The first script seminar was successfully held, which doubled Zuo Le's confidence. In the next two days, he held two more meetings. The better the actors understood the characters, the better the atmosphere within the crew became.
At the same time, Fatty Chen and the crew on the other side were also under the command of Zuo Le.
An idle warehouse in the Kongwen Art Center was converted into a temporary studio, where the main scenes required for "The Story of the Cooking Class" were built.
After the dormitory, stone benches and tables in front of the dormitory, operation room, dining room, wash basin in front of the dining room, company headquarters and other scenes are in place one after another.
It's time to start shooting "Story of the Cooking Class".
Because it was filmed inside Kongwen, the opening ceremony of "The Story of Cooking Class" was relatively low-key. A simple ceremony was held and a few promotional photos were taken before it was over.
However, although the ceremony was simple, the launch of "Story of the Cooking Class" was quite popular.
As Zuo Le's third sitcom, following the brilliant success of "Traffic Station", many media are very interested in this so-called first military-themed sitcom.
On the day of the start-up, there were more than two dozen media outlets, large and small, that spontaneously came over to cover the incident. In addition, the press team from the Information Department sent by Dongshan Station and the official media of the Air Force were contacted by Kongwen.
The small filming location of "Story of the Cooking Class" was so crowded with reporters that it turned into a press conference.
When he was filming "Traffic Stop No. 2", Zuo Le had already experienced such a hot scene where the media swarmed in, and he could still hold his mentality.
But those empty-text actors did not have Zuo Le's experience. Watching Zuo Le respond to many reporters' questions with a calm face, I felt admiration and admiration in my heart.
Director Zuo deserves to be a famous director, with this eloquent manner
stable!
But soon, Zuo Le lost control.
It's not that Zuo Le is timid, it's that there are too many reporters for him to handle alone.
Zuo Le ran to the group of actors, pulled out Hong Tao and the leading actors, and asked them to help him share the reporter's interviews. At the same time, he also asked them to come out and show their faces in front of the media, gain some news traffic, and expand their reputation.
Zuo Le has a good impression of these cast members who have been selected by himself. Within the scope of his ability, he doesn't mind helping a few people.
Therefore, in front of many reporters, Zuo Le praised the actors in "The Story of the Cooking Class" with such praise that Hong Tao and others nearby felt a little embarrassed.
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After seeing off the reporters, Hong Tao and others came over to express their gratitude to Zuo Le. Apparently everyone understood that Zuo Le had just intended to praise them in front of the media.
Zuo Le accepted everyone's gratitude calmly, but did not make a fuss about it.
Perhaps this matter may benefit Hong Tao and others a lot, but for Zuo Le, it is just a trivial effort. If he cares too much, he will lose his original intention and appear hypocritical.
It was already noon, and Zuo Le simply invited everyone to have lunch. The meals for the "Story of the Cooking Class" crew were specially provided by Kongwen Canteen. The taste may not be as good as the stir-fries outside, but it is much better than the big pot lunches, and it is absolutely delicious.
Safe and nutritious.
Zuo Le sat on his folding chair, holding a lunch box in his hand, and turned around to chat with several of the leading actors.
"Brother Hong, how are you and Brother Zhou practicing your spoon and knife skills? There will be a scene in the operation room in two days. You two, don't let it down."
In the cooking class, squad leader Pang Hong and deputy squad leader Lao Gao are the chefs and are responsible for cooking. Da Zhou and Xiao Jiang also work part-time cutting vegetables in addition to their duties of purchasing and pickling pickles. This requires the four of them to have certain cooking skills.
Art foundation.
Xiao Jiang is a new recruit in the script and can still improve slowly, but the other three are veterans who have been in the kitchen for a long time. If they can't even hold a kitchen knife and an iron pot, then this cooking class will become a joke.
Therefore, when deciding on the actors, Zuo Le asked several people to practice their skills at home in order to prepare for the filming of the kitchen scenes.
Among them, Fan Min knows how to cook, and I heard that he cooks all the meals at home, so he has no problem performing kitchen scenes. Jiang Chao also has some basic skills, and the script's setting of new recruits is enough to cope with it.
Therefore, what worries Zuo Le the most is Hong Tao and Zhou Binbin. These two men are both masters of spring water, and their cooking skills are only at the stage of cooking noodles.
Oh yes, Zhou Binbin can also roll out dumpling skins and make dumplings, but other than that, if you ask him to cut potatoes, he can't do it well.
Therefore, Zuo Le is more concerned about this matter. In the cooking class, you can't just let the chef make noodles every day, and the chopping staff just gesture with a radish but don't use the knife.
Even if you can fool him like this once or twice, if you do it too much, the secret will be exposed. You must know that in Zuo Le's version of the script, there will be as many as one-fifth of the scenes in the operation room.
There are many scenes where the cooks are performing in the operating room while working. If you don't know how to cook and just stand there talking and talking, it's very easy to get into trouble.
During the previous seminar, Zuo Le talked about the filming method of the kitchen scene. Hong Tao and Hong Tao knew the importance of this matter. When they heard
Zuo Le asked, and Hong Tao immediately raised his head from the lunch box.
"It's absolutely no problem, director. In addition to reading scripts these days, I just go to the kitchen and practice cooking and chopping vegetables. My skills are now very good. If you don't believe me, ask Binbin."
"I can testify."
Zhou Binbin put on a serious expression: "After many days of hard training, Mr. Hong's cooking and knife skills have improved rapidly. Now I invite someone to watch him cook, and I think he is a five-star chef."
but………"
"But what?" Gao Xinjian complimented him appropriately.
"However, Teacher Hong's cooking style is very intimidating, but it's all about appearance. You can see it but not eat it. That day I risked my life and took a bite. Oh my god, the taste was so crazy that I was so disgusted that I couldn't eat properly for two or three days.
"
"Ha ha ha ha."
Everyone around was laughing, and Hong Tao himself was also laughing.
Zhou Binbin has a straightforward and humorous personality and likes to make fun of others. He is the happy fruit of the crew. During this time, almost everyone, including Zuo Le, was teased by him.
What is amazing is that none of the parties involved who were ridiculed and shunned by Zhou Binbin never became angry with him because of this, and even had a closer relationship with him.
"It doesn't matter if it tastes bad. I just want to live like this. Brother Zhou, don't talk about me. How are you?" Zuo Le stopped laughing and asked Zhou Binbin.
"It's no problem. I've practiced my knife skills very hard during this period. I can cut up several sacks of radishes and potatoes. Now my kitchen knife is even better than my wife's. I don't dare to compete with professional cooks. It's definitely enough for filming."
"become."
Zuo Le stretched out his thumb, looked at Sha Yi again, and said: "Sha'er, you can't just knead the dough with that Bai Ben. When you have time, check online to see if there are any pasta tutorials, learn how to make noodles, ramen or something, so as to save the time."
monotonous."
Sha Yi nodded: "I will find some tutorials and follow them when I get back."
"Okay, everyone, eat quickly and take a rest. We will start shooting on time at 1:30."
Zuo Le said hello, and everyone stopped talking and started to concentrate on eating.
