On the altar, there is an incense table, which is filled with smoke, and melon and fruit offerings are readily available. In front of the incense table are two water tanks with dragon kings depicted on them, and the tanks are filled with water. There were more than 100 extras standing in the audience, wearing shabby white coats or small shirts, which were the standard attire of peasants in the middle of summer during the Republic of China.

Li Xuejian stood firmly in the center of the altar and shouted in a desolate voice: "Lord Dragon, manifest the spirit! Lord Dragon, manifest the spirit! Lord Dragon, show mercy and give some rain......

Behind the monitor, Zhang Ran pointed to the picture and said softly: "Someone is watching the camera, this lens is a goof!" But Zhang Ran didn't stop shouting, and let the actors continue to act, the crew used a digital camera, and there was no problem of wasting film.

After Li Xuejian finished reading the sacrificial words, he raised his hands with his hands and palms to the sky, and shouted loudly: "Kneel!" After speaking, he took the lead and knelt on the ground, and the actors and extras behind him also fell to the ground.

When the extras knelt down, they looked messy, and it was naturally difficult for Zhang Ran to be satisfied: "No, it's too messy!"

"Knock your head!" Li Xuejian shouted at the same time, leaning down, holding the ground with both hands, and slamming his head on the ground. The surrounding actors and extras all leaned down and bowed......

After the kowtow was over, Zhang Ran finally shouted to stop, and then he called up the contents of the monitor to show the leaders present. Li Xuejian's performance is as good as ever, and he can't find any faults, but there are more problems with extras, all kinds of problems, and even Wang Jianguo and they have found a lot of goofs.

After watching the playback, Zhang Ran asked Wang Jianguo and them to wear 3D glasses to feel the 3D effect. The 3D effect of the two cameras on the ground is average, but the 3D effect of the aerial footage shot by the three drones is particularly obvious, which gives people a strong visual impact and makes the leaders present full of praise.

After seeing the 3D effect, Zhang Ran walked to the altar and called the extras over: "I haven't seen the shot just now, because someone is looking at the drone in the air, and some people are laughing." If you think about it, it's a big drought now, and it's been dry for several days, and everyone is praying for rain, do you think you will be able to laugh at this time? You must not look around, and you must not laugh. Just look at Teacher Li Xuejian! Follow his orders! Let's do it all over again!"

The crew quickly got in place and the filming restarted, but the results of the shooting still could not satisfy Zhang Ran.

"No, there are still people looking around!"

"There is a cloud of smoke that has not dissipated, and it will be strange to have a clearer cloud of smoke in the air!"

"Still no, the movements of kneeling and kowtowing are more chaotic!"

In an hour's time, the crew filmed a total of eleven times. It was filmed until 11 o'clock past 3 minutes, and the footage of the sacrifice finally achieved the effect Zhang Ran wanted, and the performance, picture, and 3D effect couldn't find fault.

Zhang Ran came out of the base camp, walked to the middle of the altar, and said with a smile: "The scene just now has passed, everyone has performed very well! Our filming festival is over this morning! The first shot of your first movie has been successfully completed! Everyone applauds!"

After speaking, Zhang Ran took the lead in applauding. Driven by him, the crew applauded. When the extras saw Zhang Ran, they all applauded, and they also applauded. They are all extremely excited, and they can be affirmed by a big director like Zhang Ran, so that the little fatigue caused by filming disappears without a trace.

After the applause, Zhang Ran announced: "Finish work now! Everyone go to the cafeteria! Ready for lunch!"

Zhang Ran returned to the crew's base camp from the altar and chatted with Wang Jianguo and them. He looked at the time, looked at the other leaders present, and said with a smile: "It's almost half past eleven, it's time for lunch." Leaders, why don't you just have a meal in the crew?"

A county leader immediately said: "This is not far from the county seat, just over 40 minutes away, so let's go to the county to eat! Director Zhang, you can go to the county with us to eat!"

Zhang Ran shook his head lightly: "From here to the county seat, it takes more than two hours to go back and forth, and it takes almost 3 or 4 hours to eat." Our play has very high requirements for light, and the light for today's scene can only be from 10 to 11 a.m. and from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. In other time periods, it won't be able to achieve the effect I want, I have to rush time, and I can't go into the city with you!"

Wang Jianguo came to Zhang Ran, hoping to have more exchanges with Zhang Ran, so he said: "I haven't eaten the crew's boxed lunch yet, and today is a rare opportunity, let's experience it in the crew and taste the crew's boxed lunch!"

Wang Jianguo wanted to eat a boxed lunch in the crew, and the other leaders present naturally did not object, and they all nodded and said yes. They all said to Zhang Ran: "Director Zhang, then we will bother!"

Zhang Ran's crew attaches more importance to eating, and it is closer to the Hollywood crew. No matter where the crew is filming, the life producer will build a canteen to ensure that everyone can sit in the canteen to eat when they eat, without squatting on the ground or sleeping in the open. This time I went to Laoshupo Village to film, the village is halfway up the mountain, and there is no road, so I set up the canteen at the foot of the mountain.

When Zhang Ran and the others walked into the cafeteria, it was already full of dining staff and extras. Zhang Ran told the leaders that in order to improve efficiency, the canteen provides two options, a box lunch with two meat and two vegetables, and four dishes and one soup on the spot.

Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu picked up the dinner plate and made four dishes and one soup, Li Xuejian took a box lunch specially customized for him, and Wang Jianguo Some of them took the plate to cook, and some people took the box lunch directly. After finishing the dishes, everyone came to the main creator's dining area and found an empty seat to sit down.

