Many scenes are vignetted to increase the horizontal sight range and enhance the realism of the scene, which is closer to the visual range of the human eye than ordinary TV dramas.
It sounds simple, but it's all about the details.
And Wubai is also a ruthless person, so on the third day of filming, he decided to record the sound directly on the spot?
How many leading actors, including yourself, were asked to add some dialect flavor?
Especially Xing Bureau, his mouth is filled with the taste of dirt!
For example, today's daily shooting of Fang Mu's college life uses long-lens flashback techniques to bring each character to life in a single confession.
Even many of the shots are a bit unusual. Sometimes they are mottled leaves, sometimes they are aisle railings, sometimes they are bicycle wheels. It always makes you feel hazy and unclear about what is behind you.
According to Wubai: This is called suspense tone!
The audience is allowed to move forward in the fog, and the protagonist Fang Mu has not yet completed his own redemption, but is struggling to redeem others in a cage. They have been immersed in this atmosphere, and the plot is linked one by one.
The long shot starts with Wu Han entering the dormitory. A classmate asked him to deliver some snacks. He came out from Sun Mei's canteen holding snacks. Fang Mu said hello and walked through the corridor and into the dormitory.
It ends with opening the door and seeing roommates talking and fighting in various ways. It seems ordinary, but in fact, Wu Han's character background is cleverly explained from the perspective of Fang Mu. His family is poor and he needs to work and study.
The social relationship is based on the character description of the dormitory staff who live in Sun Mei's canteen, and the persons involved in the case may have intersections with Wu Han. The entire layout is concise and clear, but it contains a lot of information, waiting for the audience to dig out and reveal it layer by layer later.
The whole plot of suspense reasoning adopts the development mode of big clues and small foreshadowing. The big clues are used to confuse, and the small foreshadowing is used to reveal the final truth step by step.
What seems like unnecessary narration to enrich the plot actually points out the truth at the end, making the audience feel unexpected yet reasonable. The reversals one after another firmly capture the audience's curiosity and push the story to a climax.
"Just remember this!"
"All crimes in this show follow one principle!"
“A sense of ceremony!”
During the filming break, classmates got together and Su Ze shared: "For example, Fang Mu has always been the male protagonist, and he has the aura of a talented young detective, right?"
"The audience's first impression of him is that he is wise and righteous, isn't it?"
"But in the plot, Fang Mu is constantly regarded as a suspect, and is framed and suspected again and again. Don't you find it strange that there is such a huge conflict in the character's personality?"
"Fang Mu feels so tired and always carries a lot of guilt."
"Compared to other cool dramas, this drama is so sad."
"I almost vomited when I thought about the body parts that the prop team got yesterday!"
"What a pervert!"
Su Ze couldn't help laughing while listening to the buzzing discussion. It can trigger a psychological emotional confrontation in the audience, always thinking about whether Fang Mu is the murderer?
How to clear your name?
Who is the mastermind behind this?
Watching the drama with a tight heart is success!
Yesterday, I was chatting with Wubai. In the later stage, Psychological Crime plans to have a strong retro color from the scene layout to the color palette. The whole tone is dark brown, supplemented by red spots in the transition, which is retro and mysterious, reflecting the strange and bizarre feeling.
Use a lot of symmetrical and unbalanced images, such as the decoration of the bookshelf in Professor Qiao's office.
With the use of light, you will find that even the dust in the air has a high-quality texture in the picture.
Flexible use of far and near shots, focusing on the main people and objects, blurring the background, eliminating visual interference, and strongly guiding the audience's visual center.
The shooting angles are various and unexpected, there are many subtle shooting angles, and the reflection angle of the car window is used many times to shoot the characters in the plot.
It even resembles a voyeuristic visual angle, which enhances the audience’s sense of reality and stimulates curiosity and curiosity.
In Su Ze's opinion, lighting is also very important in crime dramas. Good lighting can highlight the atmosphere of the plot, the inner feelings of the characters, and the undercurrents of the case. What should be highlighted and should be weakened should be placed in their proper place.
