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Chapter 406 High-speed slow motion shooting
🕑 Added 2025-07-28 14:31:54 +0000 UTCLike most Hollywood studios, the one that Washimine rented was also converted from a huge hangar.
If you only look at the shooting scene, you will find that it is far from the finished product.
Because of the large amount of green screen, it has no aesthetic appeal and the set even looks a little funny.
In fact, even though they have had a lot of experience in green screen shooting, the actors still laugh frequently when they are actually filming the movie.
After all, no one knows what scene will make the actor suddenly laugh.
Fortunately, everyone is a professional actor, so there won’t be too much laughter like this, and it can also help to adjust the atmosphere.
But Nanaya didn’t want such a thing to happen to him now.
Today's scene was Nanaya's first action scene in his two lives. It would be a lie to say that he wasn't nervous, but having experienced many ups and downs, he was not afraid at all.
"Fate Zero..."
The crew script supervisor had already placed the script board in front of the main camera lens.
Nanaya took a deep breath and got himself into the state.
"Scene 23, Scene 15! Start now!"
The crisp sound of hitting the board was heard, and Nanaya immediately turned from a decadent uncle into a cold-blooded killer.
Of course, Nanaya has never been a killer, but he knows very well what kind of killer the audience wants to see, and he just needs to show it in front of the audience.
Nanaya walked to the door cautiously, and turned back immediately after seeing the green screen on the keyhole.
"I see. Automatic search?"
Brush.
The sound of metal cutting was heard at the scene.
Then, the floor of the room was cut into a circular plate and fell below the first floor.
Nanaya, who had anticipated this, took a defensive posture and pointed the machine gun in his hand at the cave entrance.
The green curtain slowly rose from the space below with the help of a robotic arm, and Kenneth, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, was standing in the center of the green platform.
It is definitely impossible to make silver tentacles made of mercury in reality, so we can only use green screen and post-production CG processing.
But in this way, Benedict Cumberbatch standing among the green screen looks very funny.
But Benedict Cumberbatch did not laugh. He looked at Nanaya in front of him with a gloomy face, and a cruel smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"Finally I found you, little mouse."
These words seemed to turn on a switch, and Nanaya pulled the trigger and started shooting at Kenneth.
The model gun in Nanaya's hand was specially made. It could not only simulate the sound of gun shooting for live recording, but also simulate the sound of metal shells popping out and falling to the ground.
No matter how real it is, imagination is still needed when performing.
Nanaya imagined the scene in his mind where his bullets were blocked by the mercury screen, then he pulled out a tactical dagger and threw it out.
Because Nanaya was not a professional throwing knife acrobat, the prop dagger drew an ugly parabola in the air and then fell into the hole.
However, no one present cared, especially Benedict Cumberbatch. He ignored the dagger that fell into the pit and imagined the scene of the dagger being wrapped by the tentacles and then exploding.
"Idiot, it's useless! Such a little trick... cut!"
Benedict Cumberbatch stretched out his hand and tried to wrap up Nanaya with his mercury tentacles.
At this time, Nanaya made a sprint move and shouted something very immature.
"Innate Time Control! Time alter - double accel!"
Then Nanaya rushed towards Benedict Cumberbatch with all his might, and then slid into the hole covered by the green screen.
Nanaya didn't care at all whether he would get hurt. The props team had already arranged that the hole was filled with sponge pads.
Sure enough, as soon as Nanaya jumped in, he felt the soft touch, but Nanaya did not stay on the sponge mat.
He quickly crawled to a corner because he knew that no one could stand in that position.
Soon, Benedict Cumberbatch also landed on the ground along the green platform.
"Cut! Get here first."
The sounds of the seasons rang through the speakers.
"Phew, I hope I can pass it in one try, otherwise I'll end up on a stretcher if I jump a few more times."
Nanaya held his waist and struggled to stand up. There was a problem with the landing when he jumped down just now, and he felt very sore.
"Director, are you okay?"
Benedict Cumberbatch quickly came over and gave a hand.
"It's okay, my waist is fine."
Nanaya replied nonsensically, put away his machine gun and walked to the camera.
"How about it?"
Shiki Matsuno did not answer. He connected the monitor next to him and after some debugging, he started playing the footage he had just shot directly on the monitor.
"I think it's okay, what about you?" Shiki turned around and asked.
Nanaya stood side by side with him, watching the images on the monitor together.
Since there is no CG processing, the entire picture is filled with green screen.
If you are an ordinary audience, you probably don’t even know what you are watching. You might even think it’s two epileptic people performing a monkey show, and the kind that is in slow motion.
Nanaya was not surprised by this.
"The effect of using high-speed and slow motion is good." Nanaya nodded with satisfaction.
