Chapter 198: Finishing is not the end

Chapter 198: Finishing is not the end

Chapter 198: Finishing is not the end
"Okay, Director, I'll adjust it right away!"

The lighting engineer who was reminded looked at the light substitute in the material screen and Yu Bo in the monitor, carefully compared the brightness of their faces, and found the problem. He nodded and immediately ran to his workstation to adjust the brightness of the light.

Wang Hao looked at the lighting technician who was walking away, and he was not too angry about the problem he discovered during the filming process.

The lighting of a movie is itself an extremely troublesome thing.

In the process of lighting, you need to use a light meter not only to measure the brightness, but also the color temperature of the light, and consider the angle of light and the type of light source.

Especially the lighting for green screen shooting is more troublesome because of the need to add post-production special effects.

We also have to deliberately simulate the natural environment to light the actors, so that the light shining on the actors matches the background that will be replaced in the future, and ensure that the direction and brightness of the light are consistent, otherwise there will be an obvious sense of disharmony between shot switches.

For example, in the shot that Wang Hao just took, when Yu Bo was standing at the car door, it was morning and the main light source was in the upper right corner. The brightness should be the same as the sun at nine or ten o'clock.

However, if the green screen is removed in post-processing and replaced with a natural background, the result will be a sunset on the left, which would be a mistake.

Therefore, before setting up the lighting for green screen shooting, you must consider the background conditions, determine the position of the light source, and then simulate the light source for lighting.

Only when the parameters of the light source are accurate can you take good pictures.

Moreover, this is the first time they are trying to use the software system purchased from Hollywood during the filming process, and they are still not proficient in the use of the "pre-shooting" technology.

If Hollywood's "packaged" lens shooting plan can achieve a high degree of restoration of more than 90%, then the degree of restoration of their current lens shooting plan may only just reach the passing line of 60%.

On the one hand, it is the gap in technology, and on the other hand, it is the lack of experience.

So Wang Hao was not surprised when there were problems with the lighting.

Anyway, when he asked someone to write the project plan, he deliberately raised the price quote for special effects, taking into account the cost of trial and error.

Now this movie is used to train the behind-the-scenes team and let them adapt to this new production method that even Hollywood is adopting.

As for investors' money, it's better to spend it in vain. If you can cultivate a large and technically skilled team, you won't lose money.

It's better than spending the money on celebrities. What's the point of paying them more? Can it promote the development of China's film and television industry?

In addition, Wang Hao also has Xingdou Culture under his control, which also has a cooperative relationship with Shanghai Film Academy.

During this practice process, members of the behind-the-scenes team summarized their experiences, compiled them into training materials, and taught them to others.

Not a loss! Not a loss!
Therefore, even when problems arose during the filming process, Wang Hao, contrary to his usual behavior, did not turn into a tyrant on the set. Instead, he took the initiative to discuss with those behind-the-scenes workers to summarize the problems and solutions.

For example, at this moment, while the lighting engineer was setting up the lights, he turned to the assistant director and instructed:
“Please remember this matter. The lighting design of the pre-shooting still has certain deviations during the actual shooting process and needs manual adjustment. This needs to be solved.

After the filming is completed, we can try to build a relevant lighting database through experiments and record the effect information of different light sources, so that it can be used in future filming."

The assistant director nodded and wrote it down in his work notebook.

There were many such situations of discovering, recording and solving problems in the crew of "Source Code".

Perhaps many of these problems are trivial, but Wang Hao still encourages such staff to raise them bravely and urges the management team to come up with solutions and make corrections.

In the process of constantly discovering and correcting problems, the production team of "Source Code" is gradually "chewing", "swallowing" and "digesting" the new software and new technologies introduced from Hollywood.

In this way, the entire crew stumbled and groped their way forward, and the progress became smoother and faster.

"Ka! Yu Bo, watch your expression!" "Ka! Song Huiqiao, hold back a little!"

"Ka! Yu Bo, movies are different from TV. Take back your TV vibe and don't move so much. Be more natural!"

"Ka! Props!"

"Click! Lights!"

"Okay, pass!"

"Pass!"

……

Time passed day by day in the busyness. After the running-in period, the crew of "Source Code" ran more and more smoothly and the shooting speed became faster and faster.

Especially when Wang Hao and his team were shooting "Source Code", they used the latest Red One digital camera on the set. While shooting, they could visually see the effect on the set, which greatly improved the production efficiency.

So two months later, at the end of April 2007, the crew of "Source Code" finished filming the scenes related to those trains in the studio.

Then, the crew did not change the scene.

After filming the scenes of the high-speed train explosions, the crew moved the train models away and set up the "Source Project" headquarters in this studio.

At the same time, Wang Jingchun, who plays Shi Qiang, Ning Li, who plays Dr. Ma Zhao, Shu Chang, who plays the policewoman, and Ning Xiaozhi, who plays the male protagonist's military leader, have also officially joined the crew.

Those who had just joined the crew were also amazed at the smooth operation of Wang Hao's team during the filming process.

But perhaps because they have already been well-coordinated, the charm of this team process operation is not as obvious as before.

As the base scene in the studio was built and the special props were ready, the new actors had no time to admire the professionalism of the "Source Code" crew and immediately plunged into the filming.

This process is not complicated. After all, most of the actors chosen by Wang Hao have acting skills.

Even the youngest Shu Chang can be considered an "old" actor. He entered the entertainment industry at the age of 5 and has filmed 28 TV series so far.

With such outstanding actors and an excellent production team, the crew's filming work soon came to an end, and those actors naturally faced the fate of finishing the filming.

On May 2007, 5, not long after Labor Day, Studio 09 was deserted, no longer as bustling as before.

Meanwhile, at the Manly Hotel in the HR district, the crew members of Source Code were drinking happily.

When the film is finished, this meal is of course indispensable.

Wang Hao is now considered a well-known director. He has attended the wrap-up party four or five times, and he was always the protagonist at the party.

All the actors and actresses in the crew, as well as the heads of various departments, would take turns to come forward and toast him. This can be considered as a unique drinking culture in China.

However, today Wang Hao only tasted the wine in the cup briefly. It was not because he became more famous and arrogant, but because he had other things to do besides the wrap-up party and had to keep another appointment.

Seeing that Wang Hao was making excuses and had legitimate reasons for doing so, everyone had no choice but to change their target and direct their fire at the film's male lead, Yu Bo.

Who made this "Source Code" so well-made? Everyone in the crew was clearly aware that as long as the movie was released, Yu Bo, as the male lead, would definitely become a hit. How could this not make people envious and jealous?

(End of this chapter)