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Kowloon Walled City.

The potholed bluestone pavement, sewage flowing, and garbage piling up are very chaotic. Houses are lined up one after another, and plastic sheds and clothes poles shade the sky and obstruct the blue sky and sunlight.

Call!

A huge shadow swept over the sky, and the people around were accustomed to the sudden loud noise, and they were busy and did not care.

"This is very detrimental to rest. ”

The slender Wang Jiawei tilted his head, turned his head to look at the numb people, and asked the skinny man wearing a flower shirt and dark skin on the side: "Isn't there a government to take care of it?"

The man in the flower shirt fanned the phoenix with his open collar, wiped the beads of sweat with his hand, and pouted when he heard the sound, "This is the Kowloon Walled City." ”

"Kowloon Walled City ......" Wang Jiawei tasted the word, which seems to be more three-dimensional.

"This is the three areas of Hong Kong Island, where dirt and dirt and dilapidated conservatism are intertwined. This is not under the control of the British government. If you really want to talk about it, you ask the Qing Dynasty to control it. ”

The man in the flower shirt teased sarcastically, "I think the ghost guy and the Qing Dynasty must not have extradition regulations." The head of the matter can't control it here. Besides, we don't need them to manage it. To tell the truth, if we really want to talk about patriotism, we are the only ones who stick to society and are loyal to the country. Never let a foreigner step in. The leftists outside you are at best two or five boys. It is said that the ghost guy is going to demolish this place...... My old bean may still have a demolition payment, and if I can't say it, I'll jump into the sky, abalone and lobster. ”

Wang Jiawei was speechless in front of this possible "second generation".

The people of the Kowloon Walled City, he didn't understand, but his heart was touched.

"Let's go, my boss will let me lead you around. First of all, I'll help you solve the problem when you shoot a movie here. But keep ye in order here. Look less, talk less, scurry, talk less. If you follow the rules and get into less trouble, then this place is as safe as the Governor's Palace. Otherwise......"

The flower shirt beckoned to the crew behind her, and finally the voice became quieter and quieter.

"Order, rules. ”

Wang Jiawei watched the crew follow one after another, and turned his head to look at the chaotic walled city, this word is particularly ironic, but it is so harmonious. In the outside world, he heard a lot about the chaos of the Kowloon Walled City, but he didn't expect that the people here thought that it was safer than outside.

looked at a lot of warblers dressed explicitly, combing clouds and sweeping the moon, to a bit of Wang Shifu's description in "The Legend of the West Chamber". There are also down-to-earth hawkers who carry flat burdens and rush to the food street to sell, just like Lao She's coachman, and there are also women upstairs who throw sheets to dry clothes, like Zhang Ailing's metaphor of mosquito blood, as well as young people who are angry in the stream, and there are even young children running around with toys and bare buttocks.

Linlin is full of eyes.

Wang Jiawei seems to have begun to understand a little about the Kowloon Walled City. This is not Longtan Tiger's Den, this is not a demon confusion, there is the same life gas here.

He suddenly understood why Wu Xiaozu chose to shoot "Suspect" here.

Perhaps, if Hong Kong Island is looking for a place to convince people that there is such a feeling in the story, then he may think of the Kowloon Walled City.

A demonized but independent town within the walls.

…

Bluestone small building, banquet living room.

The blackened shrine, the black and red Guan Erye is holding the Blue Dragon Glaive Knife, majestic. Sandalwood was thick with a faint aroma that muffled the smell of tobacco in some of the house.

"Knock knock..."

On the first seat sat an old man wearing a charcoal-black cardigan buttoned gown, with a ruddy face, and a pair of excellent quality, jade luster and a pair of excellent stuffy lion's head walnuts with a jade luster.

"Of course, filming in the Kowloon Walled City is not a problem. ”

The rich old man stopped the walnut in his hand, smiled honestly, and looked kind, but his words were full of control, "I have lived here for decades, but few big directors come here to shoot here."

Two years ago, there was a "The One Who Came Out of the Walled City", but this year the north signed a cooperation agreement with the ghost guy and decided to demolish it. Now things are too chaotic in the walled city, and things are not too easy to do. Can help me naturally help, but ...... I have lived for decades, but I have to leave my hometown. I don't know how much more ...... is left of the coffin I liked."

