Movie Master

"What about the sub-shots? What are the requirements for depth of field and angle? Or should we shoot according to the feeling of the first scene just now?"

Lance shook his head at Hayden's question, "I want the sudden feeling that everything happens without warning, like the first day we arrived in the city of God, and the shootout happened suddenly. Everyone was caught off guard; but everything disappeared so quickly that they were swallowed by this pool of stagnant water before they even had time to react. Even the local residents of the City of God are the same, everything happened in an instant, that sudden feeling .”

Lance's understanding of photography is still limited. It is difficult for him to clearly express his ideas in professional terms. He can only present them according to the director's sense of picture, and leave the rest to professionals.

Hayden rested his chin with his right hand, frowned while thinking and weighing his words, "So you're saying, just like the color contrast, we need to emphasize the sense of chaos and uneasiness again." Hayden pondered for a moment, then shook Shaking his head, he just didn't know what he was negating, "Are you looking for the feeling between documentary and feature film, using a lens with a strong sense of movement to further highlight the messy, real, and close-up viewing effects?"

In fact, the two sentences Hayden said have the same meaning, but judging from his body movements, he is now in a state of vague understanding.

Lance didn't answer in a hurry, but looked back at the surrounding environment, and his eyes finally fell on Albert and the group of children who were listening to the content of the next scene.

Although Lance's performance today has always been very calm and seasoned, and he seems very experienced, but only Lance himself knows clearly: this is the first time he has picked up a guide tube, and the experience of a theater director in his previous life has given him a good understanding of the set, The ability to control the overall situation, but the biggest difference between movies and dramas is the lens.

The theater audience sits fixedly in the auditorium and enjoys the play from the same angle, but the movie audience follows the lens of the camera and enters the story together. The shots presented by different angles, lights, trajectories, and methods will have different effects. Those master photographers and directors can often use the simplest shot to give psychological hints to the audience without lines or plots. .

For example, the depression brought by cool colors, the warmth and beauty brought by the backlight, and the restlessness brought by the moving lens. and so on.

Lance has a clear movie image in his head, what he needs to do now is to accurately convey to Hayden, "Five minutes rest!" Lance suddenly yelled without warning, and the sudden burst of sound shocked everyone. Everyone looked astonished. Hayden, who was standing next to Lance, was terrified, but then Hayden saw the children around him froze, and then scattered in all directions, Albert Tet tried to stop the kids, but to no avail—discipline was still terrible.

But what's interesting is that although the children ran away, everyone just ran aside, gathered together in twos and threes, and soon stopped, not knowing where to go, and not daring to leave the set—— If you leave the set, you will be kicked out of the crew, so after everyone ran away, they all stood aside awkwardly, at a loss. No one has the experience to know what can and should be done during breaks in filming...

Albert looked at Lance speechlessly—Lance's sudden action directly ruined his work. He hasn't finished explaining the shooting content and key points of this scene!

But Lance ignored Albert's complaining expression at all, and said directly to Hayden, "See?" Hayden came back to his senses, and carefully looked at the chaos in front of him, "This is what I want A fragmented feeling, the camera shakes and passes quickly, and the audience has not even had time to see the face in the camera clearly. The next scene may be the messy fleeing footsteps, and the next second is the magnified frightened face, but only It was just a fleeting glimpse, and then it turned into a panorama, and the next second the shot was..."

"Follow the three young heroes and move forward quickly." Hayden took Lance's words, and all the pictures in his mind became extremely clear in an instant, like a spring, "We should carry the camera on our shoulders and use the documentary The way to record every detail in the whole process, run with the children, and then shoot the real picture at close range, showing the chaos and restlessness, but it is closer to the actors, more oppressive and dramatic than the documentary, and the God of God The uncertain restlessness of the city is integrated into the shot. Finally, through editing, the fast and sharp shot is neatly edited out. It seems chaotic but hides a kind of order and emotion, which seeps out bit by bit."

Hayden didn't look at Lance, his eyes quickly caught the children who were running around but stopped quickly, and then quickly looked at the surrounding space, his thoughts were running quickly, and inspiration burst out continuously, feeling that the whole movie screen was unprecedented. Vividly and truly laid out in the mind.

