Chapter 364: The Black Technology of Gravity

Chapter 364: The Black Technology of Gravity

Chapter 364: The Black Technology of Gravity
"Hiss! It hurts! Be gentle!"

In the upscale room of Wanda Vista Starlight Hotel, Jing Tian was lying on the bed with her legs spread unnaturally, groaning in pain.

Wang Hao held a small glass bottle in his hand and poured the pungent red liquid into his palm. He rubbed his hands until his palms were hot. Then he pressed them on Jing Tian's bruised and purple thighs and rubbed them hard.

"it hurts!"

Jing Tian's thigh twitched, but was held down by Wang Hao.

"Be patient and apply some medicine, otherwise you won't be well tomorrow."

The red bruises oil was evenly applied to Jing Tian's skin. The girl curled her lips and said, "You never told me before filming that this time it would be so hard!"

The crying voice was heartbreaking, especially when you look at her expression, which seemed like she was about to cry.

Wang Hao's voice also subconsciously became much softer.

"Movie making, especially big science fiction productions like this, is like this.

You are performing very well now. Don't you see that the way people look at you is different?"

Indeed, the filming team of "Gravity", from the actors to the behind-the-scenes, has indeed changed their impression of Jing Tian a lot.

At the beginning, when they saw her intimacy with Wang Hao, although they behaved very politely, it was mostly out of consideration for Wang Hao's face. In fact, they still felt that Jing Tian relied on Wang Hao to get to her position.

Especially after the filming of the movie started, although Jing Tian in this world studied acting honestly in school for three years because of Wang Hao's advice, his acting skills were still crushed compared to Zhang Hanyu and Liu Huohua.

Sometimes, it's not just her scenes with these two people, but even some monologues, Jing Tian often needs to shoot many times, and even so it is often difficult to meet Wang Hao's requirements.

After all, as the heroine, she often needs to act out the fear of facing the deep space alone, and at the same time be contagious, which is indeed extremely difficult for Jing Tian.

So when her role increased, her shortcomings in acting were exposed, which made many people in the crew have a worse impression of her.

What's the point of being pretty? Her acting skills are still terrible.

In other words, Wang Hao's prestige is high enough and the crew's management is formal enough, otherwise who knows how many people would say weird things about her behind her back.

Although Jing Tian usually behaves carefree, this girl is not stupid and naturally noticed this. For this reason, she sometimes goes to Wang Hao to complain at night.

Wang Hao also specially arranged an acting teacher for her, who would give her intensive training when she had no acting jobs.

But the effect is just so-so.

Fortunately, people's impression of her has improved a lot now.

Although Jing Tian's acting skills are average, she is willing to endure hardships.

As a space disaster film, it is naturally impossible for "Gravity" to be shot in real space like Wang Hao's previous film "Inception".

Therefore, most of the filming of this movie was completed in the 10,000-square-meter studio of [Oriental Galaxy Movie Metropolis].

In order to make this movie well, Galaxy Pictures started preparation work as early as last year, in May and June 2011.

Polishing the script, training the actors, and making dynamic storyboards based on the script are only a small part of the preparation work.

Most of the crew's energy was focused on preparing special effects.

As mentioned before, as a space disaster film, "Gravity" cannot be shot realistically, so the film will use a lot of computer special effects, and 3D special effects, because "Gravity" is a 3D movie.

Needless to say, the ground part is of course the main part, and the space scenes are divided into inside and outside the cabin.

The scenes inside the space capsule also had to show the astronauts' feeling of weightlessness in space.

So how do you capture this feeling of zero gravity?
Among the previous space movies that have dealt with zero gravity, the most famous one should be "Apollo 13". They used a "vomit comet", which is an aircraft that suddenly dives down from a high altitude to simulate a free fall. The astronauts will feel the nausea of ​​weightlessness.

Jing Tian and his classmates had personally experienced this method during the training in those few months.

However, this method is not suitable for the shooting of this movie. At this time, Wang Hao and others remembered their previous movie "Inception".

