"What about the storyboard? What are the requirements for depth of field and angle? Or should I shoot according to the feeling of the first scene just now?"

Hayden's question made Lance shake his head, "I want the sudden feeling that everything happens without warning, just like we arrived at the City of God on the first day, and the gun battle happened suddenly and everyone was caught off guard; but all this disappeared so quickly that it was swallowed up by this pool of stagnant water before it could even react. Even the residents of the City of God were the same, everything happened in an instant, that sudden feeling."

Lance still has limited understanding of photography, so it is difficult for him to express his ideas clearly in professional terms. He can only present them based on the director's sense of picture, and the rest will be left to professionals.

Hayden held his chin with his right hand, frowned and pondered while thinking, "So you mean, just like the color contrast, we need to emphasize that chaotic feeling again." Hayden pondered for a moment, shook his head, but he didn't know what to deny, "Are you looking for the feeling between a documentary and a dramatic film, and use a strong sense of movement to further highlight the clutter, real, and close-up viewing effect?"

In fact, the two sentences that Hayden said have the same meaning, but judging from his physical movements, he is now in a state of being illiterate but not understanding.

Instead of rushing to answer, Lance looked back at the surrounding environment, and his eyes finally fell on Albert and the group of children who were listening to the filming of the next scene.

Although Lance's performance today has always been very calm and experienced, only Lance himself knows clearly: this is the first time he picked up the director. The experience of the drama director in his previous life gave him the ability to control the set and the overall situation, but the biggest difference between movies and dramas is the camera.

The drama audience sits in the audience seats to enjoy the drama from the same angle, but the movie audience follows the camera's lens and enters the story. The shots presented by different angles, light, trajectories, and methods will have different effects. Those photographers and directors can often use the simplest lens to give psychological hints to the audience without lines or plots.

For example, the depression brought by cool tones, the warmth and beauty brought by backlight, the restlessness brought by sports lenses, and so on.

There was a clear movie scene in Lance's head. Now all he needed to do was to accurately convey it to Hayden, "Stay for five minutes!" Lance suddenly shouted without warning. The sudden burst of sound made everyone look surprised. Hayden, who was standing beside Lance, was frightened. But then Hayden saw the children around him stunned, and then instantly scattered and dispersed in all directions. Albert tried to call the children, but it was useless at all - the discipline of these children was still bad.

But what’s interesting is that although the children ran apart, everyone just ran to the side and gathered together in groups of three or three, and soon stopped. They didn’t know where they should go, and they didn’t dare to leave the set. They left the set without authorization and were kicked out of the crew, so after everyone ran away, they stood awkwardly and were at a loss. No one had the experience and knew what they could do during the filming break and what they should do...

Albert looked at Lance speechlessly. Lance's sudden action directly made his work waste. He had not finished explaining the filming content and attention focus of the scene!

But Lance ignored Albert's complaining expression and said straight to Hayden, "Did you see?" Hayden came to his senses and looked at the chaos in front of him carefully. "What I want is this fragmented feeling. The camera swayed and passed by quickly. The audience had not even had time to see the face in the camera clearly. The next picture might be the footsteps of escaping, and then the next second was the terrifying face that was enlarged, but just a glimpse of the glimpse, then it turned into a panoramic view, and the next second was the camera..."

"Just follow the three young men and three men to move forward quickly." Hayden took Lance's words, and all the pictures in his mind became extremely clear in an instant, like a fountain. "We should carry the camera on our shoulders, record every detail in the whole process in the form of a documentary, run with the children, and then shoot the real picture at close range, showing the chaos and restlessness, but it is closer to the actors than the documentary, and has a sense of oppression and dramaticity. The uncertain restlessness of the City of God is integrated into the camera. Finally, through editing, the fast and sharp shots are edited neatly. It seems chaotic but hides a kind of order and emotion, which permeates it bit by bit."

