"The beauty filters of domestic dramas now make me invisible to the actor's nostrils." "Under the effect of the tenth level of beauty, teacher Ni Dahong finally has no eye bags" "The mountains are green, the water is green, and even the hair is green. "The actors' skins are really good, they are white and shiny, they look like plastic dummies"...
Recently, after "Love at first sight", "Legend of Jianan", "Madam Hu Zhu" and other dramas were broadcast, its "ten level beauty filter" and excessive microdermabrasion have made it difficult for many viewers to accept. Everyone's skin It's so white that it's shiny, and it's so distorted that it doesn't look like a real person.
The Morandi color, as well as the gray, black or green hues in dramas such as "The Mother of the House", "Wind Up in the West", "The Truth", and "The Knife in the Snow" have also been questioned by the audience. They believe that these distorted colors are all The so-called high-level sense actually reduces the quality of the drama.
So, how did these "ten-level beauty filters" appear?
Why does it intensify when the audience keeps complaining about it?
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Filter + microdermabrasion,
The beauty is so beautiful that the actors themselves can't help but complain
Audience questioned:
Under the weird filter, the actor’s face can’t be seen clearly
The problem of heavy filters in domestic dramas has been around for a long time, especially this year.
When the TV series "Master of the House" starring Jiang Qinqin and Yang Rong was broadcast, the grayish Morandi tone of the show became a target of public criticism.
Many netizens complained that after Yu Zheng tasted the sweetness of Morandi color in "Strategy of Yanxi Palace", he was out of control. Later, "Li Ge Xing" and "Yu Lou Spring" all adopted such tones, which made people aesthetically tired. At the same time, this same low saturation and cool tone makes the whole picture very gloomy, and the characters' faces are pale and bloodless.
The mountains are green, the water is green, even human hair and facial features are green... This is after the trailer for the martial arts drama "The Knife in the Snow" starring Zhang Ruoyun came out. , These knights and swordsmen looked full of food, as if they were not full.
In addition to green tones, black tones are also widely used in suspense-themed works, especially represented by "Wind from Longxi" and "Truth".
"The Truth" is a crime suspense drama. It is understandable in the post-production to darken the tone to render the atmosphere, but this drama is dark even if it is an outdoor scene in broad daylight. "At first, I thought it was the brightness of the mobile phone. It was too low, and it was later discovered that the wrong phone was the fault."
"Wind from Longxi" has gathered many powerful factions such as Chen Kun, Bai Yu, Nie Yuan, Guo Jingfei, etc., which has been highly anticipated since the official announcement lineup.
However, after the trailer came out, many viewers were dissuaded.
With the blessing of the dark black filter, the whole picture is dark, and there is a vaguely pseudo-high taste. No wonder the netizens ridicule: What kind of sneaky filter is this, for fear that the audience can see what they are doing.
Microdermabrasion is too serious,
Siqin Gaowa’s wrinkles and Ni Dahong’s bags under her eyes are all worn away
Excessive use of filters not only makes the picture distorted, but also makes the actors’ faces lose the details they should have. Coupled with the over-dermabrasion in the later stage, many actors’ faces seem to have "beauty level ten" on their faces, which is distorted. Without the contour of the face, even the bridge of the nose and nostrils disappeared.
To make matters worse, the characters' facial organs are blurred, their expressions and demeanor are lost, and the whole person looks like a plastic dummy or a porcelain doll.
What’s even more exaggerated is that such beauty filters are used on actors such as Ju Jingyi, Yang Ying, Tang Yan, Zhao Liying, Zhou Dongyu, and even Jiang Wenli, Yan Ni, Guo Xiaodong and Jiang. Old actors like Shan, Ni Dahong, and Siqin Gaowa are also in trouble.
Jiang Wenli and Ni Dahong starred in "Little Women under the Zhengyangmen", the two young people used strong beauty dermabrasion for their young scenes, all the delicate skin and tender flesh, and even Ni Dahong's iconic bags under the eyes were worn away.
If the beauty of the early stage of "The Little Woman under Zhengyangmen" is to show the character's state when he was young, then in the costume drama "East Palace", the old lady played by Siqin Gaowa was also spit out and the whole face was severely polished. It was extremely smooth, with no wrinkles. Except for the gray hair, it was hard to believe that this was an old man who made the audience very entertaining.
Over-beauty,
The actor can't bear it and he's vomiting
Rough statistics from Red Star News found that among the doubts about filters and beauty in recent years, ancient costumes are the mainstay, especially the dramas of big IP+ traffic actors are the hardest hit areas. "Legend of the New White Lady", "The Legend of Yun Xi", "The Legend of Jianan" to the "Madam Hu Zhu" which is currently on the air.
In "Mrs. Huzhu", Yang Mi was given a layer of soft light every time he played. Although it is beautiful, it always feels that there is a layer of fog and it is not real.
In the recent hit "Love at First Sight", the facial features of Chen Xingxu and Zhang Jingyi are also dermabraded to the point where they lose their edges and corners, their faces glowing pale.
"Jianan Biography" also continues the previous style of the heroine Ju Jingyi-the complexion is pale to distorted, and the boundaries of the facial features are becoming more and more blurred.
