The crew of "Year, Month and Day" did not invite celebrities to help, no government leaders were present, and no media reporters reported it, only all the main creators of the crew, as well as some staff of Century Film Capital.

After "Future Apocalypse" swept the world, fans around the world are looking forward to Zhang Ran's new film, and many people are asking what his new film will be filming. If Zhang Ran directly announces the news, the enthusiasm of the audience will soon pass. Therefore, Zhang Ran's promotion strategy for the new film is: hunger marketing, playing mystery, playing low-key, fully mobilizing the gossip enthusiasm of the majority of netizens, so that they can discover the relevant information of the movie. Wait until the curiosity of netizens and the audience ferments to the peak, and the crew will make an official revelation.

In order to achieve the best effect of hunger marketing, the crew not only strictly guarded the news of the filming of the movie, but also kept the script strictly confidential, and only a few people in the entire crew knew what the movie was made. In order to confuse everyone, Zhang Ran also gave the movie a pseudonym, called "Sun, Hello!".

Zhang Ran is a filmmaker and director, and he must say a few words: "There are old people who have worked with me here, and there are also many new friends who have worked with me for the first time, and I am very honored to be able to work with you." Over the next few months, we will work as a team for the filming of "Hello Sun!"

I've been making movies for 10 years, and the theme is hope in despair, and the same is true for this "Hello Sun!" However, "Hello Sun!" is a little different from my previous films, my previous films are relatively warm, and "Sun, Hello!" is particularly tragic. When I read this story, I was very shocked, I liked this story very much, and I especially wanted to make this story well. Of course, this is something I can't do alone, and we need all of us to work together. I believe that with our joint efforts, we will be able to make "Sun, Hello!" a masterpiece! That's all I have to say, thank you!"

Li Xuejian, the leading actor of the movie, also said simply, and he modestly said: "Director Zhang's works are all fine arts, and one is more profound than the other. It is a great pleasure for me to be able to work with him again. This film is a 3D movie, and the acting is very difficult, it is a challenge for me, and I hope I can hand in a satisfactory answer!"

Then the start-up ceremony officially began, and under the attention of everyone, Zhang Ran, Li Xuejian and Zhao Fei, each holding a corner of the red cloth. Zhang Ran shouted: "I announce the official start of the movie "Sun, Hello!"

As soon as the words fell, Zhang Ran and the others lifted the red cloth together, and at the same time, the scene resounded with warm applause.

Because the extras did not meet Zhang Ran's requirements, the scene of escaping the famine would definitely not be filmed. Fortunately, when Zhang Ran's crew makes a shooting plan, they will make a backup plan every time. After the start-up ceremony, Zhang Ran called Li Xuejian over: "Today, let's shoot your scene first, let's take a bit!"

Li Xuejian is very well prepared for this play, and he has long remembered the lines. There is no need to prepare at all, how to play a scene, as long as he is allowed to play, he can perform directly. He nodded and said, "Then let's get started!"

An hour later, Li Xuejian stood in the performance area. In the center of the performance area is an altar with three plates of offerings, as well as two water tanks. According to local customs, an altar will be set up, a water tank will be filled with water, and the water dragon king will be painted on the surface of the tank, and then a dog will be tied between the two tanks, and the dog's head will be raised to the sky, and it will be given to drink when it is thirsty, and it will be given food when it is hungry, and it will bark violently at the sun when it is not hungry or thirsty.

is filming now, so naturally it is impossible to really catch a dog tied in the middle of the water tank, so a blue rag doll was placed in the middle of the water tank to represent the position of the dog. In the special effects team's monitor, the blue rag doll disappeared and was replaced by a CG dog, its fur curled together and lying limply on the ground.

After the password of "Turn on, hit the board, start!", Li Xuejian walked to the altar with his hands behind his back. He looked up and saw that the two jars of water had been drunk by the sun-dried dogs, and they had already bottomed out, and then looked at the blue rag doll on the ground.

In the past, as long as the dog was tied up for three to five days during the drought, it would rain in the sky, but this time it has been half a month, and there is still no sign of rain. Li Xuejian felt pitiful for the dog and let it go: "You go, it won't rain again!"

In the special effects team's monitor, the dog gets off the altar, takes a few steps forward, hits the wall, turns around, and hits the tree. Li Xuejian went over and pulled its ears to take a look, with a shocked expression on his face, and the dog's eyes were sunburned by the sun, leaving only two eye holes on his head.

Zhang Ran is very satisfied with Li Xuejian's performance, the chain of action is very clear, the subtext is very accurate, and he can't find any fault. After shouting to stop, Zhang Ran asked about the situation of the recording team and the photography team, and after getting a positive answer, he turned his attention to the special effects team: "Special effects team, how is the situation?"

The person in charge of the special effects team nodded: "No problem!"

Zhang Ran looked in the direction of the 3D group again: "How is the situation of the 3D group?"

The head of the 3D team said loudly: "The focus of the picture is out of sync, but the situation is not very serious. Director, come and take a look!"

Zhang Ran heard that there was a problem with the focus of the picture, so he hurriedly walked behind the monitor of the 3D group. There are three monitors in the 3D group, two smaller monitors, one for the left eye and one for the right eye, both in 2D, and the giant monitor of more than 40 inches is to see the effect of the left and right eyes combined into 3D.

