screenwriter mystery

Chapter 224 Shooting a Movie
Today's Zhao Yuan is no longer an unknown person in Hollywood.

After all, whether it is "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" as the screenwriter or the two films "The Blair Witch" and "Spirit: Ghost Story" directed later.

The huge achievements at the box office can be said to be rare even in the entire Hollywood.

To put it bluntly, there is not a major Hollywood film production company that does not look forward to cooperating with Zhao Yuan.

After all, although great directors like James Cameron have also made outstanding achievements in making commercial movies, the cost of making movies is also huge.

Unlike Zhao Yuan, since "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", the production cost of each film has not exceeded [-] million.

Even if the promotional slogan of "Heroes Out of Control" is 500 million, but compared with the box office revenue of "The Blair Witch" and "Spirit: Ghost Story", let alone 500 million, it is 2000 million, 3000 million The cost, there will also be film production companies waving US dollars to seek cooperation.

Hollywood, in the final analysis, is a circle where interests come first.

As long as he can make money, no matter how bad the director is, he will always have endless movie invitations.

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""Heroes out of control" No.40, the third scene of the second scene, action!"

Although the new movie "Heroes Out of Control" is also a "pseudo-documentary" movie, it still has a certain degree of difference from the previous movies directed by Zhao Yuan.

This point can be seen from the shooting angle of the DV camera.

Although the DV camera shooting angles of "The Blair Witch" and "Spiritual Ghost Story" are shaking, they are moved by the actor's arm as a support after all, so it does not need to spend too much thought on the shooting angle of the movie, try to fit Reality and even random camera shakes are harmless.

This is also the reason why Zhao Yuan dared to act as a film director himself before.

Because this kind of 'pseudo-documentary' type of film itself is the film shooting that least tests the director's skill.

However, such a shooting method is obviously not feasible in "Heroes Out of Control".

At the beginning of the plot, before the protagonists and others have acquired superpowers, this rough shooting technique may be able to cope with it, but after the plot is over, after the protagonists of the movie become superheroes, the requirements for shooting angles of DV cameras become This is one of the difficult problems that Zhao Yuan needs to think about.

The description of this section of shooting is simply pointed out in words in the script: the protagonist Dane uses superpowers to control the DV camera to hover in the air to shoot scenes of several people using superpowers.

However, in the specific shooting, Zhao Yuan, as the director, needs to think carefully about the moving angle of the DV camera, how to let the audience see the DV camera suspended in mid-air without being obtrusive.

In order to be able to show this scene in the movie, Zhao Yuan took great pains.

If he hadn't had the movie "Super Power Out of Control" as a reference, and compared the plots in it to be filmed according to the gourd, perhaps the filming progress of the movie "Heroes Out of Control" would have been delayed again and again, but even if there are already For reference, the shooting time of "Heroes Out of Control" has exceeded nearly a month, and it has become the film with the longest filming cycle directed by Zhao Yuan.

Of course, if Zhao Yuan's inner thoughts at this moment were known by those Hollywood directors, they would definitely roll their eyes.

It is the most normal thing to shoot a movie for a month. Normally, a movie may not even finish a third of the script in a month. When encountering a big scene, it will be gone for half a month.

As far as Zhao Yuan is concerned, "Heroes Out of Control" has come to an end this month.

With such a filming speed, it's no wonder Wen Ziren felt pressured.

However, the films shot at such a speed, each of which achieved frighteningly high box office results.

……

At the scene, following Zhao Yuan's order.

"Calm down, Michael, we are friends, have you forgotten our experience as superheroes!"

Several leading actors in "Heroes Out of Control" entered the state. They hung on the green screen set and read the lines in the script.

In reality, the 'Andrew' trio's fight took place in the middle of New York City.

Of course, it is impossible to put the filming anywhere, especially since the damaged neighborhoods have not been completely repaired, and there are still traces of the destruction of the battle, which does not match the scene at the beginning of the film.

Therefore, the shots of this part can only be completed through post-production special effects.

What's more, if you really want to apply for a shooting permit in the center of New York, both the funding and the early application will take time and money, which is far less easy than using special effects.

"Michael, we can leave now, fly away from here..."

The wire is hung on the body, simulating the feeling of being suspended in mid-air. Although the protagonists under the green screen are actually only less than half a meter above the ground, they still try to show the feeling of floating, and there is no one next to them. A huge fan in the distance simulates the feeling of a strong wind blowing.

"Superhero, now I'm a supervillain, an apex predator!"

Facing the lines spoken by the actor who played the protagonist Dane, the actor who played the movie villain Michael opposite him grinned an evil smile. His bloated face was covered with special effects makeup to cover up his original appearance, and his appearance was roughly the same as that of the previous TV station. Camera footage of 'Steve' looks alike.

This approach is naturally to allow the audience who watched the movie to better bring the movie into the previous battle in New York.

The only difference is the skin color of Michael's actor, in reality 'Steve' is a black man through and through, but in "Hero Out of Control" he becomes a white man.

This is in line with the changes made by Hollywood's political correctness.

Nowadays, the topic of racial discrimination is getting more and more intense. Although it is not impossible to invite black people as villains, it is inevitable that some black people will protest. Once people with ulterior motives hype it as discrimination against black people, it is undoubtedly for the film. It's not worth the candle.

Therefore, instead of keeping a black villain, causing unnecessary trouble and controversy.

Especially in the movie "Hero Out of Control", it is clear that it is a gimmick of superhero out of control destruction.

It's easy to find excuses to protest why black people, not white people, are out of control.

Instead of this, it would be better to invite black actors to play this role from the beginning. Anyway, after adding special effects and shooting DV shots in the later stage, there is not much difference.

(End of this chapter)