Chapter 728 The Three Treasures of Staying Up Late
Nowadays, based on the convention of ninety minutes, a finished film has about eight hundred to one thousand shots. After the 1980s, short shots and broken cuts became popular all over the world. In this way,
The number of shots in a movie has greatly increased, usually more than a thousand shots, reaching about 1300 or 400 shots; some action movies in Hong Kong even have 17800 shots.
In actual shooting, there is also the problem of shooting loss. Many things are photographed and become material for post-production. However, when you actually put the movie together, you will find that some things are actually unnecessary, or may even cause noise.
What is counterproductive must be discarded. In other words, in the actual shooting process, shooting more than a thousand shots is simply not enough. The average director has to shoot more than 2,000, or even more than 2,500 shots as the final shot.
Materials for creation.
The normal shooting cycle for a movie is about three months. Because I plan to participate in the Busan Film Festival in mid-October, the time is basically very tight. The post-production period will be at least one and a half months, which means it will be mid-August. During this period, I have to promote it and release it.
of one month.
Theoretically, as long as the shoot can be completed within two months, it's enough time.
However, the actual situation is far from this.
Su Yan discovered that the person who invented the eight-hour work system was really great, and he completely captured the characteristics of the human biological clock.
By the tenth day, apart from finishing the movie, there was only one wish left in his mind for him to have a good sleep.
There are 24 hours a day. The time spent setting off and coming back to organize equipment plus the time on the road is at least 2 hours. The filming takes up nine hours. Plus eating, bathing and some other things, there is only time left for sleeping every day.
You can imagine how much time it takes.
In the past few days, Su Yan and his crew set out for the filming location at five o'clock every afternoon, and were ready to start shooting at seven o'clock. The filming lasted for five hours until twelve o'clock, and they had supper. Su Yan had to discuss with Li Shanggen what to do in the middle of the night;
I took the photo at three or four o'clock and rushed back to bed while the staff cleaned up.
After that, it was almost daylight. I could hardly sit still. My back hurt like an iron rod. I could only hit my back twice. When I returned to the hotel and saw the bed, my whole body was shattered.
I fell asleep when I went down, and at 9 or 10 o'clock in the morning, I had to get up again to arrange the shots for the evening.
Su Yan was so tired that sometimes he didn't even want to take a shower, so he went back to sleep on the bed. Then Yoona pulled him up by his ears and forced him to take a shower. It was all on location, so he couldn't be clean.
After a week, he realized that it was no longer possible. Two months was too tight.
The recent shots are mainly about parkour escapes. Compared with other shots, they are the most error-prone. It is common to shoot a single run more than ten times. Sometimes two shots are taken in one night, which results in serious lag.
Therefore, Su Yan proposed a new plan, which is a method often used by large-scale film crews: shooting in groups.
Divide the entire crew into two groups, A and B.
The producer was dumbfounded when he heard it. The method sounds good, but if you direct one group, who is in charge of the other group?
Not to mention Li Shanggen, to be honest, he is now very happy that he chose Su Yan in the end, because this person has enthusiasm, but he has real ability and limited experience. There was a scene before where toxic gas spread into the city, killing innocent citizens.
"Being Hurt" is said to be a group scene, but in reality it is split into several shots and spliced together.
But it took three nights, and the filming was not finished. The main reason was that the extras needed to be performed without real objects, and the thick white fog would be added later through computer special effects.
Later, when Su Yan saw that it didn't work, he did it himself and finished it in two hours.
So he wouldn't feel at ease if Li Shangen came.
Su Yan answered directly that both groups were guided by themselves, so it was no big deal if it was a bit hard.
The producer couldn't stand him and called everyone to gather.
...
After group shooting, the progress was much faster, but Su Yan's spirit was getting weaker day by day.
During the day, we shoot in hotels and hospitals, which takes about six hours a day. At night, we shoot on the set. When the two groups rotate every day, or when the night scene ends a little early, we quickly go back to sleep.
Later, I simply asked SM to send a nanny car with a bed and parked it directly at the edge of the venue. If I needed to move, I would just sit in the car and relax for a while.
Some experienced masters on the crew began to teach the young director Su the three treasures of staying up late during filming of consecutive scenes.
The first one is called "Thief Eyes Bright". You put a few drops of Fengyou essence into a strong-flavored Camel cigarette and smoke it. The smell of the smoke is particularly strong and exciting in your mouth. It is said that smoking this kind of cigarette will make you feel more energetic when filming at night, and your eyes will light up.
, the thief is bright and the thief is bright, hence the name, but Su Yan doesn’t smoke, and Yoona doesn’t let it.
The second one is called "Yang-Strengthening Treasure", two ounces of sorghum wine and one raw egg; put the wine in a long-necked cup, crack in the eggs, mix well and drink it in one sip. It is said that drinking this kind of wine not only refreshes you, but most importantly, it can strengthen your yang.
It can reduce the damage to the kidneys caused by staying up late for a long time.
It is a must-have for men in the crew who are traveling at home and rushing to save scenes. The disadvantage is that it is better to drink this amount of alcohol. If you don’t know how to drink, it is better not to drink it, otherwise you will be drunk after drinking one glass to refresh yourself. Su Yan’s drinking capacity is not good.
, still cannot be used.
