On October 12, Don An traveled to Casablanca, on the western Pacific coast of Morocco.

This Moroccan economic center, transportation hub, and historic city known as the "Atlantic Bride" welcomed a large group of Chinese filmmakers a few days ago.

After the crew arrived, the crew and another group of people who stayed in the local preparation completed all the preliminary work, and the Moroccan government, military and other aspects were coordinated.

After a long flight, Tang An did not immediately devote himself to filming, took a day off, and met with the local government and embassy by the way.

There is no entertainment, everything is arranged in the diplomatic department, and Morocco is a country in Africa that is relatively close to China.

Most of the scenes were to be filmed in Casablanca, and according to the plan, scenes in the desert were to be filmed first.

Arriving at the filming location by car, looking at the desert Gobi, high mountains and ravines, and yellow sand, Tang An smiled and said, "When I arrived here, I remembered that I was in Africa." ”

Zhang Yi, who got out of the car behind, followed, and echoed behind Tang An, "Director Tang, when I first arrived in Casablanca, I thought that I was in Europe, and it was not like an African city at all. ”

Wan Qian next to her smiled and asked, "What do African cities look like?"

Zhang Yi was stunned for a moment, thought about it but didn't know what to describe.

"The people do not have enough to eat, there are many wars, turmoil, poverty, backwardness, dirt and mess. ”

Tang An answered for him, and added at the end, "Plow Casablanca with cannonballs, that's probably how it goes." ”

Zhang Yi touched his head a little embarrassed, "After returning from the river last month, I went to Venice with the crew of "Dear", and I feel that Casablanca is more like a European city. ”

"It's a former French colony, so it's naturally French-style architecture, and most of the countries in Europe look pretty much the same, so it's not surprising. ”

"Africa also has international metropolises, Cairo is also ranked in the top 100 cities in the world, and cities like Casablanca are almost equivalent to second-tier cities in China, so they will not be far behind. ”

After chatting for a while, they went to prepare their own things.

The actors put on makeup, and the equipment, vehicles, bombs, etc. used in filming must be checked one by one.

They were all busy with their own things, and Tang An called the leaders of each group over.

Each film has its own different style, and different styles affect many aspects such as photography, lighting, picture color, editing, soundtrack, etc.

Tang An has talked to them many times about the movie "Operation Red Sea", trying to make them all understand their own ideas and know what type of military movie they want to make.

Film is the art of the director, but there are hundreds of people in the crew, everyone has a different division of labor, and the director can only command others to do it, and it is impossible to do everything by himself.

Even if you have so much time and energy, you don't have the ability.

There are directors who study photography and art, but no director can be proficient in all the work of the crew.

Of course, different movies have different requirements, and films like "Shark Beach" do not have high requirements for color, camera angles, lighting, etc.

The films of directors like Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, although the story is not very good, but in terms of professionalism, it will definitely beat the current blockbuster directors.

The times and circumstances are different, they didn't have any feature films when they were young, and movies at that time were not for storytelling.

Affected by the environment, the directors of that generation are not very good at telling stories.

Feng Xiaogang was an exception, but he was precisely excluded by that circle.

"Lao Ye, Lao Zhang, I discussed the overall tone with you half a year ago, this is a war film, and the dark yellow tone should run through the whole film.

The previous scenes were all filmed in the desert, and the color of the desert itself is dry yellow, you have to deal with it, I need to give the audience a real feeling of facing war, and a color of "pain"!"

In "Operation Red Sea", the color is always dull yellow, the smoke of war is endless, there is no extra color to set off, tears have no time to flow, and the eyes cannot be blurred.

There are also many different types of war films, and although some of them are tragic, even if the protagonist's side dies one after another, the whole process makes the audience passionate and adrenaline-pumping, without too much sadness.

"Operation Red Sea" is not such a film, the real war must make the audience "pain"!

There are no superfluous colors in war, every color is a pain!

As for how to show "pain", that's the art director and lighting engineer.

They are all top talents in their fields, and they naturally know what to do.

......

After two and a half hours of preparation, close to ten o'clock, Tang An confirmed to all departments that everything was ready.

Tang An picked up the water cup and poured a big sip, put a little more in his hand, and patted his somewhat dry face.

Although it was already the middle of October, in the deserts of Africa, you could still feel the heat in the air, and a hot air covered every exposed skin.

However, the moisture quickly increased, and the face was still dry and uncomfortable.

There's no way, filming in the desert is like this, you can't find a few air conditioners to blow at Tang An.

Not to mention, there will really be a crew doing this in the future, when some little fresh meat is filming costume dramas in the summer, the crew is equipped with several air conditioners, blowing in the open air.

I didn't adapt to the climate here all of a sudden, and I was still in the desert, and Tang An's mood was a little hot again.

poured another bottle of ice-cold drink, just like the sentence in the advertisement, "the heart is cold, the heart is flying", it is so refreshing.

Feeling a little more comfortable, Tang An picked up the loudspeaker and announced the start.

"Scene 41, one shot, one shot!"

"Let's go!"

With Tang An's order, at the end of a road in the desert that was pressed out of the wheels, a train fleet was heading towards this side.

This scene is the scene of the Jiaolong special combat team and the local government army protecting civilians to go to the port.

Trucks, buses, armored vehicles, and dust were brought up along the way.

The footage from the drone aerial photography went from near to far, first giving Zhang Yi and Wan Qian a close-up shot, and then slowly lengthening, rising, and moving to the side.

Tang An stared closely at this shot in front of the monitor, although there was nothing difficult, it was an ordinary shot.

Immediately afterwards, the picture earns the peaks on both sides of the road, and in the long shot, the peaks are not big, like small mountain bags.

But it's dense, like a labyrinth, and there are murderous motives hidden in it.

And the lens is at an angle of 135 degrees with the sun's rays, the sunlight shines obliquely, plus the dust in the sky, the whole lens picture is not very clear, and there is a bit of an illusory feeling.

The convoy stopped, and the first shot ended, all at once.

There's no time to celebrate, move on to the second shot.

Government leaders said they had just been notified that they were going to a danger zone and that they had to be rerouted.

If you take a detour, it will definitely delay a lot of time, so Zhang Yi hurriedly contacted Kunmin.

"Alright, the demolition team is ready!"

Tang An shouted a stop, and an explosion scene ensued.

The dense peaks ahead, through the light, the angles and the dust, look dangerous, what is the danger inside.

Every shot in the movie is useful, and the audience may not pay attention to it, but there is and there is not, which can indirectly affect the audience, but the audience doesn't notice it themselves.

The front hints through the scenery, and the next danger is immediately there.

Zhang Yi was just about to contact the Kunmin, but before he could connect, the mortar hidden in the mountain next to him hit one shell after another.

"Phew..."

"Boom!!"

The truck next to Zhang Yi was hit by a shell, and the whole person was overturned to the ground by a huge wave of air.