Chatty Hollywood

In the West, starting from the era of Shakespeare's plays, the simplest way to play a character who has no head but needs to move is to equip the actor with shoulder pads.

An oversized shoulder pad.

The actor will directly use this shoulder pad to cover his head, which is equivalent to having no head.

This method is simple, practical and time-tested, and is now used by the crew of "Sleepy Hollow".

But there are no problems.

First of all, this will make the actor's upper body look particularly tall. After all, shoulder pads are equivalent to lengthening the upper body. As a result, if the actor's legs are not long enough, it will look very ugly.

Moreover, this can easily cause the character's actual height to be the same when it has a head and when it does not have a head.

Although this problem can be confused and circumvented by many methods such as using lenses, borrowing positions, or changing stand-ins, it is still a trouble.

Secondly, this will make the actor's shoulder movements less flexible, not to mention the hindrance of the shoulder pads. What if the shoulder movements are too large and the shoulder pads are exposed?

This is not bad in traditional dramas. After all, the space is limited and the range of movements is generally small.

But when it comes to movies, especially movies where the actors have a lot of action scenes, it becomes more troublesome.

The headless man photographed using this method, not to mention those in the industry, even those with more experience in watching movies, will notice the incongruity upon careful observation.

Of course, this dissonance is actually minimal. It doesn't matter if the movie is of good quality.

But for Charlotte, who really knows magic and understands ghosts, these are the places he likes most.

"Is there any way to solve this problem?"

Charlotte frowned in thought.

For him from later generations, there is actually a ready-made method

That’s green screen photography.

After the green screen technology matures, just let the actors wear a green hood from head to neck, and then perform in front of the green screen.

When it comes to post-production, technicians will directly use cutout technology.

Just cut off the actor's head. As a result, a headless man appeared.

In fact, even now in 1995, this technology still exists.

At the Oscars that ended not long ago, Ken Ralston from the crew of "Forrest Gump" won the Best Visual Effects Award for similar technology.

In this movie, the missing legs of Captain Dan, Forrest Gump's friend, boss and partner, are his masterpiece.

Presumably, no one thinks that Gary Sinise, who plays Captain Dan, would actually amputate his legs for performance, right?

In the early and middle stages of the film, Captain Dan's legless look could be achieved by covering it up with something, but in the later stages of Forrest Gump's wedding, the look with prosthetics had to rely on special effects technology.

However, Charlotte had no plans to go to Ken Ralston for help.

You know, now in 1995, if you can complete this special effect, you can win an Oscar Award.

Although the technical Oscar awards are far less valuable than the acting awards, they are still Oscars after all!

what does that mean?

means a word

expensive!

This alone was enough to put Charlotte off.

What's more, the crew of "Sleepy Hollow" didn't have this budget at all in their previous plans. Now I think there is something wrong here, which is entirely the result of Charlotte's sudden onset of tangled disorder.

Charlotte is not the master like Cameron, and she has no interest in forcing the prop team to re-create a large number of props because of her obsession.

That means a huge budget overrun!

It means money! !

Not everyone can be a money-burning expert.

Even great men like Cameron nervously prepared the blades for cutting throats before the release of "Titanic".

Although this is a bit exaggerated, if the big boat fails at the box office, his end will really not be much better.

At least he will definitely be blacklisted by major Hollywood film companies from now on.

Isn't this the kind of treatment that White Pigeon Wu got from MGM because of "Wind Whisperer"?

That person was only jointly and severally liable, and the money burned was far less than that of Cameron.

If Big Ship fails at the box office and Fox is really tricked into bankruptcy, some of those crazy shareholders might try to tie cement pillars and sink them into the sea...

Learning from past mistakes, Charlotte didn't want to put so much pressure on herself.

Especially since he has spells at his disposal.

"Yes! I can use magic to render it!"

Charlotte suddenly slapped her head and thought of a way,

"Christopher, Annika, and Rob, please wait a moment while I go get something. Ah, no, I'm looking for some technical support!"

With that said, he ran out like a gust of wind.

*******

Annika was speechless for a while.

Because of the assistant director Lao Qiang, she was directly appointed by Charlotte as the makeup team supervisor of the "Sleepy Hollow" project.

Charlotte, who is also the producer, has this power.

Considering that "Sleepy Hollow" is a period film, the troublesome part is the setting and costume work, but the makeup is not that difficult.

The other two producers, Jodie Foster and Andrew Kevin Walker, also acquiesced to the appointment.

After all, Annika has been working in this industry for many years, and she still has the basic skills.

For this, Annika was somewhat grateful to Charlotte.

But thinking about this person's bad habit of always coming to find his partner Lao Qiang to study when he gets some inspiration early in the morning, all that gratitude quickly disappeared.

Too bad!

It affects life so much! !

In particular, Lao Qiang and Annika, who have moved in together, prefer to go to bed early and get up early and "exercise" in the morning because they are relatively older...

Fortunately, Charlotte doesn't appear frequently in the morning, otherwise Annika would have rejected this evil visitor.

Of course, her opinion of the director does not affect Annika's work attitude.

In this regard, she is still very professional.

However, Annika instinctively felt bad when she saw the director's requirements for the image design of the Headless Horseman.

This reminded her of the difficulties Charlotte created for her in the makeup design of the mutant monster when filming "The Turn".

Sure enough, her premonition came true.

The makeup team's image design of the Headless Horseman was actually very successful. Everyone on the crew, except Charlotte, even the actor Christopher Walken had no objections.

Unfortunately, the director who made the image design request at the beginning changed his mind at the last moment.

Seeing Charlotte looking around and saying something was wrong, Annika had the urge to give him a "dot" with a makeup pen.

And when Charlotte said she had thought of a way, and then ran out without saying anything clearly, Annika's bad feeling became even more obvious.

I hope he doesn't come up with anything weird!

Then

"This is just a black stocking, right?"

After studying the things Charlotte brought back for a long time, Annika asked with confusion on her face.

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