Back in the studio in Los Angeles, the shooting was completely centered around Superman played by Chris Evans. In all previous shootings, Superman did not have a red cape. Such a realistic shooting of a cloak would cause a lot of trouble. Murphy simply asked the special effects team to add it in the post-production process.

Moreover, the video will explain why Superman needs such a wide red cloak, not for fitting, but for assisting balance during flight.

Almost all the shooting in the studio were placed in front of the green screen. Chris Evans often couldn't understand Murphy's specific intention to let him do some movements, but Murphy didn't need him to understand. As long as he, the director and the special effects artists from the Light and Magic work, it would be enough.

The shots can be said to be very, very rough first-hand products, with no completion rate even 10%, and the remaining 90% are basically completed by post-production special effects.

This is the movie Murphy has used the most digital technology and CGI special effects so far.

During the entire December filming, Murphy led the crew's shooting in the morning and afternoon, and stayed with Industrial Light and Magic's special effects engineers before twelve o'clock in the evening. Although he did not understand the specific content of CGI special effects and digital technology, the two sides could communicate in time so that they could achieve the results he wanted in the shortest time.

It is not easy to turn the shots in front of the green screen into the final effect of the movie.

In the action scene, Murphy gave up the fast and slow scenes of filming "Deadpool" and adopted a fight of speed. At the same time, he required the Industrial Light and Magic team to not be able to see clearly when adding special effects, and every action and editing must be clearly visible.

This is never easy to do, Murphy and the action director team have specially designed the action shooting.

Especially the ending battle scenes filmed in front of the green screen, after Gal Gadot joined, with the previous Chris Evans and the Russian actor who captured the villain Daboss, it turned into a veritable chaos.

Often in this kind of chaos, Hollywood will make the characters into...different colors in order to make the audience differentiate each character, it sounds very mentally retarded, right? But it is indeed very useful, such as "Transformers" and "Avengers" that Murphy has watched many times.

The Autobots in "Transformers" are colorful, while the Decepticons are all dark metallic. The same setting is also in "Avengers". Rather than shaping the characters, it is better to say that this is lazy.

In "Man of Steel", although Superman's clothes are different from villains, their colors are all dark. In the quick fight, the audience can distinguish them at a glance without visual illusion. In fact, this situation has not happened in the completed shots. The following shots used by Murphy are indispensable.

From the start of the computer to now, Murphy has hardly used aerial photography, as well as standard shooting methods such as hand-port photography and shoulder-mounted photography. He wants extremely smooth lenses rather than excessively shaking pictures, so he uses the most guide rails and Stenikon follow-ups, which can not only cut mirrors frequently during post-production, but also brings a stable selection of close-up photography.

Finally, a large amount of smooth lens image information can be used to form a macro perspective of the fight scene, starting from small things, and developing the level of the entire battle scene.

Another major feature of Murphy's shooting is that it allows Felix Raschel to frequently use large zoom lenses to automatically zoom. The basic principle of this technique is that large zoom lenses are conveniently switched before large panoramic and close-ups. This is used a lot in news events and will feel very present.

This shooting technique can significantly increase the realistic sense of the film.

In Murphy's words, "The technique in "Body of Steel" is a rigorous breaking news live reporting mode. It is necessary to show the overall situation with a wide angle and quickly push the highlights of the main characters in the news. The action scenes of the whole film must be filled with this way."

He came up with all the ways to pull "Superman", a seriously unreliable comic hero, off the altar and let him land. He was very thoughtful.

Since the film was about to be released in the summer next year, it was quite nervous for special effects production. After Murphy finished shooting the action scene of the ending war, he suspended the shooting work, and instead, together with Jody Griffith, and the Industrial Light and Magic special effects group, took the lead in completing the early addition of special effects for this part of the scene.

After adding special effects, the completion of these shots reached 60% to 70%, but it is still quite far from being completely completed. As long as anyone who has a little knowledge of the special effects production is clear, the first 80% of the special effects production will only consume 20% of the time and funds, while the remaining 20% ​​will use the remaining 80%!

Many small investments and five-cent special effects videos often complete the first 80% of the previous one, and ignore the remaining 20%, the audience will think that the special effects are very poor.

