After "127 Hours" was released, it made Li Bin, a new director, famous as a dark horse.
This also made Mu Qingqing, the director of another film "Buried Alive" supported by Li Yi, start to feel a little anxious.
However, sometimes there is no point in rushing.
Fortunately, although the filming process of "Buried Alive" was not so smooth, it was only a small-budget film after all, even smaller than "127 Hours".
Therefore, the production of the movie was successfully completed.
Compared with "127 Hours", "Buried Alive" has a larger audience to a certain extent. Moreover, "Buried Alive" itself is a work that takes a different approach and relies on creativity to win. Therefore, it can also be played in publicity and distribution.
A little flower work.
In fact, Star Dream Entertainment, the promotion and distribution company of "Buried Alive", has customized a very special distribution strategy for this film.
Mu Qingqing is also a student in the directing department of Beijing Film Academy, and his film "Buried Alive" will also premiere at Beijing Film Academy.
With "127 Hours" in front of them, everyone is looking forward to "Buried Alive", the same movie about Li Yi helping his younger classmates.
After all, "127 Hours" has shown its own brilliance. Although it is not a big production, it can indeed be regarded as a big dark horse with a low cost this year.
So will the movie "Buried Alive" be able to replicate its success?
This in itself is also a very good gimmick.
In fact, compared to "127 Hours", the world in memory, because "127 Hours" is adapted from real events, can be said to be a biographical film, so its evaluation is higher than that of "Buried Alive"
Quite a few.
"127 Hours" was nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture in another time and space.
Although I didn’t win the prize in the end, it was enough to illustrate the problem.
Because biographical movies adapted from real events have a great blessing effect in themselves.
However, from a business perspective, Li Yi is more optimistic about "Buried Alive"!
Nothing else, because compared to "127 Hours", "Buried Alive" is more curious. As a well-known masterpiece among low-budget films, "Buried Alive" is more commercial.
At the Beijing Film Academy, outside the screening room of "Buried Alive", many people gathered around one place and pointed.
It quickly attracted the attention of other people present, especially some media and film critics, who were very curious.
When they squeezed in and took a look, they were even more puzzled.
Ou Jing is one of them. She is a relatively popular online film critic nowadays.
However, the reason why she was able to receive the invitation to come here was because she and Mu Qingqing were best friends.
"What is this?" Ou Jing looked at the things surrounded with a confused look on her face.
Because what everyone was watching was a rectangular box.
"A promotional prop for the movie "Buried Alive"!" said an insider.
"Props?" Ou Jing was a little surprised.
"Yeah, you'll know in a minute!" the man said, deliberately trying to hide it.
Suddenly, the box that was placed there quietly made a "bang bang bang" sound from inside, but someone was banging hard inside.
But everyone was not surprised.
Until he shouted loudly from inside: "Let me out!"
The staff on the side opened the box.
"Hoo ho, ho ho!" I saw a young student crawling out of the box, breathing heavily.
"It's terrible!" he said with lingering fear.
"It was okay at first. I personally don't think I have any claustrophobia, but when I stay there for a long time, it becomes really scary!" the male student said with a pale face.
"Can you tell me more about it?" someone from the media asked.
Ou Jing also looked curious.
"It was okay at first, but gradually, I started to panic inexplicably, and then I started to have random thoughts. Especially when I knocked on the box at the beginning, no one opened the box for me, which made me even more panicked!
You don’t know, the space inside is so big, there’s no way to make any big moves. Although I have my phone inside, I turned on my phone to watch short videos at the beginning, but the more I watched, the more I became more and more panicked.
....."
"Anyway, it's just an inexplicable panic..."
With this experiencer's personal experience, others became more and more curious.
Soon there were people raising their hands to experience it.
The other party even went in without his cell phone. As a result, in just a few minutes, the other party couldn't bear it anymore.
This is also the special announcement that will be made next for "Buried Alive".
Star Dream Entertainment has specially customized hundreds of these special boxes and distributed them to central theater areas across the country. They will use them for activities to allow the audience to experience the feeling of being "buried alive", and will also
There are experience rewards, but I won’t go into details here.
In short, everyone who has experienced it says "good!"
In fact, the box placed here, if a person is locked in it, the environment is much better than being buried alive.
After all, when you are buried alive, you can't hear the outside world at all, but you can hear it here.
Also, there is the mobile phone. In "Buried Alive", the mobile phone next to the protagonist is just the most primitive mobile phone. It does not have so many entertainment activities. Even if it does, it is actually useless.
Being in a confined space and facing the threat of death is absolutely terrifying for people who are buried alive.
Ou Jing also tried it.
As a result, after a few minutes, her performance was even worse than that of the previous experiencer.
This also made her more and more curious about the movie.
"Buried Alive", as the name suggests, someone must have been buried alive in it!
And that feeling was obviously much more terrifying than the "coffin" she experienced.
Soon, everyone entered the screening room where the premiere was held.
The leaders and teachers of Beijing Film Academy were all smiling.
Previously, "127 Hours" made a new director from the Beijing Film Academy shine again, and now it's a double blessing. Another new director is about to set sail.
They can already imagine that this year's enrollment will definitely see a new high in the number of applicants.
At this moment, other art schools have long been envious of Beijing Film Academy.
But there is no way, there is only one Li Yi!
It can be said that "Buried Alive" is a true one-man show compared to other theoretical one-man shows.
Because all the characters except the protagonist in "Buried Alive" only have voices, all the audience can see in the entire movie is the protagonist "squirming" in the coffin. Even the voices of the characters in this movie are done by one voice actor
of.
