The handheld machine had never seen Zhang Ran give such a hurry to order. She was shocked and quickly moved the camera as Zhang Ran asked, leaving the sun at 135 degrees on the axis.

"Open the camera, take a picture and see the effect." Anyway, it's a digital camera, and there is no problem of wasting film. Zhang Ran directly ordered the handheld to turn on. However, after the handheld was turned on, he saw Zheng Xiaoshuang and Qin Junjie looking at him with confusion and smiled: "You two little guys continue to play with you."

Zheng Xiaoshuang and Qin Junjie said "oh" and started playing on their own. After shooting for more than ten days, they were used to facing the camera.

Zhang Ran stared at the monitor's screen for a few seconds, looked up and said, "Handle-hand machine, lower the angle of the camera, shoot the sun into the frame, I'll take a look."

When everyone in the photography team heard this, they were stunned. This would lead to serious overexposure. Is it a taboo in making movies?

Zhao Fei knew that Zhang Ran’s photography and lighting were very high, and it was impossible not to know such common sense issues. He must have considered himself. He rushed to the handheld machine and signaled: “Why are you standing there? Didn’t you hear it?”

Movies involve a conceptual tolerance, which is the range of brightness contrast in the scene that film can correctly accommodate. Films that can correctly record scenes with large brightness contrast are called films with large tolerance, and vice versa. Of course, digital cameras also have this concept. Generally speaking, digital cameras have higher tolerance than films.

In normal circumstances, the tolerance of both film and digital cameras is not as good as that of human eyes. Assuming that the brightness range that a person can see is 0 to 100, then the tolerance of film is 30 to 70, and the digital camera should be slightly higher. When shooting a movie, if the brightness of the light is 0 to 30, the picture will be black; if the brightness of the light is 70 to 100, the picture will be pure white.

If the brightness is too high, the picture taken will turn white, which is called overexposure; if the brightness is insufficient, the picture will easily form black blocks and stick together, which is called dead black. Overexposure and dead black are the two taboos in making movies.

When filming movies, the lighting meter will use a light meter to measure the brightness of the light to keep the light at the most appropriate brightness. At the shooting site, there are many lights and one by one, so the light is laid out very slowly.

After waiting for the camera to take a photo for two minutes, Zhang Ran asked the handheld machine to turn off the machine, sat in front of the monitor and slowly checked the playback. Ning Hao and the others surrounded him, and Zhao Fei also walked over, and everyone wanted to know what Zhang Ran wanted to take.

Two minutes were very short, and it passed in a blink of an eye. Zhang Ran didn't say anything and started to play it again.

Everyone thought the picture I took just now was very beautiful. The two children, especially Zheng Xiaoshuang, were shining with golden light on her side face, and her young face was full of vitality.

In fact, what Zhang Ran was considering was not the issue of beautiful pictures, but the backlight seemed to convey a special symbolic meaning, symbolizing the era of the special envoy and the actual dilemma of the characters.

While Zhang Ran was checking the monitor screen, countless movie scenes flashed through his mind, including the storyboard of "The Aviator" and the shots of Zhang Ran himself, but more of the film shots of other directors were shot backlight and overexposure.

The picture was played over and over again, and Zhang Ran was still replaying. Everyone felt strange and didn't know what Zhang Ran was watching. However, they saw Zhang Ran frowning slightly and seemed to be thinking about something, and they didn't dare to ask if they were afraid of disturbing his thinking.

At this time, Zhang Ran raised his head and surrounded him. Seeing that everyone was looking at him with a strange look, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief: "I won't take photos for the time being. I now have some inspiration and need to sort out my thinking."

Everyone is engaged in art and knows how important inspiration is to a creator. They pack up their things silently and leave the scene.

After everyone left, Zhang Ran looked at the sun in the sky for a while, and lowered his head to ponder. Everyone has this thing, but many people just flashed by inspiration. Only a very few people can calm themselves down after the inspiration flashes, stabilize the inspiration, and then follow that flash, and extract the whole picture of it. This is how many awesome works come from.

Zhang Ran now has inspiration. He knows that if he puts in his movies, his movie will be raised to a higher level and will be more charming. But how to do it and how to integrate it is really a difficult problem. He must think about it carefully. If it is not handled well, it will be a disaster for the whole movie.

It was not until the night fell that Zhang Ran returned to the crew. However, the first thing he did after returning to the crew was to announce a day off tomorrow, and he needed to think about it carefully.

After saying that, Zhang Ran returned to his room and told Zhang Jingchu that he was going to Xiangshan and might be staying on the mountain for one day tomorrow. Zhang Jingchu wanted to accompany Zhang Ran, but Zhang Ran did not agree. He needed to think quietly alone.

Zhang Ran drove to Xiangshan Hotel to stay, got up at 5 o'clock the next morning, climbed to the top of the mountain, and waited to watch the sunrise.

By six o'clock, there was a light in the sky. The light first became a ray, and then gradually became brighter, and the clouds in the sky were dyed golden.

Not long after coming, a fireball emitting a thousand-foot light slowly revealed a trace, like a shy girl with a gauze on her face. A breeze blew by, blowing off the gauze on the girl's face, revealing her beautiful face. The bright red sun finally jumped out of the sea of ​​clouds and emitted a glimmer of light.

