Chapter 69 Filming Matters
At almost nine o'clock in the morning, everyone had finished breakfast, and the crew officially started work.
Zhang Chen sat on the director's chair, and other positions were taken up one after another.
"Chen Xi, please adjust the shooting order. Put the surfing scene last and shoot the other scenes first today. In addition, you can arrange for a good surfer to tutor Teacher Binbin in the past two days to help her speed up as soon as possible. Get familiar with it.”
“Okay, director, I’ll make the arrangements.”
There is no need for a reason at all. Zhang Chen is both a producer and a director. He is the biggest in the crew. He can change the shooting plan as he wants.
The staff sent by China Film and Shanghai Film and Television did not raise any objections. It was the director’s business how to shoot, and they only had to supervise the use of the budget.
When Chen Xi ran to notify various departments, Fan Binbin also changed into new costumes.
The previous one was torn apart by Zhang Chen last night.
Zhang Chen was still sighing at that time, these businessmen were really evil-hearted, such expensive things would break with just a slight tug.
But Fan Binbin next to him thought more clearly than he did: "Oh shit, doesn't it make you more manly?"
Zhang Chen woke up from a dream, but he was superficial. He was indeed a professional and put the user's The mentality is all figured out.
If it can be broken, users will buy again, merchants will also increase sales, buyers are happy, and sellers are also happy. This is a real win-win!
On the contrary, if you keep talking about it, you will probably get a lot of bad reviews.
The more Zhang Chen thought about it, the more reasonable he felt, but he immediately reacted and pointed at himself in disbelief and asked, "Do you think I need to use this to show my manliness?"
Fan Binbin smiled and said nothing.
Zhang Chen was even more angry: "Sure enough, a monster is a monster. If you don't repent, don't run away. Eat my old grandson. No, eat my old grandson again~"
"Great Sage, have mercy on me." .”
……
The first scene we filmed today was the little boy’s scene.
The little boy has very few scenes. He picked up the helmet DV while playing on the beach, checked the contents, and then ran back to the village to call the adults.
Such a scene is not difficult to perform, and basically any child can complete it.
But in order to build a good relationship with the locals, they finally chose the grandson of the head of their small fishing village to play the role.
I was also given a reward of one thousand yuan.
Sure enough, no matter what you do, it all depends on relationships.
During the filming, many people in the village were watching. It turned out that someone in the village could star in the movie. If you can't witness such a big scene with your own eyes, no one will believe it for the rest of your life.
Many people think that filming is a very simple matter. Isn’t it just acting in front of the camera? I can do it.
But that’s not the case.
The camera lens is like a magical realm. Anyone placed in it will unconsciously bring about performance attributes.
The only difference is that some people are good at acting, and others cannot see the traces of their performances.
The same cannot be said for non-professional actors. They will be nervous. Even if they do a very simple thing, they will look awkward. Even if it is a shot of entering a door, they will be confused about whether to move the left foot first or the right foot first. foot.
Just like the little boy now, he was affected.
Coming to the beach to play, pick up shells and so on, this was something he would do every day, but under the gaze of the camera, his performance turned out to be very awkward and nondescript.
And he always looks at the camera subconsciously. Even if you tell him not to look at the camera and just pretend that the camera doesn't exist, he will still look at it subconsciously.
After failing several times in a row, everyone was quite helpless.
After another failure, Ning Hao found Zhang Chen.
"What should I do? This won't work."
Zhang Chen is also worried about this matter.
It is recognized in the industry that the two most difficult types of actors are child actors and animal actors.
The latter cannot understand human speech and cannot communicate. The former can understand it, but cannot express it accurately.
The crew of "Shark Beach" was all assembled at once.
To deal with such a situation, you cannot hit or scold, you can only coax.
Fortunately, Zhang Chen was a big internet director in his previous life. The biggest advantage of a big internet director is his good temper.
There is no way, as the Internet is big, the actors are most likely brought in by investors, and all of them have backgrounds. If you want these uncles to achieve the results you want, you can only coax them.
‘Coaxing’ in the Internet circle is equivalent to ‘training’.
Thinking of this, Zhang Chen already had an idea in his mind, "Look at me in a moment~"
He warned his good friend, and then Zhang Chen clapped his hands and deliberately said loudly: "Okay, I won't take this shot for now. , the cameraman shuts down, kid, come here, I need you to do me a favor.”
The little boy is not afraid of strangers. He stopped taking pictures now and became much more natural. He quickly came to Zhang Chen’s side. .
Zhang Chen took out a piece of chocolate: "Do you like this?"
The little boy looked at the chocolate and nodded.
"I lost a helmet on that beach. You are familiar with this area. Can you help me look for it? There is a camera on the helmet. If you find it, please help me see if the camera is still charged. I will give you this chocolate. It’s for you.”
Taking the chocolate, the little boy happily went to find the helmet.
Zhang Chen is right. He is very familiar with this beach. He plays here basically every day and knows every plant and tree here.
