Hollywood Road

? Turning around and walking outside, Robert Downey Jr. twisted his coquettish buttocks and said as he walked, "Why is such a big house empty? Why are there only two X-Men?"

"Oh..." He made an exaggerated voice again, and this time even the producer didn't let it go, "It must be that 20th Century Fox didn't invest enough money to hire more X-Men."

He seemed a little annoyed in his words, "The biographical film I filmed for me turned out to be a small production!"

Originally, the line should end here, and Murphy was about to stop, but Robert Downey Jr. didn't mean to stop. He stretched out a finger and pointed at the camera, "Hey, idiot director, if you mess up, I will definitely make you look like me!"

"Cut!"

Seeing that Robert Downey Jr. stopped talking, Murphy stopped the crew, stood up, and gave a thumbs up to the studio, "Well done, Downey!"

Although Robert Downey Jr.'s on-the-spot performance was not included in the script plan, the filming is inherently more flexible, and outstanding actors often have some impromptu performances due to their role substitutions during shooting. As long as it is beneficial to the film, the director Generally not rejected.

This time breaking the fourth wall to make fun of himself, Murphy thinks that Robert Downey Jr. is doing very well.

In most cases, breaking the fourth wall in a film like Deadpool is a big taboo in filmmaking, and it will easily let the audience play, so no other film will try it easily, but "Deadpool" "is different. It not only has the setting of comics as the basis, but also meets the needs of the overall style of the film. Breaking the fourth wall is beneficial and harmless.

However, Murphy also knows that even if this movie is "Deadpool", you must pay attention to the timing and quantity of breaking the fourth wall, otherwise this kind of crazy complaints will also make the audience play.

The first scene was filmed very smoothly, and the purpose of this built scene ended here. It took days to set up, just for a few minutes of shooting, which is very common in film production.

Murphy called for a transition, and the crew didn't go far. In front of another green screen next to it, they shot the shots of Lily Collins' Black Spider and the Russian actor's Colossus.

This is also a rant.

"I'll let Deadpool join us every chance I get..."

The filming had just started, and the Russian-born actor named Krakow only said half a word before being stopped by Murphy, "Cut!"

Lily Collins stands in front of the green screen and turns to Krakow,

He knew it must be him who made the mistake.

Sure enough, Murphy said loudly, "What are you talking about? American English? French English? I want English with a Russian accent!"

Krakow, who was covered with motion capture cameras, immediately realized that he had made a mistake and said quickly, "Sorry, director, I will definitely pay attention to my pronunciation."

Colossus is set in the comics from Russia, otherwise Murphy would not have found a Russian actor to use motion capture.

"Return all departments!" Murphy shouted.

Other departments don't need to move much, mainly the film crew of Phil Rascher needs to be readjusted, due to the use of motion capture shooting, and the actual height difference between the two characters in the film is quite large, and there is not so much between the actors , certainly can not use ordinary shooting methods.

Murphy uses a relatively popular method in the industry. This kind of shooting that reflects the height difference of the characters has many solutions in Hollywood in the past, but Peter Jackson made quite a lot of improvements when he shot the Hobbit scenes a few years ago. , has been very mature, and can be used for shooting after proper adjustment.

This is forced perspective.

The so-called forced perspective is the use of optical and visual illusions to deform the subject, making it closer, larger, smaller, etc., using the illusion of human visual perception to create a false relativity between the subject and the surrounding environment. Coupled with the creativity of the photographer and the changing angle of the camera, the scene is shot in a completely different proportion from the reality.

After Fili-Rascher reset a series of equipment into place, filming began again.

In the script, this is the dialogue scene between Colossus and Black Spider walking together, but in the current shooting, Lily Collins is quite far away from Krakow, and is completely in a different green screen environment.

All the scenes where Colossus appeared, Murphy and Fili Raschel have discussed, and he has also made relevant plans.

When shooting, he will deliberately change the sense of front and back of the picture and the leading lines to give the lens an illusion, so that the proportions of the characters can be exaggerated.

According to his request, Krakow was alone in the green screen space next to the main scene where Lily Collins was located. The main camera used for shooting would be closer to him and away from Lily Collins to create a tall effect. CG removes the background, and then adds a suitable computer CG background.

