In 2000, Sony issued a report that teenagers were more excited about speed than big-name stars, and they were the stars of 20 million clubs in real time. ●⌒,. After that, violent special effects such as speed in Hollywood movies became more and more important.

As a science fiction action movie, it is difficult to catch teenage audiences without a few minutes of car chase scenes, and they are the most important consumption force in the film market. Therefore, Zhang Ran naturally designed a ten-minute car chase scene for his movie, with various cool and difficult actions.

The car chase scene of the time warrior takes place at the beginning of the movie. After Jason saw "Maple Leaf Knife City" in his dream, he searched for information about the city online, but he did not find anything, so he sent a message for help online. Unexpectedly, when Jason was working in a car repair shop, a group of heavy-installed special police came to him. Jason did a lot of illegal things. When he saw the heavy-installed special police coming to his house, he immediately drove away, and the car chase scene began.

So far, the movie's car chase scene has been filmed for five days. What we are going to film now is the most difficult and most important scene in the speed scene, a scene of a car bomb.

Zhang Ziyi drove a motorcycle around Jason's front and fired a special device at Jason's car. The device flew to the bottom of Jason's car and was attached to the rear of the car's chassis. Zhang Ziyi pressed the starter, and the device attached to Jason's car's chassis suddenly detonated and the car was blown over.

The way to shoot a movie is very simple. Generally, a green slope is placed on the road where the car is driving. The car will turn over when it drives at high speed. When the green slope is removed in the later stage, and then special effects are added, the overturning shot is completed. However, Zhang Ran and the others have different shots. The car does not turn over, but turns from back to front.

In order to pursue the reality of the effect, Zhang Ran discussed with the special effects group and decided to do it. He installed explosives on the back of the car, and then detonated the explosives after the shooting began. He created the effect of an explosion in the undercarriage device and turning the car forward.

Filming road scenes, especially when it comes to crashing and blasting, it requires a road closure and application to the government. Application costs money, traffic control costs money, and the government sends police to carry out traffic control costs, and the cost is not cheap. Therefore, in American dramas and blockbusters, many people will start directly from the script and place chase scenes in deserts, wilderness, ports, abandoned industrial areas, etc. Of course, the rich crew can be willful. In order to shoot a fight on the highway, the Matrix 2 specially built a 1.5-mile highway.

The local government of Vancouver is very supportive of Zhang Ran and his team's filming work, and there are dedicated personnel to coordinate the work. Therefore, Zhang Ran and his team are relatively large, with nearly 900 people, which will bring a lot of consumption; and more than one-third of the crew's staff are hired from the local area, adding hundreds of jobs to the local area.

The crew's fireworks special effects are led by Jos Williams' team, who is responsible for saving the special effects team of Soldier Ryan and Brothers' company. Zhang Yimou also hired this team to shoot Jinling Thirteen Flowers. Of course, in addition to the Williams team, there are also several fireworks masters from Tiangong Chongcai, who were dug from the Bayi Factory. They helped Williams' team. Of course, learning is their most important task.

Zhang Ran once heard that when the assembly call was filmed, the fireworks team of the Bayi Factory worked with the Korean team, but at the critical moment, the Koreans did not allow them to watch it. They were fired out with gunpowder, which was very petty. When the shooting of the Thirteen Flowers of Jinling, Williams team did not retain it at all, and the people of the Bayi Factory learned a lot.

The process of shooting an explosion scene is no different from the scenes of shooting other scenes. The first step is to move. The stunt staff drove the car used for the shooting to the scene. A car with a very futuristic shape and looks particularly cool.

This is a future designed by the crew specially hired designers, and then asked related companies to make several car shells and put them on ordinary cars, so that a future car was born. In fact, most of the crash scenes in Hollywood blockbusters are real collisions, while most cars are scrapped and modified cars put on car shells.

When shooting a car with a blown-off lens, there must be an angle change. Reflect this process from different angles, so that it can give the audience the strongest visual impact. Zhang Ran’s idea is to first take a shot of the rear of the car from the side and back of the car; then take a shot of the car turning forward from the side of the car; and then take a shot of the car turning towards the picture. This can give the audience the greatest visual impact.

Of course, it is impossible to shoot one shot and blow a car when shooting this kind of lens. Although the crew prepared four vehicles in order to prevent it, it is impossible to mess around. Multi-camera shooting is the best choice. A camera is placed on the back, side, and front of each side, and shooting at the same time, and finally the three lenses are combined together.

Waiting for the camera to be selected, Zhang Ran patted Williams on the shoulder: "Joss, please."

Williams said confidently: "Sit in the director's chair and enjoy the fireworks show with peace of mind."

After almost an hour of arrangement, the car was installed with explosives, the cab was installed with dummies, and then the relevant personnel retreated to their respective positions. The first deputy director came over to tell Zhang Ran that it was possible to shoot officially.

Zhang Ran prayed in his heart and shouted loudly: "Start"

In the camera, the car slowly started forward. When the car drove to the predetermined position, Williams pressed the detonating device.

With a loud bang, a scarlet flame bloomed at the rear of the car, accompanied by a earth-shaking loud noise, the rear of the car soared in the air in the thick smoke, and then the whole car flipped forward.

