Sending Emma Watson away, Matthew returns to the crew and continues filming of "Inception" in London. Because all the scenes in Paris are changed in London, he still needs to stay in London for a while.

Rewind Paris was one of the iconic scenes of the film. With the change of shooting location, the rewind city became London.

As we all know, Christopher Nolan is known for real-life shooting and has repeatedly resisted computer CGI technology in public, but the reversal of London scenes and the city collapse on the edge of the subconscious mind of Daum Cobb can only be used to achieve CGI technology.

Modeling real-life shooting is not impossible, but it is difficult to achieve the effect Christopher Nolan wants. If you want real-life shooting like CGI, the funds you spend will be several times more than your budget.

As a commercial film director, cost is a matter that must be considered. No company can allow a director to shoot at any cost.

In media reports, Christopher Nolane is a film-crazy person and extremely resistant to digital technology and even despises him. This is correct from a certain perspective, but this does not see the whole truth.

As a very smart director, Nolan is right to resist digital technology represented by computer CGI, but it does not mean that he will not use it.

Any useful technology is the help of the director during filming and production.

Computer CGI special effects have been widely and even critically used in the shooting and production of this "Inception".

The reality is here. The rewind London can only be generated by CGI. Matthew and Christopher Nolan have also talked about it during the shooting interval. The entire "Inception" uses CGI shots that may be between 6 and 1.

Like a rewind London, it will be a 100% digital effect.

Out of curiosity and the need for the profession of producer, Matthew earned Christopher Nolan's agreement that when he was free of shooting, he would often go to the special effects department to watch the special effects processing of various shots.

Especially in terms of computer CGI technology.

For him, this is also a rare opportunity to have a long experience.

As a producer, you don’t have to be proficient in special effects production, but at least you have to know what’s going on.

In terms of computer CG special effects, the crew hired a special effects technology team from "Industrial Light Magic".

Since Christopher Nolan changed the shooting plan, the Industrial Light and Magic special effects team has arrived in London, where they took a T-sized photo as material, from the exterior structure of the building to the interior rooms, accurately to every detail.

These high-precision photos were eventually posted on a three-dimensional model as "baking maps", with the purpose of making the entire virtual scene real and credible.

Christopher Nolan has very high requirements for special effects scenes. According to him, it is far from enough to just have real maps. The entire scene needs to consider many elements, including the light source during the day during the entire scene, and the simulation of skylight is very difficult to cast shadows, perspective, etc., and also consider how to hide the penetration between buildings.

While the city curl will be cut into several shots, the initially completed special effects that Matthew saw are just a complete shot.

In fact, the special effects team can cheat by switching cameras, but they faced the challenge and handed over a beautiful answer to Christopher Nolan without a duplication of the block, from street lights, curtains, and even the interior structures in the building.

Industrial Light and Magic and Christopher Nolan can be said to be representatives of the Hollywood styles, but they are not unable to cooperate.

When Christopher Nolan becomes a commercial film director, sometimes he must compromise. Industrial Light and Magic does not like directors like Christopher Nolan who despise digital technology, but they will not be in trouble with money.

For special effects lenses like this, Industrial Light and Magic are charged by frame rate.

To make the audience believe that the Daum Cobb couple spent five years building cities on the edge of the subconscious when watching the video, it means that the film requires a huge number of buildings.

If you use traditional modeling to shoot, it will not be a general time-consuming and labor-consuming, but digital special effects engineers can complete the five years of work of the Daum Cobb couple in just a few months.

And the money spent is only one-third of the money that is traditional modeling.

Whether it is a rewind London or a subconscious marginal city, these are all done by digital special effects experts who do not have a high status in the industry.

Although there are thousands of digital special effects shots nowadays, the status of the digital special effects group is quite embarrassing.

On the one hand, they are important contributors to the visual effects films, and on the other hand, Hollywood, which has not yet fully adapted to the way of digital film production, has not given them the attention they deserve. This is not difficult to see from the fact that digital effects technicians always appear at the extreme end of the end of the credits.

Anyone who is a little familiar with the Hollywood filmmaking model knows that most film crews rarely consider how the original shots live in harmony with the visual effects when shooting, and just throw the things they have finished filming to the digital effects department, which is why digital effects are often called "post-processing".

