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Here it is Original South Wind Ifeng Movie Today Included in topics #Producer interview 5 #Exclusive Interview 128 Image The cold winter of film and television and the arrival of the epidemic have shuffled the entire industry. After the defoaming, people who really know how to swim can survive better. In the year after the epidemic, Ifeng film has also gradually transformed with industry changes. In terms of content output, it has begun to expand from pure film content to the entire industry, focusing on the three major sectors of film, drama, and comprehensive.
In order to better show the current industry outlook, we have launched the "Producer Interviews" column to talk to outstanding producers who are truly on the front line of the industry and have excellent content output, and provide some methodology for the industry. In this issue, we have a conversation with Wang Zhi, director of "You Are My Glory".
When recruiting actors for "You Are My Glory" (hereinafter referred to as "Glory"), many people asked Wang Zhi, the director of the film, about how we plan to make this idol drama. Wang Zhihui first explained to the other party, "I said you don't talk about this is an idol drama, this is not an idol drama, and I don't want to make an idol drama either."
He is more willing to use "romantic realism" to define this drama. The actors of the idol drama + the life-oriented plot are the creative ideas he wants to be consistent. The former can make the audience pleasing to the eyes, and the latter can make the show catch the air, which is where "Glory" initially attracted him.
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After reading Gu Man's original novel, Wang Zhi was attracted by the atmosphere created in it, because the personality and feelings of the male protagonist Yu Tu and the female protagonist Qiao Jingjing are becoming more adult, and they are not a sweet pet drama that emphasizes emotions but not logic. "What this novel shows me is that two adults are in love, so I don't think of it as an idol drama."
After confirming the idea of shooting, everything after that was settled.
Image Over 6000 special effects lenses, "It really made me boil my head over."
The real difficulty of "Glory" is the later part of the filming. The amount of special effects exceeds Wang Zhi's imagination. In addition to the game and aerospace parts, there are also some techniques used to pull the audience into the plot, as well as fixed scenes such as the homes of the male and female protagonists. Special effects need to be completed.
"I don't know it. I was surprised at first. It's actually a bit like peeling an onion. The more you peel it, the more spicy it gets.
How many special effects shots does this show have? More than 6000. "Basically it's a big special effects film-level drama." This is what makes Wang Zhi the most anxious. He has never dealt with so many special effects needs. "It really made me lose my head."
For this, they recruited a lot of professionals and got involved before the filming. The shooting of the game part was completed by the game team of "Full-time Master" and "Cross Fire". In the aerospace part, there are many aerospace experts as consultants to improve the relevant plot, the purpose of which is to ensure professionalism and authenticity.
"It's not in this industry, you can't write about this situation, and you can't say the kind of words that you don't know when you look at it."
Before "Glory", domestic dramas hadn't made a large-scale mobile game plot, and they had nothing to learn from. How to play the scene and how to shoot the game plot depended on a little bit of exploration on their own.
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When shooting on-site, it is almost impossible for the actors to play the rhythm of the game required by the plot on the spot, and to repeatedly shoot with multiple cameras. "We thought of many, many ways, and tried a lot of mistakes, and finally found the current shooting method."
Wang Zhi also thought about letting actors directly enter the game like other e-sports dramas, but there are many roles in the glory of the king and there are not only humans but also non-humans such as the cow demon. And the cosplay field of actors is limited, so they finally decided to let The character speaks for himself and converts the original two-dimensional game interface into three-dimensional, so that audiences who do not understand the game and experienced game players can get a sense of freshness and substitution.
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In the shooting of the aerospace scene, in order to restore the daily life of the astronauts, they specially went to the Eighth Academy of Aerospace in Shanghai for live shooting. “I’m quite honored, because this is a confidential unit.” Yu Tujia’s community is also The family home of the aerospace crew in Songjiang, Shanghai.
