The Best Director

At the beginning of October, the weather in Vancouver was very cool, and there was a continuous drizzle in the gray sky. Pedestrians holding umbrellas on the street felt the power of the Holy King of Heaven and Earth, the Divine King, the Night Kill God, and the Seal of the Throne. The royal family of the Great Zhou Dynasty will kill the god and seal the throne at night, asking for the demon and the most powerful abandoned young man in the ninth heaven. The royal family of the Great Zhou Dynasty will kill the god and seal the throne at night. The Royal Family of the Great Zhou Dynasty has arrived at the cold winter that is gradually coming, but at this time, the studio of Flame Movie is in full swing. (Reading Network)

After a large-scale staff resignation occurred on the crew, Wang Yang and producer Stephen McCormy, who was also responsible for the operation of the crew, quickly recruited employees who were willing to go to South Africa. After all, it is not the Middle East. If there is no war, bin Laden and other terrorists should not be targeting it. If there is a second round of attacks, South Africa may be safer than the United States. It seems that what is worth worrying about is local security.

However, there is no turmoil in South Africa now. "District 9" is obviously not a small film crew, and the "youngest billionaire" will not make fun of his own life. The security work will indeed be "presidential-level treatment" as he said. Therefore, despite the generous salary, many outstanding members still accepted the contract, and the crew of "District 9" was once again ready.

Wang Yang also led everyone to Vancouver to gather with the people there, and "District 9" officially entered the filming stage.

According to the scheduled plan, the crew will first shoot in the studio and some indoor scenes in Vancouver; after completing these shots, it will be almost Thanksgiving, and they will go to South Africa after the holiday. Stephen McCormy will arrange everything early, and the crew We will shoot when we arrive and return a month later, just in time for Christmas and New Year. Finally, after the holidays, we will shoot some scenes and shoot some street scenes in Los Angeles, and the filming will be completed around mid-January next year.

And now, "District 9" is about to start filming its first scene. In the studio scene of "Secret Corridor of MNU Headquarters Building", Robert Downey Jr. is wearing a tattered white shirt with blood stains, his hair is dirty and messy, and his left wrist is wrapped in several circles of dark red cloth and holding an alien gun in his hand.

This gun is designed based on the "Hercules Beetle". The gun body is very slender and painted with beetle color patterns. The barrel part has two ferocious sharp corners at the top and bottom. When the trigger is pulled, the two sharp corners An energy network will be formed between them, and then it will be shot out like lightning, beating the enemy to pieces. Of course, this effect can only be achieved with the help of special effects.

Standing behind Robert Downey Jr. is Jeff Dougald, who plays Christopher Forson. He is not a big star. He is just an unknown member in Hollywood. However, he was in "The Pursuit of Happiness". He has played a small role and has good acting skills and rich experience, which is also the reason why he succeeded in the audition.

Alien production undoubtedly relies on computer special effects, and Chris is no exception, but detailed special effects production requires a foundation.

During the filming, Jeff Dogard will continue to perform and stay on the film. Then the animators will use his movements and expressions as models to depict the alien image frame by frame, and then synthesize it on the film. Jeff Dogard becomes Christopher Forson.

At this time, he was holding a "One-Horned Fairy" model rifle, wearing a set of blue-gray tight-fitting clothes, a scarf, gloves, etc. The clothes were covered with decorations that were easy for animators to synthesize later, and they looked very weird.

In front of the two people is the door at the end of the corridor, but in fact, in this studio scene, the front is empty. The camera crew is shooting the frontal shots there, and the door is in the studio scene next to it. In the front, Valet Pfister is carrying a camera on his shoulder. Next to him is the sound engineer holding a microphone pole. There are also lighting engineer, Sean Walsh and others from the special effects team. Wearing a light jacket, holding a director's viewfinder in his hand. Wang Yang.

"Guys." Wang Yang aimed at the viewfinder with one eye closed. While checking the lens as a startup lens, he asked with a smile: "Are you all ready?" Downey over there pulled the trigger at him, Swishing: "Come on" Valet Feist gave a thumbs up, everyone nodded with a smile and replied "Let's get started" Sean Walsh also smiled: "I have been looking forward to this moment for too long. .”

