Since he has worked with Ridley Scott twice before, Matthew is more aware of Lao Lei's habits. He likes to shoot at multiple cameras simultaneously. In terms of photography, the film is challenging, but also very interesting.

Whether it is Matthew or Ridley Scott, they hope that the videos completed in the future will look real, which means they can shoot them as much as possible.

The scenes about Matthew in the crew are divided into two parts, one is in the studio in Dobell, Queensland, and the other is in the desert more than ten miles away from the studio.

Since it is impossible for the crew to arrive at Mars to shoot, how to create a Mars is very important for the movie. Ridley Scott is very experienced in shooting space, so this time he found many old partners he had worked with and built more than 20 scenes in the studio and in the desert.

Especially in the desert area, the area is not large, but it provides a rich and diverse terrain, rather than simple gravel and wasteland. This is also the main reason why the crew chose to shoot the outdoor scenes here.

During the preparation period, the crew was most worried about what color Mars should be. Matthew and Ridley Scott still had some arguments about this. The image balance of the color of the image provided by Nasa is relatively neutral, which means that it is the same as the color tone of the earth. In addition, there are different cameras taking photos of Mars with different lenses, so it is impossible to determine what the real Mars should be like.

Later, with the assistance of Nasa professionals, Ridley Scott included all these in the analysis, set the desert area, and then tuned the camera to adjust all the tones and white balances to the desert's viewing images.

Like the rocks of Mars, craters, volcanoes, and dust storms required for the vision, all designs are based on the real phenomena of Mars provided by Nasa.

“Mars is not only beautiful, but also dangerous.”

On the set of the studio, Ridley Scott told Matthew, "Every step in the process is a challenge to the protagonist, and everything may go wrong."

He reminded, "So, all your actions should be in compliance with the norms and be cautious!"

Matthew nodded slightly, "I understand."

From his perspective, there are actually two protagonists in the scenes where these male protagonists struggle to survive on Mars, one is him, and the other is Mars that is trying to be realistic.

The crew began to make the final preparations before the filming. Matthew took the helmet handed over by the stylist and put it on his head. Then he came to a Mars cart and carefully checked his equipment.

This studio is covered with sand and gravel that is the same as the outdoor site. Since it is the station of the exploration group on Mars, the terrain is relatively flat, but occasionally there are rocks that highlight the ground slightly red. As for the distance and the sky, it depends entirely on post-production to generate.

So, this shooting site was all shrouded under the green screen, like it was built in a huge tent.

Ridley Scott asked Matthew, and Matthew gave him a thumbs up, and Old Lei immediately announced the start of filming.

Matthew dragged a cart through the middle of a pile of solar panels and walked towards a delicate soil not far away. He was very slow and was very careful every step he took, as if it was very difficult.

The male protagonist in the script was injured at this time, and the heavy space suit and ventilator on his body, and the surviving life just after the disaster, must be as Ridley Scott said, every step on Mars is a challenge, and you must be careful.

At a speed slower than walking, Matthew dragged the cart to the destination, took off the shovel from the cart, carefully pushed away the gravel on the ground, shoveled some soil hard, and loaded it into the cart's truck's bucket.

Then he shoveled more soil and put it in.

"hiss……"

As soon as he put the soil into the car, Matthew made a sound of gasping in the air. He leaned on the shovel with one hand and pressed the other on his abdomen, which seemed to hurt.

He rested for a while before continuing his work just now, but his movements became slower and he looked like an old man in his seventies or eighties.

After loading most of the truckload of soil, Matthew put away the shovel and dragged the cart back, the speed was much slower than when he came.

"This soil is not enough, I need luminous equipment." Matthew muttered as he walked, "Although the soil composition of Mars is somewhat similar to that of the Earth, there are no microorganisms. Where should I find microorganisms?"

Thinking of this, Matthew couldn't help but stop and panting, looking around. There was no other sight except the green screen, but his eyes seemed to be examining the vast wilderness on Mars.

In places like Mars, if you want to survive alone, you should be more intense than Robinson.

Matthew thought of something in an instant, "I have it!" He dragged the cart and continued to walk towards the base, "I want to fly scientifically with potatoes on Mars!"

Unlike the science fiction films filmed in the past, Matthew does not have a real action scene in this film. In order to make the one-man show on Mars attractive, in addition to the skeleton of Mars's story, he also needs a full-textured and plump character.

