Hollywood Road

Turning around and walking outside, Robert Downey Jr. twisted his coquettish **** and said as he walked, "Why is such a big house empty? Why are there only two X-Men?"

"Oh..." He made an exaggerated voice again, this time even the producer did not let it go, "It must be that the funds invested by 20th Century Fox are not enough, and there is not enough money to invite more X-Men."

He seemed a little angry in his words, "The biographical film made for me turned out to be a small production!"

The original line should end here. Murphy was also ready to stop, but Robert Downey Jr. didn’t mean to stop. He stretched out a finger and pointed at the camera, “Hey, idiot director, if you mess up, I will make you like me!"

"Cut!"

Seeing Robert Downey Jr. stopped talking, Murphy called to stop the crew. After standing up, he gave a thumbs up to the set, "Well done, Downey!"

Although Robert Downey Jr’s on-the-spot performance was not part of the script plan, the shooting was inherently flexible. Outstanding actors often have some on-the-spot performances due to the substitution of roles during shooting. As long as it is beneficial to the film, the director Generally, it will not be rejected.

This time he broke the fourth wall and ridiculed himself. Murphy thinks Robert Downey Jr. did a very good job.

In most cases, breaking the fourth wall in a film like Deadpool is a taboo in filmmaking. It will easily make the audience appear in the show. Therefore, no other film will try it easily, but "Deadpool" "It is different. It not only has the setting of comics as the basis, but also meets the needs of the overall style of the film. It is beneficial to break the fourth wall.

However, Murphy also knows that even if this movie is "Deadpool", you must pay attention to the timing and quantity of breaking the fourth wall, otherwise such crazy complaints will also make the audience play.

The shooting of the first scene went very smoothly, and the purpose of this set-up scene ended here. It took several days to set up, just for shooting in just a few minutes, which is very common in film production.

Murphy called for the transition, and the crew did not go far. Just in front of another green screen next to him, they filmed the black spider played by Lily Collins and the steel man played by the Russian actor.

This is also a complaint.

"Every time I have a chance, I let Deadpool join us..."

When the filming just started, the Russian-born actor named Krakow spoke only half a sentence before Murphy called him to stop, "Cut!"

Lily Collins stood in front of the green screen and turned to look at Krakow, knowing that he must be the one who made the mistake.

Sure enough, Murphy said loudly, "What are you talking about? American English? French English? I want English with a Russian accent!"

Krakow, with his body full of motion capture devices, immediately realized that he had made a mistake, and said quickly, "Sorry, director, I will pay attention to pronunciation."

The setting of Steel Lux in the comics is from Russia, otherwise Murphy would not find a Russian actor to use motion capture.

"The departments are back!" Murphy shouted.

The other departments don’t need to move too much, mainly Philip Raschel’s crew needs to be re-adjusted. Because the filming is motion capture, and the actual height of the two characters in the film is quite different, there is not so much between the actors , Certainly can not use ordinary shooting methods.

Murphy uses a more popular method in the industry. This kind of shooting that reflects the height difference of the characters has many solutions in Hollywood in the past, but in the past few years, Peter Jackson made considerable improvements when filming the Hobbit scene. , It is very mature and can be used for shooting after making appropriate adjustments.

This is the forced perspective method.

The so-called forced perspective is to use the false illusion of optics and vision to deform the subject, closer, larger, smaller, etc., and use the illusion of human visual perception to make the subject and the surrounding environment have false relativity. Coupled with the photographer's creativity and the changing angle of the camera, the scene was shot with completely different proportions from the reality.

After Philip Raschel re-adjusted a series of equipment in place, the shooting began again.

In the script, this is a dialogue scene where the Grizzly and Black Spider are walking together. In the current shooting, Lily Collins is quite far away from Krakow, completely in a different green screen environment.

Murphy and Philip Raschel have discussed all the scenes of the appearance of Steel Lux, and he has also made relevant plans.

When shooting, he will deliberately change the front and rear sense and guiding line of the picture to give the lens an illusion, so that the proportions of the characters can be exaggerated.

According to his request, Krakow was alone in the green screen space next to the main scene where Lily Collins was located. The main camera used for shooting would be closer to him and away from Lily Collins to create a tall effect. CG removes the background and adds a suitable computer CG background.

