"Very good, Mr. Chen Daoming, we have finished filming the part where the village teacher died. The children are doing well, and this paragraph can be passed. ”

Standing in a dilapidated adobe classroom in a rural village in the northwest, watching another important shot of the film finally finish shooting.

Peng Yichen sat back in the director's chair and let out a long breath, feeling that his whole body was a lot more relaxed.

Although he had long thought that the filming of science fiction movies would be difficult, after the filming really started, he realized that he still did not anticipate the difficulties enough.

During the filming of the opposite scene with Tom Hanks, Peng Yichen put all his experience on acting.

During that time, he was also the happiest and happier.

But since the end of Hanks's role, Peng Yichen's work focus has inevitably been on director and crew management.

It was only at this time that he realized how painful it was to control a large crew of more than 1,000 people and shoot a movie with such a huge background.

There are 100 things waiting for him to decide and solve every day, and at the same time, there are another 100 things that will happen tomorrow and still need him to decide and solve.

That kind of psychological and physical double pressure made Peng Yichen, who was a master of national arts, a little unbearable.

Fortunately, with the help of producer Blake, most of the shots were shot smoothly.

And the time has come to the end of December, and the part of the carbon-based federation that requires the use of holographic projection equipment throughout the process has been filmed early.

Now only a small number of exterior locations need to be reshot.

The exterior part is basically all the scenes of several child actors led by Chen Daoming and Wang Qing, Peng Yichen finally does not have to be a director and an actor at the same time, and concentrates on being a director.

The only thing that worries him now is the progress of the shoot and the time of post-production.

"Country Teacher" is Peng Yichen's longest preparation film, and the filming time was originally planned to start from July to November, giving more than 5 months.

The reason was that I thought that this time should be very abundant, but I didn't expect that it would be completely insufficient to shoot, and it was delayed until mid-December.

Of course, the difficulty in filming is not the reason why Peng Yichen has been feeling depressed recently.

What saddened him was to see the poverty and hardship of life in the mountainous northwest with his own eyes.

Just as he was sitting in his chair and thinking nonsense, in the clear blue sky outside the classroom, a helicopter in charge of aerial photography flew into the open space not far from the classroom.

At the end of the film, after the rural teacher is rescued by aliens, Peng Yichen plans to focus the camera on the entire dilapidated and desolate mountain village on the Loess Plateau when he returns to the classroom where he has worked all his life.

He wants to use these scenes of backward, ignorant, and ignorant regions in the eyes of ordinary people to contrast the plot of the children saving the whole earth in front of him.

This kind of great irony and sad ridicule of the so-called modernization and high-rise buildings, as well as the lament of the countless children on the Loess Plateau who are constantly living and trying to change their own destiny.

It impacts Peng Yichen's heart and brain all the time.

He wanted to do something for this land, because he was also a child of the Northwest in his previous life.

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"Trouble fly down a little more, drop thirty meters first!" Peng Yichen sat on the helicopter and shouted to the pilot.

The helicopter pilot nodded at him and replied through the microphone, "Okay!"

On board the cramped commercial helicopter, there is also an auxiliary pilot, as well as Zhao Liansheng, who carries a camera.

As the pilot pressed the lever down, the height of the helicopter slowly dropped by about 30 meters.

At this time, Peng Yichen, with the help of another pilot, opened the door of the helicopter.

The wind outside blew in his face, and the cold winter wind was like a knife, blowing his cheeks painfully.

But he didn't pay any attention to it, his eyes fixed on the viewfinder, and it wasn't until the whole mountain village was framed that he gave the next order to the pilot.

From the ground, the helicopter looks like a goshawk, circling around the dilapidated classroom of a rural primary school.

In order to take a good picture of the beautiful shot of the rural teacher returning to the children.

The whole crew has been fully prepared for a long time.

In order to let the aerial camera finally freeze on the faces of Chen Daoming and the children, a few days in advance, Peng Yichen instructed them to practice countless moves.

Moreover, Peng Yichen also arranged a full 5 cameras at the scene to shoot in all directions.

There are two in the air, one is the one on the helicopter, which is in charge of Peng Yichen and Zhao Liansheng, and the other is aimed at the door of the classroom with a high crane in mid-air to prevent problems with the lens on the helicopter and have a spare material.

On the ground, Fredman, a cameraman sent by Zehua Na, was in charge of setting up a camera in front of the classroom, behind the classroom, and in front of the classroom vista.

Each machine is manned by an assistant director or assistant camera to ensure that the shots are perfect from every angle.

"Well, let's start shooting from here. Peng Yichen put down the viewfinder in front of him.

Picked up the walkie-talkie hanging on his chest, into the microphone, and shouted in English: "Fred, I'm Director Peng." Are you all ready for the cameras below?OVER. ”

The walkie-talkie first made a rustling sound, and then Fredeman's deep voice rang out: "BOSS, we're all ready here, OVER." ”

Hollywood staff are used to calling Peng Yichen BOSS, which is said to be a way for Hollywood crews to pay tribute to the director.

If they only call you "sir" instead of "boss", it means that they don't look down on you at all.

