The first two sessions on Thursday morning were film plays, one of the three main courses in the directing department. Film drama is from freshman to junior year, a total of 608 hours. Akira Kurosawa once said that if you want to make a movie, then write a script. Writing a script is very important for young directors, and it is only through writing a script that they can understand the details of the structure of the film and the essence of the film.

Since it was not yet time for class, Xu Wangqiu sat in the back of the classroom and bragged, telling Liu Lin and them about Merimei, telling them about "The Godfather", and telling them about the Sicilian tradition of revenge involving blood relatives.

Liu Lin and the others were listening attentively, Xie Fei walked into the classroom and beckoned to Xu Wangqiu: "Wangqiu, come here!"

Xie Fei is not a teacher of film drama, but a teacher of introduction to art. Xu Wangqiu knew that Xie Fei would definitely not be looking for him at this time, but that there was news from "Hoe Rape", so he immediately walked out quickly.

Xie Fei pulled Xu Wangqiu into the corridor and said depressedly: "Last night, the people from Beijing Film Studio came to me, and they told me that the script of "Hoe Rape" was rejected by the Art Management Association, and they said that the movie was not made like this, and our idea was completely nonsense!"

Xu Wangqiu simply had the urge to hit the wall, if he said that the subject matter was sensitive, or he was not optimistic, he could accept it, but he didn't expect the other party to say that handheld photography was nonsense, which was too nonsense, and said speechlessly: "Beijing Film Studio is really too conservative, handheld photography is not a new thing, there have been movies of this style abroad for a long time." ”

Xie Fei couldn't help but say: "Yes, I also told them that there are movies made abroad like this." But as soon as they said that foreign countries are foreign countries and China is China, they pushed me back. The Arts Management Committee has already said that this is nonsense, and it is useless for me to say anything more. ”

Xu Wangqiu knew that Beijing Film Studio had always been known for being conservative, and it was normal for them to accept the too trendy filming method of "Hoe Rape", so he exhaled and said: "Beijing Film Studio doesn't shoot anymore, it's not our loss to miss such a movie, but their loss, let's find other factories." Let's go to the Magic Studio, the story of "The Rape" itself takes place in the magic capital, and the cooperation with the magic film studio is actually the best, the equipment, actors, and props are all available in the magic studio, which can save a lot of things. ”

Xie Fei frowned and said, "No one else has seen our movie style, what if the Magic Shadow Factory also thinks we are fooling around?"

Xu Wangqiu nodded slightly, this is indeed a problem. He remembered that in the previous life, Zhang Yimou and the others filmed "One and Eight", using irregular composition, but the leaders of the Guangxi Film Factory were very dissatisfied after watching the samples, saying that this kind of eccentric composition was what Mingtang was doing? The picture is so dark, will it be filmed in the end? Even the actors are not in the picture, how will they look when they pick it up in the future? Inform them quickly, and honestly follow the rules, otherwise they will stop me. In the end, it was Guo Baochang who kept the film under pressure, and the fifth generation of directors was born. Later, Guo Baochang filmed "The Gate of the Mansion", and Zhang Yimou and they all made cameos, just to repay their gratitude.

The style of "Hoe Rape" is stronger than that of "One and Eight", and the leaders of the Shadow Studio may not be able to accept it.

Xu Wangqiu pondered for a few seconds and then said, "Well, don't we have a camera! Let's use the camera to shoot a few scenes, including war scenes, and then cut them together." We took the footage to the school, and then the school came forward to contact the studio. This is more likely to be successful. ”

"This is a good way!" Xie Fei's eyes lit up, but he immediately realized that this method was very difficult to operate, "Filming war scenes requires pyrotechnics, guns, and explosives, which our school doesn't have." ”

Xu Wangqiu said with a smile: "We are not real shooting, we can use a toy gun, or even a wooden stick as a gun." The main thing is to let them see what's going on with our lens, see how our lens is moving. There are a lot of masters in the Shadow Studio, as long as they see our footage, they will know that we are not fooling around. ”

Xie Fei nodded and said, "That's the only way to do it!"

In fact, many young foreign directors rely on similar methods to get ahead, such as making short films into film festivals and competing in film festivals, or through other methods to let people in film companies see them. After seeing the director's short film, if the film company thinks that the idea of the film is okay, and the director himself is also very skilled, it may invest in the director to make the short film into a feature film.

Many young directors in Hollywood emerged through this method, such as Wen Ziren, who first made "Chainsaw" into a short film, and after winning Lionsgate's favor, he successfully made the movie into a feature film. The same is true of "Burst Drummer", which was first recognized at film festivals, then received investment from film companies, and finally the hugely successful "Burst Drummer".

However, it is not easy to get investment from a film company, not only must the story be good, but the director must also have enough skills. The audio-visual language of the movie can't deceive people, and the director knows if he has the level to look at the lens. Just like "This Man is from Earth" is a god film in many people's mouths, but why is there no film company to praise this director? Because this film is praised mainly for the good story, but the director's level is actually not very good.

Xu Wangqiu knows this truth very well, since his clips are shown to connoisseurs, the most important thing is the audio-visual language, as well as the scheduling of actors, which can best show the director's level.

