At present, the finished film has almost 800 to 1,000 shots based on the convention of 90 minutes in length; after the 80s of the last century, short shots and broken cuts have become popular all over the world, and as a result, the number of shots in a movie has greatly increased, usually exceeding 1,000 shots, reaching about 13,400; some action movies in Xiangjiang even have 17,800 shots.

?? In actual shooting, there is also the problem of shooting loss, many things are filmed and become post-production materials, but when the film is actually put together, you will find that in fact, some things are unnecessary, or even counterproductive, and must be discarded. In other words, in the actual shooting process, it is simply not enough to shoot more than 1,000 shots, and the average director has to shoot more than 2,000 or even more than 2,500 shots as the final creative material.

Normally, the shooting cycle of a film is about three months, because I plan to participate in the Busan Film Festival in mid-October, the basic time is also very tight, at least one and a half months in the later stage, then it will be in mid-August, during which there will be publicity, plus a month of release.

Theoretically, as long as the filming can be completed within two months, it is too late.

In reality, however, this is far from the case.

Su Yan found that the one who invented the eight-hour work week was really great, and completely captured the characteristics of the operation of the human biological clock.

By the tenth day, in addition to making a good movie, there was only one wish left in his heart - let him sleep well.

Twenty-four hours a day, setting off and coming back to sort out the equipment, plus the time to go back and forth on the road, at least 2 hours, filming takes up nine hours, plus time for eating, bathing and some seven, seven, eight, eight, eight

In the past few days, Su Yan and his crew set off for the filming location at five o'clock in the afternoon every day, and they were ready to start filming at seven o'clock after the shooting; filming for five hours to twelve o'clock, eating supper, Su Yan had to discuss with Li Shanggen about the west in the middle of the night; and then filming until three or four o'clock, rushing back to sleep, after the staff cleaned up, the sky was basically bright, people couldn't sit still, and the back hurt like an iron rod, so they could only beat it twice on their backs, and returned to the hotel to see the bed, and the whole person fell asleep, and at 9 or 10 o'clock in the morning, he got up again and arranged the shots to be shot at night。

Su Yan was so tired that sometimes he didn't even want to take a bath, so he went back to fall asleep on the bed, and was pulled up by Yun'er with his ears and forced to take a bath.

At the end of the week, he found that no, two months was too tight.

Recent shots are mainly parkour escapes, compared to other lenses, the most error-prone, a single run shot more than a dozen times is very common, sometimes two in one night, serious lag.

As a result, Su Yan proposed a new plan, which is a method often used by large crews: group shooting.

Divide the entire crew into two groups: A and B.

The producer was dumbfounded when he heard it, the method sounds good, but you will guide one group, and who will care about the other group?

Don't talk about Li Shanggen, to be honest, he is very glad that he chose Su Yan in the end, because this person has enthusiasm, but he has limited ability and experience, and there was a scene before that it was a toxic gas spreading into the city, causing innocent citizens to be harmed, it was a group play, but it was actually to be split into several shots and spliced together.

But it took three nights, but it was not filmed well, mainly because the group performance needed to be performed without physical objects, and the thick white fog would be added through computer special effects in the later stage.

Later, Su Yan saw that it couldn't be done, so he came by himself and did it in two hours.

So if you still let Li Shanggen come, he won't worry.

Su Yan replied directly, the two groups are guided by themselves, and it is nothing to work hard.

The producer couldn't help him, and called everyone to gather.

......

After shooting in groups, the progress was really much faster, but Su Yandi's spirit went on day by day.

During the day, the shooting is in hotels and hospitals, which is about six hours a day, and at night, it is on the set, when the two groups rotate every day, or when the night scene ends a little early, I hurry back to sleep.

Later, I simply asked SM to send a nanny car with a bed, which was parked directly on the edge of the venue, and when I needed to move, I just squinted in the car for a while.

Some experienced masters of the crew began to teach the young Director Su the three treasures of staying up late for the crew to shoot consecutive scenes.

The first is called "Thief's Eye" - a few drops of wind oil essence are dropped into a heavily flavored camel cigarette before smoking. The smell of smoke is particularly strong and pungent in the mouth. It is said that smoking this kind of cigarette is very energetic to film at night, the eyes will shine, and the thief will shine, so it is named, but Su Yan does not smoke, and Yun'er does not let it.

The second is called "Aphrodisiac Treasure" - two taels of sorghum wine, one raw egg, put the wine in a long-necked cup, knock in the egg, stir well and drink it in one gulp. It is said that drinking this sake not only refreshes oneself. The most important thing is that it can aphrodisiac, which can reduce the damage to the kidneys from staying up all night, and is a must-have for the crew men to travel at home and catch up with the scene. The disadvantage is that it is better to drink this amount of alcohol, if you don't know how to drink, it is better not to touch it, lest it be refreshing, but you will not wake up after a glass, Su Yan can't drink well, or you can't use it.

The third thing is called "full of bad breath" - in fact, it should be called full of bad breath. To put it bluntly, it's garlic. When you are sleepy, the garlic is chewed together with the garlic clothes, and the garlic flavor in your mouth can continue to stimulate you for a long time and you don't want to sleep. The disadvantage of this thing is that Yun'er hid when she saw Su Yan later and was smoked.

