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The shooting process of the long shot was not smooth.

No, it should be said that it was very difficult.

The photographer's movement position and angle, Jessica, Leon, and the positions and angles of the other astronauts must be well coordinated.

The unpleasantness of the long shot is here. Once a certain point goes wrong, the entire shot will be scrapped.

And Martin attaches great importance to this shot.

Martin's requirement is that this shot must be realistic and impeccable, and every detail must be considered.

This shot was arranged from 2 pm to 6 pm, a full four hours, and finally passed with Martin's "good". Everyone cheered.

In the original timeline, this shot took more than half a month to shoot.

It can be said that the final result was achieved by studying and improving while shooting.

Who made Martin step on the shoulders of "predecessors".

…………

"Hello, Martin. ”

That day, Martin had an unexpected visitor in his crew.

“Chris, why are you here?”

The visitor was Christopher Nolan. Wasn’t he filming “Interstellar”?

Wait, “Interstellar”?

Martin immediately understood why Nolan came.

“I heard that you have developed a device that can perfectly reflect weightlessness?” Nolan asked.

Martin smiled in his heart. Sure enough, he came for this.

“Yes, Chris.”

“Can you take me to see it?”

“Haha, don’t worry, Chris. The filming will start soon. You will be able to see it then.”

“OK, I’ll wait for a while. ”

Soon, Nolan saw the LED light box created by Martin.

Inside the LED light box, the CG environment spanned the entire wall and ceiling, simulating the reflected light of the earth to illuminate Jessica and provide her with visual reference.

“Wow, this idea is great, and it even takes the light problem into consideration.” Nolan’s eyes lit up.

While shooting, Martin whispered to Nolan: “If you use traditional tungsten lamps or HMI lamps with color filters, you can only get a single tone. And our LEDs are going to show virtual scenes, so the light projected on the actor’s face may be dark on one side and bright on the other side, or there may be a bright spot of other colors in the middle. This is very complicated and cannot be done with ordinary lighting methods.”

“What if you need to use a moving light source during shooting? For example, sunlight?” Nolan asked.

“We use small Dolly, crane arms and remote control heads to move Robin600ESpot portable lighting around the actors. Equipment engineer Pat would move Dolly and the small jib according to the position of the sun in the virtual environment when shooting each shot, and operator Nicoto would control the remote control head to ensure that the light shines on the actors. ”

Nolan simulated in his mind according to Martin’s ideaFor a moment, he was amazed, "This method is great. By the way, I saw that you used the Arri Alexa Classic and Arri Master Prime wide-angle lenses. How is the effect?"

Martin smiled and said, "It's unexpectedly good. Alexa allows me to shoot at the native ASA800 sensitivity, and it looks great even if it is increased to 1200, which makes LED light sources feasible." (To read the exciting novel, go to Faloo Novel Network!)

Then Martin emphasized, "In addition, Alexa's tolerance allows me to deal with the overexposed parts of hard light with almost no loss of details."

After Martin finished shooting this set of shots, Nolan moved closer to the LED light box to observe.

In order to shoot the actors in the LED light box, the "Gravity" crew installed Alexa on a modified Mo-Sys remote control head and attached it to a large motion control robotic arm, which can shoot around the actors according to a pre-designed trajectory.

Martin explained: "This system allows the production team to take full advantage of the relative movement between objects in space. Because there is no difference in zero gravity, shooting moving objects with a fixed camera and shooting fixed objects with a moving camera look the same, so we decided to let the camera do most of the movement."

Nolan nodded and looked at the huge LED light box in front of him. There were a huge number of LED lights in the light box, which was basically like an oversized wall-mounted TV screen.

This is a bit like the LED light box hanging above the NBA court, except that there are two more sides and the screen is facing inward.

Technically, it is not difficult to achieve, but no one has thought of it.

A simple idea greatly simplifies the difficulty of shooting. Directors who shoot space-themed movies in the future should thank Martin for saving them a lot of trouble!

And it is also good for actors. With this device, actors don’t have to perform in the air based on their imagination, and the difficulty of performance is also reduced a lot.

"Chris, how did you plan to shoot the weightless state before?" Martin asked curiously.

Nolan smiled and said, "I originally had two plans: one is to follow the method used by director Ron Howard in "Apollo 13" - the vomit comet, which is to bring all the staff involved in the filming into the plane, and the plane will suddenly fall freely for a period of time at high altitude. During this period of time, all objects and the environment in the cabin are relatively weightless, and one flight can get about 25 seconds of weightlessness. Another method is to rent the instrument simulating weightlessness at the headquarters of NASA. By the way, I heard that Jessica and Leonardo have experienced it."

"Yes, it feels bad." Leonardo thought of the situation at that time and his face turned pale.

"Hehe!" Jessica chuckled a few times. []

"In fact, the simulated weightlessness instrument of NASA and the vomit comet are based on the same principle. With the help of a huge ringThe high-drop track is used to simulate weightlessness, but that method is not very friendly to ordinary people. Leon has achieved the achievement of vomiting comet three times. "

(PS: The so-called "vomiting comet" refers to the vomiting that often occurs during training. The vomit is ejected like the tail of a comet. That scene...tsk tsk tsk!!!)

Leonardo: "Hey, don't always make fun of my embarrassing things. I help you for free."

"Okay, okay, my bad." Martin raised his hands in surrender.

"Martin, your method is still good. In order to shoot the weightlessness shots, director Ron Howard played 612 weightless flights. It is said that Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise and other main actors are about to collapse. As for the weightlessness simulation instrument at the NASA headquarters, let alone, I am really afraid that any actor or staff will have a heart attack during the shooting, including myself. Your device is the best, and it can not only capture weightlessness inside the cabin, but also capture weightlessness outside the cabin. It's perfect."

Nolan praised sincerely.

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