Qi Yuan came on April 2nd, stayed for five days, and in the early morning of April 7th, he ran to the airport and went back - as the heroine of a medium-investment costume drama, she was able to leave for five days halfway, which is already a big face. Fortunately, it was not a big heroine.

The crew is getting better, and the shooting is getting faster and faster.

At first, Peng Xiangming was very cautious and filmed slowly, but with the foundation of the previous two short films, the crew gradually completed the run-in, and the actors basically found the right direction, his shooting progress soon began to accelerate - faster and faster, so fast that it was not at all like the speed that a newcomer should have.

At first, everyone didn't think there was anything abnormal, but when the third scene took five days in the shooting plan, Peng Xiangming only took three days to complete all the shooting, and everyone noticed the abnormality.

An Minzhi came to him twice and said, "Don't worry, shoot slowly, we have plenty of time, we signed a 95-day schedule, the actors' time is also very generous, and the budget is enough, I'll check it, you don't have to worry about overspending or anything! ”

Peng Xiangming didn't think about it at first, and simply explained a few words, how to shoot and how to shoot.

But soon, seeing that the progress of his shooting was still fast, Xu Jingwei couldn't help it, took the initiative to find him, and asked: "Don't you need to shoot more spare shots?

He said: "You're shooting in such a hurry now, it feels like you haven't shot every shot, can you be sure that when you edit in the future, you will use this kind of plan? Are you sure you won't regret it in the future?"

"I'm telling you, when it's time to edit, you'll find that although there are a lot of options, it's hard to choose. But there is only one plan to choose from, but you suddenly find that this plan does not satisfy you, and you will be even bigger!"

"So as a director, when filming, why do we call creation, that is, to create while working, and to shoot all kinds of ideas as much as possible, leaving enough creative space for future editing. ”

"Now I find that you only choose one solution for each shot, if you do this, there is too little material, although the shooting will be fast, but you must know that when you regret it in the future, you want to call these people back to make up the shots for you, and the expense will be even greater!"

Peng Xiangming completely understood what he meant.

even understood what An Minzhi meant by taking his own time before.

However, after pretending to think about it for a while, he replied to Xu Jingwei with certainty, "No, I already have every shot of this movie in my head, so I just need to shoot every shot I want and finish editing in the order in my head." I don't need more material. ”

Xu Jingwei was stunned for a long time when he heard this.

In the end, he chose to nod, a little suspicious, but he didn't dare to disbelieve it, so he said: "That's okay! I've never seen someone like you shoot like this with so much confidence!

If it were a different person, Xu Jingwei would be very disdainful and have a good fight with him, but Peng Xiangming would ...... Since the end of the Great Wall Award ceremony, Peng Xiangming's name of "genius" has spread all over the country.

For a "genius", he said that before the start of filming, he had already finished filming and editing the whole movie in his head, and now he just gathered you tools and "made" the finished shots that I needed in my head...... It's not impossible.

So he said no more, but observed very carefully.

In the process of filming like this, the director does not need to think and create temporarily, but according to his own requirements, he completely frames the actors and crew into his own framework to work, which he has really never encountered before - he is famous for his own filming, and he has to slowly shoot every story, every character and every shot repeatedly until he thoroughly understands it.

And Peng Xiangming, even for the actors' performances, does not give much room for self-play, but has a clear goal from the beginning, and strictly requires his actors to perform what they look like and feel.

This is, of course, greatly conducive to improving efficiency and saving shooting time and resources, but the actors are framed to death, completely wandering around the frame set by the director, and it is difficult to say what will be brilliant.

But in Xu Jingwei's view, the free play of the actors themselves under the framework of the plot is one of the most important charms of the movie!

Between the two people, it can be said that there is a serious philosophical disagreement.

And Xu Jingwei is very suspicious that Peng Xiangming will make a mess of paste in the end.

This kind of thing, of course, does not affect the friendship between the two people, and in respect of Peng Xiangming, Xu Jingwei is not in a hurry to criticize him, so it is absolutely not good.

He just carefully observed quietly from the sidelines, and tried to string these shots taken by Peng Xiangming into a line in his mind - but after only playing like this for less than two days, he couldn't.

Although there is a script, editing itself is another art.

