Director’s Legend

() Huang Yuetai and Huang Jiahui were nervously filming the horse team. The crew was fiddling with equipment on the ancient road in the distance. A crane arm was placed flat on the ground. Lu Le and Shao Shuaijun circled around a cool camera on the arm .

"Panavision camera, Suha lens, wow, what a treasure!" Lu Le touched excitedly.

It was also the first time for Shao Shuaijun to see this kind of professional luxury camera. Digital photography began to emerge around 2000, and the impact on film cameras was not insignificant. But real professional photographers still like film, and only films made on film have that unique taste of film.

Panavision is synonymous with high-definition, and it is widely used in North America, but few people in Asia have played it, because this guy is too expensive. In the mainland, only directors like Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and Feng Xiaogang have used panavision to shoot movies.

"Painted Skin" uses 35mm film, and ordinary cameras are enough to shoot brilliant pictures. In order to pursue a more accurate and stable picture, this kind of camera is the best choice. This camera was leased from Hong Kong and transported by air, so it is extremely valuable.

"Old Lu, is this thing a good hand?" Shao Shuaijun's research on cameras is more about digital cameras. When he had the opportunity to hold a camera in his previous life, it was already in the future. Digital movies are widely popular, and the cost of shooting is low. Many directors use digital cameras.

Lu Le rubbed his palms fiercely: "Why is it not good enough? I have played with this big baby a few times. When I went to Hong Kong, I used it a few times. The quality of the pictures I took is quite good. And when I think of how expensive this big baby is, I feel excited and happy. Just like some people like to drive a good car, we photographers like to play with a good camera."

"Haha, don't be too happy. If you get an imax camera here, you won't have a heart attack." Shao Shuaijun couldn't help laughing at Lu Le's anxious look.

"Director, if you really bring it, I can resist it steadily."

"Blow you, I can crush your small body." Li Chaofeng, the photography assistant of the second group, said contemptuously, he is Lu Le's old assistant.

"You know what a fart, if you can bring it, I can carry it."

"Don't be fooled by me, I can't get it anyway, there are only a few in the world, just blow it away."

The two bickered, but Shao Shuaijun's heart moved: "imax? Why isn't "Painted Skin" screened in imax?"

The full name of imax is image-maximum, which means the largest image. It is a film projection system that can show larger and higher resolution than traditional negatives. The screen of imax is very huge, and the impact on people is also huge. Usually, imax movies are converted into 70mm film by ordinary movies through dmr technology before they can be projected.

70mm film is ten times the size of ordinary 35mm film, and the sensitivity will be several times that of ordinary film, which means that the sharpness will be greatly improved.

Shao Shuaijun is a reborn person, of course he knows that the movies in the future, imax has begun to develop steadily, and there is a great tendency to replace traditional movies. It's just that digital imax projectors haven't appeared yet, and film projection is used, and a single imax projection copy costs at least 30,000 US dollars, which is a complete luxury.

More importantly, in China, apart from an imax theater built in Heping Movie Metropolis in 2003, only a few science and technology museums have imax projection systems. In other words, if "Painted Skin" is made into an imax movie, it can only be used as a gimmick unless it is released in developed countries such as Europe and the United States.

"The script of "Painted Skin" has been simplified by me, and the scene has begun to turn to a real big production. With an actual investment of 200 million yuan, why can't we make an attempt in Europe and the United States? Why can't "Painted Skin" be China's first imax film!" Shao Shuaijun At this moment, my heart was beating wildly, and I couldn't stop throbbing.

This year is only 2005, and it is not realistic to shoot imax movies, but it is completely possible to use DMR technology to convert them into imax movies after regular shooting. The biggest enjoyment of imax is the audio-visual effect. Isn’t this the pursuit of "Painted Skin"? Shao Shuaijun suddenly felt that as long as he shoots "Painted Skin" perfectly, it will not be difficult to land in North America with the reputation he has accumulated in North America, and then it will be a matter of course. Launched the imax-dmr version of "Painted Skin".

China's first imax-dmr movie, created by Shao Shuaijun.

Just thinking about it makes my blood boil.

"It seems that I have to pay extra attention to "Painted Skin"!"

Shao Shuaijun has always been a lover of commercial films. The so-called commercial, if there is no high-tech, can it be called a commercial film? imax, 3d, and 3d-max are all the knowledge that Shao Shuaijun needs to learn, and they are also the popular trend of movies in the future. If he doesn't take advantage of the good opportunity of "Painted Skin", he will feel sorry for himself if he is familiar with imax.

With this thought in his heart, Shao Shuaijun was full of fighting spirit.

The scene of the desert march was filmed very quickly. In order to simplify the film, Shao Shuaijun abandoned the original scene of fortune-telling with copper coins. This paragraph in the original version is so mysterious that even Chinese people may not understand it, let alone Laomei. Marching in the desert for half an hour, the actors were in a state of distress. After cheering up their spirits, there was a kind of weather-beaten experience, and the atmosphere of the battlefield was strong.

So it passed almost once.

The monitor screen was transmitted through the digital camera, and Shao Shuaijun was very addicted to the panavision shooting effect. As expected of a professional camera in the world, the texture of the screen seemed to blow his face. Moreover, there is still a slight difference between a digital camera and a real lens, and the picture actually recorded on film must be more textured.

After the marching scene was over, it was time to shoot the martial arts scene with real bullets. This part is not so easy to shoot.

Dong Wei designed three sets of martial arts scenes for Real Bullets one after another. The rehearsals were very exciting, but there were always some flaws after shooting. In terms of the cooperation between the actors and the camera, there is a rhythm difference, and there is always some delay.

"Card!"

Shao Shuaijun called to stop the production crew, and beckoned the cameraman, action director, and actors to come over: "The cooperation just now was very good, and the fight was very exciting, but there was a problem with the rhythm, and there was an obvious pause after each move. This should be two There are two reasons, one is that the actors have to switch to the next action after performing an action, and there must be a pause in the middle, and the second is that the design of the action is too pursuit of angles, thus losing the naturalness.”

He looked at Dong Wei: "Director Dong, please re-arrange this movement. My request is simple and fast. It seems that you are really fighting a war, not deliberately trying to be cool." In fact, Shao Shuaijun didn't say the subtext, Dong Wei's The movements are good-looking, but they just feel a bit contrived, losing the original hard-core taste, and not grasping the soft and beautiful feeling.

Dong Wei frowned and nodded, pondering how to change the boss. Shao Shuaijun asked Zhen Bullet directly: "Do you know parkour?"

"parkour? city sprint?"

"Yes, this is it. You must have seen last year's "Violent Street 13", the parkour movements in it are very clean and neat, I hope you can add this style in the next martial arts. Simple, fast and neat , just like Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do, it's as fast as thunder..."

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