534. Chapter 534 Scene 534: Real Magic Power
"Boss, what should I do? I feel that my heart is about to jump out of my heart..." Mina, who seemed calm, couldn't help but cover her chest and said to Li Xiaole with a worried face as soon as she returned to Li Xiaole.
"You are the director. Even if the sky falls, you can't show any timidity, otherwise the employees below will collapse." Li Xiaole smiled, with a leisurely expression. He picked up the red Coca-Cola can on the coffee table and took a sip. In order not to make the atmosphere so serious, Li Xiaole ordered ten KFC family buckets, and let everyone eat and watch.
However, now everyone else seems to be extremely nervous. No one takes food except himself. It seems that the attraction of fried chicken and burgers still seem insignificant in the face of life and death of life and career.
"It's going to start~~" Agai shouted excitedly. At this time, everyone turned their faces to the LCD screen in unison, only to see a handsome white man in a suit shaves with a razor in the camera. The commercial advertisement of "The Walking Dead" began in the first two minutes. Nelson's viewing curve has a ten-minute delay in data, and there will be no new data yet. Everyone can only stare at these two minutes of advertisements. Everyone feels that time is particularly slow, and they feel like they live like years. They stomp their feet and tap the table with their fingers. Everyone seems a little annoyed.
Finally, the first scene of "The Walking Dead" began. A police car slowly appeared from the country road. Amid the gentle sound of cicadas in summer, the roar of the motor went out. Rick, wearing a police officer's hat, looked around and got out of the car. He took out the car and took out the keys. The scene quickly became quiet.
Lincoln and Wu Yan teamed up with several actors and nodded in praise: "The production is really exquisite." "The movements and sounds, the rhythm of the picture is almost perfect..."
Mina pays attention to Lincoln and the others’ reactions. They are all actors and are much more picky about the series than ordinary audiences. If they almost all enter the story within a minute, it proves that the series is really well filmed.
Mina also felt it was very strange. In this shot, without even a line, there was no music, just a picture, they felt that the story was very real.
Rick on the screen was on the side of the road in the countryside, checking, abandoned scrap cars everywhere, discarded toys, baskets, and carts scattered on the ground...
Just such a simple shot, but it gives people an extremely real feeling. Mina thought she had an illusion, turned her head to look at others, observed their reactions, and was surprised to find that everyone was very focused... What was going on? The plot has not started yet? Is it because they all participated in it that everyone was so focused?
No, it's not just that... These shots seem to have a magical power to pull people in instantly. They don't feel alienated when watching ordinary TV series. Instead, they are like playing a first-person game, as if they are experiencing the plot personally.
"Why, boss, why do I feel that the camera feels so real? What did you do?" Mina turned her head in confusion and looked at Li Xiaole and asked.
"Listen carefully and hear what's different from the TV series you've filmed in the past." Li Xiaole pointed to his ear and reminded him.
Mina listened attentively and immediately showed a surprised expression. This real magic actually came from the sound effects~ completely close to the real sound effects~~
The sound of Rick's steps, the soft cicadas bells by the forest, even the friction of the keys in his pocket, the slightest rubbing of the corners of his pants, and the metal sound of the oil barrel swaying in his hand, the distance, delicateness, and space of the sound were almost exactly the same as in the real environment.
The delicate and subtle feeling produced by this sound effect may not be clear, but it can feel the difference and feel the real sense of substitution that is completely different from that of ordinary TV series.
"How many sound effects are there?" Mina turned her head in surprise and asked Li Xiaole.
"The first two minutes, there were 38 kinds in total." Li Xiaole replied calmly.
Many people think that the money spent on well-made dramas is mainly on large scenes. In fact, large scenes are of course important, but what really brings the audience into the sense of inclusion is these details. There are devils in the details. Why do the industry highly recommend British and American dramas? It is not simply because they have great advantages in the plot, but because their production level in all aspects is far ahead of other countries.
The production specifications of a top American drama are in the mainland, and no movie can compare with any movie. If the 100,000 US dollars is spent in the hands of domestic producers, at most it can only produce shoddy things like "The Great Trouble of Heaven".
