Heads Up Hollywood

Atlanta has the reputation of "Dogwood City", because film and television programs here can enjoy a tax credit policy of up to 30%, which makes the film and television industry here very developed.

Many blockbuster films like to come here for shooting.

In "The Avengers", Atlanta and Cleveland are the two main filming locations.

After the New York scene was finished, the crew went straight to Atlanta.

Here is the main event.

But today's scene is relatively relaxed, and it is a cameo scene.

To qualify for a guest star in a film like The Avengers is certainly no small feat.

That's right, he is the father of Marvel - Stan Lee!

Stan Lee dressed as an old policeman, riding an old-fashioned motorcycle. After the "start" command sounds, he will get off the motorcycle and walk towards the Beetle sedan driven by "The Wasp".

However, "The Wasp" had an urgent task at this time, and was in a hurry to open up the relationship with S.H.I.E.L.D., contact people, and form the "Avengers Alliance". She didn't have time to talk to this old and naive policeman, so she simply activated the shrinking device.

The whole car disappeared out of thin air.

Then Stan Lee was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head and sighed, "When you get old, you will always have hallucinations."

Unexpectedly, when he looked up, he found that the disappeared Beetle appeared in the distance.

Stan Lee froze immediately, rubbed his eyes vigorously, and rubbed his eyes again.

This is a typical pleasing popcorn plot. It doesn't help the main line of the movie, but it can contribute to the box office.

A director of Tang En's level, of course, was not willing to simply finish the filming.

For this scene, he intends to use a waiting long-shot shooting method.

It is to let the actors walk towards the camera, and then pass by the camera, showing a "sense of waiting". Then through uninterrupted long shots, Stan Lee's back was shot, and Rose Byrne in the car was shot into the shot.

This kind of waiting can be suppressed first and then raised, paving the way for the follow-up funny plot.

At the same time, this kind of lens has a strong sense of depth and space, and it also has a symmetrical meaning for the follow-up "The Wasp" to activate the shrinking device and change the rules of space.

Of course, ordinary audiences don't understand this level of expression at all, and it's mainly an explanation for people in the industry.

Following Tang En's order, the performance began.

Stan Lee got off the motorcycle, and the wobbly steps were full of comedy, but Rose Byrne, the "Wasp girl" in the Beetle car, was quite helpless, as if thinking of something, her complexion changed slightly .

Tang En was very satisfied with this performance.

Next, you can shoot Rose Byrne and Stan Lee alone, which will be easier.

"Director, noise disturbance."

Just as Tang En was about to take a pass and take a set of shots, the sound engineer's voice came from behind his ears.

Tang En walked over strangely, "What's going on?"

The expression in the recording studio was a little weird, "The sound is not right."

Then, he put on earphones for Tang Ren and turned on the sound.

"Boom!"

Tang En was taken aback!

what's the situation?

This... is this the sound of farting?

Listening to this sound with headphones is really a bit earth-shattering.

There are no lines in this scene, and it mainly captures live sounds, including Stan Lee's footsteps and Rose Byrne's sighs in the car.

Especially for the capture of sighs, the volume needs to be enlarged, which leads to the capture of some inappropriate sounds...

Tang En was really angry and funny. In front of everyone, he couldn't say it clearly, so he said: "Rose, your performance just now was very good, especially... there was a pause in the middle of you, and your face changed slightly. Very good, it shows your helpless, bored and anxious mood at the moment. Keep it up, we are taking a picture!"

Rose Byrne coughed violently as if she had been stimulated by something. His face was slightly red, and he secretly cast a glance at Tang En with resentful eyes.

Filming restarted and everything went smoothly.

Tang En has almost shouted through.

However, for the sake of safety, he took out an insurance policy and came to the DIT digital workstation not far from the monitor to check the shooting effect. (DIT, Digital Imaging Engineer, introduced earlier)

Here, there is the world's top technical equipment - real-time preview!

