The Best Director

At the beginning of October, the weather in Vancouver was very cool, the gray sky was drizzling, and pedestrians with umbrellas on the street felt the martial arts, the holy king, the holy king, the king, the night, the killing god, the seal of the god, the throne, the demon, the world, the ninth heaven, the strongest abandoned child The King of the Great Zhou Dynasty will kill the gods and seal the throne at night, begging the demons and the world, the strongest abandoned young master, the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty will use martial arts to move the universe, will kill the gods at night, and the gods will seal the throne. The Throne of the God Seal, Begging the Devil, Proud of the World, Nine Heavens, the Strongest Abandoned Youngster, the Great Zhou royal family, is approaching the cold winter, but at this time, the studio of the flame movie is full of heat. (Reading Network)

After the crew resigned on a large scale, Wang Yang and the producer Stephen McCormie, who was also in charge of the operation of the crew, quickly recruited employees who were willing to go to South Africa. After all, it is not the Middle East. There is no war, and terrorists like bin Laden should not be targeting it. If there is a second round of attacks, South Africa may be safer than the United States. It seems that the local security is worth worrying about.

However, there is no turmoil in South Africa now. "The Ninth District" is obviously not a small crew, and the "youngest billionaire" will not make fun of his own life. The security work will indeed be "presidential treatment" as he said. Therefore, despite the generous salary, there are still many outstanding members who have accepted the contract, and the crew of "The Ninth District" is ready again.

Wang Yang also led the crowd to Vancouver to gather with the people there, and "District 9" has officially entered the filming stage.

According to the scheduled plan, the crew will first shoot in the studio and some indoor real scenes in Vancouver; after finishing these shots, it will probably be Thanksgiving, and after the holiday, they will go to South Africa. Stephen McCormie will arrange everything earlier, the crew I will shoot when I arrive, and return a month later, just in time for Christmas and New Years; finally, after the holidays are over, I will shoot scenes and shoot some street scenes in Los Angeles, and wrap up around mid-January next year.

And now, "District 9" is about to start shooting its first shot. In the studio scene of "The Secret Corridor Passage of the MNU Headquarters Building", Robert Downey Jr. was wearing a ragged, blood-stained white shirt, with dirty and messy hair, and a few dark circles around his left wrist. Red cloth with an alien gun in his hand.

This gun is designed by referring to the "Hercules Beetle". The gun body is very slender and painted with the color pattern of the beetle. An energy net will be formed between them, and then it will be shot out like lightning, smashing the enemy to pieces. Of course, this effect can only be achieved with the help of special effects.

Standing behind Robert Downey Jr. is Jeff Dougard who plays Christopher Fuson. He is not a big star, but an unknown member in Hollywood. Played a small role, good acting skills and rich experience, which is also the reason for his successful audition.

Aliens undoubtedly rely on computer special effects, and Chris is no exception, but careful special effects production must have a foundation,

During the shooting, Jeff Dougard would keep his performances on the film, and then the animators would use his movements and expressions as a model, depicting the image of an alien frame by frame, and then synthesize them, and the film would be Jeff Dougald became Christopher Fussen.

At this time, he was holding a "Unicorn" model rifle, wearing a set of blue-gray tight clothes, a headscarf and gloves, etc., and the clothes were covered with decorations that were convenient for the animator to synthesize later, which looked very weird.

In front of the two is the door at the end of the corridor passage, but in this set scene the front is empty, the camera crew is there to shoot the frontal shot, and the door is in the next set scene. In the front, Walley Pfister is carrying the camera on his shoulders, the sound engineer next to him is holding the microphone boom, there are lighting engineer, Sean Walsh of the special effects team, and others in light coats, holding the director's viewfinder Wang Yang.

"Guys." Wang Yang aimed at the viewfinder with one eye closed, and while checking the lens used as a boot, he asked with a smile, "Are you all ready?" Downey over there pulled the trigger at him, Whoosh said: "Come on." Walley Pfister gave a thumbs up, and everyone nodded with a smile and replied "Let's start." Sean Walsh also laughed: "I have been looking forward to this moment for too long .”

