Chapter 575 - A Lesson
After the "start" command sounded, Song Xiaofei, the photographer of the second photography group, wore a raincoat and rushed out with a camera tightly wrapped in a raincoat, aiming the camera at a woman holding the child's corpse and crying bitterly, while Zhao Fei did not move, still carrying the camera and sitting on the gimbal of the rocker arm, and pointed the camera lens firmly at the little girl's face. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
As the rain slid down her face, red blood continued to ooze from the wounds on the little girl's face, which looked very real. The little girl looked at the camera blankly, with no expression on her face. But as the rain continued to fall, her body began to tremble slightly. She had never suffered such a sin, and she felt very wronged and wanted to cry a little. It's just that she remembered that Zhang Ran said that if she cried, she would let someone else play it, so she desperately held back, her aggrieved look was simply heartbreaking.
The camera lingers on the girl's face for nearly five seconds, then pans to the right, focusing on the street in the middle of the ruins, and the camera shifts from a close-up to a panoramic view. The streets were filled with people of all kinds, some staggering as if they were sleepwalking, some crying with the corpses of children, others digging desperately through the rubble......
At this moment, a middle-aged uncle wearing big shorts and a white vest appeared in the camera, and he shook his body and fell heavily to the ground. Chen Bi next to him looked at the uncle in disbelief dumbfounded, Zhang Ran said when he was talking about the play that he only needed to shake it and fall down, but the middle-aged uncle directly fell and bleed.
"Stop, stop, stop, stop!" Zhang Ran shouted behind the monitor, then stood up and said loudly, "There's something wrong with this shot, let's wait for a reshoot!" Everyone hurry up and wipe the dry towel, there is hot soup over there, everyone drink some hot soup to warm up!" He glanced at a few of his students and said, "You guys also hurry up and wipe it, and then come over!"
The rain sprayers in the air stopped working, but the extras, drenched in rain and shivering from the cold, curled up and came out of the filming area, wiped them with dry towels, put on raincoats and quilts, and then lined up for hot soup.
Several students in Zhang Ran's class walked over wrapped in military quilts, their faces were pale, and they looked at Zhang Ran pitifully, hoping that the respected teacher Zhang could finish his lecture quickly, so that he could drink some hot soup and warm his body.
Zhang Ran looked at Chen Bi and asked, "What happened to you just now?
Chen Xiao defended: "The middle-aged man you made him fall, he really fell, his leg was cut by a stone, and he was bleeding, I was startled by him, I didn't expect him to really fall!"
Zhang Ran frowned when he heard this, and said coldly: "I was taken aback by him? You are still a student of the acting department, where is your concentration? Don't you know that as an actor, as long as the director does not shout stop, you are a person in the play, and you must continue to perform? The middle-aged man you said really fell, but other people's feet were cut, did he shout?" Zhang Ran raised his voice and said loudly: "Did he scream? Did he stop performing like you? No, others are continuing to perform!"
Chen Bi's body trembled, and he felt that Zhang Ran seemed to be really angry. He knew that Mr. Zhang was usually kind and pleasant, but when he was angry, he was very scary. He quickly shut his mouth and pretended to be dumb with his head down.
Zhang Ran turned his head to look at the other students: "There are a few of you, except for Chang Jirong and Lin Xiaolu, everyone else is similar, and they all feel that they are students of Nortel and will become stars in the future, so they don't take this scene seriously at all." As far as your performance today is concerned, it's a shame to be professional. Compared with you who are promiscuous, those extras are fully dedicated. Look at the performance of others, and then look at yourself, don't you feel ashamed?" Zhang Ran didn't want to say more, waved his hand and said: "Okay, hurry up and drink some hot soup, and then see your performance!"
After the students left like frosted eggplants, Zhang Ran turned around and walked into the tent where the director team was located, and began to check the footage just shot. The shots taken by Zhang Ran's group definitely can't be used, but how about the shots they shooted, and whether they can be used, need to be checked to be determined.
Ning Hao's group has just become two shots, one is a middle-aged man quietly wiping the dust off his dead daughter's face, and the other is a mother holding her dead child, crying heartbreakingly.
Both shots are quite moving, Zhang Ran is very satisfied, Ning Hao's royal photographer Song Xiaofei does have two brushes, and the capture is very good. After confirming that the two shots passed, Zhang Ran asked the staff to simply adjust the color, look at the picture effect, and then asked the editor to edit in real time.
After a brief discussion with Ning Hao and the two photographers about the next shooting, Zhang Ran walked out of the tent and prepared to start shooting again.
It's just that Zhang Ran just walked out of the tent, and an old man came over: "Director, I want to give you an opinion." ”
The old man who spoke was the old man who talked to Wang Luodan when she returned to the door, and it was also the old man Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu met in front of the earthquake monument more than half a year ago. He is a survivor of the earthquake, and he used to organize cultural and sports activities in the unit, so Zhang Ran asked him a lot of things, such as whether the set is the feeling of the 70s, whether the props are worn and so on.
At this moment, hearing that the old man was going to give an opinion, Zhang Ran nodded with a smile and said, "If you have any opinions, you can say it!"
The old man said: "The crowd cried too much in the scene just now, after the earthquake, the people of Tangshan were relatively strong, and everyone was thinking about how to survive at that time, and where there were people alive, they would hurry up to save them, and there were fewer people crying." There were so many people crying in that scene that it was a bit unreal!"
