Chapter 688: The Dragon Group Starts Shooting
Zhang Ran undoubtedly hopes to put aside Zhang Weiping and cooperate directly with Zhang Yimou, so that Zhang Yimou can slowly get rid of Zhang Weiping and finally join the peak of the century. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
However, Zhang Yimou still hopes that "Love" will be jointly shot by the peak of the century and the new picture, he has cooperated with Zhang Weiping for many years, and the new picture was also set up by Zhang Weiping specifically for him, and now let him leave Zhang Weiping, he really can't do it.
In the end, the movie "Love" was jointly shot and distributed by the peak of the century and New Picture.
Zhang Ran has absolute trust in Zhang Yimou's directorial level, as long as Zhang Weiping does not come up with ideas, does not blindly stuff people into the movie, and follows the path of "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit", the quality of the movie will definitely not be bad.
Now what really worries Zhang Ran is his students, the students of Class 1 of Level 05 are already in their fourth year, and it is time to arrange a graduation drama, as the head teacher Zhang Ran can't ignore it; Wu Ershan and the students of the Asian Film Academy are also in their last year, according to the plan, they should make feature films, as the dean and instructor, Zhang Ran can't throw them aside.
The palms and backs of his hands were full of meat, and it was impossible for Zhang Ran to leave any side alone, so Zhang Ran pulled them together for a joint operation. They are co-filming a web drama called - Dragon Group!
Although it is only an online drama, the investment in "Dragon Group" is very scary, with a total of eighteen episodes, and the investment is as high as 200 million, with an average investment of more than 11 million in one episode, which can be said to be absolutely excellent in production.
"Dragon Group" is different from other TV series, with two episodes and one story, a total of nine stories, and each director directs a story. Of the 12 students in the Asian Film Academy's directing department, nine of them directed "Dragons" and the remaining three students were given the opportunity to direct films on their own: Wu Ershan's "Knife Smile", Kwak Zijian's "Fighting in the Ring", and Park Hoon-jung's "Unfair Deal".
"Dragon Group" is a joint assignment of the Department of Directing and the Department of Acting, and the students of Class 1 of Level 05 naturally play important roles in the film, among which Fu Xinbo, Huang Xuan and Yuan Shanshan, who have participated in relatively few film and television works, have become the three leading actors in this play.
Zhang Ran supervised the first story of "Dragon Group", that is, the story of the three protagonists joining the Dragon Group, which was directed by Yang Qing. Yang Qing was an unknown editor before entering the Asian Film Academy, with almost no experience in filmmaking, and the first story at the beginning was particularly important, so Zhang Ran served as the executive producer of this story.
At this moment, Zhang Ran was sitting on a chair, holding a teacup and drinking tea leisurely, while Yang Qing was running around the set, constantly calling and drinking to the staff on the set. Zhang Ran thinks Yang Qing's actions are very funny, but many new directors are like this, and they can't wait to do everything by themselves. He beckoned to Yang Qing: "Yang Qing, come here!"
When Yang Qing heard Zhang Ran calling himself, he felt that he must have done something wrong, so he hurriedly ran over and said in a panicked manner, "Teacher Zhang, is there any problem?"
Zhang Ran didn't rush to give an answer, patted the chair next to him and said, "You sit down!" After Yang Qing sat down, he asked: "You went to the Hollywood crew for an internship last semester, right, I don't know which crew?"
Yang Qing immediately said: "Summit Entertainment's "Strange Ability"!"
Zhang Ran laughed, there are quite a few Chinese involved in this movie, not only Li Binbin participated, but also Yang Qing, an intern, and asked: "You have also been on the set of Hollywood, so you tell me, what is the job of a director on the set in Hollywood?"
Yang Qing knew what the problem was, and scratched his head embarrassedly: "Tell the actors about the play, and staring at the monitor, and shouting to stop the unsatisfactory performance!"
Zhang Ran patted Yang Qing on the shoulder and said, "As a director, the most important job on the set is the performance of the actors, you just need to keep an eye on this." Let go of other work, let others do it, otherwise you will be very hard, and the efficiency of the work will become very low!"
Yang Qing nodded, the atmosphere on the domestic set looked very warm and tense, and it seemed that every second was counting; while the Hollywood set was very quiet, and the staff performed their duties in an orderly manner, although Hollywood movies were only shot for eight to twelve hours a day, the number of shots completed every day was actually not less than that in the mainland.
After knowing what the problem was, Yang Qing immediately called the first assistant director over: "You keep an eye on the set, come and inform me after all the preparations are completed!" He shouted at Fu Xinbo and them: "Fu Xinbo, and Teacher Ren Tianye, come here, I'll tell you about the play!"
Zhang Ran saw that Yang Qing was serious about Fu Xinbo and they were talking, and he showed a relieved smile.
When Yang Qing and the others have seen the Hollywood film industry system and know the Hollywood film process, the industrialization process of Chinese films will be greatly accelerated!
Zhang Ran has always believed that many problems in Chinese films, such as censorship, such as classification, etc., can only be solved after the industrialization of films, and the fastest and most concise way to achieve industrialization is to promote it from the top down. This top-down promotion does not mean that it is promoted by the government, let alone that it can be solved by the government's policy, but by a group of directors playing the role of leaders and driving the upgrading of the entire film industry.
Every director has his own team, and a director who understands Hollywood and the Hollywood film process can bring out a professional team, and this professional team can influence more people. Ten such directors can influence thousands of practitioners, and if there are fifty such directors, it may affect tens of thousands of people, and then it will be possible for the entire film industry to establish a mature ecosystem and truly achieve industrialization!