Lily Collins and Krakow walked forward in parallel in different positions. In addition to the main camera, Murphy also set up a second secondary camera for auxiliary shooting.

Because the track, boom and other equipment are used during shooting, Murphy keeps the main lens moving and shooting, so he also uses the computer to control the second camera during the shooting. The second camera is also located at the end of Krakow, but It will not move in a wide range like the main lens, but will only do slow motion shooting on a very short rail.

When the second camera system receives the instruction message from Murphy, it will shoot according to the settings, because the lens is closer to Krakow, so the range of movement will be less.

Murphy's director position is in the middle of the two cameras, and the shooting effect can be seen very clearly.

There is another point in the shooting. Murphy asked Krakow to slow down a little bit. When the huge object moves slowly, the credibility will increase. In other words, the audience is more likely to accept the slower moving behemoths and giants. Kind of, so the monsters in the movie such as Godzilla, every step is always slow.

The two actors are far away, but due to the need for live recording, when the microphone used for recording fell, Krakow spoke again, "Every time I have a chance, I let Deadpool join us, but his demeanor It's like a child who hasn't grown up, but a fully armed child."

He turned his head and looked at Lily Collins, "When will he mature and realize the benefits of joining the X-Men?"

"What's the advantage?" Lily Collins also started to complain, "Ugly tights? Or a house that has been blown up every few years?"

"Please!" Krakow defended. "The bombing of the house is to create a character. If we don't blow up our house, how can we highlight how bad the villain is? How can we set off the X-Men's actions to be just, to be popular and to Maintain the beauty and peace of this world..."

Many people in the crew are suffocating a laugh. Since the film will cross over with "X-Men", the X-Men are naturally the most molested and complained.

"Stop!" Murphy did not shout through, "Do it again!"

In many cases, even if the shooting meets the requirements, his director will continue to shoot to see if he can get a better shot, and take a few more shots, so that more material can be used in post-editing.

Shooting has never been for shooting, just as much of the preparatory preparations are for shooting, shooting must serve for post-production.

Here is almost a full green screen scene, and post-production still needs to be synthesized, and the scene where the Steel Lux and Black Spider set off in a stealth jet, Murphy neither intends to shoot, nor does it intend to use CGI to composite.

Carla Firth has obtained permission from Twentieth Century Fox, "Deadpool" can appropriately use some of the "X-Men" scenes that do not show specific actors.

The two films are both a series and the copyright belongs to the same company, so it is very convenient to use.

Of course, Murphy won't use a lot, and the only ones planned to be used at the moment are the shots of the Gunners and the Black Spider flying from the Xavier Genius Youth School.

Although the first day of the filming was very fragmentary shots, the shooting process was quite smooth, especially Robert Downey Jr., all kinds of gods flew all over the sky, making the words staying on the paper come alive. If Murphy leads This is not a relatively mature team with enough experience, I am afraid it will laugh frequently.

At the end of the first day of filming, Murphy did not leave work immediately, but instead asked Kara Fes to summon the heads of various departments and hold a brief meeting.

In addition to three directors, Murphy, Paul Wilson, and Seth Rogen, and Philip Raschel, Helena Espola, David Robbie and Jack Watson participated in the meeting. In addition to the person in charge, there are representatives of the American International Assurance Company on the crew.

This representative belongs to the relatively silent type. He has been stationed in the crew as early as in Los Angeles. As long as the crew follows the plan, he is a completely invisible person and will not easily make comments.

In addition, because it was not a collaboration with Miramax this time, the crew also changed a new editor. Jody Griffith, who initially collaborated with Murphy, was pulled into the crew by Carla Faith.

Jody Griffith is an old subordinate of Carla Firth, and his ability has also been recognized by Murphy, and he is enough to be the editor of this film.

And unlike filming and producing "Planet of Horror" and "Sin City", because the producer is Carla Firth, Murphy can get more power, and the post-editing is completely under his control. Jody Griffith Si and the editing team are more like hands that fulfill his will.

Such a meeting is a regular meeting. After Murphy asked Paul Wilson, who is responsible for planning and reporting, to submit today's work log and tomorrow's shooting plan to the representative of American International Assurance Company, he specifically emphasized one point.

"This is a superhero movie with a distinctive black style, but the style of the movie cannot be too black!"