Even though "127 Hours" is a one-man show most of the time, the problem is that there are other people appearing, but in "Buried Alive", there are none!
The filming of "Buried Alive" was actually much more difficult than "127 Hours" to some extent.
Many people don’t know, and may think that it’s just a coffin and a person?
But the question arises, how to take pictures?
This issue was also mentioned when director Mu Qingqing was interviewed at the premiere.
"Because "Buried Alive" only talks about an incident in a coffin on the surface, but we can find clues from many shots. The coffin gradually changed from being closed at the beginning to expanding later."
"So how to solve this problem?" the host asked.
"When we were filming this movie, because the actors were indeed in a state of being semi-buried alive, we specially made 7 very unique coffins, each designed for a completely different purpose.
What comes out: One of them has wooden walls that can be moved and pulled out, so the camera can rotate 360 degrees around the hero;
The other one has a special reinforcement design so that Reynolds can push it with maximum strength, at least it won't feel fake...
In addition, we built a 5-meter-long coffin that allowed us to create some panoramic special effects inside - both through the lens and with the placement of the camera. We had to invent some special effects that were suitable for this film.
little tricks.
On paper, all this seems relatively simple, but after all, what we are moving is a coffin. Do you know how difficult it is? Moreover, in such a film, we rarely shoot a scene repeatedly.
It can be said that what we accomplished is a miracle.
Even some props that will be arranged for close-up shots are designed or selected through extremely careful and continuous measurement. We have thought very deeply about the appearance and placement of each object, and tried our best to
Let them turn into characters that serve the plot. Since our coffins are all old wooden boards, we are very strict about the selection of lighters. We are simply choosing one of the best, including the size of the flame.
- Our goal is to win with details.”
"Not only that, the issue of light in the coffin is also a key point. We tried many methods, and the final solution we came up with was to have the actors use three lighters to create a light source when not shooting close-up shots of the lighter, which can also meet the lighting requirements.
requirements.
There are so many more, and the effect we want to achieve is to use this kind of design from "extremely narrow at first to suddenly open up" to make the audience truly immersed."
Many people were a little surprised.
Soon, the movie officially started showing.
The lights in the screening room went out.
What many people don't notice is that in movie theaters, even if the lights are turned off, some low-light lights will remain.
However, this time, for better effect, all of them were destroyed.
Fortunately, subtitles quickly appeared on the big screen.
Many people didn't notice anything unusual about this.
After the subtitles passed, the entire screening room quickly fell into "darkness".
On the big screen, the opening scene is also dark!
Then, only some sounds came out.
The sound of breathing, and the sound of slapping wood.
This kind of darkness made many people extremely uncomfortable, and finally some people couldn't help but turn on their mobile phones.
Then he breathed a sigh of relief.
This also allows everyone to experience more deeply how terrifying it is when a person is in the dark, without any light.
They were just sitting in the theater, thousands of people, together. Even so, the completely dark environment of the first scene still made many people feel extremely uncomfortable.
Suddenly, a flash of fire flashed across the black screen on the big screen. Although it only flashed and went out, a face, or half a face, was reflected.
Li Yi was also sitting in the audience at this moment. Seeing this scene, he couldn't help but smile.
This was really not something he reminded, but something Mu Qingqing and the others came up with themselves.
This opening is still very interesting.
Finally, the lighter was lit, revealing a face and a pair of restless eyes. It was obvious that the person was lying down.
The fire flickered, flickering on and off.
The man's breathing became extremely rapid, and he rolled his eyes uneasily, trying to figure out what was wrong with him.
He groped around and patted the wooden board that prevented him from extending his hand.
His mouth was tied with a piece of cloth, and he gradually realized where he was.
He shouted in fear, anxiety, and despair, but because his mouth was tied with a piece of cloth, he could only make a monotonous sound.
He kept kicking the coffin board with his feet, but it was of no use, everything was in vain.
Under his violent struggle, the lighter went out.
The big screen fell into darkness again.
He immediately lit the lighter again, and the fire lit up again.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! He finally struggled to take the cloth away from his mouth.
"Hey! Is anyone there?"
"Hello!"
"Help!"
"Help!"
"Is there anyone, please help me!"
He slapped the coffin boards and shouted loudly.
Unfortunately, the same was in vain, and there was no sound of response.
He tried hard to push away the coffin board in front of him, but it was also in vain.
Suddenly the firelight illuminated the wooden board and an iron nail was exposed. He put the lighter aside, and then used the iron nail to cut the rope binding his hands.
Untying the restraints finally allowed him to calm down a little.
He began to observe the situation around him.
In the light of the fire, everyone knew where he was and that he was in a coffin.
He once again tried to push away the coffin board, but everyone knew that it was completely in vain.
The lighter became extremely hot due to burning for a long time, so he had to turn off the lighter temporarily.
The scene fell into darkness again, which also aroused the curiosity of all viewers, why was he buried alive here?
Why is there still a lighter?
How is he going to escape?
Especially viewers who have watched "127 Hours" subconsciously feel at this moment that he should be able to escape.
In the darkness, light suddenly appeared again.
However, the difference is that this time, it is a flashing blue light!
What is it?
The hero is curious, and the audience is equally curious!
Soon, the answer was revealed. It was the mobile phone. The phone was vibrating and the screen was emitting blue light!
At the location of the actor's feet.
This discovery made him feel like he had found a treasure. He immediately started a fire and squirmed his body to get the phone. But what was usually a simple thing, here, became extremely difficult for him!