On the surface, the old man's words were complaints about the relocation of the Chinese, but the gongs and drums listened to the sound and listened to the sound.

Next, Wu Xiaozu held the tea, listened quietly with a smile, did not evaluate the words in front of him, and looked at the nose and nose. This matter is not for him to come out with. Unless...... He wants to return to the gangster from the unbridled director.

"Thank you, Uncle Dog. ”

Xiang Sheng put on his glasses, his eyes brushed over Wu Xiaozu, and when he saw him smiling at himself, he paused and took the box handed by the driver, "Uncle Dog, I know that your old man is about to celebrate his 70th birthday, so he specially asked someone to make a golden birthday peach." ”

The golden longevity peach is not small in size and is not low in value.

Filming in the Kowloon Walled City, I really thought it was the upper lip touching the lower lip? Wang Xianxian brushed his teeth and paid attention to blowing and biting to add more than a dozen tricks, not to mention eating on other people's territory.

What is courtesy?

This is human courtesy.

If you take care of others, you will give your own reward. This kind of thing is called bribery by officials, kickbacks in business, and this is called "protection money" at the moment! It cannot be put on the table, but no one can do without it.

Sure enough, as soon as the golden longevity peach was offered, the rich old man's smile instantly became much kinder, and he no longer had a demeanor.

……

The crew was busy and in a hurry.

Qiu Litao held a cigarette in his mouth and threw one to Wang Jiawei. He was also very curious about the helper in front of him that Wu Xiaozu personally carried.

He saw clearly that from himself to Liu Weiqiang, to Luo Liraman and Ye Weixin, every person who was promoted by his ancestral brother would eventually be cultivated on his own

Didn't he shoot a "The True Story of a Beautiful Girl" because of this? Liu Weiqiang became the successor of the "Crazy Boy" series. The white-faced scholar in front of him obviously has something that Brother Zu values.

"Surprised?" Qiu Litao shook off the big golden retriever dyed gold.

Wang Jiawei glanced at the non-mainstream hippie with a long hair shawl in front of him, and said in a deep voice, "It may be the first time to really enter the crew." Only to find out that the work here is very complicated. It's not quite what I imagined. ”

"Hah, what do you imagine?"

Qiu Litao squatted on the cigarette roll in his mouth and joked, "You don't think that the director walked into the set slowly, and then threw a draft script to the actor and told the other party, I want you to perform this feeling, right......?"

Wang Jiawei blinked, thoughtful.

"A director is like the head of a company, and all departments need to work closely together and communicate with each other. Every link, even if the tea is not delicious, will affect the state of the entire crew.

Movies are artistic, and they have a sunny and snowy side, but when filmmakers create artistic images, they have to abandon this kind of spring and snow and deal with these things of the lower riba people in a down-to-earth manner.

Brother Zu told me that the director not only needs you to observe this society with your eyes, but also needs you to use your eyes to discover the greatest potential of the main creators. Accumulation is a filmmaker's greatest asset. Qiu Litao read his directorial experience and shared it with Wang Jiawei.

Pointing to the rows of buildings, "The government has decided to demolish this place, and I heard that it will be converted into a park." Perhaps later generations will no longer know about the Kowloon Walled City. ”

Wang Jiawei didn't drink Qiu Litao's chicken soup.

Think about it, how high is the immunity of a screenwriter-turned-director?

The reason why Wang Jiawei was able to grow into a big pit ratio is naturally that people have an unswerving stinky and shameless spirit!

Where is a bowl or two of chicken soup can be filled with confusion.

Looking at the strange and curious Kowloon Walled City in front of him, Wang Jiawei's eyelids drooped and his eyes rolled.

Don't think that people have low emotional intelligence when it comes to losing money. It's really that low, Wang Jiawei won't become a money-making boss in literary films, and pull out Zedong Film Company.

People like Liu Dehua, who specializes in making commercial films, opened a Tianmu Film Company, and in the end, they all went hungry. It is conceivable that Wang Jiawei is indeed a qualified businessman.