In Matthew's own words, Mark Watney seems to be a tragic character trapped in an alien planet without shit, but in fact he is a very optimistic person, with an indomitable and good mentality, a good teammate who never leaves him, and a golden halo of protagonists.

That line can also show Matthew's shaping of the character of the male protagonist Mark Watney.

The original work is not good at character descriptions, nor does it have deep thoughts or other things. Matthew and Ridley Scott have no intention of deepening the theme, so the hero is confused and confused at all.

When Matthew created a character, he only needed to overcome difficulties calmly and calmly, express his true feelings at times, laugh when he was happy, and make a perfect burst when he was frustrated and he could complete the task. These were easy for him who had been in the theater.

To be precise, while Ridley Scott uses cameras to tell a story of a technical mate, Matthew has to be cute from time to time in creating a character.

For example, in the scene design, the male protagonist will wear a thick space suit and draw circles on the ground clumsyly, frown and stir up manure, and be overturned by the air waves of hydrogen explosion. He can't help but complain about the poor musical taste of captain Lewis, and the countless attacks of the second disease in the second round of the disease, saying, "I am a Mars colonist! I am a space pirate! I am Iron Man!"

In short, the lost sad clouds and mist of aliens will be dispelled little by little by little by little by little by the sunshine he showed.

Matthew and Ridley Scott have discussed more than once that this hard science fiction story with technology as the first expression can better combine freshness and reality, and build tension across space.

The core of the production of this film is actually hard-core science fiction, soft and cute Matthew, and Ridley Scott, who is about to make a comeback.

Of course, Nasa's technical support is also indispensable.

Nasa showed great enthusiasm from the beginning to cooperate with Matthew. It is not difficult to guess their idea of ​​seizing this opportunity to give themselves a face.

The Mars manned exploration plan has been on the agenda of Nasa. In the past two years, the so-called Mars One colonization plan has caused a lot of controversy. For space scientists and middle-aged teenagers who "the journey is the sea of ​​stars" and Mars has always been the most suitable experimental field for the space colonization plan.

On this basis, the display of relevant science and technology can make unpredictable expansions within a limited range, from the design of spacecraft and space suits to the living rooms and rovers used by astronauts on the surface of Mars, functional implementation is given priority when appropriately exerting the futuristic design, and it is closely connected with the existing functional styles to the greatest extent.

Many details in the crew's design even directly copy the daily life of Nasa astronauts, such as the astronauts cruising between cabins under weightlessness, and performing remote scenes of how to drink water for their families. Although they are usually more down-to-earth and interesting.

In fact, Matthew and Ridley Scott were very clear that in the end, this film was like a Mars version of the survival reality show, to some extent, the biggest selling point was how the male protagonist used limited resources to save himself in this barren world, and how Nasa's geniuses launched a clever and talent to complete a rescue spanning hundreds of millions of kilometers while the leaders were fighting.

These seemingly incomplete problems and unexpected solutions constitute the essence of the entire story. How to use limited resources to complete specific tasks, to abstractly, how to find solutions to the problem given initial conditions and boundary conditions.

In hard science fiction movies, it is not difficult to open your mind, but it is difficult to open it well. It is even more difficult to open it scientifically.

"Martian Rescue" is a feature film set in the future. It seems that there must be scientific basis. The crew has consultants from Nasa, JPL and the European Space Agency. From the current scientific point of view, 80% of the things are real and credible.

Matthew had determined a long time ago that the core of shaping this role was not bowing his head in the face of fate, and insisted on facing difficulties with an optimistic and positive attitude.

The biggest challenge in starring in this film is "one person."

As we all know, one-man show has never been easy to act, and it is even more difficult to perform well.

Since Matthew only needs to shoot in Australia and will not go to Nasa or other places to shoot, from his personal perspective, this Mars rescue is not so much about how Nasa racks his brains to rescue himself, but rather he takes this opportunity to broadcast a talent show of young and middle-aged science and engineering to the earth to create water and air, grow potatoes with his own poop, dig a nuclear power engine, and travel thousands of miles to find the abandoned Pathfinder to contact the earth. Finally, he drove a "convertible spacecraft" all the way.

For this reason, Matthew also specially found a live show to watch it.

Unfortunately, in this era, personal live broadcasts are still in their infancy and are far from as prosperous as they once were.
Chapter completed!