At five o'clock in the morning, Zhang Ran got up from the bed. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info What we are going to shoot today is the scene after the earthquake, and there are a lot of extras used, and the shooting is more complicated, as a director, he must arrive at the scene early to make corresponding arrangements.

After Zhang Ran finished washing, he and Zhang Jingchu came to the door of the dormitory of the students in the class, knocked on the door and called all the students.

Yang Mi opened the door and yawned and complained to Zhang Jingchu: "Sister Jingchu, your family is too cruel. ”

Zhang Jingchu smiled and patted Yang Mi's shoulder: "Mimi, don't make trouble, hurry up and clean up, let's go!"

Zhang Ran glared at Yang Mi and said, "You think you're here to be the eldest lady, figure out your identity, you are an extra." The other extras started their makeup at five o'clock. No more nonsense, I'll arrange a separate rain scene for you later, NG you twenty times!"

Yang Fan had filmed rain scenes before, and knew that it was not pleasant, and when he heard Zhang Ran asking him to NG himself twenty times, he was thrilled and hurriedly went back to the room to clean up.

After a few students finished cleaning up, Zhang Ran took them to the crew's car, and then went straight to the set in Nanhu Park. When I came to the set, hundreds of extras had already changed their clothes and were waiting in line to put on makeup. The earthquake struck in July, the weather was hot, and the extras naturally changed into shorts and vests. But it's almost October now, and it's morning again, and the temperature is very low, so the crew gave each actor a green plastic raincoat, as well as a military quilt, and everyone was wearing a raincoat and wrapped in a quilt.

Zhang Ran glanced at several of his students and said, "See, others have already come, and many of them have already put on makeup." Hurry up and change your clothes, and then come over and put on your makeup!"

Yang fans quickly changed their clothes and came out, the boys are all shorts and vests, the girls are men's tops and shorts, and some wear skirts and autumn pants. The clothes were dirty, covered in dirt and red blood. When an earthquake struck, it was impossible for everyone to come out with shoes on, so some students had shoes and some did not.

At this time, Yang Fan and the others saw a few girls coming over from the stylist with their heads covered, it turned out that they had been changed into pigtails from the seventies, they were dirty and messy from head to toe, their faces were covered with brown mud, and their hands were smeared with blood, and they all looked extremely miserable.

Chen Bi touched his hair, this was just the day before yesterday, it was very stylish, thinking of the old-fashioned hairstyle that was about to be cut into the 70s, he was a little unhappy, thinking about how to tell Zhang Ran to see if he could keep his handsome hairstyle.

At this moment, a child's cry was heard. Zhang Ran turned her head and saw that it was a little girl cutting her hair, and after cutting it, she felt that the hairstyle was too ugly, so she couldn't help crying: "Woo, it's too short, it's so ugly, it's like watermelon Taro!"

The extras around were all amused by the little girl's words, and looking at her hairstyle, it really looked a bit like Watermelon Taro.

The little girl's mother comforted beside her: "It's okay, it's okay, it's very good-looking, my mother had this hairstyle when she was a child." ”

Zhang Ran remembered that this little girl and her mother, when the extras auditioned, the little girl's mother took her to audition, and the staff said that it was very hard to make a movie, and the child was too young to stand it. But the little girl's mother said that when the earthquake struck, she was also so big, and that's how they came over at that time, and she felt that her child should experience history, which is very important for her child's future life. Zhang Ran was particularly moved, and felt that this mother was very remarkable, he not only agreed to let the little girl act, but also arranged a very important scene for her.

Seeing the little girl crying at this time, Zhang Ran walked over and comforted: "This hairstyle is very cute, very cute." Also, my mother told you that she was a child, right, you want to play when your mother was a child, can your mother cry when she was a child? No, right? A child who loves to cry can't play when her mother is a child, so your uncle can only find other children to play her mother!"

When the little girl heard that Zhang Ran was going to find other children to play her mother's childhood, she immediately wiped away the tears on her face and said, "Uncle, I won't cry!"

Zhang Ran touched the little girl's head and said with a smile: "Really good, my mother will be proud of you!"

Chen Bi was embarrassed to speak, the little girls of a few years old have cut their hair, can't they even compare to the little girls?

Zhang Ran beckoned to the makeup artist, called him over, pointed to the little girl's face, and said, "Makeup for children, the eye sockets should be a little swollen, and there should be a wound on the right cheek." I will give a close-up of the child's face, and the wound on her face should be visible. See what I mean?"

The makeup artist nodded and said, "Understood, director!"

Zhang Ran instructed: "Hurry up and put on makeup for the children, and bring it over to me to see the effect after the makeup!"

After the earthquake, almost everyone was injured, and if the actors were clean, it would be fake. However, there are nearly 500 extras used in today's scene, and it takes a lot of time to put on scar makeup, and there are only more than a dozen makeup artists in the crew, so it is impossible to put on very clear scar makeup for everyone. It can only be done by the close-up actors with scar makeup, and the actors in the long shots can be simplified, sprayed with blood, and smeared with mud on their bodies. In order to meet the needs of filming, Zhang Ran specially selected more than 20 extras as close-up actors, and asked the makeup artist to put on scar makeup for them.

After selecting the extras, Zhang Ran called the production director over: "Ginger soup, hot water, dry towels, and hair dryers must be prepared, so as not to let everyone catch a cold." In the afternoon, hot water should be prepared in the bathroom. ”

The extras are all very dirty, full of mud and plasma, and it is impossible for them to go back so dirty, so the crew specially set up a shower on the set, and everyone can take a hot shower after filming, change into clean clothes and go back.

