After chatting in the room for a while, Chen Zhenghong saw that the time had passed five o'clock. He took Zhang Ran to a hot pot restaurant on the street, asked for a private room, and drank tea with Zhang Ran while waiting for Zhang Jiandong.

At six o'clock, Zhang Jiandong pushed the door in. He saw a smile on Zhang Ran's face: "You kid is finally here, I'm really busy these days, I'll be relaxed as soon as you come!"

Zhang Ran poured him a glass of water, and said with a smile: "Is it so exaggerated?"

Chen Zhenghong is the master, and he has to do his best to be a landlord, he took the menu and asked Zhang Ran and Zhang Jiandong to order first. Zhang Ran was also unceremoniously, ordered his favorite dishes, ordered more than a dozen, and then handed over the menu to Zhang Jiandong.

The hot pot was served, and the three of them started eating. In the steaming heat, the three of them chatted casually. Zhang Jiandong asked about Zhang Ran's going abroad to compete, and then asked about the later stage of "Bursting Drummer". Zhang Ran didn't hide it, and said it 1510.

didn't talk for a few minutes, and the topic returned to the crew of "Before Dawn". Speaking of the situation of the crew, Zhang Jiandong sighed and said: "Zhang Ran, I shouldn't have it, I shouldn't have listened to your suggestions!"

When Zhang Jiandong and them were choosing actors, they asked Zhang Ran's opinion, and Zhang Ran heard that they set the actor as Chen Daoming, and he was more opposed. Of course, the reason for his opposition is not that Chen Daoming will change the script or be a drama bully, but he just feels that Chen Daoming is not very suitable for the role of Liu Xinjie. Chen Daoming has an elegant bookish atmosphere, the whole person is relatively high, while Liu Xinjie is more oily, and he can even be coquettish. Zhang Ran really couldn't imagine Chen Daoming's coquettish appearance, the contrast was too great.

Zhang Ran heard Zhang Jiandong sigh and asked, "What's going on?"

Zhang Jiandong sighed. explained: "The main thing is the setting of the characters, and I think the setting of the script is right. Liu Xinjie is an undercover agent, a person wearing a mask. Therefore, it is good to show a different personality from himself, a little smoother, more cute, so that there is a contrast, but Chen Daoming disagrees, he feels that since he is an undercover agent on the verge of life and death, he should be calmer!"

Zhang Ran somewhat understood, this is a difference in the understanding of the characters between the two sides. Under normal circumstances, I must listen to the director, but the problem is now facing Chen Daoming. No one can force him to act, at least not Zhang Jiandong. He couldn't help but ask, "Then what are you going to do?"

Zhang Jiandong smiled bitterly: "No way, he is too stubborn, I can't convince him at all, and now the whole shooting is going slowly." But it's good that you're here, let's divide into two groups of AB to shoot, and the speed can be doubled!"

"Before Dawn" now originally had two groups AB, group A was Zhang Jiandong in charge of filming the starring role, and group B was in charge of the assistant director. Shoot some supporting scenes, as well as cutscenes. Now that Zhang Ran is here, the crew can be divided into three groups to shoot, and Zhang Ran and Zhang Jiandong each bring a group of people. Filming different scenes separately, the assistant director led a team of people to shoot the cutscenes.

Zhang Ran nodded and said, "No problem, I'll listen to your arrangement!"

Zhang Jiandong said with a smile: "I'll go back in a while and let the production team come up with the shooting plan the day after tomorrow." Tomorrow, you will come with me to the crew to familiarize yourself with the situation, and the day after tomorrow, you will take Group B to shoot. Chen Daoming's play will be handed over to you to be responsible!"

Zhang Ran was stunned, you can't handle him. Can I go? Isn't this letting me be cannon fodder? Then he shouted: "Brother Zhang, you can't even handle a big name in the film and television industry, and you are too tricky to let me go, right?"

Zhang Jiandong laughed and said: "You are different from me, the script was written by you, no one can compare to you in terms of understanding the script and the role, if you break the script, Chen Daoming will definitely not be able to break you." Besides, you are also from a performance background, and if you understand acting, it is easier to communicate with him. In addition, you are young, he is old, even if there is something, he is not good to worry about you, otherwise he will fall into the reputation of bullying young people!"

Zhang Ran shook his head and smiled bitterly: "That's so easy, if he is really so easy to be convinced, he is not Chen Daoming!" He remembered that Feng Xiaogang had an evaluation of Chen Daoming, Chen Daoming was a man who was so tall that he was only willing to bow his head in the play. To convince such a person is probably more difficult than ascending to the sky!

Zhang Jiandong said helplessly: "I quarreled with him a few times, and now it's a little stiff, if I continue to shoot, I may quarrel again, it's better to be in a group with you!"

Zhang Ran pondered for a moment and said, "I'll try, but I have a request!"

"You say!"

Zhang Ran looked at Zhang Jiandong and said solemnly: "I'll first look at the content of the script after he changed it, and then I want to see the effect of the shooting." I need to observe for two days to see if there are any good solutions. ”

Zhang Jiandong nodded and said, "Of course this is no problem!"

