Chapter 220: The Filming Encountered Difficulties Right After It Started, and the Crew Stopped Working.

"Thank you for your hard work."

Looking at Gong Li and Wang Xueqi who were struggling to take off their diving suits and oxygen tanks, Wu Yuan hurried over to them.

Wang Xueqi was fine. Although he was 60 years old, he was still very strong. Even after going through multiple trainings such as the extravehicular activity simulator, the water tank, and the low-pressure chamber, he was still in high spirits.

Gong Li was different. As a "weak woman", Gong Li was indeed a little overwhelmed by the high-intensity training.

"Director Wu, huh, if I had known that it would be so difficult to make this movie, I should have thought more about it before making a decision." Gong Li complained while panting.

Of course, she was just complaining.

Actors today are not as valuable as they will be in a dozen years.

The actors of "The Grandmaster" were able to practice martial arts for three years before filming, so it was nothing for Wu Yuan's actors to suffer for a few months at the Space Agency.

"How is it, have you found the feeling?" Wu Yuan asked slowly.

Gong Li and Wang Xueqi looked at each other, both of them a little uncertain, "I think so."

During the filming of Gravity, the low-gravity environment can basically only be achieved by hanging wires, that is, during filming, the actors must fight against gravity themselves.

When hanging in the air, imitate the movements of astronauts in a weightless environment.

After diving for a month or two, the two of them have found the feeling and know how astronauts act and what the movements are in a low-gravity environment.

But after leaving the underwater environment, they are not sure whether they can restore the performance.

Wu Yuan can't give them unlimited time to train.

After watching for an afternoon, seeing that the two of them have good movements and a clear understanding of the internal structure of the space station, he thought about starting the filming.

The crew's set design team has built several studios at the Huairou Film and Television Base, and the interior scenes of the International Space Station, Tiangong Space Station, Soyuz Spacecraft, and Shenzhou Spacecraft have been completed.

The final version of the script has also been polished.

The final version of the story is somewhat different from the original version.

In the final version of the story, Gong Li plays a female doctor of medicine. After encountering the destruction of satellite debris at the beginning, she first took a spacecraft back to the Tiangong Space Station. Then, after the Tiangong Space Station caught fire accidentally, she drove the lifeboat to escape to the Russian Space Station, and finally successfully returned to Earth through the Soyuz spacecraft that stayed at the Russian Space Station.

The International Space Station in the story was destroyed by satellite debris at the beginning of the story.

The little joke that can relieve tension even if you can't understand the text in the spacecraft but can still operate the spacecraft was also perfected with the help of experts from the Space Agency.

The Russian Soyuz spacecraft is the predecessor of the Shenzhou spacecraft, and the operating systems are almost the same.

Therefore, the heroine who has received professional training from the China Space Agency can still operate the Soyuz spacecraft smoothly without being able to read Russian.

If the experts from the Space Agency hadn't told him this, Wu Yuan really didn't know that there was such a connection between China Space and Russia.

This also made him immediately understand why the heroine in the original movie could operate the Shenzhou spacecraft even if she couldn't read Chinese.

Because astronauts going to the International Space Station will receive training on how to operate the Soyuz spacecraft (the Soyuz is responsible for the round-trip mission between the space station and the ground).

So the heroine in the movie did not gamble on her luck and successfully start the Shenzhou spacecraft, but gambled according to the method of operating the Soyuz in her memory.

"Thank you for your hard work, the movie will officially start shooting next week!" Wu Yuan applauded and said to the two with a smile on his face.

Gong Li and Wang Xueqi were somewhat excited and somewhat stressed. They were looking forward to the shooting of this first Chinese space blockbuster, but they were also worried that they would not shoot well and would make mistakes.

"I understand, Director Wu!" The two nodded heavily and made up their minds in their hearts that they must practice more in this last week to get into good shape!

One week later.

Huairou Film and Television Base, in the studio rented by "Gravity".

A red banner has been hung at the entrance of the studio.

[The opening ceremony of China's first space science fiction blockbuster "Gravity"! 】

The movie Gravity has been very high-profile since the project was launched, higher than any movie Wu Yuan has shot before.

