In the studio converted from the Hughes Aircraft Factory, several agents protected an old man with gray hair and kept firing at the opposite side with shotguns, as if there were powerful enemies in the air opposite.

"The Air Force has responded!"

A skillful black agent hid behind a computer desk and shouted, "They will send -22 Raptors to Las Vegas."

“ut!”

Behind the director's monitor, Duke shouted and stopped, "This one has passed!"

More than a dozen staff members immediately walked into the shooting site and cleaned up the mess all over the ground, while Duke led the crew to switch to film.

In the shot just now, black people can be said to be a very necessary choice, but Duke did not make a funny non-mainstream. He is not Michael Bey, and he will not add absurd and funny shit and pee, and directly cut off the black character and was replaced by a black agent in the seventh district.

Each director has his own style. Even if he is filming a commercial film, there is a huge difference in the styles of Duke and Michael Bay.

The crew left the venue that was almost destroyed in the shooting scene and moved to the other side of the studio. The most eye-catching thing here is the Megatron model, which is tall and stands out from polystyrene, but is also vivid. Not to mention being processed by the camera lens, even if it looks like it is full of vitality.

As Duke said, the film does not require a bulky and sturdy machine, but a high-level intelligent life like humans.

Duke orderly directed the operation of the entire crew, and it has been nearly a week since he returned to the studio to shoot. Compared to filming "The Dark Knight", he has not been so strict about the performance of "Transformers". There is not much room for actors to play, let alone Andrew Garfield and Amber Hilder's acting skills are more than one level worse than Heath Ledger and Christian Bale. Even if their acting skills are similar, these two roles are unable to play.

Sam is just the spokesperson for teenage audiences on the screen, and Mikayla's existence is simpler. That's a vase.

The relatively simple requirement also made the shooting go smoothly. Although Duke noticed that Andrew Garfield and Amber Hilde had a sharp conflict, he ignored it at all. After he warned, both of them were smart and did not substitute the conflict into the shooting.

At least it did not affect the progress of the shooting.

This is enough for Duke. The Hollywood crew is never friendly. As long as it does not affect the film, Andrew Garfield and Amber Hilde have nothing to do with him even if they regard each other as their number one enemy.

Duke would not be so stupid that he thought that he would say something, Andrew Garfield and Amber Hilde would let go of their conflicts and become loving friends.

In fact, most of the crew in Hollywood are in this state.

In this circle of fighting for fame and fortune, there are very close actors, but no one will just believe and get close to others casually.

When you shoot a video, the main actors of the film will become their friends, and only the director who has a head in his head will do such stupid things.

For example, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, they all think that they are friends, but Duke, who is in the circle, knows that the cooperative relationship between them is much greater than their friendship.

Most of the actors who have worked with Duke are just simple working relationships.

After fighting in Hollywood for so many years, Duke is well aware of the complexity and changeability of this circle. Not to mention friends, even former besties like Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts will turn against each other because of competing for a role.

To put it another way, none of the actors Duke has worked with will become a member of his team, including Tom Hanks.

His production style also determines that the actor's acting skills are not a particularly important part.

From entering Hollywood to now, Duke has only Captain Miller and the Joker who can truly play their roles in the films that can fully play.

All departments of the crew took their place one after another. Duke also walked to the huge Megatron model and explained a few words to Andrew Garfield and Amber Hilde. The former had to explain the true purpose of Megatron coming to Earth through lines, while the latter had basically no lines, but the camera would still take appropriate care of her. She must show her sexy figure as before.

"Scene 27, Act 19..."

The sound of the record quickly rang out, "Start now!"

While looking at Megatron with surprise eyes, a group of people walked towards it. Agent Simmons of the Seventh District introduced, "This is nbe-1!"

"Sorry, sir." Andrew Garfield interjected, "I'm not trying to interrupt you on purpose, but this is Megatron! He is the leader of the Decepticon!"

"He has been frozen since 1935." Another agent pointed to Megatron and said, "Your great-great-grandfather discovered it, the greatest discovery in human history."

The close-up camera swept across Andrew Garfield and Amber Heard who was close to him, and stayed on Amber Heard for two seconds, giving her a close-up close-up, and then turned to Agent Simmons.

