On Sunday, Su Bai came over to help Xu Wangqiu wash his clothes as usual. Su Bai searched out Xu Wangqiu's clothes, put them in a basin, and took them to the water room to wash. Xu Wangqiu naturally couldn't leave Su Bai alone, so he accompanied him on the side, gossiping about it.

Su Bai soaped his clothes and rubbed them slowly. A few strands of hair hung down, she raised her hand to pull her hair behind her ears, glanced at Xu Wangqiu, saw him leaning against the wall, her eyebrows fluttered and she said about the preparation of "Hoe Rape", and asked with a chuckle: "I heard that Fang Shu is the heroine of your play?"

Xu Wangqiu nodded and said: "Yes, after trying on makeup and playing, everyone thinks that Fang Shu is very suitable, Fang Shu looks bright and atmospheric, giving people a heroic feeling, and is really suitable for playing a female warrior." ”

Su Bai couldn't help but "hum" lightly when he saw Xu Wangqiu praising Fang Shu, rubbing his clothes hard, and rubbing his clothes so loudly: "I think it's all your excuse, it must be that you saw Fang Shu looking beautiful, so you chose her as the heroine!

Xu Wangqiu's face stiffened, and he said solemnly: "Comrade Su Bai, you can doubt my personality, but you can't insult my professionalism. I would never choose a girl to be the heroine because she was beautiful, let alone let her be the heroine because she had any thoughts about the actress. In my opinion, this is the most basic work ethic of a director!"

Su Bai saw that Xu Wangqiu seemed to be angry, and he also felt that he was a little excessive, and said in a low voice: "Wangqiu, I'm just joking, don't be angry!"

Xu Wangqiu showed a smug smile: "Actually, I'm not angry, I'm quite happy, because I know you're jealous." ”

"Nonsense, why should I be jealous?" Su Bai retorted with a red face like a cat that had been stepped on by its tail, "I just hope you put your mind into studying and don't think nonsense all day long." ”

Xu Wangqiu said with a smile: "I chose Fang Shu as the protagonist, it was really out of the needs of the role, I didn't have any other ideas, and Fang Shu is not my type at all, I really don't mean anything to her." ”

Su Bai stopped rubbing his clothes and asked softly, "Then what type do you like?"

Xu Wangqiu thought about it for a while, and his eyes fell on Su Bai's face: "I like that kind of girl with big eyes and round face, just like "Dream of Red Mansions" describes Xue Baochai, her face is like a silver basin, and her eyes are like apricots. ”

Su Bai knew that Xu Wangqiuming was talking about Xue Baochai on his face, but he was actually talking about himself, his heart was like a deer crashing, his face was dyed blood-red, and he lowered his head and whispered: "I don't believe nonsense all day long!

On Monday morning, Xu Wangqiu and Xie Fei went to the Bayi Film Factory in Liuliqiao under the leadership of Mr. Ren Jie from the Teaching Practice Office.

Bayi Film Factory was founded on August 1, 1952, formerly known as the "Yan'an Film Troupe" of the Eighth Route Army, mainly shooting military-themed film and television films, is a comprehensive film studio with the production capacity of feature films, military education films, news documentaries, national defense research films, TV films and TV dramas.

As early as the fifties and sixties, Bayi Factory filmed a series of war-themed films, such as "Mine Warfare", "Tunnel Warfare", "Battle of Shanghai", "Lin Hai Snow Plain" and so on. However, war films are not the only theme of Bayi Factory, the romance film "The Story of Liubao" in the background of the war, the spy war film "The Eternal Wave", the comedy "Good Brothers", the suspense film "Secret Drawings" and other works are all high-quality works of Bayi Factory.

Xu Wangqiu was very fond of Bayi Factory movies when he was a child, whenever a shining five-pointed star appeared in front of the opening of the movie, and when he heard "March of the People's Liberation Army", he knew that the movie of the war was coming. At that time, Xu Wangqiu's dream was to grow up to be a director and go to Bayi Factory to make movies about the war. However, by the time Xu Wangqiu graduated from Nortel, Bayi Factory had long been out of order. In 2018, it was abolished by the military reform, and Bayi Factory has completely become history.

Bayi Factory belongs to the army establishment, and there is a guard at the gate, and outsiders are not allowed to enter at all. However, Mr. Ren Jie had already contacted Bayi Factory before coming, and under the leadership of the other party, Xu Wangqiu and they successfully walked into the factory and came to the stunt pyrotechnic workshop.

Stunt workshops are standard in all studios. In this era when there are no computer special effects, the special effects in the movie are all physical special effects, and scenes such as the explosion of the train train have to be designed and produced by the stunt shop and filmed. The stunt workshop has a very detailed division of labor, such as stunt design, stunt photography, and so on. Another important part that needs to be done in a stunt shop is the production of subtitles for the movie. In the next few decades, as long as you know computer software, you can do subtitles, but in this era, the production of credits is very troublesome and high-tech, and ordinary small factories can't do it at all.

There is an obvious difference between Bayi Factory and other film studios, the movies are mainly war films, and the special effects of Bayi Factory are mainly based on fireworks, so the full name of the stunt workshop of Bayi Factory is the stunt fireworks workshop.

In the stunt pyrotechnic workshop, Xu Wangqiu and the others met Yu Ze, a famous pyrotechnician of Bayi Film Studio and known as the "Chinese Fireworks King". Because "Hoe Rape" requires the use of jet blasters, and there are not many pyrotechnics in Bayi Factory who can use this equipment, Yu Ze is one of them. When he remade "The Southern Expedition and the Northern War" a few years ago, he was the pyrotechnician of the film and used this equipment.

