Chapter 692: The crew's ambulance
There was no official promotional plan for the film during filming, and there was no press conference to kick it off. A group of American staff and a group of young people filmed in the United States, and they did not engage in complicated start-up ceremonies such as "burning incense and worshiping God" like the domestic crew. After all the staff arrived on the day of filming, the two directors, Mu Ying and Xiao Yao, announced that the filming would be started, and everyone would start work directly.
The filming of film and television works does not necessarily follow the order of the plot. Filming according to the sequence of the plot is undoubtedly better for the actor's performance, which helps the actor to enter the role and maintain the same state and mood as the character in the play, but due to cost, time, equipment and other considerations, more often the shooting is not in the order of the plot.
Filming scenes in the same scene together can reduce the number of venue rentals and the trouble of rearranging scenes, especially action scenes that need to be hung or safety measures, and it takes a lot of time to get one shot, so many movies are not shot in the order of the plot.
Mu Ying made a plan for the filming plan in advance. Since the requirements for the actors in this movie are not particularly high, when making the shooting plan, Mu Ying's idea is not to shoot according to the order of the plot, but to separate the literary drama and the action scene, and try to put the action scenes in the same scene together to shoot, which is more time-saving, money-saving, and labor-saving. Specifically, it is a literary drama first and then an action drama, whether it is a literary drama or an action drama, it is also a gradual process from easy to difficult.
Everyone basically agrees with Mu Ying's shooting plan, but only Xiao Yao has some objections to the arrangement of the first day of filming. On the first day of filming, Xiao Yao wanted to set the tone for the whole shooting. After discussing with everyone, everyone also agreed with Xiao Yao's idea and adjusted the shooting plan for the first day.
The first scene filmed by the crew after the film was turned on was the scene at the beginning of the movie, where seven people get together to discuss the target building.
The specific content of this scene is that seven people come to the basement of a building one after another, and Xiao Yao's character spreads out a picture on the table, and then determines a building as a target with seven people on the picture, and then leaves the basement one after another.
When determining the goal, the seven people did not quarrel, and the character played by Xiao Yao pointed out a building, and the six people nodded excitedly in agreement, and they didn't even have many lines. This scene is a literary drama, and it doesn't seem to be difficult, even if it is a relatively simple scene in a literary drama, but under the strict requirements of Xiao Yao and Mu Ying, everyone filmed four of them.
There are not many lines in this scene, and the most is Xiao Yao, and everyone has no problem saying it, but Mu Ying and Xiao Yao are not very satisfied with the expressions of several actors in the previous ones.
Xiao Yao starred in this scene, and the director sitting behind the monitor was only Mu Ying. During the filming, Mu Ying shouted the card before the first two were completely filmed, and when Mu Ying waited for the whole filming to finish shouting the card, another director, Xiao Yao, went over to watch the playback, and after discussing it with Mu Ying, everyone filmed the fourth one.
Climbing a stairs with bare hands is a dangerous and cool thing, and just from such an event, it can reflect that this team should be the kind of character that is very cool, not afraid of heaven and earth. Therefore, when discussing this kind of thing, in addition to excitement, you should also show the team member's very cool and uninhibited temperament that is not afraid of anything. This kind of temperament is not expressed through lines in this scene, but should be expressed from their expressions, demeanor and even temperament. And every time before restarting filming, Mu Ying and Xiao Yao guide the actors in this aspect.
There are seven people in the main character of this movie. In addition to Xiao Yao and other four Chinese and Chinese-Americans, the other three leading actors are not all Americans. The white actor was British, the black actor was French, and only the Latino in the Americas was American. However, in addition to good parkour skills, these three are all real actors, but they are not very famous and have not played the leading role.
The economic conditions of these three are good, and being actors is forced by more interest than life. Perhaps it is precisely because they are not popular, they don't receive many jobs, and they don't have the pressure of life, so they will have the leisure time to play parkour, and the British actor and French actor will fly to the United States to audition after seeing the news of the crew's recruitment on the official website of the movie. These three people are parkour enthusiasts, and they came to participate purely because the veteran team of parkour was the main creator and starring, and the movie was the theme of parkour. Whether you come to audition or make a movie, you will inevitably have some mentality for fun.