"What you see is the source of modernization." The agent from the Seventh District walked around proudly with his hands behind his back. "Crystals, lasers, space flights, and cars are all obtained by reverse engineering."

He walked to Andrew Garfield and deliberately emphasized his tone, "nbe-1, that's what we call him!"

Perhaps because of the fact that the actors' performances are not very demanding, the several scenes in the morning went smoothly, and even in group scenes, there were fewer occurrences. In the afternoon, several scenes involving fire sources and robots were announced to be passed after a few filmings, and the crew was able to finish work early.

Although the crew finished work early, Duke did not finish his work. He returned to the Warner Studios in Burbank and went to the special effects studio set up by Industrial Light and Magic to check the progress of the special effects production.

The number of special effects shots this movie has to use far exceeds that of "Iron Man".

The first work of "Transformers" was once the first work of "Transformers" with the best professional reputation and the most organized plot in the entire series, but it is also the one with the least appearances of Transformers. Not to mention that the first male protagonist Optimus Prime is late, even in other scenes, Transformers basically pass by in a flash.

When Duke was in his hands, he performed a considerable operation on this film, the most typical of which was to streamline the plot and characters, so as to give more time to the Transformers.

Especially Optimus Prime, according to his idea, Optimus Prime must appear at most about twenty-five minutes of the beginning of the film.

What follows is the reduction of human scenes.

This will inevitably lead to criticism from some professionals, but who cares about them?

After the film is released, what the audience cares about is the fate of Transformers, fighting scenes, audio-visual effects and special effects.

As the number of Transformers appears increases, the number of special effects shots will also increase. A year is quite nervous to complete the special effects of such a film. Starting from determining the design and shape of Transformers, Industrial Light and Magic special effects masters are busy making special effects.

However, Duke will also limit the dependence of Transformers and background elements on computer drawings in action scenes. Most of the crashes and explosions are mostly taken in real scenes, and the camera lens is placed in vehicle impact and explosion scenes to make the scene look more exciting.

Transformers design is extremely complex. Even simple actions like turning the wrist require dozens of visual components. Each gun in the iron sheet is composed of about 10,000 parts. Bumblebee uses a panel to act as an eyebrow, and multiple parts on the face need to be rotated to show the effect of smiling. All Transformers characters' eyes have undergone dilated and illuminated design.

Among them, Duke also specifically instructed Industrial Light and Magic to light up the eyes of characters such as Optimus Prime to moderately avoid some viewers from being able to distinguish between Autobots and Decepticons due to the chaotic scene.

This difference will become very simple. The red eyes are the Decepticon, and the blue green ones are the Autobot.

In the past few months, Industrial Light and Magic have been designing and producing computer animations for Transformers. They carefully compared every detail on the car model. At first, the deformation process they designed followed the laws of physics, but the result was that it looked neither exciting nor smooth enough.

For such a movie with special effects as its main selling point, this is simply a fatal injury.

Later, Industrial Light Magic also proposed an unreliable solution to use liquid metal for the surface of the King Kong character. Duke was scolded to death. He only replied to Industrial Light Magic with one sentence: This is Transformers, not t1000!

Until now, Industrial Light and Magic has chosen the "Rude's Cube" style that completely abandons the laws of physics, so that whether it is static or dynamic, Transformers will look more interesting, real, dynamic and fast, rather than clumsy beasts like wild beasts.

An important decision in the production process of Industrial Light Magic stunts is to allow the wheels to touch the ground as long as possible, so that the automaker can maintain movement while deforming, thereby maintaining a basic sense of reality.

These plans were also recognized by Duke. He knew what the selling point of the movie was. The square, thick and heavy Transformers were a disaster for such a commercial science fiction film.

In addition, Duke specifically asked action guide Jimmy Carter to collect videos of several free fighting performances and multiple action films that combine judo and Muay Thai fighting methods, and provide special effects animators of Industrial Light and Magic to observe, in order to make the fighting scenes in the movie look more beautiful.

Special effects production is undoubtedly the top priority of this film. During the studio shooting, Duke and Industrial Light and Magic continued to communicate and exchange opinions on this. By the time Duke left Los Angeles and headed for Las Vegas, the special effects production was basically on the right track. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!