Costume dramas are not as simple as we see, and behind the filming of costume dramas, there are still many unsolved mysteries.
Why is the ground always wet?
The ground of the costume drama, if you look closely, you will find that it seems to always be wet, as if it has just been dragged.
The ground in Canglan Tips can clearly see the water marks, which still sparkle in the sunlight.
The ground in "Brilliant Star" can always see wet marks, like it will dry up after rain.
Some of the ground is so wet that the reflections of the characters in the play can be clearly seen.
Light-colored costumes are easy to get dirty when dragged on wet ground, so in costume dramas like this with long skirts, many skirts are dirty when you look closely.
This is the ground in Menghualu.
This is the ground in "Long Moon Ember".
Pull a costume drama casually, and you can find traces of wet ground. But why is the ground always wet in costume dramas? Is it because it happened to rain on these grounds? So why are some indoor floors so wet?
Song Zuer once gave an unofficial answer in a video: Only bright and shiny without gray can show the status of rich people.
But the official answer given by the crew director is that this water ah is actually deliberately sprayed by the crew, so that it can not only remove dirt, but also reflect the ground to Bollingbling when the crew is lit, and the overall texture of the picture will rise, and the picture shot will look better.
Indeed, with the picture after the water plus some special effects, the effect presented is different, and the main one is a pleasing to the eye!
Second, why do some pictures like to shoot the upper body?
There are some pictures in costume dramas that we just can't see the whole body shot, we can only see the upper body, is it because the director doesn't want to shoot? No, no, no, in fact, because the lower body of these shots hides hidden secrets.
For example, this picture in "Chen Qingling" is ostensibly two personable male protagonists looking at each other and talking heartily. As a result, when I look at the lower body in the tidbit, the super shorts that both of them are wearing! The originally beautiful atmosphere instantly became funny.
This can't blame the actors, it's normal to shoot winter scenes in the summer and summer scenes in winter, so in the lower body that can't be captured by the camera, the actors will often show their legs or something.
If nothing else, just to achieve a heat dissipation effect. But it's really funny to look at it in the tidbits like this!
The shot of Yang Zi swinging in "Xiangmi" is passable to look at in the main film.
It turned out to be taken with a camera on the waist, no wonder the angle is so tricky!
And those beauty bathing scenes, the camera is always half shot, and it is still hazy, is it because the other half does not show it? The real situation is that there may be no water in the basin at all, and the smoky feeling is all dependent on physical hanging.
Yang Rong also filmed a bath scene, and the finished film looks beautiful.
As a result, she was filmed under a simple green screen, sitting on a box, with a bucket next to her, and only wet her arm with water, and the rest depends on the actor's sense of faith.
A bath scene filmed by Yuan Shanshan also died of laughter, and the upper body looked particularly beautiful and flowers. As a result, she was photographed in a transparent bathtub, wearing flesh-colored clothes on the lower body.
So in order to prevent embarrassment, some bath scenes will sprinkle petals in the water, and will also change the color of the water to milky white, making people mistakenly think that they are taking a milk bath, but does the crew really have such luxury?
In fact, it is because they will add something called bath salt to the water, so that the water will turn milky white. If you don't add it, the big pants and beach pants worn by the actors will not look good when they float, and they will be worn all of a sudden.
We can understand the previous upper body, but the following are purely because the actors do not want to work hard, and the crew is also perfunctory.
For example, in horseback riding scenes, in some horseback riding scenes, we can only see a horse's head, and some can't even see the horse's head, and we can see the actor's body moving.
Because in places where the camera can't be captured, they may be riding horses like Hu Yitian.
Not even a horse, only the reins. There are also crew horses, but the horses are fake, and they have to be pulled away with the help of manpower.
Manpower pulling is fine, but isn't it a bit excessive to ride people directly like this?
Including those tree shadows, they are all illusions created by the crew running circles back and forth. So this horse riding drama, it doesn't cost actors or horses, it's a bit of a staff.
