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After reading these technical discussions, you will admire those who are actually making movies
1. The photographer and director referred to many 18th century paintings for composition and lighting. However, photographer John Alcott believed that the lighting of the paintings at that time was relatively flat, so most of the light sources from the side were used when shooting to deepen the contrast and three-dimensional effect.
2. The location is full of natural light. Under the unpredictable weather conditions in the United Kingdom and Ireland, it is extremely difficult to control the light for photography, and a mechanism is specially designed to steal the aperture.
3. The scene in which the British and French troops were lined up to be shot, used the orbital three-camera operation, the lens was angenieux 10x zoom, and the close-up shots were all done with a telephoto end of 250mm, which was very technically difficult at that time. There are many effects of zooming Zoom Out in the film, which are specially achieved by the use of electronically controlled motors. Nowadays, electronically controlled Zoom has become a popular technology, and it has even been regarded as an outdated method, but its effects and timing of use are even in the past. It seems very natural today.
4. A scene of Mrs. Lyndon's mansion, the soft light full of layers is the use of nine-headed lamps called Mini-Brutes, and the window is covered with tracing paper. It seems that this trick may have already been used. Old, but using the right tricks in the right scene is still a master craftsmanship.
5. Using the famous T0.7 super-aperture space lens, it is possible to realize the interior scene illuminated by pure candlelight, which is still amazing in terms of today's technology. Whether the exterior can also be purely using candles as artificial light sources is really greedy.
6. Because it is a special lens, the focal length is only 50mm. Most of the interior night scenes are completed only by this focal length. In order to shoot a wider lens, the crew also took the super lens and modified it to shoot a lens with a focal length of about 32mm. Bit, the technical components involved and the hardships of the testing process can be imagined by non-laymen.
7. Due to the shallow depth of field caused by the large aperture, the traditional follow focus method is almost impossible to implement. The photographer has another monitor of his own. The screen is covered with grid lines, which allows Daisuke to have a sense of the distance between the camera and the subject to achieve the extremely difficult follow focus operation.
8. Those unpredictable real scene lights and shadows also convey the feeling of people like ants in a chaotic world. Barry Lyndon's fate is like that British weather: You never know. Kubrick also faces the same challenge: controlling everything , but could not control a cloud.
9. Kubrick, who is also a tyrant, can't decide the mirror position and rehearsal before all the actors put on their clothes in the early morning, and he doesn't like the actors to use light substitutes, so he must be all set himself. It's definitely torture for everyone. With a few exceptions, he didn't think about the scene in advance, but relying on the feeling of the scene, holding the director's tube to shoot back and forth, you can imagine the scene of hundreds of people waiting for the director's first shot. As long as Kubrick took the first lens, the rear lens positions would not be delayed. And the hardest part is often the first shot.
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