It may sound silly to spend days and tens of thousands of dollars just to shoot one shot, but it is completely normal in the Hollywood industry.
In fact, Nanaya also considered using full CG to produce this shot, but after comparison, he found that it would be cheaper to use half real person and half CG.
The main problem lies in the treatment of Hassan's cloak. If Nanaya wants to get the real feeling of being blown by the wind, the various CG modeling costs involved will be very high.
The same situation applies not only to Nanaya, but other film crews also encounter the same problem.
In Hollywood, except for directors like Nolan who are crazy about real scenes and film shooting, or directors like Cameron who don't care about costs to achieve the effects they want, most directors will choose the one with a better cost-effectiveness when shooting.
In fact, as far as Nanaya knows, even if CG technology has developed to 2020, there are still many shots that need to be shot using real-life models.
Especially in daytime scenes, the shortcomings of CG technology will be exposed very obviously.
This is also why, since 2000, large commercial films have had more and more fight scenes at night, in order to cover up the shortcomings of CG technology.
Currently, the most commonly used real-life shots are of heavy vehicles such as large trucks and explosion scenes.
The former is because current CG technology makes it difficult to express the heavy texture of such a heavy object, lest the audience feels it is fake.
For example, in the opening scene of Captain America: Civil War where a truck rushes into the gate, that truck is real, not CG.
The same goes for explosion scenes. No matter how much technology develops, explosion effects created entirely with CG still cannot match the feeling of a real physical explosion.
At least it remained the same until Nanaya was reborn.
What the Hollywood special effects team does is to base their work on real-life explosion shots, and then use CG processing to achieve the shots in the director's mind.
But why is this?
No matter how realistic the CG production is, everyone can still tell that this is not a real explosion, but a simple computer simulation.
Even Nanaya found it difficult to answer this question, but he did not think that it was just a matter of technical ability.
Nanaya felt that the feeling was very mysterious, and even he found it difficult to explain it using professional terms.
If I have to say, those explosions probably really exist in this world, right?
That's why these shots have an incomparably realistic charm.
The reason why explosions created with CG cannot compare with real explosions is because they lack this sense of reality.
Just like boys are born with a soul of steel and like mecha, this may be the instinct of human aesthetics.
Nanaya also admitted that this might be his own unique paranoid idea, but which director is not paranoid?
As the person who presents the images in his mind to the audience, Nanaya feels that as long as he achieves the desired effect and the audience recognizes it, that's enough.
The shooting of the first two shots of FZ went quite smoothly, which was a good start for the entire project team.
But in the next few days, various minor problems began to occur during the filming, and the filming progress began to slow down.
Neither Nanaya nor Shiki Matsuno cared too much about this. After all, this was a normal situation in filming a movie.
If every shot were as simple as the first two, then anyone could make a movie.
In front of the camera, Johnson and Hiddleston are both standing on the God Wheel made by the crew. The scene being filmed is where the emperor appears in front of everyone.
The set still uses the same setting from the previous confrontation between Saber and Lancer, but because the plot has already experienced a battle between two servants, the set has become quite messy.
Unlike the original animation where the floor was simply crushed, in order to show the Servant's destructive power, Nanaya destroyed the dock built by the set crew.
If I had to describe it, it would probably be like the emperor driving a bullock cart and plowing the entire dock to one side.
Although it was only brushes and sabers that caused this tragic scene.
Besides the scenery, another difference is the camera position.
Although Tom Hiddleston has a young face, he is actually not short in height. Although Johnson has the figure of a black iron tower, the height difference is still not as great as that of Waver and the Emperor in the original work.
Since the hardware indicators cannot be met, we need to work on the external environment.
The emperor is not Uncle B, and this role certainly cannot be solved with CG special effects.
All shots involving the Emperor and Waver cannot be shot using ordinary techniques, but must be specially processed.
First, Johnson had to be taller, and the prop box that was originally used to make up for the height shortness of short actors came in handy again. This would make Johnson a head taller than Hiddleston in terms of physical effects based on the original height difference.
Fortunately, the emperor has a cloak, which can perfectly cover the prop box under his feet.
In terms of camera shooting, Nanaya also used special techniques to make the audience feel the absolute height difference between the two characters.
Nanaya chose a lens processing technique that is commonly used in special effects films - forced perspective.
To explain it in academic terms, it is to use the illusion of optical and visual confusion to make the lens image appear to be deformed.