Peng Yichen turned on the walkie-talkie again and shouted, "Okay, please check the machine one last time." 3 minutes later, the penultimate shot of the last scene officially started, OVER. ”

He put down the walkie-talkie with a smile, looked back, and said, "Brother Zhao, how is it?

Zhao Liansheng smiled honestly, steadily carrying the 3D camera transformed by Peng Yichen, and replied: "When we were children, boys didn't have much to play, they climbed high and low every day, how could there be a fear of heights. ”

"Okay, let's get started!" Peng Yichen picked up the viewfinder again, and then shouted into the walkie-talkie: "I'm Director Peng, all the cameras on the scene are ready to say yes, OVER." ”

The other four cameras replied in turn.

"Ready", "All set"......

Peng Yichen took a deep breath, looked at the convoy on the ground and the helicopter group around him in the distance, and shouted, "Everyone prepare, 3, 2, 1...... Action！”

With his order, a group of children sat down on the earthen platform at the door of the classroom under the leadership of Wang Qing.

These children are all children from nearby mountain villages, so they don't need any acting skills at all, and they are all acting in their true colors.

The teacher, who had taught them for a few years, suddenly disappeared last night.

These children think that they can only live in the mountains of the Loess Plateau in the future, facing the loess and facing the sky for the rest of their lives, and they have endless despair and sadness in their hearts.

Of course, they may not even understand what grief is, just plain despair and numbness.

As the helicopter slowly circled and landed, Peng Yichen clearly saw through the viewfinder that the faces of the children in the lens were getting bigger and bigger, and the Loess Plateau behind them blended together.

It's all so dilapidated, desolate, and numb.

It was the pain of losing all hope, and no acting or acting could compare to that reality.

Seeing the expressions of these children, Peng Yichen felt that his understanding of acting skills was more profound.

At this moment, the rural teacher played by Chen Daoming suddenly greeted the morning light and walked up from the hillside.

His steps were so firm, and his face was ruddy, as if he could work on this land for another lifetime.

Of course, the morning light in the movie screen depends on the post-production computer special effects, and it is impossible to do so coincidentally in the actual environment.

Then, the most crucial part of the whole shot came.

I saw that those children still maintained a numb and desperate look on their faces at first, but after Chen Daoming appeared, they were all stunned.

Then, their faces erupted with a natural smile and the happiness of finding hope.

This change in expression instantly touched all the crew members present.

The reason why these children were able to achieve such a real change in expression.

It was Peng Yichen who asked the crew to tell these children early in the morning that Chen Daoming was really missing, and asked them to help find them all morning.

In the end, the real reaction can be shown when shooting.

Although it is a bit shameless to deceive these children in this way, for the sake of the effect of the movie, Peng Yichen can only make this decision.

"CUT!" Seeing that this shot was perfectly shot, Peng Yichen took out the walkie-talkie and shouted.

Through the intercom, he asked Fredeman and a few other ground cameramen, "How is your camera?"

The voices of Fredman and other videographers came out of the walkie-talkie one by one.

"Good!", "Perfect. "I'm okay here......

Peng Yichen shouted happily: "That's good." Let's start packing up. After I go down, after the last blast shot, we'll be done. ”

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Today is the twentieth day of filming on the Loess Plateau for the crew of "Country Teacher".

It was also the day when the whole movie was finished.

Back in the stage of filming at the science fiction film and television base in the suburbs of Kyoto.

Producer Blake came to the mountains of the Loess Plateau to arrange all matters related to location shooting.

Including finding a suitable mountain village school, finding extras, contacting the local government, renting a helicopter, preparing the food, clothing, housing and transportation of the crew members, etc......

It's hard for him, a native of the Star Banner country, to take a translator and two or three assistants to handle all such complicated things properly, which made Peng Yichen sweep away a lot of trouble.

As soon as the crew arrived at the Loess Plateau, Peng Yichen determined several locations for location filming on the same day.

The next day, the entire on-location film crew began filming in earnest.

Everyone's efficiency and enthusiasm are very high, and these staff and actors from the Star Flag Country all hope to finish filming early and go home early for Christmas.

The staff of Huaxia also hope to finish the shooting as soon as possible and go home for the New Year.

Just when Xingqi Country and Chinese fans were discussing the movie "Country Teacher" in full swing.

Peng Yichen and his crew were desperately catching up with the filming progress in the mountains of the Huangtou Plateau.

This shot is twenty days.

Now, the film can finally come to an end.

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Boom, boom......

The helicopter streaked across the blue sky, across a small mountain village on the ground, and stopped in an open field outside the filming site.

In the movie, it's the place to save the whole planet.

But in reality, this is still a poor and backward small mountain village.

Peng Yichen can only donate as much money as possible every year to build more hope schools here, and there is nothing else he can do.

"Mom, hurry up and see, there's a plane in the sky!"

At the door of the adobe cave, a small child with a runny nose and wearing a new and ill-fitting dress given by the film crew suddenly jumped up excitedly, looking at the helicopter flying overhead with great excitement and happiness.

With the roar of "rumble", he shouted excitedly as he jumped. It's like seeing a new hope in life.

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