In addition to games and aerospace, a lot of special effects are also used in certain fixed scenes. "The home of the two people is green, even in the second episode they shot the commercial in the studio, it is also green."
Image It’s very important for actors to have good foundations, 80% of good-looking characters depend on fit
Compared with special effects, the success of "Glory" depends more on the performance of the hero and the hero. The adaptability and performance of Yang Yang and Di Lieba largely determine the look and feel of this play.
As actors with many experience shooting idol dramas, Yang Yang and Di Lieba are undoubtedly the ceilings for the heroes and heroines of the same type of dramas. The last thing "Glory" needs to worry about is the appearance of the leading actors. Wang Zhishen felt the same way, "I think it's really important to have a good background. No matter what the background is, it will be hard to shoot, but if you have a good background, you just need to work harder to show his own side."
Even though the lighting, photography, and modeling lights are indispensable for how to make the protagonist look good, Wang Zhi said, “80% of them are really good-looking by themselves.”
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The remaining 20% is more of the charm that the characters give them. "Look at him in this role. After you slowly empathize with him, you will feel his charm, and you will gradually love the house and everything, and you will feel that everything becomes better."
In the creation of the protagonist’s CP sense, Wang Zhi is a director who pays great attention to the composition of the picture. In the shooting of the male and female subjects in the same frame, he will design the position relationship between male and female. "Then girls have big eyes, and boys have long eyes. Yes, the skins of both of them are very white and their noses are very stiff. These things are in a more comfortable proportion together."
The kiss scene of the two people also needs to be seductively filmed. Wang Zhi revealed that because their noses are very high, they are easy to fight with their noses when shooting kiss scenes. "I often have to shoot a lot of different angles so that the audience can see that their noses are not fighting. Two people with such high noses I seldom take pictures of kissing."
And on the second day of the boot, they filmed the first kiss scene, because the two actors had never co-produced a TV series before, so Wang Zhi was worried that there would be a gap between the two. "I said'Can it work?'? They both told me that it was okay. They said you can rest assured, just watch it, and then I said that's OK. Come on. Because the lens we want is one shot, I still pull it. They said separately, and reiterated it in front of them."
By the time of the actual shooting the next day, the results were pretty good. "Because you brought it up formally, he might have relieved this little pressure in his heart, and then he would act naturally."
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In order to make a beautiful picture and maximize the effect of emotional drama, Wang Zhi also put a lot of effort on the selection of sceneries, costumes, and styling. He doesn't like particularly bright colors. For example, Qiao Jingjing's clothing and home furnishings are dominated by dirty pink, and the color is brown and black.
"Whether it is in the selection of scenes or people's clothes, it is a grayscale state. It is not graded in the later stage. The original film in the early stage is like this. But this is quite difficult for the control of an urban drama. We have many scenes that we can’t use. For example, I didn’t like the white scenes, because I think a large area of white would be very dazzling in a play.”
Image Too many romantic dramas, Hope "Glory" breaks the upper limit of modern drama creation
When shooting on-site, Wang Zhi respected the personal habits of the actors, and first got to know each other thoroughly before discussing how to shoot. When confronted with Yang Yang, he would ask what the other person’s way of acting was like, "The so-called way of acting means that we are going to start filming this scene. You will get used to discussing the script with me first, or I will give you a schedule first. , And then you follow this schedule, or do you have an idea, we have been running in this matter for a long time."
He can clearly perceive some of the characteristics of Virgo in Yang Yang, "He will prepare more than you think." Every day Yang Yang returns to the hotel to prepare for the next day's play for three or four hours, every day. At first, Wang Zhi didn't believe it, "Because there are very few starring actors, and he outputs his lines verbatim at the scene."
Later I had to believe, "Because of all the actors, he is the only one who can handle a large number of (professional) lines, which surprised me. Including many old actors sometimes get stuck, he never gets stuck. ."
