screen age

Chapter 91

"Chen Xi has jumped from TV dramas to movies again, and he is this kind of police and gangster who has almost all the space excavated... But I saw their production company, basically, there is only one deep space film and television... That is to say, it's just them If he invests by himself, it is very difficult to increase the investment, and it is impossible to make a blockbuster film... Then he can go that way? Playing with the plot... I think it is enough! TV dramas, after all, are not comparable to movies. After filming "Latent "Doesn't mean you can make a good TV series!"

The mainstream view is always skeptical, but there are also Chen Xi's first fans, and words of defense keep appearing.

Therefore, in this kind of collision, the attention of "Border Situation" has continued to increase.

When the original "Frontier Wind and Cloud" started filming, there was basically little attention, or even no one cared about it, but this version, at least at the beginning, attracted a little more attention.

... "Be more ruthless! It's too fake!!"

The filming scene of "Border Situation".

A scene is starting to shoot.Chen Xi was merciless.

In the filming of this scene, Sun Honglei was dead, Wang Luodan was buried alive, and the mud splashed on his face, but the cast and crew didn't dare to do anything cruel, so Chen Xi yelled directly.

These people were still a little hesitant, and Chen Xi said even louder, "Do you want me to come?"

Re-shooting, the dirt was rustling, and quite a lot of force was used, and Sun Honglei and Wang Luodan were beaten so loudly.

"Director Chen is really ruthless!" Some staff members were dumbfounded in their hearts. In front of them, Sun Honglei closed his eyes and his skin was being beaten. Will not work!

This is bad enough...

After "Latent", Chen Xi's confidence is greater, and she is also more powerful in many shots.

Movies and TV dramas are really different, there are so many differences, and it takes a lot of effort to grasp both.

"Front and Cloud" was shot with movie film. Normally, a film can be shot non-stop for about 4 minutes. However, Chen Xi and the others used Kodak VISION2100T color negative film. Equivalent to RMB 1800.

The duration of the movie is 97-105 minutes, that is to say, even in the most perfect state, 25 films are needed, costing more than 4 yuan, including the printing fee, the total cost is about 9 yuan.

But in the actual shooting, 1 minute is not wasted, unless the gods are used to shoot.

Shots are wasted, performances are wasted!
In the original version of a film like "Frontier Wind and Cloud", the total amount of material was 194 copies. That is to say, it cost more than 30 yuan to shoot this film alone, and at least 60 yuan including the printing fee.

The material and the finished product, with a clip added in the middle, suddenly everything is different.

Under Chen Xi's control, it is conservatively estimated that he also needs to shoot at least 80-100 material copies, which also means that the shooting fee is close to 20 yuan.

The great change in the film era began at this time, because the cost of film alone for a film is so high, plus cinemas, a box of film copies costs at least six or seven thousand, and the cost of screening is also so high... Film was eliminated by digital shooting. certain.

In 2010, Kodak, a major movie film company, was facing a dilemma. To protect Kodak, several Hollywood directors signed a support agreement... But under the tide of the era, many things are irreversible.

In 06, the situation was not so far, and film was still the only choice for most movies.

Moreover, although the cost problem of film is difficult to solve, compared with digital photography, film has better layering, color saturation, transparency, and clarity during projection, and it also has a texture that digital photography cannot imitate.

So even after "Interstellar" in 14, Nolan, who has paranoid requirements for film quality, still did not give up film.

...For Chen Xi's "Front and Cloud", there are almost no unused shots, because he is just duplicating them one by one, including lighting, plot, content...everything is like this.

By solving this problem, the film material of the film will be greatly reduced.

Many directors, in order to save film, have to let the actors go through multiple rehearsals in advance, and they have to make the script and the shot script quite perfect.

But in the golden age of Xiangjiang movies, some directors didn’t even have a script when they made a movie, they just wanted to shoot it wherever they wanted. ...

For example, Wang Jiawei shot a scene on a bridge in "Days of Being Wild", which was extremely dangerous. Liang Chaowei was almost killed by him. The cost of this scene also exceeded the standard by millions of Hong Kong dollars. After the movie was released, this scene was edited by him. dropped...cut off...

The problem of waste that Chen Xi faces mainly depends on the performance of the actors. If the actors perform well, after one pass, naturally, there will be fewer waste shots. Otherwise, two or three times, tossing and tossing, the waste is not 01:30.

But he didn't have the time, and he didn't have the ability to require these actors to go through multiple scene rehearsals in advance, so he could only be as strict as possible when shooting.

For example now...

After filming this scene, Sun Honglei and Wang Luodan were shaking the soil on the side, like animals throwing water. The assistant assigned to her by Wang Luodan's crew is now filming on her body.

"Watch it, I'm going to the bathroom!"

Chen Xi patted the assistant director's shoulder, oiled the soles of his feet, and couldn't even find his back in the blink of an eye.

Sun Honglei and Wang Luodan were full of resentment, Wang Luodan didn't dare to say too much to Chen Xi, but when Sun Honglei came over to ask his teacher, a lot of the soil just now entered his ears, which made him very uncomfortable.

But on the side of the monitor, there was no sign of Chen Xi, the assistant director on the top of the tank looked helpless: "Mr. Sun, I still have to prepare for the next shot."

Sun Honglei walked away, Chen Xi was too unreliable!

"Okay, next shot!"

After Chen Xi came back, she came to Sun Honglei as if nothing had happened, and said: "This shot is a retake, and I felt that my expression was not right before. At that time, you were begging, not threatening. At that time, you have to imagine yourself, already Without capital threats, I can only beg them not to kill their lovers."

Sun Honglei suppressed the urge to settle accounts with Chen Xi and quickly entered the state of an actor.

"In addition, the performance can be even more embarrassing!" Chen Xidao: "That's it."

"Wang Luodan, you are a little too hard, don't make too many micro-expressions, that's it!" Wang Luodan just nodded, she is not as old as Chen Xi, and Chen Xi is a director, and she is also a little famous. In front of Chen Xi, she basically just pointed and hit.

The shooting speed of "Frontier Wind and Cloud" which is purely copied is very fast, and it should be able to finish shooting in about one and a half months.

(End of this chapter)