Heads Up Hollywood

It is very difficult to shoot a car crash scene with a green screen. The visual impact brought by the speed and passion is difficult to complete through computer production. In Hollywood commercial blockbusters, car crash scenes are usually real crashes.

Of course, it is impossible for film companies to collide with expensive luxury sports cars, such as the "Fast and Furious" series, it would be a disaster.

Most of the vehicles in the crash scene are recycled scrap cars.

The crew will invite a special design company to make several car shells that can be faked and put them on the scrapped cars. However, a fake is a fake after all, so when shooting a crash scene, the angle of capture is very important.

If you take a good shot, you can have a strong visual impact. The filming is not good... It's a bit like the crash scene in Hong Kong movies in the 1980s, very fake and ridiculous.

In this scene in "The Avengers", the other parts were easy to shoot, but the most difficult thing was a scene of a car overturning.

In the plot, "Ant-Man" was driving "The Wasp" in a speeding car, but was almost hit by the falling building rubble from above. In order to avoid being hit, he quickly activated the miniaturization device.

According to the conservation of kinetic energy and momentum in physics, the reduction in mass will inevitably lead to an increase in speed, causing the speed of the vehicle to exceed the control range. A slight collision will cause the car to overturn or even explode with sparks flying around.

The process of becoming bigger and smaller requires computer production.

But the scene of the car rollover still needs to be shot realistically, so that it will be more emotional.

According to Tang En's idea, he will shoot this group of shots from three different directions in order to achieve the greatest visual impact.

First, from the side and rear of the car, the shot of the rear being blown up by the impact is shot; then from the side of the car, the shot of the car "somersaulting" forward is shot; finally, the shot of the car rolling towards the camera is shot at a positive angle lens.

It is impossible to shoot such a complicated shot at one time. In fact, in order to complete this scene, the crew prepared 6 stuntmen and 5 spare cars in case of emergencies.

"Andy, it's up to you."

Tang En walked up to Andy Thomp, smiled and patted him on the shoulder.

He is the assistant director of the film, the queen team selected by Tang En in his early years, and the main person in charge of the special effects team and the explosion team.

Andy Thomp said confidently: "Boss, just sit on the side and watch the show with peace of mind. After setting up the camera, I'll start here!"

After more than an hour of careful arrangement by the crew, the good show is finally about to be staged.

The rear of the car has been installed with explosives, and two stuntmen, both dressed in the costumes of "Ant-Man" and "The Wasp", will replace Paul Rudd and Rose Byrne, and the filming of this section is full of danger sex shots.

After all, not everyone is Tom Cruise.

It is not a matter of professionalism, but the strong intervention of the insurance company.

Tom Cruise dared to stand up to the insurance company and did everything himself, even when filming "Mission: Impossible", he even had the experience of firing the insurance company and taking out personal insurance because of too much interference.

Not on the level of Paul Rudd and Rose Byrne.

Firstly, they don't have the level of Tom Cruise and Jack Chen, and secondly, they don't have enough cafes. At their level, if they dare to fight against the insurance company, it will inevitably lead to the collective rejection of the insurance company and the refusal to apply for insurance, which in turn will cause Hollywood film companies to no longer be able to find them to make movies.

During this period of time, Tang En had carefully studied Hollywood's insurance business, and felt more and more that the insurance company's only hand in Hollywood was overshadowing the sky.

No wonder it is said in the industry that it is better to offend the six giants than to offend the insurance company!

This is ridiculous. Is Hollywood the Hollywood of the film companies, or the Hollywood of the insurance companies?

Tang En decided to do a detailed investigation after returning home.

This matter needs to be resolved!

"start!"

Following Tang En's order, the cars on the highway began to move.

According to the rehearsal process, after the car arrived at the predetermined position, the person in charge of the explosion team decisively pressed the detonating device.

"boom!"

Explosion sound.

A burst of red flames burst out from the rear of the car, and with the roaring sound, the car rolled forward amid thick black smoke from the rear.

The car landed on its back, landed heavily, and then slid another six or seven meters before stopping.

There were shattered car windows all over the place.

After the scene was over, the staff of the explosion team and the special effects team took action one after another, extinguishing the fire, cleaning up, checking the injury...

People from the production team and the director team gathered around the DIT digital workstation.

There are just two stuntmen in the car.

It's only $120 an hour per person.

Hollywood doesn't care about humanity, whether it's safe or injured, it doesn't matter. They are more concerned with the effect of the film shot.

This scene is a test of the ability of the DIT digital workstation and the function of real-time preview technology.

