Yuan Heping followed the crew members down from the bus, looking at the tanks ready to go, and the dense soldiers. When I raised my eyes and looked ahead, I saw hundreds of small red flags planted within two or three kilometers of the front of the troops. He has been in the crew for a few days, has some understanding of fireworks, and knows that each small red flag represents a bombing point. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart, hundreds of explosive points, this is a real big scene!

The duel between Yan Shuangying and Ruan Xiong has been filmed, but the film has not been sent for washing, and I don't know how the shooting effect will be. He had to wait until the sample was washed out, and Xu Wangqiu nodded before he could return to Xiangjiang. He knew that the crew was going to shoot a big scene that had been prepared for more than ten days today, and he heard that it would use an advanced equipment that was not available abroad for filming, so he followed to take a look.

Xu Wangqiu didn't care about Yuan Heping, and after arriving at the scene, he asked the people from Beihang to hang Zhang Erzan's camera on the cableway and connect the camera to the monitor. Today's scene was also shot by six cameras at the same time, and the most important shot was the aerial shot of the ropeway system.

The play "Falcon" has several scenes that are particularly difficult to shoot, including two scenes of our army charging.

One of the shots was an aerial shot of our troops charging at the Vietnamese positions under the cover of tanks. The whole thing is done through the ropeway camera system, and the camera is pushed forward, and there are explosions and dust along the way. After the camera moves forward for nearly 500 meters, the camera pans up to prepare for the Vietnamese position. At this time, the Vietnamese army's position was covered by our artillery fire, and the explosion points exploded one after another, and the flames soared into the sky. This is a long shot of more than a minute, and there are rules for when each explosion point will explode, and the pyrotechnician and the camera must work well to achieve the desired effect.

Another shot is a simulation of the flight path of our artillery shells, flying from our positions to enemy positions. In many costume films, there are shots that simulate the flight trajectory of bows and arrows, which looks very shocking. When Soviet director Bondarchuk was filming "War and Peace", he thought about making the camera simulate the flight of a cannonball. However, due to technical limitations, there are scenes in "War and Peace" that simulate the flight of shells, but the flight distance is very short, only a few tens of meters. What Xu Wangqiu wanted was to fly directly from our army's position to the Vietnamese army's position, and the flight distance was relatively long, which was also the fundamental reason why he asked Beihang to help him make a model aircraft.

What will be shot today is the first shot, the aerial shot that will be done by the ropeway photography system. In order to shoot this scene, the crew prepared for ten days. It took three days to set up the ropeway system; it took three days to set up the bombing points; in addition to the pyrotechnic division brought by Yu Ze, an engineer company was also dispatched, otherwise it would have taken seven or eight days to arrange the more than 500 explosive points; and then a tank regiment and two infantry regiments participating in the performance spent four days rehearsing.

At first, Xu Wangqiu's idea was to shoot according to the real scene, and we could shoot what our army looked like when it was charging, but when I pulled the troops to the scene for drills, I found that it was not possible at all. In the movie, the formation of the tank charge is often relatively dense and looks very imposing, but in reality, the distance between the tanks is very long, 3,40 meters, which looks sparse. If the tank is too close, it can be easily destroyed by the enemy's concentrated heavy fire.

The crew pulled the cableway system to an altitude of more than 20 meters and found that there were few tanks in the shot. The infantry is the same, because the infantry is coordinated when charging, they are basically around the tank, and there are not many people in the shot. Originally, I hoped to shoot the momentum of thousands of troops, but it turned out that there was no momentum at all.

Xu Wangqiu felt that he couldn't shoot according to the real situation, and he had to make the formation of the charge denser. After all, this is a movie, it is for the audience to see, not a documentary. However, if you make the team denser, you can't be blind, if you charge like "Tai Chi Flag Flying" and "My War", it will simply insult the audience's IQ. If the line was so dense, the people behind would not be able to shoot. If you shoot, you'll kill your own people.

After repeated adjustments and observations, the distance between the tanks was finally adjusted to ten meters. In this way, the audience can see what is going on with the coordinated operation of Butan, and at the same time can shoot the momentum.

In recent days, Zhang Erzan and his team have repeatedly debugged the ropeway system, hung up cameras, and connected monitors, and they have become very proficient. It only took more than 10 minutes to hang the camera in the air and connect the monitor.

Xu Wangqiu beckoned to Yuan Heping: "Old Yuan, come and see our equipment!" and said to Zhang Yimou and Zeng Lianping: "Old Mou, old Zeng, come and see the high-tech equipment we have developed!"

The cableway photography system appeared in the eighties, and the domestic use of the cableway photography system will not be until 2000, and Yuan Heping naturally cannot see it. He walked over to the monitor and found that it was an overhead shot, and the content was nothing else, the shooting location in front of him. Yuan Heping looked at the camera overhead, then at the monitor screen, and said dumbfounded: "The camera is moving on the track, we can directly see what the camera shoots below?"

Xu Wangqiu smiled: "Yes, how about it, this equipment is good, right?"

