A crew meeting was held for three hours but it was not over. The photography team, makeup team and costume team had all left one after another to prepare for the shooting of the first scene, but the lighting team, prop team, actor team, etc. were all stayed and raised their questions one after another.

In fact, the crew members had held a meeting of the crew behind the scenes in Cape Town before, and all the leaders of each group were present at least three times, not to mention the meetings held by Lance and each group separately. But today the crew arrived in the Namibian Desert on the first day, and the situation of the previous talks on paper had to be adjusted. In addition, the "executors" who attended the meeting for the first time, the problems were naturally continuous.

"Lance, do you prefer the Western movie style of lighting?" Newton has actually left once, leading the lighting team outside for nearly two hours, and now he is back. The terrain of the Namibian desert is very flat and can almost be said to be endless. Even the many rolling hills will not affect the absolute perspective. The light conditions of such lamp novels have many similarities with American Western movies, so Newton has this question.

Lance shook his head, "Full." He raised his hand and pointed to the storyboard, "Did you see it? I hope the colors can be fuller and colorful, just like overturning the palette. From props to costumes to makeup, all colors will be very bright. I need lights to express these colors." Most of the lighting in Western movies are broad, desolate, lonely, and empty, creating the effect of lonely smoke in the desert, but this is not what Lance pursues.

Newton's face was full of question marks, "But, isn't this the end of wasteland?". Shouldn't the end of the world be desolate and depressed?

"Orange. I need the picture to be orange." Lance shook his head again and denied it, knocking the whiteboard behind him with his right hand. "Newton, haven't you heard it clearly? Orange, what I want is warm colors." They had set various plans for the lights before, but after arriving in the Namibian desert, Lance overturned all plans and had a brand new idea. He walked to the window of the tent, "Look, the sky is lake blue, then mint blue, light blue, blue white..." Following Lance's words, Newton also cast his sight outside. Under the sky, the faint red from shallow to deep, and then connected to the ground. Large pieces of red spread out in his sight, which really had visual impact. "I need to completely peel off the bizarreness of this world, presenting a metal rock and steampunk style."

Newton finally understood at this moment, "You mean, like the 'City of God', but compare the colors a little stronger." The same natural light is shot at different latitudes, different times, different positions, and different angles.

Currently, among Lance's works, only "City of God" uses natural light, but even so, a large number of indoor scenes in that work use artificial light sources, not to mention "killing people with a knife". Almost the entire work is made of artificial light. This time, "Rampant Road" will all use natural light. After their previous ideas came to the Namibian Desert, they became unrealistic. Therefore, Lance intends to make full use of the advantages of the red desert to present the metal rock style in a gorgeous and vivid way.

Lance snapped his fingers, "Now we are finally on the same track."

Newton let out a long sigh, "I knew you would never let me live a good life." Compared with artificial light sources, natural light sources are the biggest challenge.

Simply put, artificial light sources can ignore real time and create the light source in the concept at any time they want; but natural light sources must race against time and against God. For example, according to Lance's requirements, Newton measured the light source from 2:00 to 4:00 every afternoon, which means that the crew can only invest in the shooting for these two hours every day. Once they missed it, they missed it and could only start over the next day - and the premise is that the weather is beautiful.

This not only means that the crew members cannot make mistakes, but also means that the shooting process must be meticulous. Any time it can lead to a failure in preparation for the whole day.

Newton shook his head, but he also knew that if he was filming in the way of Lance, it would be not just the lighting team, but I was afraid that every link of the crew would be suffering. Moreover, compared with the lighting team and the photography team, the director team led by Lance and the actor team are the important tasks. Therefore, Newton did not continue to complain, turned around and left, greeted his team members, and started to get busy again.

It is impossible to test natural light sources without thirty minutes. Sometimes it is normal to spend one or two hours to evaluate natural light sources. Therefore, they don’t have time to rest.

As soon as Newton left, Giselle and Adriana walked up one step, blocking Lance's way. Miranda and Candice were also staring at each other. However, Lance did not show too much emotion and directly threw a sentence over, "What's the problem?"