Zhang Ran's heart was bright. The sun was a very symbolic thing. The sunlight at different time periods had different characteristics. These could be used in movies.

Zhang Ran was watching the sun on the mountain while thinking about the scene of his movies, and waited until the sunset before going down the mountain. Through the observation and thinking of this day, he knew what he wanted and how to shoot his next movie.

Back at the hotel where the crew is located, Zhang Ran convened a meeting between the director and the photography team. Seeing everyone looking at him with anticipation, he nodded with a smile: "I found what I want." However, his next words made everyone stunned: "So, all the things we photographed these days are invalid, and we will start all over again!"

After hearing this, the people present thought of a sentence in their hearts. It's so willful. They have been filming for more than ten days. Seeing that some of the young man's scenes are about to be finished, they are now reshooting them all.

Zhao Fei was a little surprised. The shots taken these days were great. Just reshoot and part of them were enough. Why did they all reshoot? He asked: "I don't know what the effect you want?"

Others were also very curious about this. What effect Zhang Ran wanted was to reshoot all the shots. The shots taken these days were obviously great.

Zhang Ran smiled and said, "The movie will be overexposed, and the lighting will be mainly backlight."

Backlight shooting is very difficult and light is very difficult to deal with, so that's fine, but Zhang Ran still wants a large number of overexposure shots, which is simply crazy. Huang Lei shouted directly: "Can the scenes of that movie still be watched?"

It is true that it is taboo to overexpose and die-hard movies, but it is not absolute. It can be turned into a highly symbolic artistic technique in the hands of an excellent director. In the movie "Love Letter", the man Fujiiki stood at the window to read a book and blew up the white curtains of the library. Shunji Iwai intentionally made the camera slightly overexposure, creating a dreamlike beauty; in "Sunny Days", Jiang Wen is often overexposure on a large scale, and the burning sensation of the sun is coming, which is very consistent with the theme of the movie.

Zhang Ran smiled and began to state his reasons: "Our movie has three periods. 78 is the youth, the most beautiful part of Liu Jiao's memory, and the vague part, and this period is quite special; so the pictures in this period should be overexposed, giving the picture a sense of hazy and dreamy. At the same time, the picture is overexposed and the picture is prone to death black in the backlight. The double normal state of overexposed and death black in the same way symbolizes the mental state of people in that era. Qiao Zhengfei resisted fate under a dual environment. 92 years

There is a major event in the speech on the Southern Tour. Economic development is the theme of the times. Qiao Zhengfei is pursuing his dream at this time, which is completely against the times. Therefore, this period should not only be overexposed, but also use light to focus on backlight, so as to highlight the characters' real dilemma; 1997 is the closest day to us, symbolizing the return. This part of backlight needs to be reduced, and the dream and burrs will disappear. At the end of the movie, Qiao Zhengfei flew into the sky and flew towards the sun. Under the backlight, the whole plane condensed into a kind of black, as majestic as fire under the sky!"

Huang Lei was stunned when he heard this. He really wanted to knock Zhang Ran's head open to see what was inside. This guy really had a lot of ideas.

Ning Hao is from the photography department. Before studying movies, he studied art and had a deep understanding of light and shadow and pictures. After listening to Zhang Ran’s description, he rubbed his hands with excitement: “Great! Director, what are you waiting for? Let’s do it!”

Ding Sheng was also very excited: "Director, let's shoot it quickly!"

Zhao Fei said with emotion: "I basically know our domestic directors. There are only two people who are particularly creative in the camera, one is Zhang Yimou and the other is Jiang Wen. Your camera is more creative than them. Maybe there is really a master in China, and we in China!"

The art of film, traces its roots, is actually the camera. The greatness of many great movies is not just about what it reflects, expresses, or how many tears it urges to shed, but about the continuous exploration and development of the camera's expressiveness and innovation based on inheriting traditions.

Zhang Ran shook his head: "Forget it, I don't want to be a master, and I don't have that ability. I just want to make movies that I like and stories that I like." As he said, he looked at everyone and said: "Let's stop talking nonsense. Let's discuss the issue of using up and then draw the storyboard again."

Huang Lei raised his own question: "The storyboard is time-consuming. If you repaint all of it, it will take at least one or two months, right?"

"It won't take that long!" After saying that, Zhang Ran took out a piece of paper, brushed a few strokes and drew a lens, then marked out the lights, camera positions, movements and other information, and pushed them in front of Huang Le, "It will take not long to draw like this!"

"This is OK!" Huang Lei sprayed directly. Zhang Ran drew a round head and a vertical line. Isn't this too simple?

Zhang Ran laughed and said, "You have never seen the storyboard of Jiang Wen's "Sunny Days". He is not as good as this one. Just be able to understand the meaning."

In the next few days, the entire crew was in a state of shutdown. Zhang Ran and the crew's main creators worked hard to formulate a new lighting plan. For this movie, lighting effects are extremely important. Light effects must be drawn and the lighting effects sketches can be quickly put into place when filming.

That night, Zhang Ran was woken up by the phone. While wearing his pants, he muttered, "What a mess!" He looked at the time at 2 a.m., and then he realized that he had just slept for half an hour and was woken up by the phone.

Zhang Jingchu asked, "What happened?"
Chapter completed!