If you ask a director, with the help of an editor, to finally combine a movie according to clues from thousands or even 2,000 minutes of various materials, it is originally a work that requires busy months, difficult choices and reorganizations in the face of various real pictures, and now there are no pictures, and it is purely dependent on brain fantasy to arrange and combine, and the brain is not enough at all!

As a result, he became more and more suspicious that Peng Xiangming could really "edit" the movie before filming started, as he said.

However, looking at Peng Xiangming's posture, he still insisted on shooting like this.

But what he doesn't know is that in Peng Xiangming's view, after the original version of "Infernal Affairs" was released, it certainly won a very high reputation and evaluation, but in the final analysis, it is still a commercial film through and through.

Among them, the actors' acting skills can be praised, but the core reason is actually the script, to act in this play well, for the actors, as long as the acting skills meet the standard, and then play normally according to the script.

played too "outstandingly", but it violated its positioning as a commercial film.

When the audience enters the cinema and sits for 100 minutes, they will and must fall in love with the actor's performance because of the excitement and climax of the story, and it should never fall in love with the story and the film because of the excellent performance of an actor.

This is a film where the whole is bigger than the parts.

Once the cart is turned upside down, the mistake of letting an actor "play well" will disrupt the narrative rhythm of the story.

It is precisely because he understands this very well in his heart that Peng Xiangming insists that every actor must be a "tool man", play in strict accordance with his own requirements, and not allow excessive giving.

Coupled with the blessing of the original in his head, Peng Xiangming does not need "other plans" at all, does not need to try all kinds of things, and does not need to shoot more spare materials.

For him, it's all over again.

Therefore, when he thought that he was in control of the crew and understood the work rhythm required for a healthy crew, he quickly pulled the entire shooting progress bar quickly.

There's no need to grind around at all.

Seventeen days after the start of filming, the crew actually finished filming for 30 days.

............

On April 15, Jiang Xianxian flew over.

She brought Peng Xiangming the final version of the album "Meet the Little Love Song" after all the post-processing, and handed it over to Peng Xiangming to decide whether it could be listed.

Of the ten songs in her first album, eight of them were recorded by Peng Xiangming when she was in Yanjing, and the other two, although they were completely handed over to Du Kaijie to supervise, but after the recording every day, she would always send the recording version to Peng Xiangming, and Peng Xiangming would comment on it and point out the shortcomings and directions, so in fact, it has always been handled according to Peng Xiangming's opinion.

This time, Peng Xiangming was basically satisfied with the final version after hearing it, but he asked for two places, and the sound was slightly overdone during the post-processing, and he asked to transfer some back, and there was no opinion on anything else.

It's all a minor issue.

In other words, it can basically be said that Jiang Xianxian's first solo album has been officially completed.

It's just a matter of going on sale.

Jiang Xianxian was of course relieved.

Whether it is Du Kaijie, the recording engineer, or Mr. He on the banner side, they all praise the quality of this album, in fact, since she got the songbook, she intuitively realized that this album will push herself to the peak that she never dared to think of before.

The more this is the case, the more she wants to improve the production.

Every song, every detail, as long as Peng Xiangming doesn't nod, she will definitely not pass, she must practice and adjust until Peng Xiangming nods and thinks it's very good.

She stayed here for two and a half days before leaving, and on the night she left, she said to Peng Xiangming: "Zhou Yujie's new album has been on the market for half a month, and at present, the results are actually not bad, and the overall sales should have exceeded four million copies, even if it hasn't passed, it's not much worse." ”

"But he himself should not be very satisfied, before he came to the recording studio to see me, with Brother Kaijie and us, several people had dinner together at noon, he was a little frustrated, said that it did not meet expectations, I listened to his feelings, he felt that it was his overall pattern of problems, restricting himself from continuing to go up. ”

Hearing these words, Peng Xiangming was confused.

Recently, he has indeed been very concentrated on putting all his energy into film shooting, and Zhou Yujie's new album has been released, and he has not even heard of it until now.

So he looked at Jiang Xianxian in puzzlement.

Jiang Xianxian said: "He asked me side-by-side, and asked me if you usually have a very fast creative speed. I think he means, maybe I want you to make it for him on the next album, don't let him be confused all of a sudden, think about it in your heart in advance. ”

Peng Xiangming suddenly realized.

The only experience I had with colds was that I took medicine and went to sleep, so I didn't do anything else for the past two days and went to sleep. I really feel better now. Strive to resume on-time updates tomorrow.

Thank you all for your volume, don't blame me.