The picture on the monitor is not the same as the picture taken by the camera, and the focal length, color, brightness and other aspects cannot be reflected on the monitor.

In traditional film shooting, directors often shoot for a day first, and then send the film to be developed urgently at night. The sample came out the next day, and the producer and director had to check it a second time.

If there is no problem, continue to shoot;

If there is a problem, it is necessary to retake.

Very troublesome.

The previous digital shooting also had similar problems. The content of the daily shooting has to wait for simple processing by the computer at night, and then review the next day. If it meets expectations, the subsequent part will be shot. If it fails, it will be re-shot.

However, with real-time preview technology, it's different!

This real-time preview technology is the latest technology specially developed by Cameron for "Avatar" and the digital field. Not to mention the real-time preview of real-time effects, even the special effects of green screen shooting can be previewed in real time!

Very powerful!

However, the real-time preview imaging effect of the green screen shooting is very poor. Fortunately, the green screen part of "The Avengers" will not be filmed until next summer, and there is still one year to upgrade and rectify.

It would be too childish to preview real-time shooting in real time.

While the digital camera is shooting, there will be a wireless transmitter to send the captured picture to the DIT workstation, and the final shooting effect will be fed back through a set of receiving signal and a set of signal simulation system, which will be stored in the computer.

Low resolution, but very usable!

Even the editor can use this part of the computer screen to conduct on-site editing.

Much better than monitor effect!

The application of digital imaging engineers in the film industry, when Tang En popularized the production process of film and television special effects, he had already explained it clearly to Hollywood.

However, the real-time preview technology is the first time in the world!

Not to mention Rose Byrne and Stan Lee, even Nina Jacobson, Timo Bekmambetov and others were very curious, and they all came over to observe and study, wanting to see how the actual effect would be.

Especially Timo Bekmambetov, he is a Russian director, and the shooting equipment and film concept he uses are still the same as those of the Soviet Union thirty years ago.

He was recommended by Abramovich, brought to Hollywood by Tang En, and appointed as the assistant director of "The Avengers", euphemistically called "accumulating experience".

He was really shocked by this scene.

The digital workstation was connected to a laptop computer, and the DIT engineer worked skillfully. Soon, the shot just shot appeared on the screen.

"How about it?"

"very good!"

"No blemishes!"

"There are no problems with composition, zoom, performance, and camera sense."

Tang En nodded in satisfaction, "Turn down the color and see, the leaves are too green, the effect I want is the feeling of early March spring."

Timo Bekmambetov sounds a little silly.

On-site grading?

It is true?

Isn't this the post-production link after the film is finished?

I saw the young DIT lighting technician answering simply and neatly: "Got it!"

Then, under the attention of everyone, he started to operate, opened a color-matching software, selected the outline of the leaves, and adjusted the color easily...

Not to mention the stunned Timo Bekmambetov, even Ninaya Kobsen and others were all surprised.

"Twain, you have such good equipment, why didn't you take it out earlier?"

"The scenes in New York are very simple, so we don't need them." Tang En shook his head and frowned again, "Is it only possible to do this?"

The DIT engineer said helplessly: "Equipment limitations, although this laptop is a special high-performance machine made by Dell, it is still far behind the real large-scale computer used in the post-production of movies. Many professional software, this laptop can't run. "

Tang En sighed.

Yes, he can promote the technological development of the film industry, but this is computer technology after all!

Subject to the performance of computer equipment!

The performance of today's portable computers is really not high.

Just when Tang En was slightly disappointed, Timo Bekmambetov exclaimed excitedly, and even got carried away and swears: "It's so advanced! Directly adjust the color on the spot, watch the video effect on the spot, this way Making a movie is too easy!"

Tang En took a deep look at him, "Advanced shooting technology has indeed lowered the threshold for movies a lot. However, if you think that it will be easier to make good movies if the threshold is lowered, then you are completely wrong. .”