The Magic Shadow Factory sent a production director named Sun Wangquan to Xu Wangqiu to be responsible for the management of the crew. The production director of this era is equivalent to the producer of later generations, responsible for the shooting plan and budget of the film, and the crew's personnel, finances, and materials are under their control. If the production director doesn't approve the money, no matter how good the director is, he can only be blind.

On the morning of the next day, Xu Wangqiu and Zhang Ke, led by Sun Wangquan, visited various workshops of the Shadow Factory, communicated with various departments in the factory, and looked for suitable staff, while Xie Fei, Zeng Lianping and Ren Jie continued to survey the scenery.

"Hoe Rape" is a Republic of China drama, and filming a Republic of China drama involves the issue of costumes. In line with the principle of economy, Xu Wangqiu felt that if there were suitable clothes in the costume warehouse of the Demon Shadow Factory, they would use ready-made ones. If you can't find a suitable one, then let the crew's costume team specialize in it.

Film studios all have special clothing warehouses. After a movie is made, the costumes from the movie are stored in the costume warehouse. If you make a similar movie in the future, you can take it out and use it again. In this era, domestic female celebrities can't afford to buy high-end clothes, and when they visit abroad, they often borrow clothes from clothing warehouses to wear.

Xu Wangqiu and the others came to the clothing warehouse and found that many of the clothes inside were eaten by insects, and some of them were worn out due to their age. Xu Wangqiu looked at these costumes and sighed slightly, these costumes are a film history, narrating the yesterday and today of the Magic Shadow Factory, and wonderful stories can be excavated behind each one, but now it has become like this, it is a pity.

But there is no way to do it, even filmmakers are precarious during the sports period, let alone costumes and props. These costumes are fortunate to have survived, and many pre-liberation film films were directly burned as the four olds. So much so that after the reform and opening up, the China Film Archive wanted to find pre-liberation film films, but they couldn't find them at home, so they could only go overseas to collect them.

There are a lot of places where the drama "Hoe Rape" spends money, and it must be carefully calculated, and where it can be saved, it must be saved. It's definitely not okay for the movie lead actors to wear these moth-eaten costumes, but it's still okay to pick some costumes that aren't particularly bad for the extras to wear.

It didn't take long to turn around in the factory, and the time was already twelve o'clock. Xu Wangqiu and the others went to the cafeteria for a meal, and then went straight to the stunt workshop. They approached Ge Yongliang, the person in charge of the stunt workshop, to discuss the issue of pyrotechnic effects.

Ge Yongliang is an expert in special effects of the Magic Shadow Studio, as famous as Zhang Erzan of the Beijing Film Studio, and there is a saying in the Chinese special effects circle that "South Ge and North Zhang". Among them, he took the lead in the special effects of films such as "Southern Expedition and Northern War" and "Lin Zexu", and successively participated in the development of China's first optical printing machine, sodium light curtain movable matte photographic processing, zoom center PTZ, blue screen movable matte photography and other special effects new technology and new equipment.

If Ge Yongliang can be responsible for the special effects of "Hoe Rape", it is undoubtedly the most ideal, but he has already taken Yang Yanjin's "Troubled Laughter" and regrettably missed it. However, Ge Yongliang and Zhang Ke are acquaintances, and "Hoe Rape" is a drama of the Magic Shadow Factory, so naturally there will be no reservations, so he introduced pyrotechnic master Chen Yongquan to the crew of "Hoe Rape".

Chen Yongquan is in his forties and is a middle-aged man who looks quite elegant. Chen Yongquan knew that Zhang Ke was an old-timer in the film industry, and he was very polite to him: "Senior Zhang, I am very happy to cooperate with you." ”

Zhang Ke smiled and shook hands with Chen Yongquan: "This time, the special effects work of "Hoe Rape" will trouble you. Zhang Ran pointed to Xu Wangqiu beside him and said: "This is Xu Wangqiu, "Hoe Rape" will be co-directed by him and Xie Fei, a teacher from our school. ”

Chen Yongquan couldn't help but be stunned when he heard that Xu Wangqiu was the director of "Hoe Rape", and thought to himself that this is still a hairy child, and letting a hairy child be the director is simply playing the piano indiscriminately! He nodded slightly at Xu Wangqiu and said: "Wangqiu looks like he is only fourteen or fifteen years old, and he has become a director at such a young age, he is really unseemly!"

"Master Chen, I'm glad to see you. Xu Wangqiu listened to Chen Yongquan's tone with disdain, knowing that he felt that he was too young, but still said with a smile, "Our drama has very high requirements for fireworks and is relatively difficult, and it will definitely not work without the support of an expert like Master Chen." ”

Movie special effects do not start to intervene after they are filmed, but they must be involved in movie storyboards, and this is especially true of pyrotechnic special effects. Pyrotechnic effects often use explosives, and if you don't communicate well in advance, you may die in the event of an accident. There are not one or two such tragedies, even Xu Wangqiu himself was planted on the fireworks.

After a brief greeting, Xu Wangqiu and the others were taken to the stunt workshop office to discuss the special effects of "Hoe Rape". Although Ge Yongliang will not participate in the special effects design of "Hoe Rape", he is the director of the workshop and an expert in special effects, so it is still okay to help come up with ideas, so he also participated in the discussion.

Xu Wangqiu took out a thick pile of materials, put them in front of Chen Yongquan, and began to talk about the war scenes in "The Rape" and his requirements for fireworks. He first talked about the requirements for the vehicle, and there is a shot in the movie where the bullet hits the car and punches several holes in the body, so he proposed to ask the special effects team to prepare two car shells and do some special effects when the time comes.

