Chapter 258 Forced Perspective
Turning around and walking outside, Robert Downey Jr. twisted his coquettish butt and said as he walked, "Why are all empty in such a big house? Why are there only two X-Men?"
"Oh..." He made an exaggerated voice again, and this time the producers did not let go. "It must be that the 20th Century Fox invested not enough money, and there was not enough money to hire more X-Men."
He seemed a little angry in his words, "The biographical movie I made for me turned out to be a small production!"
Originally, the lines should end here, and Murphy was about to stop, but Robert Downey Jr. had no intention of stopping. He stretched out a finger and pointed at the camera, "Hey, idiot director, if you messed up, I will definitely make you look like me!"
“cut!”
Seeing Robert Downey Jr. stop talking, Murphy called to stop the crew, stood up, and raised a thumb to the other side of the set, "Well done, Downey!"
Although Robert Downey Jr.'s on-the-spot performance was not within the script plan just now, the shooting was highly flexible. Excellent actors often perform on-the-spot performances because of their roles during filming. As long as it is beneficial to the film, the director generally will not reject it.
This time he broke the fourth wall and mocked himself, Murphy thought Robert Downey Jr. did a very good job.
In most cases, breaking the fourth wall in a film like Deadpool is a taboo in film production, which easily makes the audience lose their dramas, so no other film will easily try it. However, "Deadpool" is different. It has the comic setting as the basis and meets the needs of the overall style of the film. Breaking the fourth wall is beneficial or harmless.
However, Murphy also knew that even if the movie was "Deadpool", you should pay attention to the timing and quantity of breaking the fourth wall, otherwise such crazy complaints would also cause the audience to lose their drama.
The first scene was filmed very smoothly, and the purpose of this scene was also over. It took several days to arrange it, just for a few minutes to shoot, which is very common in film production.
Murphy called for a turn, but the crew didn't go far. In front of another green screen next to it, the scenes of Lily Collins' Black Spider and the Russian-born actor's Steelerson were filmed.
This is also a complaint.
"Every time I have a chance, I will let Deadpool join us..."
Just as the filming began, the Russian-born actor named Krakow only said half a sentence, and Murphy called him to stop, "cut!"
Lily Collins stood in front of the green screen and turned to look at Krakow, knowing that he must be the one who made the mistake.
Sure enough, Murphy said loudly, "What are you talking about? American English? Or French English? I want English with a Russian accent!"
Krakow, who was full of motion capture, immediately realized that he had made a mistake and quickly said, "Sorry, director, I will definitely pay attention to the pronunciation."
The setting of Steelers in the comics is that it comes from Russia, otherwise Murphy would not have found a Russian actor to use motion capture.
"Each department returns to its post!" Murphy shouted loudly.
There is no need to move too much in other departments. The main reason is that the film crew of Filey Raschel needs to be readjusted. Since the filming is used, and the actual height difference between the two characters in the film is quite large, there is not so many between the actors, so ordinary shooting methods are definitely not possible.
Murphy used a more popular approach in the industry. Hollywood had many solutions to the shooting of this kind of character height difference in shooting, but in the past, Peter Jackson made quite a lot of improvements when shooting the Hobbit scenes by Peter Jackson in the past few years. It is already very mature and can be used to make appropriate adjustments and used for shooting.
This is the forced perspective method.
The so-called forced perspective is to use the illusion of optical and visual illusion to deform the subject, closer, larger, smaller, etc., and to use the illusion of visual perception of human eyes to make the object photographed wrongly relativity with the surrounding environment. In addition, the photographer's creativity and the camera's angle change, the scenes with a completely different proportion from the facts are captured.
After Filey Raschel re-adjusts a series of equipment into place, the shooting begins again.
In the script, this is a dialogue scene where Steelers and Black Spider walk together. In the current shooting, Lily Collins is quite far away from Krakow and is completely in a different green screen environment.
Murphy and Felix Raschel had discussed all the scenes of Steelers, and he also made relevant plans.
During shooting, he will deliberately change the front and back feeling of the picture and guide lines to make the camera feel illusion, so the proportion of the characters can be presented exaggeratedly.
According to his requirements, Krakow was alone in the green screen space next to the main scene where Lily Collins was. The main camera used for shooting was closer to him and away from Lily Collins to create a tall effect. Later, use CG to remove the background and then add a suitable computer CG background.