After a brief greeting, Xu Wangqiu and the others expressed the purpose of their trip: "Teacher Yu, we Nortel and Magic Studio are preparing to jointly shoot the movie "Hoe Rape", which has a large number of explosion scenes, including a shot of a grenade blowing up people, and a recent shot of a grenade exploding at the actor's feet will blow people away. The Shadow Factory doesn't have this kind of technology, they said that your Bayi Factory has jet explosion technology and can solve this problem, so we came to the door for help. ”

Yu Ze heard the grenade exploding at his feet, and knew that this difficulty was relatively high, and other film studios really couldn't do it, so he said: "We do have this technology, actors can even stand directly on the explosion point, they will feel pain, but they will not be injured." ”

Xu Wangqiu immediately asked, "Can you show us this jet blaster?"

"Of course, I'll take you to the fireworks store. Yu Ze is a soldier, with the coolness of a soldier, and they walked to the fireworks library with Xu Wangqiu, and gave Xu Wangqiu the pyrotechnic stunts of the Bayi Factory and the jet blasting technology as they went.

Before the liberation of China, only the "Manying" in Northeast China had a pyrotechnic major, and since 1949, the pyrotechnic professional department has been established in Changying, Bayi, Beiying and other studios. Although it started late, it has developed rapidly. Chinese filmmakers can be said to be world-class in terms of the development of pyrotechnic drugs, equipment updates, in-depth design of explosive points, and the texture of three-dimensional effects of pyrotechnics.

With the progress of science and technology, Bayi Factory has also made continuous breakthroughs in pyrotechnic technology, and has developed an electronic remote control detonation device, which not only reduces the laying time of wires, but also can more accurately control the direction, time and place of the explosion;

After listening to Yu Ze's introduction, Xu Wangqiu couldn't help but nod secretly, Bayi Factory is worthy of being the leader in domestic pyrotechnic special effects, with a very deep accumulation in pyrotechnics, and the technology is strong enough, at least stronger than he imagined. It's a pity that due to the problem of film cost and the collapse of the film market, Bayi Factory was silent after the new millennium, and no breakthrough was made in pyrotechnic technology, so that domestic films had to go abroad to hire pyrotechnic teams for war scenes.

After walking for about ten minutes, Yu Ze took Xu Wangqiu and them to the most remote corner of the factory. There is a small cement yard here, and the fireworks warehouse of Bayi Factory. Domestic film studios have special pyrotechnic warehouses, which are specially used to store all kinds of explosives and gunpowder, and ordinary people are not allowed to approach them at all.

Yu Ze opened the roller shutter door of the fireworks storehouse, walked in with Xu Wangqiu, and opened the door of one of the warehouses. There are all kinds of pyrotechnic props, all kinds of large and small sieves, and all kinds of strangely shaped tools in the warehouse.

Xie Fei saw a pile of iron props forty or fifty centimeters wide on the ground, similar to a funnel, but the bottom did not leak, and asked Xu Wangqiu in a low voice: "Do you know what this does?"

Xu Wangqiu explained: "This is called Tie Douzi, and it is called a jet abroad. There are two functions, one is that in order to prevent the explosion from bringing up the stones around the explosion point and injuring the actors, the pyrotechnic engineer will put the explosives in a specially made iron bucket, and explode in the iron bucket, and the power will rush upward, and will not scatter in all directions to blow up the soil around the explosion point; the other function is mainly to shoot the explosion scene in the city, you can't dig a pit in the city street, what should you do if you want to create an explosion effect? Put the explosives in the iron bucket, and then load the soil in the iron bucket, and after the detonation, the soil is blown up, and the effect of the explosion will naturally come out. ”

Xie Fei suddenly realized: "So that's the case." ”

Yu Ze couldn't help but glance at Xu Wangqiu, thinking that this young man looked very young, and he didn't think that he would understand a lot. However, Yu Ze didn't think much about it, and moved a strange-looking thing out. This thing is a small oxygen cylinder, but unlike a normal oxygen cylinder, an iron bucket is attached to it.

Xu Wangqiu couldn't help but nod slightly when he saw the equipment that Yu Ze moved out, it was indeed an air explosion device. In his previous life, he had filmed war scenes and had seen similar air explosion devices on the set. The scene he filmed used seven large-capacity air explosion devices, and the pictures he shot were extremely impactful. It's just that for a long time, Xu Wangqiu thought that this technology was learned from abroad, but he didn't expect Bayi Factory to study it in the 70s.

Yu Ze moved the air explosion device to Xu Wangqiu and introduced it: "This is the jet blaster, which is the air explosion device developed by our factory. The jet blaster is mainly composed of a jet detonator, a pressure reducer, and a gas cylinder. It is mainly to use compressed gas to burst out of a high-pressure gas in an instant, pushing the soil and ash out of the iron bucket, forming an explosive effect. The remake of "Southern Expedition and Northern War" in '74 was the first time we used this kind of equipment, and we had no experience at the time, and we used light gray soil with a relatively light weight when we first made the effect......"

Xu Wangqiu couldn't help but say, "You should use wet soil." ”

Yu Ze looked at Xu Wangqiu in surprise and asked, "Why do you want to use wet soil?"

Xu Wangqiu explained: "The dust is lightweight, and when it explodes, it is a cloud of ash in the air, light and fluttering, not projectile, unlike a bomb explosion; ”

"It's like you said, the effect of blowing up with dust is light, not like a bomb exploding, so we use wet earth. Yu Ze stared at Xu Wangqiu and said puzzledly, "How do you know this?"