When the crew's motorcade left the county town, the sun was still shining, but halfway through, it began to rain heavily. Fortunately, it was just a shower. When the motorcade resisted the Locust Castle, the rain stopped.
As a later famous painter living in the United States, Liu Simeng is a literary young man at heart. He has a secret base where he built a tree house, a viewing platform, rope ladders up and down, a suspension bridge between trees, and a
A shack where he sleeps and takes shelter from the rain. He usually spends time here in a daze and painting, and what attracted him was a huge dinosaur fossil here.
The plot described in the script is that after Liu Simeng had a group fight with Yuan Dingguo and others in Hongchunping, Liu Simeng's method of handling the conflict was to ask his follower Shi Shi to go to Ye Xingyu, saying that he wanted to make it clear to her. Ye Xingyu didn't go the first time.
If it doesn't work, ask for a second time. This time Ye Xingyu came with the bullshit, and the banner Ye Xingyu came with was to persuade Liu Simeng to "admit his mistakes."
It's a long way to go to Liu Simeng's secret base. Not only do you have to climb mountains and ridges, but you also have to cross a river by sliding on a suspension rope that is very common in the area. However, the filming location is on a hillside less than half a mile away from Lee Locust Fort.
This secret base was built by the location team over several days. It is basically exactly the same as described in the script. As for the huge dinosaur fossil, it was cast with gypsum and then spray-painted with the same color as the stone.
Leaves on the tree make it blend in with the surrounding environment.
Compared with Lou Ye's fastidiousness and emphasis on feeling, and Gu Changwei's frequent use of long, frozen lenses, Lu Yue is more particular about composition and the constant switching of shots.
For example, when Shu Qi followed Dog Shi to the secret base of He Xin, she saw pots, pans, pots and jars in the shack, hand-drawn sketches hanging on a rope, and the huge figure lying prone among the tangled tree roots.
When looking at the dinosaur fossils, for a shot that took less than a minute, Lu Yue changed several camera positions, taking frontal shots from the inside out of the shack, then side shots, and then overhead shots and upward shots.
He Xin was no longer a rookie now, and he had somewhat of an inkling of the composition of the shot and the characters being photographed. He squatted behind Lu Yue, watching the pictures on the monitor, and couldn't help but relish it.
It is said that photographers are a technical profession, similar to engineers. But when the Nortel Photography Department recruits students, they often recruit students with excellent painting skills, such as Guoshi, Lu Yue, Gu Changwei, and Hou Yong.
Both of them studied painting, and the same was true for Ning Hao later.
If you study photography from a painter's perspective, what you will train is not just an engineer who has mastered a technique, but an artist. This fully explains why so many people who graduated from the Nortel Photography Department eventually became directors.
, and many of them are successful directors!
"Cut, okay, passed!"
Lu Yue raised the small microphone he carried with him and shouted. This shot took less than a minute and repeatedly changed the camera position. He was wearing a white shirt and blue pants, with a yellow canvas bag slung across his body, and a green military uniform hanging on the bag strap.
Shu Qi had already walked more than a dozen times, and it took more than an hour to finally finish the photoshoot.
Even so, Lu Yue is still a quick shooter among directors with He Xin's experience. Unlike Lou Ye, a scene like Guang Zhang Ziyi tying her shoelaces could last a whole day.
After the rain, the water vapor in the rainforest is like a steamer, making people breathless and hot. Mosquitoes are flying from time to time. No one dares to take off their clothes. They are all tightly wrapped in long pants and long sleeves. At this time
Almost everyone's clothes and pants were soaked by the rain dripping from the trees and the sweat on their bodies.
The director was finally merciful and allowed everyone to take a twenty-minute break, allowing everyone to wipe their sweat, drink water, and take a breather. Shu Qi, who was a little exhausted, also took this opportunity to go back to the car and change clothes, and blow on the air conditioner for a while.
"Okay, that's almost it. Let's get ready!"
When the time came, Lu Yue picked up his small microphone and shouted loudly.
He Xin still wore a sea soul sweatshirt, and then put on a blue coat outside, and climbed up to the viewing platform that was more than ten meters high along a simple ladder made of bundled branches.
Lu Yue personally checked the camera position and the angle of the lens. Although he was very particular about composition and switching between different angles, he was not particular about light or the performance of camera movements. Generally speaking, he was not very showy. The crew even
There is no professional lighting engineer, and most of the shooting relies on natural light.
In his words, he didn't want any beautiful scenes in this movie, and it was just rough to the core.
"A!"
The camera slowly panned across the dinosaur fossil model stuck in the mud, and Shu Qi leaned over and touched it with her hands, curiously asking: "What is this?"
"Bone!"
Shit, who was holding the radio and adjusting the channel, said something, which scared Shu Qi and quickly retracted her hand.
"Dragon bones!" Shit said again.
Shu Qi looked at him with confusion in her eyes.