Me too Wang Yang smiled, put down the viewfinder and signaled to the recorder, "Let's get started." He looked at Donnie and Jeff in front of him, took a deep breath in his heart, and thought of the days on Rikers Island, That dream, Old Man Wu... It's been a long journey with many changes, and now it's finally about to officially start shooting. The last time I held this director's viewfinder and microphone on the set was actually more than a year ago, in another Canadian city, Toronto. The beautiful Taobao women's clothing Tmall Taobao mall Taobao women's winter coat m town.

Now I am about to start a new directing journey, including action, speeding cars, explosions, gun battles... all these scenes are new experiences. Seeing the scribe knocking down the electronic clapper board, "First shot of the first set." Wang Yang suddenly felt an influx of energy all over his body, and the door to another world opened, and he shouted loudly; "n"

With the word "n", the film crew immediately entered working mode, and the two actors also started to perform. The shot was very simple, that is, "Wiggs and Christopher hurried nervously down the corridor." There were not even any lines. Before We've already rehearsed the show, so there won't be any problems.

Downey was sweating profusely and his face was nervous. He was holding a gun in both hands and walking quickly. Jeff Dougald next to him followed with a calm face. Valle Pfister and others, who were carrying the camera, also quickly retreated, while the animation supervisor of the special effects team, Mikael Rust, captured Jeff's expressions and movements so that the animators could select the best pictures for production. After retreating all the way to the end of the scene, Wang Yang stopped and shouted with a smile: "CUT is very good, passed."

Everyone cheered happily. Downey held up his gun and made wild shooting celebrations. He whistled a few times. The smooth passage of the first shot always made people full of joy.

"Get ready for the next shot." Wang Yang smiled and clapped his hands, and everyone in the film crew walked towards the "door at the end of the passage" scene nearby. He walked towards the special effects team, looked at Sean, Mikay and others and asked, "Is there anything wrong with the shot just now?" Mikay smiled and shook his head, saying, "It's all normal." Xiao next to him En-Walsh nodded and smiled: "If you think it's okay after reading it, you can start production tomorrow."

"That's good, try to complete more special effects shots today, it's enough for you." Wang Yang smiled, patted Sean's arm, picked up the viewfinder and ran over to Jiang Ye to check the composition of the next shot.

The special effects production of "District 9" will be carried out simultaneously with the shooting. The films shot today will be played and checked by Wang Yang when he returns to the hotel in the evening. If there are no problems, these lens materials will be sent to the headquarters of the image engine. Then the animators immediately started drawing and making. There are currently more than 800 special effects shots in the special effects production schedule of "District 9". According to the current size of the animator team, if everything goes well, they can all be completed by May next year.

The next set of shots was of Wiggs squatting by the door and turning back to talk to Christopher. When the "n" sound was heard, Valle-Pfister started the camera. Downey, who was crouched and leaning against the door, looked like he was still panting. He wiped his forehead with his dirty sleeves and turned back to glare at Jay. Fu-Dougald cursed: "You almost killed me just now, you bedbug, you idiot..."

"CUT" Wang Yang shook his head, naturally he failed, and said: "Robert, your eyes and expressions are not good enough." Donnie and others immediately looked at him, Wang Yang walked over and stared at Ye fiercely. Jeff glanced at it, thought about it, and said slowly: "Well, I think the problem is that you don't regard Jeff as an alien, and he almost killed you just now. You know that your current mentality is only selfish. Get it quickly." Go to that damn energy bottle and turn back into a human..."

He spread his hands, pointed at Jeff and said: "But this bug is a piece of garbage that is not worth mentioning in your heart. Before the transformation, you may have been a little humanitarian, but after the transformation, you are extremely disgusted with them. You have One thought: 'They caused me to be like this, they owe me', and now this situation?" As he spoke, he glared, gritted his teeth, and said: "Anger, racial discrimination, resentment, venting... You have to have these. mood"

"Well, I think I need to be more involved in the drama." Downey tilted his lips and frowned. He also realized this problem. He looked at Jeff Daugaard and smiled: "I don't know if that's the reason. , I don't feel that he is an alien." Jeff shrugged and smiled: "I'm sorry, but I'm really not." Donnie laughed and said: "Yang, I have to cultivate my emotions... "

Wang Yang looked at Jeff seriously, thinking about a solution. This is a big problem. The whole movie is full of aliens. It would be too bad if Downey wasn't emotional enough and couldn't express the feeling of real interaction with aliens. And the more Jeff looks like an alien, the better it will be for Downey's entrance and performance. But how can we turn Jeff into an "alien"? We can't let him transform too, right?