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There are many professional lines describing aerospace in "Glory". As an aerospace designer, Yu Tu must be accurate and not get stuck in the relevant lines in order to show his professionalism. Many lines even Wang Zhi can read a little bit confused, "Maybe I can only understand a few words in a sentence, I think I understand Chinese characters, but in fact I don't understand anything, do you know this feeling?"
Inviting professionals to participate in the script creation is also a valuable experience that Wang Zhi learned from "Glory". He invited many people in the industry to participate in the creation of the workplace drama he was about to shoot. "Since it is positioned as a workplace drama , Really want to look like the workplace should be. If anyone in this profession sees this drama and says that we are not like this, it means that this is my failure, so I did it in order to prevent this as much as possible. A lot of such efforts."
He hopes that the scenes he shoots are unique, even if it is an inevitable love scene, he has to produce something different. "Love dramas are everywhere, but each romantic drama should have different perspectives and perspectives. One of the different perspectives of this romantic drama is the game and the other is spaceflight. One of my requirements for myself is to combine the elements of completely different things. Organically integrated into a romantic drama, this is a challenge I set to myself when I first took it."
In the later process, Wang Zhi has been controlling the rhythm of the game plot and using special effects and BGM to enhance the audience's perception. For example, in order to shoot the burning feeling of the hand tour, he borrowed the elements of the comic frame in the animated film "Spider-Man: Into the Parallel Universe" to make the hand operation and the game screen appear in the same frame. "This method has not been used in live-action movies or dramas. The team and I spent a long time studying how to get this, because I think this thing has a game spirit in it, and it also has a sense of youthful vitality. Later, we This method is called Comic Strip Spider-Man."
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For example, on the packaging of the picture, he will try to make the lines more hand-painted. For example, the split screen of many dramas is just a black or white line, but the split screen line in "Glory" is hand-drawn.
"I am more concerned about this slight difference, because modern dramas have many restrictions, some bold attempts may only be done in genre dramas, but I hope to break the upper limit of the tolerance of modern drama creation as much as possible. I think the audience of modern dramas I also want to see something innovative, so I have been working hard."
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The cold winter of film and television and the arrival of the epidemic have shuffled the entire industry. After the defoaming, people who really know how to swim can survive better. In the year after the epidemic, Ifeng film has also gradually transformed with industry changes. In terms of content output, it has begun to expand from pure film content to the entire industry, focusing on the three major sectors of film, drama, and comprehensive.
In order to better show the current industry outlook, we have launched the "Producer Interviews" column to talk to outstanding producers who are truly on the front line of the industry and have excellent content output, and provide some methodology for the industry. In this issue, we have a conversation with Wang Zhi, director of "You Are My Glory".
When recruiting actors for "You Are My Glory" (hereinafter referred to as "Glory"), many people asked Wang Zhi, the director of the film, about how we plan to make this idol drama. Wang Zhihui first explained to the other party, "I said you don't talk about this is an idol drama, this is not an idol drama, and I don't want to make an idol drama either."
He is more willing to use "romantic realism" to define this drama. The actors of the idol drama + the life-oriented plot are the creative ideas he wants to be consistent. The former can make the audience pleasing to the eyes, and the latter can make the show catch the air, which is where "Glory" initially attracted him.
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After reading Gu Man's original novel, Wang Zhi was attracted by the atmosphere created in it, because the personality and feelings of the male protagonist Yu Tu and the female protagonist Qiao Jingjing are becoming more adult, and they are not a sweet pet drama that emphasizes emotions but not logic. "What this novel shows me is that two adults are in love, so I don't think of it as an idol drama."
After confirming the idea of shooting, everything after that was settled.
Image
Over 6000 special effects lenses,
"It really made me boil my head over."
The real difficulty of "Glory" is the later part of the filming. The amount of special effects exceeds Wang Zhi's imagination. In addition to the game and aerospace parts, there are also some techniques used to pull the audience into the plot, as well as fixed scenes such as the homes of the male and female protagonists. Special effects need to be completed.
