"The Chinese-language lineup, "Never End" is a collection of all-stars, Liu Dehua, Zhang Ziyi, Huang Xiaoming, Liu Jialing, Huang Qiusheng, Wu Zhenyu, and the best actors and actresses!"

"Wan Xiaohu brought Chinese-speaking stars to the science fiction classics!"

"On April 28, the $20 million science fiction movie "Never End" co-produced by Sasha Entertainment and Jiahe Entertainment was held in the Magic City, with all the starring actors. This is the tenth film shot by Wan Xiaohu and the third science fiction film. At the opening ceremony, Chen Liangyu, Secretary of the Magic City Municipal Party Committee, expressed his welcome on behalf of the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government..."

Chen Liangyu was about to attend the opening ceremony, but Wan Xiaohu couldn't stop him. However, Wan Xiaohu still kept a certain distance from Chen Liangyu. The secretary was about to finish his life. In memory, something happened to Chen Liangyu in 2006 this year. Then after a game, Mr. Xi's short term was coming.

Of course, Wan Xiaohu did not intend to interfere with these political matters.

He made a movie with peace of mind.

"Never End" is called a science fiction film. In fact, like "Butterfly Effect" and "Source Code", there are almost no special effects shots. They are story-based science fiction films, not science fiction films on scenes. However, it does not mean that "Never End" does not pursue pictures.

On the contrary, Wan Xiaohu was very pursuing the scenes of this movie, and invited the famous Hollywood photographer, Daris Kangji, who filmed "The Seven Deadly Sins".

"Darris, before shooting, I need to explain my camera requirements to you."

"Please say it."

Wan Xiaohu opened the storyboard script and introduced in detail: "The Never End does not require too many special effects. In fact, I prepared a special effects lens, which is the CG special effects that swooped down from the building. Therefore, the use of photography will be the focus of whether the movie can meet the requirements. I hope to pay attention to the following aspects."

"First, I hope to change the light and dark colors in terms of colors. This effect is reflected in the hero's drug use and not taking drugs. When taking drugs, I need to be bright and natural yellow. The color cannot be too thick. It should just show the spirit of the entire atmosphere. When not taking drugs, I will naturally be dead and the color is unnatural dark."

"The second one is the transformation of wide-angle scenes. That is to say, I hope the world view in the hero's eyes will be an abnormal gradation. For example, when shooting the front, he is back to the door and is a bedroom, but when turning to the front, the lens should be seamlessly turned into a bridge."

"The third one is the distorted mirror of the fish-eye lens, which is a manifestation after taking drugs. The perspective must be free of blind spots and all-round 360 degrees must be recorded. On a single screen, it reflects the power of the drug effect."

"The fourth one is to expose multiple times. Let multiple male protagonists appear on the screen, doing various different actions, and there are many such shots."

"The last, and most important and troublesome thing is the use of Zoom-in lenses. I need to make two sections, one is the 85-second downhill of the Oriental Pearl Tower, and then cross the car, street and subway of the Magic City to reach the hero's home. The other section is in the middle, and the side effects of taking drugs are from the nightclub to the Huangpu Bridge."

After hearing Wan Xiaohu's words, Daris Kangji was surprised and said, "Wow, this is a big project. If we do it all, we will play the camera movements all over, but I like this kind of challenge."

The movie cameras are nothing more than pushing, pulling, shaking, moving, following and throwing, but these simple methods can create classic shots of being coquettish. The bullet time that was promoted in "The Matrix" was frozen in "The Source Code" by time.

This time, Wan Xiaohu has to challenge more lens aesthetics.

Changes in color light and darkness, lens capacity, fantasy scene changes, multiple image superposition, and Zoom-in lenses that are destined to make people excited.

The so-called Zoom-in is an English word, meaning infinite enlargement. The Zoom-in lens is an ultra-long follower lens, or infinite zoom. Its specific display method is like a camera constantly moving forward, and it can pass through walls and iron, passing through various things without being blocked.

In "Never End", Wan Xiaohu's design is that the male protagonist plans to jump off the building on the Oriental Pearl, and then first connects a special effect of falling from the building, and then starts to continue to advance according to the street, crossing the car, crossing pedestrians, crossing the underground tunnel, and directly pushing the shot of a few kilometers of length.

The effect is definitely at a level that is extremely exciting.

It is very difficult to shoot such a lens because it involves perfect zoom, superimposing the image without losing the quality of the picture. How to make a focal length requires a lot of experiments.

"Tiger, I think everything else is easy to do, but this Zoom-in may require a lot of work." The so-called old and well-known photographer of Daris Kangji can easily determine what is simple and what is difficult.