"38 sound effects..." Mina gasped. It seemed simple to achieve such almost real sound effects, but people in the industry would know how difficult it was.
If the actor's supreme realm gives people the character a sense of "reality", then the director's highest realm is the "reality" of the story environment.
In ordinary TV dramas, there are usually two ways to perform sound effects processing. The most commonly used one is the environment synchronous recording processing. This method uses a high-sensitive microphone. When recording his lines near the actor, try to synchronously record the real recordings in the environment at that time, and then fine-tune them later.
The advantage of doing this is to save money first, and secondly, it is to have a relatively real environment. However, the disadvantage is that since too many environmental sounds are collected, it will affect the pronunciation of the actor's lines, so the actor can only dubbing the role later, causing the sound to be inconsistent with the subtle emotions of the picture. For example, "Doctor House" and "Evil Power" have such minor problems.
The other is the opposite, which is to switch to a windproof microphone, focusing only on the part of the actor's lines, and not the ambient sound effects, but are processed in the form of virtual sound effects.
Many sitcoms that do not require too much detail, such as "Friends" and so on. Although the audience's live laughter is real, they are added later when broadcast on TV.
Li Xiaole used this latter type in "The Walking Dead", but unlike those rough sitcoms, the production of the background sound effects of "The Walking Dead" in the later stage is completely at the movie level.
The difference is that the TV-level sound effects allow the audience to watch the people in the story as a "third party". The sounds they hear are blurred from a distance, not too clear, and do not give people a strong feeling.
The sound effects in the movie industry will make the audience feel that they are the "protagonist's first perspective". Every detail and every sound effect must be like the one heard in the protagonist's ear... the sound of wind, the sound of feet stepping on the ground, and even the friction sounds caused by swinging clothes with both hands while walking will be presented in a weak and delicate way.
Can the audience get it with attention? Of course they don’t notice it, but humans are keen sensory animals, and they will feel these subtle differences. The "reality" in a shot is made up of countless such tiny details, which will instantly get into the role.
Mina understood that in the "real" shot just now, the sounds of 38 kinds of real objects were added in the later stage. In addition to adjusting the volume of these 38 tracks, the position of the track must also be arranged. It takes countless experiments to simulate the effect that is almost "first perspective"...
This is not a trick, but a real strong strength. The sound effects artists of Pirate TV Station are not of this level. Li Xiaole's directorial skills are so profound that she can not only describe it as awesome...
At this time, outside an electrical appliance store selling TVs next to Times Square in New York, a group of passers-by waiting for the bus were looking through the glass at the picture of "The Walking Dead" in a row of TVs.
On the screen, Rick saw the back of a little girl in a white nightgown and chased after her.
"Little girl, I'm a policeman, don't be afraid~~" Rick shouted softly.
Everyone who watches it knows that the next is a typical horror movie - "The Monster Who Turns Slowly". At this time, a horrible sound effect will come naturally, but the girl on the screen slowly turned around, but there was no sound effect. What everyone saw was not a monster, but a "living person"...
In the close-up of the girl in white played by Khlo Moretz, everyone clearly saw that she was a living little girl. She was very beautiful, like a delicate and lovely doll, and even held a cute Winnie bear in her hand, but the blood stains on her body and the huge rotten sores on her face made everyone know that she was dead... The real shock of the living dead made everyone gasp.
The little girl's eyes were even trembling slightly, but her mouth made a low growl that was unique to zombies, and she slowly walked towards Rick.
Listening to the low roar, it seemed like Rick, everyone was ashamed of it, and then they realized the danger in front of them... they were so scared that they took a step back.
Rick on the TV screen stepped back in panic, watching the girl rushing over with pain on her face. Finally, he took out his gun instinctively and hit the girl's head with a "bang!". The bullet passed through her head, and blood bloomed in the air like a flower. The girl in white looked at the sky and slowly fell down on her back. The bright red blood splashed onto her white clothes. The slow long shot was simply beautiful...
Everyone covered their mouths in surprise, and showed the same guilty and horror expression as Rick on the screen, as if he did not kill a zombie, but ended the life of a child... He murdered a living person in the zombie film, and the huge gap with his expectations hit everyone's heart...
Chapter completed!