"Then why not make a documentary about the Kowloon Walled City??" Wang Jiawei reminded lightly.

"Documentary??"

"Ready-made crews, machines on site, people on site. Wang Jiawei crossed his fingers, his eyes eager to try, "Maybe Director Wu will agree...... Maybe. ”

"I can give it a try. Qiu Litao's eyes lit up, "Just take it as a movie tidbit." ”

Wu Xiaozu would not have thought that the two assistant directors he had appointed were thinking about filming a documentary about the Kowloon Walled City at the moment.

When the non-mainstream cult director Qiu Litao met Wang Jiawei, a petty bourgeois artist, a different spark collided.

…

Wu Xiaozu wore a white T-shirt and a pair of frosted retro jeans, simple and low-key, ignoring the surrounding environment.

Wang Jiawei, who was behind him, looked at the people in the walled city who stopped around him, and looked at the people in front of him thoughtfully.

"Walking up from here, there is an open aisle. Meets the requirements of the scene in the script. Brother Zu, look at this ......."

Qiu Litao tied up his ponytail, sweated and carried an electronic speaker, leading Wu Xiaozu to the shooting site, "Brother Zu, you can set up the camera here, just to shoot the panorama." You can also put a camera position over there for staggered shooting. ”

"Yes. ”

Wu Xiaozu nodded, after the initial investigation and re-investigation, the main scenes required for "The Suspect" have been selected. In addition to the Kowloon Walled City, there are also several locations outside.

"How's the light going to be here? How do you need to fill in the light, do you expect it?"

Wu Xiaozu asked Qiu Litao casually, and then squatted down without any scruples, raised the camera to adjust the focus and aperture, and took a photo.

"I've experimented with Ringo before, no problem. ”

Ao Zhijun walked downstairs and said with a smile: "Knowing that you are demanding, we have already designed several plans. ”

Next to Wu Xiaozu, Wang Jiawei, who was tall and thin with glasses, followed behind him with a pen and paper. Seeing Wu Xiaozu's movements, he couldn't help but secretly ask Qiu Litao beside him: "Director Wu, why do you use a camera?"

"The camera's focal circle simulates a camera while being able to see the depth of field and aperture effects. Qiu Litao explained.

Wang Jiawei suddenly wrote down the knowledge points on the pen and paper.

The four of them walked up the stairs and were greeted by a group of porters carrying construction waste just downstairs.

"Brother Zu. Su Liyao saw Wu Xiaozu and greeted him with a smile.

"How's it going?"

"It took double the price for the landlord to allow the room to be remodeled. ”

Su Liyao said with a smile, "Now it's time to put the finishing touches, and Yu Jiaamine and Zou Lin are in the room next to them and take people to test the lighting effects." ”

The heroine's room is very simple, just to show the characteristics of the woman's room. The props team quickly completed the layout of the room.

But the male protagonist is a math teacher, and in order to reflect the character, the set team worked hard in Zhang Guoxuan's room.

According to the requirements of Wu Xiaozu's storyboard and script, Zou Lin and the set team chose a depressed and gloomy tone to express the character of the protagonist. In the cramped space, the layout is completed in line with the human design.

I can't do my homework on the sense of the camera, and I don't show off my skills in post-editing. This requires the film to work more on the small details.

The environment highlights the characters, and through small details, they are shown to the audience.

Wu Xiaozu is not sure whether Hong Kong Island audiences will accept this method, but he hopes that he can try and experiment with film and television technology without losing his own money.

Oh Hyo-jo loves a Japanese movie from the 70s!

Serious movies.

"The Yellow Handkerchief of Happiness" directed by Yoji Yamada, which is Wu Xiaozu's favorite movie between Yoji Yamada and Ken Takakura.

The film is trivial, and the movie also chooses a straightforward push.

However, the details and the display of props inside made Wu Xiaozu very rewarding.

When the yellow handkerchief fluttered, people couldn't help but smile with Takakura Ken.

This kind of description will test the director's grasp of details, and he has a grasp of a small prop and a change in the environment to promote the development of the character's plot.