Zhang Ran has heard many people talk about this problem, and after the earthquake, there were very few cries in the whole of Tangshan, at least not like many people imagined. Many people lost their loved ones in the earthquake, and the great grief weighed on people's hearts like a mountain, and they couldn't cry at all. In fact, Zhang Ran himself did not arrange for many extras to cry, so he arranged for several mothers who lost their children to cry. It's just that many of the extras here today have experienced the earthquake, and when they stand on the ruins, many of them are taken back to 30 years ago, and it is difficult to control their emotions.
If Feng Xiaogang directs this scene, he will definitely be very satisfied with this effect, and the audience will also be more satisfied. In Feng Xiaogang's movie "Tangshan Earthquake", Xu Fan's hoarse wail "God, you bastard", and the scene of kneeling in front of Zhang Jingchu at the end made many viewers cry, and many people felt particularly moved.
However, Zhang Ran doesn't want his movie to be too sensational, especially with this kind of heavy theme, sensationalism is easy to be superficial, he hopes that the movie can be made in the calm style of "The Pianist", smiled at the old man, and said: "You're right, when the remake is made later, I will let everyone control their emotions and reduce crying!"
Half an hour later, Yu Feihong came over to inform Zhang Ran that the actors, lighting, photography, and recording crew were all ready and ready to start shooting.
The same process, the actors are in place, the machines start, the rain falls, and the extras start performing.
After Zhao Fei's camera gave the little girl a close-up for nearly five seconds, the camera panned to the right, and all kinds of figures appeared in the shot; after a short pause, the rocker arm quickly rose into the air, and the whole picture became a large panorama, and the lens was full of wreckage and ruins, as if it had been blown up by a nuclear bomb. Hoarse cries for help filled the huge ruins, and some experienced people lay on their stomachs on the ground, their ears pressed against the ground and shouted for people through the rubble.
"Very good, this shot has passed!" Zhang Ran shouted.
The crowd immediately cheered, and the whole scene burst into warm applause.
After this shot is finished, the next thing to shoot is still the rain scene, but the shooting angle is different.
The extras quickly regrouped and began to prepare for the shoot, with one extra, who played the role of being crushed under the rubble, who threw fake bricks on herself, several young girls who threw dirt on her head, and many others who waited quietly for the makeup artist to smear mud and blood on her face......
At five o'clock in the afternoon, after the last shot was filmed, Zhang Ran took the megaphone and stood on the ruins and bowed to the extras to thank him: "Today's shooting is over, everyone has worked hard." Thank you so much!"
After speaking, Zhang Ran put down the megaphone and applauded vigorously, and the crew members also put down their work and began to applaud. Everyone in the crew was moved by these extras, and they filmed a rain scene all day today, and the extras were doused by artificial rain again and again, but they did not complain and held their ground until the end of work. In Zhao Fei's words, he has been filming for 20 years, and he has never met such a good extra.
Zhang Ran commanded at the scene for a while, got on the crew's bus, glanced at the students in the class, and said, "How do you feel about being an extras for a day?"
The students were silent, and they were shocked by the dedication of the extras in the crew. Judging from the state of their devotion, it is simply not acting, but a collective remembrance, an emotional catharsis, which is too real.
Zhang Ran has said countless times that the performance must be real, and the performance must be real, and the students must really listen to and see the real feeling, and now the students really feel what it means to be true. These extras have basically never learned to act, and many of them are even acting for the first time, but the state and appeal they play may not be able to perform that effect even if they invite many actors.
That's the power of reality!
Zhang Ran saw that the students didn't speak, and knew that it was the true devotion of the extras that touched them, so he gave them a lesson for free. Zhang Ran showed a shallow smile, which allowed them to have a further understanding of the performance, which was not in vain.
Just when the crew of "Tangshan Earthquake" was working at full speed and filming with all their might, the battle of the National Day file was also in full swing.
Due to the seven-day long holiday during the National Day, there will be a small movie viewing boom, starting from 04 years of "New Police Story", there are blockbusters released during the National Day every year, and this year's National Day is a record, there are three blockbuster releases, Feng Xiaogang's "Night Banquet", Cheng Long's "Baby Plan", and Golden Harvest Investment, Director Er Dongsheng, Liu Hua, Wu Yanzu, and Fan Binbin starring "Disciple".
The release of three blockbusters shows that the film company is very optimistic about this schedule, and it also marks the official formation of the National Day file.
As the main force of the National Day file, "Night Banquet" was released nationwide on September 15. However, Feng Xiaogang made a big mistake, lost the national theme he was best at, followed Zhang Yimou, played Shakespeare, and played costume production. Zhang Yimou can't play this kind of theme, not to mention Feng Xiaogang, after the movie was released, there were a flood of bad reviews.
However, as a national director, Feng Xiaogang's three words are golden signs, with strong appeal, coupled with the joining of big stars such as Zhang Ziyi, Ge You, and Zhou Xun, the box office of the movie is quite good, and the box office of Feng Xiaogang was refreshed with a box office of 65 million yuan in the first weekend. In Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, which were released simultaneously, the box office also recorded more than 8 million Hong Kong dollars in the first weekend.
As Huayi's sworn enemy, Zhang Ran will definitely not let Feng Xiaogang make money at the box office without hindrance, not to mention that sniping Feng Xiaogang's "Night Banquet" is the most important part of his plan to eradicate Huayi, so in the second week of the release of "Night Banquet", the peak of the century made a move.