Wang Jianguo glanced at it and found that Li Xuejian's boxed lunch was different from others, the rice was only a small ball, and his four dishes were all boiled in white water, boiled meat, boiled fish, boiled cabbage, and boiled greens, and couldn't help asking: "Comrade Xuejian, why are your dishes all boiled in white water?"

Li Xuejian laughed and said, "From these two days on, I'm going to start losing weight." ”

Wang Jianguo looked at the thin Li Xuejian and said in surprise: "You are so thin, do you want to lose weight?"

The other leaders present were also a little surprised, if it was someone else, they thought it might be a joke, but Li Xuejian was very sincere, not the kind of person who joked casually.

Li Xuejian chuckled: "This is the need for the filming of the movie, at the beginning of the movie, the ancestor was a spirited old man with a good physical condition, but as the plot progressed, he ate less and less, and he must be getting thinner and thinner." If the characters at the beginning and end of the movie are the same, it is very fake, so you must lose weight. ”

Zhang Ran introduced: "Filming this drama, Mr. Li is really hard, first gained weight for a period of time, increased a few pounds of weight, and recently began to lose weight. You can only eat a small group of rice every day, and you can only eat boiled chicken breast because the composition of chicken breast is protein, which contains only a very small amount of fat and no carbohydrates, and you can only eat boiled vegetables in plain water. Don't eat high-calorie things. After a while, I couldn't eat rice at all, and only boiled meat and vegetables were eaten, as well as nutritional powder. It's really hard work, and ordinary people can't bear it!"

After hearing this, Wang Jianguo was in awe of Li Xuejian, and couldn't help but say: "This is the real artist!"

Zhang Ran disapproves of many so-called artists, but admires Li Xuejian very much: "Mr. Li is a real artist. I often hear old artists on TV who are both virtuous and artistic, and I don't think so. But to say that Mr. Li is an old artist with both virtue and art, I am absolutely convinced. ”

Li Xuejian saw that Wang Jianguo and Zhang Ran both praised themselves, and said modestly: "I'm just an actor, not an artist, a real artist should be like Zhang Ran." You said that the scrolls of Chinese painting and the Song Ci are known to us Chinese. But who would have thought that the picture of a movie could be unfolded like a scroll? And who would have thought that the structure of Song Ci could be used in a movie? Only Zhang Ran! In the past, we used to learn other people's film language, but now many young foreign directors have begun to learn Zhang Ran's film techniques, and this is the real artist!"

Wang Jianguo said with a smile: "You two are real artists, because of you, Chinese films are full of hope! Because of you, Chinese films shine!"

After lunch, Wang Jianguo and his entourage, under the leadership of Zhang Ran, had a brief exchange with the extras. He told everyone to cooperate well with the crew, and to carry forward the spirit of the people of Luoyang who bear hardships and stand hard work, are not afraid of hardships, and can fight tough battles. Subsequently, Wang Jianguo and his entourage took a group photo with the main creators of the crew and the extras, and then left the crew.

At half past one in the afternoon, the whole crew moved and began to prepare for the afternoon shooting. In the afternoon, I still want to shoot the sacrificial scene, mainly filming the part of the villagers who are tied to the water tank mountain when the blind dog is tied up.

The cast and extras were already wearing costumes and didn't need to change their clothes, but the makeup still had to be repainted. The actors got into the makeup car, and the extras, led by Zhou Xiaoxi, came to the makeshift makeup studio built by the crew and began to put on makeup.

There are no close-ups of the extras, so they don't need to be made in a particularly detailed way, and the makeup artists do it very quickly, and they are done in a short time. Then, Zhou Xiaoxi hurriedly gathered the extras and brought them to the altar.

After arriving at the altar, several scene reporters immediately took the list of scenes and the photos of the extras standing, and arranged their positions: "That handsome guy, you come, stand here, that beautiful woman come, you stand here......"

The content of the afternoon scene and the morning shooting is a scene, and they are connected, so it is necessary to ensure that the actors and mass actors stand exactly the same as in the morning, otherwise the audience will find out that the actor stood on the left at the beginning, why did he suddenly run to the right, and the movie will be a goof. During filming, the crew's scene notes will record details such as costumes and actors' positions in detail, and will take photos to save them, and when they shoot again, they can be restored according to the records and photos, which is called continuous play.

Soon, Li Xuejian and Wang Luodan and several other actors also came to the set and began to move under the command of Zhang Ran.

Yang Ying stood aside and looked enviously at the extras who were seriously rehearsing. She thought that if she joined the co-production office, she could get close to the water and get the moon first, and run a trick in the movie. Unexpectedly, the extras in this play only need the kind of black and thin person, and her fair skin is not considered by the crew at all, which makes her regretful.

After watching from the side for a while, Yang Ying's feet were a little sore. She looked up and saw a pile of boxes not far away. She knew that these boxes could be sitted, and the staff of the camera crew often sat on the boxes to rest. So, she walked over and sat down on a box.

It's just that Yang Ying's ass hasn't been hot yet, and a camera assistant came over and said with a straight face: "Who let you sit in the lens box, do you know the rules, don't you know that women can't sit in the lens box?"

If the other party said, don't sit in the lens box, the lens is very expensive, Yang Ying will definitely feel at a loss, but the other party actually said that women can't sit in the lens box, which made her a little unhappy, frowned and said: "What do you mean, what does it mean that women can't sit in the lens box?"