I won’t go into details about the audition process.
In fact, those who are qualified to participate in this casting audition are not newbies. Even students from drama school or film school are not newbies. Most of them have acting experience.
The final selection was a junior student from the Film School, who can also be considered an alumnus of Li Yi, named Tian Rongrong.
This result is not surprising. After all, the selection of actors in Li Yi's movies is never influenced by the outside world. It is purely based on himself.
In fact, Tian Rongrong cannot be the best in terms of acting skills, but I can't stand it. She is indeed 70% similar to Li Yi's previous sketch based on Nakayama Miho, and the acting is also passable, so Li Yi Finally decided directly.
It was not that no one said hello during this period, but for Li Yi, he didn't care at all.
Yes, sometimes relationships are important, but sometimes they are not that important.
To put it bluntly, among these female artists who are qualified to audition, which one has no foundation at all?
In addition, Li Yi himself is the capital, so there is no need to give face at all.
"Love Letter" also became popular due to the audition of "The Most Beautiful Short Hair", which began to attract a lot of attention to the film from the outside world. However, for Li Yi, at the moment, he is deaf to what is happening outside the window and only focuses on Make his movie.
"Love Letter" officially started shooting, and the preparation time was less than a month, which can be considered extremely fast, but for Li Yi and his skilled crew, this is really nothing.
"Every department is in its place!"
"The camera crew is in place!"
"Lights in place!"
"The recording is in place!"
"The first scene, the first shot, the first time of "Love Letter", a!"
As the clap fell, the filming of "Love Letter" officially started in Daxue Township.
The final version of the movie and the time of filming are actually completely different things.
Of course, for the director, the picture has already been constructed in his mind before shooting.
The first scene is the scene where the heroine Lin Sui appears. This scene seems simple, but in fact, just this scene and this scene took several sets of lenses to shoot.
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Snow is falling in the sky, and the earth is completely white.
In fact, in the movie "Love Letter", there is one thing that can be said to be extremely distinctive, and that is snow, which can be said to run through the entire film.
Snow. The aesthetic consciousness of island countries is deeply influenced by the tradition of mourning for things. For example, the national flag of island countries has pure white as the background color, which is rare. Island people love white because white is like snow, and snow represents purity. The snowy scene throughout the entire film, with its smart white color, has become the best symbol of the purity of the entire love story. At the same time, it renders a kind of melancholy beauty, permeating the hearts of the audience and making the film highly appealing through visual language. .
Directors from the island country are good at filming "regrets", which actually has a lot to do with their culture of "material sorrow".
In this regard, although Li Yi does not like the island country, there are some things that he has to admit. In this regard, the island country does have its own uniqueness.
The first scene is the scene where the heroine lies in the snow.
Although this scene is simple, it is not so easy to shoot it well and achieve effects.
Tian Rongrong's dress at this moment is almost 100% replica of the one in Li Yi's memory.
Black windbreaker, short hair, pearl earrings and so on.
She is dressed in black clothes and has black hair lying in the white snow. It forms a sharp contrast with a big scene like the vast white snow, and has a strong visual impact!
Once the preliminary preparations for this kind of quiet scene are done, it is not difficult to shoot.
Li Yi sat behind the monitor and watched, and then You Jing turned around.
"Heh...huhuhu..." Tian Rongrong's acting skills are still very good. At least she can control the opening scene very well.
The snow falling on her hair and coat is clearly visible in a close-up. Suddenly she let out a loud breath, opened her eyes, and began to pant violently, like a drowning person regaining oxygen. After calming her breathing a little, she stood up and brushed the snow off her body, looking up at the sky, her eyes seeming to reveal longing. Then she started walking forward.
At this time, the camera changed from a close-up to a long shot.
However, Li Yi quickly shouted: "Stuck! Stop."
He didn't directly say what the problem was, but frowned and watched the replay. This scene was not long, but it was very important.
Soon, Li Yi knew why he felt like something was missing.
There is a bit of a problem with shooting long shots.
"Shot No. 4 is a shot of her walking towards the distance. The speed is fast. This shot does not need to follow her footsteps. You can slow down a little, raise the lens, and slowly expand the scene. In this shot, people are no longer the focus. What I want is a broad field of vision, and the depth of field that appears is trees and small dark rooms..."
In fact, for this lens, at the beginning, what was photographed was people, but what was photographed later was not people. In other words, the focus was not on the people, but on the scenery.
The second shooting started, and Li Yi's photography was all experienced. There was no need to go into details about the technical aspects. After Li Yi mentioned it once, they knew what effect Li Yi wanted.
Sure enough, after the second reshoot, this long shot satisfied Li Yi very much.
The shooting of any movie definitely requires some preparation in the early stage.
"Love Letters" is no exception.
However, this movie actually has very high requirements on lens and color.
The same goes for tonal shifts.
For example, in the previous shooting, because we were participating in a festival, the colors were all black and white. A group of people wearing black clothes stood in the snowy scene, creating a huge contrast. What was meant to highlight was the sad emotional atmosphere.
Later on, as the storyline of the film develops, the colors change from cold to warm. When entering the memories, the tone of the color is dark yellow. The use of color here highlights the warm atmosphere. Warm tones The visual impact takes us back to the past and recalls the past, and what we need is that very soft feeling.
Other movies may not require so much color rendering, especially some action movies, special effects blockbusters, etc. What everyone is watching are special effects and big scenes. At that time, a slight color difference will not be too big. Affects the effect of the movie, but for an emotional drama like "Love Letter", color is particularly important.
And many of the props inside need to be given unique symbols.
For example, white snow is a symbol of purity, implying pure love, and at the same time it also exaggerates a sense of sadness and beauty, which is more powerful.
The first set of shots actually contains many symbolic things.
Lin Sui, who had come to attend Chen Bing's second anniversary, was lying alone on the snowy slope. The memory of her fiancé weighed heavily on her heart, making her breathless.
However, the reality did not allow her to dwell too long. The memorial service was about to begin, so she hurriedly walked down the hillside. From the close-up shot at the beginning, to the close-up shot, the long shot, until the distant view of the town almost occupies the entire picture, the main purpose of using this set of shots from near to far is to show the immersion in the subjective world through this shot. Lin Sui's gradual return to the objective and real world.
The black coat suggests that she came to attend a funeral, and the snowy environment is meant to create a pure, tranquil, and sad tone.