"Then this means that we need at least four camera positions, two close-ups, running completely with the actors, one medium-range, capturing the entire content of the entire picture, but using the frame of the street to limit the picture, and the last shot The panoramic view of the TV station was placed in a fixed position, and the entire escape process was recorded in the form of a documentary.”

Hayden's thoughts became extremely clear, and his eyes shone with excitement. At this moment, he finally realized the "sense of joking pictures between documentaries and dramas" that Hugo said, the kind of wandering between reality and drama. The direct ambiguity of the novel will permeate through the lens bit by bit, making it difficult for people to distinguish the boundary between reality and the movie, truly showing the cruelty, blood, violence, and chaos of the City of God, but at the same time awakening people's subconsciousness, this It's just a movie.

Thinking of this, Hayden couldn't help but froze, and turned his head to look at Lance, "But, don't you want to highlight the reality of this movie? Let people know that all of this is real in real life. So you I hope to shoot in a way similar to a documentary, but if you follow the way you just said, it will appear a little alienated, and the exaggerated colors and close-ups will only make the audience play."

Lance knows that Hayden really understands his thoughts, but not his intentions, "This is the sense of isolation that I hope to achieve. Remember the feeling when you first came to the City of God? It was like Came to another world - the world of movies."

For most people, including many Brazilians, the City of God does not exist, it is like a deliberately fabricated in movies and novels, it is completely another world; but in fact, the City of God is It is real, extremely real and cruel, and it is also a part of people's life that cannot be ignored.

Lance hopes to tell such a "special world" through the movie "City of God". The audience will always think that this is just a fictional world in the movie-cruel, bloody, cold, chaotic, dark, and violent. and at the end of the movie, the sense of reality will come to the face, clearly making people realize: this is not fiction, this is real, after the "sense of isolation" is broken, the previously created The shock that comes out will strike again, and it will be more turbulent, surging and stronger, and then form a second climax/tide, detonating a tsunami of reflection.

After the movie is over, the real good show begins.

There was a trace of astonishment in Hayden's eyes, then he smiled helplessly, and patted Lance on the shoulder, "This is the reason, why you can be an excellent director, but I can only be an excellent photographer The reason." Hayden let out a long breath, returned to his major, and then felt a headache, "God, this is only the second scene! The difficulty is already so high, Lance, you know huh? You're such a bastard!"

Facing Hayden's cursing and violent mood, Lance remained indifferent, even his eyebrows remained unchanged, "So, can you do it?"

Hayden breathed heavily and was trapped in his chest. Under the motionless gaze of those azure blue eyes, all his anger poured out, "Fuck!" Hayden cursed sullenly, and threw the cigarette in his hand on the ground. Extinguished with the soles of his feet, "Nonsense, how could I not do it!" Hayden immediately raised his voice and shouted ~www.wuxiax.com~ Ethan, come here! "

Ethan-Water, Hayden's photography assistant, was also one of the seven crew Lance brought from the United States.

"After a while, the two of us will hold the camera and shoot at close range..." Hayden began to explain to Ethan the shooting method and the effect that needs to be presented. Lance finished his work and turned around to leave, but Hayden stopped him, "Lance, you are in charge of the camera in the medium scene, and it needs to move with the movement of the entire shooting. You walk along the street horizontally." Just go straight..."

Lance stood beside him in a daze. He didn't expect that he would also be assigned a task, but Hayden glanced at Lance, "I said, we need four cameras, and we don't have enough manpower, so you have to take over. Don't forget Yes, this is what you asked for." Seeing that Lance seemed to have something to say, Hayden added the latter sentence, which directly made Lance speechless. "Go and tell Albert that we need a rehearsal. First, we need to determine our shooting angle and trajectory, and then set the camera position to ensure that there will be no other camera flaws in the shot; second, let the children To get used to the tracking of the camera, not to look at the camera, and only after mastering the pattern of the whole scene can we start shooting."

After finishing speaking, Hayden ignored Lance and turned around to discuss with Ethan.

Poor Ethan was called over, without saying a word, he was directly fed a lot of things, and he was already a little dizzy. Seeing Ethan's confused eyes, Lance turned around without hesitation, and shouted, "Bert, we need a rehearsal~www.wuxiax.com~ The most popular serialized works are all available at ~www.wuxiax.com~ For mobile phone users, please go to read.