Before the start, they all met with Xiao Yao and others, and Xiao Yao, the big Chinese star, boss and director in their eyes, not only had a very friendly attitude, but also didn't even ask them to call him director in the crew, but let them call him Yang directly, as if they were friends, they were happy, and their mentality was more relaxed. But I didn't expect that as soon as it was in the working state, the first scene was so simple, the two directors asked for reshooting three times, and they came over to give them individual guidance before each shooting, and this serious look also made them unconsciously put away the mentality of playing.
But fortunately, this movie is not a literary film that aims to win awards, there is nothing particularly profound in the performance level of literary drama, Mu Ying and Xiao Yao have requirements for their performances, but the requirements are not as high as strict, so after filming the fourth article, Mu Ying and Xiao Yao expressed their satisfaction.
After the filming of the first scene, Mu Ying motioned for everyone to rest for a few minutes, and then moved to the filming location of the second scene.
The filming of four scenes in a row was a bit of a surprise to the actors and crew, but when everyone moved to the filming location of the second scene, several leading actors were taken aback.
The second scene is a shot of the second act of the main film, where seven people climb the stairs with their bare hands. Since the shooting plan is given to the actors in advance, the actors know in advance which scenes and which shots will be filmed today. The actors weren't surprised that the second scene was filmed outside a high-rise residential building, but to their surprise, there was an ambulance parked next to the building.
"Jan, why is there an ambulance there? Is there someone in this building who is sick or has an accident? Will our filming be affected?" asked the black French actor named John Diawara, who was in the lead role, and pointed to the ambulance.
The building they were filming to climb had more than a dozen floors, and there were more than 100 households in it, and it was impossible for the crew to empty everyone in the building when filming, but they just said hello and asked the residents on this side of their shooting not to open the windows casually, so as not to appear in the camera and cause goofs. Now there is an ambulance parked here, which probably means that someone inside has committed an emergency or been injured in an accident, and it is likely that there will be unrelated people in the camera, which will affect the shooting.
"No, no one in the building is sick or injured," Xiao Yao replied with a smile, "This ambulance and the medicines in it are idle vehicles that our crew rented from the hospital at the expense of our crew, and there are two real first responders in it, which we also specially paid for." They didn't come for the people in the building, but for a few of us from the crew!"
"What?" Xiao Yao said this, Diawara's face changed, and he shouted to Xiao Yao, "Yang, are you going to kill us?"
"What's wrong?" Diawara called, and the other two actors ran over curiously.
"That's a real ambulance," Diawara said, pointing to the ambulance lane parked next to the building, "Young said it was for us!"
"Are you saying that we all have to go to the hospital after filming this scene?" the other two also looked at Xiao Yao in surprise.
"Hey," Xiao Yao said helplessly to Diawara, "I said it was for a few of us, including myself!
"Of course I don't want anyone to be injured and go to the hospital while filming," Xiao Yao said to the other two, "But the scene we are going to shoot next is dangerous, you have all read the script, you should all know it." Although we will do safety measures when shooting, but such a tall building, there are a lot of shots to shoot, and the shooting time will be very long, and accidents will inevitably happen. We called an ambulance in advance to be on standby in order to provide better protection. In the event of any unexpected situation, with the presence of professional medical personnel, we can immediately make correct and effective treatment in time!"
The three of them nodded unconsciously after hearing this, but they still looked at Xiao Yao with a look of surprise and said, "Yang, it's the first time we've encountered a situation where we parked an ambulance and stood by the side during filming. ”
"Have you heard of Mike Zhou?" Xiao Yao asked with a smile, "I heard people say that when he was young and filming on Hong Kong Island in Huaxia, he called an ambulance to stop next to him. ”
"Mike Zhou?" Diawara gestured with kung fu, "is that the Chinese kung fu superstar who is famous in Hollywood?"
"Yes!" Xiao Yao nodded, "He's a kung fu superstar, and he makes action movies." No matter how dangerous the action is, he always goes into battle in person, never uses a stand-in, and is never afraid to reduce the difficulty of the action and lower the requirements for himself because the action is too dangerous and injured. Some of his actions are very dangerous, and there is a great possibility of injury, and because he has suffered a lot of injuries during filming, the crew will help him rent an ambulance and park it at the filming location, and he can be injured and treated at any time. ”
"He was able to go from Hong Kong Island in China to Hollywood, and he also achieved so much success in Hollywood and became a world-renowned kung fu superstar, and he worked so hard!" Xiao Yao finally said.
