Zhang Ran, as usual, woke up at half past five. He got dressed, washed his face and rinsed his mouth, and came out of the room.

It's still early, it's very quiet in the hotel, and the crew members should be sleeping.

This filming is different from "Time Prisoner", the budget of "Time Prisoner" is pitiful, and it is a point to save a point, so the crew did not arrange accommodation, and they went back to their homes after filming every day.

This time, the crew had a relatively sufficient budget, so they arranged a unified accommodation. Like other crews, the leading actors and creators of the crew live in a single room, most of the other staff and unknown actors have 2 rooms, and the on-site workers have 4 people in one room.

Coming down from the upper floor and walking through the lobby, Zhang Ran saw the notice of "Bursting Drummer" posted on the notice board, which densely wrote the filming process and the tasks of the day, and the schedule column read: "7:00-7:30, breakfast for the crew."

A complete notice sheet will indicate the filming sequence, scenes, scenes, actors involved, costumes, make-up props, plot, etc. The notice sheet is the actor's action guide, and what the crew shoots today and who to shoot with is determined by the notice sheet. The on-site producer will issue a notice one or two days in advance, and in addition to sending it to the crew members, it will also be posted in the hotel lobby for easy viewing by the crew members. However, in the crew, the plan often can't keep up with the changes, and the announcement list is also constantly changing.

Zhang Ran ran outside for a few minutes, then found a secluded place to practice his voice, babbling and shouting. Although I don't work as an actor now, after all, I am a teacher in the acting department, and I can't lose my basic skills.

After fifteen minutes of practice, Zhang Ran returned to the room. He didn't have much to do, so he opened the script and studied the scene to be filmed today.

At seven o'clock, Zhang Ran put the script into his computer bag and went to the restaurant on the first floor for breakfast with the bag on his back.

Many people in the crew were already in the restaurant, and when they saw Zhang Ran, they greeted Zhang Ran with a smile. Zhang Ran also smiled and nodded at them, then took the dinner plate, took some food, found a place to sit down, and ate slowly.

Just as she was eating comfortably, Zhang Jingchu came over, sat down in front of him, and asked with a smile, "Director, are you alone?"

Zhang Ran smiled and said, "How fresh, how many people do you think I should have?"

Zhang Jingchu said with doubts: "I have worked with several groups, and the directors are all equipped with assistants, why don't you deserve one?"

The position of assistant is very common in the crew, in addition to stars, directors will also have assistants, and the director's assistants are also divided into two types: private life assistants and shooting assistants.

Zhang Ran felt that he had hands and feet, so he didn't need any assistant, and he felt that it was boring to put on this kind of score: "I'm not a celebrity, what kind of assistant do I want? Besides, it costs money to hire an assistant." As he spoke, he looked up at Zhang Jingchu and said with a smile: "If you give me a free assistant, I can consider it!"

Zhang Jingchu giggled: "You think so beautifully." Otherwise, you give me 50,000 yuan, and I will be your assistant for a month!"

Zhang Ran shook his head and sighed: "Jingchu, you are so disappointing, you said that you are such a beautiful girl, how did you become a female bandit?

Talking and laughing, Zhang Ran finished breakfast. He stood up, said to Zhang Jingchu, and came to the parking lot of the hotel.

When he walked up to the Iveco of the crew, Ning Hao was chatting with Huang Bo in the car. Ning Hao said very seriously: "Xiaobo, I recently wrote a script, and there is a character in it that is especially suitable for you. Later, I found an investment, and I will definitely find you to act!"

Huang Bo said shamelessly: "With my image, I won't play a role that is not handsome!"

Ning Hao nodded and said, "That's absolute, the character I'm talking about, that's absolutely handsome!"

When Zhang Ran heard that Ning Hao was looking for Huang Bo to act, he felt curious, could it be "Crazy Stone", right?

Ning Hao said: "It's called "Big Diamond", which is about a crafts factory that is about to close down and finds a priceless diamond when it overthrows the old factory, which causes the international thief Mike and the local thief trio led by Brother Dao to fight, and then the whole incident becomes a farce. ”

Zhang Ran was stunned, this is not "Crazy Stone", how can it be called "Big Diamond", it is estimated that it was later renamed, and said with a smile: "When we finish filming this movie, you bring the script to me to see." If the script is good, I'll introduce you to investors!"

Ning Hao knew that Zhang Ran knew a lot of people, and when he heard him say this, he was immediately overjoyed: "Thank you so much, director!"

Soon, everyone who should have come has arrived, and the driver starts the car.

Twenty minutes later, the car arrived at the filming site, a beautifully renovated café. At this time, the crew's truck transporting equipment had arrived, and the drama staff and field workers were moving the equipment. Although Zhang Ran has high requirements for movie lighting, he is now filming daytime scenes, and he doesn't need much equipment, so the crew doesn't have a lot of things to do.