Now that it is about to start filming, it will naturally not be low-key. Not only did they release the news early, but they also invited dozens of media reporters to participate in the opening ceremony to visit and interview.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the incense table and the camera covered with red cloth were all set out.

Wu Yuan appeared in front of the reporters with Gong Li, Wang Xueqi, Zhang Guorong, and Liu Yifei wearing simulated space suits.

Immediately, the sound of cameras taking pictures rang loudly.

There is no way, the appearance of the four actors is really "cool"!

Just like Yang Liwei's departure ceremony that year, the four actors wore blue and white space suits, holding a square small box in their left hands and holding the helmets of the space suits in their right hands, and marched to the temporary rostrum in a goose step.

On their chests, they all had a five-star red flag tattooed on them.

"Hello everyone, welcome to the opening ceremony of director Wu Yuan's work "Gravity"!"

"Gravity is my country's first space disaster science fiction film!"

"The film tells a story about a Chinese space station astronauts who were attacked by space debris while going out of the cabin to repair the space telescope, causing a serious accident in space."

The assistant director, who acted as the temporary MC, took the microphone and gave the reporters a brief introduction of the plot. The reporters immediately swarmed up and held the microphone to interview.

"Director Wu, there are rumors that this movie will use a lot of computer CG special effects. Is it true?"

"Ms. Gong Li, can you share what kind of character you are trying out?"

"Mr. Zhang Guorong, isn't your new movie in preparation and about to start shooting? Can you take care of the shooting of "Gravity" and your new movie?"

"Teacher Wang Xueqi, this is your first time to star in a space science fiction movie. Are you under a lot of pressure?"

"Ms. Liu Yifei, there are rumors that you and Director Wu are in love. Can you respond to this rumor positively?"

The crew of "Gravity" did a good job of keeping it secret. Before the start of shooting, only Gong Li, who was definitely the first actor, was announced. The other actors were kept completely secret.

Even most of the crew members didn't know the details of the script, and didn't know that this movie actually had only one and a half leading actors.

Now Wu Yuan brought four actors to the launch conference, which was a smokescreen. All reporters thought that the film would be shot around four astronauts, and they never thought that the film would be a one-man show by Gong Li.

Wang Xueqi and Zhang Guorong certainly would not reveal this secret.

Both of them talked about their feelings of acting in a science fiction movie for the first time in front of reporters, especially Wang Xueqi, who seriously shared with reporters some interesting things that happened when he was receiving astronaut training at the space agency.

At the same time, this also indirectly told reporters that "Gravity" is a movie endorsed and supported by the space agency. When writing the manuscript, be careful not to gossip.

And Liu Yifei also responded to the so-called gossip.

I don't know how it happened, but recently there was a so-called "industry insider" on the Internet that she and Wu Yuan were in love.

To be honest, Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei's relationship was indeed not deliberately concealed from people in the circle.

But it was not known to everyone, and basically only some people who had a good relationship with them knew about it.

For example, Su Chang, Zhang Guorong, Chen Kun and other friends in the circle.

Logically speaking, they would definitely not spread rumors.

Fortunately, these rumors only stayed in the text. At least the two of them were not photographed in any intimate photos, so it was easy to refute the rumors.

"I have a good personal relationship with Director Wu. He is my senior in the same school, and he also took me to act in my first movie in my life."

"He is my idol, I admire him very much, but we don’t have the relationship that the unscrupulous media wrote."

"I hope that all media friends and netizens can look at these false rumors rationally."

When it comes to lying with open eyes, Liu Yifei is also a set.

And it’s not a lie. She really admires Wu Yuan. She didn’t say which rumors were "false news".

But the reporters nodded in agreement and automatically clarified the relationship between the two in their hearts.

To be honest, netizens may enjoy talking about this kind of gossip, but most reporters in the circle don’t believe it.

Unless there are photos to prove it, this group of reporters can write a hundred different "industry revelations" without any evidence.

In recent years, all kinds of messy paparazzi news are flying around.

Almost every popular star has a lot of fabricated rumors.

There are endless "revelations" such as Fan Xiaopang was played badly in the crew, Liu Yifei is a transgender, Zhou Xun secretly met with the sponsor, and the mother of Chen Kun's son is Zhao Junqi.

Many of these so-called "revelations" come from a reporter who has no news to write and fabricates them out of thin air.

