Notes from the previous hour
scenery:
1. I originally wanted to go to Île-de-France and found a great set but it was too expensive, so I had to go to Brittany to find it.
Although it is a big circle, it is of great benefit to the photographer and helps to visualize the film.
2. There are no two floors or stairs in the original script. The road from the workshop to the kitchen is connected by a corridor (the corridor is very heavy), but in this case, you have to find a set with such a corridor, or you need to to rebuild a corridor.
3. The set director and director work together on each film, everyone is on the same frequency.
4. This kind of restrained and simple set does not have any more decoration in essence. She thought of an interview with Xie Hou, and talked about the fact that historical movies should not over-decorate the set:
~Historical movies with big scenes always give people a sense of illustration: we feel like we are flipping through a beautiful photo album, but we can't get involved in history. You know how to avoid this trap.
~I want to avoid this at any cost, and I can't stop thinking. Every time I ask myself: Why is there something in a historical film that is not present in contemporary films? This allows me to confirm the position of the camera, and also allows me to avoid filming the film as a photo album. In Bordeaux, we rebuilt an entire street. The set crew took fifteen days, annoyed residents along the river. The street lights were out, the room was dark and dusty, and if we put ourselves in our shoes, we took the panorama, and we built the sets to be classy and descriptive. Because it is a historical film, I naturally don't want to change the direction the audience should pay attention to: the connection of violence, domination and being dominated, the cruelty of history. This is my firm choice.
5. The decorations in many places are kept intact, with as few changes as possible, only adjustments have been made to elements such as wood products, beds, and blue curtains. Having repainted the stairs to an ochre grey helped a lot with the nighttime ghost scenes.
7. Will go to the field or understand the set through photos, simulate the performance of different cameras in the picture, and imagine the trajectory of the lens movement.
References
8. Talking about the painters of the same period Jacques-Louis David, Corot, Chardin, the portrait composition is rigorous, the light is accurate and soft, and thinking about making a movie by appreciating the background color, costume, and character movement and expression of the oil painting.
9. In the case of the movie, I will look for a reference where two women meet with a similar relationship, Bergman's Persona and Autumn Sonata, and find inspiration from the distance between the two female characters.
photography
10. The plan is to use a 35mm machine. After testing in July, I thought that summer would come slowly. In September, the actors and makeup continued to test on the set. I wanted to use 8K during the day without 8K at night. I focused on testing silk (looking for real silk and rayon, and finally thinking about mixing), candles. Fire (not enough brightness), various flames (for the convenience of shooting, I want to find a flame effect without sound).
11. Because the test of actors with makeup in September was not good enough, the test was re-tested in October. Various makeup methods, no makeup, indoor, outdoor, natural light, artificial light, and lighting problems have not been solved.
12. Mention Barry Lyndon, but I hope that the candlelight should not be overwhelming, and it can create a hazy and deep atmosphere without ignoring other colors.
13. No large aperture, lens is Leica Thalia, filter satin.
14. Spent a day in the pool to test the passage of swimming in the ocean.
15. Lighting took a lot of effort. The director himself said that the most important thing for the film is to master the use of light. In the indoor photography, all natural light was removed, and a large device was built outside the window to simulate the light. He joked that it was a stadium concert. .
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