At the end of March, after negotiation between the two parties, the total budget of the film "People in Embarrassment" increased to 17 million, of which Huang Changtian's Light Film and Television invested 8 million, Lin Xiaoguang personally invested 5 million, and Xu Zheng invested 4 million.

Lin Xiaoguang originally thought that a comedy film could have a budget of 17 million yuan, and basically there would be no financial problems, but in fact, Lin Xiaoguang, who was a director for the first time, was still a little immature, and many things could not be considered thoroughly.

First of all, the problem of filming location, in order to facilitate and save money, Lin Xiaoguang originally wanted to choose to shoot in the capital nearby, but due to the plot needs in the script of "People in Embarrassment", there must be a big river bridge in the movie.

However, the capital is a freak, it is the only city in the world with a population of more than 10 million people without a large river or by the sea.

You must know that from ancient times to the present, most of the cities and even towns and villages in the world have relied on rivers and water to develop, and only a few desert countries have no large water areas in their cities.

Water is the source of life, where there is no water, how can there be life?

Therefore, the rise, development, and decline of all cities in the world, as well as the destruction and destruction of gods, are closely related to water.

In the world, many large cities with a population of more than 10 million have dozens of rivers passing through the city, but the capital does not have a ......

In the end, Lin Xiaoguang had no choice but to move the filming location of "People in Embarrassment" to Tianjing, first, Tianjing is close to Beijing, and secondly, because it fully meets the filming needs of the film.

This is a three-star hotel, close to the Tianjing Film and Television Base, and many crews are stationed.

Because of the spaciousness and in order to save money, Lin Xiaoguang simply used his room as a temporary conference room for the crew.

At night.

After eating, it suddenly snowed in Tianjing.

Lin Xiaoguang was very surprised, and said in his heart, now that it's April, how can it still snow in Tianjing......

Slowly, Lin Xiaoguang lowered his head and took out the key, opened the door, and walked back to the room, where the left wall was plastered with storyboards of the movie.

As early as three days ago, Yang Haoyu, the storyboard artist of "People in Embarrassment", drew the storyboard of the film's heavy scenes.

He is one of the youngest storyboard artists in China, and Lin Xiaoguang became friends with him when he was filming "Li Mi's Conjecture", but he was temporarily arrested by Lin Xiaoguang, and the friendship was under house arrest for 20 days, completing most of the storyboards.

Many people may not know that storyboard is actually a very important part of the early stage of a movie, and some people think that drawing a storyboard will limit their imagination, but in fact, on the contrary, the director and photographer first confirm the rough storyboard, and the storyboard will draw it.

With storyboarding, everyone can have more space and time to play on the spot, and can allocate equipment more reasonably and save money.

Although the time is very short, Yang Haoyu is very good, if you paste his storyboard on the façade of the hotel, you can see the whole story by jumping off the building.

Sofas and chairs are still used in meetings.

After a busy day, the machine will be turned on tomorrow, Lin Xiaoguang lay down on the bed early and sent a message to Li Xiaoran, and at this moment, the phone rang and asked if he needed a massage.

Lin Xiaoguang hesitated slightly, and the other party immediately said, "I'm sorry, we don't have special services here." ”

"Is my hesitation still revealing pornography?"

Lin Xiaoguang thought about it, and in a fit of anger, he asked for a cervical spine massage.

The massage technician quickly went upstairs.

The walls and tables in the room are the core content of the movie, and in order to prevent leaks, Lin Xiaoguang turned off all the lights.

The female technician came to the bedside and asked Lin Xiaoguang, "Sir, are you a celebrity?"

Lin Xiaoguang was shocked, and thought, it's all black like this, if the female technician doesn't speak, I don't even know her gender and nationality, but I can still know who I am, could it be my brainless fan?

Lin Xiaoguang sighed in his heart, he was really handsome, and he was shining in the dark.

But Lin Xiaoguang still pretended to be calm and asked, "Why do you say that?"

The girl said, "Oh, because we are here in the crew hotel, and there are often actors who live here, and many of them don't turn on the lights for massage in order not to let us know who they are, are you an actor?"

Lin Xiaoguang smiled: "No, I'm a director, but I don't want to turn on the lights." ”

The girl smiled and said, "However, it is pitch black before my eyes, and I cannot see anything but your voice." ”

"It's okay, you take it easy, open the window, and you can see me with a little light. After Lin Xiaoguang finished speaking, he turned over and lay on the bed.

The female technician nodded and obediently pushed the window open.

