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May 27th, Tuesday.

This is already the fourth week of the filming of "The Monster in the Lake", and the crew has come to Michigan for outing.

The North American film market is still a chaos, and several major studios are trying to get the box office.

However, this did not interfere with Firefly Pictures. Instead, Blue Butterfly Pictures released two independent films, which barely made a profit.

Time came to half past one in the afternoon.

The scene to be filmed is a scene where water monsters go ashore to kill all quarters, and it is also the rare big scene scheduling in the whole film, which is the most expensive place.

In order to reduce the mistakes and cause the budget to get out of control, the crew arranged two full days to shoot this part of the scene, very cautious.

In the specially built motion capture studio, an area of ​​less than 15 square meters that was temporarily remodeled was very crowded at this time.

Like all kinds of digital equipment and motion capture equipment, as well as special conductive display cameras, reflectors, isolation screens, plus the digital field special effects team of 4 staff and the only performer Andy Serkins.

The small area is filled with dangdang, and the remaining irrelevant personnel can only stay outside, but there is no way, the condition is like this. After all, the special effects of "Water Monster in the Lake" do not account for a lot of special effects, and they are also similar to those magical. Masterpieces are incomparable. Naturally, budgets can only achieve this level.

At this moment, Andy Serkins has put on the equipment, and his face is covered with dense green dots-this is an assistive technology to capture expressions with a calculator.

He squatted on the ground with an exaggerated and distorted expression. If you only watch the physical performance, you will feel that the facial muscles are so large that you can't believe it was performed like this, but the motion capture actor does have to adapt to this exaggeration.

Generally speaking, actors do not need to express their emotions in this way, because in the camera lens, every move of the actor will be faithfully recorded, which is too exaggerated, but not beautiful.

But if it's motion capture, it's not an exaggeration. The equipment is not good at capturing expressions. This is like a drama performance and a film and television drama performance. There are many differences between the two.

On the other side, Matthew McConaughey is wearing a baseball cap and smoking.

The second brother played by Paul Bettany was chatting with his father, played by Michael Caine.

It is also the monster attack that will happen when a family is having a picnic in Lake Michigan. Dozens of passersby have been invited as the background board around the venue.

"The second shot of "The Water Monster in the Lake" 57th scene, action."

"Run."

"Run."

"There are monsters..."

The panicked sounds were just because everyone had seen the water monster. The second brother was anxious and ran fast in the first place.

Matthew McConaughey was also scared in his heart. The monster was very aggressive. After landing, he had killed several people and ate it in his stomach, but he was still worried about the safety of his little sister. In a panic, he saw one dressed in beige. The one in the dress seemed to be his own sister, so she grabbed it and ran.

Halfway through the run, I realized something was wrong when I heard the voice. I caught the wrong person. I didn't know him, so I quickly let go and returned.

And the little girl played by Fanning had gone far before, and when she saw the monster, she was a little frightened, dumbfounded, she didn't listen to her feet and was about to cry.

Thomas manipulated the camera lens to pan to the left, then zoomed in, and gave Fanning a close-up of her face-her panic and fear were clearly shown on her face.

"Little girl."

Matthew shouted as he ran.

Fanning heard the sound and looked back, but felt the sunlight above his head covered...

"Crack."

Lehman praised: "It's been this time, everyone is very good."

Dakota Fanning was affirmed by the director, and he was very happy.

As a child star, she usually has a lot of advertising endorsements or attending publicity events. Acting in movies is her favorite job-she has a sense of accomplishment and is not bored.

Subsequently, the crew asked Andy Serkins to perform alone again, at this time the technology is not enough to achieve synchronization.

As for him, in addition to playing with actors, he often has to go to the studio alone to face the transmission equipment and do it again.

After more than half an hour, the actors with new makeup were in place again.

A female substitute had already changed into Dakota Fanning's costume, ready to hang Via and pretend to be swallowed by the monster.

However, the protagonist silently walked to Lehman and said, "Mr. Director, I can actually do it myself, I can act well."

Lehman appreciates the little girl’s strong attitude, but he still didn’t agree. “The next move is a bit dangerous, it’s hard to do without special training. Also, in case something happens, What should I do if I fall from the top and get injured?"

Having said that, Dakota Fanning had to stand obediently and watch.

After all, Avia is not that easy to hang, let alone make appropriate actions with special effects.

Even if it’s a professional stand-in, it’s the first time someone pulls it backwards, but it’s not in place enough, and the posture is a little stiff. After flying in the air for more than half an hour, he was bitten by the monster and ran back into the lake. The gesture of coming.

And just such a short period of faceless operation, the professional double came down from Wia, it is inevitable that he was clutching his waist, hissing and exhaling with teeth, obviously hurt.

Of course, this is her job. If it's not dangerous, she doesn't need her. If she gets paid, she will go to the side and apply ointment.

Dakota Fanning, who was thinking about doing it himself, didn't say anything to use a stand-in at this time. Hanging in the air and being dragged to make various movements, it was obviously a technical and physical exercise.

The next scene needs to be filmed again, and all the parts of the same scene in the entire location are shot together.

After the little girl was captured by the monster, she did not die, but was trapped in a sewer pipe. After calling for help, the quarantined male protagonist and his father decided to rescue her.

They picked up the shotgun and took the initiative to look for the trace of the monster.

For several days, nothing was achieved.

On the contrary, it was a rainy day. When they were hiding from the rain at home, the monster showed up.

Father picked up the shotgun and fired at the monster. The bullet hit the monster with no effect at all.

Obviously, the monster's defense is good, not afraid of firearms at all.

Then, through a thrilling hunt, I finally found a clue to the monster’s lair, but at this moment, because the second brother gave an unloaded shotgun to the old man, he was killed when confronted, and the monster was killed. The foot was trampled to death.

It was also at this time, under the sorrow and pain, that the hero's courage was strengthened.

In other words, this servant has the consciousness to die.I'm not afraid of death anymore, I'm afraid of water monsters.

Of course, the shots of this character portrayal are actually very hard. Because of the need to cooperate with the work in the digital field, they are basically very slow and slow shots separately.

Fortunately, it was finally completed.

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