I am also Wang Yang smiled, put down the viewfinder and signaled to the scene, and said, "Let's start." He looked at Downey and Jeff in front of him, took a deep breath, and remembered the days of Riker Island, That dream, old man Wu... There have been many changes along the way, and now it is finally about to be officially started. The last time I held the director's viewfinder and microphone on the set was more than a year ago, in Toronto, another city in Canada. The beautiful Taobao women's clothing Tmall Taobao mall Taobao women's winter clothing jacket m town.

Now I am about to start a new directing journey, with actions, speeding cars, explosions, gun battles... all these shots are new experiences. Seeing the recorder knocking on the electronic slate, "The first set of shots is the first time." Wang Yang suddenly felt a surge of energy pouring in, and the door to another world opened, and he shouted loudly; "n"

With the sound of n, the film crew immediately started working, and the two actors also started to perform. This shot is very simple, that is, "Wiggers and Christopher hurried forward from the corridor nervously", and there are not even lines. It's already been rehearsed, so there won't be any problems.

Downey was sweating profusely and his face was full of tension. He walked quickly with guns in both hands facing the front, and Jeff Dougald followed with a calm expression. Carrying the camera, Walley Pfister and others quickly backed away, while the animation supervisor of the special effects team, Mikael Last, captured Jeff's expressions so that the animators could choose the best picture for production. All the way back to the end of the scene, Wang Yang stopped, and shouted with a smile: "CUT is very good, it's over."

Everyone cheered happily. Downey held up his gun and made a frenzied shooting gesture, whistled a few times, and the smooth passage of the first shot of the startup always made people full of joy.

"Get ready for the next shot." Wang Yang smiled and clapped his hands, and everyone in the film crew went to the scene of "the door at the end of the passage". He walked towards the special effects team, looked at Sean, Mikay and the others and asked, "Is there anything wrong with the shot just now?" Mikay shook his head with a smile, and said, "It's all normal." En-Walsh nodded and smiled: "If you think it's okay, you can start making it tomorrow."

"That's good. Try to complete some special effects shots today, which is enough for you." Wang Yang smiled, patted Xiao En's arm, picked up the viewfinder and ran to Jiang Ye to check the composition of the next shot.

The special effects production of "The Ninth District" will be carried out simultaneously with the shooting. When the films shot today are returned to the hotel in the evening, Wang Yang will play them and check them. If there are no problems, these lens materials will be sent to the headquarters of the image engine. Then the animators started sketching right away. Currently, there are more than 800 special effects shots in the special effects production list of "The Ninth District". According to the current size of the animator team, if everything goes well, they can all be completed in May next year.

In the next shot, Wiggs crouched by the door and turned around to talk to Christopher. When the sound of "n" sounded, Wally Pfister started the camera. Downey, who was squatting and leaning against the door, seemed to be panting. He wiped his forehead with his dirty sleeve and stared back at Jie. Husband Dougold, cursing, "You almost killed me just now, you bug, you idiot..."

"CUT" Wang Yang shook his head, naturally he failed, and said: "Robert, your eyes and expression are not in place." Downey and others looked at him immediately, Wang Yang walked over to Jiang Ye, and tried to stare fiercely. Jeff took a look, thought for a while, and said slowly: "Well, I think the problem is that you didn't regard Jeff as an alien, and you almost killed you just now, you know that your mentality is only selfish now, take it quickly Go to that damn energy bottle and turn back into a human..."

He spread his hands, pointed at Jeff again and said, "But this bedbug is an insignificant piece of garbage in your heart. Before the transformation, maybe you talked about a little humanitarianism, but after the transformation, you are extremely disgusted with them. You have A thought of 'They caused me to be like this, they owe me', and now this situation?" He stared, gritted his teeth, and said: "Anger, racial discrimination, resentment, venting...you have to have these mood"

"Well, I think I need to get into the show more." Downey frowned and realized the problem, he looked at Jeff Dougard and said with a smile, "I don't know if it's because of this." , I don’t feel like he’s an alien.” Jeff shrugged and said with a smile, “I’m sorry, but I’m not.” Donnie chuckled, and said, “Yan, I need to cultivate my emotions… "

Wang Yang looked at Jeff seriously, thinking about the solution in his heart. That's a big problem, the whole movie is aliens, and it would be too bad if Downey wasn't emotional enough to actually interact with aliens. And the more Jeff looks like an alien, the more it helps Downey's entry and performance. But how can Jeff become an "alien"? You can't let him change shape, can you?

