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After sending off Emma Watson, Matthew returned to the crew and continued the shooting of "Inception" in London. Because all the scenes in Paris were changed to London, he still needed to stay in London for a while.

The rewinding Paris was one of the iconic shots of the film, and as the filming location changed, the rewinding city also became London.

As we all know, Christopher Nolan is known for his live-action shooting, and he has resisted computer CGI technology many times in public, but the scenes of the rewinding London scene and the collapse of the city on the edge of the subconscious of the Daum-Cobb couple can only choose CGI. technology to achieve.

It is not impossible to model real-life shooting, but it is difficult to achieve the effect that Christopher Nolan wants. If you want real-life shooting to be like CGI, the cost will be several times the budget.

As a director of a commercial film, cost must be considered, and no company can let a director shoot regardless of cost.

In the media reports, Christopher Nolan is a complete film maniac and is extremely resistant to and even contemptuous of digital technology. This is correct from a certain point of view, but it does not see the whole truth.

As a very smart director, Nolan is right against digital technology represented by computer CGI, but it does not mean that he will not use it.

Any useful technology is the help of the director when shooting and producing.

Computer CGI special effects have been widely and even critically used in the filming and production of "Inception".

The reality is here. The rewinding London can only be generated by CGI. Matthew and Christopher Nolan also talked during the shooting interval. The CGI shots used in the entire "Inception" are expected to be 600 to 1,000.

Like rewinding London would be a 100% digital effect.

Out of curiosity and the needs of the producer's profession, Matthew earned Christopher Nolan's consent to often go to the special effects department in his spare time to watch the special effects processing of various shots.

Especially computer CGI technology.

For him, this is also a rare opportunity for long experience.

To be a producer, you don't have to be proficient in special effects production, but at least you need to know what's going on.

In terms of computer CGI special effects, the crew hired a special effects technical team from "Industrial Light and Magic".

Since Christopher Nolan changed the shooting plan, ILM's special effects team has rushed to London, where a T-size photo was taken as a material, from the exterior structure of the building to the interior of the room, accurate to every detail.

These high-precision photos are finally pasted onto the 3D model as "baked maps", the purpose of which is to make the entire virtual scene believable.

Christopher Nolan has very high requirements for special effects scenes. According to him, only real textures are not enough. The entire scene needs to consider the changes of many elements, including the light source-the whole scene occurs during daytime, and the simulation of skylight is Very difficult - shadow casting, perspective, etc., and how to hide penetrations between buildings.

While Urban Curl would be cut into several shots, the initially finished special effects that Matthew saw were just one full shot.

In fact, the special effects team could use the switching of lenses to cheat, but they rose to the challenge and handed over a beautiful answer sheet to Christopher Nolan that exceeded expectations - there are no identical blocks, as small as the details such as street lights and curtains, Even interior structures within buildings.

ILM and Christopher Nolan can be said to be representatives of two styles of Hollywood, but it is not impossible to cooperate.

Christopher Nolan becomes a commercial film director, and sometimes compromises are inevitable, and ILM doesn't like directors like Christopher Nolan, who despise digital technology, but they won't have a hard time with money.

For special effects shots like this, ILM charges per frame.

To convince viewers that the Dom-Cobbs spent 50 years building cities on the fringes of their subconscious minds would require a huge number of buildings.

Shooting with traditional modeling methods is not an ordinary time-consuming and labor-intensive, but digital effects artists can complete 50 years of work by the Dom-Cobbs in just a few months.

And the cost is only one-third of the cost of traditional modeling shooting.

Whether it's a rewinding London or a subconscious marginal city, all of these have to be done by digital special effects artists who are not very high-ranking in the industry.

Although there are thousands of digital special effects shots in the current box office blockbuster, the status of the digital special effects group is quite embarrassing.

On the one hand, they are important players in VFX films, and on the other hand, Hollywood, which has not fully adapted to the way of digital film production, has not given them the attention they deserve. This is from the fact that digital special effects technicians always appear at the very end of the credits list. It's not hard to see.

Anyone with a little familiarity with the Hollywood model of filmmaking knows that most film crews shoot with little regard for how the raw footage will work in harmony with the VFX, and just throw what they've shot to the digital effects department, which is why digital Special effects are often referred to as "post-processing".

Of course, the London filming also includes live-action special effects that Christopher Nolan likes.

