Two days later, Zhao Fei, who participated in the new equipment training organized by the Cinematographers Association in the United States, came directly to Lin'an. He was accompanied by the three photography teams of the movie "Hugo" led by photographer Dimit Portley.

The movie "Hugo" has not been released yet, but as a rebirth, Zhang Ran knew that "Hugo" was one of the best 3 movies after "Avatar". In order to make his new film better on 3, he directly packaged the 3 photography team of "Hugo".

After Zhao Fei and his friends arrived in Lin'an, Zhang Ran quickly held a meeting to discuss the issue of virtual photography. Zhao Fei is a traditional photographer. He still hopes that if you can take real photos, it is best to take real photos and then synthesize them after the shooting; while Dimitri Portley and the 3 photography team believed that since you want to make 3, it would be better to take virtual photography.

After weighing the trade-offs, Zhang Ran decided to use virtual photography. However, virtual photography must be carried out in a special virtual studio. At that time, he will definitely find the person in charge of Century Film Capital and ask them to transform the existing studio into a virtual studio.

Next, Zhang Ran and everyone began to discuss the issue of 3.

The world seen by people with the naked eye is three-dimensional, because the subtle angle difference between the two eyes is transmitted to the brain through the renal membrane, which can distinguish the front, back, and distance of the scenery, and then produce a strong sense of three-dimensionality. 3 Movies are the method of observing the scenery by the human eye. Two movie cameras placed side by side represent the left and right eyes, and simultaneously shoot two movie scenes with slightly horizontal parallax. During the screening, the two movie videos are loaded into the left and right movie projectors, and operated simultaneously to form a left and right image double shadow. When the audience wears special polarized glasses, the left and right images are stacked on the renal membrane through the convergence function of the eyes, and a three-dimensional visual effect is produced by the brain nerves.

3 movies are developed based on ordinary movies. Push, pull and shake techniques can be used, but 3 movies are still different from ordinary movies in production. 3 technology brings many restrictions to the shooting of movies. 3 movies cannot be edited too quickly, because it takes about 3 seconds to perceive the content in the shots, and 5 seconds to perceive the content in the shots. If this time is not reached, the 3 effect cannot be felt. If you make a fast editing style movie like "Spy Shadows", you will definitely not have much effect.

There are many similar problems, and this is the fundamental reason why Zhang Ran chose Dimit Porter as the 3 photographer. He hopes to cooperate with people with experience in filming 3 films, listen to their opinions, and try to avoid detours.

Zhang Ran looked at Dimit Porter and said, "You have experience in filming 3 movies, and I am a total rookie, so I hope to hear your suggestions and what are the problems we need to avoid."

When Dimit Porter heard Zhang Ran say this, he immediately explained: "During the filming of "Hugo", we found that if the movie is filled with 3s, it will be difficult to produce a strong impact. If 3s are everywhere, the best way to achieve the ideal effect is to keep the flat effect for a period of time, wait until the time required, and then release it at once, so that the effect is doubled. Think about it, you first see the flat and shallow images, and you forget 3s temporarily, and then suddenly, bang! When the 3 effect comes out, it feels extremely amazing!"

Zhang Ran smiled and said, "It feels like watching a horror movie, suddenly it happened!"

Dimit Porter smiled and nodded and continued: "One more thing is that we find that many times a single shot looks particularly good in 3. You will see objects in the picture rushing towards you, which makes people stunned, but if you put a single shot in the whole movie, you will often not achieve the desired effect, and there will be no such shock."

Zhang Ran nodded. Cameron once said to him, saying: "Although 3 technology has appeared for a hundred years, using 3 to make movies is still a new challenge for any director. The application of new technology will definitely bring new movie languages, and to find a movie language belonging to 3 requires everyone's efforts and continuous exploration."

Dimit Portley suddenly laughed: "Scorsese heard that you wanted to make 3 movies and said that the lens language of 3 movies is still in the stage of development and enrichment of traditional film lens languages. However, with the deepening of 3 creation, the great development of 3 movie languages ​​will be ushered in, and you are most likely to make a breakthrough."

Zhang Ran did not have a particularly passion for 3 movies, because he believed that VR movies are the future, and 3 movies would inevitably be replaced by VR movies. However, he did not say this and said with a smile: "Martin looks down on me so much. He said that I am too stressed by it. But he said it really, 3 is a new topic, and we must take enough time to test it to find the most ideal audio-visual language for our movie."

The entire meeting lasted for a week. After a series of discussions on the special effects and shooting of the movie, Zhang Ran led the photography team to conduct 3 photography tests.

During the film preparation stage, photographers often test the cameras because each machine has different photosensitive parts. They have different qualities, different tolerances, different color spaces, color depths, as well as over-exposure and under-exposure, pseudomolar patterns, etc. As photographers, you must find out the advantages of the camera you use and use your own methods to make these advantages, rather than relying on others to tell you the advantages of the machine. At the same time, you must avoid the shortcomings of the camera so that they cannot affect the picture of the movie.

