America Tycoon: The Wolf of Showbiz-Chapter 908 - 857 Cheating with Hacks

Chapter 908: Chapter 857: Cheating with Hacks

Chapter 908: Chapter 857: Cheating with Hacks

Real filming on the ocean made control difficult because of the tides, so when the weather worsened, Martin immediately moved to the studio, using the studio’s setup to recreate a realistic ocean environment.

Surrounding the studio’s water pool, green screens had already been set up, allowing shots to be replaced with corresponding ocean backgrounds in post-production.

The director’s station was set up on an elevator platform. Martin stared at the monitor, watching Blake Lively’s close-up.

The scene being shot was of the female protagonist being attacked by a shark, screaming in agony as she lay on the rocks.

There were multiple close-ups of her face.

Blake Lively was still screaming when Martin took off his headphones and shouted, “Stop!”

The crew ceased filming.

Blake thought she had messed up again, having had a fair number of NGs these past few days due to performance issues.

Martin said to her, “It’s not about you.” He looked at the crew, “Dan, come over.”

Cinematography Director Dan Rothenstein quickly came over.

Martin replayed the previously shot footage and said, “Look at this close-up. It still feels too distant from the actor. I want to zoom in infinitely close so that the shot is extremely near to the actor’s face, allowing the audience to feel the protagonist’s pain through her subtle expressions.”

Rothenstein considered briefly, then immediately thought of a solution. “We’ll turn all sensor power to maximum and use a spherical lens, adjusting the frame rate between 120 to 150 frames per second. This will make the shooting effect more flexible and varied.”

Martin raised the issue, and the Cinematography Director found the solution, thus filming resumed.

The footage achieved the effect Martin wanted.

No matter how well prepared during the preparation period, new issues emerged during shooting.

The next day of shooting, Martin called over the head of the lighting crew to further adjust the lighting for synchronization between studio and location shoots.

Lighting Director Thomson and his team set up a massive suspended cable system that could control hundreds of various light setups and had both horizontal and vertical reflectors installed on it, each in black and white. The black absorbed light, while the white reflected it, paired with computer-controlled data modeling to achieve light variation under different weather conditions at different times.

The color of the seawater was also constantly changing, and Martin required that the color in the studio’s pool synchronize with the bay.

The difference should at least not be too significant.

Of course, Martin as a director didn’t know how to solve this, but his professional subordinates found a solution.

The Props, Special Effects, and Lighting teams cooperated to install special environmental lighting at the bottom and around the pool, controlling the lights through a smart system to achieve shifts in water color from deep blue, light blue, cyan, and blue-green.

Because the color of seawater changes with lighting and tides as well.

Martin didn’t understand these, but it was enough that his subordinates did.

Overall, shooting was harder than Martin had anticipated, but the issues encountered were all solvable with money.

Moreover, Blake maintained a rate of posting on social media about every five days, continuously attracting fan attention to the film through the internet.

Each time she posted on social media, she would include a selfie from the set.

From glamorous to scar-ridden.

This movie was set to torment the girls to death.

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Blake Lively was exhausted, her filming days lasting up to ten hours, mostly spent in water, and she didn’t even have the energy to visit Martin’s room at night.

All of Martin’s attention was on the filming. Besides occasionally communicating with Louise, he spent most of his time studying how to make the film even better.

Leonardo and Nicholson flew from Los Angeles to Rosarito Island specifically to visit the set.

Or rather, to see Martin make a fool of himself.

Inside the studio, the crew was shooting smoothly.

Leonardo and Nicholson sat in the distance, watching Martin calmly direct the whole crew without the chaos they had imagined.

During a break in shooting, Leonardo asked, “Could this guy actually have a natural talent for directing?”

“He has a talent,” Nicholson, experienced and shrewd, saw it clearly, “a talent all bought with money.”

Leonardo wasn’t stupid; he immediately understood what Nicholson meant, “Having money is the greatest ability in Hollywood.”

Nicholson continued, “See? Besides Martin, the fool, and Blake Lively, the pretty face, the rest are all industry professionals. From this, you can imagine, the post-production will be of the same high standard.”

Leonardo suddenly turned to look at Miss Louise Mel in the corner and said, “Miss Mel is one of the best female producers in the industry, admired by even Catherine Kennedy. With her leading post-production, plus a great editing team, the film won’t turn out bad.”

Nicholson added a critical point: “Martin is also brilliant at marketing and promotion, always managing to create buzz.”

Influenced by Martin, though older, he too was engaging in social media, “Since Blake Lively changed her social media to ‘Sect Hierarch,’ her fan base has skyrocketed to eighty million in the past two years. Now she continuously manages her social media, making the film quite well-known. When it’s released, just her followers alone could translate into millions of ticket sales.”

Leonardo couldn’t help but say, “Martin, that bastard, is cheating!”