On April 12, the anti-time hunting officially started.

According to the rules, burn incense first.

As the producer and director, Li Xianyun is in the center, with producer Jiang Zheng on the left, action director Li Longquan on the right, and several starring actors in the back row, followed by photographers, etc., with strict hierarchy division.

As for Lu Jun and Shen Rong, they didn't come. They were big-name guest appearances, so they just came when they needed it.

"It's a good time to start!"

While the live production was shouting, the crew officially started filming.

Because the plot starts at night, the first half is a night scene, and the second half is a day scene, and the filming starts in the morning, so film the second half first.

According to the plot design, at this time, the male protagonist Jiang Qiansheng was kidnapped by the thieves Guan Jiushan and Li Zhui, and the female protagonist Qi Mingyue was chased by the back and came to a jungle and dismounted to fight.

So when you start the computer, you will find a small wood, and there is an ancient road here.

During the daytime, there is basically no need to turn on the lights. All personnel are arranged and the actors are in place.

The recorder came over to play the board: "Scene 35, Act 4, First Scene!"

“Action!”

As the baffle fell, the movie officially started.

The sound of horse hooves rose in the distance, and Dong Zixin rode his horse and rushed over. In front was Zhang Lidong and Yang Enjun playing the thief, taking the male lead Jiang Sheng to run wildly.

On the big swing arm, Zhao Yunyang took the camera from the top and bottom. The two camera positions on the same side were Rong Dasheng and Xuan Dong on the handheld, one shot in front and the other shot in the back.

The three cameras are activated at the same time, and the three screens of the monitor have shown a panoramic picture of three running wildly.

Movies generally do not require too many cameras, because movie shooting is different from TV, and they are often shot by one shot at a time. On the contrary, TV series can create seven or eight sets of cameras at a time, and actors walk over and have scenes from all angles.

Unless it is some special scenes, such as bombing a building, in order to perform in all aspects, it is necessary to start shooting a bunch of cameras at the same time; or when bullets are used, hundreds of cameras are in a circle to shoot, etc.

So the three-camera position is enough for ordinary movies.

"Crack!" As soon as the show started, Li Xianyun picked up the walkie-talkie and shouted "Crack."

The actors stopped one after another.

Li Xianyun waved to Yang Enjun over and said, "The horse riding posture is wrong! Yang Enjun, please don't hold the horse's neck, okay? You are a thief! The martial arts masters, just use one hand to hold the reins, and you have to look back, otherwise how could you throw the hidden weapon?"

Yang Enjun looked bitter: "Director, I can't ride a horse."

"Didn't you let you adapt in advance?" Li Xianyun glared.

"Just one day is not enough." Yang Enjun said helplessly.

"One day?" Li Xianyun turned the door high and turned around and shouted, "Ren Zhi, didn't I tell you that you would need to practice for at least half a month?"

Ren Zhi ran over with his expression of a chrysanthemum fading: "Boss, just give him that little money. If you ask him to practice riding for half a month, this is not appropriate, right?"

Damn it!

Li Xianyun was angry at the time: "If you think it's not suitable, you can ignore it. This is not a fucking reason for you to fool me!"

This guy is really cheating. Not only do he cheat money but also cheating. Li Xianyun has to take care of too many things. If he is not careful, he will be cheated by this guy again.

The main reason is that he thinks that as long as Ren Zhi doesn't touch money, there will be no problem.

I never thought that he could make trouble without touching money.

Ren Zhi hurriedly said, "How about you let them ride a Trojan horse and use a car to drag it down there."

"Don't I know? I'll use you to teach me?" Li Xianyun roared: "What I want now is a big panoramic view! a big panoramic view! A panoramic view of the entire venue space. You are so fucking teaching me, how can you ride a Trojan horse in the big panoramic view?"

Li Xianyun was completely speechless.

Space lenses look inconspicuous, but they are actually very important.

Taking this scene in front of you as an example, the thief Guan Jiushan kidnapped the male protagonist Jiang Shengsheng in the city, and was discovered by the female protagonist Qi Mingyue, and chased him all the way to the woods.

According to the most basic lens logic, there are a set of lenses leaving the city, a set of lenses in ancient roads, and a set of lenses entering the jungle.

This will connect the city and the woods together.

If these three groups of inconspicuous shots were not available, the picture would become. Qi Mingyue was still fighting Guan Jiushan in the city in the last second, and the next second they would have moved their space into the woods.

The audience will be confused. What's the situation?

I can't understand it directly.