Lily Collins and Krakow walked forward in parallel at different positions. In addition to the main camera, Murphy also set up a second secondary camera for auxiliary shooting.
Since tracks, booms and other equipment are used during shooting, Murphy lets the main lens move and shoot continuously, so he also uses a computer to control the second camera position immediately during shooting. The second camera position is also located at the end of Krakow, but it will not move in a large range like the main lens. It will only perform slow motion shooting on a very short track.
When the system in the second camera receives the command message sent by Murphy, it will shoot according to the settings. Because the lens is closer to Krakow, the range of movement will be less.
Murphy's director position is in the middle of two cameras, and he can see the shooting effect very clearly.
There is another point in the shooting. Murphy asked Krakow to slow down the frequency of movement a little. When the huge object moves slowly, the credibility will increase. In other words, the audience is more likely to accept slower-moving giant beasts, giants, etc., so the giant beasts in the movies you see, such as Godzilla, always take every step slowly.
The two actors were far away, but due to the need for live recording, when the microphone used for recording fell, Krakow spoke again, "Every time I have the chance, I will let Deadpool join us, but he acted like a child who had not grown up, and a fully armed child."
He turned his head and looked at Lily Collins, "When will he mature and realize the benefits of joining the X-Men?"
"What's the benefit?" Lily Collins also began to complain, "Unsight tight stretchy clothes? Or the house that has been blown away every few years?"
"Please!" Krakow defended, "Blasting the house is to shape the characters. If we don't blow up our house, how can we highlight how bad the villain is? How to highlight the actions of our X-Men are just, popular, and to maintain the beauty and peace of the world..."
Many people in the crew were laughing. Since the film would cross the film with "X-Men", the X-Men are naturally the ones who were teased and complained the most.
"Stop!" Murphy did not shout, "Do it again!"
Many times, even if the shooting meets the requirements, the director will continue to shoot to see if he can still get better shots. Moreover, taking more shots can also allow more materials to be used during post-recording.
Shooting is never for shooting, just like many preparatory preparations are preparing for shooting, shooting must serve post-production.
This is almost a full green screen scene, and post-production still requires synthesis, while the scene where Steelers and Black Spider set off in the stealth jet is neither planned to shoot nor synthesize it with CGI.
Cara Fais has obtained permission from Twentieth Century Fox, and "Deadpool" can appropriately use some shots from "X-Men" that will not appear in specific actors.
The two videos are both a series, and the copyright belongs to the same company, so they are also very convenient to use.
Of course, Murphy won't use a lot. The only ones who are currently planning to use are shots of Steelers and Black Spider flying a fighter jet from Xavier Genius Teen School.
Although the crew filmed some very fragmented shots on the first day, the shooting process was quite smooth, especially Robert Downey Jr., with all kinds of complaints flying all over the sky, making the words staying on paper come alive. If Murphy led a more mature team with sufficient experience, he would probably laugh frequently.
After the first day of filming, Murphy did not get off work immediately. Instead, he asked Cara Fais to convene the heads of various departments and hold a brief meeting.
In addition to directors such as Murphy, Paul Wilson and Seth Logan, as well as heads of various departments such as Filey Laschel, Helena Espora, David Robbie and Jack Watson, there were also representatives of AIA on the crew.
This representative is a relatively silent type. He entered the crew as early as Los Angeles. As long as the crew follows the plan, he is a completely invisible person and will not easily give any suggestions.
In addition, since this time, the crew has not cooperated with Miramax, the crew has also replaced a new editor. Jody Griffith, who originally worked with Murphy, was joined by Kara Fess.
Jody Griffith is Carla Fiss's old subordinate, and his ability has been recognized by Murphy, which is enough to be the editor of this film.
And unlike the filming and production of "Scary Planet" and "Sin City", since the producer is Cara Fais, Murphy can get more full strength, and the post-production editing is completely under his control. Jody Griffith and the editing team are more like a pair of hands that fulfill his will.
Such a meeting would be a routine meeting. After Murphy asked Paul Wilson, who was specifically responsible for planning and reporting, to submit his work log today and shooting plans for tomorrow to a representative of AIA, he specifically emphasized one point.
Chapter completed!