The final battle is completed by 60% to 70%, which doesn't look very good either. Moreover, some people at Warner Bros. have complained that the action design does not conform to the action model developed by North America and Hollywood based on kung fu, and will deviate from the audience's basic aesthetics.

In their eyes, the ending battle eliminated the scenes of Wonder Woman, and it was just a collision. It might seem like this.

But Murphy is in power and the support of the Warner Bros. board of directors has insisted on his own approach.

Just like when it was originally designed, for characters like Superman, letting him play fancy fights is simply a disgrace to the audience's IQ and focus on demonstrating destructive power. Murphy will also add some appropriate tricks appropriately.

The action scenes set by Murphy are criticized by Warner and the destructive power of Superman and Wonder Woman.

Although the completion of this section of the shot is relatively low, the amazing destructive power has been shown, which is not only very sensuous and visually serious, but actually it is also true.

For example, the Wayne Group's building in the Metropolitan will collapse like paper in the fight between Superman and the villain, and a large number of buildings will be destroyed by three amazingly capable characters.

This is the effect Murphy deliberately pursues. He wants the action scenes of "Man of Steel" to break the "moral bottom line" of Hollywood heroic movies in the past.

In the studio, several people sat together while they were having coffee during the break. Gal Gadot, who had just entered Hollywood, asked curiously, "The action scenes of mainstream commercial films in Hollywood still have a moral bottom line? Is this true?"

"Yes," replied Nicholas Cage, who looks pretty, "I can tell you responsibly that this is true! Even the R-level action movies I have shot in the past have a moral bottom line for action scenes."

Chris Evans knew that Nicholas Cage knew much more about this circle than they did, and asked, "Can you tell me in detail?"

"For example..." Nicholas Cage thought for a while and gestured, "Everyone recalls the destruction shots in many mainstream big-scale movies. Although they are full of momentum, there are few direct victimization shots about innocent people. The ground of the bombed plane must be sea or wasteland. The people in distress will definitely be rescued. The target of the destruction must not indicate the existence of someone."

Gal Gadot has seen a limited number of movies, and I am still recalling it. Chris Evans next to me has already started nodding.

Nicholas Cage continued, “These can be called the moral bottom line of action scenes, but our videos…”

Speaking of this, he shook his head, "Murphyri broke all of this."

In the script, a large number of innocent people were clearly written.

Gal Gadot sighed in a low voice. Just as he was about to say something, an assistant director suddenly came over to inform me that due to the latest problems Murphy encountered when he went to the special effects department to communicate with Industrial Light and Magic, today's shooting ended here and they could get off work.

When he went to the makeup trailer to change his clothes, Gal Gadot sent Murphy a text message, and the reply he received was asking her not to wait at night, and he didn't know when he could go back.

Gal Gadot had to leave Warner Studio first. She knew that if Murphy went to the special effects department, she would be very busy tonight.

When Murphy went to communicate with the special effects department, he thought of a new problem. There are many special effects shots in "Man of Steel", but there must be a certain degree of restraint when producing and using it, and it cannot be turned into a Michael Bay-style naked show-off.

It’s not that this kind of show-off is not good, but that the show-off is inconsistent with the theme and atmosphere of the film.

Most commercial directors in Hollywood have a hobby of showing off their skills. Murphy thinks that many directors are like this. Showing off skills has a growth process, just like when you have no money, you expect to spend money, but suddenly you really have money. You have to have a good time, well... it's the mentality of a nouveau riche.

In terms of special effects, it is to make some special effects that can be "visible" by the audience or the owner of the film company. Look... I have indeed spent my money on the place. When they have almost finished playing, they will start to learn how to use the special effects well.

Those playboys who were "rich" from the beginning did not have this process, such as Spielberg and a few other directors.

The special effects of "Body of Steel" can be divided into biological effects targeting vitality and non-biological effects as background props.

In terms of non-biological special effects, Murphy does not intend to use any breakthrough technology. It is basically a general rigid body collision, particle system, synthesis, etc.

However, in all highly-operated action scenes, these special effects basically have little room to display. Whether it is Superman or Wonder Woman, the speed is too fast. In addition, Murphy does not intend to use high-speed slow motion, the picture will run with Superman at high speed.

This is a huge difference from previous action movie special effects. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!