After Chen Yongquan heard Xu Wangqiu's request, he couldn't help but say, "Your requirements are really high!"

Xu Wangqiu thought that Chen Yongquan thought that it was difficult to arrange the impact point on the car, and said puzzledly: "This requirement is not high, this kind of impact point special effect is obviously very simple." ”

Chen Yongquan was originally quite unimpressed with Xu Wangqiu, thinking that how could such a little hairy boy be a director, it was just nonsense, but now when he heard Xu Wangqiu refute his words, he immediately frowned, and said coldly: "Simple, you think it's simple, right, then tell me how to do this kind of special effects?"

Xu Wangqiu knew that Chen Yongquan felt that he was young and was quite dismissive of him. In this era, film studios are particularly ranked according to seniority, and it is almost impossible to be a director without being in their thirties and forties. A young man like himself belongs to the type of hairless and unstable in the eyes of professional technicians, and may even become a director by relying on relationships. It is quite normal for Chen Yongquan to look down on himself.

However, Chen Yongquan did not show this disdain in a particularly obvious way, and Xu Wangqiu naturally did not say anything. It's different now, the other party is already targeting him, and it is impossible for Xu Wangqiu to pretend not to see it. Xu Wangqiu must maintain his authority as a director, and must maintain the respect and obedience of his team members to his instructions, otherwise he will not be able to maintain the normal operation of the entire crew, and there is even a danger of being overridden by others.

Xu Wangqiu will never allow this kind of thing to happen, and must fight back: "Since you want to hear it, then I'll tell you." Holes are drilled into the car's shell, an electric squib is installed inside, tape is attached, and paint is sprayed. When the paint dries, the car looks as good as new, no different from a regular car. During the official shooting, the pyrotechnician detonated the electric squib, and the paint on the body was blown open, revealing drilled holes that looked like they had really been shot by bullets. If you need to create the effect of a bullet hitting the car and sparks bursting out, you can set a red light point and use an electric bridge wire to add titanium powder. ”

Chen Yongquan looked at Xu Wangqiu dumbfounded, never dreaming that this little kid who looked like he was stinking and had not dried up, would tell the whole pop-up point process lightly.

Ge Yongliang also looked at Xu Wangqiu with some surprise, these things are not professional pyrotechnics and they will never be able to say, no, there is no movie in China that has done this kind of special effects now, even professional pyrotechnics will think about it after receiving the task, but I didn't expect this young man to say it easily.

Xu Wangqiu showed a mouthful of white teeth: "Master Chen, am I right?"

This sentence really tasted a bit of a slap in the face, and the blood-red liquid accumulated on Chen Yongquan's face, and he opened his mouth, not knowing what to say. This time I was embarrassed and embarrassed, and I was despised by a little kid!

Ge Yongliang came back to his senses, looked at Zhang Ke, and said with a surprised face: "Lao Zhang, you are a very good student, you know a lot about fireworks, this kind of special effect is not known to ordinary people, but I didn't expect him to say it easily." ”

Zhang Ke knew that Xu Wangqiu had a lot of film knowledge, but he didn't expect him to understand fireworks, so he smiled and waved his hand: "This kid is Su Zhensheng's apprentice, and he is also from the film factory, and he has a good foreign language. In the film field, it can be said that he is an expert, otherwise our school would not let him be a director. ”

Ge Yongliang nodded slightly, he was also a little surprised when he first heard that Xu Wangqiu was the director of "Hoe Rape", thinking that how could such a child be the director, maybe the child of a certain leader, I didn't expect people to have real skills, and couldn't help boasting: "It's really a hero from ancient times, Wangqiu, you can continue to talk!"

Xu Wangqiu smiled lightly, thinking that he didn't need to explain himself, Ke Lao helped me find the reason, he cleared his throat, and continued to talk about the plan of the war scene in the movie, as well as the requirements for fireworks.

There are two gunfight scenes in "Hoe Rape", the first of which is when the hoe rape team is ambushed by the enemy, which is particularly complicated, involving the demolition of houses and the explosion of grenades at close range. There is a scene where Zhou Hanting is about to throw a grenade, but his arm is hit by the enemy, and the grenade falls to the ground and explodes. Xu Wangqiu demanded that the distance between the explosion point and the actor should not exceed one meter, and the explosion and the actor should coexist in the same shot.

Ge Yongliang and Chen Yongquan were a little surprised when they heard this request, the explosion scene in the movie used explosives, although the power of explosives can be controlled, not as big as real bombs, but they are still lethal. The explosives exploded at a distance of one meter from the actors, and something was definitely going to happen!

Ge Yongliang and Chen Yongquan glanced at each other, and said with a solemn expression: "We can't do this effect, it is very dangerous for explosives to explode around the actors." If you have to do this effect, you have to find Bayi Factory, their jet blasting technology can do it, jet blasting is not gunpowder, but gas explosion, with this technology is very safe. ”

Xu Wangqiu was stunned for a moment, in his impression, the earliest domestic film to use air explosion technology was 2007's "Assembly Number", and it was made by Koreans. Xu Wangqiu's father's friend was involved in "The Assembly", and according to the uncle, the film used explosives, but also used air blast technology to ensure that people 20 centimeters away would not be injured.

It was now 1978, but Xu Wangqiu heard someone tell him that Bayi Factory had mastered the gas explosion technology, and he really doubted whether he had heard it wrong, so he cautiously asked: "Is the jet blasting technology you are talking about using compressed gas instead of explosives and gunpowder, and simulating the explosion effect by using the impact force of the air flow?"

Ge Yongliang nodded and said, "It's this technique, you know!"