In the past two years, Lan Li has participated in more and more large commercial productions, and is also exposed to different performance methods and contents, and this time is no exception. In order to shoot dinosaurs in "Jurassic World", computer special effects are undoubtedly the work link that the entire crew needs to rely on the most. The special effects of the entire movie will run through the whole movie, which also puts higher requirements on the shooting method and content presentation.

Generally speaking, there are two ways to shoot such movies. One is filming in the studio, mainly green screen, "gravity", "Avengers" and other movies; the other is filming on the spot, with post-production special effects as an auxiliary, "Interstellar Crossing", "Crazy Max: The Road to Furious" and so on.

"Jurassic World" chose the latter.

Colin Trevorro still hopes to create a truly immersive movie viewing effect, which is also the root of the shock brought by the "Jurassic Park" series of movies. Considering that wild environments such as the original forest are the main scenes of the entire movie, compared with the city towers of "Avengers", computer special effects are still likely to produce more distortion effects.

In 2016, the "Fantasy Forest" was created and manufactured using computer special effects throughout the whole process, but the forest scenes in the movie faced severe special effects distortion problems. As the director, Jon Favreau came up with a solution to lower the light, because the background of the movie story is the original forest where torches have not yet been fully popular, which also makes the whole movie permeate the very, very dark environment, avoiding the distortion of computer special effects.

But "Jurassic World" cannot do this, the whole story must take place in the sunny Central America; at the same time, Colin also hopes that the tone of the film will remain more positive, which is also the style expected by Universal Pictures, because the success of the Marvel series of movies proves that the relaxed and cheerful popcorn is still the mainstream of the market. So, on-site shooting combined with post-production computer effects is the best shooting method.

However, the combination of computer special effects has become another test for the crew, because the shooting site has completely entered the real primeval forest. The difficulty of the shooting process has added more difficulties to the production of the post-production special effects. The special effects team once again showed the super-high wisdom of the masses and successfully arranged the shooting site:

In the open space directly in front of the dense jungle, they built a whole animal cage similar to a Colosseum to serve as an environment for raising wild velociraptors. The animal cage was built on the ground with the environment as the background. The staff could walk up and down normally on the top platform.

Although there are no beasts and dinosaurs inside the beast cage, the entire building has no corners to ensure that the beast cage can also become a handbag for the crew's shooting, and at the same time it presents a more realistic effect in the camera.

Then, a three-sided blue screen environment was suddenly built in the site in the center of the beast cage. Because all the jungles on all sides were green, blue screen was chosen. However, some sand and grass were still symbolically arranged around the blue screen environment to reduce the special effects workload of the edge lines during the computer cutting process and provide reference for computer special effects experts.

The "cross-line" mentioned by the drama firm just now means not to enter the blue screen range, otherwise there may be deviations when cutting pictures in the post-production. For example, only one head is left floating in the center of the picture, which inexplicably becomes the horror filming scene. This is a very, very likely situation. These mistakes and deviations that occur accidentally are often hard to guard against. The staff themselves may appear in the picture, but the accidental drop of objects is particularly frequent.

The actors and crew will be in such an environment to complete the shooting. The blue screen area will be used to display dinosaur special effects, and the surrounding environment can be used as a reference for post-production special effects, creating a more realistic and delicate visual effect by interleaving the virtual and the real and the combination of true and false.

Next, the crew is preparing to film the scene where Irving trains the Velociraptors.

At this time, in the blue screen environment, four stunt actors were moving their limbs, and they were actors who were preparing to play the role of "Vehicle Dragon" in conjunction with the performance.

Some scenes here are also particular. The director can choose to let Lanli perform completely in front of the air, and then make dinosaurs through computer special effects later, but this can easily cause the problem of performance out of focus. Because there is no reference, Lanli cannot accurately aim at the focus distance, and the performance will easily become vague.

In the "Lord of the Rings" series, Gandalf's actor Ian McKellen (ian mkellen), is like this, because the Hobbit is very short and Gandalf has to enter the Hobbit's house, which also makes the Hobbit's actors unable to stretch their hands and feet indoors, and in the end they can only speak and perform in the air.