To put it simply, it is to use the illusion of human visual perception to make the person looking at the picture have the illusion that the object in the picture is forcibly enlarged or reduced.
The most commonly used among these are Japanese special effects films. After all, in order to create the oppressive feeling of huge monsters, special effects film directors have gone through countless experiments and have long since figured out a set of effective methods.
It was natural for Nanaya to use these technologies since there was no copyright for them anyway.
In front of the camera, Johnson pushed his arms apart, facing the camera and yelled: "Both sides, take it..."
However, Nanaya stopped Johnson before he could finish his sentence.
"Cut!"
The other actors on the set all looked at Johnson, because no one had moved just now, so it was definitely not them who made the mistake.
And Nanaya's next words also confirmed this.
"Johnson, what did you just say? This is the first time I know Alexander is an American!" Nanaya roared at Johnson while holding the director's baton, "Where did the Greek accent you trained for several months go?! When you went to the toilet just now, did it rush into the sewer with [beep——]?!"
"Sorry. My bad."
Johnson immediately realized his mistake and hurriedly bowed his head to admit his mistake.
Compared with his big body, it looks a bit strange and gives people a feeling of identity dislocation.
But in the Fate crew, Nanaya is the most powerful one. Even Shiki Matsuno can't veto Nanaya's decision, let alone Johnson, the new actor.
In fact, even when Johnson becomes a world superstar in the future, he will still be absolutely at a disadvantage in front of Nanaya.
After all, directors and actors are two food chains. When both sides are of the same level, the actors are always the weaker ones.
"Start all over again! Johnson, if you speak with an American accent again I'll send you to Greece for three months!"
Nanaya said viciously.
"All departments please reconfirm and restart in 3 minutes!"
Nanaya's words made everyone else on the set feel as if they had been pardoned. You know, when Nanaya was cursing just now, no one in the audience dared to speak, and everyone was silent.
"Don't you think Senior is getting more and more angry?"
Ori, who was sitting nearby, whispered to several elderly people around him.
You have to know that when filming "Kara n ]o Kyoukai" at the beginning, although Nanaya's temper was not very good, he would definitely not interrupt the actors and scold them directly like he does now.
"Maybe it's because the director's temper increases in direct proportion to their status."
Katsura Mamako didn't care much about it. After all, no matter how much Nanaya scolded her, it wouldn't reach her.
On the set, after the script supervisor shouted "Action" again, Johnson once again posed as required by the script.
"Both parties, put down your weapons. In front of this king!"
A leisurely roar, and with a Greek accent.
However, due to the lack of the sacred bull and the later lightning special effects, the emperor's equipment now looks a bit simple.
But none of this dampened the emotion of Johnson's performance.
He introduced himself to the confused Saber and Lancer in a very stern tone: "My name is Iskandar, the King of Conquerors. I participated in this Holy Grail War and obtained the rank of Rider!"
Blowing up your own family is a very stupid thing to do in the Holy Grail War, because the opponent can guess your abilities and weaknesses as long as they know your real name.
No way.
In fact, in most fate stories, the real name will be given at the beginning, or the real name will be exposed due to various circumstances.
Only a few Servants can protect their real names from being exposed.
This has nothing to do with the fact that the servants are all antiques, but is just to give the audience a better sense.
While retaining the real names of one or two servants increases anticipation, revealing the real names of most of the servants can give readers a very clear understanding of the character's positioning.
This helps them get into the story more, rather than ignoring the wonderful story itself just to guess the real name.
However, as part of the Holy Grail War, real names cannot be revealed casually. As the Emperor Master, Waver would of course be very angry if his own Servant revealed his true name without permission.
"What the hell are you doing, idiot! Idiot!! Big idiot!!!"
Hiddleston tried to show bravado, he grabbed Johnson's coat tightly and shouted.
"Um?"
Then with just a glance, Waver stopped.
[Are you a bullied young wife? ! ]
Many people in the crew were holding back their laughter. Looking at Tom Hiddleston's big, watery eyes filled with fear, many female characters felt a maternal glow.
"Hey, I'm talking to you, little Ori."
Katsura Mamako poked Ori's arm and whispered, "What do you think about the annual CM tomorrow? Should I get two books for these two people?"
There is no follow-up. What kind of book can a fujoshi aunt produce? It's still a [beep——] L book.