Zhang Ran first looked at the picture on the left and right and found no problem, but when he put on 3D glasses and looked at the 3D effect, he found the problem. Because the focus of the two machines is out of sync, the two pictures are one virtual and one real. The image on the left is only slightly out of focus, but the impact is not very large, and this level of focus can be corrected in post. However, Zhang Ran felt that it was better to deal with the problem directly during filming, so he called Zhao Fei over.

Zhao Fei put on 3D glasses to look at the effect, knew what the problem was, and immediately adjusted the virtual focus camera.

More than ten minutes later, filming resumed. This time, there are no problems with the acting, sound, graphics, special effects, and 3D effects. Zhang Ran announced with a smile: "Very good! Our first shot is finished! The next shot is ready!"

Zhang Ran: They made a 3D movie for the first time, but they made very detailed preparations before the official start of filming, and Li Xuejian's performance was good enough. So, over the next few days, the filming went very well.

However, Zhang Ran couldn't be happy, and the problem of extras was never solved. Zhou Xiaoxi found several batches of extras, not only sifting through the extras in the Century Film Capital, but also sifting out the masses in Xiangshan and Hengdian, and basically looking for extras from peasants, all of whom were emaciated.

If Zhang Ran hadn't gone to the Rake Mountains and had not lived with real mountain farmers, he would definitely have used these people. But Zhang Ran has lived with farmers in mountainous areas, and he knows what the state of real mountainous farmers is, so he can't let go of this mouth.

It is true that the extras Zhou Xiaoxi is looking for are farmers, but most of these farmers are from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and their living conditions are good, which is different from the peasants who live in the mountains and live a life with their faces facing the loess and their backs to the sky.

Zhang Ran felt that the matter of extras could not be delayed, and it must be resolved as soon as possible. If the problem of extras can't be solved well, the final effect of the movie will definitely be greatly reduced. So, he brought the main creators of the crew together to find a solution.

The main creators of the crew didn't have any good solutions, and they were all a little worried.

At the end of the discussion, Zhang Ran spoke: "There is no other way, I can only go to Rake Mountain and use local farmers to act!"

If you are making a 2D movie, it is not a problem to go to the rake mountain area to shoot it. But "Years, Months and Days" is a 3D movie, which requires a lot of equipment, and it is particularly difficult to shoot in the mountains. Zhao Fei couldn't help but say: "It's okay to be a practical extra, and the vast majority of the audience can't see it." ”

Zhang Ran shook his head lightly: "Maybe the vast majority of the audience can't see it, but I can see that I can't deceive myself!"

Assistant director Guo Fan said: "Mr. Zhang, I don't think it's as good as this, let's continue filming, and then let the casting director go to Rake Mountain to select some people, men, women and children, and invite them here." When they came, we filmed their scenes first, and then sent them back! This not only did not delay the filming time, but also solved the problem of the actors!"

Many people present only felt that their eyes lit up, which not only did not delay the filming time, but also solved the problem of the actors, which is a good way!

But Zhang Ran ruthlessly vetoed: "It sounds good, but it's actually not feasible." I don't know if you've noticed a phenomenon? "No One is Missing" and "Xiao Wu" use amateur actors, who have never acted, but their performance in the movie is very good, and there is no trace of performance. The extras in Hengdian, many people have filmed a lot of scenes, but when you go to see their performances, most of them are very bad.

The reason why this situation occurs is because the actors of "No One is Missing" have never acted, have no concept of making movies at all, and don't know what it means to make movies. They are not afraid of the camera, their behavior in front of the camera is the same as usual, the way they speak is the usual way of speaking, and their performance is their true performance. The extras in Hengdian have star dreams, they know what filming means, they all hope to perform well, get the favor of the director, and they all desperately want to perform well, so their performances are particularly hard, and the traces of their performances are particularly heavy.

If we invite the fellows of the rake mountain to Lin'an, they will come to a completely unfamiliar environment, a completely unfamiliar world. When it's time to film, a group of crew members will still stare at them. In this case, they will definitely be nervous, and they will think a lot, such as if I had done this scene, would I have been able to stay in the city? When they are nervous and have all kinds of distractions, they will not be able to do a good job!"

Speaking of this, Zhang Ran paused and said: "I have been in contact with many extras, and I know their psychology too well!"

Many people present nodded slightly, it was indeed the case. Zhao Fei also said: "Many extras have star dreams, they will be afraid when acting, worried that they will not act well, afraid that they will drag their feet, their performances are particularly 'acting', there is no natural and traceless feeling!"

Guo Fan scratched his head and said embarrassedly: "I didn't think of this problem!"

Zhang Ran saw that everyone else had no opinions, so he said: "Today is the 23rd, it is already late October, and the weather has begun to cool. We have to move fast, we can't put it off until December. There are only a few degrees in December, and our play is summer again, and the actors can only wear single clothes, even vests, and the actors will suffer a lot!"

Zhang Ran looked at Huo Tingxiao, the leader of the art group, and said, "Old Huo, you quickly take someone to the rake mountain area and set up the scenery." When you set up the scenery, we will come with a large army!"