When Jay Chou came to the set, it was almost half past eight, but this did not exceed the start time marked in the notice. Zhou Jielun saw Zhang Ran and the others sitting there waiting, and said with a little embarrassment: "Director Zhang, I'm sorry, I'm late." ”

"No, no, it's not time to boot yet. Zhang Ran smiled at Zhou Jielun.

Now that Jay Chou is here, the crew can officially start work. Zhang Ran stood up, clapped his hands, and focused the attention of the entire crew on himself.

"When I get used to being a teacher, I don't say a word, it's a little unaccustomed. Today is the day of the start of "Burst Drummer", and many of you have worked with me, and of course there are many new additions. It's an honor to be able to shoot the film with all of you. I also hope that in a few months, when our film is released, you will feel honored by it. Because we're going to make a film that is different, that no one in our country has ever made! It's going to be a legend!"

Speaking of this, Zhang Ran paused, and his gaze calmly swept over every face present: "There is a sentence I said more than twenty days ago, and I will say it again today." After the filming of "Burst Drummer" is finished, no matter what the final profit is, I will give 20% as a dividend to reward everyone, if the profit is 10 million, this number is 2 million, if the profit is 20 million, it is 4 million. It's up to you how much you can get. Let's get to work!"

These words of encouragement obviously worked, and many of the people present became excited and started their work with enthusiasm.

What I want to shoot today is the scene where Jay Chou and Zhang Jingchu break up in the restaurant, that is, two actors sit in their seats and talk. The actors' positions were fixed, and there was no need to walk around to determine the shooting performance area, so the crew members directly began to fiddle with the equipment.

However, the step of telling a play is indispensable, especially since Jay Chou has never acted and doesn't know how to act, so speaking is even more important.

Zhang Ran asked Zhou Jielun and Zhang Jingchu to sit down by the window in the restaurant, and then began to tell Zhou Jielun: "Jielun, this scene is very simple, you don't need to act deliberately. You just need to remember one thing when acting, I can't be a great drummer with Chen Xin, so I have to break up with her. You just need to finish the lines very solemnly!"

The director tells the actors that the play is a technical job, and it is necessary to instill the character image in his own mind into the actor's mind, and he has a lot of professional knowledge in the design. But now Zhang Ran is facing Jay Chou, although he has been learning from Feng Yuanyi for half a month, but the novice is still a novice after all, so he didn't tell Jay Chou about the highest task, running through the action This is too professional, but directly tells him how to act.

Zhou Jielun nodded and said, "I understand, director!"

Zhang Ran smiled, looked at Zhang Jingchu and said, "Jingchu, the performance of this scene is focused on your side. There are a few things you should pay attention to when acting. When Zhou Xu proposed to break up, what did you think? And then when he said the reason for the breakup, what did you think? Zhou Xu's reason was difficult for you to accept, and then you asked him several questions. Why are you asking these questions, what are the psychological motivations? I have to see these things in your eyes, and I want to have a clear chain of action. I won't give you a specific analysis, I believe you can perform. ”

After briefly analyzing the characters, Zhang Ran began to analyze the lines. When the director is telling the actors, he should let the actors know which words in a sentence are the key points, which should be stressed, which words can be passed by, and what tone to use to read these lines. This is very important because the line is also an expression of the amount of information, and there is a lot of information buried in the line. If you don't find the right accent of a sentence, it can easily affect the whole scene.

Actors with excellent lines, Wang Zhiwen, Chen Daoming, etc., are actually good at stress, pause, and rhythm, and they sound subdued and frustrated. And many actors with bad lines lack accent when they speak their lines, which sounds very bland.

Jay Chou's lines are very problematic, much bigger than his acting skills, the words are not particularly clear, and the lines are as plain as boiled water. Feng Yuanyi taught him that half of the time was spent on lines in the past half a month, but it didn't have much effect. Therefore, Zhang Ran could only pick up the pen and mark the accent on the script, so that he could memorize sentence by sentence.

Half an hour later, all kinds of equipment have been set up, and the photographers and lighting personnel are carrying out the final adjustment.

Zhang Jingchu and Jay Chou have also put on makeup, sat on the other side, and spoke seriously to the lines.

Soon, assistant director Ning Hao came over and told Zhang Ran that the actors, lighting, photography, and recording crew were all ready. At this moment, everyone's eyes were focused on Zhang Ran's face, and everyone was waiting for him to give an order.

Well, it looks like everyone is ready!

After Zhang Ran and Ning Hao glanced at each other, he lifted the microphone and shouted: "Okay, each group is in place, let's start the official shooting!"

As these words fell, the crew began to move according to the process of official filming. The photography team was in place, the lighting team was in place, the recording team was in place, unrelated personnel withdrew from the shooting area, Zhang Jingchu and Zhou Jielun came to the window and sat down.

"Power on!"

"Hit the board!"

"The thirty-third scene of the movie "Bursting Drummer", the first shot, the first time!" clicked, and the camera assistant held the playing board to the camera lens and fired the playing board.

"Let's go!"

As Zhang Ran's password sounded, live music sounded, and discussions sounded, the originally quiet café suddenly became lively.