The little boy was wandering on the beach and soon found the helmet scattered on the beach.
He ran over happily, and there was indeed a camera above.
By the way, the uncle said he wanted to see if the camera had power.
There is a waterproof cover on the camera, but children have very strong hands-on skills and quickly removed it and then turned it on to play the video inside.
There is actually nothing in the video, the scenes in the movie will not be synthesized until later. All Zhang Chen wanted was the action of turning on the phone.
After tinkering for a while, the little boy ran towards Zhang Chen with his helmet in hand.
"The helmet was found. I checked the camera and it seems that the battery is out of power."
Zhang Chen did not answer, but looked behind the little boy.
Ning Hao from behind made an 'OK' gesture, indicating that everything was fine.
"Thank you."
Zhang Chen took the helmet and watched the replay, and found that there was indeed no problem.
"Okay, this shot has passed."
......
Under the umbrella
When Zhang Chen and the others were filming the child scene, Fan Binbin was fine and hid under the umbrella. Read the script.
It is not the previous kind of script, but a storyboard script.
This was the first time she had seen the storyboard of "Shark Beach". Zhang Chen had only sent him an ordinary script before.
To be honest, she was really shocked.
After so many years of filming, she has met a lot of directors, but there are really not many who draw storyboards. Like Zhang Chen, she has never seen anyone with such a perfect storyboard. .
Fan Binbin flipped through page after page, realizing that this thing is very expressive.
Just reading the script, many scenes that I had no idea about before are now clear.
Fan Binbin had a clear understanding of where to shoot and how she should behave.
At the same time, I felt happy for the decision I had made.
I made the right bet this time.
Before, I only read the script, and I really couldn’t tell whether the play was good or bad.
The plot can be said in one sentence. It is the story of a girl who came to the beach where her parents were dating to surf, was attacked by a shark, trapped in the sea, and finally used a sea buoy to kill the shark.
It's so simple that it can't arouse any interest.
Shark movies are the most popular monster movies made in recent years, and this genre is almost exhausted.
And the special effects are almost all the same, which makes people complain.
But now after seeing the footage, she is inexplicably full of confidence in this drama.
If nothing else, just looking at the split shots can give people a sense of urgency. If it were shot in a movie, the effect would definitely be better.
Fan Binbin is full of expectations.
Before coming, she also learned from Mr. Wang what Zhang Chen said to Han Sanping that day.
The box office exceeds 100 million?
Fan Binbin didn’t dare to think about it, but he was actually looking forward to it.
At present, there seem to be only two Zhang Yimou films in China that have a box office of over 100 million. If I can become the heroine of a blockbuster film with a box office of over 100 million, and be the only heroine, then I can surpass the other films of Si Dan Shuang Bing. Five were left behind.
At that time, I could become an actor on the same level as Zhang Ziyi. At least in terms of commercial performance, they were in the same league.
"Okay, this scene is over, the actors are ready to start the next scene immediately~"
Zhang Chen's voice spread throughout the beach through the loudspeaker, Fan Binbin stood up and took off his clothes Sun protection clothing, it's her turn to wait.
Ten minutes later, the camera lights were adjusted.
Executive Director: "Quiet in the audience, turn on the camera, real shooting."
Camera operator and sound engineer: "rolling."
Scene notes: ""Shark Beach" scene 31, first shot."
Director: "action!"
Three seconds Afterwards, the actors began to perform.
Today's scene is actually the continuation of yesterday's scene. The heroine has just arrived at Shark Beach, changed her clothes, and is preparing to surf for the first time.
Roll up your wrists and put on your Casio waterproof watch.
Ning Hao gave the waterproof watch a close-up. After all, he was a sponsor, so he had to give him enough shots.
Zhang Chen has a very professional ethics and takes money to do things, and he is also thinking about his 20 million step sponsorship fee.
Like the original work, Zhang Chen also described some details of surfing, such as waxing a surfboard.
The surface of an ordinary hard surfboard is smooth and has no friction. In order to increase friction, the surfboard needs to be waxed.
The function of surfboard wax is exactly the opposite of that of car wax. Board wax produces rough and frictional surface particles, allowing surfers to stand firmly on it when in the water.
A waxed surfboard can effectively increase the friction between the human body and the board body, making it non-slip and stable. It is more stable to stand on the board and it is easier to sit upright when sitting on the surfboard.
These things are actually dispensable, but the success or failure of a movie is often determined by the details.
And the waxing process can be used to get a close-up of the surfboard, so the advertisement can be embedded without leaving any trace.
The audience will not be bored because the waxer is a beautiful woman with a good figure to watch.
In the distant sea, there were already two people playing with the waves, it was Cao Bingkun and another actor.
Originally, another surfer, Zhang Chen, was going to let Ning Hao play, which would be considered his screen debut.
But I gave up after the audition. This guy’s image was too bad and his figure was not good either.
(End of this chapter)