After Emma Roberts came to London, the first scene Matthew and her filmed involved a lot of special effects shots, and it was a live-action special effect.

Next to an open-air cafe by the Thames, the stunt crew of the crew is busy doing the final inspection. In the next scene, Christopher Nolan will use high-speed slow-motion live shooting to create visual spectacles in future movies. .

"I need you to stay calm the whole time."

At a small round table in the open-air cafe, Christopher Nolan said to Matthew and Emma Roberts, who were sitting, "There may be some noises, but all that fly out are pieces of paper, you don't have to worry."

Matthew picked up the coffee cup, took a sip, didn't speak, just gave Christopher Nolan a thumbs up.

Emma Roberts pinned her long blond hair behind her ear and said, "I'm ready."

Christopher Nolan nodded lightly, turned and left here.

Matthew and Emma Roberts stopped talking and started filming.

Two minutes later, filming officially began.

"It's said that we're only developing a fraction of our brain's potential, but that's only when we're awake."

In front of the camera, Matthew said to Emma Roberts with a cup of coffee, "When asleep, our brains are almost omnipotent."

As soon as the filming began, he turned into the look of hatred and bitterness, "So, there are many strange dreams when falling asleep."

Emma Roberts picked up the coffee cup and took a sip. It seemed that she was still tasting the taste. After a while, she asked curiously, "Like what?"

Matthew put down his coffee cup, tapped his fingers on the table, and said, "Imagine when you design a building, you consciously design every part, but sometimes it feels like the building is building itself, see what I mean? ?"

Emma Roberts put down the coffee cup and nodded, "Yes, I just need..."

For a while, she didn't seem to find the right adjective.

"And in a dream, the brain keeps doing this continuously." Matthew took out a pen from his pocket and scratched on the napkin of the coffee table. "Creation and perception, these two processes happen simultaneously."

According to the previous setting, he drew patterns on paper, "Our brain is so magical that we don't even realize it."

From the outside of the set, Matthew dressed as mature and young and petite Emma Roberts are together, quite like a big bad wolf seducing Little Red Riding Hood.

This peculiar character contrast is also the effect Christopher Nolan wants.

It's not that Nolan deliberately wants to create some uncle and loli character match, but this kind of character match attracts audiences many times.

Maybe the petite Emma Roberts doesn't conform to the traditional Western aesthetic, but Yan Zheng has a good figure, has a particularly sweet smile, and always looks comfortable and natural.

Of course, many people on the crew know it, and it's just for looks.

"You're actually sleeping in the very center of the Dream Workshop!" Matthew looked at Emma Roberts and said, "This is your first lesson in sharing your dreams!"

Hearing this, Emma Roberts looked around in a panic, her face changed.

Matthew reminded, "Calm down! Adene~www.readwn.com~ keep calm!"

Emma Roberts calmed down a little, but was still nervous.

Suddenly, the newsstand on Matthew's left suddenly made a "dong" sound, like a cannon being fired, and countless books and magazines flew into the sky.

Matthew sat still, and Emma Roberts looked around in surprise.

With the two of them at the center, the entire street along the river seemed to explode, but instead of fire, it exploded with paper flying all over the sky.

Immediately afterwards, the ground also exploded, and the left and right sides of Matthew and Emma-Roberts also exploded, and countless pieces of paper drifted past them.

Emma Roberts looked at these in surprise, but Matthew was always very calm.

Finally, there was no more sound, and the paper began to fall from the sky, as if a colorful snow had fallen.

In the heavy snow, Christopher Nolan shouted to stop, and this shot passed smoothly.

A cleaning team hired by the crew immediately drove into the set to clean up the filming rubbish.

This scene is very gorgeous, but the garbage produced is too much, fortunately the crew was well prepared, and basically no producers drifted into the Thames not far away.

Otherwise, before tomorrow, environmental protection organizations will come to find trouble with the crew.

Matthew went to Christopher Nolan's side to see the shooting situation, and he had already obtained permission from Nolan.

In the high-speed and slow-motion shots captured by six cameras from different angles, the explosion debris floats in the air like suspended objects, which is enough to create an extremely shocking visual impact.

I have to admire the power of the film's stunts. The crew tested it for several weeks in the early preparations, and the actual shooting effect was also very good. You must know that he and Emma Roberts were located in the center of the explosion, but they were not affected at all during the shooting. Affected, even the paper cups on the table did not move.