer system, but Chen Ergou is too authoritarian. As the boss, director, screenwriter and starring role, Gilmore, a producer, has to stand aside no matter how famous he is, so that many opinions are not adopted.

However, the post-shooting also proves that Chen Ergou's opinion is not bad or even better.

These are all acceptable, but the only thing I can't bear is, "Chen is a workaholic, which makes me very uncomfortable... Can you imagine being pulled together by the director after work every day, and discussing for hours in his room? He basically only sleeps for three or four hours a day to get it done, but our production and director team all want to accompany him crazy. i mean, how crazy can you get?"

He is now a little worried about whether he can go home on holiday before Christmas?

When the 18-minute long shot was finally completed, it was like a graduation ceremony for the entire crew.

Chen Ergou also heaved a sigh of relief, and admitted: "The rest of the scenes in the whole movie are not as difficult as this one. After passing this level, the rest will be much easier."

"These 18 minutes include all the technical breakthroughs of this film: robotic arm lens, brand-new lighting method, new rendering technology in CG space. It realizes the real shooting perspective of arbitrary movement, and the lighting of characters that can be transformed arbitrarily And the grand and calm beauty of the universe."

When this long shot ends, it is announced that from now on, weightlessness and space are no longer difficult problems in the movie screen.

The weather is getting colder, Jiuquan is already very cold in December, and it is short of a winter snow.

However, the harsh winter did not stop the enthusiasm of the nearby residents... It was probably the first time that a film crew came here to shoot a movie, and the onlookers wandered around the neighborhood when they had nothing to do. Even local TV stations joined in the fun, even though they couldn't even enter the gate of the crew. ...It's not a so-called media confinement move by a big-name director, it's really——

"Time is money, my friend."

For those millions of LED lights, one day is worth a hundred thousand dollars.

Li Shishi was slow to enter the state, and Chen Ergou was very serious about his first film directed, often making more than a dozen ng adjustments for each shot.

Time is passing through repeated adjustments, and the cost remains the same.

Every night to settle the accounts, the producer, Miss Xia Meng, couldn't help but want to go to the battle in person.

But Li Shishi's progress is also obvious. When Cai Yinong came to see the finished film last time, he suspected that his eyes were dazzled, "This is still our family teacher~!"

"It's guaranteed to be fake!" Master Li said with a proud face. At this moment, she felt that the hard work during this time was completely worth it.

Meimou glanced at a certain dog who was staring at the monitor seriously: There is a rumor in the circle that a good director can allow actors to get into the role more deeply, and after acting in a play, it is a kind of sublimation of acting skills. Therefore, many actors like to follow the big director to film.

She has also been filming for several years, so it cannot be said that she did not work hard. To this day, the biggest harvest is still watching the superficial performance of the camera... Maybe a little self-deprecating, anyway, no audience praises her acting skills.

In the filming of "Gravity", Chen Ergou was merciless at all, and she really learned a lot.

There are hidden dragons and crouching tigers in the crew, and cutting-edge talents in all departments, costumes, props, lighting, special effects... especially when it comes to technology. Maybe the domestic team is a bit clever, but the gap with the mature Hollywood industry is still visible to the naked eye.

Chen Ergou seems to be interested in cultivating his own team, mixing and matching the two teams. The Hollywood team did not cherish their brooms, and some situations of contempt were inevitable, but he forcibly suppressed them, "I am the master of my territory." Everyone listened to him, even Gilmore was no exception.

"Maybe he really is a genius."

Li Shishi took a sideways glance at Chen Ergou who was seriously discussing with Gilmore, picked up the script and carefully experienced the next scene. The director used a red pen to carefully write various role guides on it, which was of great help to her... Feeling a little dull in her mouth, she took a snack out of her bag and took a bite.

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