The latest film I saw is Crazy Alien. It is a 2019 Chinese science fiction comedy film directed by Ning Hao. It was released on the Chinese New Year, even though there are lots of New Year films are released in the meantime, special and novel themes still attract many audiences. On the recommendation of a friend, I choose this film to see. It is talks about a monkey trainer whose act goes wrong after an alien crash lands on Earth and injures his monkey. Desperate to perform the act, he attempts to train the alien instead, though is punished after the alien regains his powers.
The funny alien in the film which is captured by actor’s face and every movements are devoted direct by the director and in a variety of performance references. A highlight that will often be overlooked is how a few key features played double-work in plot development and humor. In particular: * The special effects used with the alien character make it seem quite natural. It is not carton nor fake but realistic and importantly its human-like facial features are central to plot and laughter. The film has consult four top international visual effects teams to complete 939 super heavy special shots. From the early conceptual design, the exploration of alien personality, the development of expression animation technology and the high-difficulty shooting scheme of bio-lens scene, it has lasted from November 17 to the later stage. The pure post-production lasts for one year, among which 500 are more difficult bio-effects shots. The film follow a realistic path so many special effects are not easily perceived by the audience after completion, but the best special effects should be invisible to serve the story. Hollywood movies “The Rise of the Orangutan” and “The Hobbit” are also used this technology to complete the production of biological effects in the film. If golden and red are the main colors, they should add a work “dirty” in front of them. The feeling can be found on rusty iron plates and greasy plastic cloth. The “rubbish feeling” is still the pursuit of this color and the aesthetic feeling in chaos. ALEXA has always been outstanding in color restoration so there are many color-shaping scenes use SkyPanel series to show off their skills. What impressed me most was that a small amount of silver retention effect was added to the picture, which made the pursuit of the “sense of broken copper and iron” clearer. On the contrary, after examining the control of the picture, it seemed that there was some excessive suspicion. Because there are different kinds of audience, the brightness of the pictures can not be controlled too extremely. Sensitivity is rarely used to 1200, most of them are 800. At this time, ALEXA’s granular texture is just right. Although the special effects shots of this film is already approach perfect, the plot is still need to be narrate more clearer that makes audience understand the plot easily.
