There are not many live-action scenes in the movie. The crew traveled to Shenghai, Fujian, Guizhou and other places for filming. The external liaison staff had already made communication and related preparations about the venue, so the crew shot very efficiently and waited for each location.
We left in a day or two, and now we are in Jiangxi, our last stop.
And day by day, Liu Yifei became more and more certain about one thing - Chu Xuan would propose to her soon.
Regarding the proposal, from filming in Los Angeles, to taking extra classes in New Haven, to returning to China, many things happened that made her have a series of speculations about it.
But before it was just a guess, now it is a certainty.
Just because Chu Xuan has been avoiding her intentionally or unintentionally these days since he discovered that Chu Xuan wrote a love letter in the middle of the night.
"My stomach hurts a little. I'll go back to the hotel first."
"Hey, I sprained my foot. I'll go back to the hotel to rest first."
"There's something going on at the company, I'll go back to the hotel to take care of it."
"..."
In the past, during filming, Chu Xuan would always stay patiently with her on the set. There has never been a situation like this where he was so overwhelmed that he left the set immediately after filming.
Chu Xuan left the crew and deliberately did not take her with him. Why?
Just avoid writing love letters to her. Wouldn't it be embarrassing if you wrote a love letter in front of her?
No, according to Chu Xuan, he is not writing a love letter, but corporate culture.
Liu Yifei was amused when she thought of this. Is it necessary to be secretive when writing about corporate culture? When writing about corporate culture, you also need to write about an emotional connection. Boyfriend, you are simply worthless here!
As for why Chu Xuan wrote love letters?
She once said to Chu Xuan: "You have never confessed your love to me."
Based on this analysis, Chu Xuan wrote the love letter to express his love to her.
Chu Xuan attaches great importance to the meaning of something, and his life is very ritualistic. He is unlikely to just pick a normal day to confess his love to her. This will greatly reduce the level of commemorative significance.
Then when will Chu Xuan confess his love to her? The most likely scenario is to propose marriage.
So why was Chu Xuan so eager to write love letters during this period? It can only mean that the day of proposal is coming soon.
The day of the proposal... Are there any special days recently? The Olympics are on August 8th, and my birthday is on August 25th.
Undoubtedly, the latter is more in line with our teacher Chu's logic of choosing a meaningful day to commemorate. Who knows that teacher Chu loves her so much.
"Chu Xuan, I understand everything about you!" Liu Yifei said happily, but kept it secret.
These days, every time Chu Xuan made excuses to sneak away from the set, she never told Chu Xuan's white lies. She agreed cooperatively every time. Just watching Chu Xuan perform in front of her, she felt extremely funny.
Many times, she wanted to ask in the hotel bedroom: "Teacher Chu, have you finished writing the corporate culture? Should I avoid it?"
While joking about Chu Xuan, I also explored Chu Xuan's background to see if he had finished writing the love letter.
If she didn't write it well, of course she would have to give Chu Xuan his own space. After all, it was for her proposal.
But then she thought again, Chu Xuan proposed to her, why was she so anxious?
Women should be reserved. She simply didn't mention this topic these days.
What love letters, what corporate culture, everything that happened in the middle of the night was selectively forgotten, so as not to embarrass Chu Xuan and interfere with Chu Xuan's planning.
Even though this plan was a cover-up in her eyes, it did not hinder her longing and high expectations for the marriage proposal.
"Sissi! Call Xiaoxuan and ask him to come over. We can finish the next scene after lunch."
"Oh well!"
--hotel.
"Okay, come on." Chu Xuan sat on the sofa in the living room and hung up the call from Liu Yifei.
He did not leave immediately for the crew, but instead stared at the computer screen placed on the coffee table, sliding his fingers on the touch pad and looking at the contents of the document seriously.
Ever since he got up in the middle of the night to feel like he was caught by Liu Yifei, especially when Liu Yifei saw these few sentences that were similar to a love letter, and the content was very consistent with the two people's thoughts, after being teased by Liu Yifei a few times, he had a hunch that Liu Yifei had already
Know what he wants to do.
As expected, every time he found an excuse to go away and write a love letter these days, Liu Yifei agreed without any surprise, as if she deliberately gave him her private space. Then his proposal to propose might have been exposed, but Liu Yifei only knew it tacitly.
This woman's mind is really quick... He could only sigh helplessly at this.
But although Liu Yifei probably knew everything he was doing, he was not too disappointed.
Unknown things can easily become surprises, and unknown things may not necessarily not be surprises.
When it comes to proposing, you still have to see how it feels on the spot. Now that I know it, I can't imagine what will happen.
"Is it nothing?" Chu Xuan pulled the document to the end and read the contents of the document again.
The love culture of the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, as well as the ancient love culture, did not bring him any inspiration, but they gave him the feeling of writing love letters.
As soon as he started writing in the middle of the night that day, he learned another practical truth: Why think so much before doing something? It is much better to just start doing it than to think all over the place.
Following his true inner feelings and writing what he wants to say about Liu Yifei purely and straightforwardly is the simplest way for him to write a love letter to Liu Yifei.
On this morning when he was not filming, he reviewed the contents of the love letters in the document countless times, looking through the intermittent but 100% hard work of the past few days.
After checking the additions, deletions and modifications, I really don’t know which places can be optimized and which places can be modified.
"That's it for the time being." Chu Xuan saved the document on the USB flash drive, and then deleted the document completely to avoid being peeked by Liu Yifei.
After a little tidying up, he left the hotel and set off for the set.
It is now the last day of July, and it has been half a year since the day we started filming in Los Angeles. It has been more than half a month since I joined the team for filming some time ago. This movie is almost finished.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! In these more than half a month, his biggest achievement is that besides finishing the movie, he has finally finished the love letter.