The three reshoots of today's first literary scene were not designed and arranged by Xiao Yao and Mu Ying in advance, but their normal requirements for filming based on the quality of the film, but the ambulance next to the filming location of the second action scene was deliberately arranged by Xiao Yao, Mu Ying and others. This ambulance is an attitude expressed by Xiao Yao, which is what he calls a tone for film shooting.
However, what Xiao Yao said just now was nonsense. The other Xiao Yao didn't know Mike Zhou, the kung fu superstar Zhou Hu of Hong Kong Island, China, and he hadn't heard about Zhou Hu's story from anyone else. However, Xiao Yao vaguely remembered that he had read a report about Jackie Chan in his previous life, so he did the same, and he also said nonsense to Zhou Hu, who was more similar to Jackie Chan in his previous life.
Zhou Hu in this world is also very dedicated and works very hard in filming. Even if he didn't call an ambulance to stop next to him and stand by during filming, this is not a discrediting remark, but a compliment to his dedication. Not to mention whether these foreigners will spread these words to Zhou Hu's ears, even if Zhou Hu knows about it in the future, when Xiao Yao asks about this matter, Xiao Yao will honestly admit that he made it up by himself, in order to stimulate several foreign young people to act well in his name, and Zhou Hu will not have any opinion on his approach.
Sure enough, hearing Xiao Yao say that Zhou Hu did the same, the expressions of several foreign actors became serious, and they didn't have any thoughts about Xiao Yao arranging an ambulance to park next to them, and turned around to do a serious warm-up activity. Although they suddenly felt a sense of sacredness in serious filming, no one wanted to really have an accident during filming and lie down in that ambulance.
The actors in this play don't have stand-ins, and the seven of them have to actually climb the outer wall of this building. Even if they don't actually have to climb from the first floor to the roof, they have to shoot a few floors after all the shots. Climbing from the exterior wall with bare hands is not a common behavior in parkour, and even if there is, it is from the first floor to the second and third floors, and no one will have the experience of climbing up the middle of the exterior wall of a dozen storey buildings. The three of them didn't want to have an accident, in addition to being careful and careful, they really had to prepare physically, warm up, and move their hands and feet.
Zhao Rui, Xu Fei and Zhou Jingyi knew about the existence of the ambulance in advance. When Xiao Yao explained to the three of them, they were also preparing for a warm-up. The four of them also had no experience climbing up and down the exterior walls of a dozen storey buildings, and after explaining to the three foreign actors, Xiao Yao also joined the warm-up team.
After the rest of the crew was ready, the second scene started filming.
The first shot shows several people on the ground rushing to the exterior wall of the building and starting to climb upwards. This part is carried out on the ground and on the first and second floors, and there is no difficulty or danger for the seven real parkour masters.
After the bottom shot is completed, the next shot has to be moved to the outside of the six or seven floors, and at this time it is necessary to do some safety precautions for the actors.
Xiao Yao, Zhao Rui and Xu Fei are all action directors for the film, but they are not responsible for the specific safety measures during the filming of the action scenes. All three of them have filmed action scenes, and they all have experience in hanging Weiya, but they are not professional martial arts, so their action director is only responsible for designing the action, and the crew specially hired a professional team with considerable experience in this area to be responsible for safety measures during filming.
In this regard, the crew spent a lot. This security team is one of the more famous teams in Hollywood, not only has a lot of experience, but also uses advanced equipment. As soon as these safety measures are put on the body, the seven people also feel quite safe, and basically do not affect their movements.
Although there are good safety measures, it is inevitable that you will be nervous when you are really in mid-air. This scene is basically a shot of climbing the wall, and the shooting time is not short. In addition to the physical exertion of climbing, the psychological pressure on the seven people is not small, and it is easier to get tired. However, fortunately, during the filming, none of the seven people had accidents such as slipping hands and feet, and the specially driven ambulance was not really useful.
The seven actors were a little tired, but overall, the first day of filming went relatively smoothly.
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