Camera testing is often done by the camera team, so the director doesn’t have to worry about it or worry about it. But this time it’s different. 3 shooting is also a new topic for Zhang Ran, and using 3 shooting is restricted to the audio-visual language of the movie; at the same time, new possibilities have been created. As the director, Zhang Ran can only make truly excellent 3 films by understanding these.

Zhang Ran and others tested the system not the 3 photography system bought from James Cameron last year, but developed by the Tiangong Chongcai Peking team through the purchased equipment. The camera used two ramp;nbp;p cameras, which are the latest product of R company, which can capture 5 images, and are light enough and very convenient to operate. The 3-mounted camera stands and the German P-mounted stands can quickly and accurately control the two cameras, which is very easy to use.

While Zhang Ran led the photography team to conduct 3 photography tests, Century Film began to invest 50 million in accordance with Zhang Ran and his request to renovate a studio covering an area of ​​1,000 square meters in the first phase of the project. After the renovation is completed, this studio area will replace Universal Pictures’ virtual studio and become the largest virtual studio in the world.

At the same time, the special effects team was also busy preparing for Zhang Ran's new film. They began to draw concept maps and began to make 3 storyboards. In addition, several special effects artists took cameras to find suitable local dogs in the world. After seeing the local dogs they thought were good, they took them and showed them the video to Zhang Ran for him to choose. After nearly a month of tossing, Zhang Ran finally decided to make a handsome dog with excellent image and temperament. After the model was finalized, the staff of the special effects team began to sample the selected dog information to capture its movements and expressions.

June soon entered June. On June 6th, the anniversary of the Normandy Landing Year, "Edge of Tomorrow" was released simultaneously in many countries and regions such as China and the United States. Alien creatures invaded the earth, and rookies transformed into heroes, mechanical armor, long-range missiles were in full swing, and a combination of handsome men and beautiful women made the movie receive a lot of praise after its release. The film won the box office championship with a North American opening score of US$55.43 million, defeating "Hangover 2" and "Kung Fu Panda 2" which were released for two weeks. In addition to North America, "Edge of Tomorrow" also exploded in full swing, especially in Asia, and won the box office of RMB 210 million in the first week of China. "Edge of Tomorrow" won 210 million US dollars worldwide in the first week, winning the global box office championship.

In the next two weeks, "Edge of Tomorrow" continued to heat up around the world, and the box office quickly exceeded the $400 million mark; according to the trend, the final box office of the movie could exceed the $600 million mark. Tomco, who had been in a sluggish for several years, finally recovered successfully with the help of Tingfeng Entertainment!

Although Fan Binbin played a supporting role in "Edge of Tomorrow", he was definitely not a soy sauce character with only one or two lines, and he definitely did not only appear in the special edition. He had many roles, so he attracted great attention from domestic movie fans and media. Fan Binbin's studio naturally would not miss this opportunity and issued a press release, such as "foreign media praise Fan Binbin's appeal for the bunker", Fan Binbin's beauty over Emily Blunt" and so on; Fan Binbin's fans were even more excited, changing Fan Binbin's title from "Fan Ye" to "International Style", claiming that "my family Binbin is the real international style."

Until the end of June, Zhang Ran was still taking the photography team to conduct a 3-photo test. During the two months of testing, Zhang Ran and the others encountered countless problems, and sometimes they had to spend one or two to solve a small problem. However, the effort was worth it. Zhang Ran had a new understanding of the 3 technology. He found that 3 is not only a technology, but also like push, pull and shake, it can be used as a film language and can become a part of the film narrative.

In the studio of Century Film Capital, Zhang Ran and the others were wearing 3 glasses, standing in front of a huge 52-inch monitor to watch the three shots that had just been edited.

On the screen, a person was knocking on the door hard, followed by a man's face. Both shots were flat and had no three-dimensional sense. The knocker turned around and left when he left. When he left, the picture still had no sense of depth and was still flat.

But at this moment, the door behind him suddenly opened and a man appeared in front of him. This shot was a panoramic shot. Just as the man opened the door, Zhang Ran and the others clearly felt that the wall suddenly appeared from the front of the screen, as if they were really pushing open a door, as if they were standing in front of the door, so that someone exclaimed "Wow" awesome.

After taking off the 3 glasses, Zhang Ran pointed to the 3 monitors and analyzed: "The knock on the door, the close-up of the face, and the left camera, the viewer's viewpoint is on the surface of the screen. The picture is relatively flat and there is no sense of depth. However, the opening shot of the door is curved upwards, and the viewpoint is behind the man who opened the door, so as soon as the door is opened, the things on the screen are immediately highlighted, making people feel as if they are on the scene, creating a double effect!"

Everyone present nodded. This effect is indeed better than shooting with 3 shots for several shots.

Zhao Fei nodded and added: "Combined with the previous content and the sense of presence, I feel like something is going to happen."

Zhang Ran nodded and said, "I also feel this way, I'm very uneasy. I think this is a bit like the Currysov effect. As long as the amp;nbp;3 lens can produce some psychological hints to the audience, and even make them automatically associate. This effect that only 3 can belong to 3 movies!"

Just as he was happy, Zhang Ran's cell phone suddenly rang. He picked it up and looked a little surprised. He spoke to Zhao Fei and the others, walked to the side and answered the phone.
Chapter completed!