Of course, real-life special effects shooting that Christopher Nolan likes is indispensable in shooting in London.

After Emma Roberts came to London, the first scene Matthew filmed with her involved a large number of special effects shots, and it was a real scene special effects.

Next to an open-air cafe by the Thames River, the crew's stunt staff were busy doing the final inspection. In the next scene, Christopher Nolan was going to create visual wonders in future movies using the real-life shooting of high-speed slow motion.

"I need you to remain calm throughout the journey."

At a small round table in the open-air cafe, Christopher Nolan said to Matthew and Emma Roberts sitting, "There may be some noise, but the flying out is a piece of paper, don't worry."

Matthew picked up the coffee cup, took a sip, and didn't say anything, but just raised a thumb to Christopher Nolan.

Emma Roberts pinned her long golden brown hair behind her ears and said, "I'm ready."

Christopher Nolan nodded slightly and turned around and left here.

Matthew and Emma Roberts stopped talking and were about to start shooting.

Two minutes passed and the shooting officially began.

“It is said that we only develop a small part of the brain’s potential, but it’s only when we’re awake.”

In front of the camera, Matthew held a cup of coffee and said to Emma Roberts, "When we fall asleep, our brains can do almost everything."

At the beginning of the shooting, he became that grievance, "So, many strange dreams will appear when you fall asleep."

Emma Roberts picked up the coffee cup, took a sip, and seemed to be still savoring the taste. After a while, he asked curiously, "What about?"

Matthew put down his coffee cup, lightly lit the table with his fingers, and said, "Imagine that when you design a building, you consciously design each part, but sometimes it feels like the building is building itself. Do you understand what I mean?"

Emma Roberts put down the coffee cup and nodded one after another, "Yes, I just need..."

For a moment, she seemed unable to find a suitable adjective.

"And in dreams, the brain will keep this continuously." Matthew took out a pen from his pocket and stroked it on the napkin on the coffee table. "Creation and perception, these two processes occur simultaneously."

He painted patterns on paper according to his previous settings, "Our brains are so magical that we ourselves didn't realize it at all."

Looking outside the set, the mature Matthew was dressed up with the young and petite Emma Roberts, and it felt like a big bad wolf seducing Little Red Riding Hood.

This strange character contrast is also the effect Christopher Nolan wants.

It’s not that Nolan deliberately wanted to create a role combination between uncle and luoli, but that this kind of role combination is often very attractive to the audience.

Perhaps Emma Roberts, who has a petite figure, does not conform to the traditional Western aesthetic, but she has a good figure and smiles very sweetly, and always looks comfortable and natural.

Of course, many people in the crew know that it just looks.

"You are actually sleeping in the center of Dream Workshop!" Matthew looked at Emma Roberts and said, "This is your first lesson in sharing your dreams!"

Hearing this, Emma Roberts looked around in panic, his face changing.

Matthew reminded, "Calm down! Adnie, stay calm!"

Emma Roberts calmed down a little, but was still very nervous.

Suddenly, the newsstand on Matthew's left suddenly made a "bang" sound, as if it was firing a cannon, and countless books and magazines flew into the sky.

Matthew sat upright, Emma Roberts looked around in surprise.

With the two of them as the center, the entire street along the river seemed to explode, but what was blown up was not the fire, but the paper flying all over the sky.

Immediately afterwards, the ground exploded, Matthew and Emma Roberts also exploded on the left and right sides, and countless pieces of paper floated past them.

Emma Roberts looked at these in surprise, but Matthew was always very calm.

Finally, no sound came out, and the papers in the sky began to fall, as if a colorful heavy snow fell.

In the heavy snow, Christopher Nolan shouted to stop and the shot passed smoothly.

A cleaning team hired by the crew immediately drove into the set to clean up the garbage from the shooting.

This scene is very gorgeous, but it creates too much garbage. Fortunately, the crew was prepared for it, and basically no producer drifted into the Thames River not far away.

Otherwise, if you can't wait tomorrow, the environmental protection organization will come to the crew to find trouble.

Matthew went to Christopher Nolan to check the shooting situation, and he had already obtained a license from Nolan.

In the high-speed slow motion shots taken by six cameras with different angles, the explosion fragments floated in the air like suspended objects, which was enough to create an extremely shocking visual impact.
Chapter completed!