The room was really much brighter, at least the female technician could feel Lin Xiaoguang's body through the afterglow shining in from the window, and then help him massage.

Outside the window is a film and television base built in imitation of old Shanghai, where the 2003 hit "The Family of Gold Powder" was filmed, and the crane lifted the huge lights, presumably a certain crew was filming a night scene.

The next morning, Lin Xiaoguang opened the curtains, and the street floor was already white.

Lin Xiaoguang sent a message to the director's assistant and producer Xu Zheng, asking them to pay attention to safety, especially the equipment vehicles that go first, and be careful when crossing the bridge.

No way, the ground was too slippery after the snow last night.

When we arrived at our destination, it was already eight o'clock in the morning.

Everyone was surprised that the director was not late.

Subsequently, the crew of "People in Embarrassment" held a simple start-up worship ceremony on Tianjing Street in a low-key manner.

Lin Xiaoguang led the two leading actors Xu Zheng, Huang Baoqiang, the heroine Xiao Taohong, and the supporting actresses Zuo Xiaoqing, Li Xiaolu and others to burn incense for Master Guan, and set off a few strings of firecrackers to finish the matter.

There was no press conference, and no other big-name celebrities came to cheer.

Only three or five reporters from the local media in Tianjing came to report on it, mainly for the fame of the stars.

Fortunately, Lin Xiaoguang still has two or three hundred fans on the scene to support, and more than 1,000 citizens on the street are watching the excitement, which is not very shabby.

This is the case with small-budget movies, there is no money for publicity, there is no money for reporters to report round-trip air tickets, and every cent and every cent must be deducted.

At the end of the start-up ceremony, Lin Xiaoguang said to the assistant director: "It's almost time, let's start work, what about the photographer?"

The assistant director said: "It's still on the way. ”

In other words, Sun Ming, the photographer of "People in Embarrassment", is Lin Xiaoguang's master in photography, as early as the filming of the movie "Life Show", Lin Xiaoguang learned a lot of professional knowledge from him, and the two occasionally had contact in private, that's all.

At first, Lin Xiaoguang didn't plan to find Sun Ming to shoot, the so-called "killing chickens with a knife", just a comedy, and not being able to hire a master photographer to make literary films is a waste of talent.

However, what moved and surprised Lin Xiaoguang was that after Sun Ming learned that he was going to make a movie, he actually recommended himself to him and took the initiative to join the crew of "People in Embarrassment", claiming to escort the first film directed by Lin Xiaoguang.

Due to the shortage of funds, Lin Xiaoguang really didn't dare to invite him, so he directly had a showdown with Sun Ming, thinking that he was too expensive to afford to invite himself.

Sun Ming is also righteous enough, and told Lin Xiaoguang that he can take a penny, purely to help.

Sun Ming said this, how dare Lin Xiaoguang do this, he still has to give some points, at least not lower than the market price.

Moreover, Sun Ming is a very serious and rigorous person, and Lin Xiaoguang finally arrived at the scene before him.

The first shot of "People in Embarrassment" is a car scene, where Huang Baoqiang and Xu Zheng are sitting in a prop car.

This scene is about the boss Li Chenggong played by Xu Zheng driving on the road, and the milkman Niu Geng played by Huang Baoqiang has itchy hands and wants to drive, but he falls asleep while driving......

The scenery at that time was very beautiful, and there was snow hanging on the pine trees on the side of the road.

Lin Xiaoguang sat in the back car, and the staff picked up all the equipment.

When the wireless signal in front of him came from the monitor, Lin Xiaoguang was in a trance, did it start like this?

There is never anything in this world that is 100% ready, and being the most prepared often means that you miss everything.

Recording engineer Guo Ming helped Lin Xiaoguang put on headphones and confirmed that there was sound.

After Lin Xiaoguang finished communicating with Xu Zheng and Huang Baoqiang on the walkie-talkie, he made a slight adjustment to the composition.

The assistant director confirmed that the equipment and vehicles were in place, the field manager confirmed that the road was safe, and the cinematographer Sun Ming confirmed that it was ready.

Lin Xiaoguang said to the walkie-talkie: "I can also do it here." ”

The slate began to play the board, and our slate board appeared on the monitor screen, which said "People in Embarrassment" ×× the camera once.

The green standby turns red, and the bulletin board is finished.

“action！”

The vehicle starts.

Lin Xiaoguang's wireless signal was cut off, and there was nothing in the monitor.

Everyone is working intensively in their respective duties, and Lin Xiaoguang is the final decision-maker, but there is a gloom in front of him.

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