In that movie, Wang Hao and his team also shot scenes of weightlessness, which not only had a good effect, but also helped them summarize and accumulate a lot of experience.

So the crew of "Gravity" took the initiative to seek help from the aerospace department and borrowed six expert professors in the aerospace field from them to form a scientific and technological guidance team.

Under the guidance of these experts and with the strong support of the aerospace department, the "Gravity" crew created a very realistic one-to-one model of the spacecraft and the Tiangong space station.

There are interior and exterior views.

Because of this matter, Wang Hao personally consulted the leaders of the relevant departments in person.

After all, his movie will be released worldwide, and it would be bad if the design of these models involved some state secrets.

Fortunately, after several meetings, the aerospace department indicated that the problem was not serious, and Wang Hao and his colleagues finally felt relieved.

However, if you want to film the state of weightlessness, it is not enough to just build a model of the interior of the space capsule. During the filming process, the actors have to be suspended on wires so that they can float forward in the space capsule.

But this way of filming is not so easy.

Because the area inside the space capsule is very small, and there are various instruments, equipment and control panels.

Even though the props team had used soft materials for all exposed equipment when building the model, several actors were often bumped and covered in bruises when hanging on wires inside the space capsule.

Jing Tian suffered a lot in this matter.

But in this situation, she also showed great strength and did all the filming tasks herself. She was not like those popular stars in later generations who either used a stand-in or had to rush to the hospital for any minor injuries.

It is precisely because of this dedication that Jing Tian has gained everyone's respect.

After all, given her relationship with Wang Hao and the fact that she is a delicate girl, she can definitely get more care.

But she didn't ask for more privileges, which was remarkable. "Okay!"

Wang Hao smeared medicated oil on the last bruise on Jing Tian's body, wiped his hands, and was about to call her to get up, but he found that the girl was lying on the bed with her eyes slightly closed. She was snoring softly and had fallen asleep.

"This girl."

Wang Hao looked at Jing Tian who was sleeping soundly, shook his head helplessly, covered her with the quilt beside him, then went to the computer and continued to watch the film materials shot today.

The next day, Jing Tian woke up from the bed with sore body. Although it was difficult, she still forced herself to wash up, because she still had a filming mission today.

Wang Hao woke up earlier than her. He originally wanted to suggest that she could move today's filming task to the afternoon. However, when the words came to his lips, he looked at her stubborn look and finally did not say them.

After packing up and having dinner, Wang Hao and Jing Tian came to the crew early.

This morning, we were still filming scenes related to Jing Tian. This time, she needed to cooperate with Zhang Hanyu and Liu Huohua to escape from the space station that was about to be destroyed.

Jing Tian was wearing a small vest on her upper body and boxer tight safety pants on her lower body, revealing a pair of white and muscular thighs.

Yes, as an actress who has been practicing ballet since childhood, the muscles on Jing Tian’s legs are still very obvious.

This makes her look energetic and charming in front of the camera, which is completely different from the feeling given by those ordinary female stars with chopstick legs.

Of course, she couldn't float in the space capsule with just this outfit. Like Zhang Hanyu and Liu Huohua, she had to tie wires to her body.

These wires are usually tied around the waists and backs of the three people. At the same time, their wrists and ankles are also tied with green belts, which are also tied with wires.

These countless steel wires, together with the pulley tracks in the space capsule, are like a giant spider hunting web, allowing the three actors to float in the space capsule.

And this is not the end yet. It is not enough for Jing Tian and the others to just hang in the air.

The content of this scene is actually very simple. Due to the attack of metal debris in space, China's space station has already had some problems. Jing Tian and captain Zhang Hanyu, who have just escaped into the space station, need to quickly check the situation in the space station and search for possible survivors.

For this shot of quickly inspecting the space station, Jing Tian and Zhang Hanyu had to shuttle back and forth in the space capsule, one after the other. Their movements were very flexible and natural, just like fish swimming in the water.

