Zhang Ran's short film is only a little more than six minutes long, and there is no difficulty in acting, and everything else went smoothly throughout the filming process, except for a little trouble with Norah Jones. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

On the afternoon of the fifth day of filming, the crew began to shoot the last set of shots of the film.

This set of shots is the heroine Nora after knowing that the person she likes is deaf, learning sign language, with the help of her boss to attract the attention of the male protagonist with lights, and while singing, she conveys her heart to the male protagonist through sign language and wins love.

This set of shots features Norah Jones singing, interspersed with several shots of Ewan McGregor communicating with Norah Jones in sign language. The filming method of this kind of scene is to shoot the whole shot of Norah Jones, and then shoot a few shots of Ewan McGregor separately, interspersed with post-editing.

The shots of Ewan McGregor have been taken, and now only the footage of Norah Jones remains.

The café was filled with extras who looked at Norah Jones with smiles on their faces. The café's headlights were all turned off, and only the wall lamp on Ewan McGregor's seat lit up, and the light focused on him. Norah Jones, dressed in a red dress and a white sweater, stands at the bar with a microphone rack in front of him.

Two cameras have been set up, one behind Ewan McGregor, and Norah Jones is shot from behind him, which is an over-the-shoulder shot that explains the relationship between the characters. The other camera was operated by Zhao Fei himself, and the entire camera was aimed at the side face of Ewan McGregor.

As Zhang Ran's password sounded, filming officially began. Ewan McGregor, who was lying on the table reading a book, noticed that the headlights of the café were turned off, and looked up in some surprise and looked forward.

At the same time, under the operation of Zhao Fei, the camera panned to the right in the direction of Ewan McGregor's gaze. As the camera pans, Norah Jones appears in the frame. When Norah Jones is on the right side of the golden section, the camera stops and slowly pushes towards her, from a middle to a close-up.

In the shot, Norah Jones unties her apron from her waist and puts it on the bar in the back, and she shyly waves her hand at the guests and sings emotionally: "You light up the whole room, and you don't know it." It's all I can do to leave you alone. Don't send me flowers, don't worry about those superfluous things. My dear, it's enough to know that you've noticed me......" While singing, her hands were also gesturing, conveying the lyrics through sign language to convey her heart.

Norah Jones doesn't know sign language, and in order to do this, the crew hired a sign language teacher to conduct assault training for her. Norah Jones has practiced all day and is now able to do it with ease.

As the song ended, the café burst into applause, and all the guests cheered. Knowing that Nora was showing her heart to herself, Ewan McGregor danced her hands in the air and invited her over for a chat in sign language.

Norah Jones pursed her lips and smiled shyly as she walked over to the table across from Ewan McGregor and sat down. The people in the café stood up, smiles on their faces, and applauded the two of them.

In the warm applause, Zhang Ran also stood up and shouted excitedly: "Stop!" He asked the assistant director, and the other party said that the photography and sound were fine, he waved his fist lightly, and then also applauded vigorously: "It's over!"

All the crew, leading actors and extras laughed and applauded, and the whole café suddenly boiled.

Zhang Ran clapped his hands, and when everyone quieted down, he said with a smile: "The real Gelpova café has long since disappeared, and we can only build one café." But after our filming is over, the Café Gerpois will soon be demolished. After the demolition, it will be impossible to drink coffee at the Café Gerpova, so let's have a drink while the café is not demolished!" he beckoned to Jean-Dujardin: "Boss, bring me a cappuccino!"

The staff present all laughed and found a place to sit down and wait for coffee.

Jean-Dujardin laughed, "Wait, gentleman!" he ran out of the café and out of the studio. The crew has a special food truck, and many people like to run to the food truck to eat some fruit and drink a cup of coffee when they are fine. He quickly returned to the café with a cart full of coffee.

Jean-Dujardin took a cup of coffee and put it in front of Zhang Ran: "Director, it's my honor to work with you, but it's a pity that the time is too short, I hope there will be opportunities to cooperate in the future!"

Zhang Ran nodded very affirmatively: "It will definitely be!"

With a smile on his face, Jean-Dujardin continued his job as a coffee shop owner, serving coffee to everyone. Norah Jones also continues to play Nora, enthusiastically handing out coffee to everyone.

When coffee was served in front of everyone, Norah Jones smiled, "Welcome to Café Gelpova, I'm the waitress Nora, I'll give you a song!"

The café burst into applause.

Norah Jones stood behind the microphone, looked at Zhang Ran and smiled, and began to sing: "I like the way you love others, and I want you to love me like that." I want to wake up next to you, you hug her gentle look, her high heels kicking in her beautiful skirt. Your eyes speak for themselves, there's no doubt about it......"

Although it was only a short film of more than six minutes, the crew still held a finale banquet after the end. Because the members of the theater are really from all over the world, many people may never meet again in their lives.

Zhang Ran paid for the finale banquet, he didn't earn a penny for filming this short film, he didn't even confiscate the director's fee, and he posted a lot of money into it. But he doesn't care, this short film is a very important experiment for him, and he hopes to find his feelings and even find a breakthrough through this short film.