"I don't know it. I was surprised at first. It's actually a bit like peeling an onion. The more you peel it, the more spicy it gets.
How many special effects shots does this show have? More than 6000. "Basically it's a big special effects film-level drama." This is what makes Wang Zhi the most anxious. He has never dealt with so many special effects needs. "It really made me lose my head."
For this, they recruited a lot of professionals and got involved before the filming. The shooting of the game part was completed by the game team of "Full-time Master" and "Cross Fire". In the aerospace part, there are many aerospace experts as consultants to improve the relevant plot, the purpose of which is to ensure professionalism and authenticity.
"It's not in this industry, you can't write about this situation, and you can't say the kind of words that you don't know when you look at it."
Before "Glory", domestic dramas hadn't made a large-scale mobile game plot, and they had nothing to learn from. How to play the scene and how to shoot the game plot depended on a little bit of exploration on their own.
Image
When shooting on-site, it is almost impossible for the actors to play the rhythm of the game required by the plot on the spot, and to repeatedly shoot with multiple cameras. "We thought of many, many ways, and tried a lot of mistakes, and finally found the current shooting method."
Wang Zhi also thought about letting actors directly enter the game like other e-sports dramas, but there are many roles in the glory of the king and there are not only humans but also non-humans such as the cow demon. And the cosplay field of actors is limited, so they finally decided to let The character speaks for himself and converts the original two-dimensional game interface into three-dimensional, so that audiences who do not understand the game and experienced game players can get a sense of freshness and substitution.
Image
In the shooting of the aerospace scene, in order to restore the daily life of the astronauts, they specially went to the Eighth Academy of Aerospace in Shanghai for live shooting. “I’m quite honored, because this is a confidential unit.” Yu Tujia’s community is also The family home of the aerospace crew in Songjiang, Shanghai.
In addition to games and aerospace, a lot of special effects are also used in certain fixed scenes. "The home of the two people is green, even in the second episode they shot the commercial in the studio, it is also green."
Image
It’s very important for actors to have good foundations,
80% of good-looking characters depend on fit
Compared with special effects, the success of "Glory" depends more on the performance of the hero and the hero. The adaptability and performance of Yang Yang and Di Lieba largely determine the look and feel of this play.
As actors with many experience shooting idol dramas, Yang Yang and Di Lieba are undoubtedly the ceilings for the heroes and heroines of the same type of dramas. The last thing "Glory" needs to worry about is the appearance of the leading actors. Wang Zhishen felt the same way, "I think it's really important to have a good background. No matter what the background is, it will be hard to shoot, but if you have a good background, you just need to work harder to show his own side."
Even though the lighting, photography, and modeling lights are indispensable for how to make the protagonist look good, Wang Zhi said, “80% of them are really good-looking by themselves.”
Image
The remaining 20% is more of the charm that the characters give them. "Look at him in this role. After you slowly empathize with him, you will feel his charm, and you will gradually love the house and everything, and you will feel that everything becomes better."
In the creation of the protagonist’s CP sense, Wang Zhi is a director who pays great attention to the composition of the picture. In the shooting of the male and female subjects in the same frame, he will design the position relationship between male and female. "Then girls have big eyes, and boys have long eyes. Yes, the skins of both of them are very white and their noses are very stiff. These things are in a more comfortable proportion together."
The kiss scene of the two people also needs to be seductively filmed. Wang Zhi revealed that because their noses are very high, they are easy to fight with their noses when shooting kiss scenes. "I often have to shoot a lot of different angles so that the audience can see that their noses are not fighting. Two people with such high noses I seldom take pictures of kissing."
And on the second day of the boot, they filmed the first kiss scene, because the two actors had never co-produced a TV series before, so Wang Zhi was worried that there would be a gap between the two. "I said'Can it work?'? They both told me that it was okay. They said you can rest assured, just watch it, and then I said that's OK. Come on. Because the lens we want is one shot, I still pull it. They said separately, and reiterated it in front of them."