He couldn't help laughing thinking about it, glanced at the people around him, and asked, "Hey, everyone, does anyone have any good ideas to make Jeff look more like an alien?"

Walley Pfister, art director Patrick, Sean Walsh... even Jeff himself looked at each other and thought about it, Patrick said and suggested: "Maybe we can let Jeff wear a monster costume?" Mi Kai Ruster shook his head immediately, and said: "No, our animation department needs him to wear the current suit, and it will have a big impact if he changes it." Sean Walsh said with an expression of no idea on his face. : "Computer special effects can't help the problem."

"Don't be so troublesome, give me a little time." Donnie closed his eyes and took a deep breath, and said in a deep voice: "I'm brewing emotions, soon, um, soon..."

"Wait a minute..." Wang Yang raised his eyebrows, and he vaguely thought of an idea in his heart. Wearing a set of monster clothes doesn't need to be so troublesome... He remembered what was said in the book, sometimes human thinking will be very solidified, and someone Some impressions are tightly held on and I can't figure it out. In fact, it is just a very simple thing, but I need to think outside the box. He glanced up and down at Jeff, and finally his eyes stopped on that face. Come to think of it, put on makeup"

make up? Everyone seemed to have thought of something at once, Wang Yang shouted loudly towards the outside of the shed: "Nia, come here, Nia" he shouted a few times, then looked at the field manager and said: "Call her here for me, why don't you come here?" Have the tools to bring her."

Nia is one of the makeup artists of the crew, a white woman in her 30s, she is not far outside, and she walked over immediately when she heard the sound. Wang Yang pointed at Jeff Dougard's face, smiled mysteriously, and said, "Nia, paint his face all dark green." Donny, Jeff and the others suddenly came to their senses. This idea sounded good. Yes, Patrick nodded in agreement and said: "It's much simpler this way." Wang Yang smiled and said: "Well, try Jeff, it's hard on your face."

"It's nothing." Jeff Dougard smiled indifferently, not to mention such trivial things as painting his face in green, he would do it if he painted his whole body in green. He also cherishes this opportunity very much. Although he will not appear on the big screen in the end, all those aliens are actually him, and he feels happy when he thinks about it.

Soon, after Nia's "painting", Jeff's face and neck became a piece of dark green, with the gray-blue tights, it looked even weirder, and children might really grow up when they saw it. Shout: "Monster"

"Hahaha——" Downey couldn't help laughing, put his arms around Jeff's shoulders, and said with a smile: "Dude, you should beat up the director who made you look like you, it looks like you are transforming, haha" Everyone and Jeff laughed, and Wang Yang frowned and clapped his hands: "Robert, hurry up and brew your damn emotions, hurry up!"

Downey smiled and nodded: "OK, I'm here." He gradually calmed down, looked at Jeff's non-human face with a sinking heart, and told himself, "This guy is an alien. Almost killed me" After a while, he said with a serious face: "I feel it, come again." Saying that, he squatted down at the door.

"Well, take your places!" Wang Yang shouted, and Valley Pfister picked up the camera again, and everyone returned to the track, and he also walked back to Valley, waiting for the field manager to knock off the slate, and shouted : "n"

"Phew..." Donnie wiped his forehead pantingly, then suddenly turned his head and stared at Jeff Dougard, his eyes were burning, his face was full of resentment and anger, and his voice trembled with anger: " You bug, you almost killed me just now, you bug..."

Wang Yang smiled and clenched his fists, he could feel the power of the universe, the holy king made the holy king, the king killed the gods at night, the gods sealed the throne, begged the world, the strongest abandoned young man, the royal family of Zhou, killed the gods at night, the gods sealed the throne, asked the demons, proud the world, the nine heavens The strongest abandoned young master of the Zhou royal family, the martial arts general, kills the gods and seals the throne at night, seeks the demon, proud of the world, and the ninth heaven. Seeing Downey's soaring resentment, he laughed and shouted: "CUT is very good"