Adriana opened her mouth, "Uh..." But when she thought about her outspoken words, her mind was blank. She didn't know what to say. She looked back at Giselle, but Giselle also looked confused and said in embarrassment, "I don't know much about actors, but... everything just now sounded really complicated, and I can't keep up."

Adriana also nodded repeatedly. It was not easy to make Adriana, who was not afraid of heaven and earth, show this terrifying expression.

Charlize, who was standing aside, interrupted, "You want to complete the shooting in one go, but for the moment, our actors have no reference objects and no performance frameworks, which is very difficult. We don't even know what the performance you are asking for." This time, except for Michael and Emma, ​​more than a dozen actors nodded in unison.

"Rehearsal, this is the function of rehearsal." Lance was confident, "If nothing unexpected happens, we can only shoot at most... four hours a day." The whole story of "Raging Road" takes place within three days, and two-thirds of the scenes take place during the day, so the natural light sources that can be used are very limited, but the four hours are still conservatively estimated. Lance currently has no idea about the weather in the desert. If the weather is bad, there may be less official shooting time every day. "We must rehearse for the other ten hours except for four hours of working time. This is your study time."

The photography team needs to rehearse the camera's running track, the lighting team needs to plan the natural light source for every day, the prop group and special effects team must accurately shoot the next day to milliseconds every day... And the actor team needs to ensure that they are in a camera-free state, so they meet the director's requirements and contribute enough performances. Since Lance is a director, producer and actor, it is impossible for him to rehearse with the actor team at all times, so this requires everyone to work extracurricularly.

It can be imagined that the shooting of the "Raging Road" is not only long, but also hard.

"After a while, all the scenes in the first act are my own. You will watch it next to you. Starting from the rehearsal stage, how each group cooperates, how the actors prepare, and how the filming is carried out. After having a general idea, it is your turn to start working. You must know that in the "Rampage Road" crew, there is no such thing as whether there is a shooting task. Those who do not have a shooting task must rehearse. Once, it may be one million!" Lance's words shocked Candice, and even hiccupped. Charlize looked back at Candice and showed a helpless smile to Lance, "You scared everyone."

None of these models have any experience in acting, but now they have to face such a problem. Even Giselle's expressions seem a little stiff at this time.

Lance shrugged indifferently, "It's the same for me." He is the male lead, and the burden of the task is far heavier than other actors, "What's more, I warned you during the audition." After that, Lance took a step towards the door of the tent. This time, he could finally get out, and no one called him again, but Lance thought of something, and took the initiative to stop and turn around, "Michael..." His eyes turned around, and then fell on it.

Emma, ​​her crystal clear eyes looked at Lance with anticipation, unlike the others' nervous and stiff expressions. Emma was not only not afraid at this time, but was also eager to try it out, as if she had been looking forward to this day for a long time. "And Emma." Lance called out, "You are more familiar with my habits. Now you can start rehearsals, and have more scenes between each other, and ask questions at any time if you don't understand. Asking questions now is better than starting filming."

This time, Lance never looked back and left the tent, leaving everyone standing in the same place and looking at each other.

Charlize looked at the already scared actors. Not only models, but also other supporting actors with filming experience were all blank. He originally thought that it was just a commercial movie, just like "the day after tomorrow", and it didn't take any effort, but found that the difficulty of shooting this work was even more exaggerated than that of an art movie that won purely by performing, and the heavy pressure made people breathless.

"Has he always been like this?" Charlize looked at Emma and asked curiously, "This is...

"Bastard?" Emma took the conversation and raised the ending. Charlize thought about it seriously, and couldn't help but chuckled, and nodded repeatedly, "Yes, such a bastard, his arrogant and stubborn look just now, really want to kick him hard." Charlize's words made Michael and Emma burst into laughter.

Emma nodded and said with a smile, "Yes, he has always been such a bastard. To be precise, it is normal now. After entering the shooting stage..." Emma shrugged and exchanged a glance with Michael. Both of them thought of Tom Cruise's appearance ashamed of being scolded, and then saw Miranda and Candice with pale faces. Emma showed a sly smile, "But you will like that feeling."
Chapter completed!