After repeated weighing, Xu Wangqiu picked two scenes from "The Rape", one is a war scene and the other is a scene of a prisoner carjacking. The war scene is mainly to show the feasibility of hand-held photography, while the scene of the carjacking is mainly a moving zoom lens.

Mobile zoom is Hitchcock's great invention and first appeared in the 1958 film Ecstasy. In the film, Hitchcock shapes the staircase into a mysterious and magical alien space through moving zoom, allowing the audience to intuitively experience the fear and dizziness of heights through the perspective of the male protagonist.

The way to move zoom is as simple as putting the camera on the rail and pulling the railcar back while shooting, while the camera lens is pushed forward, or the railcar is pushed forward and the lens is retracted.

As long as it is executed properly, the size of the subject in the frame can remain the same, while the background perspective will change drastically, and it seems to be constantly moving closer or farther away from the subject, the effect is extremely strong and blurry, so it is only suitable for important moments of the plot, and the shift zoom is often used for the person in the lens who is surprised by what he sees and knows, or is in a state of stun, and is also used to express strong emotions, such as anger, obsession, love, paranoia, fear, and the situation after medication.

This technique has not only become the proud technique of Hitchcock's later works, but has also been learned and adopted by many well-known directors, such as Spielberg's "Jaws", which uses the method of moving zoom to express the extreme panic of the characters, and Scorsese's "Goodfellas" uses mobile zoom to imply that the world is changing.

Xu Wangqiu's use of mobile zoom is also for this purpose, the hoe and rape team disguised themselves as a film and camera team, deployed on the road where the prisoner car passed, and prepared to rob the prisoner car, but because the guns were not in place, the hoe and rape team did not dare to move, so they could only watch the convoy drive. The use of mobile zoom is to highlight the strong uneasiness in Zhou Hanting's heart, because he knows that it will be impossible to miss this opportunity and try to save a few more comrades, but it is impossible for him to save people without enough weapons, so not only can he not save people, but he will also put the entire hoe team into it. He could only endure the anger and unwillingness in his heart and watch his comrades go away.

However, Xu Wangqiu's mobile zoom is different from that of Hitchcock and Spielberg, whose mobile zoom moves the camera forward and backward, and vertically, while Xu Wangqiu's mobile zoom is horizontal.

The reason for the lateral movement is that Zhou Hanting looked at the prisoner cart, which was driving sideways in front of him, and his eyes were moving with the movement of the prisoner cart. In this case, moving zoom can only be used with traverse, not push and pull.

Although Xu Wangqiu is a test shooting, the process of film shooting must still be followed. Xu Wangqiu stood behind the paved track, looked at Liu Lin and several of the actors who played the hoe and rape squad, and shouted like a real director: "Each group prepares." Let's take a real shot. The camera is on!", "It's on!" "It's on!" Zhang Yimou closed the clipstick board in front of the camera. Xu Wangqiu shouted: "Begin!"

As the command "start" sounded, Wu Zhiliu pushed the rail car and slowly moved to the left. Zeng Lianping on the rail car carried the camera, carefully controlling the focus to ensure that the focus was always on Liu Lin's face.

When Wu Zhiliu pushed him to the far left, Xu Wangqiu shouted "stop", and then ran over and asked the photographer Zeng Lianping: "Lao Zeng, how is the situation?"

This is the case when making movies in this era, because the director can't see the picture, only the photographer knows how the picture will look. Therefore, after each shot, the first thing the director does is to ask the cameraman: "Is it okay?" and the photographer says yes, then the shot can pass. If the photographer says no, then another one has to be done.

For Xu Wangqiu, who is used to using monitors and watching monitors, this kind of shooting is extremely uncomfortable. This method of filming requires the director to have a strong imagination, to pay full attention while shooting, to record with his eyes anything that happens in the frame, because there is no possibility of playback. The whole person must be like a video recorder, and after watching it, it needs to be played back in the mind. Otherwise, the whole shoot will be dominated by the photographer, and the director will be the decoration.

At this moment, Xu Wangqiu especially misses 2022, misses digital cameras, misses monitors, and misses DIT technology.

Zeng Lianping shook his head and said: "The focus was not well controlled just now, and there should be a void in one paragraph." ”

Since the photographer said no, Xu Wangqiu naturally couldn't say it, and immediately shouted: "Let's do it again." ”

Fortunately, Xu Wangqiu's video camera and tape used by them can be shot repeatedly without considering the problem of NG. Another benefit of using a camera is that you don't have to wait two or three days to see how it looks like with a camera.

Two hours later, Xu Wangqiu and the others sat in the equipment room to see how Zeng Lianping's shooting was doing.

Although Liu Lin and the others participated in the whole shooting, and although Xu Wangqiu told them what the effect of moving zoom shots was, when they really saw the horizontally moving zoom lens on the TV, they were still shocked by the magical effect in the lens. Their mouths are so wide open that they can fit a goose egg.

The whole shot looks very incredible, Liu Lin in the shot stood still and didn't move, while the background behind him seemed to be alive, and it moved quickly.