As Su Mu expected, the filming of "Monster Hunt" was slow.

Director Xu Chengyi used to be engaged in animation in Hollywood, and this is his first time as a director of a live-action CG movie, and he has no experience in live shooting at all.

To take the simplest example, he doesn't know how many days a plot will be filmed.

Once, an assistant director took a one-page play and asked him how long he planned to shoot it, because he had to set the time to arrange the next work.

Xu Chengyi pondered for a while, and combined with his experience in animation, he said that it would take about three days.

However, that scene could be done in just three or four hours.

In addition to these, he has little experience in the scheduling of filming scenes.

For example, some scenes are only shots of two actors, but the scene needs to be assisted by dozens or hundreds of staff, which is something he has never experienced before.

There are even some scenes, he doesn't even know how to film, so he can only call and ask the producer, and then the experienced producer tells him how to get it.

It is no exaggeration to say that without the assistance of cinematographers, executive directors and producers, the crew would not have been able to function normally.

Not only the director, but most of the actors are also making live-action CG movies for the first time.

When I needed to shoot a scene with a CG character, I was a little confused and didn't know how to get it.

The play is better, there are specially made monster dolls, the actor hangs Weiya, and the fierce fight is just a stand-in.

It's not that this is not disrespectful, but that there are some actions that people who have not undergone special training cannot complete at all.

In other words, even if it can be completed, the effect is not good, and a lot of time is wasted, and the gains outweigh the losses.

The crew will need hundreds of thousands of dollars a day to run, can it be delayed?

Therefore, don't feel that people are not dedicated as soon as you hear which actor uses a stand-in, it depends on what kind of scene is used as a stand-in.

This is important.

Su Mu didn't use a stand-in, because he was a rookie in this play, and he didn't need to fly the eaves and walk on the wall to fight.

Basically, they were beaten, all kinds of embarrassed escapes, and even when they hung Weiya, they were very rare.

However, this does not mean that he can be relaxed when filming.

On the contrary, it is very difficult.

He has a lot of rivalry with CG characters, especially Huba, who can only be played in front of the air, or in front of carrots and ragdolls.

The other party's demeanor and tone are all made up by the brain, and playing against other actors is not a concept at all.

It's very hard.

It looks like a schizophrenic, a person stupidly talking into the air, surprised, crying or laughing.

Later, Su Mu suggested to the director that some scenes could be reminded by the staff on the side, so that the actors could easily grasp the rhythm.

For example, reminding "the monster is going to hit you", and then the actor's gaze moves, and his movements and expressions also change.

It's such a simple method, and no one even thought of using it a few days ago.

It can only be said that the vast majority of people are inexperienced, and experienced people cannot be exhaustive and think about everything.

It is precisely in this way that the filming progress of the crew is unusually slow.

However, fortunately, as everyone becomes more familiar with the work, the shooting efficiency is slowly improving.

And after Su Mu and Bai Lily discussed and shared each other's experiences in the middle of the night, they also made a lot of progress when filming the rivalry with the CG characters.

The late-night discussion is really just about how to film, and there is no other meaning.

Moreover, the two of them just chatted on the set for a while after the night scene, not going back to the hotel to read the glow-in-the-dark script together.

Don't be afraid of gossip.

Night, on the set.

The scene to be filmed now is Song Tianyin holding up his big belly and coming to find his friend Xiao Wu.

It's basically his one-man show.

It was the staff on the side who spoke to him, and he was the only one who really entered the camera.

Especially after knocking on the door of Xiao Wu's house, you have to talk to Xiao Wu who has become a demon.

It can only be imagined out of thin air.

The door was opened.

According to the setting, Xiao Wu is a demon with a very small head, so Su Mu can only look down at the ground, imagining that a little monster will appear there in his mind.

However, the reality is that there is a photographer lying there, carrying a camera to him.

Because this paragraph has to give him a close-up of his expression.

"Chief!" the staff member said.

"You, who are you?"

Su Mu couldn't figure out the situation at all, and his expression and tone showed due nervousness and panic, after all, he was still afraid of demons at this time.

"It's me, Xiao Wu, although my appearance has changed, I'm really Xiao Wu. ”

Listening to the lines, he fantasized about the little monster walking forward, taking two steps back in fear, then turning around and running.

I did it twice just to escape, because there was still a vision.

Fortunately, there were no problems, and it was easy to get by.

"Ka, rest for five minutes and get ready for the next one. ”

......

11:50 p.m.

"Card, it's over, call it a day. ”

The director's voice fell, and the cast and crew breathed a sigh of relief.

I can finally go back to sleep.

From the third day of start-up, I started up at 7 o'clock in the morning every day and filmed until about 12 o'clock in the evening, which was really tiring.

Maybe you don't think seven o'clock is too early.

However, this is a costume drama, and makeup is more troublesome, and the actors have to arrive on the set an hour or two earlier in the morning.

After finishing work in the evening, I have to remove my makeup, and then rush back to the hotel to rest.

When it's full, the time I can sleep is only four or five hours.

Other actors are better, they don't have morning scenes and night scenes every day, but Su Mu and Bai Lily, the two of them are the protagonists, and they have the most scenes, and they basically have to get up early and go to bed late every day.

It's particularly exciting.

Of course, even more tired than them are the staff, who occasionally have a time to sleep in, and the staff is almost non-existent.

Therefore, Su Mu is very polite to the staff, he has never scolded anyone, and he is kind to everyone.

That's why everyone likes him too.

Especially the crew's martial arts, because of the previous accident, they are even more grateful to Su Mu.

"I can finally go back to sleep, I'm dying. Bai Lily said with a bitter face.

She has a lot of fighting scenes, and the setting is to beat women, which is much more tiring than Su Mu.

Moreover, the filming scene can't avoid bumps and bumps, which can be described as physically and mentally exhausted, and the whole person is a lot haggard compared to when he first started the camera.

"So, hurry up and change your clothes, remove your makeup, and then hurry back to rest. ”

"But I don't want to move now. Bai Lily sat directly on the ground and said aggrievedly: "The thought of being called by the assistant director every morning makes me feel so painful." ”

"It's not easy for people, okay, get up earlier than us, pay attention to the tone, don't give people a look, that little girl is very good." ”

The actors who have morning scenes are all assistant directors who are responsible for waking up, for fear that the actors will oversleep and delay the shooting.

It's a thankless job, and it's a lot of work to get angry and work.

So every time Su Mu was called, although he was unhappy, he was polite.

"Just hello, we're all bad people. Bai Lily rolled her eyes, then got up: "Let's go, change clothes, go back to sleep." ”

After taking two steps, seeing that Su Mu didn't move, he said, "What are you stunned about, let's go back to sleep together." ”

"Ahem...... Don't be so ambiguous. ”

"Hush. ”