The camera assistant explained: "This is the rule of the crew, women can't sit in the lens box and equipment box, because women are unclean and will bring bad luck to the shooting!"

If it is because of work considerations, such as worrying about breaking the equipment, Yang Ying can fully understand. But now the other party actually said that women are unclean and will bring bad luck to the shooting, and she feels that she has been greatly insulted. What does it mean that a woman is unclean and brings bad luck to the shoot?

Yang Ying was very angry and asked: "What is a woman unclean, what is a woman unclean will bring bad luck to the crew? What age are you, you dare to openly discriminate against women!"

Seeing Yang Ying furious, the camera assistant realized that he had said the wrong thing, and hurriedly said: "I didn't mean that, this is the tradition of the crew!"

Yang Ying retorted mercilessly: "Wrapping small feet is still traditional, is that also going to be restored?"

The camera assistant next to him came over and persuaded: "This is indeed the rules of the crew, some people believe it, some people don't believe it, he really didn't mean to target you." Then, he pulled Yang Ying's quarrelsome assistant away.

Yang Ying was still a little uncomfortable in her heart, but she didn't say anything more, and sat on the camera box and continued to watch Zhang Ran guide the actors to rehearsal. After a few minutes, the camera assistant who was arguing with Yang Ying came over and said that he wanted to use the lens, and Yang Ying stood up.

Unexpectedly, the camera assistant took the box, walked two steps, and then put the box on the ground and sat on it by himself. Yang Ying realized that the other party didn't want to change the camera at all, but thought that she was sitting in the lens box and was unwilling to let her sit. Yang Ying was completely angry, and yelled: "I've never seen someone like you, is this interesting?"

Yang Ying was really angry, so she found a place to sit down from a distance, and cried with a handful of snot and tears. She felt particularly aggrieved, she was a civil servant of the county government, and took the initiative to ask to help the crew, she was busy from morning to night every day, and she was as tired as a second fool, but the crew actually disliked herself. She was crying profusely when someone put a tissue in front of her. When she looked up, it was Zhang Jingchu, so she called "Sister Jingchu", took the tissue and wiped it.

When Zhang Jing first saw Yang Ying crying sadly, she asked what was going on, whether someone was bullying her. Yang Ying told the story just now, saying that this is discrimination against women. Zhang Jingchu frowned, as an actor who has been in the film and television industry for more than ten years, she knows all the rules of the crew, and she also knows the rules that women can't sit in the prop box. Some people say that this is a rule passed down from Hong Kong and Taiwan, girls come to their aunt to sit in the lens box, and the images taken will have unclean things; some people say that it is a rule handed down from the pear orchard in the past; and some people say that it is because women are yin and men are yang, so women sitting in the lens box will make the lens out of focus. In Zhang Jingchu's view, no matter which way it is said, it is discrimination against women, and she is very disgusted by this rule.

Zhang Jingchu immediately pulled Yang Ying up and took her to find the photography assistant just now. She looked at the camera assistant and said coldly: "From liberation to the 90s, our mainland crews are not interested in this set, they don't even have the art of start-up, and the movie is not still being filmed! You don't learn other people's good things, but you pick up the stereotypes and bad habits of the Xiangjiang crew and treat them as treasures! If any woman sits in the equipment box, the lens will be broken, and it is simply reading to the stomach of a dog!"

After scolding, Zhang Jingchu said earnestly: "The domestic film and television industry is developing very rapidly, and there are more and more people cooperating with Hollywood, Europe and the United States, including men and women, and when you work with foreign teams, there are foreign female staff members who sit in the lens box, if you jump out and say that women can't sit, beware of people suing the crew for sexism!"

In front of Zhang Jingchu, the photography assistant had the courage to argue, so he could only apologize to Yang Ying obediently. However, he was still very unconvinced, this kind of thing should be believed rather than trusted, many old people said that these rules are very effective!

At lunchtime, Zhang Jingchu told Zhang Ran about it. Zhang Ran doesn't care much about these rules of the crew, his crew doesn't even worship God when they start the film, there is only a simple start-up ceremony, but he has no objection to these rules of the crew.

Zhang Ran knows that there are many uncertain factors in film shooting, which are greatly affected by factors such as weather and venue, and any problem in any link may delay the shooting. The pressure on the crew is relatively high, so many people will seek psychological comfort and come up with a lot of rules.

Over the next two days, the filming of the film went very smoothly, but on the third day, the crew was in trouble and the weather went wrong. According to the Luoyang Meteorological Bureau, in the coming week, the area of Laoshupo Village will be mainly cloudy with light rain.

The crew of "Year, Month and Day" attaches great importance to the weather, and contacted the Meteorological Bureau of Luoyang City, asking them to provide weather forecasts for the area of Laoshupo Village every day, so that the crew can adjust and judge. However, the forecast alone does not play a big role, the scene "Years, Months and Days" is all sunny days, which requires a strong vision, and unlike other dramas, it must be filmed in order, and the order can be reversed, in the face of continuous cloudy days, Zhang Ran and the crew members have no choice but to temporarily stop.

At this time, the main creators of the crew are particularly nostalgic for the studio in Lin'an, which is completely unaffected by the weather when shooting in the studio, and can arrange the corresponding light on the set according to the needs of the plot.

"Everyone, it's quiet!" In the hotel conference room, Zhang Ran slapped his palms vigorously and signaled everyone to be quiet.

The people in the conference room who were talking immediately fell silent.

