Chapter 10 One hundred dollars a day
At 7:30 in the morning, the crew handed out breakfast, including a plain egg, a steamed bun, and a cup of soy milk.
The reason why I didn't post my hair before putting on makeup was because it was too early. The extras ate early and got hungry quickly. They would start to scream before noon.
Breakfast is served at 7:30 and lunch is served at 12:30. This is almost the default rule of the crew.
If you work overtime, dinner is at six o'clock.
However, few production crews allow extras to work overtime. Not only is the overtime pay not worth it, they also have to pay for meals.
Some crews who are strapped for funds will dismiss extra performers at 4:50, because after 5 o'clock it counts as overtime.
After eating and drinking, Qinchuan pulled a piece of grass on the roadside and put it in his mouth. He found a corner of the palace eaves and lay down, and began to rehearse the waiter's play in his mind.
He knew that it would not be his turn for a while.
It is normal for young actors to put on their makeup in the morning and only take pictures of themselves in the afternoon. Sometimes there are too many NGs on the part of the lead actor, and all the subsequent extra scenes have to be postponed until tomorrow.
At eight o'clock, the leading actors and supporting actors arrived one after another, but the crew still had no intention of starting filming.
The director is not in a hurry, and the extras are even less anxious. They wish they could not shoot for a whole day, and now they are all in one place, which is so cool.
Qin Chuan was still thinking about his role when his roommate Zhou Haopeng came over.
"Congratulations, Xiao Qin. You've been a perfect match-up since you came up. You have a bright future."
Qin Chuan stood up: "Good luck, will Brother Peng be replaced by Hu Jun today?"
"How do you know?" Zhou Haopeng was a little surprised.
He was a stand-in on the set, but instead of being a stand-in for someone, Qin Chuan could actually tell at a glance that he was Hu Jun today.
Qin Chuan smiled and said, "Your outfit has Qiao Feng's temperament."
There are not many characters with disheveled hair, a long coarse cloth dress, a leather belt around the waist, and wristbands on the hands.
In the memory of another world, Qiao Feng played by Hu Jun is just like this, exactly the same.
"Really? You can tell this?" Zhou Haopeng adjusted his collar and smiled from ear to ear.
"Hu Jun really doesn't know martial arts?" Qin Chuan asked his doubts.
This version of Tian Long Ba Bu is recognized as the only one that can compete with the 1997 version. Some people think it even surpasses the old version.
Because the conditions when the old version was shot were not good, the set was in a mess, and the waterfalls were all made of plastic bags.
There are six or seven sects photographed at the entrance of a Shaolin Temple. The plaques change, one is Shaolin, the other is Wudang, and the other is Shanzhuang.
The picture quality back then was poor and not as mature as it is now.
The martial arts, photography, casting, framing, and post-production of this version are all top-notch.
People like Hu Jun, Liu Yifei, Liu Tao, and Lin Zhiying all have a certain degree of popularity.
A few years later, this version of Tian Long Ba Bu has also become one of the classics, and the wonderful martial arts in it are also talked about.
But few people know that the protagonist Hu Jun does not know martial arts and cannot do backflips.
"Is it strange that he is a literary and opera actor but doesn't know martial arts?" Zhou Haopeng said with a smile: "It's not just him, most of the protagonists in the crew don't know martial arts, and neither does Lin Zhiying."
"But Xiu Qinhui is the one who plays Murong Fu. He was also a martial artist in his early days, but now he has made it through and has played a role."
It is not difficult to hear the envy in Zhou Haopeng's mouth.
For the same Wu Tai, others are already prominent, but he is still unknown.
In terms of kung fu, he is no better than Xiu Qinshi. He has been practicing kung fu since he was a child, and has been a martial arts student on stage for ten years. He is an expert in singing, chanting, sitting and fighting.
Just doesn't look good.
This is a flaw.
"Brother Peng, do you know how much a day extra cost?" Qin Chuan didn't know today's salary yet, so he didn't ask the assistant director.