Shiki Matsuno agreed, "Yes, this is a specially processed 24 frames per second broadcast. When the post-production is completed, the effect will definitely be very good."
The way Kiritsugu's Innate Time Control is filmed is somewhat similar to the way Quicksilver and the Flash's abilities are displayed.
The background is shot in slow motion, at a high frame rate, and then projected at a low frame rate.
Normal movie footage is recorded and projected at twenty-four frames per second.
But these special images were shot at 48 frames per second and played at 24 frames per second, which appears as slow motion.
Of course, this is just the background part. Nanaya also needs to shoot another set of pictures of him parkouring in normal mode and splice the two pictures together.
Therefore, what Nanaya had just hoped for, to only shoot one side, was simply impossible.
Soon, without Benedict Cumberbatch's participation, Nanaya ran again.
This is how the first action scene is completed.
The second action scene follows immediately, when Kenneth is hit in the face by an RPG after he follows Kiritsugu down to the room on the next floor.
As mentioned before, Nanaya will let this battle spread to most of the castle.
In this cat-and-mouse game, Nanaya will take turns using various single-player combat weapons, while Kenneth's mercury slime will easily take them all.
This will allow the audience to feel Kenneth's power and oppression, and pave the way for Kiritsugu's counterattack later.
The protagonist fights against all odds throughout the whole process but finally makes a comeback. This kind of story can certainly be said to be a common Hollywood routine.
However, unlike most protagonists who rely on explosiveness to win, all of this was a routine designed by Kiritsugu from beginning to end.
In this battle, Kiritsugu will fight with Kenneth by fighting and retreating, deliberately showing weakness while making the opponent anxious, paving the way for the final Origin Bullet.
It’s just that Nanaya’s favorite explosion scene couldn’t be shown this time, because the interior of the Einzbern Castle involved many layers and a complex set structure, so explosives couldn’t be used at all.
Except for a few occasional places where a gas pound was used, most of the scenes involving gunpowder needed to be added with special effects afterwards.
Therefore, the so-called RPG paste face is just using special dust to simulate the smoke produced by an explosion.
Moreover, the scene was designed in such a way that even the actors would not appear on stage.
Kenneth was protected by the Mercury Slime, while Kiritsugu used his Innate Time Control to run away after pulling the trigger of the RPG.
"Don't you think it's stupid to shoot a scene without actors?"
Shiki Matsuno looked at the set design crew who were cleaning up the mess while wearing masks and complained coldly.
"I don't think so." Nanaya answered without thinking, "At least there won't be NGs due to actors reciting the wrong lines."
"True, but I always feel that this kind of shot lacks soul."
“So this is the difference between us.”
Nanaya replied with a shrug.
"Okay, if you have time to sit here and lament about life, you might as well go get ready to make a movie for me!"
Li Gongchen hit Nanaya on the butt with his knee.
"Okay, I understand."
Nanaya replied unhappily, and he swore in his heart that if he had the chance to film a scene with old Li Shuwen in the future, he would never use a stand-in for Grandpa Li.
Overall, the shooting of these shots today went quite smoothly.
Because there is not much literary drama, and even Kiritsugu doesn't have many lines in this plot.
In this way, Nanaya's biggest weakness was reduced to a minimum.
And for action scenes, as long as you follow the rules, many shots can be completed in just two or three takes.
However, literary drama scenes also have their advantages. They are finished after they are shot.
As for these action scenes, shooting them well is only the beginning.
In order to achieve the effect that Nanaya expected, there is still a lot of post-production to be done, which takes much longer than the time it takes to shoot the footage.
After the hard work of the crew members, only the last two sets of shots are left for today.
In one of the groups, Kenneth forced Kiritsugu into the hallway, but he escaped again under Kiritsugu's smoke bomb.
As for the other group, Kiritsugu launched a counterattack. He used his Innate Time Control to avoid Mercury's detection, ambushed Kenneth, and used the Origin Bullet to cripple the lemon-headed director when the opponent was careless.
At this time, Nanaya was standing in the hall where the scenery had been set up, while Benedict Cumberbatch was standing on the steps of the stage.
"It's over, little mouse! I didn't expect you to be such a fast runner."
Benedict Cumberbatch stood on the steps and looked down at Nanaya.
"I appreciate that you've been able to hold off until now with these little tricks, but it's time to end this farce!"
Nanaya looked at the other party coldly, pointing the gun at the enemy with both hands.
"Then, in the name of El-Melloi, I grant you death!"
After saying that, Benedict Cumberbatch stepped hard on the stairs as instructed in the script.
However, at this moment something strange happened!
boom!
The stage collapsed.
