Chapter 158: Chapter 158: Filming Chicken?!
“Why did it shake to death? Why did it shake to death?!” After hearing Gao Mingxing’s words, Mr. Li slammed the table hard and shouted, “You’ve thrown forty thousand US dollars into such a simple shot! I want to see why holding the camera isn’t enough! Show me the footage that was shot before!”
Soon, someone brought over a laptop, and Mr. Li started watching.
After quickly finishing, Mr. Li: “…”
Wang Hao also watched, and honestly, the footage was so shaky that it made one dizzy!
“Rubbish! All rubbish!” Mr. Li threw his pencil onto the conference table with a “smack,” causing a dull sound, and shouted loudly, “It pissed me off!”
“I’m so angry! I’m really f**king angry!”
“A broken shot cost me forty thousand US Dollars! This week, I refrained from having nice meals to add funds three times!”
“And after all my scrimping,” Mr. Li continued yelling, “you just threw forty thousand US dollars into this shot! Just for a piece of junk metal! Are all your photographers pigs?!”
“But Mr. Li!” Gao Mingxing hastily said, “Filming definitely requires a good shot, quality doesn’t come cheap, Mr. Li!”
“But where’s the money coming from, are you paying out of your own pocket?!” Mr. Li roared, “Obstructing our crap!”
He vented for a while, then helplessly sat down in his chair, sinking his head down, “I’m not filming this movie for annoyance sake, this has turned out so fantastic.”
“Damn it, think of a solution, you must think of a solution! Otherwise, I’ll cut off your trouble-making dangler, then let seventy thousand ladies-in-law kill you! Go!”
Gao Mingxing was sweating profusely, “Yes, yes, I will think of something!”
He said he would think of something, but did Gao Mingxing really have any good ideas? Such situations were definitely going to continue!
Then his trouble-making dangler…
“Little Wang! Brother Hao! Brother Hao!” Gao Mingxing decisively looked towards Wang Hao sitting aside and urgently said, “You think of something quickly, if this isn’t solved, I can’t shoot what follows!”
Such issues were absolutely unsolvable; everyone present was out of ideas—had they known a solution, they would’ve used it by now.
But the problem was, just because others had no solution didn’t mean Wang Hao didn’t…
“This simple issue, you don’t know it?” Wang Hao was also stunned, “In my opinion, this shot could be handled for two hundred US Dollars, no more than that!”
“What?!” The moment Wang Hao spoke, not only was Gao Mingxing completely shocked, even Mr. Li was stunned!
Forty thousand US Dollars for a shot, and now you’re telling me it could be done for two hundred?
“Are you joking?!” Gao Mingxing exploded, “A forty thousand-dollar shot and you can manage it for two hundred dollars? How? Tell me now! If you can solve this, I’ll worship you from now on!”
You mean you hope I’ll die soon, right?
“Little Wang, that’s Wang Hao, right?” Mr. Li’s gaze towards Wang Hao softened, “Come on, tell us, how can this be resolved?”
“Well, actually, this really isn’t hard,” Wang Hao said with a grin, scratching his head, “Just prepare a small cart, the hand-pushed kind, then get a chicken, and attach a small camera to the chicken’s head…”
A chicken?! Mounting a camera on a chicken’s head?
Is there such an ingenious method?
“Brother Hao, you’re not joking, right?” Upon hearing Wang Hao’s words, Gao Mingxing immediately felt terrible, “Using a chicken for filming? Camera refers to a machine camera, not a rooster’s chicken!”
The people outside also nodded repeatedly, “Exactly, exactly. Although we always talk about cameras, that refers to the ‘machine’ in ‘camera,’ but here he’s switched it straight to the ‘chicken’ in rooster…” “Today is indeed a novelty, never seen such an idea before!”
Even Mr. Li was utterly perplexed, “That… The method you mentioned, can it really be used?”
As far as Mr. Li was concerned, he no longer wanted to spend even a dime, let alone two hundred more!
“Hehe, Director Gao, Mr. Li, looks like you don’t understand this, do you?” Wang Hao began to explain to the crowd, “Being a photographer for a long time, one naturally starts looking for good methods to capture the best images. So, many are designing systems, equipment, and the like. Right, photographers?”
A voice from outside chipped in, “Right, right, right, I regularly study this myself!”
“So generally speaking, the biggest challenge is how to stabilize the camera,” Wang Hao said with a smile. “Many people have spent tens to hundreds of thousands… US dollars on just the research equipment. This is common, right?”
“Yes, yes!” the person outside nodded again. “I know a company in Hollywood that put thirty million US dollars into researching this, and as for the results… hehe…”
Ah, this comrade is quite the team player!
Mr. Li was puzzled on the side, “Then are you saying, the thing Hollywood spent over thirty million US dollars on, you resolved it using a chicken? Does it really work?”
“Ahem,” Wang Hao coughed and then said, “Well, can anyone find me a blackboard? I’d like to give everyone a primer on the knowledge about chickens—”
His statement came off as amusing, and many couldn’t help but let out a chuckle.
Such an interesting matter naturally demanded attention, and shortly someone brought over a whiteboard and markers. Wang Hao took them, and a group of crew members sat neatly in a small meeting room, looking for all the world like elementary school students…
Even Mr. Li sat down, watching intently.
“First of all, birds have a very awesome characteristic called head stabilization ability,” Wang Hao drew a bird on the whiteboard, and someone asked, “Brother Hao, the one you drew… are you sure that’s a chicken?”
Come on, don’t sweat the details at times like these!
That chicken pecking grain image is still a chicken!
“Just think of it as a chicken, okay!” Wang Hao briskly continued, “Take our commonly seen chickens, pigeons, and even some swimming ducks. Why do they nod their heads while walking? Some say it’s to maintain balance, some say it’s for more careful observation, some claim it’s the optimal evolutionary solution, and some think it’s just ingrained nature… it all changes so quickly, opinions vary greatly!”
The crowd glanced around, and the photographer asked curiously, “Chickens walk with their necks stretching in and out, eh? What’s the problem with that? I really didn’t know what that was about.”
“It’s simple,” Wang Hao grinned, “There once was an experiment where food was placed at one end of a room, and pigeons were released at the other end to seek the food while their walking was photographed. So what does this picture mean?” Wang Hao drew a vertical line ahead of the chicken pecking grain image’s mouth, “As pigeons walk, their heads don’t move regularly back and forth, but stretch forward continuously. The neck thrusts forward, head first. Then, the head remains still at the previous position, waiting for the body and feet to catch up. It’s only because the body moves forward that the head’s relative position to the body shifts backward, creating the illusion of nodding forward then retracting the neck.”
Holy crap, there’s so much to this? Never paid attention to this before!
“The reasons are quite complex, I won’t explain the scientific principles now,” Wang Hao said cheerfully, “In summary, whether you nod or shake your head, having clear vision is what matters!”
That’s quite a legendary phrase…
“So how do I prove my point?” Wang Hao pointed to the photographer present, “You, just you, carry a camera, walk and film, and show everyone what it looks like.”
“Got it!” Always eager to help at times , the photographer ran while shouting, “Brother Hao, my name is Zhao Neng, don’t forget it!”
If you were Liu Neng, I definitely couldn’t forget!
Gao Mingxing quietly asked on the side, “Brother Hao, can we really pull this off? Don’t screw it up…”
Wang Hao was quite confident, smiling as he replied, “Don’t worry, I’ve played with this before.”