After dinner, Zhang Ran and Zhang Jiandong came to his room and got Chen Daoming's revised content. He went back to his room and looked slowly, to be honest, Chen Daoming's revised lines were very level, and it could be seen that he had a deep understanding of this character. But judging from the whole play, it is better to maintain the original style.

At six o'clock the next morning, Zhang Ran knocked on the door of the room, called the students in the class one by one, and then took them downstairs to practice morning exercises. Although he is now in the crew, he didn't let the students come to the crew to play, and he couldn't lose the skills he should practice just because he was in the crew.

At half past seven, Zhang Ran got on the crew's bus and arrived at the scene with the car. After getting out of the car, everyone followed Zhang Jiandong's order, and the entire crew got busy.

It was half past eight, and the main actor of "Before Dawn" arrived at the filming site. A group of men wearing the uniforms of the Kuomintang officers, the first one Zhang Ran is very familiar with, it is Chen Baoguo, he plays Tan Zhongshu, director of the Eighth Bureau of the Kuomintang.

Tan Zhongshu in the original version of "Before Dawn" was played by Lin Yongjian, and he used his acting skills to let the audience see the two sides of Tan Zhongshu's good and evil, and he acted quite well. However, Zhang Ran felt that although Lin Yongjian's performance was good, it still gave people a bad feeling. Lin Yongjian has always played a small person, so he played Tan Zhongshu in a little weaker. And Chen Baoguo is a domineering actor, plus his acting skills are very good, he can collect and release, so it is definitely the best choice for him to play Tan Zhongshu.

Chen Daoming did not appear on the set, and there was no scene for him this morning.

When the main actors of the crew are not playing, they don't have to go to the set, and they don't have to go to the scene until their scenes are about to be filmed, and then the on-site producer sends a car to pick up the scene. Of course, the extras do not enjoy this kind of treatment, they have to follow the large army in the morning, even if the scene that requires them to appear will not start filming until the evening, or even the second half of the night.

Similarly, the main characters usually wear makeup in hotels, because some costume dramas have unique hairstyles and complex shapes, and it takes hours to put on makeup. Other small characters are generally made on the spot, puffing powder, sticking a mustache, etc., and it doesn't take much time. Extras basically don't need to wear makeup, they only need to change their clothes, except for special requirements.

At this time, Zhang Jiandong called Zhang Ran over and introduced to everyone: "Let me introduce to you, this is Zhang Ran, the film director, and our teacher at Nortel, and I will co-direct this drama with him in the next two months!"

There was sparse applause at the scene.

Most of the people present didn't know Zhang Ran, and when they saw that he could co-direct with Zhang Jiandong at such a young age, they didn't think he had real skills, but thought that he was mixed up with the director's position by managing his relationship, and he was very disdainful.

Zhang Jiandong knew that everyone saw Zhang Ran as too young and lacked trust in him, and added: "Maybe you don't know Zhang Ran, but I want to tell you that he wrote the script of our play, and many of you have seen the movie he made, which is "Time Prisoner", which just won the award abroad!"

Many people at the scene have watched "Time Prisoner", and they have also heard about the film's awards abroad. Now when I heard that Zhang Ran was the director of "Time Prisoner", I was taken aback, and the applause suddenly became warm.

Zhang Jiandong looked at Zhang Ran and said with a smile: "Zhang Ran, you can say a few words!"

After all, this is Zhang Jiandong's crew, Zhang Ran felt that it was better to keep a low profile, and smiled: "In the next two months, we will be comrades in the trenches, and we will all work together to make this TV series a masterpiece! Okay, so be it!"

Zhang Jiandong didn't say anything more, called Chen Baoguo and the others over, asked them to move, and then took the script to tell them the play. Chen Baoguo and the others all listened carefully, nodded for a while, and echoed a few words for a while.

Zhang Ran did the work of the assistant director, and directly commanded the on-site scheduling: "Lights, the color temperature of your light is high, add white filter paper!"

"Photography, this lens is over-the-shoulder, you have too little shoulder straps, move five degrees to the left!"

"Props, there's something wrong with the position of your vase!" Zhang Ran said, walking over and moving the vase a few centimeters, "It's better to put it here, you should use it in the camera to divide the painting space and enhance the depth of the picture." ”

Zhang Ran issued instructions one by one, and the lighting and photography were not convinced, thinking that you think Gu Changwei, you can see the problem of lighting and photography at a glance, but when they really did what Zhang Ran said, they were surprised to find that it was true. According to him, the effect is really the best. Lighting and photography knew that they had met a master, and their eyes that looked at Zhang Ran were suddenly full of awe.

Zhang Jiandong was also a little dumbfounded, he didn't expect Zhang Ran to enter the state so quickly, and to such a degree of professionalism, he knew whether the light was right at a glance, and he knew whether the angle of the camera was right at a glance. Only professional photographers have this level, right? Didn't Zhang Ran learn acting before?

After the lighting, photography, and recording were prepared, Chen Baoguo and several other actors entered the performance area and prepared to start performing.

"Ready, let's start shooting!" Zhang Jiandong shouted as he returned to the back of the monitor, his voice was so loud that even people outside the building could hear it.

The actors are ready to perform, and all the idlers and others are withdrawn.

"Let's go!" (to be continued......)