"We received information from the Municipal Meteorological Bureau that the coming week will be mainly cloudy, and there may be light rain. What will happen a week later, the Meteorological Bureau is now uncertain. Zhang Ran didn't talk nonsense, and went straight to the point, "We definitely can't wait stupidly, we must come up with a specific plan." Let's brainstorm and see if there are any good solutions!"

Zhao Fei is the director of photography of the crew, and he has the most say in the problem of lens and lighting: "In fact, there is no particularly good way, if it doesn't work, give up the long lens and use the slitting lens instead!"

Zhang Ran shook his head and said, "No, these long shots can't be cut." After slitting, not only will the 3D effect be diminished, but some of the things I want to convey through the long lens will not be able to come out. For example, in the long shot of the villagers fleeing the famine, the villagers are going to the left when they leave the village, and at the same time, the ancestor is walking to the right when he leaves the village, which is a retrograde relationship. At the same time, there were many villagers who fled at the same time, and it was a collective, and the ancestor had only one person, plus a blind dog, which was a contrast between the whole and the parts. Through this symmetry and contrast, it will give people a strong sense of desolation and tragedy! I hope that through this long shot, I can feel a sense of loneliness that slowly seeps into the whole body. If I use a slitted lens, I won't get the effect I want!"

Zhao Fei knew that Zhang Ran's use of these lenses was thoughtful and could not be easily replaced, he just provided an idea for everyone. After Zhao Fei spoke, everyone else expressed their opinions and put forward a lot of suggestions. However, none of these suggestions were rejected by Zhang Ran or others, and none of them worked.

Zhang Jingchu also put forward her own suggestions: "Zhang Ran, why don't you take Teacher Li Xuejian back to Lin'an's studio to shoot, I will take some staff to watch here, and when the sky is clear, I will shoot those shots!"

Zhang Ran glanced at Zhang Jingchu, shook his head with a smile and said, "The scheduling of those shots is more complicated, and it is particularly important, it is better for me to do it myself!"

Zhang Jingchu pouted, thinking that you don't trust me, and think that I can't shoot big scenes! In fact, she also knew in her heart that this kind of large-scale scene scheduling requires extremely high scheduling from the director, and it is indeed difficult to control it herself, so she said: "Then I can't help it, do you have any ideas?"

Zhang Ran exhaled lightly, looked at Zhao Fei, looked at the others, and said slowly: "There is really no other way, I can only use the stupidest way, use the lights to light up several mountains!"

Zhao Fei was slightly stunned, and then laughed: "I didn't expect the legend to become a reality!"

The rest of the crew also laughed when they heard this.

There are various legends circulating in domestic film crews, including the legend that the director used lights to light up the mountain. In the previous life, the protagonist of the legend of lighting the mountain with lights was Zhang Yimou, and in this life, the protagonist of this legend became Zhang Ran, because Zhang Ran was much richer than Zhang Yimou, and he did not spare money in movie shooting.

The legend about Zhang Ran is this, when filming "Time and Space Warrior" in Canada, a set of daytime shots was delayed. I can't shoot until the evening, and the light is not enough. Zhang Ran beckoned, called the gaffer, pointed to the hill in the distance and said casually: "Go, light up the mountain for me." The gaffer immediately set up a light array, and the whole mountain was lit up.

It is definitely technically possible to light up a mountain with lights, but few crews will do this, because to light up a mountain, there are too many equipment that need to be used, and it is especially cost-effective.

Zhang Ran saw that everyone was laughing, and he also laughed: "You all be serious, we are having a meeting!" When he said this, everyone laughed even harder. When the laughter stopped, Zhang Ran looked at Zhao Fei and asked, "If you beat the mountain, how long will it take to prepare?"

Zhao Fei has been in the film for almost 30 years, and he has rich lighting and experience in using lights in a large area. Once, in order to catch up with the schedule, the crew had to shoot daytime scenes at night. Zhao Fei took the gaffer to arrange a few high-power dysprosium lamps on the top of the mountain. Lights came down from the top of the hill, illuminating the entire village as bright as daytime, ensuring that the shoot went smoothly. But it was the first time to use lights to light up a mountain, and it was more difficult than he could have imagined, and it was a huge test for him.

After pondering for more than ten seconds, Zhao Fei raised his head and said: "There are several main problems now, the first is the problem of lamps, we need 24 kilowatts, 18 kilowatts dysprosium lamps. This time, we only brought one 24 kilowatt and two 18 kilowatt dysprosium lamps, and the equipment was simply not enough to light up the mountain. The 18 kilowatt dysprosium lamp should be able to be found in Zhengzhou, but the 24 kilowatt dysprosium lamp is only available to us and China Film in China, and it is relatively far away from Lin'an, which is very delayed, so it can only be found in China Shadow. However, it still takes time for the equipment to be pulled from Beiping.

The power supply is also a troublesome problem, these lights must be distributed on the opposite mountain, but the opposite mountain is not connected to the road, the power generation car can not drive up at all, can only find a generator, and then carry the generator to the mountain. Since we had to light up the whole mountain, we needed more lamps, and we needed several generators for 100 kilowatts, so we had to spend time looking for generators. In addition, we had to look at the environment on the opposite hill, consider where to put the generators and where to put the lights, and then come up with an accurate lighting plan. ”

Zhao Fei paused, looked at Zhang Ran and said, "I roughly estimated, it will take at least three days!"

Zhang Ran knows how to set up, and the level of lighting is very high, but even if he is asked to set up the light, he will definitely not be able to do it in three days. Hearing that Zhao Fei only needed three days, he laughed: "I'm relieved to have your words! Then the matter is settled, use the lights to light up the mountain!"