Behind-the-scenes tidbits of Baiyun Mountain legend

The film "Legend of Baiyun Mountain" is elaborated by the director.

The cast members of Legend of Baiyun Mountain are all qualified TV practitioners or artists with rich work experience. I believe everyone has been familiar with the script and defined the division of labor, and they can skillfully use their professional knowledge in the actual shooting in the future and consciously complete the post tasks. Today, I take this opportunity of rambling to give you a unified understanding of the origin and essence of shooting the legend of Baiyun Mountain.

Only in this way can we keep pace in the creative process, reduce differences, improve efficiency and give full play to our talents. Telling a touching story is just a carrier of our film. To make a suspenseful action film like The Legend of Baiyun Mountain, it is important not to lose the content of China culture and let the audience get useful education in entertainment. At this moment, I think you are well aware of our creative attitude and principles in shooting. Storytelling is only our means, not our purpose. What we should strive to do is to express a meaningful idea with vivid artistic images and to support the entertainment concept value carried by artistic images with a basic idea.

And this kind of value is the ultimate goal pursued by the legend of Baiyun Mountain-to embody a cultural spirit through a story of taking treasure and protecting it. Alert the world, gain insight into today, inspire young people and enlighten the future! Therefore, in the Legend of Baiyun Mountain, the general requirements for character modeling and expression are: the likeness is greater than the likeness, and it is as close to the likeness as possible in the process of pursuing the likeness, while abandoning the unfavorable physical characteristics of the likeness in the process of approaching the likeness, and emphasizing the exaggerated appearance of the characters is helpful to the outstanding shapes and characteristics of the verve! This requires the director department to follow this principle when choosing actors, so as to provide convenience for the stylists behind and lay a good foundation. It is indispensable for the modeling department to have such a sense of care when designing the image of the actor and the production department to shoot the actor. Every department pays attention to lighting, photography angle and picture color, and actors will naturally live in the atmosphere of their roles. Then, passionate but restrained, controlled and relaxed performances came into being.

The legend of Baiyun Mountain needs this kind of smooth but not oily performance. At the same time, circus and action play are the key parts of this film, so action directors and martial artists should be careful to cooperate with the actors. Only in this way can we bring vivid and dynamic pictures to our screen. This is the law of creation and the wisdom of creation. I hope that all functional departments will carefully read the script, digest the ideas and requirements I put forward today, carefully ponder their own professional expressions, and give full play to their professional expertise under the guidance of unified artistic ideas to add points to the whole drama! A work without style is a mediocre work. With a good theme, a good script, a good creative team and reliable financial guarantee, the skilled operation of the Legend of Baiyun Mountain will of course be successfully completed. However, this is just a kind of skillful production with flowing water, lacking the stimulating power like painting, with a strong sense of form and showing a certain style.

In "The Legend of Baiyun Mountain", we should not only use the conventional production technology and the standard lens montage language to complete the smooth narrative, but also constantly pursue the creation of atmosphere where possible, and create charm in art, environment, clothing, props, performance, light and shadow, photography angle, composition and so on. To appreciate this charm, in addition to tapping your aesthetic quality, there is another thing I want to emphasize, that is, every link emphasizes contrast! The contrast between content and plot, rhythm and color ... only differences have an impact. With the impact, strong unevenness or special coordination, the impression is deep and the charm is easy to come out. Will highlight the unique style of Baiyun Mountain legend. Now the drama has provided us with a good plot and a good atmosphere, as well as the contrast between strong and weak characters. I hope all my colleagues will seriously study the contents of the script, which was painstakingly set by the screenwriter. Please read it carefully and don't neglect it hastily. The application of high-tech digital technology is also indispensable in the legend of Baiyun Mountain. The proper use of digital technology, in addition to the two-dimensional and three-dimensional stunt production at the beginning and end of the film, should also organically combine digital and traditional technologies in the plot process, including color matching, image compression and expansion, local elimination of the environment and so on.

Here I want to make a special statement about sports lens. The photographer's usual motion shots, such as lifting, pushing and pulling, shaking, etc., are essential in such a large amount of shots in Baiyun Mountain legend, but they must not be artificially moved for the sake of moving! I think it will be more natural, lively and energetic to strengthen the independent movement of the actors in the venue and drive the camera to move. For lighting, my requirements are the opposite of photography. I hope that the setting of lighting does not necessarily restore life, but should pay attention to the picture effect of light source. As long as the illumination is guaranteed and the beautiful lighting effect is pursued as much as possible, if the audience can first feel the brilliance of the illusionist on the screen, it is a successful lighting. Props, clothing and other departments also agree with this principle, and should pursue aesthetic effects on the premise that the spirit conforms to the times.