1979: The child's mother is a celestial being.

Chapter 200: An Invention That Sparked a Revolution in Cinematic Quality (Please Subscribe!)
"Hello, Reporter Su, could you please print an extra copy of the photos from earlier? I'll pick them up from your office later. And here's the payment for the photo printing."

"No need, no need, it's just a few photos, not worth much. Besides, Director Chen, you're very busy. We'll just develop the photos and bring them to you."

"Then why are you so embarrassed?"

"It should, it should..."

"Alright then, I'll be polite with you. I'll treat Reporter Su to dinner sometime."

"..."

After seeing the reporters off, Chen Fusheng turned to face the crew, exhaled, and then said loudly, "Comrades, calm down your excited mood. Now, we need to get down to business."

Chen Fusheng originally planned to say a few words before filming started to encourage everyone.

But after the patriarch came to offer his condolences, everyone except a few foreigners was as energetic as if they had been injected with chicken blood.

There's no need for encouragement; what's needed is to calm down.

Chen Fusheng walked to the director's seat and began directing the filming of the first scene.

At the same time, as soon as his daughter saw him sit down, she immediately tried to climb onto his lap.

Upon seeing this, Liu Xiaowei quickly came over to carry her away.

However, Chen Qian clung tightly to her father's trouser leg, and she started to cry when her aunt tried to hug her again.

"It's okay, Xiaowei, don't pull her."

Chen Fusheng then looked down at his daughter and said, "Daddy is about to go to work. I need to keep quiet while I'm working, so Qianqian, you have to promise Daddy that you won't make any noise from now on, okay?"

"it is good."

"If you make a fuss, Daddy will have Auntie take you away."

"Ah."

The little guy nodded vigorously.

"Xixi is such a good girl!" Chen Fusheng smiled with satisfaction and kissed his daughter on the forehead as a reward.

Yes, it's also a reward for myself.

"Dad~"

Chen Qian hadn't forgotten her father's instructions, so she called out "Dad" very softly.

"What's wrong?" To play along with his daughter, Chen Fusheng whispered in her ear.

"Who was that old man just now? Everyone seemed afraid of him."

"That's not fear, that's awe."

What is reverence?

"It means respect and reverence."

"Oh~"

While the father and daughter were whispering to each other, the entire film crew was ready.

Lingzi, the first assistant director, glanced at the father and daughter and couldn't help but remind them, "Ahem."

"Shh!"

Chen Fusheng received the hint and gestured for his daughter to be quiet.

The daughter was very obedient and immediately covered her mouth.

Chen Fusheng smiled and patted her head, then looked around before picking up the small megaphone that symbolized the director's authority and saying:
"Report to all departments."

"The cast is ready."

"The film crew is ready."

"Recording crew ready."

In addition to the three departments mentioned above, a typical large film crew also includes a directing team, a production team, an art team, a production crew, and a screenwriting team.

The entire production team for the drama "Chen Fusheng" was present, except for the scriptwriting team.

Moreover, each group is further subdivided into many positions. For example, the art group includes art director, scene designer, prop master, costume designer, makeup artist, and stylist.

Moreover, the set design, props, and makeup for his film couldn't possibly be done by one person alone, so they had a team working on it.

This is why a film crew with a dozen or so departments can have several hundred people. Moreover, "Die Hard" has large-scale scenes, and with the addition of extras, the crew size could easily exceed four figures.

Of course, this is something.

The scene we're filming now isn't large-scale. The plot mainly revolves around Ah Long, a policeman who has just gone on leave and hasn't seen his wife in a long time. So he goes to his wife's company to visit her and celebrate her birthday.

"The recorder is on the board."

"Scene 11, shot 1 take, snap!"

"3, 2, 1, begin."

After giving the order, Chen Fusheng turned his attention to the monitor in front of him.

He didn't notice the light shining in his eyes as his daughter stared at him.

Because Dad is so handsome!

This scene lasts 56 seconds.

At just 12 seconds, Zhu Lin, due to her lack of acting experience, encountered some problems while acting opposite Cheng Long.

After that, various flaws continued to emerge.

But Chen Fusheng never yelled "cut".

Of course, he didn't shout anything after the performance was over.

Instead, he stared at the monitor, frowning.

"What's wrong?" Lingzi turned around and asked the question on behalf of the hundreds of people in the crew.

Chen Fusheng didn't answer but asked a question in return:
"Don't you think the image quality is terrible?"

This question puzzled Lingzi.

She asked uncertainly, "Do you mean the lens wasn't clean?"

Chen Fusheng shook his head.

The photographer checked the lens several times before turning it on; it's impossible that it wasn't clean.

He simply felt that the footage he had just shot was of poor quality.

It can't deliver the cinematic quality of a blockbuster.

Of course, you can still take photos if you really want to, but it won't be quite the same.

'If only there were a cinema softbox.'

As soon as this thought popped into his head, Chen Fusheng's eyes lit up.

Because he discovered... that a cinema softbox doesn't seem to have been invented yet.

If he remembers correctly, this thing didn't come out until 1985, and when it did, it sparked a revolution in the texture of film lighting.

In general, it shifted the dramatic feel of film from being dominated by hard light to being realistic with soft light, directly propelling the quality of film images towards a more delicate and human-eye-friendly direction.

In more detail, a cinema softbox can not only restore the real skin texture, enhance the texture of people, create the atmosphere of the environment, and increase the sense of immersion, but it can also control the level of light, optimize the details of the picture, and help improve the picture quality of the movie by several levels.

Having traveled through time for so long and made several movies, Chen Fusheng has honestly become accustomed to the picture quality of movies from this era.

That's a bit too much of a case of adapting to local customs.

So if he hadn't had higher expectations for "Die Hard" and felt that the picture quality of the film wasn't up to par with the cinematic quality of a blockbuster, he wouldn't have even considered the use of a softbox.

Moreover, the manufacturing principle of a cinema softbox is not complicated. It mainly softens light through reflection and diffusion to achieve the soft light effect required by the film.

Aluminum foil is the best reflective material, and light-diffusing materials are even simpler; medical gauze will suffice.

Therefore, as long as the principles are understood, my country was fully capable of manufacturing cinema softboxes in 1982.

Most importantly, Chen Fusheng not only knew how it worked, but also understood its structure, because it was really very simple.

In other words, if he wanted to create the world's first cinema softbox now, it wouldn't seem too difficult.

With this in mind, Chen Fusheng immediately made up his mind: 'Let's do it, we must get it done right away, and not only that, we must also apply for a patent at the same time.'

'Damn, I never even thought of that before…'

(End of this chapter)