Zhou Haopeng was sore again: "Normally it's about a hundred yuan. It depends on how many lines you have. The more lines you have, the higher the money will be."
There are many extras in the crew, and it is easy to recruit people. There are many people in the nearby villages.
But there are only a few actors in the cast, and the supporting roles are basically filled by them. They often act in roles, and if you are lucky, you can even get small supporting roles.
Although Wu Tai also makes a lot of money, he earns hard money and eats youth food. His room for advancement is limited and cannot be compared with that of a minor player.
Qin Chuan's eyes lit up: "Three thousand a month, not bad." Zhou Haopeng's mouth twitched, "Three thousand, not bad?"
Eighty percent of the people in the country cannot earn 3,000 yuan a month, and college students only earn 1,200 yuan a month.
"The cast assembles!"
"Ready to start shooting!"
While the two were talking, the assistant director shouted with a loudspeaker.
Qin Chuan stood up quickly: "I'm going over there, let's talk later."
There is no call sheet for extras and extras, so they won't know what scenes they will be shooting on the first day and what time they will be shot.
The assistant director can only be on call.
In the industry, whether it is extras or extras, they are just props to accompany the protagonist.
"Has the manager of Yanbei Inn arrived?"
"Here."
"The waiter!"
"Here!" Qin Chuan raised his hand and jogged a few steps to the assistant director.
The assistant director looked him over.
I can't help it, the waiter in this shop is really handsome.
"Closer shot, where are the actors in the close shot?"
"Coming."
"Vision!"
After a while, everyone except the protagonist was in place.
"Let's go rehearse first and practice our moves. We'll start shooting after the meeting and try to get it right."
Dozens of people arrived at Yanbei Inn.
There were three machines on site, one for exterior shots and two for interior shots.
The exterior shots were shot on the street, and the interior shots were shot inside the inn.
The extras responsible for the long shots were walking around on the street, the ones responsible for the close shots were drinking and eating in the inn, and the ones responsible for the supporting roles were Qin Chuan and a fat uncle in his forties, one of whom was a waiter and the other was the shopkeeper.
With a white rag draped over his shoulders, Qin Chuanhou was waiting at the counter for the assistant director to speak.
A few minutes later, Hu Jun, who plays the male lead, walked in.
He is in his early thirties, with a towering height of 1.85 meters, thick eyebrows, big eyes, a high nose and a wide mouth, and a square face.
Coupled with his ancient costume, he looks exactly like Qiao Feng himself.
Seeing Hu Jun, the assistant director put on a smile and greeted him: "Teacher Hu, why did you come here in person? You can just arrange for someone to do such a small thing as rehearsing and moving."
It's not the official start of filming yet, it's just a rehearsal before the start of filming, mainly for the extras and extras.
There is really no need for Hu Jun.
Find someone to take his place, and when the rehearsal is complete, he can come over and follow the line.
"It's okay. If you have nothing to do, you have nothing to do. I'll come over to familiarize myself with the environment and the camera position. If there's nothing else, let's start lining up."
"Okay, let's get started. Your shot starts from the street at the entrance, and moves over here..."
The assistant director accompanied Hu Jun out. Inside the inn, Qin Chuan followed the instructions of the director of photography and started walking.
"The camera is here. You have to walk over there later and be careful when you walk to the table. Don't block Teacher Hu's lens."
"Keep your body sideways so that you can neither block his camera position nor his light. After serving the food, go back the way you came. Don't look at the camera during the process, and don't act artificial."
"You come and rehearse."
Not acting according to the script and forcing yourself to add drama is a plot in the novel.
In reality, if you don't act according to the rehearsal and the director gets angry, you can expect to be fired.
This is an example in Zhou Xingchi's The King of Comedy. Yin Tianchou was shot to death as an extra, and he was unable to survive. In the end, the whole group's time was wasted and they didn't get to eat their lunches.
(End of chapter)