He couldn't help but smile as he thought about it, glanced at the people around him, and asked: "Hey, everyone, does anyone have any good ideas to make Jeff more like an alien?"

Valle Pfister, art director Patrick, Sean Walsh... Even Jeff himself looked at each other and thought about it. Patrick suggested: "Maybe let Jeff wear a monster suit?" Kai Rust immediately shook his head and said: "No, our animation department needs him to wear the clothes he is wearing now. Changing them will have a big impact." Sean Walsh said with an expression on his face that said, "I have no idea." : "CGI won't help the problem."

"Don't bother me, just give me a little time." Downey closed his eyes and took a deep breath, and said in a deep voice, "I'm brewing my emotions, I'm going to go soon, um, I'm going to go soon..."

"Wait a minute..." Wang Yang raised his eyebrows, and vaguely thought of an idea in his mind. It wouldn't be so troublesome to wear a set of monster clothes... He remembered what was said in the book, sometimes human thinking will be very solidified, and someone will Some impressions are so tightly held that he cannot think clearly. In fact, they are just very simple things, but they need to think outside the box. He glanced at Jeff up and down a few times, and finally his eyes stopped on that face, and suddenly smiled and said: "I I thought about it, put on makeup.”

make up? Everyone seemed to have thought of something. Wang Yang shouted loudly outside the tent: "Nia, come here, Nia." He shouted a few times, then looked at the steward and said, "Call her over for me, please." Bring her tools."

Nia is one of the makeup artists on the crew, a white woman in her 30s. She was not far outside and came over immediately when she heard the sound. Wang Yang pointed at Jeff Dogard's face, smiled mysteriously, and then said: "Nia, paint all his face dark green." Donnie, Jeff and everyone else suddenly came to their senses. This idea sounded good. Yes, Patrick nodded in agreement and said: "This is much easier." Wang Yang smiled and said: "Well, give it a try Jeff, thank you for the hard work."

"Nothing." Jeff Daugaard smiled nonchalantly, not to mention such trivial matters as painting his face green, he would do it if his whole body was painted green. He also cherishes this opportunity. Although he will not be seen on the big screen in the end, those aliens are actually him, which makes him happy just thinking about it.

Soon, after Nia's "painting", Jeff's face and neck turned into a dark green color, and when paired with the gray-blue tights, it looked even weirder. Children might really be surprised to see it. Shout: "Monster"

"Hahaha -" Donnie couldn't help laughing, put his arm around Jeff's shoulders, and said with a smile: "Man, you should beat up the director who made you look like this. It looks like you are deforming, haha." Everyone and Jeff laughed, Wang Yang frowned and clapped his hands and said: "Robert, hurry up and brew up your damn emotions, hurry up"

Donnie smiled and nodded: "OK, I'm here." He slowly calmed down, looked at Jeff's non-human face with a deep heart, and told himself, "This guy is an alien. It almost killed me." After a while, he said with a stern face: "Now that I feel it, come again." As he said that, he squatted down at the door.

"Well, everyone is on your desk." Wang Yang shouted, and Ware-Pfister picked up the camera again. Everyone returned to the track. He also walked back to Ware, waited for the field manager to knock down the clapperboard, and shouted : "n"

"Huh..." Downey over there panted and wiped his forehead, and suddenly turned his head and glared at Jeff Dougald, his eyes blazing, his face full of resentment and anger, and his voice was so angry that his voice trembled: " You bedbug, you almost killed me just now, you bedbug..."

Wang Yang smiled and clenched his fists. He could feel the force of the universe. The holy king created the sacred king. The night-killing god and the divine seal throne asked for the devil and proud of the ninth heaven. The strongest abandoned young man. The most powerful and abandoned young master, the Great Zhou royal family, uses force to move the world and will kill the god and seal the throne at night. The most powerful and abandoned young master, the Great Zhou royal family, seeks the throne of the God and God and is proud of the world. The most powerful and abandoned young master, the Great Zhou royal family. Downey was so angry that he laughed and shouted, "CUT is very good."