Hong Kong Entertainment’s Life Simulator

It's not difficult to get veteran martial artists such as Cheng Xiaodong and Lin Zhengying to accept the fighting styles and routines from Rescue and The Bourne Supremacy.

It's not difficult. In this era, they are the best martial arts actors in the world, including Hollywood. Even if the new era fighting style has swept the world since the turn of the millennium, Hollywood has learned step by step from Hong Kong movies and Hong Kong martial arts.

It is then integrated with itself, combined with technology, and summarized.

At the end of the day, action directors in Hong Kong films gradually declined, but Hollywood became more and more prosperous. Even in Wolf Warrior 2 and other films, action directors often hired people from Hollywood to hire teams.

It can be said that Hollywood has fully used "what you learn and apply it" in action scenes.

It's still early for that. As the best first-class martial arts directors in the world's film industry, A-ying, Cheng Sir and others accepted the fighting concepts explained by Director Zhao and quickly taught Xingzai, A-yun and A-yu.

Demonstrate, practice tricks, react...

After teaching him step by step, Xingzai and others understood and learned almost enough. After a few people tried it again, Cheng Xiaodong scratched his head and said, "This kind of fighting... is really a bit ordinary."

Not very pretty.

At least based on the current shooting methods of action and fighting scenes in Hong Kong, the design of these action scenes is a bit ordinary and ordinary.

It wouldn't look good on the big screen like this.

Zhao Donghuai directed two photographers and set up three cameras in three corners of the big house, while explaining, "Sir Cheng, don't worry about that for now, design one or two sets of actions, let A Ying be the protagonist, and Xing Zai and the other three will be beaten. of."

"You rehearse twice first. Once you're ready, we'll start shooting the demo."

“There are two ways to shoot the samples.”

"When the filming is finished, take it to be developed and edited. Once everything is ready, I will invite you to see the samples. In my next film, A Ying is scheduled to be the male lead. If Cheng Sir Qian doesn't mind, I still want you to be the ringleader. .”

"The main actions are efficient and realistic in actual combat. Once the movie starts filming, we can occasionally add some beautiful fighting moves and martial arts routines to polish it up."

"Ninety percent is true and the other tenth is polished at the right time."

There are two shooting methods. One is to place three cameras in a triangle on a slide rail, shoot the same action scene from various angles, and then edit it. The second is to wear a Steadicam for handheld photography.

In the past two days, Zhao Donghuai had so many reputation points that he only consumed one hundred for the simulation once a year. Even if "you can choose to increase your height by one centimeter at will" is a bit nonsense, just choose it seven or eight times.

The remaining ones also allowed him to master the physical skills of handheld photography.

Here, physical strength is very important. If physical strength is poor, a full set of Steadicam plus film camera, lens, etc. weighs more than fifty or sixty pounds. You can resist for a few minutes, ten minutes, or even a few hours... A weakling can carry it down to his waist. Wasted.

Skills are also very important. If your skills are not good, how can you do photography?

Hiring muscular men from the gym can also resist the Steadicam, but how many muscular men and fitness guys are proficient in photography, or are they film-level and want to be released in theaters? ?

As for the Steadicams, after they were released in New World, he asked someone to buy them at Amei's house and transport them back. After all, Zhao Donghuai also went to Amei's house for business several times.

The entire set of equipment arrived just the day before yesterday.

after a while.

Lin Zhengying and Cheng Xiaodong designed the action well, and with three cameras shooting on the road, one against three, they knocked down three Xingzi cleanly.

The first time was with bare hands, and the second wave was with Xingzai and three others holding weapons, while Lin Zhengying was unarmed.

After two rounds, Zhao Donghuai walked back to the office, put on a Taiwanese Steadicam, and walked out carrying a camera.

A group of actors and behind the scenes were all stunned.

Cheng Xiaodong was horrified and said, "Director?? This is a camera weighing dozens of kilograms. You..."

Still confused for a few seconds, Xingzi said in surprise, "Is it a Steadicam? A camera stabilizer? I remember Rocky, who won the Oscar for Best Picture and Best Director in 1977, and Rocky, who was nominated for Oscar Best Actor and Best Actress. Odd, the most classic scene was shot with a Steadicam."

Zhao Donghuai glanced at Xingzi in surprise, "Yes, it's a Steadicam."

"A Ying, it's the same routine you used to beat Xingzai and the three of them before. Let's do it again. This time, turn off the camera in the corner and I'll follow you with a handheld camera."

Handheld photography is prone to shaking and poor shooting, and moviegoers will feel the movie is shaking around, causing vomiting and nausea. Even for the Bourne Supremacy series, in large theaters, it is best to watch movies in 2D, not 3D.

Because 3D can make you dizzy and the viewing experience is extremely poor.

That is to say, later generations of mainland audiences like to watch 3D or are deceived into thinking that 3D is all good. Then after the Bourne series, Hollywood only showed 2D, but specially formulated a 3D version for the mainland to cheat money.

In later generations, many TV dramas and online dramas... I feel like the camera is very shaky when I watch it, and it's very depressing.

Those are all long shots and sports shots shot with Steadicam. Why? The moving shots follow the protagonist all the time, giving a stronger sense of immersion, and the language of breathing shots is a bit too literary and artistic.

This is the way to imitate the texture of documentaries, enhance the sense of movement in the picture, create a deepening atmosphere, and strive to make the viewer feel immersed in the scene.

Audiences in the Internet era don’t find anything novel in watching this kind of movies, and they don’t feel that they are too colorful to say the least. That’s the vast majority of viewers in the Internet era who watch too many sports shots and handheld photography when watching TV online.

Unprofessional viewers watch dramas every day, who can tell which one is holding which slide? After seeing it too much, you will become accustomed to it, so you will naturally not be surprised.

But it was the first time it appeared on the screen, especially this type of action fighting style, which was definitely a genre opener.

The Bourne Supremacy series was not the first to use the Steadicam. Star Tsai used the example of Rocky in 1977, which won all kinds of awards in Hollywood. In the 1990s, Zhang Guoshi had something to say, and there were a lot of sports shots. That was also the entry of the Steadicam. One of the symbols of the mainland.

shake!

But the Bourne series was almost the first to integrate fighting action scenes in all aspects, and its milestone significance is extremely obvious in future action movies.

Of course, the prerequisite for all this is that the photographer's hands must be steady, and the shot must be as stable as possible. If it is not stable and shakes around, it will be embarrassing.

This is not the case. Zhao Donghuai’s first intermediate simulation will not be funny after practicing Steadicam for a year.

Ordinary people can do an experiment. Hold a bowl of rice in your hand and hold it horizontally at low altitude. Don't walk or run, just hold it horizontally for a few minutes to see if the bowl of rice will shake around? Swinging around on different levels?

If you can't hold a bowl of rice steady, then a film camera with a starting weight of fifty or sixty pounds... Even if the Steadicam can distribute the power to your waist, it doesn't just rely on your arm strength.

If you carry it for a day, your waist will be almost useless.

After the millennium, the Steadicam photographers and Mr. Da Si of major mainland production crews are all professionals. They are a minority among the entire photographer group, and not just anyone can be hired.

If you don't develop a pair of unicorn arms, you won't be able to play.

When Zhao Donghuai was ready, he said to the people in the center of the room, "Ready? Aikesh!"

All of a sudden, Xingzi and the other three surrounded Lin Zhengying from three directions with bare hands as they had done with the previous three cameras. Aying also moved, and then Zhao Donghuai carried Da Si and the camera, chasing Aying and running together.