Made in Hollywood

"China Film Group is very grateful to you,"

During the interval between filming on the set, Tina Fey came to Duke and said to him, "They think these will help the development of Chinese films, but they are not suitable for making films at this stage."

Hearing this, Duke was not surprised. He just nodded to Tina Fey and returned to his work.

The time has entered December, and the rest of the crew in Warner Studios is only the scene of "Battle of New York". Here, Duke adopted John Schwartzman's suggestion-surround every member of the Avengers Take aerial photography.

It was a challenge for everyone on the cast, and Duke knew exactly what he wanted—that the Avengers would work together—but the challenge was to bring that idea to life so that the heroes were connected rather than isolated. to shoot. Moreover, the combat skills of each character are very different-some can fly, some can move greatly in an instant, and some can only perform small-scale activities under one camera.

To achieve the desired effect requires the full cooperation of all departments of the crew.

The shooting kicked off quickly. Mark Ruffalo with a motion capture camera hanging from his body and Tom Hiddleston dressed as Rocky appeared in front of the camera on time. The shooting location in front of the camera had already been arranged as a The top floor of Stark Tower.

All departments have been prepared, and Duke gestured for the record.

"Scene three hundred and ninety-six, act one hundred and twenty-six,"

The recorder put the record card in front of the main camera lens, "Start now!"

Surrounded by equipment specially used for shooting motion capture, Mark Ruffalo made a Hulk thumping the ground in anger and ran towards Tom Hiddleston.

"Enough!" Tom Hiddleston was a little crazy, but he appropriately expressed Loki's state of mind with his body movements, "What are you all? I'm a god, you big green-skinned idiot, You ant don't want to humiliate me..."

Before he could finish speaking, Tom Hiddleston fell to the ground by himself.

The shooting continued, but all the shots were aimed at Mark Ruffalo, and the fallen Tom Hiddleston quietly exited the set according to the planned position.

In front of the camera. Mark Ruffalo was furious. He swung his right hand and kept hitting the air on the floor. He looked at the empty hand in the middle, and then walked towards the window.

While walking, he turned his head and said to the empty floor, "I've never seen such a scumbag god."

After Duke called a stop, the shot passed smoothly. Like other shoots, most of the effects of this scene have to be added in post-production.

Although ILM produced many virtual doubles, digital characters and alien aliens for Duke's crew, the most eye-catching special effects results were Mark Ruffalo's new version of the Hulk.

In the first part, Mark Ruffalo performed most of the Hulk scenes alone, because the special effects team at that time could not capture Mark Ruffalo's body movements and facial expressions at the same time. Mark Ruffalo had to do it separately, and it was painful because he had to sit there after the body action scenes were done. Keep your head still and perform facial movements.

But when filming this film. Industrial Light \u0026 Magic successfully figured out a way to mix head and body movements, which means that Mark Ruffalo can finally interact with other actors on the set as the Hulk as he did during the previous filming.

Compared with the technology used by Industrial Light and Magic on the Hulk this time, the digital doubles in the previous "Hulk" are simply not commendable.

Ang Lee's first "Hulk" filmed in 2003 failed very well in terms of Hulk's super strength, huge size, flexible movements, wild anger and superb performance. The credibility of the characters has also been criticized by the audience.

Mark Ruffalo was the first actor to play both the shape-shifting Hulk and the suave Professor Bruce Banner in all film and TV versions of The Hulk.

In "Hulk" in 2003, Ang Lee personally completed Hulk's motion capture, but the effect can only be said to be very general.

In the completed special effects shots, Industrial Light and Magic has successfully displayed the most successful Hulk in history, not only with wonderful action scenes, but also with humorous elements.

In order to achieve this effect, Industrial Light and Magic adopted advanced motion capture and new facial animation production system, made a digital model based on Mark Ruffalo's facial model, and then repaired it in special special effects software to complete the final effect, so The actor's facial features are still preserved.

Actually, making the Hulk green wasn't easy.

One of the problems ILM faced was that since the Hulk had to interact with other characters, the special effects team had to desaturate him to gray to make him less obtrusive, and then redo the green effect. Add credibility.