The director of production assured: "Don't worry, everything is arranged, and there will definitely be no problems." ”

Zhang Ran didn't say anything more, turned around and came to the shooting area. At this time, the crew was already making arrangements before the start of filming, and the crane was lifting rain sprayers into the air.

The scene to be filmed today is a rain scene, and it began to rain heavily soon after the Tangshan earthquake, and it has been raining for a long time. In fact, after a major earthquake, it is often accompanied by very strong rainstorms. Because the huge energy accumulated in the earth's crust is released by earthquakes and converted into heat, a lot of water vapor on the surface of the earth is evaporated into the air, and the water vapor will turn into rain when it encounters cold air.

Filming rain scenes is more troublesome for the crew, and few crews will really wait until it rains before filming, because the natural rain cannot control the time and size, and the rain effect cannot be filmed without lighting assistance, so the crew usually uses manual hand-held large-caliber high-pressure water guns to spray water into the air to create a feeling of rain.

However, Zhang Ran's shot has a large panorama, and the lens will be pulled into the air, and the area sprayed by the high-pressure water gun is limited, and after the lens is pulled up, it will become rain only in the foreground, and if there is no rain in the background, it will be a goof. Therefore, Zhang Ran and the others borrowed a few cranes and hung a bunch of rain sprayers in mid-air, so that the rain could cover a large area. In order to cooperate with Zhang Ran's shooting, the city government also specially transferred four fire trucks to ensure that the filming could go smoothly.

Under normal circumstances, rain scenes are filmed on cloudy days, but Zhang Ran and their families chose sunny days with relatively high temperatures in order to take care of the actors' feelings. And when filming rain scenes on sunny days, you must block the sun, otherwise there will be sunlight at the same time as the rain, and you will be a goof. For this reason, the crew specially arranged several huge black flags in the air to block the sun, so that the entire filming area was in shadow, and the effect of a cloudy day was arranged.

At the same time, Ning Hao and the second photography team also arrived at the shooting site, and today's rain scene will be filmed by two photography teams together. Zhang Ran: They were responsible for shooting panoramic shots and long moving shots, and the second camera team was responsible for close-up shots of the extras. This not only speeds up the shooting, but also allows the extras to suffer less.

Just when the two camera crews were standing on the ruins discussing how the camera moved and the extras standing, Zhang Jingchu came over with a little girl with makeup and Zhang Ran's classmates. In the past few days, there has been no drama with Zhang Jingchu, and she has become Zhang Ran's assistant.

Zhang Ran carefully checked the scar makeup on the little girl's face, her eyes were swollen, there were obvious wounds on her face, oozing blood, and she looked very miserable, but he was still not satisfied, mainly because the location of the wound was not ideal. Zhang Ran asked Chang Jirong to call the makeup artist over, and then carefully explained to the makeup artist what the scars he wanted looked like and where they were located. After speaking, Zhang Ran asked the makeup artist to take the little girl back to reapply the scar makeup.

Yang Mi pulled Zhang Jingchu's arm and asked, "This requirement is too strict, your family Zhang Ran has been filming like this?"

Zhang Jingchu said with a smile: "Yes, Zhang Ran said that the success or failure of a movie is sometimes a little bit worse." ”

Yang said puzzledly: "But these are just extras, is it necessary to be so strict?"

Zhang Jingchu said seriously: "Many Chinese movies die on extras. ”

After half an hour, the makeup artist brought the little girl who had re-applied her makeup over and asked Zhang Ran to see the effect. Zhang Ran nodded with satisfaction, then took the little girl to stand still in the ruins, and began to tell her the play: "After Uncle Hui shouts to start, you will stare at the lens of the camera!" Zhang Ran pointed to the camera on the rocker: "You just look at the lens of that camera, don't talk, and don't make expressions." When the actual shooting is done later, it will rain in the sky and it will be cold, but you can't move. If you move, you have to reshoot. Wait until the camera turns to the side, and it's time to move. Got it?"

The little girl was smart: "Got it!"

Zhang Ran touched the little girl's head, said a few words of encouragement, turned around and continued to arrange positions for the other extras. There are hundreds of extras in today's scene, and it is impossible for Zhang Ran to talk about how to go and how to act. He could only give a rough explanation of how to act to the actors in the close-up, and handed over the rest to the assistant director. Yu Feihong and Zhang Jingchu took on this responsibility, walking around the crowd, constantly telling everyone how to act and what to pay attention to. Make-up artists were not idle, carrying small buckets and walking around the crowd, to see who was not wearing heavy makeup, and who was not heavy enough to patch up the blood and dust.

When it was almost half past nine, Yu Feihong came over to inform Zhang Ran that the filming work was all ready and could officially start filming. Zhang Ran stood up with a solemn expression: "Each group will be in place immediately, let's hurry up and shoot! Everyone uses dim sum to fight for a pass!"

The extras who were blurred by the sludge and blood and couldn't see their faces threw down their quilts, took off their raincoats, and came to the designated position according to the requirements of the crew.

"The tape recorder is on!"

"Camera starts!"

"Give the rain, give the rain!" The rain sprayers in the air spewed out countless rain threads, which fell to the ground and crackled. Within a radius of nearly a kilometer, it was suddenly shrouded in heavy rain.

"The extras began to move!" the extras began their performance, and the whole scene suddenly resounded with a mournful wail, as well as desperate cries.

Zhang Ran shouted: "Let's start!"