Vol 2 Chapter 525: Explosion scene

Back in Los Angeles, Duke took five days off for the crew. After only two days off, he took John Schwarzman’s photography team and Josh William’s pyrotechnics with him in the huge Hughes Aircraft Factory. Concentrated in the hangar, ready to shoot explosion shots without actors.
In the film, there are many immersive explosions by actors, such as Bruce Wayne blowing up the Shadow Warrior Alliance Monastery.
But few directors will actually let actors enter the explosion scene to shoot. Some directors pursue on-site shooting effects and may use dislocation shooting. However, technical directors like Duke prefer to synthesize rather than make actors too risky.
The reason is simple. If an actor is injured, not to mention financial problems, the delay alone will make him unable to bear it.
With the current computer technology, it is a very simple job to shoot the explosion background and the actor's performance separately and then synthesize them together.
"Josh, how are you preparing?"
Walking into the hangar that was transformed into a makeshift studio, Duke greeted Josh Williams, walked towards the model deep in the hangar, and said as he walked, "I only prepared one model. If there is a mistake, The entire shooting progress will be affected."
"Don't worry, Duke." Josh William was extremely confident, "I promise, you can achieve the effect you require in one go."
The explosion can be said to be the first method Duke used to become famous and to attract audiences. It was only after "The Matrix". Because of the nature of the film he shot, he never bombarded the film unscrupulously.
Compared to the movies he made earlier, the explosion in the Batman trilogy must be restrained a lot.
Walking to the explosion-proof area of ​​the hangar, more than a dozen staff members are busy surrounding the model that has been built. This is a 20-foot-high model. Among them, the Shadow Warrior Alliance Monastery is built on the mountainside. Outside the lens. The most important function is an explosive scene.
Bruce Wayne blew up the monastery and also broke the relationship between him and Henry Ducard.
"John..."
Standing in front of the model, Duke yelled, waiting for John Schwarzman to strode over and said, "Is the photography rack set up?"
"The mini camera inside is ok." John Schwarzman pointed to the boom above the model. "After tuning the No. 1 aerial camera, you can shoot."
Duke exhorted, "Be careful."
As always, when shooting explosion shots, Duke would use a miniature camera to simultaneously shoot the explosion inside the building. In the early nineties, this was an innovative shooting technique, but with the success and popularity of several of his films, now in Hollywood , Almost all explosion scenes. Will use such technology.
Similar to bullet time and explosion time, in Hollywood and the entire North American film market, this is a film technique with a Duke-style brand that cannot be erased.
Compared to the original craze for explosions, Duke became more calm and objective when shooting after several film productions. He is no longer the crazy director who adores explosions.
However, when it is time to use the explosion to impact the audience's visual and auditory nerves, he will still use it without hesitation.
After half an hour. Duke retreated to a safe distance, picked up the microphone and shouted. "Clear the field, clear the field now!"
Except for the people from Josh William’s explosion team who were doing the final check, the other workers retreated to the safe distance line. After another ten minutes, Duke got feedback from Josh William and notified the start of filming!
"10. 9, 8, 7..." The voice of the countdown echoed in the hangar, "3, 2.1, detonation!"
With the sound of the rumbling explosion, a group of flames rushed upwards. The explosion sound was quite amazing, but its power was extremely limited. The rising flame was still far away from the hangar ceiling, and it lost all its momentum and slowly scattered, only bursts. Smoke of gunpowder rose up, and was sucked away by the exhaust fan above and sent to the outside atmosphere.
Josh Williams has long been one of the best pyrotechnics in Hollywood. He has gone through careful calculations and experiments before the explosion, and the results basically meet Duke's requirements.
Duke stood behind the monitor, looked at the footage just taken, nodded in satisfaction, and said to an assistant, "Notify Josh and John about the transition."
Today, he came here to destroy all the models carefully built by the crew.
The crew moved to the opposite corner of the hangar. The models of the high-rail train and the basement of the building had already been built. The people of John Schwarzman quickly set up the camera, while those of Josh Williams stood aside, waiting for the film crew. After finishing the work, go to plant the explosives.
Since there was enough communication with Josh Williams and John Schwarzman in advance, Duke was just standing on the periphery. Of course, professional matters are left to professionals. The director is the same most of the time. The scheduler, not the implementer.