When the "Legend of the New White Lady" starring Ju Jingyi and Yu Mengyu was aired earlier, many doubts were focused on the beauty filter being too strong, and people's facial features could not be seen clearly.
What's even more funny is that Fahai in the play also failed to escape the scourge of the beauty filter. The wrinkles on his face were gone, and he looked like a thin-skinned young man with a white beard.
Later, because of more and more doubts, the film party urgently issued a statement of apology, saying that it was adjusted as soon as possible.
The protagonist Yu Mengyu also posted a post later, stating that "Xu Xian's ten-level beauty filter is officially offline, and'Yu Qingqing' is online simultaneously".
The late filters, beauty and even the actors couldn't help but complain.
When "Just Marriage" was broadcast, actor Zhong Lili complained on Weibo: "Later teacher, my silkworm is gone." After Zhong Lili's "accusation", the series was adjusted to let Zhong Lili's silkworm return. .
In the "Witty First Half" broadcast this summer, Li Jiahang, a guest star, also posted photos of over-P on Weibo. He laughed and said that he didn't have plastic surgery, maybe because the film crew thought his bags under his eyes were too big to be repaired.
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"Ten-level beauty filter" is popular, who is the trader?
From Aboise to Morandise,
Who is the "originator" of the coloring of national dramas?
Yu Zheng, a well-known producer, has contributed to the use of tones in domestic dramas.
Yu Zheng's early "Gong Lock Heart Jade" created the "A Bao Se" color palette, which became popular for a while.
The so-called "Abao color" is a high-contrast color collocation, which is colorful and colorful.
Although the color was questioned and exaggerated, the subsequent "Made by Beauty", Chen Xiao's version of "The Couple of Condor Heroes" and even "The Legend of Wu Mei Niang" all chose this gorgeous color.
Since then, "No War in Peking", "Langya Bang", etc., have received unanimous praise from the audience for their simple and dim tones and natural light sources. For a time, the gray and high-level sense has become a trend again.
Subsequently, Yu Zheng's "Strategy of Yanxi Palace" moved out of Morandise. Although it was also questioned as being too dim, more people believed that Yu Zheng's TV series finally had a sense of high-level.
An industry insider told the Red Star News reporter that in fact, there is no such thing as a "filter" in the post-production of professional film and television dramas. The correct formulation should be color correction.
Whether it is historical dramas, spy war dramas, family dramas, and idol dramas, they all have their own color features.
Word-of-mouth works such as "No War in Peking" and "Langya Bang" are also broadcasted with simple and dim tones to add color to the texture of the series. Polishing and other technical means, such as the Morandi color of "Story of Yanxi Palace", were also presented through lighting and clothing in the early shooting, not purely by post-grading.
The actors have their faces shaved and skinned, who on earth asked for it?
Who is to blame for the shining white faces of the actors?
Many people in the industry revealed that some of the requirements for face repair and skin resurfacing were put forward by film producers and platforms, and some were put forward by artists themselves, especially some flow actresses in Xianxia dramas.
“Ordinary people have to retouch their photos when they take photos. It’s understandable that stars who rely on their beauty to feed on these requirements are justified.” A producer said that whether it’s toning or dermabrasion, it is caused by the current aesthetic environment, which is of course refracted. The current trend of low-inflicted film and television dramas, but it also shows that there is a market for this, "These are all market-oriented needs, and the producers are also compliant with the needs. If the audience does not pay the bill, then the practice of over-beauty and over-filtering is Disappeared".
A director who has filmed many period dramas told the Red Star News reporter that when he filmed actresses, he would add a layer of soft lens at most. If there is a large acne mark, the colorist can deal with it later.
In his opinion, the most important reason for filters and microdermabrasion is that there is no real scene when shooting. Most of the scenes are in the studio. With unprofessional lighting, everything is hoped to be perfected in the later stage.
Even if some scenes are shot in real outdoor scenes during the day, they can only be adjusted in order to blend with the light and environment shot in the studio.
The colorist reveals:
Removal of wrinkles, eye bags, face-lifting, slimming...
"Watching" celebrities for 10 hours a day
According to a number of senior post-production personnel, colorists are generally responsible for the skinning and beautification of film and television dramas, and common software such as Da Vinci can be realized.
Nowadays, the post-production software is more and more advanced. Some can specifically thin the face of dynamic videos, some can process the actor's face in a grid format like a PS, and some can dynamically apply makeup to the actor.
"But software is software after all, and the shadows and wrinkles created when you smile may be erased."
According to a colorist, if the post-production special effects need to repair all the shots of the starring actors, a professional cg special effects team needs to follow through the software frame by frame to repair scars, nasolabial lines, wrinkles, eye bags, etc., sometimes The film crew and actors will also ask for face-lift and slimming, and bigger eyes.
"I heard a special effects artist in the circle complain about him. During the filming of a fairy tale drama, he had to fix the face of the female number one every day. At most, he had to watch the actor on the computer for 10 hours." Special effects consume a lot of time and expense.
There are about 500 scenes in a 40-minute TV series. If the main actors account for half of the scenes, and each scene has to be shaved, it will take at least two or three months, and the cost can reach up to several million.
Chengdu Commercial Daily-Red Star News reporter Qiu Junfeng