Lily Collins and Krakow moved forward in a side-by-side manner in different positions. In addition to the main camera, Murphy also set up a second sub-camera for auxiliary shooting.

Due to the use of rails, booms and other equipment during shooting, Murphy kept the main camera moving to shoot, so he also used the computer to control the second camera in real time during shooting. The second camera is also located at the end of Krakow, but It does not move in a large range like the main lens, but only takes slow motion shots on a very short guide rail.

When the system of the second camera receives the instruction information from Murphy, it will shoot according to the settings. Because the camera is closer to Krakow, the range of movement will be less.

And Murphy's director's position is between the two cameras, and he can see the shooting effect very clearly.

There is another point in the filming, Murphy asked Krakow to slow down the frequency of the action a little bit. When the huge objects move slowly, the credibility will increase. Therefore, the monsters in the movies such as Godzilla are always slow at every step.

The location of the two actors was relatively far away, but due to the needs of live recording, when the microphone used for recording fell, Krakow spoke again, "Every time I get a chance, I let Deadpool join us, but his behavior It's like a kid who hasn't grown up, and a kid in full gear."

He turned his head and looked at Lily Collins, "When will he mature and realize the benefits of joining the X-Men?"

"What's the benefit?" Lily Collins also began to complain, "Ugly tights? Or a house that gets blown up every few years?"

"Please!" Krakow argued, "Blowing up the house is to shape the character. If we don't blow up our house, how can we highlight how bad the villain is? How can we set off the actions of our X-Men? To maintain the beauty and peace of this world..."

Many people in the crew were holding back their laughter. Since the film will be a crossover with "X-Men", the X-Men are naturally the most molested and complained about.

"Stop!" Murphy did not shout, "Do it again!"

In many cases, even if the shooting meets the requirements, he, the director, will continue to shoot to see if he can get better shots, and if he takes a few more shots, he will have more materials to use in post-editing.

Shooting is never for the sake of shooting, just like a lot of pre-production is preparing for shooting, shooting must serve post-production.

Here is almost a full green screen scene, and post-production still needs to be synthesized. As for the scene where Colossus and Black Spider set off in a stealth jet, Murphy neither plans to shoot nor use CGI to synthesize.

Kara Firth has already obtained permission from 20th Century Fox, and "Deadpool" can use some footage from "X-Men" where no specific actors will appear.

The two films are a series, and the copyright belongs to the same company, so it is very convenient to use.

Of course, Murphy won't use a lot, and the current plan to use is only the shot of Colossus and Black Spider flying a fighter jet from the Xavier School for Gifted Youth.

Although the crew shot some fragmentary shots on the first day, the shooting process was quite smooth, especially Robert Downey Jr., who was full of all kinds of complaints, making the words on the paper come alive. If Murphy leads It's not a more mature team with enough experience, I'm afraid they will laugh frequently.

After the first day of filming, Murphy did not leave work immediately. Instead, he asked Kara Firth to call the heads of various departments and hold a brief meeting.

In addition to the three directors Murphy, Paul Wilson and Seth Rogen, as well as various departments such as Philip Raschel, Helena Espora, David Robbie and Jack Watson, the meeting was attended In addition to the person in charge, there are also representatives of the American International Insurance Company in the crew.

This representative belongs to the relatively silent type. He has been stationed in the crew as early as in Los Angeles. As long as the crew follows the plan, he is a completely invisible person and will not easily raise opinions.

In addition, because this time it was not working with Miramax, the crew also replaced a new editor. Jody Griffith, who originally worked with Murphy, was pulled into the crew by Kara Firth.

Jody Griffith is Kara Firth's old subordinate, and his ability has also been recognized by Murphy, which is enough to be the editor of this film.

And unlike the filming and production of "Planet Terror" and "Sin City", since the producer is Kara Firth, Murphy can get more full power, and the post-editing is completely under his control. Jody Griffey Si and the editing team are more like a pair of hands to fulfill his will.

This kind of meeting is a routine meeting. After Murphy asked Paul Wilson, who was in charge of planning and reporting, to submit today's work log and tomorrow's shooting plan to the representative of the American International Insurance Company, he specially emphasized one point.

"This is a superhero movie with a distinct black style, but the style of the film cannot be too dark!" (To be continued.)