Du Hua's question obviously confused these makeup artists.
They thought about it for a while, and one of them said: "I don't know about other directors, but Chu Han gave me a good impression because his previous two movies were indeed great, but this movie was too risky. And I didn't care about it before.
Whether it's burying alive or pancreas, both are low-cost. I think Chu Han should do it step by step instead of rushing for quick success and playing such a big game."
"So you're not optimistic about it?" Du Hua asked.
"It's not that I'm not optimistic about it. This movie hasn't been completed yet, and no one knows the quality until it's completed. But whether the quality is good or bad actually has little to do with the box office. A lot of movies with very good quality have poor box office, right?
What’s more, this kind of science fiction apocalyptic film rarely appears in China.”
Obviously, this makeup artist just doesn't like it, and what he said is so reasonable that no one can refute it.
Next, Du Hua asked a lot of questions about the crew, placement, and how it works.
When he learned how the crew operated, Du Hua was greatly surprised. He didn't expect such a large crew to operate in this way. Even if he didn't see the finished product, he knew that the crew would really operate in this way.
It is also a very efficient method.
After chatting with several people for nearly half an hour, Du Hua left the tent and began to look for a place to sleep.
At four o'clock in the morning the next day, everyone had woken up, and this huge crew began to move slowly.
Chu Han woke up first. The first thing he did was to communicate with various departments. After all, there were so many people, including the person in charge of the makeup team, the actors team, and the logistics team. He had to communicate with them first and let them start working.
The work of the special makeup artist has finally begun. Each group of ten people is responsible for ten actors. Zombies look easy to make, but if you want a realistic zombie, it is really not easy to make it, the kind that lacks arms and legs.
is the simplest, but the really difficult part is the changes in the head. It is full of old skin, one eye is missing, and there are no lips. It is really not easy to draw. It also requires masks, contact lenses, etc.
It is said that three hours can be used to kill a zombie, but for some scenes that are more important and have zombies with more prominent characteristics, which need to be shot at close range so that the secret is not revealed, the makeup time will go up to three hours, with some additions.
There was an emergency, so Chu Han asked the entire crew to start working at four in the morning, mainly to leave certain events to deal with special situations.
If there are few people, you don’t need to worry about special circumstances, because it is a low-probability event. But when a low-probability event encounters a huge crowd, it is a 100% probability event.
For example, in a family or a class of classmates, no one may die in ten or even twenty years. But if you put this number in a city, a country, or the whole world? You will find that every minute, every second
, someone died.
For most people, a small probability event is a 100% probability event. Especially for a diverse work organization like the crew, the smooth work efficiency is a miracle, and it is impossible not to make mistakes.
Whether a crew is excellent or not, how to deal with mistakes is also a required course.
Chu Han's approach is very good, leaving a certain amount of time so that even if a mistake occurs, it can be resolved quickly.
Just as the makeup artist started putting on makeup, it didn't mean that Chu Han could go back to sleep. He still had many things to worry about.
He and Ren Zhong arrived at the abandoned railway track nearby and began to set up the scene.
The environment here was dirty and messy at the beginning. Obviously, a messy and messy environment did not meet the conditions for scene shooting. So Chu Han had to work with the logistics team to tidy up the place, and then there were also props placed here.
Abandoned trains will need to be knocked down and a fire will occur. The fire must be prevented from hurting people, so a cold fire must be installed. How to start the cold fire, when to start it, and the starting device are also problems.
Therefore, the crew really has a lot of problems, many of which even require the director to personally arrange the scene, because only the director knows the position of the camera and the placement of the lens best, so these props must be placed where the camera can shoot.
Next came the camera crew. Chu Han actually told them how they should follow a close-up of zombies when a group of people started running, to shoot them, what the shooting angle was, how the zombie behaved, etc.
Chu Han's crew started setting up in full swing, and the self-media and official media nearby also set up cameras and began filming the activities of the entire crew.
Facing these people, Chu Han chose to ignore them.
In a modern information-based society, there are no secrets, especially with such a large crew and a sky-high investment of 300 million. From the beginning, this crew was destined to attract the attention of tens of thousands of people.
This is also the result that Chu Han wants. Only when the crew attracts attention, will the film receive more attention after the filming is completed.
They are using Chu Han to help them become famous, and Chu Han is also using them to publicize, and everyone benefits from each other.
Time passed minute by minute, and gradually, it was dawn.
Looking at the current time, the weather is cooler in the early morning. This is also the best time to shoot. What is needed to make a film is not one scene, but multiple scenes. Therefore, five thousand zombies and a camera crew may be there in one day today.
I have to keep running.
But the life of the crew is like this. Those who come here for the first time may not be used to it. After two or three crews, you will get used to this kind of work intensity. Generally speaking, except for the extras in the film and television city, special actors like them, the more tired they are.
The higher the pay you get.
Even though they only have two days of work, in these two days, they can earn a month's worth of money.
"Every department is ready, the extras department is ready, the camera crew is ready, you can turn on the camera, and check your memory cards for me. If anyone's camera has no memory card but is pretending to be shooting somewhere, I will kill him. Now
, you guys start turning on the phone." Chu Han said to the intercom.
There was a sound of the camera turning on, and three drones produced by DJI slowly flew into the sky and stopped at the position set by Chu Han.
Nearly five thousand people are preparing at the abandoned railway track. Of course, not only the abandoned railway track, but also the abandoned buildings and abandoned trains nearby. With the sound of "a", they will run out from the window of the train and the gate of the abandoned building.
, forming an extremely spectacular picture.
The scene of the zombie wave lasts for ten minutes, but it is composed of various shots. It is not meant to be shot for ten minutes with thousands of people around. That would probably be tiring to death.
What these five thousand people really have to deal with is the panoramic view of the corpse tide.
"The extras department is ready." The extras department said.
Chu Han held the walkie-talkie, stared at the monitor, and said expressionlessly: "a!"