Staying up late and lack of sleep, coupled with eating garlic, Su Yan is all kinds of fire, foaming in his mouth, and his appetite is gone.

Yun'er is also busy, she and the male protagonist basically have scenes day and night, but they don't need to be on the set all the time, so they found a local Chinese chef and gave Su Yandun a little nourishing soup every day, which made Su Yan's physical strength recover a little.

In the blink of an eye, another seven days passed, and he discovered another truth - it turned out that staying up late would not become more and more sleepy, but would become more and more refined in the first few days.

Su Yan once had a stage when he really wanted to commit suicide in pain, or secretly run away and take a big nap, what movie, what responsibility to.

During that time, as soon as he stood up, he either turned around, or his eyes were blurry, and he relied on intuition to give orders casually, and his legs were like pouring lead and stepping on cotton, light and heavy.

But Yun'er saw it in her eyes, but she didn't feel happy at all, but felt distressed like a knife.

In just ten days, Su Yan's whole person lost a lot of weight, the bloodshot in his eyes couldn't fade at all, his eye sockets sank, and his hair was messy and he didn't have time to take care of it, so he buttoned up a hat.

Everyone looks at Su Yan like a monster. Although they were divided into groups, the intensity of ten hours a day was still very tiring, and everyone's spirit was very poor, but this director was the only director, like a madman who couldn't squeeze out exhaustion, waving an invisible whip to drive everyone away.

Li Shanggen is completely convinced, only by seeing it with his own eyes can he know how difficult it is to shoot a movie, and if he wants to do it, I really don't know what the result is now.

Che Taixian, Gao Douxin, and Cao Zhengzheng also admire it from the bottom of their hearts, they are experienced, and they have seen any director, but there are really few people like Su Yan who fight like this.

Moreover, Su Yan's requirements for the works are so high, everyone sees it, and all departments dare not be lazy when they see the boss so attentive, although he is very polite and rarely scolds, but the pressure exuded can be felt.

When he couldn't meet the director's requirements, or when something went wrong and wasted the crew's time, Su Yan never bothered to scold anyone, he just raised his eyes and glanced at this person coldly, even a fifty or sixty-year-old master would be ashamed to break out in a cold sweat.

On this day, the indoor drama ushered in the last shot, that is, after today, all the scenes will be filmed at night, and there is no need to group them again.

About a quarter of the scenes in the hotel were taken up, and many of the shots were picked out for daylight shooting.

The plot is relatively simple, the children celebrate their mother's 70th birthday, and a group of people sing and dance, sing and dance in the grand banquet hall, directly exceeding the business hours.

After rehearsing twice during the shooting, it was very smooth, and I gave it one time.

After hearing Su Yan's voice of "GOOD, CUT!", the whole scene was boiling.

Because Su Yan has already spoken, after the hotel camera is filmed, there will be no shooting at night, and the day after tomorrow will be closed, and all the food needed for filming for this purpose will be real, and a small dinner will be held.

And after the big scene is over, there is only one shot left of the male and female protagonists talking in the stairwell, and it will end right away, how can you not be happy.

The main reason for this arrangement is that everyone is too tired, half a month of day and night shooting, the progress is catching up, but the mental and physical strength is unbearable, including himself, although the next can be relatively fixed at night shooting, but in the long run, the efficiency will be affected.

In addition, it just so happened that Lao Hu's wedding in South Korea was about to start, so he simply took a vacation.

When the dialogue between the male protagonist and the female protagonist returned to the hall after filming, they found that the producer was directing the pots of ginseng and chicken soup to be brought in, ready to make up for the staff, and the others began to clean up their things.

"Hurry up and finish the business at hand, and take a holiday after eating!" Su Yan shouted, then found a corner and lay down.

Tired!

Sleepy!

I can't stand it!

When the shooting came to an end, the thread in his heart was tense and loosened, and if he didn't lie down, he was afraid that he would faint.

In the confusion, the original noise in the ears seemed to have become smaller,

I don't know how long it took, suddenly a slight trembling, he woke up, the chair was really uncomfortable, rubbed his sore waist, and was stunned just when he remembered it.

What caught my eye was Yun'er's pretty face that seemed to be smiling, a pair of crystal eyes really stared at herself, and when she looked up, Cha Taehyun, Cao Zhengxiu, Gao Douxin, Li Shanggen, and some other staff members were standing on the side.

"You are..."

Su Yan found that all the filming equipment had been packed up, and the group performance left, and he didn't hear such a big movement?

No!

Someone should have found him sleeping and deliberately asked everyone to be lighter, lighter.

"Good work, Director!"

With sincerity, everyone bowed to Su Yan and thanked him.

As a director of Huaxia, he was finally recognized by the crew.

"Hurry up and eat, my stomach is ringing with hunger. Su Yan snorted, he was very moved, but he didn't want to cry in front of so many people.

"Okay, eat. ”

"Oba, you don't have ginseng in your chicken soup, you can eat a little more. ”

"I need to go back and get some good sleep. ”

"I'm going to come over on the morning of the 22nd to report, don't forget it. ”

"Hey, hey, it's delicious!"

(Thanks to the Flying Dancer Lao Tie for the tip)

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