After all of them were reborn, who would still be an actor?

Chapter 387: Does two negatives equal a positive?
Li Mingyang pulled his arm out of the hole in the wall. "Did you see that? The force of the blow is just this strong. It can break a wall."

"Is your hand okay?" Liu Shishi said with concern.

"I have brass knuckles with me, it's okay." Li Mingyang shook the brass knuckles in his hand.

"I'm not as strong as you..." Liu Shishi touched Li Mingyang's hand and found that it was only a little red.

"It's just a reference for you. I'm not asking you to kill me. There will be special effects later."

"Also, when you pinch someone's neck, you must use a sense of strength in your hands."

"Dajun, come here."

“The speed can be increased later, but the coordination of the body and the sense of striking require real fighting.”

Li Mingyang took off his brass knuckles and used Dayun as a target. While explaining to Liu Shishi, he asked Zhang Ruoyun for a reaction.

This operation made Li Xin and Bai Bin roll their eyes. Whenever Liu Shishi had a problem, it was really like on-the-spot teaching!
No scolding...

Li Mingyang had almost finished speaking and returned to his seat to direct a retake.

After a night of disassembly and assembly, the corridors of the base are now single-sided, and an overhead camera position is installed on the top to allow three-camera shooting.

Li Mingyang had anticipated many scenes, but he really didn't expect that the most important fight scene between the nobleman and the witch would go wrong.

I just can't capture the feeling of the original witch...

After a few try shots, they didn’t go well, so Li Mingyang called out “cut” and went to have lunch first.

Li Mingyang had just finished lunch when his sister-in-law Tang Yixin came.

Tang Yixin is a genuine Sichuan girl, very aggressive. In her previous life, Zhang Ruoyun was often beaten up. Is it the same in this life?
"Xiao Tang, I have a fight scene here, but Dayun and Shishi don't think it's good enough. You can fight later. If you can, you can be Shishi's stand-in. Any objection?"

"No problem, I do."

Wait until the afternoon to shoot again.

Li Mingyang called Tang Yixin to sit behind the monitor alone and explained his requirements to her.

"Director Li, are we really going to fight? What if he gets hurt?" Tang Yixin said with a worried look on her face.

"Dajun is not a coward, he won't do that."

"Ok."

The reshoot continued in the afternoon. Tang Yixin started first, but halfway through, Li Mingyang suddenly called a stop.

It's not that the fight was bad, but that the fight was too good. It fully demonstrated what it means to hit the flesh with punches, slaps, and knee strikes, all directly to the head!

Dayun was beaten so hard that he cried loudly.

"Everyone, take a break first. Dayun, you are not dead, are you? Take a breath."

"I'm fine."

Zhang Ruoyun got up from the ground, his nose and face were bruised and there was a big bump on his forehead.

"Dajun, you can't be filmed in this state. Xiao Tang, take Dayun to the hospital and get the swelling down as soon as possible."

"Director, what do you think of my performance?"

"Very good! It doesn't look like acting, it's so real..."

"Thank you for the compliment, Director!" Tang Yixin bowed happily, and then looked at Li Mingyang in a flattering manner.

Li Mingyang smiled and said, “If Shishi is still not good enough, then you should prepare to take over.”

"Thank you, director!"

"Shishi, don't shoot today. Think carefully about the shot that Xiao Tang just took."

"Oh... um!" Liu Shishi looked at Tang Yixin strangely and was stunned for a moment before speaking.

With Tang Yixin's passionate performance,

Reshoot the next day.

Liu Shishi performed brilliantly, and Zhang Ruoyun probably didn't want to be beaten by Tang Yixin, so she was rarely afraid of pain, and she smashed the wall, threw over her shoulder, flew backwards, and spurted blood in one shot.

"Oh my god, the shooting a few days ago was such a mess, but suddenly I can shoot now, and the shooting is so good..." Li Xin said in disbelief with his eyes wide open.

"Director Li found a good template for her! Tang Yixin must have beaten Zhang Ruoyun a lot! One beats naturally, the other is scared of being beaten... and doesn't want to be beaten again." Bai Bin said jealously.

"You have been biased for more than two or three days..." Li Xin said enviously.

After watching today's fighting scenes, Bai Bin suddenly felt that this movie was not as bad as he had imagined.

The literary scenes are a mess, but the fighting scenes are really exquisite and well polished.

Although Liu Shishi has a lot of fighting scenes, they are very simple, unlike a spy, and her leg skills are exaggerated.

My fighting scenes seem to be quite exciting too?
Baibin smiled knowingly and prepared to spend some money to make some eye-catching announcements.