It's not easy...
Compared to the single state he was in during filming before, he has to switch back and forth between two states during this time.
One is the state of filming, and the other is the state of finding feelings and writing love letters.
Two words, tired.
Fortunately, it is now complete.
——The crew.
Dozens of staff members were scattered around eating lunch boxes, and some who had finished their meals were preparing for the next final scene.
As soon as Chu Xuan got out of the car, Liu Yifei came over to greet her, holding bowls and chopsticks in her hands, obviously eating too.
She said: "Come and eat quickly, I've left a portion of braised pork and roast duck for you."
Liu Yifei took care of her boyfriend and always left the best portion for Chu Xuan every time she distributed lunch boxes.
But when she was talking, there was a sly look in her eyes intentionally or unintentionally, as if she wanted to tease Chu Xuan, but she stopped talking.
On the way to the set with Chu Xuan, she said after a while: "Have the company's affairs been settled?"
Chu Xuan did not come to the set in the morning, citing company matters as an excuse.
"Yeah." Chu Xuan responded, but was immediately startled again.
This question came from Liu Yifei's mouth, and it seemed to be intentional, as if she was asking: "Has the love letter been written?"
Chu Xuan reacted and turned his head to look at her.
Liu Yifei has never asked similar questions these days. She probably came to find out his background as she was about to wrap up her time on the set.
Liu Yifei bit her chopsticks and looked at Chu Xuan.
The movie will be finished soon, I will rush back to Beijing in the afternoon, and I will have to work on the Olympic torch tomorrow.
On this occasion, she asked vaguely about the situation, and couldn't help but let out some of the fun that had been accumulated in her heart these days.
Chu Xuan said nothing, and neither did Liu Yifei.
The two looked at each other, and then they smiled mysteriously and understandingly. They didn't talk about this topic much, and they both kept this secret in their hearts, which was not a secret.
Tang Jili and the other directors and teachers were puzzled. They didn't know what code the young couple were talking about that they didn't understand.
Chu Xuan finished his meal quickly, and after filming the scene with Liu Yifei, the two of them finished their makeup and went to the set to prepare.
The scenes that are finished are the same as those that have a good start. In order to bring good luck, the scenes are often arranged very simple and can be completed in one go.
"Click!"
"Finished!"
Facing the cheers and applause of the people on site, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei hugged each other to celebrate the successful completion of the film and its entry into the next post-production stage.
Tang Jili and the directing team personally delivered two bouquets of flowers and said, "Congratulations."
"We are happy together." Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei said happily, each receiving the flowers.
"Thank you, teachers." The two of them expressed their blessing to the teachers again.
The crew members all had smiles on their faces. Some of them had been involved in the script planning stage with the crew since March last year, and it has now been a year and five months.
For nearly a year and a half, you have been immersed in the creative atmosphere of a movie every day. What is it like?
I have never experienced the atmosphere of film creation with such a long production cycle before, but now I have experienced it. Everyone has learned a lot, and I feel relieved when I see it completed.
At the same time, I also have a feeling: As the times progress, all aspects of film and television production must also innovate and progress.
This feeling was very profound for them during the filming process.
The group of people walked out together, and Tang Jili said: "The script planning, studio construction, and style setting started in March last year. The two stages before and after it took a year and five months to complete today. The post-production is conservatively estimated to be as much as
It took more than half a year or even more than a year. This is the longest movie I have ever directed from start to finish."
In the early days of Xiangjiang Film and Television, it was common for a movie to be completed in one or two weeks.
Later, I started to strive for excellence in film and television, and there were improvements in scripts and shooting techniques, so the shooting time period was gradually extended.
But no matter how long it is, for example, "Myth" in 2005 only took one year from start to finish.
Many people say that "The Myth" is a blockbuster. It only takes one year to produce such a blockbuster, right?
But as for "Attack", as a director, he had to estimate that it would take nearly three years. This would be the longest production period of a movie he has ever encountered.
Of course, it’s your first time trying a science fiction film, so it’s normal for the first time to take a little longer.
With the comprehensive development of Brilliant Era, he believes that the film and television production cycle will be greatly shortened in the future.
Assistant director Chen Musheng reminded: "The post-production speed must be accelerated as much as possible. "Avatar" is already expected to be released next year, and it will definitely be released in our country. Watch some of the promotional videos released. If the special effects are real, then our
It would be difficult if the movie came out after it."
Lu Chuan from the photography team said: "We don't care about overseas markets. No matter how good our movie special effects are, there will definitely be a gap. This is a fact. Mainly in the domestic market, pure special effects blockbusters like "Avatar" use new 3D technology.
If it can make a big impact in the country, then our movie will be released after it, and I want to get those bad public opinions now."
Tang Jili said: "Let's see, if the post-production speed can keep up and the film can be successfully scheduled before "Avatar", it would be best. If it really doesn't work, we'll see what happens."
Everyone nodded. Post-production hasn't started yet, and it's still too far away from being finalized. It won't be too late depending on the situation.
"Director Tang, when is the wedding banquet?" Liu Yifei asked.
"I will find a time in August or September to call Chenglong and the others, and I will inform you then." Tang Jili replied.
"Okay, then Director Tang, Director Chen, Lu Chuan, teachers, let's take a step first." Chu Xuan said.
"Teachers, see you in the capital." Liu Yifei waved.
He and Liu Yifei said goodbye to everyone in front of the car. After returning to the hotel to pack their luggage, they were going to Nanchang to catch a flight to the capital.
Tang Jili and others will stay for an extra day or two to finish the work, and then return to the capital to station at the China Film Group Studio for post-production.
Under the watch of the teachers, the young couple got into the nanny car and drove away, completely ending the movie trip of "At the Gate".