The staff who costs more than the horseback riding drama should be the princess hugging. Some male stars are one meter eight tall, but they can't hold female stars who weigh no more than 100, and finally they can only rely on the staff to carry them like the picture below.
Lin Xinxin is also a shame for the princess, and she can't even hold such a small person as Zhao Liying, and in the end she can only put people on the box to make a fake action.
What's more bullish is Xu Weizhou, who can't hold the actress, even if he complains about the actress. In the end, he actually had to use the slide rail to complete the princess hugging scene. Let's just say that some male stars are really a little too vain!
The height of some stars also likes to fake, Yang Rong, Ju Jingyi, Luo Yunxi, these are not tall enough to make up.
Some will also put boxes and planks under the soles of their feet.
An Lingrong's skating scene was also completed by her sitting on a box.
If you don't look at it, you don't know, the lower body that the original lens does not dare to shoot, hides so many secrets!
Third, will the falling water scene and the rain scene not catch a cold after filming?
Costume dramas also have a lot of overboard dramas, rain scenes, this is not easy to fake, many actors also go to the water to walk around. So the question is, will they catch a cold after filming?
Actor Han Chengyu revealed the secret of how the rain scene was filmed. First of all, the actor has to wear a raincoat and wrap plastic wrap, three layers inside and three layers outside.
It will end up wrapped like this.
The camera also has to be protected.
Then use a water spray pipe to make an artificial rainfall, and you're done.
Similarly, actors filming falling into the water scene will also wrap some parts tightly with tape like Peng Xiaoran, and their hair is also manually sprayed wet.
So the actors still protect themselves quite well, after all, filming is important, but the body is more important!
Fourth, why do you always wear clothes after filming the boat scene?
Although this question is a little difficult to talk about, many friends will definitely have such questions. And those who go to bed, do not take off their shoes or remove their makeup, fooling the audience as fools.
For example, in "Long Moon Ember Ming", the heroine lies on the bed at any time, what it is like during the day, what it is like when she sleeps, and her pajamas are not changed.
There is also the male protagonist and the female protagonist after the round house, also wearing clothes, as if nothing happened.
In fact, there are reasons for these, going to bed and not removing makeup is because the actor filmed this scene for a while, filmed that scene for a while, and the crew directly used the actor's style at that time in order to save time for makeup and hair.
As for the boat drama, the crew in the early years had an unwritten rule, because of the scale, wearing pure white underwear without any ornaments on the bed was equivalent to not wearing clothes.
Therefore, after the male and female protagonists round the room, they can default to the male protagonist not wearing clothes, and when the male protagonist takes a bath, he can also default to him not wearing clothes!
5. How did the smoke come from?
In costume dramas, we can also see a lot of shots with smoke, such as gunsmoke on the battlefield, steaming buns out of the oven, how did this smoke come from?
In the past, the old crew used dry ice and oxygen to create so much smoke, such as the smoky Lingxiao treasure hall in the crew of "Journey to the West".
Now the crew produces smoke is much more convenient, directly lighting a thing called smoke cake, you can produce a lot of smoke.
Even the steaming steamed buns and steamed dumplings in the cage drawer, the smoke is also made from smoke cakes.
The ordinary crew uses tobacco cakes, and the crew of "Ruyi" is much more arrogant, directly using coffee beans to make smoke.
After lighting the coffee beans, it is a day, and the coffee beans can also have a refreshing effect.
The crew of "The Legend of Ruyi" is relatively proud, and the crew of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" is more ruthless. Sometimes when filming a summer drama in winter, you will be angry when you talk in your mouth, and if you don't pay attention, it will become a "steam engine".
Therefore, in order to prevent anger in the mouth, the crew of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" actually let the actor have ice cubes in his mouth, just like Sister Mei, so that he will not wear a gang when he speaks.
It can be seen that some crews are really careful to prevent gangs, but some crews are very perfunctory. But I also have to say that the crew will find a way, it turns out that there are so many little secrets behind the lens that ordinary audiences don't know!