Chapter 1407 1407 Shooting Easily

Hugo's new year kicked off in a hurry. In order to seize the release date of July 4th, "Independence Day" was put into filming in full swing. After more than four months, Hugo finally started to work again, and it was a work full of topics and attention. The reporters were really excited for a while.

It is worth mentioning that the "Unstoppable Miracle", in which Tom Hanks wrote the script and picked up the guide tube himself, also announced the start of the film one week after the official launch of "Independence Day". This movie also attracted a lot of attention. Media eyes. Although the film only invested 2.5 million, the cast is quite worth looking forward to.

The film tells the story of a rock band called "Miracle" in the 1960s that quickly rose from a small town to become a national icon, and then disappeared like a shooting star. The film adopts a dual-protagonist mode, telling the story from the perspective of the drummer in the band. He was the last member to join Marvel, but his talent and the lead singer formed a conflict.

The drummer is rookie actor Tom Everett Scott (Tom. Everett. Scott), who was previously in the TV circle, and the lead singer is the keyboardist and guitarist Alfonso Lopez. The highly anticipated heroine is played by Charlize Theron. In addition, Tom himself made a cameo role as the band manager, which caused a lot of discussion that Liv-Tyler (Liv. Tyler) also played an important role in the movie - her father is the lead singer of the famous rock band Aerosmith Stephen- Taylor (Steven. Tyler).

The "unstoppable miracle" has also been dubbed by many media as "before the sunrise" this year.

However, Hugo didn't have time to visit the cast of "Unstoppable Miracle", because there was almost no rest for the filming of "Independence Day".

At this point Hugo was sitting in the fighter pilot's seat, with his helmet and mask scraped on his neck, and Sergio, who was standing aside, pointed to a plastic steering wheel in front of Hugo, "Man, at least you've played NES (red). White plane) airplane game or racing game, right?"

Hugo shrugged and said regretfully, "I'm not a racing fan."

If you were standing outside, the scene would look weird, with a one-to-one model of a fighter jet on an iron shelf, Sergio was standing on the plane's wings at this point, and Hugo was sitting In the cockpit, but the thing is, there's no instrumentation in front of the Hugo at all, just a plastic steering wheel and nothing else.

Such a tin toy looks really absurd, just like the kind of airplane toy that Hugo played in the children's park when he was a child - they have no way to control, the plane is just connected to the iron arm and goes up and down according to a certain frequency, as a flight; Or a coin-operated cockpit game model on the side of the road—only this one just happens to look like an airplane.

On the ground and the back of the plane there is a frontal green background, but it's empty and nothing else.

Hugo is now filming the fierce scene of fighter jets attacking alien spaceships. This exploration battle wiped out all human fighter jets. Only the hero Steve survived. It can be seen that the battle was tragic, but in fact, Hugo sat Filmed in a toy tin box.

This reminds Hugo of the "Titanic" filming tidbit: all of them shipwreck scenes were filmed in a huge tank - completely understandable as a dirty swimming pool.

"This is really disappointing, I thought it would be very exciting." Hugo looked at Sergio with a sad face, which made poor Sergio completely dumbfounded and asked, "So, what do you expect? What is it?"

Hugo patted the plastic steering wheel that didn't feel at all in front of him, "Dude, you can at least give me a real racing steering wheel so that I can feel it." Sergio stared at Hugo helplessly, as if he was Say, "Or else?" Hugo slammed his mouth, "You know, I was filming 'Life and Death,' and everything was real, including the explosions, and I could feel the thrill of being part of the movie. , the whole filming process was very... er, very real."

In fact, when filming "Speed ​​of Life and Death", although acting skills were not required, Hugo really felt the same way, because the whole atmosphere was shot on the spot, and the sense of realism was overwhelming.

"Hugo, that's what 'Life and Death' wants to create, but we're not." Sergio chuckled, "We need to create a lot of war scenes and explosion scenes, and if we shoot all of them, we don't need to spend money. Not to mention, we need to blow up several LAs."

"I know, I know..." Of course Hugo knew very well that the most magnificent scene in "Independence Day" was the fall of the city, "but... Forget it, I mean, are all these scenes made with computer effects? "

The development of Hollywood in 1994 was a watershed. Why did there appear such debates as "Future Water World" and "Independence Day"? Not only the remuneration, but also the cost. The most important thing is that the computer special effects technology is gradually becoming mature. The super big scene that could not be produced by the computer in the past has been realized. The shot that used to cost 10 million to produce now only needs Five million can be produced, which directly gave birth to the birth of super visual effects blockbusters.