For example, during interrogation in a small dark room, the suspect is given a sculptural overhead light, the surrounding darkness is blurred, and the actor's acting skills are used to highlight the criminal's heart.
When the criminal recalled the scene, the screen flashed red light from time to time, which had a bloody connotation.
Wubai deserves to be a director who started out as a cameraman!
"Are you sure you want to delete Chen Xi?" The four of them gathered together to study the script in the evening. Wu Guohua worriedly said, "She is the key figure in promoting the change of Fang Mu's character."
"What do you think?" After half a month of cooperation, Wubai has full trust in Su Ze.
"I think the biggest selling point of our show is the sense of ritual." Su Ze said straight to the point: "Unlike Sherlock and Crime Scene Investigation, the rhythm of the first two is compact, orderly and fast."
"The body was discovered immediately, the clues were searched for immediately, and the problem was solved immediately, giving the audience a sense of intense tension and excitement."
"On the contrary, we had a lot of silence and a lot of movement, using a combination of narratives and flashbacks. On the one hand, there was a fierce verbal conflict in the interrogation room, and the most intense one directly led Fang Mu to reveal his innermost secrets."
"The other side has entered a stalemate again, and the arrest of the wrong suspect has caused and foreshadowed an irreversible tragedy. I think the most desperate thing may not be that there is no hope, but that it gives you hope, but then you watch it be destroyed."
Wu Guohua's expression was shocked, full of appreciation and expectation for the young man who had just turned 20 in front of him. After working with him for half a month, he truly understood that his acting skills were so good.
Su Ze filled the tea for the three of them and said with a smile: "And Chen Xi, as the love and savior in Fang Mu's heart, will always be a white sweater, white coat, white scarf and boots in his mind."
"I have always been clean, considerate, simple and kind."
"I admit that her death is one of the keys to stimulating Fang Mu's character, but again, after all, Psychological Crime is only the first part. Is it really okay to add too many things at once?"
"Yes, that's right." Wubaiyi slapped his thigh and smiled at Wu Guohua: "Old Wu, I still want to film the second and third seasons. I've run out of CP and let Xing Bureau have a year-end love affair?"
Wu Guohua: "..."
Everyone burst into laughter. Su Ze liked this atmosphere very much. Although there were no stars, all the actors performed well, especially Wang Longzheng and Wu Guohua, who were among the best among their peers.
There are also Hu Jianfeng who plays the white-collar case, Liu Pengyu who plays the vampire case, Yang Dawei who plays the Tengshi case, and Song Yongheng who plays the final imitation case...
The actors' wonderful performance and the director's precise control of details made the whole drama more tense.
Gradually understand why it is called psychological crime?
Not just the murderer, it can be said that every character has his own psychological crime!
A bizarre hell on earth, because the wronged have died in vain and the evil have been killed. But it is those "good and good people" who are left to struggle in this world?
Tai Wei raised his gun, but ended the lives of his comrades who fought side by side through life and death?
The mission is successful but you can no longer sing the song "Happy Birthday" or face the widow of your comrade?
He said I was afraid too, why not?
But someone has to catch the criminal, and someone has to do these things.
Fang Mu, crazy portrait, arrests the prisoner, but is unable to unlock the prison in his heart, and can never save his beloved.
He said that no more people should be harmed by PTSD. This is human nature, a weed that breaks out of the ground.
Choose the more difficult and difficult path, don’t be afraid of difficulties because of injuries, and don’t become demons because of nightmares.
They are the martyrs of this hell, fighting one after another in order to preserve the weak light in the world.
Because there has never been any stability in this world. The Tao has yin and yang, the moon waxes and wanes, people have good and evil, right and wrong, and things have right and wrong.
People must have some faith, awe, fear, hope and expectation, so as not to fall into your own abyss.
Don't let the world decline, don't let the hero grow old, don't let the fire of justice go out, don't give up fighting the devil in your heart. Psychological crime, psychological crime, in the end, is just about defeating the weak self.