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After all the images of the characters were created, the scene at the beginning of the film began to shoot soon.

Because Qin Feng had already explained the film before filming.

So when the filming really started, Leonardo and other actors also integrated into the roles very well.

This made the filming progress very smoothly, and in a short while, the flashback scene at the beginning of the film was completed.

After filming this clip, Qin Feng will also shoot a very important part of the film after the film starts.

That is the drama of Cobb falling into the bathtub and then subconsciously being submerged in the flood!

In the film, Cobb and his companions enter Saito's dream in an apartment in South America, when riots are rampant outside.

This is the South American location that will be shot in Tangier, Morocco later, and the fireworks special effects of the rioters throwing incendiary bombs are also planned and produced by the post-production special effects team.

In Saito's dream, Cobb's wife, Mel, interfered with Cobb's mission,

So Cobb's accomplices pushed his sleeping body into a bathtub full of water in order to wake him up.

Cobb's feeling about being immersed in water in a dream. Transformed into a flood in Saito Castle.

And the effect of the flood requires 5,000 gallons of water to rush into the scene to achieve!

Qin Feng let the flood water rush downstairs and Leonardo stood in the middle of 26 pressurized, 200-gallon tanks.

After filming, trigger the water tank and let the water rush towards Leonardo to submerge it.

In the end the flood washed away the beautiful interior of the castle.

It was built by Warner Props out of real wooden beams, about 20 inches square.

For the shooting of the bathtub, Qin Feng chose a hotel in California.

Using a digital high-speed camera at 720 frames per second, Cobb's dumping action was captured.

Capture his impact with the water.

When filming was complete, the computer created the acceleration effects of Cobb's fall, as well as removing the safety belts tied to him and his chair.

So far, the shots of the shooting locations in the United States in "Inception" have all been completed.

At this moment, Girard, president of Warner Films, also sent him a piece of good news.

That is, in Paris, France, everything is ready, just waiting for Qin Feng to go to shoot!

After hearing the news, Qin Feng couldn't help being shocked.

The filming location there is ready, which means that he can speed up the shooting progress again.

It seems that he will let "Inception" meet the global audience in the summer vacation this year!

Then Qin Feng took a group of actors and departed from California to take a private jet of Warner Films to Paris, France.

Shooting the ashes of the romantic capital!

Qin Feng and his party set off from California at 6:00 pm and arrived at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, France at 3:00 am.

Then go to the hotel to rest.

In order to speed up the shooting progress of the film, the entire crew did not make too many rest adjustments.

At noon the next day, I followed Qin Feng's footsteps and officially started filming the Paris scene of "Inception"!

In the film, before Inception begins, Ariadne, played by Alan Page,

Once she was confident and in control of her dreams, she started experimenting with constructing dreamscapes.

In the process of continuous exploration of this newly discovered skill.

Ariadne contorted buildings and other objects into impossible shapes in her dreams.

and folded the streets of Paris into a large cube.

The reason why Ariadne was found was because at the beginning, the protagonist Cobb failed to sneak into Saito's dream.

But accepted his offer to help him invade the dreams of his business rival Robert Fisher.

So Cobb needs the help of a new member, Ariadne.

A very gifted student of architecture, Ariadne was trusted by Cobb's father-in-law.

Cobb's meeting with Ariadne took place in a roadside café in Paris.

When Cobb was about to show that this place was a dream.

He let it blast to pieces.

The shooting of the coffee shop was chosen as the location of Paris.

And the effect of the dream that Ariadne entered is to use special effects to destroy the entire environment.

What Qin Feng wanted was not an ordinary explosion effect, what he wanted was an explosion without any flash and smoke.

Authorities in Paris demanded that the sound of the explosion be kept below 104 decibels.

Qin Feng first designed the physical location of Paris.

There are several stalls next to the coffee shop, including groceries, flowers, books, magazines, silk scarves and more.

The props used in the explosion should be as light as possible, such as fake fruits, tables and chairs.

because they split easily.

There are also many rubber and glass products, driven by a mixture of air guns and high-pressure nitrogen.

This produces gas without pyrotechnics and the cups on the table won't even move.

Before starting to shoot, Qin Feng did a test first.

Although safety measures were taken, when the sound of '3, 2, 1, start shooting' was heard.

He could sense that the protagonists of the scene, Leonardo and Alan Peggy, were still a little scared.

However, the actual shooting was very successful. In the end, everything was blown away, and nothing was touched on the two protagonists.

During the on-set shooting, Qin Feng ordered the crew to transfer the protective cover and put it in the cafe to control the explosion outside.

And strap some heavy foreground props and vehicles to pulleys so they can be pulled back quickly in the event of an explosion.

Qin Feng used a high-speed camera this time, shooting between 360 and 1200 frames per second.

These are all essential for animating the explosion and will be enhanced with slow motion in the final scene.

When the shot was finished, Qin Feng processed it with special effects.

Added CG extensions and CG elements to the screen to create a variety of time frames.

The explosion starts in real time, then slows down rapidly.

It was as if the fragments were being broken up into a very thick medium, making it look like an underwater explosion.

Qin Feng used Warner Effects Studio's editing tools to set up animation annotations.

To create an explosive rhythm and secondary explosions.

When objects are blasted off, they detonate again, sending other flying objects around.

Qin Feng has applied almost every technique imaginable to this shot.

Including live-action elements, particle animation, fluid animation, self-made power system, and several are fully CG production.

Qin Feng reconstructed the environment outside the coffee shop based on photogrammetry.

Then use the internal simulation engine and Houdini issued by Side to destroy the building and explode the fragments.

Let it enter the zero-gravity aura.

I have to say, it's a great system for breaking down scraps.

This allows for re-adjustment of the timing of the on-site explosion on the negative.

And make a secondary explosion in the explosion, and then add on-site special effects of CG objects.

Qin Feng found that there is a very large library of 3D elements in the special effects system of Warner Films.

Such as glass, wooden boxes, flower pots, bottles and plates, etc., all the objects that are difficult to destroy in reality are among them.

Reuse different maps to represent each element in order to separate the elements of the scene so that it can be layered to adjust the timing of the explosion.

This is actually a real-time playback slow down into slow motion, and real-time elements into a high-speed frame rate, the same debris will have different photosensitive speeds.

So in the footage, it never feels like they're being over-accelerated, the wreckage is suspended in the air at a very low velocity, and then there's an explosion, and then there's a shock wave.

Qin Feng couldn't help taking a deep breath after finishing the shooting of this rather tricky scene in "Inception".

Because he has a more tricky shot to take next.

That is, in a dream, the folding of the streets of Paris!

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