At this time, He Xin's voice suddenly came from above: "It's a fossil! A dinosaur fossil!"
The dog in the camera looked up and his eyes accurately found He Xin, who was lying on the branch railing of the viewing platform with his hands raised. Shu Qi, on the other hand, raised his head and looked blankly for the direction of the sound.
At this time, the camera lifted up and rotated around the treetops. Using the subjective lens, we finally found the viewing platform hidden among the branches, as well as the blue figure.
He Xin squatted there, happily raising his arms and waving to Shu Qi below.
Then I saw him turn around and take a basket full of fruits from the side and slowly hang it from the rope. He was still muttering in his mouth: "A meteor impact, a volcanic eruption, and a glacier tens of millions of years ago."
, maybe it was an earthquake, mudslide, drought, or disease. Anyway, it was frozen by a sudden disaster, like a turn in the long river of time, a fall..."
At this point, he paused for a moment, and then shouted to Shu Qi: "I like this place because sooner or later we will become like this, and then we will truly be rooted in the frontier!"
Unfortunately, Shu Qi was not interested in his sentiments. She raised her head and asked, "Comrade Liu Simeng, why did you come to see me?"
"I……"
He Xin poked his head out from above and said enthusiastically: "You eat it, I just picked it."
As he spoke, he prepared to come down from the top.
"Cut! It's over, prepare for the next shot."
I saw two photographers quickly dismantling the machine from the stand, and then carrying it up the ladder. The next step was an overhead shot. He Xin had to repeat the lines he just said, and the shot below looked up at him.
Shu Qi, in order to facilitate the editing and switching of the scenes in the later stage, as well as Shu Qi’s lines.
"Miss Shu Qi, how are you?" Shi Runjiu came over and asked.
Shu Qi stuck out her tongue at him sheepishly.
Shi Runjiu understood immediately. With a wave of his hand, he saw two workers climbing up carrying two big signs. They erected the sign behind the camera and saw that the lines that Shu Qi was going to speak were written all over the sign.
One of the field workers even put his head in and asked considerately: "Miss Shu Qi, can you see clearly?"
"I can see it clearly, thank you!"
There is no way, this is not a way.
At first, I thought that this Hong Kong and Taiwan star was just acting like a big star and not working hard. After filming for such a long time, everyone has figured it out. But it’s not that she doesn’t work hard. It’s just that this person’s memory is so impressive. She has a typical goldfish brain.
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Especially the next large line, which is very characteristic of the times, it is really difficult for her to memorize it and express it fluently.
"A!"
This time it was He Xin who acted as Shu Qi's partner outside the camera. When he warmly invited Shu Qi to eat the wild fruits he had just picked and was about to come down, he saw Shu Qi clasping her hands behind her back and glancing at the fruit in the basket on the ground.
Ye Guo, with a small face, rolled his eyelids, looked up at the teleprompter board behind the camera, and said seriously: "Liu Simeng, I'm not here to eat Ye Guo. I'm here to tell you that due to the Hongchunping incident, until now,
It has not been resolved so far, and the order in our company has been seriously affected! But now you are hiding in this tree to evade responsibility, which is extremely wrong!"
"Hmm!" (Fourth tone)
He Xin helped her praise her off camera.
Shu Qi continued to speak righteously: "Maybe this is your usual style? But as an educated young man, you should have the courage to stand up, accept criticism, and admit your mistakes..."
"Ugh!" (first sound)
Keep up the praise.
Shu Qi was obviously very dissatisfied with his carelessness and interruption of her words. He raised his head and raised his voice and said: "...asking for the forgiveness and help of comrades, continue to train yourself in the vast world!"
"Cut! Not bad! Change the plane." Lu Yue shouted.
Although Shu Qi's skill in memorizing lines is very touching, the tone and expression of the lines he just said were quite in line with the energetic state of the character at that time. Lu Yue, who has experienced as an educated youth, is quite satisfied.
Next, the camera position was adjusted again to take a shot of He Xin coming down from the tree while holding his hands.
In fact, this shot originally only required two camera changes. It was because Ms. Shu Qi needed a teleprompter that she had to change it three times to prevent the field staff from holding the teleprompter board into the shot.
But this is nothing to the director, as long as the performance is in place, it's OK.
Legend has it that Marlon Brando could never remember his lines. When he was performing, he was garbled and had no idea what he was talking about. It is said that during the post-production period, a voice actor with a voice very similar to his would be assigned to him according to his voice.
The dubbing is performed with lip-syncs.
Even the line in "The Godfather" where he petted a cat while talking to Bonasera, the funeral parlor owner who came to him for help, started with "I love America..." and was said to be the great opening of a great drama. In fact, at that time
He was cursing the director non-stop. He had agreed to find four technicians for him last night, but only two came. The key was that it didn't look good.
In this regard, our digital ladies and little freshmen in later generations are somewhat like Marlon Brando!