And such shots are usually given to panoramic views.

There are close-ups, they all belong to the same set of shots.

For example, if a few people are riding on the ancient road, the three cameras will take photos at the same time, and they will take photos from different angles. As for the close-up, they can be placed on the Trojan horse to take photos and then cut them in.

So, a shot from the city to the forest has at least three sets of shots, and it may actually be as many as dozens of screen switching. What is enough for awesome directors? At least ten sets! If you don’t have to worry about a cut scene for two or three days, you have to think that you are not dedicated. After shooting, you can cut it all, and in the end you will only have a dozen shots left.

But no matter how you do it, panoramic views are necessary. Otherwise, everyone will look at a camera that goes out of town and then rides a horse to give you a close-up of your face, and you will be too chores.

Of course, there is no solution. For example, you can be a substitute, as long as you don’t look back and don’t lose hidden weapons, there is no big problem.

But in this way, the lens is not perfect.

A good director must pursue perfection, but different productions must have different levels of perfection.

A bad director may really do it: go out of the city, ride a horse in close-ups, or partially panoramic views, miss one or two people, and you'll have to deal with the errands anyway.

Directors who are ordinary will require complete lens expressions.

Better directors will add content to such scenes, such as fighting scenes, so that the cutscenes will not appear boring.

The requirements of top directors will be higher. Even if it is just a street racing scene, many small details will be designed. Not only will there be fighting, but the characters' emotions, personality, connotation, and even give them special meaning. Maybe a sense of ritual is also necessary. This type of person's requirements for quality are calculated in frames. Each frame of the picture must be meaningful and has feelings, so that the audience will not be willing to leave the screen for a second.

Every detail is required!

For example, Zhou Xingxing, even if he makes a phone call, he has to repeatedly design it, press the keys with his tongue, and his lines are changed again and again, constantly trying. Others only know that Zhou Xingxing's acting skills are good and distinctive, but they don't know that his camera language is also very awesome. The director's strength is absolutely not good. The most vivid performance of his director's skills is "Kung Fu".

And a good movie is supported by these countless small details that strive for excellence.

Li Xianyun has limited investment and cannot meet the requirements of a top major director, so his requirement is a good director.

A cutscene also requires basic fighting actions to make the process as not boring and content as possible.

In the plot, Li Zhui, as a master of hidden weapons, threw away the hidden weapons against Qi Mingyue during the process of being chased, and then was beaten by Qi Mingyue, causing him to fall off the horse, thus entering the woods, triggering a fighting scene in the woods.

The action of falling off the horse can be used as close-ups and stand-in, but the action of riding a horse and waving the dart in the panorama makes the cutscene no longer a simple horse-shot run, giving more connotations, strengthening details, and a performance of pursuing perfection under this level. This cannot be solved by close-ups.

The close-up highlights the character's emotions, not the plot connection - how can you see the plot when you look at a face?

Now, Yang Enjun has only practiced riding for a day, so it would be great if he could not fall off the horse.

And do something nonsense!

When Rong Dasheng was filming, Li Xianyun told him that he could do whatever he could. Even the fluorescent light was turned on. Now that things were on his head, he couldn't stand it no matter how he thought about it!

This made Li Xianyun dizzy.

Ren Zhi was still blinking his eyes innocently, and his face said that I had no choice but to do anything.

Li Xianyun is very familiar with this expression. In the original world, he was the one who dealt with countless investors and directors. He was so angry that the other party was furious.

At that moment, a thought even emerged in Li Xianyun's mind:

Other ghost hunters in this world may not exist, but investors who are not deceived by Ren Zhi must not exist.

I'm so stupid, really!

I just knew that Ren Zhi was unreliable; I didn't expect that even if I was watching it, I couldn't trust...

Xianglin Sao's nagging inexplicably sounded in her ears.

Li Xianyun was about to cry without tears.

But the next moment, Li Xianyun quickly calmed down as he looked at the eyes of everyone looking at him, with a slight gloating look.

I am the director!

I'm the producer!

I'm still a producer!

I can't be confused, otherwise everyone will look down on me.

Yes!

The reason why Ren Zhi fooled me was not only because of his problems, but also because I was still weak!

An experience of ghost recognition recording is not enough!!

Far from enough!

I have to build prestige!

We must adhere to the bottom line!

Thinking of this, Li Xianyun slowly raised his head, his eyes full of firmness!

He pointed at Yang Enjun and said slowly: "Tie him to the horse."

"What?" Yang Enjun was shocked: "Director..."
To be continued...