Now the technology is superb. Actors usually use a green cloth to support themselves at the back and act in front. Although they look embarrassed without special effects, the effect presented is still very good. Half of the credit for a good TV play is due to post-editing and special effects.
Because the special effects of the current TV series are very good, they can get twice the result with half the effort and don't have to work hard, while the previous TV series didn't have such good technology, so their shooting environment is still very difficult. For example, the journey to the west is completely real, and the actors are very hard.
In fact, there were some special effects in Journey to the West, but because of the lack of technology at that time, they still adopted some ingenious methods. The special effects inside are relatively simple. For example, the Tang Priest was beheaded here. The scene at that time was like this. The Tang Priest is actually fine, except that the monster took a head and pretended to convince his disciples that Tang Priest was dead.
The head and the body must be connected, so how did they shoot the head? There are two ways to solve this problem. The first one is made of a dummy head, which needs props, not real people. But this head is really the head of the Tang priest in the play. How to shoot? They used another method: simple special effects, just wipe off the lower part of the character.
In this simple way, people can be copied and deleted, such as the "two masters" here, and their crews also adopt this method, which can be completed without very advanced technology. The following are the two priests we saw, which are relatively simple.
Then some viewers will ask, how did the monkey fly to the back? In fact, this does not need special effects, only the staff need to hold the monkey high with props, so that the height of the monkey is completely the same as in the sky. Finally, with a simple patch, no traces can be exposed.
In fact, in addition to these, there are some complicated scenes in the play, such as how to shoot the play in the Dragon Palace. People don't think it's really underwater, do they? The Dragon Palace we saw was actually very real. The blue sea water contains all kinds of things, which is particularly beautiful. In fact, the shooting here is also very simple. No special effects, no water. All you need is a fish tank to solve all kinds of problems.
How's it going? Do you feel that people at that time were also very smart? Although their technical special effects can't keep up, others have used some other methods to add a little more color to the play, which is also very admirable. How to treat The Journey to the West's overall special effects?