If you don't desaturate first, it will look very abrupt and very distorted.

In order to further enhance the realistic effect of the skin, the special effects team also scanned Mark Ruffalo's own skin to make the model.

Of course, Mark Ruffalo is also very cooperative with ILM's work, and patiently "endured" all kinds of troubles. For example, in order to obtain data, ILM also asked him to open his mouth to scan his gums and teeth. A full array of FX was done to his head for really nice geometry and textures.

The set was being rearranged, and after a shot of Tom Hiddleston lying on the floor naked, all the Avengers appeared on set together.

"Lights ready!"

"Photography ready!"

"Props are ready!"

"Makeup ready!"

"Actors are ready!"

With each department ready to work, Duke issued the order to shoot again, and the entire crew was running again.

Tom Hiddleston crawls out of a hollow in the floor and struggles to get to his feet, and the main camera takes a well-timed close-up of his hands and then his facial expression.

As if sensing something, Tom Hiddleston looked back, the Avengers were standing there, glaring at him, and Clint Barton's bow was also aimed at this side.

Facing these freaks whom he had previously ridiculed as ants, Tom Hiddleston didn't have any expression of fear on his face. Instead, he said, "If you don't mind, I'd like to have a drink first!"

"Cut!" Duke yelled to stop, and then shouted towards the studio, "Tom, your expression is not in place, try again in fifteen minutes."

This is already the last shot in the studio of Warner Studios, and it just started in the afternoon. Duke has enough time to complete this shot, and then lead the crew to New York to complete the final exterior scene.

Most of the New York shots in the film were produced digitally. The special effects team of Industrial Light and Magic just completed the production of "Transformers 3" in the first half of the year. The digital Chicago in it has a very good effect, because the helicopter can freely hover over the streets , but New York is different. Duke requires that the plane cannot be lower than 500 feet above the building. Industrial Light and Magic had to rebuild the building to complete many shots flying around the building.

There is also the forest battle between Thor, Iron Man and Captain America. Duke originally wanted to shoot in the forest park in New Mexico, but an environmental protection organization focused on his crew and asked the crew not to damage the forest park during the shooting. Kazuki, this is obviously impossible.

How troublesome those extremist protectors are, Duke knows very well, so he simply completed this part of the scene in the giant studio at the Hughes Aircraft Factory through green screen construction.

Although this will consume a little more funds, it can reduce a lot of unnecessary troubles.

Any crew in Hollywood does not want to deal with organizations like animal protection or environmental protection, which means endless troubles.

Every year, Hollywood shoots and produces hundreds of films, and there are not a few mainstream productions that invest hundreds of millions of dollars. Duke's crew is shooting, and crews of other companies are also shooting.

All the way south from California, through the Panama Canal, you arrive at South America, a land full of infinite enthusiasm, especially Rio de Janeiro, a world-famous city and one of the favorite locations for Hollywood crews.

Many crews have filmed scenes here.

For example, "Fast and Furious 6", which has entered the final stage of filming, is undergoing final filming in Rio de Janeiro.

The crew blocked several streets in Rio de Janeiro to shoot some crazy car chases. As the actual investor and producer of the film, David Ellison was standing on a small building nearby, watching the speeding cars on the street through a telescope. car.

He invested a huge amount of money in this film. It took more than two years from the preparation to the present. Every detail has been carefully measured and considered. It will definitely be the most elaborate film produced in Hollywood.

But David Ellison is very clear that these are far from enough. If a film is well-made, it will be able to sell well. Hollywood will sell countless films every year.

What's more, the opponent he and "Fast and Furious 6" faced was really too powerful.

If you want to do the feat of slaying a dragon, you must make enough preparations, and David Ellison knows this very well.

So, every now and then, his binoculars would find Vin Diesel.

Standing next to him is David Ellison's assistant, who is also the most popular person for his new appointment. The assistant's camera is also staring at the bald head on the set.

There is no one else here, the assistant asked in a low voice, "I have found the right person."

"Wait a little longer, be patient." David Ellison put down the binoculars, "When all the shooting of the film is completed and the publicity plan is in full swing, then do it!" (to be continued ~^~)

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