Without a large number of extras, how can you shoot the feeling of hordes?

1, there must be at least one panorama, which is made by synthetic method, similar to PS. For your short film, you can do this: fix the machine with a tripod, stay away from the crowd, and 50 students will take pictures together (a large blank area will appear on the screen), then let the students move to the blank area as a whole, take another picture, and then continue to move and shoot until all the areas are full. Then cut and synthesize these materials, and you can get the effect of 50×N people. Note: the machine can't move, and the crowd can't overlap with the position of the crowd just now after moving. After the crowd moves, it is necessary to exchange positions randomly to prevent the audience from seeing that it is the same group of people.

Try to use only two kinds of scenery-close shot and panoramic view.

Stack your limited extra items in front of the camera in close range, causing a sense of crowding. In the big shot, people are placed in groups of 5- 10 in all parts of the venue, and the crowd is copied and pasted to fill the whole space. This stunt is not difficult, and you can do it yourself without special professional knowledge. In The Lord of the Rings, Helmet Valley used 500 men to charge tens of thousands of cavalry and infantry in World War I, and the orcs did the same.

Don't move the camera, let your actors stand in every corner of the playground and shoot several groups of materials. Finally, in the later period, there are more people.

However, there are many precautions when shooting in the early stage, such as not repeating too many clothes, changing the formation, keeping the light uniform and so on. Many large-scale crowd simulations are shot like this.