After the finale banquet, the crew dispersed, and Zhang Jingchu was ready to return to China. She wanted to go with Zhang Ran to see Bergman, but Bergman didn't like to meet guests, so she saw Zhang Ran alone. When leaving, Zhang Jingchu took Zhang Ran's hand and said, "Don't you learn from Bergman!"

Zhang Ran was about to say why, it's a good thing to learn from the master, but he immediately reacted that Bergman had a habit of sleeping with the heroine, and Zhang Jingchu was worried about this. He pinched his chin and smiled: "This time I go to Faroe Island, I want to ask Bergman for advice, and I want to be on par with the master." ”

Zhang Jingchu knew that Zhang Ran was joking, and said angrily: "You hate it!"

After sending Zhang Jingchu away, Zhang Ran began to edit with his head immersed. After all, the movie is meant to be shown to Bergman, and it must be refined in editing.

Lars von Trier has always been very concerned about Zhang Ran's filming process, and after knowing that Zhang Ran had finished filming and the rough cut had been completed, he ran over to see how Zhang Ran's short film was doing.

"Oh my God!" said Russ von Trier, rubbing his temples and a speechless face, "you're going to see Bergman, Bergman! Oh my God! What do you think? I really don't understand, why did Bergman meet you? What are you better than me?"

Zhang Ran retorted: "What's wrong with vulgar stories? Bergman has also filmed a lot of vulgar stories. Isn't the story of "The First Virgin Spring" vulgar? But he has filmed divinity! Shooting extreme and perverted content like you all day long is not called cleverness, and it is called cleverness when you use simple stories to shoot different things!"

Russ von Trier said disdainfully: "You are shooting a sweet and greasy love sketch, embellished with a little loneliness, what is there to speak of? There is no in-depth discussion of human nature, society, and the dark side of the heart, and it is completely like a dragonfly." ”

Zhang Ran smiled faintly: "Embellishment with a little loneliness? I don't think so, you'd better take a look!"

Seeing Zhang Ran say this, Lars von Trier replayed the film and watched it carefully. After reading it this time, Lars von Trier's face changed a little, and he didn't know whether to call himself a stupid person or Zhang Ran a genius.

The lens language of this short film is very classical, it is all conventional lens language, and it looks extremely ordinary. In addition, Zhang Ran has fallen into a low ebb recently, so he didn't think deeply. Now that he takes a closer look, he finds that these shots are coincidental, seemingly ordinary but full of deep meaning, not only serving the narrative, but also serving the psychology of the characters.

Under normal circumstances, the dialogue and communication between the characters are often a large panorama to explain the environment, and the two-person lens explains the relationship between the characters, and then uses the front and back shots to communicate. But at the beginning of Zhang Ran's short film, there is no double shot. Neither Nora nor the boss, nor between Nora and the male protagonist, are given double shots, and all use discrete cut-in shots.

In the language of film, sharing the space of the picture means sharing the space of the heart. In other words, giving a double shot means that people are communicating with each other. Zhang Ran does not use a double lens, but uses a tangential lens, which shows that people are full of estrangement and cannot communicate smoothly.

In the back, Nora became more and more cheerful and popular because of her singing, and the double shot appeared. This means that the barriers between people are eliminated and Nora is out of solitude.

In addition, there are many seemingly ordinary treatments in the whole film, and if you think about it carefully, it has a special meaning.

Lars von Trier played it again, and he felt more and more that this seemingly shallow story hid a lot of things, and the audience saw only the tip of the iceberg, seeing one-third of the film, and two-thirds of the things hidden underneath, which can make people slowly reminisce. And Russ von Trier's own film is sharper, 90% exposed on it, sharp, and the iceberg is upside down.

Suddenly, Lars von Trier understood that Bergmann was going to see Zhang Ran. He sighed very emotionally in his heart, this guy is simply a monster, why is this still called at a low ebb? If Zhang Ran's previous films were in the style of impressionism, then this short film is already a bit of a post-impressionist style!

Zhang Ran asked, "How is it?"

Lars von Trier has always been hailed as a genius, and he thinks so himself, but now facing Zhang Ran, who is less than thirty years old, feels a huge sense of frustration. He sighed slightly, got up and walked outside the editing room.

Zhang Ran felt inexplicable and asked, "What's wrong?"

Russ von Trier didn't answer, but when he reached the door, he turned around and said, "Don't help me ask Bergman, I already know the answer." ”

Zhang Ran didn't know that he had hit Russ von Trier, he was very surprised, he didn't know which tendon was wrong with this guy, but this guy was nicknamed Feng Maniac, and it was normal for him to go crazy. He didn't bother to think about it and continued to refine the shot.

Zhang Ran has always been quick in cutting films, but it took a week to cut this six-minute short film. This time, he really put a lot of effort into editing, every shot was repeatedly considered, and every frame was selected. In terms of editing, Zhang Ran really did his ultimate.

On the morning of August 22, Zhang Ran boarded the plane to Stockholm with the edited short film, with great admiration for the master, and with great love for movies. (To be continued.) )