Xia Yu has been with Zhuang He for more than half a year, and feels that the old man is quite open-minded and materialistic. However, before the filming started, the day came, and early in the morning on January 1st, he went to an ancient temple in Jinling to burn incense and worship Buddha.
When Xia Yu left the ancient temple, he teased the old man, "Teacher, you are so weird and powerful! What kind of status do you have, do you still believe this?"
Zhuang He glanced at her, lowered his voice and hummed: "It's not that he doesn't believe me because he's silent!"
Hearing the sound, Tao Zhang and Xie Guanhui, who were closest to him, covered their mouths and snickered. They gave the old man a fierce look before they restrained themselves.
During this time of worshiping Buddha, Yuan Bao was also clamoring to come over. Xia Yu thought that this little guy had changed his gender, so he came over!
Unexpectedly, when they arrived at the temple, if Tao Zhang hadn't stopped him with quick eyesight and quick hands, he would have almost run straight to Buddha's Wuzhi Mountain.
Xia Yu was so frightened that she broke into a cold sweat - how much money would she have to pay if someone scratched off the gold paint?
Turning around, she pinched Yuan Bao's neck fiercely,
Threaten him, "If you are naughty again, I will bring Xia Yi over and suffocate you!"
The little guy immediately became honest, but still expressed that he wanted to climb to the Buddha's "Five Fingers Mountain" to sleep~
These are all small episodes before shooting~
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Burn incense and worship Buddha all morning.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, the props team and stage management checked it again and again, and confirmed three times that it was OK.
"Give everyone five minutes. In five minutes, filming will officially begin!" Zhuang He ordered.
The biggest difference between Mr. Zhuang and other directors in China when filming is that his filming schedule is exactly according to the script, step by step. He won't tell you which big shot you are. He just puts your part first and shoots it.
For one thing, other newcomers' and transparent scenes were scheduled to be filmed only after you went to bed after the show!
This model is consistent with some directors in Hollywood, and in Zhuang He's opinion, this kind of shooting can better maintain the actor's "play", and will not lose this completeness just because of the shooting of the previous section and the subsequent section.
The status is broken up.
According to Zhuang He's shooting plan, this movie will last nearly three hours. In addition to his "Virgo" perfection requirements, the shooting period is five months, which is already a relatively satisfactory time in his shooting career.
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Zhuang He's longest film shooting lasted three years. At that time, Zhuang He was just a newcomer in the director circle. Although he was from the Imperial Theater Academy and was a well-known academic talent, it was a pity that at that time he was not attracted by various investors.
Favor, for each movie, I begged my grandfather and grandma everywhere. In the end, it was Mrs. Zhuang who mortgaged a courtyard house, and that was how "Blood Plum" came into being.
It was also this film "Blood Plum" that won China's first international triple-A award, and it was also the most important one, the best director award. Zhuang He jumped from a marginal person in the director circle to a popular one.
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Let’s get back to the point.
Zhuang He gave an order, and the entire crew moved. The studio and monitors were arranged in the cathedral.
Although it is inside a church, the location is only a few walls and within a hundred meters away from where the location was shot.
The scenes shot today have nothing to do with Xia Yu——
So after Zhuang He gave the order, Xia Yu and Meng Dong both sat next to Zhuang He and got familiar with each other.
As for the scene, several assistant directors including Tao Zhang and Xie Guanhui were in charge.
As for Tao Zhang, even before he joined the cast, the crew of "Jinling Festival" has already registered as a co-director.
Today's scene also doesn't have Gu Mingtao and Tong Chengping. In other words, if it were done step by step, it would have to be at least a month before it was their turn to play - but everyone's mentality was basically the same and they were on standby.
Although I don’t know the specific arrangements yet, I will be away from the crew for at least a month. At most, I will receive a small announcement, take a vacation, or ponder the script. But I am pondering at home, so it is better to be on the crew.
What's more - getting close contact with Zhuang He, learning and adapting in advance, that's the most important thing!
Asking for leave and leaving the crew is not worth the gain!
The original content of today's shooting is Meng Shujuan's autobiography, recalling how on the afternoon of the "Jinling Massacre", Father Engelman and fifteen little girls escaped from Wilson Girls' School to the church.
The movie naturally followed this story line, but brought the memories to reality, but a few scenes were omitted - the escape from the girls' school was towards the river, and when he was about to take the ferry to Pukou, something unexpected happened.
A few scenes.
The script has been edited and revised many times. In order to achieve a visual and plot effect, the first scene was directly changed to show the Japanese invaders starting to bomb the city of Jinling, with a dozen little girls and many refugees running around in the city.
"Jinling Festival" begins here.
When the five minutes were up, Zhuang He dialed the intercom and said, "Marksman, get ready to call the shots!"
"The first scene of "Jinling Festival", the first scene, action!"
According to the investigation, after more than 20 days of bombing, Jinling finally fell on December 13, 1937. Due to many days of bombing and the weather, the entire Jinling was filled with heavy fog.
Therefore, the props team had already started making arrangements half an hour ago. At this time, the "broken walls" in front of the church were filled with a thick smoke that could not be blown away.
Following Zhuang He's order,
Zhao Xinhui and the other two little girls followed the script they had rehearsed earlier, and after Tao Zhang's instructions, they followed the camera and ran forward!
In the monitor, the little girl lost her pretty look that she had just put on her makeup a few days ago.
Due to the 'bombing', there were several scratch marks on her face from charcoal - Jinling had already fallen at this time, so her face at this time was full of fear and confusion!
In the footage, after three years of teaching and one month of additional training and rehearsal, the little girl's performance in this scene was remarkable!
Especially during the rough arrangement, I specifically asked her to turn around and look back to see if there were any pursuers behind her, or her companions who were scattered due to being chased by the Japanese invaders! This scene is quite awesome, even without the post-processing.
But in the monitor, Xia Yu couldn't help but nod.
But she knew that today's scene was not that simple -
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Two hundred words, I’ll make up for it later!
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As for the launch press conference, if it were replaced by a normal crew, it would probably be before the start of filming. However, in order to deal with minor problems that may occur, Zhuang He's crew always holds a press conference when filming is about to be completed or the film has already been completed.
There has never been a fixed process for this kind of thing, and a press conference must be held before filming can begin.
After the final makeup photos were taken, two days of overtime reading were conducted according to the newly revised script.
In the last two days of this month, Zhuang He simply took a vacation, but there were requirements - he rested in place, nothing serious happened, and he couldn't leave the film and television base to avoid any unnecessary accidents.
December is over and January is here. The filming of "Jinling Festival", which has been in preparation for three years, has finally started!