When I was a child, people were always attracted by the cornices on TV, and it wasn't until they saw the process with their own eyes that they realized why directors never dared to shoot the lower half of the body.
All of the protagonist's aura is built up through props, and when the camera cuts to the lower body, the audience will be surprised to find the scene awkward.
The illusion of a man-made landscape
Whenever the president of Gao Leng in the ** TV series drives, he thinks that their cool driving skills are very good, but in fact, very few can actually be filmed on the road.
Almost all of the scenes are artificially created, presenting a feeling of speeding through the large screen, and then creating a high-speed visual effect through artificial wind, and finally presenting the audience with such a picture.
The stunts displayed by the much-loved Monkey King in "Journey to the West" are actually performed using the simplest props.
For example, every puff of "fairy qi" he once exhaled was actually second-hand smoke prepared in advance.
Therefore, the actor who played Tang Seng has experienced a lot of hardships, and was even teased by netizens that it is no wonder that he is so reluctant every time he is rescued.
However, Tang Seng also mastered a unique skill, which is the Tightening Mantra. Although he couldn't understand what he was reading, every time he used it, Sun Wukong could roll on the ground in pain.
In fact, it is not only the actors themselves who suffer the most, but also the photographers. They had to be rocked back and forth on a stretcher to show what they did in a TV series.
In the play, one of the stunts that the audience dreams of is the clairvoyance shown by the Monkey King. But in reality, it's just an action of the actor standing on a ladder and doesn't really have any technical content.
In many Xianxia dramas, the blower often plays the role of the luck picture.
The well-known actress Yang Rong filmed a bathing scene in the TV series "Zhong Kui's Monster Hunt", and what the audience saw was the bright light of the stars, which brought out her fair **.
Yang Rong stood behind the green cloth with a basin of water in front of her, which was a real shooting scene. If it weren't for Yang Rong's professionalism, I'm afraid others would have laughed a long time ago.
In addition to the stunts in these images, the scenes depicting beautiful women bathing in ancient dramas are also thought-provoking. can't help but make people guess that these actresses may really devote themselves to it without any worries for the sake of acting.
However, in fact, it was only the crew that added humidifiers to it to create a smoky feeling.
For those that appear to be very nudity, they have been protected so that there is basically no overly revealing image.
An Lingrong's ice dance performed in "The Legend of Zhen Huan" was even completed on a wooden box.
Although I was deeply impressed by the "Emperor" at the time, the actual filming process was very comical.
In contemporary melodramas, in addition to action scenes, those seemingly warm and intimate scenes are actually pieced together by the crew using props.
In the drama "Bubble Summer", the heroine is a model, and when she plays opposite Huang Xiaoming, the two look particularly incompatible when they stand together, and they don't have the feeling they should have in love at all.
As a result, some crew members took on the role of "human flesh plank conveyor belt" to reduce the height gap between the two.
In fact, this situation is very common, and many actors will use methods such as pads, height-increasing insoles and carts to change the problem of height mismatch. This is also one of the reasons why the director is reluctant to shoot full-body shots.
The princess hugs the muscles behind the weakness
In addition to the stunts and height can be fake, even the classic scene of the princess hugging can be "fake and real".
At first, I thought he would take the stage very majestically, but it turned out that he was wobbly when he walked, and finally had to rely on external forces to complete it.
In this year's TV series "Zeng Boy", when actor Wu Jifeng tried to hug the princess for the first time, it was very difficult and almost threw the little heroine to the ground.
On the second attempt, the same situation still appeared, and even the director did not expect Wu Jifeng to be so "powerless".
The little heroine herself hurriedly explained at the scene, she said that she weighed only 88 pounds, but despite this, Wu Jifeng did not succeed in completing the challenge, and finally could only barely complete it with the help of the crew.
Not only are young actors physically thin, but even middle-aged actors need to rely on props to help them perform.
In the TV series "The Legend of Chu Qiao", when Zhao Liying and Lin Gengxin were filming the scene of the princess hugging, Lin Gengxin complained about Zhao Liying's weight on the spot and reminded her to eat less, but in fact, before joining the crew, Zhao Liying had already lost 8 pounds for this.
In the end, the crew had to give up shooting panoramic pictures and instead use prop boxes to assist, which could only show the upper body of the actors.
When cooperating with other actors, Zhao Liying was easily picked up, judging from the comparison of his body alone, Lin Gengxin was much stronger than Wang Yibo, but he couldn't do it.
During the filming of this play, actor Yoko Ramu even needed 6 people to carry her together to complete the princess hugging scene with Zhai Zilu.
With the help of many people, Zhai Zilu was still grinning and looked very tired.
In the film and television drama "My Girlfriend Who Can't Be in Love", Xu Weizhou needs to take a rail car to pick up Qiao Xin, which is really exaggerated, and it is no wonder that the director is particularly worried about his upper body every time he shoots such a scene.
Xu Weizhou put the blame on his opponent.
Although Wu Lei is young, he can pick up Zhao Lusi with one hand, and he can easily help Di Lieba, who is disliked by everyone, compared to them, these actors are dwarfed.
After all, these seemingly delicate actresses can easily pick up those muscular male actors.
The lower body is full of "play".
When filming, actors usually face situations where some scenes do not match the actual season, so most of the filming is done out of season, such as shooting scenes in winter in summer and scenes in summer.
However, when faced with this situation, most actors tend to shoot only the upper body and not the lower body.
I can't help but smile first, because I see the dress under them.
When filming "Loyal to the Country" in winter, Huang Xiaoming often only showed his upper body, because the weather was cold at that time.
In order to act, Huang Xiaoming had to expose his upper body in the biting cold wind, and his lower body was wrapped in a military coat to keep warm.
In addition to these out-of-season shoots, some actors don't even bother to appear in person, instead choosing to replace their upper body with a certain part of a stand-in.
You don't have to do tedious operations at all, you just need to control your expressions effectively, and all hand movements can be done by others.
Hand movements have been mastered, and foot movements are essential. If you can't complete the vertical split, you can borrow a double to assist.
There are also some scenes of horseback riding, and usually, the audience can only see the actors' upper bodies simulating horseback riding, but in fact, the horses they are riding are fake.
To add to the realism, some crews may invest a lot of money in props to create fake horses that closely resemble real horses.
In some cases, it may be chosen to use only the horse's head and show the horseback riding scene in the frame during the shooting, without actually including the horseman's lower body in the shot.
In some cases, it is possible to use a live actor directly"Horses", eliminating the cost of horses.
What's even more bizarre is that he just stood there and tossed around, as if he was simulating the feeling of riding a horse.
The footage is perfect for the audience, but the actual shooting process is a bit unusual.
Perhaps this is the reason why there are more pictures of the upper body in the repertoire. Because once the lower body is exposed, the problem is not just as simple as goofs, but more embarrassing.