This scene not only needs to watch the explosion effect of the car, but also needs to have a picture-in-picture video editing, and edit this speeding scene into the scene of the streets of New York...

"How about it?"

"Well enough."

"The side shots are fine, the rear and front shots are not good."

"Okay, then archive the side view. Do it all over again!"

"The stunt team and the explosion team are ready!"

"After 20 minutes, retake!"

...

Filming in Los Angeles, the tax rate is far higher than that of Cleveland and Atlanta, and even higher than that of New York.

However, this is the lair of Hollywood after all.

Filming here is more comfortable.

In order to maintain the cohesion of the crew and the state of the actors, even after returning to Los Angeles, the crew did not agree to let everyone go home and sleep.

Including Tang En, he was also with everyone, sleeping in the hotel, eating and lodging together.

However, this did not prevent Tang En from bringing some private goods with him during filming.

"Iron Man" Tony Stark is a super rich man with a Stark Tower.

Tang En was also polite, and directly contacted Elon Musk, the "Iron Man" in the real world, and used his SpaceX headquarters building as the prototype of Stark Tower.

In this play in Stark Tower, there are many characters, including "Iron Man", "Ant-Man", "Hulk", "The Wasp" and "Thor" will appear, and even "Director of SHIELD" and " "Agent Hill" will also be there.

This is the first time that many superheroes gather, and they want to reach an agreement to form the "Avengers Alliance"!

Stark Industries will provide all organizational funding for the Avengers, and Stark Tower will also be the headquarters of the Avengers.

"Iron Man" Tony Stark is undoubtedly the absolute soul of the Avengers.

(This is also the reason why the civil war broke out later. Iron Man is the founding boss of the Avengers, and Captain America joined later, but with higher prestige and seniority. Iron Man and Captain America are the two bosses in the Avengers.)

The plays here are mainly literary plays.

It is very simple to shoot the literary drama of a commercial film, especially this kind of gag popcorn plot is even easier.

Twain is more interested in Elon Musk.

"I'm bullish on the future of electric vehicles."

Ever since Tosca Musk mentioned to Dun En that Tesla needed financing last time, he paid attention to it.

A potential stock like Tesla must be won!

Elon Musk was a little embarrassed, "Twain, you know, Tesla... I also took over halfway."

"how?"

"I'm afraid it will be difficult to meet your share requirement."

Twain has 30% of the shares in one go, and the minimum guarantee is 25%. This appetite is too great, and Elon Musk can't afford it.

Dunn can own 30% of SpaceX Space Adventures because it is a company founded by Elon Musk.

Tesla is different. This is a company founded by others. Due to lack of financing, the founder found Elon Musk and asked him to take over.

Even Elon Musk’s shares are not many. He has invested a total of 50 million US dollars, part of which is financing for shares, and a larger part is a loan to Tesla.

No way, Tesla has had multiple rounds of financing before, with Wall Street capital behind it.

It is impossible for Wall Street to allow a large amount of financing to dilute the shares.

Unless Elon Musk led Tesla to create a miracle and really created a myth of electric vehicles, he has great prestige within Tesla.

Otherwise, even though he is now the chairman and CEO of Tesla, he will still be greatly constrained by the board of directors.

Tang En sat in Elon Musk's office, was silent for a while, and looked up at him, "How much can you win?"

"No more than 15%!"

"so little?"

Elon Musk shook his head and said helplessly: "Tang En, you are a friend I respect very much. From the earliest Sillywood Animation Studio, to Paypal, SpaceX Space Adventure Company, our cooperation is very pleasant. You should understand that I really want to work with you to start an era of electric vehicles."

Tang En can naturally see Elon Musk's heartfelt words.

He just kind of laughed at Tesla's board of directors.

Isn't Tesla short of money?

Now there are big bosses coming to raise funds, and they still don't agree?

What is Wall Street doing?

Elon Musk explained: "It's mainly to reduce risk. Now, I already own 25% of Tesla's shares. If you get another 25% ... or even 30% of the shares, then our shares Adding up, it will exceed 50%. Tesla’s board of directors will be useless, and investors are also taking precautions.”

"Forget it, 15% are you sure you can handle it?"

Tang En waved his hand.

15% is 15%. Wall Street's worries are not wrong.

Once Tesla is fully controlled by Twain and Elon Musk, with Twain's urgency, he will inevitably delegate all powers.

At that time, Tesla will become the embodiment of Elon Musk's will, and he can do whatever he wants.

A CEO who lacks the constraints of the board of directors may not be a good thing for the company.

"I'll try to...uh, no problem!"

Elon Musk hesitated for a moment, then made a firm statement.