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    Queenstown, a suburban town in Vancouver, Canada, is backed by large redwood forests in the north. These maple forests are part of the local forest park.  There are many forest parks like this in Canada, which is vast and sparsely populated, and each one has beautiful scenery. The Queenstown Forest Park chosen by the crew of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" has particularly tall and ancient trees.  The park allowed the crew to open a trail into the depths of the park and build a swing arm.  During the day, Wan Xiaohu came here with the crew and used a crane to take overhead shots of the forest and detailed shots. A helicopter was also on standby, ready to shoot high-altitude scenery.  In the movie, the plot designed by Wan Xiaohu, including the happy run of the chimpanzee "Caesar" when he first came to the forest, and the ending where he led the orangutans to settle down in the forest, all required a lot of material about orangutans running in the book.  One of the most difficult shots was one that I couldn't complete even after trying it several times.  This shot is taken from the bottom of the big tree, all the way up, until it rises to the same height as the uncle.  This material was used to create the shot of Caesar standing on top of a tree, overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.  ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????  This system is similar to an elevator. Two steel cables are fixed at one end to the ground and the other end to the treetops. The camera is hoisted along the steel cables.  As long as the wind is not strong and the speed is controlled well, theoretically, the effect Wan Xiaohu wants can be achieved.  When the mechanic reported that everything was fine, Wan Xiaohu took the horn and shouted loudly: "All-right, On-your-marks, We-try-again!" "Come  -On (Hurry up), Come-on!" "Control the speed!" "Turn on the power of the generator to the maximum!" "Okay! Everything is ready, Director Wan Xiaohu!  I looked at the monitor and saw that the image was normal, so I picked up the speaker and shouted: "Action!" Whoops, the camera was hoisted up.  Shoot from slow to fast.  "Pay attention to adjusting the angle! Photographer, I want a downward lens!" "OK, Good, adjust, adjust, look up!" "Okay, very good, slow down. Yes, slower, slower, OK, the effect is very good  "Hold on!" "Turn the camera around. That's it. Okay, we're at the top!" "It's a big tree 200 meters high in less than a minute!"  , the shot from bottom to top is under the command of Wan Xiaohu and the scheduling of the photographer.  Perfectly photographed.  Playing back the footage on the monitor, and then automatically modifying it in his mind to add the orangutan's movements, Wan Xiaohu smiled: "This one is completed perfectly!" "Haha, I finally passed the test." The photographer sighed with emotion.  ¡°After struggling for several days, it¡¯s finally over. I don¡¯t have to feed the bugs here anymore.¡± The staff of the crew.  Everyone is happy. Shooting in the forest is naturally no more comfortable than shooting in a studio.  Calling the assistant director, Wan Xiaohu ordered: "Take people to clean up this place. We will arrange aerial photography tomorrow and try to complete it in one day." "Okay." "Well, you can take people to do things. I will go back to the studio first.  "The studio for "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" is a huge temporary studio in the open space on the east side of the town of Kunstine. It looks very huge.  In fact, the interior is very simple.  The entire studio is divided into two parts, one is the office area, and the other is the Golden Gate Bridge interior shooting area.  In the movie, orangutans and humans will stage a decisive battle on the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco's iconic building. However, the Golden Gate Bridge is very busy and vehicles are constantly passing by. Wan Xiaohu has no chance to cause damage on the real Golden Gate Bridge, so he can only build a model indoors.  Shoot.  The ability to shoot indoors with the same effect as outdoors is a great test of the talent of Weta Digital Studio.  Fortunately, in the script designed by Wan Xiaohu, during the decisive battle on the Golden Gate Bridge, there was a thick fog, which saved a lot of trouble in the special effects production. All the extra shots can be covered with fog.  Now for the decisive battle on the Golden Gate Bridge, the assistant director is still leading the special effects team and actor team to rehearse. Wan Xiaohu walked around here and then left.  Went to the office area next door, the work hall of Weta Digital.  "Hi, Tiger." "Hi, Dan. How are you, can you handle the plan I brought yesterday?" As soon as Wan Xiaohu came in, he met Dan Lemmon, the visual effects director of the crew.  , the importance of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" is second only to Wan Xiaohu, and all scenes require his coordination.  Dan shrugged his shoulders: "Although it is a bit troublesome, it is not without a solution."We have already chosen the standard for the number of orangutans within the range.  See the shelves we have on this wall, wow, thanks to Wellington Zoo for choosing these appropriate criteria.  " Following Dan's fingers, Wan Xiaohu saw a shelf against the wall, densely packed with various models. In order to create a more convincing picture of the orangutans' living habits, Weta Digital went to Wellington Zoo in New Zealand.  , worked hard to take photos of the chimpanzees, and when the injured orangutans were anesthetized and treated, the special effects team also participated two or three times, making foot molds, hand molds, and face molds for the orangutans, using these models as the basis, painting and peeling them off.  A layer of silicone film is placed in mineral oil and scanned by a desktop scanner. Relying on this precise physical casting, we can create truly high-fidelity apes, whether it is the old version of "Planet of the Apes" or Tim.  Burton's "Battle of the Planets" all uses makeup to interpret the characters of apes, but the effect of makeup cannot interpret the subtle expressions, so from the beginning, Wan Xiaohu told Weta Digital that he directed "Apes".  "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", don't wear makeup! Compared with previous versions, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" pays more attention to the portrayal of the inner drama of apes.  It is impossible to surpass the height of the old version.  By the way, where is Kevin Romond?  "Wan Xiaohu asked. "He is arranging the motion capture block of the Golden Gate Bridge.  " "OK, you guys get busy first, I'll go over there and take a look.  ¡± Kevin.Romond is the special effects director and is responsible for special effects shots. What the crew needs the most for special effects shots is motion capture technology. In the studio in the small town of Queenstown, the crew has two shooting locations, interior and exterior. The interior is  The details of the Golden Gate Bridge and the zoo scene are troublesome, but not difficult. The real difficulty is the facial expression motion capture in broad daylight. This will be the first time in history that the motion capture will be done indoors.  . Because the light is fixed, the reflected light is easily captured by the camera when wearing reflective clothing. Outdoors, there is too much mixed light, and even an unexpected beam of light can erase the captured data.  Objects such as cars, light stands, and even reflective strips on shoes in the crowd may cause devastating damage to the motion capture system. The improvement made by Weta Digital is to replace the motion capture markers attached to the actors with traditional reflective balls.  These become active infrared LEDs. These LED strings are connected to the controller by wires, and then mounted on the actor's body. The LEDs coordinate with the camera shutter of the motion capture system and emit short and intense infrared rays.  Combining these intense rays with an infrared filter and an extremely short shutter time on the camera can penetrate the ambient background light and pick up a good, clean mark signal for the system.  Infrared rays are invisible to the Kodak film in use, which eliminates the concern of light contamination of the film. The set for the exterior capture area of ??the Golden Gate Bridge is approximately 100 meters long, 18 meters wide, and surrounded by 6 meters high on three sides.  The green reflectors are also the largest in the world. If it can be declared a Guinness World Record, more than 80 scrap cars are scattered throughout the set area. It can be said that the special effects are magical.  It is vividly reflected here. Including the group of attacking orangutans, the destruction of the bridge, the explosion of the car, the collision of the plane, and the shots of falling into the sea, they are all fake, and they are all special effects produced by CG.  How are you doing?  "Wan Xiaohu found it easily. Kevin Romond, a middle-aged engineer wearing glasses who was directing the staff to place cameras in the crowd, is the technical director of Weta Digital Motion Capture Technology, outdoor motion capture. It was he who led the team to develop  "It will take a while, if the weather is good enough.  " "Is two days enough?  " "Nothing unexpected, that's fine.  "That's good. Twentieth Century Fox is already complaining about our slow progress. Everyone, please cheer up. Let's go faster and return to studio shooting as soon as possible."  "Wan Xiaohu clapped his hands to boost morale. "As a director, he does not need to personally do the details, but mainly supervises and directs. "The most important thing in managing a team of hundreds of people is coordination, so that the team can combine organically.  Instead of working in separate groups, each doing his or her own thing without a unified schedule, it was by shooting small-budget movies one after another that Wan Xiaohu accumulated a sufficient team.???Exercise ability.  There is a large crew, commander in a large crew.  Being a great director doesn¡¯t mean that you can put a label on your face by making two classic movies and winning a few awards.  Whether you can direct the crew and run the entire team according to your own intentions is the criterion for measuring a director's ability.  Some directors can win awards, but they will never be able to be A-level directors or make A-level big-budget movies.  Can commanding a company be the same as commanding a division?  "If you can't make a blockbuster movie, where can you brag about yourself and say you're awesome?"  Wan Xiaohu¡¯s goal is to become a great director, a great director who can make blockbusters. "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" is just a small beginning. Only by doing this well can we consider the future.
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