The third thing called "mouth full of fragrance" should actually be called full of bad breath. To put it bluntly, it is garlic. When you are sleepy, chew the garlic together with the garlic clothes. The garlic smell in your mouth can continue to stimulate you to not want to sleep for a long time. The disadvantage of this thing is that it makes
Later, when Yoona saw Su Yan, she hid and got smoked.
Staying up late, not getting enough sleep, and eating garlic made Su Yan suffer from internal heat, blistering in his mouth, and lost his appetite. Looking at his daily lunch box, he didn’t want to take a bite, especially since it was so spicy.
Yoona was also busy. She and the male lead basically had scenes day and night, but they didn't need to be on the set all the time. So they found a local Chinese cook and gave Su Yandun some fire-clearing and nourishing broth every day. This helped Su Yan's physical strength improve.
Recovered a little.
In the blink of an eye, another seven days passed, and he discovered another truth: staying up late will not make you sleepier, but will make you more energetic.
Su Yan once had a stage where he was so painful that he really wanted to commit suicide, or sneak away and have a big sleep. Damn any movie or responsibility.
During that time, whenever he stood up, his world would spin, or his vision would become blurry. He relied on intuition to give orders casually when filming, and his legs felt like they were filled with lead and stepped on cotton, light and heavy at the same time.
But when Yoon'er saw it, she didn't feel happy at all. Instead, she felt as distressed as a knife.
In just ten days, Su Yan lost a lot of weight. The bloodshot eyes could not go away at all, and his eye sockets were sunken. His hair was so messy that he had no time to comb it, so he put on a hat.
Everyone looked at Su Yan like he was a monster. Even though he was divided into groups, the ten hours of work a day was still very tiring. Everyone was in low spirits, but this director was like a man who couldn't be squeezed out or exhausted.
Like a madman, he wields an invisible whip and drives everyone away.
Lee Sang-geun is completely convinced. Only by seeing it with his own eyes can he realize how difficult it is to make a movie. If it were him to do it, I really don’t know what the result would be now.
Cha Taixian, Gao Douxin, and Cao Zheng also admired them from the bottom of their hearts. They have rich experience and have seen all kinds of directors, but there are really few people who work as hard as Su Yan.
Moreover, everyone saw that Su Yan had high requirements for his work. Seeing how diligent his boss was, all departments did not dare to be lazy. Although he was very polite in his comments and rarely cursed, the pressure he radiated could be felt.
When he failed to meet the director's requirements, or made mistakes and wasted the crew's time, Su Yan never bothered to scold anyone. He just raised his eyes and glanced at the person coldly. Even a master chef in his fifties and sixties would be ashamed.
The ground was covered in cold sweat.
On this day, the indoor scenes ushered in the last scene. In other words, after today, all scenes can be shot at night, and there is no need to group them again.
The scenes in the hotel accounted for about a quarter, and many scenes were selected to be shot during the day.
The plot is relatively simple. The children celebrated their mother's 70th birthday. A group of people sang and danced in the grand banquet hall, which exceeded the business hours.
After rehearsing twice during the filming, it went very smoothly and I passed it right away.
After hearing Su Yan's voice of "good, cut!", the whole scene was boiling.
Because Su Yan has already announced that after the hotel shots are taken, there will be no filming in the evening and the day after tomorrow will be off. All the food required for the filming will be real and there will be a small dinner party.
And after the big scene is over, there is only a scene where the male and female protagonists are having a conversation in the stairwell. I think it will be over soon, how can I be unhappy?
The main reason for this arrangement is that everyone is too tired. After half a month of shooting day and night, the progress has been caught up, but the mental and physical strength are too much, including himself. Although he can be relatively fixed at night in the future.
Shooting, but if things go on like this, efficiency will be affected.
In addition, Lao Hu's wedding in Korea was about to begin, so he just took a vacation.
When the male protagonist and female protagonist returned to the lobby after filming the conversation scene, they found that the producer was directing pots of ginseng chicken soup to be brought in, ready to be replenished for the staff, while others started to pack things.
"Hurry up and finish what you are doing. Take a break after dinner!" Su Yan shouted, then found a corner and lay down.
tired!
Sleepy!
Can't stand it!
When the filming came to an end, the tight thread in his heart suddenly loosened. If he didn't lie down, he was afraid that he would faint.
In a daze, the original noise in my ears seemed to become smaller.
He didn't know how long it took, but he suddenly woke up with a slight tremor. The chair was really uncomfortable for him to sleep in. He rubbed his aching waist and froze as soon as he remembered.
What caught his eye was Yoona's pretty face that seemed to be smiling but not smiling, with a pair of crystal eyes really looking at her. When he looked up, he saw Cha Tae Hyun, Cao Zheng, Go Dou Shim, Lee Sang Geun, and other staff members standing nearby.
"You are..."
Su Yan found that all the filming equipment had been packed away and the extras had left. He didn't even hear such a loud noise?
No!
Someone must have discovered that he was sleeping and deliberately asked everyone to be gentler and gentler.
"Thank you, director!"
Everyone bowed to Su Yan with sincerity.
As a Chinese director, he was finally recognized by the crew.
"Hurry up and eat, my stomach is pounding with hunger." Su Yan said haha. He was very touched, but he didn't want to cry in front of so many people.
"Okay, let's eat."
"Oppa, there is no ginseng in your chicken soup. You can eat more."
"I have to go back and have a good sleep."
"I'm going to report here on the morning of the 22nd, so don't forget to do it."