Chapter 535: The right time, the right place, and the right people
2000 1k tungsten lamps lit up, and at that moment it was like seeing the sun, not only the light of the sun, but also the heat of the sun.
Assistant director Guo Fan described this thing as a "giant radar station" in the Soviet Union. It was the kind of thing that could monitor half a continent once it was turned on. Once it started running, birds within a radius of several kilometers would be killed by the radar waves. "It doesn't
It should appear in Kuandian, but in an inaccessible top-secret base in Siberia, used to drop nuclear bombs in a world war... It's in a small place like ours. It's so shocking when it rises."
The words are so ironic, it sounds easy and proud to say, but the process is full of the filmmaker's hard work.
Fang Yi spent the most time on this shot since he started working in the industry. It took at least three months and it was only eight minutes. The difficulties and ups and downs were far beyond his imagination, and he also received support from many units.
Support. He even doubted his own ability. Later, he learned that there are long shots of the same type in Europe and the United States, which take at least nine months to prepare. Guo Fan in turn encouraged Fang Yi: "We are following the path of our predecessors.
It is a road that has not been traveled before, and it is faster than those who come after.”
"Yuba"!
This big guy was so conspicuous that it caused a stir in the local area after entering the crew. Practitioners in the special effects industry came to watch from time to time. There were also many paparazzi. Whether they were rookies or experts, there was no need to find any commanding heights in the unobstructed Northeast forest plains.
, as long as you lift the camera, you can see the 15-meter-high super lighting platform.
News announcements are posted one after another, and Sou Fox Scarf will update film shooting information every few days.
For a moment, it seemed that people all over the country were paying attention to what Director Fang was going to shoot.
After the Yangma News Column learned of the news, it sent an interview team to follow and drafted a column with the theme of "Exploration of China's Film Industrialization." The interview reporter was Hu Die, who had hosted the International Channel and "Chao Wen" columns.
In fact, the crew itself also has a dedicated person responsible for shooting the behind-the-scenes footage. The entire production process of the footage will be released for free. It is said that many leaders are paying attention to Director Fang's war film and want to see how he can "be self-reliant and have cultural confidence."
In any case, this is an important moment in the history of mainland films.
Reporter and host Hu Die is an artistic woman with good writing skills. She doesn’t know much about other people and doesn’t quite understand the secrets of this studio. She feels that this place is more like a construction site. The current support team is mostly engineering students, not film
The birthplace of this type of artistic nature.
Your set is really weird.
The famous Yang Opera Gang, on the other hand, does not have much of a presence. They huddle in a corner like passers-by, hunching their necks and gossiping. Instead, the art, props, and photography guys... are loud and communicate frequently.
So when Hu Die caught Fang Yi in his vacancy, he asked him how he defined "industrialization"? Why did he have to engage in such a big battle?
Fang Yi gave an example on the spot:
"Movies have developed to this day and have been divided into many types... The pressure to shoot a film like ours is huge, because we have to make a pseudo-long shot of about eight minutes. Sometimes you will shoot for seven minutes, and someone will trip and fall.
, or there's a little mud on the lens, or the explosive device falls off, and you can't use it. The acting may be great, everything else may be right, but you have to start over because in those eight minutes, you made a mistake
A mistake, and people are bound to make mistakes, so we must try to eliminate the influence of people as much as possible."
"Director Fang, I still don't understand enough. Can you be more straightforward?"
Fang Yi: "Do you know how chips are manufactured? I heard that it involves hundreds of processes and dozens of industries. Even if the yield rate of each process is 99%, after 500 processes are superimposed, the final yield rate will exceed
95%. If the yield rate of each process is reduced by one ten thousandth, the final yield rate will drop to 90%. This yield rate is generally considered to be unqualified because the cost cannot be covered."
Hu Die was shocked: "You are using the same process as manufacturing chips to complete a movie -" she suddenly realized, "So you often talk about industrialization? I mean, uh, your internal logic is the same, and they are interconnected.
.”
"you understood."
"But with the current development level of the film industry, I'm afraid I can't meet your request. This is actually the first time I've heard from you that a movie is made like this."
Hu Die also added: "Zhang Yimou doesn't have it, and director Chen Kaige doesn't have it either..."
Fang Yi pondered for a moment and replied: "Every generation has its own mission. Their mission is to let the world know about Chinese films, and our mission may not only be to understand this step... it must be a big scene and popular,
That’s why we have to thank our brother units for their support.” Fang Yi counted the representative companies with Chinese prefixes on his fingers, “Zhenhua, Sinochem, China Film Huairou Film and Television Base... and the Liao Provincial Meteorological Bureau.”
"Is the Meteorological Bureau here?"
Fang Yi laughed dumbly and raised his chin: "No, it's right there."
Following the direction, Hu Die saw two clerks from the Meteorological Bureau chatting with people, looking at the equipment in their hands from time to time. She picked up the microphone and rushed over, "Are you comrades from the Meteorological Bureau?!"
"Yes!" The comrade from the Meteorological Bureau had already noticed the host, his face turned red, and he immediately started chatting: "Weather is also an influencing factor in his film, and weather is an uncertain factor, including snow, rain, and thick clouds...
...You may not see that there are clouds in the sky now, but the wind is strong, and there will be a clear sky soon. This is their shooting cycle. Our Liao Provincial Meteorological Bureau has made great contributions."
"How long can this cycle last?"
"Fifteen to forty-five minutes? I can't completely know, because as I said, the weather is an uncertain factor."
Hu Die looked at the sky. The clouds painted with ink were moving southward at a visible speed, and the sunlight was gradually disappearing, providing a rare opportunity for film shooting.
Under this sky, the film crew was rehearsing the final filming location. The great director Fang Yi, who had just answered her question, now jumped into the mud and walked along a fixed route in seconds. Suddenly, a flare flew up
, under the traction of eight crane arms, it performs a uniform parabolic motion, and a dull shadow immediately rises from the ground.
Hu Die coded the text on his laptop: "Clouds, light sources, 8 crane equipment, more than 4,000 sets of parts and connecting props, a 'national team' composed of three central enterprises... It's like a long and complicated poem written by a mathematician.
The unmistakable formula is like the music score played by a top pianist, lines and three-dimensional, black and white. I still don’t fully understand what they are doing. I can only pray that this moment will not disappoint those who work hard..."
After writing this, Hu Die opened a separate document to record his first impression on the crew: "The actors in this crew are also very involved. They all call each other by their character names. I heard that they even made fun of themselves.
It was a unique opening ceremony to lay flowers on the tombstone of the film and pay tribute to the non-existent characters... The entire crew seemed to be restoring a real event from beginning to end, and history was recreated here."
When the last ray of light completely disappeared, the clouds disappeared just in time. The weatherman's comrade ran to the news column team's camera without knowing it, as proud as a leader watching a manned rocket launch, and whispered softly