"Future Water World" is just a failed experiment, "Toy Story" as an animation, came out last year and achieved success, is also based on this reason.

Of course, Hugo knew that over the next ten years, with the rapid development of computer visual effects, what would have taken five million shots at this time might only need one million—or even half a million. This has made comic hero movies popular, and scenes like "Avengers" are simply impossible to do now.

"No, we use the actual model for the part of the plane..." Sergio pointed to the overall model of Hugo's plane, "As you can see, we built this plane completely according to the actual situation, this is the The model used by the army. In these fine parts, there are still gaps in the pictures produced by our computer, so we need a real model. However, in addition, we will use the computer to produce the background of the sky, explosions, and battle scenes. All the green parts in the range will be replaced by computer effects."

Although the computer special effects at this time have been formed, they are still not fully mature. This is also the most successful part of "Independence Day". In 1996, such amazing special effects were created, and even fifteen years later, it will not be too outdated. many. Hugo suddenly remembered one thing: the computer special effects for "Independence Day" have been in production since last April.

"It's just that this is more boring than I thought." Hugo curled his lips helplessly.

It's no wonder that Hugo had such an idea. Before that, Hugo had also shot a lot of scenes in the studio, but most of the time, they were shooting on the spot, and many of them were like "Schindler's List" and "Schindler's List". "Before Sunrise" went directly to Europe to film. But now Hugo is stuck in a studio, performing against a green screen, which is a whole new experience.

"This is the price of a commercial blockbuster." Sergio shrugged, with a helpless expression on his face that made people laugh, "Let's get back to business, you'll act according to your own understanding of flying a plane, remember , there are teammates flying together on both sides of you, and we will instruct you to 'fly' through the headset."

This is the VFX blockbuster shoot, standing in front of a green screen with nothing, not even a reference, it's a lonely job.

Hugo suddenly remembered the off-site tidbits of Ian McKellen (Ian. McKellen) who played Gandalf in the "Lord of the Rings" series. Due to Gandalf's dialogue with the short hobbit, in order to shoot a huge height Difference, they can't stand in the same scene to shoot, so every time Gandalf and the Hobbit are together, Gandalf performs alone, with crutches next to them with pictures of The Hobbit on them , using this method to help Ian's performance, and finally using green screen technology to put the characters in the same scene.

As a result, Ian felt extremely lonely in the middle of the performance, and said helplessly, "Who the hell am I talking to..."

"Independence Day" really is a brand new attempt, from start to finish.

"Huh, very good, let's try it out, let's rehearse first, let me find out how I feel?" Hugo took a deep breath. Although it felt very difficult, Hugo was also a little excited. This was a kind of A brand new experience, unlike any previous work. This experience is not only fresh, but also quite exciting, so that the entire studio also presents a completely different scene.

"Very good!" Sergio also knew Hugo's professionalism, and pointed to the front of Hugo, "The height of the lens will be parallel to your eyes, so take a long shot first." After the explanation, he did not wait for Hugo. After answering, he jumped down and gestured "OK" to Roland who was standing behind the monitor.

Roland picked up the walkie-talkie and said a few words, but found that there was no response, so he shouted, "Hugo!" When Hugo looked at him, he pointed to his walkie-talkie, and then Hugo responded, Put on the helmet and blindfold, and put the walkie-talkie in the helmet, so that during the shooting process, the on-site staff can timely feedback the current shooting scene, so that Hugo can make a corresponding performance.

Then Roland heard Hugo's voice coming from the walkie-talkie, "First rehearse twice, I'm still a little uncomfortable with the green screen, you go through the process first, let me find out how?"

Roland couldn't help but be stunned, not because of Hugo's unfamiliarity, but because of Hugo's frankness. As the most powerful actor in the United States at present, there are no one thousand or eight hundred comments about Hugo's outstanding acting skills, but at this time Hugo said it so honestly that he was not used to the green screen - Roland's walkie-talkie clearly showed this. A message is passed on to every staff member around, which is not only courage, but also honesty.

This was Roland's first impression of Hugo after the machine was turned on.

"No problem, let's walk through without turning on the camera." Roland picked up the walkie-talkie and said calmly.