No, it should be easier than a fish swimming in the water.

Because according to experts from the aerospace department, astronauts are in a state of weightlessness in the space capsule, and they do not need to use any muscles in their entire body.

This caused a problem during the filming process. If they relied on wires to pull them forward, Jing Tian and the other person would have to use their muscles to adjust their center of gravity to ensure that the movement trajectory of the entire person in the space capsule was consistent with the design in the 3D storyboard.

Wang Hao and his team had seen the effect of doing this through the camera before, and the muscle tension in Jing Tian's body could be clearly seen on the monitor.

Although this muscle tension is not obvious, and the audience may not know what an astronaut's muscles look like in space, for the "Gravity" crew that strives for perfection, and for Galaxy Pictures, which has basically completed the construction of the film industrialization system, such flaws are not allowed.

The progress of the film and television industry is itself reflected in the discovery and overcoming of these small flaws.

Fortunately, Wang Hao and his team have another powerful weapon, which comes from the experience of the previous movie. Under the control of mechanical gears, motors and external frames, the space capsule model of "Gravity" can also rotate 360 ​​degrees like the weightless corridor in "Inception".

As a result, the special effects director and photography director of "Gravity" came up with a bold plan, which was to let Jing Tian and Zhang Hanyu be suspended by wires and fixed still, and then let the space capsule model complete the backward movement and rotation.

After all, in physics, "motion is absolute and stillness is relative", and whether an object moves or not often depends on the reference object it chooses.

The images captured by the camera are the same whether the actor is standing still and the space capsule model outside is moving, or the space capsule model is stationary and the actor is moving inside it.

One advantage of adopting this model is that the actors will suffer less.

Moreover, compared to the uncontrollable nature of moving the actors by pulling wires, the movement rate of the space capsule model can be obviously better controlled by having the actors suspended in place to pose and then using motors to control the model.

Based on this shooting concept, the special effects department even developed a complete set of programs to control this movement, making it safer and more reliable.

This zero-gravity solution, which includes a movable space capsule, wire hoisting and control system, is also jokingly called "the ultimate zero-gravity solution" by the special effects department.

The "puppet show device" has even been applied for a global patent.

However, even with a "puppet show device", various situations will always arise during the actual shooting process, requiring the device and the actors to work together.

Jing Tian and his team were shooting this scene yesterday afternoon. After working for a long time, they didn't get a satisfactory result and ended up getting bruised all over. So they had to shoot this scene again this morning.

Fortunately, with yesterday's attempt, Jing Tian and Zhang Hanyu were obviously more adaptable and capable today. After trying 6 times, they finally shot a set of long shots that satisfied Wang Hao.

"Okay, pass!"

Watching the first meeting of Jing Tian, ​​Zhang Hanyu and Liu Huohua on the monitor, Wang Hao shouted into the intercom, and everyone at the filming site breathed a sigh of relief and quickly let down Jing Tian and the other two who had been hanging for several hours.

The time given to the three of them to rest was however not long.

After recovering less than 80% of their strength, they were hung up again and began filming the next scene after the three of them met.

Without the long lens of weightless movement, this shoot was much easier, and we finally finished the shoot before lunch.

"Eat! Eat!"

"What are you having for lunch today?"

"You didn't know to check the packages in the APP. The crew should have ordered package D today."

The crew members of "Gravity" packed up their equipment and then gathered in twos and threes to the cafeteria next to the studio. They chatted while swiping their ID cards to collect their lunch boxes.

The reason why we need to swipe the ID card is not because the crew is stingy and limits it to one per person.

When ordering lunch boxes, the crew will reserve a few extra ones. Staff members with big appetites can just finish their meal and get another box. The crew also has various energy-replenishing items available.

The main purpose of swiping the ID card is to prevent people from wasting food. Taking only as much as you can eat and wasting food are low-quality behaviors that are not allowed in the crew of Galaxy Pictures.

Even director Wang Hao is no exception to this.

(End of this chapter)