"It is precisely because it is not easy that I want to invite you to take charge of the camera. I believe you will do all this well."

"OK, I'll conquer it."

Daris Kangji's method of conquering is very simple, which is to work overtime to experiment every day after work.

The difficulty of Zoom-in lenses is actually not very big, but it is difficult for non-master photographers to accurately understand the zoom picture and speed. Deres Kangji and his team work overtime to study for two hours every day. Finally, they found that using the RED-Camera shooting system with three focal lengths to shoot 4K resolution lens images, which can be well combined and inlaid.

The environment captured by the RED-Camera system can make the picture in the center of the telephoto lens very clear. There is no need to move the camera when shooting. You only need to control the focal length of the telephoto lens, and then combine many lenses together by zooming the picture.

During editing, the second scene should be added when the first scene is pushed to the end, and so on. Because the telephoto lens is used for shooting, there is no problem of picture quality loss.

"This is a Zoom-in lens we made in the Final-Cut-Pro software environment based on the Nuke synthesizer. Do you see if the effect is still satisfactory?"

Final-Cut-Pro is a professional video nonlinear editing software developed by Google. Nonlinear editing is to edit pictures online, rather than traditional film editing. Now that the times are developing, high-definition digital cameras have gradually replaced the status of film photography.

Of course, in order to pursue feelings, Wan Xiaohu only uses high-definition cameras for some of the lenses, and most of them use film.

Nuke is a digital node synthesis software developed by The-Foundry. Most movies use Nuke to synthesize images, such as "The Day After", "The Extreme Agent", "Titanic", "The True Lies", "X-Men", "King Kong", etc.

As the shooting entered mid-May, the first set of Zoom-in shots was tinkered with by Deres and his team. Through the screening, Wan Xiaohu watched back and forth, and the effect was very good, without much loss of the picture. The connection was seamless.

"It's very good, what I want is this effect. I think Davis, we should go into the official shot."

"Of course, we have started to arrange the Zoom-in lenses before the filming is finished."

After solving the camera problem, Wan Xiaohu became more focused on the actor's role.

Every day, I work overtime to film.

In private, he can call the actors brothers, but when he works, he just refuses to recognize his relatives.

"Andy Lau, this shot is not good. Do it again."

"What's wrong with Andy Lau, you're in no state at all."

"Liu Dehua. Are you a pig? You can't even show this expression! Kakaka, start again!"

This is a scene of Wang Jun being shot and killed. After Li Xiang called the police, he began to search for NZT-48 in Wang Jun's house. Wan Xiaohu hoped that Liu Dehua could perform a mixed emotions such as panic, excitement, excitement and anxiety, but it was obvious that Liu Dehua's expression was unqualified.

Liu Dehua was a little embarrassed. In terms of age, he was a bigger than Wan Xiaohu. In terms of qualifications, he was also a veteran star in the Chinese film industry. When it comes to any crew, the director had to accommodate him. However, when it comes to Wan Xiaohu, his identity was useless. All Chinese celebrities can't find a few people who can compete in front of Wan Xiaohu.

Besides, Liu Dehua and Wan Xiaohu are privately good friends.

"Director, I think I should be able to do it again."

"Are you in a state? Can you guarantee that you can pass next time? Nothing can be guaranteed. Why do you say that you can do it! Don't talk nonsense, give you ten minutes to reflect, and think carefully in front of the mirror to think about how to act. After ten minutes, you will be able to take a meal without finishing the filming!"

Wan Xiaohu was like a tyrant, without any reason at all, and gave a death order.

He is the only person in the crew who can lose his temper loudly and can make trouble unreasonable.

Fortunately, he also has a director team, the deputy director who works in the acting skills of the actors, took Liu Dehua aside and started talking about the show.

Wan Xiaohu threw the storyboard script aside and shouted to the assistant: "Call Zhang Ziyi and shoot her scene tomorrow. Don't go to any advertisements today. Give me enough energy. If you can't shoot well, you will feel uncomfortable when she is uncomfortable!"

"OK."

"I'll inform you again. Starting today, reporters will be prohibited from interviewing! It's annoying all day long, and I'll leave me in seclusion and filming in seclusion. I'll show you your acting skills 100%. Do you understand!"

Several producers agreed timidly: "Okay, let's notify me now."

"Also, no news will be allowed to be posted to the public without my permission, do you know?"

"I know, I know."

The temper came and went quickly. After shouting for two times, Wan Xiaohu felt that his anger began to smoothly, so he picked up the storyboard script.

Start studying how to show the lens with one stroke.

Finally, I was slowing down until after 11 o'clock in the evening before I finished work.
Chapter completed!