Later, in the behind-the-scenes footage, Ian said, "I am really lonely", because he may be the only one who chats against the camera in the long scenes. Such a performance experience is indeed... hard to describe.

However, with the continuous updates and progress of shooting technology, Colin can choose the most advanced motion capture technology at present to complete the shooting of the velociraptors.

In fact, the first mature application of motion capture technology was also created in the "Lord's Ring" series. In the past decade, this film shooting technology has also developed rapidly and comprehensively, and has reached a peak through "Avatar". Later, the "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" series even used motion capture technology to complete the shooting of all the ape characters, which can be regarded as an epoch-making work.

Compared with the anthropomorphic images created by computer special effects, motion capture technology can give full play to the advantages of real actors and further complete anthropomorphism, so that the screen image has more vivid and delicate movements, expressions and expressions, etc. In short, it is to give those screen images more "humanity".

Of course, this "image" is realistic, but it also requires a lot of financial support. The budget cost of the "Jurassic World" project has not reached the magnitude of "Avatar", and there is no way to focus on similar images rendered by fur like "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", which also forced Colin to make choices.

In the movie, the most spiritual key character, four velociraptors, are also characters who have direct communication with Irving. Colin will complete the shooting through motion capture technology; while other dinosaur images are all produced through later computer special effects. The ultimate goal of different shooting techniques is to present the best viewing effect.

The four stunt actors in front of him will be responsible for performing the four velociraptors.

At this time, they had changed into hot spot capture action costumes, which were actually a set of all-black, and then posted many hot spot capture points outside the sportswear. All of them were connected to form lines, connecting all the joints of the body, and thus providing a heat source for the computer to capture the actor's body movements. Because each capture point is connected with long wires, this also makes the actors with wires hanging all over their bodies, making it really inconvenient to move.

Standing within the range of the blue screen, it looks extremely funny; if you leave the blue screen and stay in the jungle, it will be even more absurd.

The on-site staff may not be unfamiliar with motion capture technology, but they are very interested in shooting techniques that blur the boundaries between reality and illusion in the jungle. Only with the continuous advancement and improvement of film production technology can this become possible. Everyone is quite curious as "gravity" and can only be realized in the studio. The five-dimensional space in "Interstellar" is the same. There are still many constraints and restrictions on field shooting.

Lanli took the initiative to greet him, waved his hand and greeted him, "Hey, I am your work partner, Irving, I will work hard for you in the next period of cooperation." If nothing unexpected happens, they will be the four velociraptors in the whole movie, which also means that they and Lanli have many "oppositions".

"I'm Scott, and I'm going to be in charge of playing Charlie."

"I'm Pete, I'm going to be in Delta."

"I'm Brad, I'm going to be responsible for playing Aiko."

"I'm Samuel, and I'm going to be responsible for the role of Bru."

The first four names are actors, and the last four names are Voyeuro. Each has his own responsibilities. Although Voyeuro seems to be the same for the audience, the actors need to distinguish them so that they can give the characters more details. Among them, Bru is the boss of the four Voyeuro and is also the Voyeuro with the most scenes.

Just a self-introduction, Lan Li immediately understood, "So, who is the most ferocious? I mean, there are only brave but no wisdom."

"I, I'm Delta!" Pete immediately raised his right hand, and a surprise expression appeared on his face. He looked at the other friends left and right, "Lanli, I mean, don't you mind? In fact, each of us discussed it and gave each velociraptor a different personality. We hope to distinguish it a little, but we are not sure..."

Not sure if big-name actors like it.

In fact, it is as described in "King of Comedy". If you have too many plays, you can add the show or even steal the show, which is very impolite. For big-name actors, they naturally don't want the performance rhythm to be disturbed, let alone the focus light is stolen.

The four substitute actors were a little nervous because they were just playing the Vogue, and they would not even have their faces and names in the movie. Their relatives and friends could not see their performances in the cinema, but they hoped to give Vogue personality to a limited range? So what if Renly offends?

"Ha, let me guess? Ai is a woman? Then Charlie is a fool? As far as I know, Bru is the youngest but the smartest one? Of course, this is my own imagination. I think you should be able to give me more things, how about it, what content I need to know in advance?" Lan Li didn't say much, but expressed his point of view with practical actions:
Chapter completed!