Yuan Heping couldn't help but say: "This is too advanced, imported from the United States, right?

Xu Wangqiu said with a smile: "It's not imported, it's developed by ourselves, and the United States doesn't have this kind of equipment." ”

Yuan Heping had the impression that China was very poor and backward, and how could he come up with such advanced equipment, and he really couldn't believe it: "You can't be joking, right? You have come up with advanced technology that the United States does not have." ”

Xu Wangqiu smiled faintly: "It's true that China is very poor, and there is a big gap with foreign countries, but in the field of science and technology, the gap between us and foreign countries is not so big." What the Americans can do, we can basically do, but there is a gap in technology. It's no surprise that we can come up with one or two things that the United States doesn't have. ”

Yuan Heping gave a thumbs up and said, "You guys are really awesome! He looked up at the camera on the ropeway, then at the explosion point in front of him, and said sincerely: "The soldiers and tanks rush forward, the track moves forward, and I don't know how shocking the shot is." Hollywood can't shoot such a shot. ”

Zhang Yimou and Zeng Lianping had never seen such advanced equipment, and they couldn't help but sigh: "This is too advanced! You can see the captured picture directly through the TV." "With this thing, the director can see the picture directly, and then it will be much easier to make a movie. ”

At the same time, the rest of the crew was constantly busy, and the pyrotechnician began to set up explosive points on the tank.

At the same time that our army was charging at the positions of the Vietnamese army, the Vietnamese army was also shooting a counterattack, and naturally our tanks would be hit. There are two ways to shoot a tank being hit, one is to use a model, and the other is to use a real tank. "Falcon" will be used in both shooting methods, and today we are going to shoot a tank that was hit in high-speed propulsion, and there was no way to use a model, so a real tank was used.

This kind of explosion can only be effective, it is impossible to really blow up the tank. In fact, it is not difficult to make this explosive effect, and it is mainly achieved by adding gunpowder to refined naphthalene powder. Put the gunpowder into a plastic bag and insert an electric squib, then put the gunpowder into a plastic bag filled with refined naphthalene powder, put the bag in, and place it in the place where it needs to explode. To set the mood, sprinkle some toner around the sides of the packet. When shooting, the detonation point can perfectly represent the effect of a tank being shot.

In an hour, the shooting was ready. However, Xu Wangqiu did not rush to shoot live, but let all the cast and crew take place for the last rehearsal. Under the cover of more than 100 tanks, the soldiers of the two regiments rushed towards the "Vietnamese army" position, and the roar of the tanks and the shouts of the soldiers were intertwined, and the ground shook and the mountains shook, which was thrilling.

At the same time, five photographers, dressed in military uniforms, carried cameras and tested shots from different angles. Some people sit on tanks and shoot our troops charging forward from the perspective of tanks, some people follow behind the tanks to shoot, and some people stand in front of our troops to shoot. Xu Wangqiu gave Zeng Nianping and Zhang Yimou the freedom to shoot, allowing them to carry the camera on the set like a real war photographer. Xu Wangqiu believes that in this way, the shots will be more realistic, and they will move people's hearts.

After the rehearsal, Xu Wangqiu asked the participating fighters to rest in place. He called Jiang Ze and the people from the fireworks team over to ask about the soldiers' running positions just now, and then called Zhang Yimou and the five other photographers over to ask them what they had observed.

After receiving an affirmative answer, Xu Wangqiu knew that filming could officially start. He exhaled softly, picked up the bullhorn and shouted, "Prepare for each group." Now we're ready for the real shot. Five minutes to prepare!"

Unrelated personnel exited the filming area, the staff were in place, and all the troops and tanks participating in the performance were in place. At the same time, the engineer company removed the red flag from the bombing point, and the pyrotechnic team turned on the power supply to the explosion point.

Soon Yu Ze reported to Xu Wangqiu that the six lead explosion zones and the seven remote-controlled explosion zones were all ready, and they could officially start shooting. Hui Wangqiu immediately contacted the various teams to ascertain whether the communication was smooth.

The scene of this shooting was particularly large, there were many bombs, and it was very important that communication was unimpeded. If a certain area is not communicated and is not detonated in time, then the whole shooting is nullified. In order to shoot this scene well, the crew not only equipped walkie-talkies, but also prepared 884 radio stations. Because there are hundreds of explosion points on the opposite hillside to be detonated, and these explosion points are detonated by the pyrotechnic team on the hillside. Due to the distance, the walkie-talkie signal could not be transmitted that far, and the command could only be issued through the radio.

Since childhood, most boys have a dream of being a general in their hearts, imagining that one day they will be able to fight on the battlefield and fight the world. Of course, Xu Wangqiu is no exception, and this is the reason why he likes to make war movies.

At this moment, Xu Wangqiu looked at the tank group in front of him and the soldiers who were ready to go, and he really had the pride of commanding thousands of troops and horses to charge into battle. He exhaled softly and commanded loudly with a walkie-talkie: "One minute ready!"