Forcibly sensational tears are as tasteless as comedy that tickles hard to make you laugh.

In the movie "Suspect", Wu Xiaozu is ready to shrink his mind and take back the camera a little. No longer use the lens to describe those big stories, but devote yourself to depicting a very small story, a very small human heart.

A lot of directors, you find that he is very skillful in shooting large-scale movies, and the films are wonderful enough. But I always feel that the power and taste are lost, which makes this movie not enough to become a classic.

This loss is a director's acumen and grasp of details.

Of course, this drama also tests the acting skills of the actors on the other hand.

Go upstairs.

"The blackboard is on this side, and the books are cut out of the borrowing sticks. Don't be too neat, let people know that the owner often flips after seeing it.

Yes, there's a lamp on the desk over there...... Loose straw paper is spread on top...... Move a little to the side. That who, you can't take that photo, go to the potion to make it old. Yu Jiaamine carefully instructed the on-site staff to adjust the placement of props.

Looking at the furnishings of the room, Wu Xiaozu nodded, basically according to the requirements of his storyboard.

Wu Xiaozu's storyboard sketch has a relatively three-dimensional depiction of the room. Of course, there must be a gap between filmmaking and painting. There are a lot of compromises to make for the shoot.

For example, the window glass is made of dark frosted glass, and the chandelier is also in a very quaint style. When shooting in this way, the light will match the shooting requirements.

When Wu Xiaozu picked up the camera to take pictures, Pan Hengsheng, Ao Zhijun, and Qiu Litao also circled the scene with their fingers to survey the scene, squatting down from time to time to see if it was enough to bury the camera, and the depth of field viewfinder did not meet the requirements.

Observe whether the lens can open up the depth of field, how to cut the lens when shooting, and how to guide the actor to move.

Which are the camera's blind spots, which are suitable for close-up framing, and which are convenient for close-up or medium and long shots. Cinematography isn't just about fiddling with the machine, you have to work out the hard work of figuring out the right angle and lens selection for a scene.

Each shot and where each shot is more suitable for transitions.

When shooting on a roll of film, which framing lens intervals are suitable for intermittent film changes.

These are things that the cameraman and the director are asking to consider.

Although the film was filmed, the plan could not keep up with the changes, and it was impossible to completely copy and shoot. But this kind of homework has to be considered.

A fool can't be a videographer.

A good videographer needs to think about a lot of things before the director.

Ao Zhijun, the cameraman, stood up, walked to the place where the camera was predetermined, looked at the camera, and circled the performance position, which was convenient for shooting, and the actor would not go out of the lens design when performing.

In this movie, Pan Hengsheng and Ao Zhijun serve as camera directors, although there is no strong demand for a sense of lens in "Two Heroes", but the more ordinary it is, the more this seemingly simple shot, the more it tests the creativity and talent of the cameraman.

In order to present the best audio-visual effect, the pre-preparation of this play is more cumbersome. Filming films, itself is designed to work with many departments.

Lighting, sets, props, and videography all need to be prepared according to the script and storyboard.

The sets and props needed to be adjusted to the two apartments, not only to meet the imaging requirements of the film, but also to fit the characters, and not to mess around.

At the same time, it is necessary to leave enough creative space for photography and lighting.

The camera should be in the camera position, the lighting should be wired, the light chromaticity should be adjusted, and the requirements of the script should be determined, which is very tedious.

Cinema itself is a complex industrial artifact.

is different from "The Butcher on a Rainy Night", which belongs to Liang Jiahui's one-man show. and the dramatic tension of the intense fast editing in "Two Heroes".

The characters of "Suspect" themselves do not have such a strong sense of visual impact under the camera.

The characters, the scenes, and the lighting are all in the service of the rhythm and story of the whole play.

This drama also tests Wu Xiaozu very much.

Let the director use lenses, lighting, and scenes to match the actors' performances to complete a movie that is attractive enough for the audience.

One ring at a time, the slightest bit of it is interlocked, rendering enough attractiveness.

Test the director's ability to drive the story.

can make Wu Xiaozu calm down and tell a mixed story. Make up for Wu Xiaozu's weakness.