"100% In Another World With My Smartphone Shooting...Heart A Tag', a blow by Chungmuro new director Lee Chung-hyeon
On the morning of the 5th, a production report of the movie Heart A Tag was broadcast live on the Internet. Director Lee Chung-hyeon and director Kim Sang-il attended to talk about the work.
Heart A Tag' is a time-slip fantasy romance film about a woman who turns 100 times to save her loved one. Actor Lee Sung-kyung and director Lee Chung-hyeon, who has emerged as a prospect for Chungmuro as his feature debut 'Call', caught megaphone.
Especially, Heart A Tag' is known to have filmed all the films from the main film to trailers, making films, and posters as well as the Galaxy S20 Ultra, the latest version of Samsung Lions' In Another World With My Smartphone. In Another World With My Smartphone is a dense visual beauty that can not be felt that it was filmed only, and In Another World With My Smartphone, so the unique shooting technique and lively screen are the charm of the movie.
Director Lee Chung-hyeon said, "I made a proposal at the Samsung Lions first. Cinema16: I love American Short Films so much, and I wanted to shoot whenever I had the chance. I was curious that I could shoot movies on my smartphone in that regard. "
“I wanted to make a movie once again when I was waiting for the release of the movie Call, and I had the opportunity to work with the production team of Call and the director of the film, Kim Sang-il, and I participated with a pleasant heart.”
The director shot a genre film full of tension centered on surf fence through his previous works 'Rands' and 'Call'. Why did you come up with a romance movie about turning time to make your loved one's heart beat again?
Director Lee said, "When I shot 'Rands' and 'Calls' in succession, I wondered about other genres and feelings. “I also wanted to have a pretty image that I could take with the Galaxy s20, so I became a Top Model in the romance genre.”
The main character of the film is actor Lee Sung-kyung, and is drawn from beginning to end with his gaze. There is an evaluation that if the color of the movie is born as a person, it will be born as Lee Sung-kyung.
"I thought Lee Sung-kyung would fit in with the story of this movie," Lee said. “I thought about it in a minute or two without worrying about it,” he said. “It was a positive factor because it contained bright, healthy and lively energy.”
“It was really hot when I was shooting. Lee Sung-kyung led the film with the most energy from all the staff on the scene. "In fact, Lee Sung-kyung's character is buried in the movie. “I made the movie lovely,” he said.
“The formal Top Model seems to be the attraction only Cinema16: American Short Films can do. Before the scenario, “Heart A Tag” did Conti work first. He was very inclined to express the image metaphor. I tried to speak with images rather than stories, and to express them in poetry in literature. "
With various settings and new forms of attempts, director Kim Sang-il may have felt the burden of shooting. However, director Kim explained that it was more beneficial to shoot with In Another World With My Smartphone.
“I was surprised when I first got Conti,” Kim said, “and there were hundreds of PowerPoint pictures. I said I’d take them in three days, but I thought, What should I do? I wanted to shoot it, "he said." Then I received five In Another World With My Smartphones at the Samsung Lions and prepared them for use at any time. “I could take a lot more cuts because I could take them on my cell phone,” he said.
“I had a concern about my first attempt, but I quickly adapted to work with the previous ‘call’ staff,” Lee said. “In Another World With My Smartphone was not different from normal film shooting, and I worked quickly and easily.”
We also talked about the use of primary colors that symbolize the movie, and the combination with Toei Animation. “I found a lot of reference images and PD suggested that we use Toei Animation together,” Lee said. “Toei Animation seems to have had a good effect in that respect because there was a direction to take the retro concept at the beginning. In terms of retro concept, I got a lot of hints in the music video of singer Park Mun-chi and IU. "
This director's first romance Top Model Heart A Tag', which has emerged in the thriller genre. He also revealed his desire for feature films of romance genres such as Heart A Tag'.
“I love watching these genres,” Lee said. “I like rhythmic romance movies like La La Land and About Time. I’ve been thinking about making movies like this one day since I was old, but as time goes by, I feel more like it. I want to show a movie that people can feel lovely at the theater. "
Meanwhile, Heart A Tag will be unveiled for the first time in Watcha on the 5th.