The car's back hit the ground, like a tortoise turning over the ground, slid forward for several meters before stopping. The car's glass turned into pieces and was covered with the ground.

Looking at the explosion fire on the monitor, Zhang Ran's calm blood seemed to boil. It was so exciting, and he shouted loudly: "Stop."

The ready-made staff all took action, and the firefighters started extinguishing the fire with fire extinguishers. The director team and photographers came to the digital workstation of the dit to check the shooting effect.

The front shot is OK, but the effect on the side and back is not very ideal. Zhang Ran shook his head slightly and prepared four cars for the crew to shoot the drama, which can be completely reshooted.

Zhang Ran called Williams over, talked about his request, and talked about the problems that had just exploded. Then he said: "Let's do it again."

Williams nodded and said, "There must be no problem this time."

When Williams went to prepare for the explosion, Ding Sheng looked at the car parked in the predetermined location and said with some emotion: "A car is more than 100,000 US dollars. It's really exciting to just blow it up like this."

Zhang Ran smiled and said, "Filming is like doing business. The more you invest, the more you earn. Explosion and Speed ​​are common. American audiences like it, European audiences, and Chinese audiences like it, and this kind of movie market is big."

Ding Sheng looked at Zhang Ran and said, "Yes, everyone likes to watch Hollywood blockbusters. I used to think that the gap between us and Hollywood was big, but now I only know that the gap is bigger than I imagined after participating in this movie. This time I'm really eye-opening."

Zhang Ran laughed when he heard Ding Sheng say this. Isn’t you afraid of the gap? What you are afraid of is ignoring this gap.

Ning Hao wanted to film the sad man, but he couldn't be Zhang Ran's deputy director. Zhang Ran found the school and asked them to recommend students who were willing to shoot commercial films. The school recommended Ding Sheng in the further study class. Zhang Ran was quite satisfied with Ding Sheng. In his previous life, Ding Sheng filmed many action films, including the tough guys and the young soldiers, and is one of the few directors in China who can make genre films look good.

Zhang Ran believes that after his subtle influence, when Ding Sheng starts making movies, his level will definitely be higher than his previous life. What Chinese movies lack most is not money or technology, but directors who are willing to film genres with peace of mind. Zhang Ran is willing to lead a new director like Ding Sheng.

An hour later, the filming was ready. The assistant director came over to tell Zhang Ran that it was time to shoot.

The shooting starts over.

With a loud bang, the car turned over in the scarlet flames. It slid out of the ground for a long time before stopping.

This time, the cameras of the three cameras achieved the ideal effect. Zhang Ran stood up and shouted: "Okay, this camera has passed."

The explosion shot was very dangerous, and the crew members were heartbroken. Now when they heard this shot coming, everyone was relieved, and then there was warm applause from the whole scene.

Zhang Ran let out a long sigh and announced loudly: "This lens passes, the next one is ready."

The next shot is the scene where Zhang Ziyi arrested Jason. She walked to the car and took off her helmet. Announced to Jason that you have been arrested.

This shot is the official appearance of the heroine. She has been wearing a helmet before, and the audience knows that she is awesome. But they don’t know who she is.

In fact, the scenes of actors appearing specifically test the director's skills. Awesome directors generally do not directly show the protagonist, but often lay some preparations. After the protagonist appears, they must show the protagonist's personality, while a good director shows the protagonist's personality when narrating the plot. For example, when Schindler's list, the director takes pictures of the character's face, but takes special footage, opens the drawer to withdraw money, suits Nazi badges, etc., and the audience does not see Schindler's appearance until they enter the restaurant.

Zhang Ziyi plays the heroine through some previous car chase scenes, and has shown the character's decisive characteristics and laid the foundation. Now the character has officially shown her face.

The crew members moved the car that exploded, drove a complete car over, then flipped it over, and arranged it to look like the car was blown over.

The shooting begins soon.

In the smoke, Zhang Ziyi walked to the car, took off her helmet, revealing her cool face: "Jason, you have been arrested."

"Stop" Zhang Ran shouted, then called out the movie's footage to view it.

Zhang Ziyi's face is really photogenic, she doesn't pick the angle at all. If you have to tell the problem, it's that her breasts are too peaceful. Charlize Theron once said that the director of action movies doesn't like to ask her to film because her breasts are too small and she doesn't feel like she is surging when she runs. Zhang Ziyi's problem is even more serious than Theron

This shot can be passed, but Zhang Ran decided to have another one, stood up and shouted: "Ziyi, change the way of acting, let's have another one."

The shooting of the time and space warriors was going on in an orderly manner, and Zhang Ran spent all his energy on the shooting, and everything went very smoothly.

By early June, Zhang Ran suddenly received a call from a Japanese film dealer, and the explosion drummer was about to be released in Japan. They hoped that Zhang Ran and the starring actors of the movie would go to Japan to promote.

Zhang Ran did not agree. The time and space warriors are in the critical period of shooting, so they can't leave. Even if Zhang Ran wants to leave, the insurance company's people will not agree. They have been watching the shooting process and wish they could finish the film tomorrow. To be continued.
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