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In order to enhance this effect, Rowan had already found a solution: shooting in a closed room.
He chose his home and did not use the typical studio-building shooting method. Instead, he chose pure indoor shooting, with the actors and the crew sharing a creative space. In addition to saving money, this can also enhance the desired visual effects.
Pure indoor shooting can enhance the capture of the character's lines and expressions, and can vividly describe the psychological journey of people questioning, accepting and rejecting the authenticity of an immortal person.
He didn't plan to change this even if he upgrades the hardware. At most he can improve the lighting and enhance the audio- visual effects.
While chatting with James Wan, the crew soon arrived.
Temporarily upgraded equipment, cha nged shooting plans, and rehearsed actor
At 10 a.m. on December 5, 1997, the filming of "This Man From Earth" officially began.
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"Let's rent a venue next time."
Mary, who came to see the villa specially, glanced at the villa decorated as a film set, and glanced at the neighbors who were looking around curiously: "I'm really afraid that the neighbors will complain about you."
Rowan nodded in agreement: "I will definitely do that next time. I'm still not experienced enough this time."
He originally didn't want to waste money, although he is already a billionaire he couldn't waste money on a movie where it's budget was supposed to be low just for his convenience.
But when he really started preparing, Rowan found that he had to spend a lot of extra effort to save a little money.
Communicate with neighbors...the time spent on communication greatly affects efficiency.
If there are any unexpected events, such as complaints, it will delay the progress.
The crew of "This Man From Earth" is not large, so the movement is not big and the labor cost is not high.
If it were a large film crew, a delay of a few days could waste hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The trouble is not worth it.
This is a lesson you will only learn if you become a director.
"It's just this small problem. Everything else is very good."
Mary rarely praised him: "For a newcomer, you are pretty good."
Rowan gave her a surprised look an d said, "Thank you for the compliment."
"It's not that great actually. It's all beca use of the reliability of the team and the lo w difficulty of This Man From Earth."
Rowan sighed: "Fortunately, I started with "This Man From Earth" first."
The film production process is divided into four stages.
Creative creation, team building, shooting execution and post-processing.
Most movies start from an idea.
Write a script based on the idea, then attract investment and a production company to start the project.
The production company will then start looking for a team.
First find the director, and the director will bring his own team, including the director of photography, lighting team, editor, assistant director, etc.
During this period, the creative team will hold meetings continuously.
Establishment of photography style. Creation of perspective effect. The demand for actors. The demand for the scene. And so on.
This is like writing an outline for a novel or a blueprint for a building.
Now that the blueprint is ready, it's time to start preparing.
It starts with selecting the location and actors.
Design scenes, draw storyboards, design props and costumes, determine photographic equipment, and design actor makeup.
After the scenes are exchanged and the props and costumes are finalized, it is time to shoot tests, set up the lighting, rehearse the scenes, adjust the lenses and arrange the camera positions.
After the preliminary preparations are completed, all that remains is to shoot the material until the post-production editing and special effects stage.
All in all, the filming stage of a movie is a great test of scheduling capabilities.
The crew is like the army and the director is the marshal.
Each time you enter a new stage, the difficulty increases.
Rowan thought the pre-production was difficult, but the execution of the shooting was even more difficult.
Fortunately, "This Man From Earth" is not difficult.
The actors are reliable, the script is reliable, and the scene is simple, so there is no need to do anything fancy during filming.
--Some TV dramas are not shot in the order of the plot. In order to save costs, they are all shot in the same scene.
Sometimes, in order to improve efficiency, multiple groups will shoot at the same time.
This is not the case with "The Man from Earth".
There are only two scenes, just shoot them in the order of the plot.
If war films like "Saving Private Ryan" are of hellish difficulty, then "The Man from Earth" is of easy difficulty.
"They are all good actors. We sit together and fool around. If the script is OK, everything is OK. This level of difficulty is too friendly for me."
Rowan sighed: "I really want to thank you Mary... Thank you for the help of the team."
Mary tilted her head to look at him: "But I heard that you were the one who took the lead in the script later. Your writing ability is already great do I am sure it would have been easy for you."
Rowan thought that it was because of his superpowers.
As expected, after becoming the director, the dream copy did have new features.
If we use a simulation game to make the distinction, the actors are NBA players, and the director is in team manager mode.
Able to schedule and deduce movies from a macro perspective.
What does this equate to? It equates to having supercomputers to perform computational calculations in scientific research.
It's a magical tool for directors.
Rowan has experienced this many times and deduced it dozens of times.
Even though he is a novice screenwriter, he can easily optimize the script based on the simulation results.
He has polished the script four times.
Fewer holes and more topical.
The main part is the part where he plays Jesus.
If a girl wants to debut as an idol in the academy, then it's okay for him to play brother Jesus for a better trophy.
Ridwan actually felt that he was quite principled. At least he didn't create a black God - that was not the worst time God was slandered, but it would definitely be the worst in current times.
He played Jesus and filled in the loophole of Jesus feeding five thousand people with one loaf of bread.
The Gospels say that Jesus fed 5,000 people with bread. What kind of bread could do that?
After an in-depth and easy-to-understand study, Rowan and Emerson Bixby concluded that it was really hard bread.
It was said that on the Mid-Autumn Festival that year, it was already late at night when Jesus finished preaching.
The 5,000 disciples were hungry, so Jesus took out the hard bread and asked them to share it.
The first person who was assigned the piece took a bite and only made a one milli meter cut.
He covered his cheek and said in a low voice: "I'm full."
The second person said decisively: "I am full too."
The same thing happened to the 5,000 th person.
So the story of Jesus feeding 5,000 people with this hard bread has become famous.
The hard bread is really magical.
--Just kidding.
In addition to the script issues, Rowan directed James Wan to revise the storyboard twice, an efficiency that even a team of screenwriters cannot match.
Super powers are more useful as directors.
This transformation was really the right one... Rowan chatted with the female agent for a while, and saw that James Wan was ready for the shoot. The director of photography walked through the camera movement trajectory for the official shoot and rehearsed it again.
They made an OK gesture to Rowan.
"Okay!"
Rowan nodded to Mary, then walked over and clapped his hands: "Ladies and gentlemen, please stand at the starting position."
He took the lead and walked into the scene. All the staff members left the range covered by the camera. Only the burly man carrying a long recording pole was still recording at the edge.
When the light was about right, Rowan shouted, "First official shot, get ready!"
"The recorder is fine!"
"The camera is fine!"
"The first scene, the first shot, the first time of "The Man From Earth"."
Bang!
The clapperboard is down.
"Action!"