Hayden didn't go to see Lance, his eyes quickly captured the child who was running around but stopped quickly, and then quickly looked at the space around him. His thoughts quickly started to flow, and inspiration burst out endlessly. He felt that the entire movie was unfolding in his mind like never before.

"That means that we need at least four cameras, two close-ups, completely following the actors, one mid-scene to capture the entire content of the entire picture, but using the framework of the street to limit the picture. The last panoramic view is placed in a fixed position, recording the entire escape process in the form of a documentary."

Hayden's thoughts became extremely clear, and his eyes were flashing with excitement. At this moment, he finally realized what Hugo called "the sense of playful pictures between documentaries and dramas". The blurred feeling that wandered between reality and novels would penetrate through the camera bit by bit, making it difficult for people to distinguish between reality and movies, and truly show the cruelty, bloody, violent, and chaos of the City of God, but at the same time awakens people's subconsciousness. This is just a movie.

Thinking of this, Hayden couldn't help but be stunned, turned his head to look at Lance, "But, don't you want to highlight the reality of this movie? Let people know that all this is real in real life. That's why you want to shoot it in a way similar to a documentary, but if you follow the way you just said, it will appear a little alienated. The exaggerated colors and close-up will only make the audience lose their play."

Lance knew that Hayden really understood his thoughts, but did not understand his intentions. "What I hope to achieve is this sense of isolation. Do you still remember the feeling when you came to the City of God on the first day? It was as if you came to another world - the world of movies."

For most people, including many Brazilians, the City of God does not exist, just like it is deliberately fabricated in movies and novels, it is completely another world; but in fact, the City of God is real, exists extremely real and cruelly, and it is also a part of people's lives that cannot be ignored.

Lance hopes that through the movie "City of God", the audience will always think that this is just a fictional world in the movie - cruel, bloody, cold, chaotic, dark, violent, and that sense of reality is shocking; and at the end of the movie, that sense of reality will come to the face, clearly making people realize that this is not fiction, it is real, after the "isolation" is broken, the shock created before will invade again, and it will be more surging, surging and more powerful, and then form a secondary high/climax, detonating a reflection tsunami.

The real good show will be released after the movie ends.

Hayden's eyes showed a hint of surprise, then smiled helplessly and patted Lance on the shoulder, "This is the reason, why you can become an excellent director, and I can only become an excellent photographer." Hayden let out a long sigh, returned to his major, and then felt a headache, "God, this is just the second scene! The difficulty is already so high, Lance, do you know? You are such a bastard!"

Faced with Hayden's irritability, Lance remained indifferent, and even his eyebrows were not moved, "So, can you do it?"

Hayden was blocked in his chest with a breath. Under the motionless gaze of those blue eyes, all his anger poured out. "Grass!" Hayden cursed in a muffled manner, threw the cigarette in his hand on the ground, and extinguished it with his feet. "Nonsense, how could I not do it!" Hayden immediately shouted, "Ethan, come here!"

Ethan Water, Hayden's photography assistant, is also one of the seven staff members Lance brought from the United States.

"After a while, we two of us were holding cameras and shooting close up..." Hayden began to explain to Ethan the way of shooting, and there were still the effects that needed to be presented. Lance finished his work and turned around and prepared to leave, but was stopped by Hayden. "Lance, you are responsible for the camera of the medium shot. It needs to move along the entire shooting movement. You can just walk horizontally along that street..."

Lance stood beside him for a moment, not expecting that he was assigned a task, but Hayden glanced at Lance, "I said, four cameras are needed. We don't have enough staff, so you have to take over. Don't forget, this is what you asked for." Seeing that Lance seemed to have something to say, Hayden added the next sentence, which directly left Lance speechless. "You go and tell Albert that we need rehearsal. First, we determine our shooting angle and trajectory, and then set the camera position to ensure that there will be no flaws in the lens; second, it is to allow children to adapt to the camera tracking, not look at the camera, and only after mastering the pattern of the entire scene can we start shooting."

After saying that, Hayden ignored Lance and turned around and discussed with Ethan.
Chapter completed!