We are all in the journalist circle and know this very well.

Most of the reporters at the scene thought that "Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei's relationship" was just something a colleague thought up out of thin air.

It's not that they look down on Liu Yifei, but in their eyes, Wu Yuan's status is really too high, the kind that can be popular all over the world. Even if he likes a female star, it is probably just for fun, how can he fall in love.

A director like him who is young, rich and high-ranking must have been in a sea of ​​flowers, never getting a single leaf on him, being a groom every night, and waving his hand will have all kinds of female stars climbing into his bed, from domestic entertainment to Hollywood, there is no shortage of throwing themselves into his arms.

Various Hollywood tabloids have published a lot of rumors about him.

Today it says that Keira Knightley behaved intimately with him on the set, and tomorrow it says that Anne Hathaway took the initiative to visit him in order to participate in his new movie.

He can't give up a whole forest for a flower.

Even if this flower is the fairy sister Liu Yifei.

At least when Wu Yuan is in his thirties, reporters will believe that he really has settled down and plans to find a stable girlfriend.

Liu Yifei simply responded, and the reporters were 80% convinced that the romance rumors were false.

Compared to this "fake at first glance" rumor, they care more about everything about the movie "Gravity".

The four "leading actors" were asked various questions, and the reporters wanted to pry out some specific character backgrounds and story directions of "Gravity" from their mouths.

However, the four leading actors are not the kind of big mouths, and they are good at keeping secrets.

No matter how the reporters tried, they just talked about other things. Apart from revealing that they played an astronaut, there was no more meaningful information.

This made all the reporters hate it, but they could do nothing about it.

In the half-hour interview, in addition to taking a lot of photos of the start-up, the biggest gain was that they knew this was a space disaster film, a movie about space accidents.

In the end, today's start-up ceremony ended with all the crew members offering incense and unveiling the red cloth.

The reporters left in an orderly manner, and the crew began shooting the first scene of the day.

As usual, the first scene was a simple one.

For "Gravity", the simplest scene was the beginning of the astronauts repairing the telescope outside the cabin.

Because the space suits, space stations, and the earth that were supposed to be in this scene were all CG-made, in the actual shooting, the actors only needed to wear a set of CG sampling clothes with "spots", fixed in a very small range, and perform various non-physical performances.

There was no way, the crew really couldn't find a real "space telescope" for the actors to repair.

Those satellite fragments flying from afar could not be restored in real life.

The best way to deal with it is to use pure CG. Just when the camera is aimed at the actors' faces, their faces can be synthesized.

This requires the actors to rely entirely on facial expressions to simulate a "space operation", which is obviously not an easy task.

Fortunately, the first scene was shot with Zhang Guorong and Liu Yifei.

Well, it was their opening scene and also the final scene.

The two unlucky guys just showed their faces and were hit by satellite debris and disappeared directly into space.

Wearing specially made CG sampling suits and sticking a lot of facial capture sensors on their faces, Zhang Guorong and Liu Yifei began filming.

This kind of movie that requires a lot of special effects production is actually very boring for actors to shoot.

But for director Wu Yuan, it is very difficult.

As soon as the camera was turned on, I thought it would be very smooth shooting, but I immediately encountered a problem that Wu Yuan had never expected.

The lighting on the scene could not keep up with the shooting content!

In this scene, Zhang Guorong and Liu Yifei encountered satellite debris hitting the telescope, and then an explosion occurred. These blast waves pushed them directly into the deep space of the universe, and then other debris scratched their space suits and eventually died.

But here comes the problem.

When shooting indoors, the actors are exposed to normal white light, but then the actors' faces are synthesized into the main film. In the main film, the characters are experiencing the explosion of the space telescope, and their faces should reflect the fire!

If the lighting is not right, it will look very weird in the main film later, which will immediately make the audience out of the play.

Wu Yuan, who has always been striving for perfection, can't stand such an extraordinary BUG.

But how to solve this problem?

On the first day of shooting, Wu Yuan was worried.

The crew of "Gravity" also stopped shooting for less than half an hour.

I hope you know that the heroine of "Those Years" will not have a kissing scene, and will take the pure love route.

Why do I have the illusion that I want to arrange a kissing scene for Liu Yifei? How dare I do that?