The rapid rise of Korean films at the end of the 90s is that a large number of film and television students returned to China, and their return subverted the previous creative ideas of Korean films, absorbed and imitated the production model of Hollywood films, and used oriental culture as a package to activate the film market that had been dormant for many years.
If Chinese films are to be industrialized, they must follow a similar path!
At the same time, the other actors of the crew were sitting far away, chatting quietly.
Yang Fan pouted and said: "When Xiao Ranran took the 01 level, the graduation drama and the movie were all handled by himself, but this time he didn't care much at all, it wasn't fair at all!"
Li Yifeng said speechlessly: "Teacher Zhang is good enough for you, you have already starred in "The Legend of Sword and Fairy III", this drama will definitely become popular, and other students in your class have also starred in popular dramas, but what about us?
Several students of Class 05 Table Book 2 present sighed, they were really envious of the students of Class 1, how many years of struggle can be reduced to being Zhang Ran's students!
Yang Fan touched his nose embarrassedly, he seemed to be a little born in the blessing and didn't know the blessing, looked at Li Yifeng and said seriously: "Actually, Teacher Zhang is quite optimistic about you, he said that Li Yifeng has a good image of this child, and he is born to be an idol!"
Li Yifeng was overjoyed when he heard this: "It's really fake, Teacher Zhang really said that?"
"Of course it's true, Teacher Zhang also said......" Yang Fan saw Li Yifeng's face full of excitement, paused, and said with a smile, "It's a pity that acting is too woody, more wooden than Huang Xiaoming!"
Li Yifeng's face suddenly turned green!
Half an hour later, the first assistant director came over to inform Yang Qing that the preparations had been made and he could officially shoot.
Yang Qing glanced at Zhang Ran, and said squirmishedly: "Teacher Zhang, I want to shout the password myself!"
Zhang Ran smiled: "I often shout passwords by myself, and if I don't shout passwords myself, it's like I have no authority!"
Yang Qing was overjoyed when he heard this, picked up the loudspeaker and shouted: "All groups are ready, now we are ready to officially start filming!"
"Power on!" "Play the board!" "Let's go!"
With Yang Qing's password sounding, the online drama "Dragon Group" officially started filming.
"Dragon Group" tells such a story, 17 years ago, He Qingbang, a member of the Dragon Group, sacrificed himself in a mission to protect his companion Chu Tianshu, Chu Tianshu found He Qingbang's wife and handed her a necklace with a badge. 17 years later, Chu Tianshu was already the leader of the dragon group, he found He Qingbang's 18-year-old son He Chong and asked him to participate in the test of the dragon group, and finally He Chong and two other young people passed the test of the dragon group and became new members of the dragon group, and began the confrontation with the Jishi Association.
Today's scene is about He Chong, who smashed the college entrance examination, drank outside with friends, and had a conflict with someone, He Chong smashed someone with a wine bottle, and was finally taken away by the police, and is likely to be sentenced. In desperation, He Chong's mother dialed the phone number left by Chu Tianshu that year and asked him for help.
What is being filmed at the moment is a scene where Chu Tianshu leads He Chong out of the police station.
At the door of the police station, Chu Tianshu slapped He Chong's face with his palm and directly slapped him to the ground. He Chong was stunned, and only after a few seconds did he react and shouted, "Why did you hit me?"
Chu Tianshu said coldly: "This slap was made for your father, if he sees you like this, he will definitely be disappointed!"
He Chong was stunned: "Do you know my father?"
Chu Tianshu sighed slightly: "Of course, he is my best friend, and he saved my life!"
This scene was filmed quickly, Yang Qing stared at the camera and watched it several times, the actor's performance was good, and there was no problem with the sound and picture, so it was okay to pass. But Zhang Ran was sitting here, and Yang Qing asked cautiously, "Teacher Zhang, what do you think of this shot?"
Zhang Ran didn't answer: "You are the director, and you need to make your own judgment on the scene." You submit all the footage to me in the evening, and I'll review it then. ”
This is a standard process for Hollywood films, especially blockbusters, where the director will hand over the footage to a management team led by the producer for review every night, and once a problem is found, it needs to be reshot the next day. Only after all of them have passed the producer's review can the subsequent filming be carried out.
Yang Qing had interned in a Hollywood crew, so he naturally knew this, and felt that it was safer to keep one, so he got up and shouted: "According to the state just now, let's do another one!"
The members of the play are all moving, ready to reshoot.
When it was almost eleven o'clock, another scene was filmed, and the crew was about to change the venue, and a field worker ran over: "Teacher Zhang, Han Shanping is here, saying that he has something to do with you!"
Hearing that Han Shanping was looking for him, Zhang Ran was slightly stunned, he was very familiar with Han Shanping, he didn't call me, but came to the door in person, there should be something important, and immediately let the on-the-spot worker lead the way, and when Han Shanping walked into the set, he greeted him in time.
"Mr. Han, I knew you were coming, I asked the crew to sprinkle water and dust, clean the road, and wait for Mr. Han's arrival!"
Han Shanping scolded with a smile: "You stinky boy, you are poor enough!" and said: "It's only been a few days since the Olympics ended, and you're busy filming, but you're really busy!"
Zhang Ran explained with a smile: "It's not me filming, it's the students filming the homework, and I'm the producer." Don't talk about this, Mr. Han must have nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, I don't know what it is, I need you to go there in person?"
"There are indeed very important things, but this is not the place to talk!" Han Shanping looked at the time, "It's already eleven o'clock, let's find a place to eat and talk while eating!"
Zhang Ran naturally would not refuse, and immediately agreed, and the two walked outside the set together.