……

On April 4, all the scenes at the base were shot.

When finishing work, Li Mingyang announced something.

The filming schedule of the Witch crew has been greatly changed. They will rest during the day and film at night. The filming location is on the eighth floor of Mingyang Entertainment.

Then everyone only had time to eat before going to Mingyang Entertainment for green screen filming. "Li Xin, it seems like you don't have a role anymore?"

"Yes, but the crew didn't inform me that the filming was finished..."

"Eh...I don't think I have much role to play anymore, and I don't know when I can leave."

The two women, who shared the same pain, sat in the car and sighed.

Although they are not child actors and have no more roles to play, they still have to go to the crew every day and be ready to shoot at any time.

But Li Mingyang is a big director! He didn't let them leave, and the two women didn't dare to leave.

It was the first time for the two girls to come to the eighth floor of Mingyang Entertainment, which had an entire floor of studios!
At the elevator entrance, various props are placed on shelves in different categories, a bit like a warehouse.

After passing through the warehouse area, everyone came to the huge green screen studio. The green screen covered most of the floor!
It's like a big theater, even bigger than the largest banquet hall in the China World Trade Center.

The huge green screen studio was already very impressive, but what was even more impressive was the large number of people on the scene.

I don't know what process they are working according to. Some people are setting up the scene, some are laying the shooting track, some are adjusting the lighting, some are laying the green base, and there is a group of people wearing green leather suits and stacking building blocks.

"What a luxurious studio!" Li Xin said with curiosity.

“I heard that it cost 100 million yuan, but it is not rented out,” said Bai Bin.

"Ah! Then how do you expect to make money?"

"Just satisfy his personal hobbies. He has money anyway." Baibin said lightly.

"..."

Whether it is a blue screen or a green screen, it is mainly used for keying.

Keying is basically about keying out people.

Both have their advantages and disadvantages, and green is more applicable.

Green screens are basically used in China because blue screens have higher requirements for lighting, and blue screens are not suitable for daytime exterior scenes.

The green background can form a sharp contrast with the sunlight and natural scenery, making the synthesis more natural.

It is more in line with the domestic demand for skin resurfacing filters.

Science fiction movies are more suitable for blue screens.

The blue screen is suitable for shooting certain specific scenes, such as pictures with a sense of technology and futurism. The blue tone can better create a mysterious atmosphere.

In addition, when there are a lot of night scenes or dark scenes in the movie, a blue screen may be more suitable, because the blue is relatively less abrupt in a darker environment and can be better integrated with the picture.

Li Mingyang came to a computer desk, holding the storyboard and imagining the scene while checking the dynamic preview.

The scenes and characters in dynamic previews are usually created by Maya.

Some complex actions and difficult-to-operate shots will be dynamically rehearsed in advance so that everyone can be foolproof during filming.

In the pre-production, even detailed factors such as the lighting direction of real shooting and CG, physical time, post-production green screen, equipment venue, venue direction, etc. were stipulated.

Infinitely approach the problems faced during shooting and make them as clear as possible.

Hollywood already has a systematic process for dynamic pre-production, facial capture, and motion capture.

However, the system seems to have not yet been formed in China, and very few companies are using it.

Li Mingyang originally wanted to use dynamic pre-production to design movie scenes, but no one in the company knew how to do it, so he had to invite someone from abroad to teach him, and a group of people followed him to learn.

It's very average, not as good as a storyboard.

Li Mingyang had a mature domestic film and television industrialization system in his mind, but when he started to promote it.

That’s terrible. Either no one knows how to do it or no one understands it, and we have to start all over again.

Hollywood industrial films are not as simple as relying on computer special effects.

He involves the combination of real-life shooting and CG technology, data models, concept design, physical model production, CG special effects production, etc.

"It's useless..."

Li Mingyang shook his head, sat back behind the monitor and began directing the filming.

When shooting with a green screen, the fewer things there are in the scene, the higher the requirements for the actors and the entire crew.

Your Name is the God of Storyboards, which tests the director's control over the camera.

Having a storyboard can help you get twice the result with half the effort.

The witch is a combination of action and special effects, so the actor himself needs to have imagination!

Li Mingyang was quite worried about Liu Shishi's condition, fearing that she could not tell the directions.

Who knew that when filming started, Li Mingyang found that Liu Shishi was very adaptable to green screen shooting, and even her movements became faster.

Fast and accurate!

When I'm usually filming, I can't focus, like a blind person.

He was fighting against the air, and his fight was surprisingly methodical, with his eyes sharp.

Is this a positive from a negative?
(End of this chapter)