By the time of the actual shooting the next day, the results were pretty good. "Because you brought it up formally, he might have relieved this little pressure in his heart, and then he would act naturally."
Image
In order to make a beautiful picture and maximize the effect of emotional drama, Wang Zhi also put a lot of effort on the selection of sceneries, costumes, and styling. He doesn't like particularly bright colors. For example, Qiao Jingjing's clothing and home furnishings are dominated by dirty pink, and the color is brown and black.
"Whether it is in the selection of scenes or people's clothes, it is a grayscale state. It is not graded in the later stage. The original film in the early stage is like this. But this is quite difficult for the control of an urban drama. We have many scenes that we can’t use. For example, I didn’t like the white scenes, because I think a large area of white would be very dazzling in a play.”
Image
Too many romantic dramas,
Hope "Glory" breaks the upper limit of modern drama creation
When shooting on-site, Wang Zhi respected the personal habits of the actors, and first got to know each other thoroughly before discussing how to shoot. When confronted with Yang Yang, he would ask what the other person’s way of acting was like, "The so-called way of acting means that we are going to start filming this scene. You will get used to discussing the script with me first, or I will give you a schedule first. , And then you follow this schedule, or do you have an idea, we have been running in this matter for a long time."
He can clearly perceive some of the characteristics of Virgo in Yang Yang, "He will prepare more than you think." Every day Yang Yang returns to the hotel to prepare for the next day's play for three or four hours, every day. At first, Wang Zhi didn't believe it, "Because there are very few starring actors, and he outputs his lines verbatim at the scene."
Later I had to believe, "Because of all the actors, he is the only one who can handle a large number of (professional) lines, which surprised me. Including many old actors sometimes get stuck, he never gets stuck. ."
Image
There are many professional lines describing aerospace in "Glory". As an aerospace designer, Yu Tu must be accurate and not get stuck in the relevant lines in order to show his professionalism. Many lines even Wang Zhi can read a little bit confused, "Maybe I can only understand a few words in a sentence, I think I understand Chinese characters, but in fact I don't understand anything, do you know this feeling?"
Inviting professionals to participate in the script creation is also a valuable experience that Wang Zhi learned from "Glory". He invited many people in the industry to participate in the creation of the workplace drama he was about to shoot. "Since it is positioned as a workplace drama , Really want to look like the workplace should be. If anyone in this profession sees this drama and says that we are not like this, it means that this is my failure, so I did it in order to prevent this as much as possible. A lot of such efforts."
He hopes that the scenes he shoots are unique, even if it is an inevitable love scene, he has to produce something different. "Love dramas are everywhere, but each romantic drama should have different perspectives and perspectives. One of the different perspectives of this romantic drama is the game and the other is spaceflight. One of my requirements for myself is to combine the elements of completely different things. Organically integrated into a romantic drama, this is a challenge I set to myself when I first took it."
In the later process, Wang Zhi has been controlling the rhythm of the game plot and using special effects and BGM to enhance the audience's perception. For example, in order to shoot the burning feeling of the hand tour, he borrowed the elements of the comic frame in the animated film "Spider-Man: Into the Parallel Universe" to make the hand operation and the game screen appear in the same frame. "This method has not been used in live-action movies or dramas. The team and I spent a long time studying how to get this, because I think this thing has a game spirit in it, and it also has a sense of youthful vitality. Later, we This method is called Comic Strip Spider-Man."
Image
For example, on the packaging of the picture, he will try to make the lines more hand-painted. For example, the split screen of many dramas is just a black or white line, but the split screen line in "Glory" is hand-drawn.
"I am more concerned about this slight difference, because modern dramas have many restrictions, some bold attempts may only be done in genre dramas, but I hope to break the upper limit of the tolerance of modern drama creation as much as possible. I think the audience of modern dramas I also want to see something innovative, so I have been working hard."
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