Director’s Legend

"cool!"

Jin Long opens his mouth wide. The clip of just a few seconds has no beginning or end at all. However, under the impact of the high-definition picture, the shock is beyond words!

It turns out that the purpose of those water tanks is not to create big waves, but to create such an impact!

Cool, so cool!

Jin Long couldn't help but clap his hands. The virgin man put his hands on his hips and said proudly: "How are you? Are you blushing? I told you that the website I found is not an ordinary junk website. This is "Inception" "The promotion website of "Inception." Don't you spend all day analyzing and analyzing "Inception"? Do you want to know about this website?"

"Virgin Man, tell me the website address quickly."

"Call me brother!"

"..."

"Hurry up and call, I won't give you anything if you don't call."

"...Brother Wen..."

The experience of classmate Jin Long is just a side dish for the promotion of Inception. More promotion methods will appear in the future. And now, Shao Shuaijun is taking the crew to Cardington, London, England.

Cardington is an airport in London, probably a product of the last century, and later transformed into a photography base. A huge stage was set up on which almost any set could be adapted. Because there is enough space, you can also conduct all-round testing at will to ensure that the shooting requirements can be met from all angles, including up, down, left, and right. The crew of "Inception" took a fancy to this benefit.

Bang, bang, bang, bang.

The sound of machinery running resounded throughout the set.

In the big booth on the stage, there is a very strange device. Workers are debugging.

"What materials are used for the set? Can it ensure safety?" Standing under the steel equipment, Shao Shuaijun touched the materials inside with his hands. The set, which is actually a hotel corridor, is wrapped in a steel frame and placed in a pulley brush system.

The pulley brush system is a large support frame that can rotate. The hotel corridor was built to shoot a weightless fighting scene, which was influenced by shallow dreams in the dream world. Causes gravity disturbance. Upside down. In order to create a scene where actors are standing and fighting on the roof, the center of gravity has to be constantly changed, so a rotatable corridor can only be built here.

We also need to build a hotel room with a 30-degree tilt and an upside-down hotel room.

"Our original idea was to have a 40-foot-long corridor, but due to angle and depth problems, the final one was 100 feet long. On the outside of the corridor's wall, 8 concentric rings were placed at equal distances from the corridor. This made the corridor Suspended and able to rotate. Outside the walls of the corridor, these rings are operated by two huge engines."

Special effects supervisor Tris Cobbold continued to explain: "The speed of this rotating set can basically reach a speed of 1 minute and 8 cycles. It can ideally create a weightless effect. But the actors' actions must be ensured. We need a lot of wires. To fix and lift.”

Dong Wei continued: "We originally wanted to synthesize the movements directly with special effects, but that was too difficult. So using wires, one person fixed his body with twenty wires to prevent falling, and then used wires during the post-production of special effects. Erase. Although it’s a little more complicated, it’s more realistic than synthetic movements.”

"Drawing wire is a good idea, but the safety of the actors must be ensured and they must not be injured!"

"Don't worry, director, because the actors have to be bounced around in our scenes, we use soft materials to build our sets. Fortunately, many modern hotels now use leather walls when decorating Or covered with textiles. We just had to imitate this decorative style and replace the bricks at the back with soft fillings," said art director Guy Handx Deiss.

Shao Shuaijun nodded with satisfaction: "Despite this, we still have to pay attention to whether door handles and lamps are 'fragile' and whether they can be successfully destroyed under strong force. In short, we must ensure the safety of the actors."

Filming of the hotel corridors began the next day.

Early on, Dong Wei led the action design team and began to draw wires for the actors.

"Bob, when you push the gyroscope out from the guide rail, remember the lens depth I mentioned. Don't push it too fast. I will watch the monitor later to tell you to move forward and backward." Shao Shuaijun told the camera crew Assigning tasks, because it is a pulley brush system, in order to maintain the stability of the shooting image, the camera is still fixed with a gyroscope.

Bob nodded: "For the placement of camera position No. 2, shall we adopt a fixed position?"

"Okay, wait and see the effect. If not, add a set of guide rails and gyroscopes." Shao Shuaijun looked at the entire set and used yellow light to illuminate the hotel so that there would be no light scattering in the hotel, that is, there would be enough light. "Is this light too soft?"

"It's not too soft. When I was grading the color yesterday, I took a set of negatives to match the lighting, and the effect was very good."

Seeing that all the preparations were done, Shao Shuaijun stood under the pulley brush, once again confirmed that the actors were in place, and called start.

Aang ang ang!

The pulley brush moves like a merry-go-round, slowly turning in circles.

Woohoo, although the speed was very slow, the wind noise it caused was not small. Coupled with the sound of the bearings, the roar of the machine immediately echoed throughout the entire set.

Shao Shuaijun picked up the helmet on his head, wiped his sweat, put it back on, and then stared at the monitor intently. At the far end of the corridor, Dong Wei was sitting on a special seat, holding a walkie-talkie in his hand as the pulley brush rotated, constantly instructing the actors on how to act.

The walkie-talkie is connected to the loudspeaker in the corridor, otherwise the actors would not be able to hear it in such a noisy situation.

"Ka! Jack, your position is wrong and your behavior is not natural. Put your arms more naturally and don't be affected by Wia!"

"Stuck! Leo, pay attention to the angle, I can't take a picture of your face!"

"Ka! Tom (playing the forger Eames), get back to your position and shoot!"

"Stop, stop, stop! Stop! Rearrange, it's too messy!"

"Okay, do it again!"

"Stuck! Don't worry about whether you can stand or not. Complete the action first. You won't fall!"

"Very good, this set of shots has passed, let's change to the next one!"

The filming was stumbling, but finally after a period of exploration, the actors adapted well, and the next progress will be greatly accelerated. Here the hotel corridor shooting is taking place, and over there, a 30-degree tilted wine bar is also arranged, as well as a vertical angle conversion device.

This vertical angle conversion is in the movie. The dream builder Eredani changed the road structure, and the formed road became vertical, changing the gravity of physics, so people will change their center of gravity when they step on it. The scenes will be shot in Paris, France, but the actions of the characters are completed here, and the complete shots are finally synthesized.

"This vertical angle converter should be very easy to use. Allen, Leo, try it out." Shao Shuaijun asked the two of them to climb up, and then Dong Wei explained the key points and started testing.

"One, two, three! Start!"

Click, the vertical angle converter started. Originally one side was horizontal and the other side was vertical, and then it immediately switched back.

"Ouch!" Ellen Page made a mistake and fell down, in a state of embarrassment.

"Haha." Shao Shuaijun and others laughed below. (To be continued...)

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