Disaster Artist

Lu Qian and Chen Mu, obviously didn't say anything, but they could feel the tension between the two, as if they would roll up their sleeves and fight in the next second.

All the onlookers didn't understand, so only Ji Xu and Bai Cheng exchanged glances. Both of them were a little surprised that Lu Qian would invite Chen Mu to be the cameraman, and Chen Mu actually agreed. The whole thing revealed a kind of surprise. Weird, but no one said anything about the elephant in the room.

"Why are you posing as if you were ready to quarrel?" Lu Qian raised his eyebrows and said with a half-smile.

Chen Mu raised his jaw, "Aren't you going to come over to quarrel?"

"..." Lu Qian couldn't refute, clearing his throat, "What I want is grand and tragic, not sensational, this scene..."

"What is sensational?" Chen Mu directly interrupted Lu Qian's words and confronted him back, "This is face to face and then back to face, from nature to characters and then back to the scene, the classic way of moving the mirror, this is the The opening effect you asked for, what are you talking about now? Please don't make me so low-level."

Film shooting is like this. The director puts forward requirements to each department and every link according to the picture in his mind, and then the corresponding staff create the creation, collide with the director's inspiration, and see the final effect.

From the actors to the lighting to the camera, including make-up, costumes, sets, and more.

Of course, there are occasionally special cases. The director has his own paranoid ideas about a certain performance and a certain shot, and he requires it to be presented exactly the same. Then the staff should use their abilities to achieve this.

At the beginning of the "raid", Lu Qian had his own ideas, which were different from the original.

He hoped to be able to cut in from the blue hour, vaguely outline the figure of the SWAT team, then land on the slum apartment in front of him, then return to the SWAT team and follow the camera into the apartment.

From the aspects of color, light, angle, etc., it presents a quiet and magnificent sense of tragic and solemnity, indicating the tranquility before the storm.

But that's not all.

Lu Qian also hopes to use the first scene in the opening scene to establish the main color of the whole film: blue, from the lighting to the lens, showing a slightly cold and desolate blue filter, and then add some old copper yellow, Showing a rundown, dirty, cold visual effect.

All of these require Chen Mu's professional knowledge to complete.

In a month of pre-work, in fact, Lu Qian and Chen Mu, Su Ziyi, Bai Cheng and other teams had countless brainstorming conflicts and collisions, hitting inspiration again and again to find the most suitable presentation method. , and photographed the picture in Lu Qian's mind.

However, there is still a slight difference between the paper and the actual drill, and the first scene has a difference.

Although Chen Mu still entered the crew after all, it does not mean that Chen Mu and Lu Qian became friends. To be precise, the two of them are still two powder kegs, which will ignite after a little collision.

Of course Lu Qian refused to give in.

But not only did he not get angry, but he also showed a smile, and his unhurried appearance was even more creepy, and goose bumps appeared directly on his back.

"You started to refute without even listening to my words. Are you really righteous, or are you just trying to hide your guilty conscience?"

"Um?"

The understatement of the final sound was raised slightly, which made Chen Mu feel humiliated and stared at Lu Qian angrily, but after all, he held back his temper—

Although he doesn't like Lu Qian, the director is the director, and he needs to respect the director's ideas.

"Hmph, you are the director, so of course you have the final say. But..."

This time, it was Lu Qian who interrupted Chen Mu's words.

"No buts."

Immediately afterwards, Lu Qian spoke out his thoughts in one go.

"My composition is to cut in from the blue moment, present a panorama, and then use the halo to outline the SWAT team's body shape, just need a contour line."

"Then the boom rises to the panorama, swoops into the building in the form of a drone, starts from the silence and silence on the first floor, quickly presents a few scenes of life inside, and finally falls on the monitor wall on the fourteenth floor. Although there is no one guarding the room, there is a foreshadowing here, proving that the actions of the SWAT team are not so secretive."

"Finally, I left the apartment and returned to the outline of the SWAT team. At this time, the faces of the team members, including Artest's tension and stiffness, were shown one by one."

The pictures are all in Lu Qian's mind, but the current version and the concept of the pre-work are slightly different. On the one hand, it comes from Chen Mu's way of moving the mirror, and on the other hand, it comes from the environment of the blue hour. Atmosphere, inspiration burst out again.

As a cameraman, Chen Mu immediately understood what Lu Qian meant.

According to the original shooting method, the environment is quiet and grand, and then the personal expressions of the SWAT team are presented. In fact, the intention behind the connection of the shots is to show "the insignificance of the individual in front of nature", and the whole solemn and tense atmosphere will permeate. Come.

If the soundtrack is a little more tragic, it is indeed too emotional, as if it foreshadows the tragic end of the SWAT team in advance.

However, the camera route that Lu Qian later described, using the pictures of fragments of life to compare with the pictures of the SWAT team, showed "the insignificance of this corner in front of the magnificent universe", indicating the tranquility before the storm. If it is unexpected, the whole perception is suddenly completely different.

Where is the difference?

To put it simply, in the former case, the focus of the camera is on Artest, and the entire atmosphere is created to enhance Artest's image as a person.

In the latter case, the focus of the shots is on the overall situation, but a few individual shots are used to outline the entire panorama and set off the overall atmosphere.

The focus is different, and the audience's perception and perspective are also completely different.

There is no doubt about Chen Mu's talent, without the need for Lu Qian to explain in too much detail and in-depth, he can understand the director's intentions, and quickly conceive the entire shooting line and picture composition in his mind~www.wuxiamtl.com~ Even able to To further burst into inspiration, immediately follow the rhythm of Lu Qian.

"Isn't your mirror line not sensational?"

"When the camera returns to Artest at the end, do you want to capture the first ray of dawn when the sun rises, and outline the pathos of personal heroism?"

Lu Qian's eyes lit up slightly. The switch from the blue hour to the rising sun, especially the sunrise as the starting point of the battle, was very impactful.

Of course, the focus finally returned to Artest, who indeed has a tendency to personal heroism, but it is not a bad thing for commercial films:

After the panoramic atmosphere has been created, let the audience's attention fall on Artest and follow him into the story, which is also the basic shooting method of commercial films.

As for what Chen Mu said, Lu Qian was not worried.

"Whether it's sensational or not depends on the soundtrack."