After watching it for a while, an assistant came over and whispered in his ear, "Mr. Doug Walter is here."
Hearing the CEO of Warner Bros. coming over, Duke temporarily handed over the set to Anna Prinz, and walked towards the entrance of the hangar. After not getting far, he saw Doug Walter greet him.
The two greeted them familiarly and walked into the hangar.
"Is the shooting going well?"
Standing on the outside of the temporary set, Doug Walter asked, "I heard you had a lot of trouble in Iceland."
"It's mainly the weather." Duke tidied his coat slightly and said, "Iceland's winter weather is harsh, with severe cold and strong winds exceeding previous years, but fortunately, the crew completed the filming plan on time."
"I just came from Marvel Pictures." Doug Walter said directly, "I basically reached an agreement with Kevin Fitch and Avi Allard, and Warner Bros. will become Marvel in the next three years. The publisher of the industry."
Duke's eyes lit up immediately, "This is good news."
Anyone who knows a little bit about the industry knows how important a sound distribution channel is to a film.
"Duke..." Doug Walter sighed suddenly, "DC's superhero movies have fallen for too long, Batman..."
He shook his head slightly, "Bruce Wayne can't stand another big screen failure."
"I know." Duke thought for a moment and said, "I want to make my movie successful more than anyone else."
How many directors are so strange that they want to watch their films fail?
Doug Walter and even the entire Warner Bros. thoughts, Duke can guess some, DC superheroes have indeed sunk for too long, and now I see Spider-Man and X-Men making money in theaters and surrounding markets. Maybe not jealous?
Moreover, once Duke's assembly plan is successful, it is bound to create unprecedented brilliance in superhero movies.
As the CEO of Warner Bros., Doug Walter must be a busy man. After discussing with Duke about the announcement of "The Hour of War", he took the initiative to leave.
From beginning to end, neither of them talked about the long-delayed negotiations between the Duke’s and Pixar’s studios.
In fact, these two closely related negotiations are beyond the control of Doug Walter and the management of Warner Bros. The equity and capital transactions involved are huge, and Time Warner Group has taken over this negotiation.
In fact, it’s not complicated at all. If Pixar Studios and Duke Studios and Warner Bros.’s share swaps are completed, the shares that Duke and Steve Jobs get will inevitably affect Time Warner’s holdings of Warner Bros. This kind of negotiations involving billions of dollars has never been an easy task, let alone formal negotiations for less than a year, even if they are prolonged for several years, it is normal.
Of course, neither Duke nor Steve Jobs rejects becoming a shareholder of a world-class media group.
Even in a phone conversation between the two not long ago, they both implicitly expressed the idea that it is best to join the board of directors.
Sending Doug Walter away, Duke continues to concentrate on shooting. This is an explosion scene after the collision. You must control the timing of the explosion between the model collisions. Fortunately, Josh Williams has been tempered for several years. There is not much problem with the control, just after one shot, Duke shouted through.
This is the end of today's work. In the next few days, the actors will have holidays. Duke mainly shoots explosive scenes. He strives to use these days to end most of the explosive scenes.
After waiting for a while in the office area of ​​the hangar, Duke's car picked up Tina Fei. He got in the car, glanced at the silent female assistant sitting next to him, and said directly to the driver, "Go back to Malibu. "
After the car started and drove onto the road, Tina Fei suddenly reached out and pressed the button, raising the front and rear barriers, which seemed to have very important things to tell Duke.
"Did something happen?" Duke asked.
Tina Fei did not answer immediately. Instead, she opened her briefcase, took out a document bag, and handed it over, "Attorney Al Ryder asked me to give it to you."
Duke took it, opened it and looked at it. The contents are not secret. They are all about Donald Trump's situation. These are some of Al Ryder's lawyers who used his reputation for profit. evidence.
According to North American law, Duke can ask Donald Trump to pay him a certain fee from the profits of these activities, but he thought about it and returned the file bag to Tina Fei.
"Stop these things for now." He knew that Ivanka valued his father very much.
Tina Fei obviously didn't want to see Duke and Ivanka embarking on a road that couldn't be turned back, and quickly closed up and changed the topic, "The global screening of "Hurricane Rescue" is over, and I have got the latest statistics. To be continued.)