Zheng Xudong took a Toyota Coaster bus to the filming location in the southeast suburbs of Atlanta.

After Zheng Xudong got out of the car, he found that there were already a lot of staff on the scene, and the shooting was divided into two groups, one group shot the picture without Zheng Xudong's appearance, because the pictures were all in a clean state, so this group of directors had already shot a large amount of material in accordance with the requirements of the chief director in the morning, and waited for the chief director to delete it later.

Today's main shooting is the scenes where Zheng Xudong appeared, and the on-site staff have set up these scenes according to the director's requirements, and are waiting for the actors and directors to come to the scene for filming, or the entertainment industry in the United States is like an assembly line, they have a very mature model, and everyone can complete their own work according to their own division of labor.

Zheng Xudong called Scott over, "Do you have a good MP3 of "FADED" in your hand? I think it will be easier for me to get into the state when I listen to it." ”

Scott patted his chest and said, "I'm sorry for being prepared, I deliberately copied the MP3 version I just made into the IPOD before I came, you wait a minute, I'll give it to you right away." AFTER THAT, HE ARRANGED FOR SOMEONE TO PICK UP THE IPOD ON THE BUS.

Zheng Xudong followed the film crew to the first shooting location, the window on the second floor of an empty factory, facing the empty gray cement window without windows, not far behind him, two wooden boxes that seemed to be loaded with bullets were stacked together, on which an Apple laptop was open, white snowflakes flashed on the black screen, and the letters A and T kept flashing in the middle of the screen, and then slowly overlapped together, forming the logo that Zheng Xudong designed for himself.

Before the start of shooting, Scott handed him the IPOD, he set the MP3 of "FADED" into a looping mode, he only put one of the two headphones into his ears, and the other he had to keep at any time to listen to the director's request, the costume designer hid the IPOD for him in his clothes, and the headphone cable was also plugged into the ear from the back of his head, so that when the camera shot his front, the white connection would not be exposed.

Everything was ready, Zheng Xudong pressed the play button of the IPOD, the familiar music came to his ears, and then according to the director's request, he stood at the window and stared into the distance, his eyes were deep and dark, his hands were on the dusty cement windowsill, wearing a broken finger glove that had been off the line and slowly reached into the butt pocket of his pants, and took out a photo folded in half, at this time the camera came behind him, and from his shoulder took this photo that he opened, near the photo is a row of white fences, the fence door is open and not closed, as if it is specially reserved for children in the distance when they go home, and in the distance is a frontal photo of a three-story white spired buildingThe camera then cuts to the side of his face, where the scarf covers most of his face, revealing only slightly tired eyes and two dark eyebrows. He slowly folded the picture back into the back pocket of his pants, turned and bent down to pick up the backpack leaning against the wall, closed the laptop screen on the two powder boxes and put it in the backpack, then put the backpack behind him and walked towards the long corridor in the distance. The rooms on both sides of the corridor had long since been empty, and only the cold concrete walls remained standing there, until the end of the corridor descended the staircase, and when he reached the last five steps on the first floor, the staircase suddenly broke, and he had to jump down from it before he came outside through the gray door of the building.

This is the end of the filming of this first scene. He was called by the director to the front of the monitor to watch the performance state of his first show in his life, and then recalled the version of the MV he saw later, which was almost the same, and the director Rikkard Höggbom said to him: " Mr. Anton, your performance just now was very good, I was very surprised, but in the last picture of you walking out of the window, your steps seem very relaxed, which does not fit the mood of the protagonist when he goes home, you walk again for a while, and when you walk again, your heels drag the ground a little, and it is better to bring up some dust on the ground, so as to show the fatigue of the protagonist. ”

"Maybe then I was in a bit of a hurry, I seemed a little impatient, and I did it again. Zheng Xudong said to the director.

Sure enough, the effect was much better when the second time it was reshot, and it met the requirements of director Rikkard Höggbom.

Then the next scene is the shot of him walking in the abandoned "city" with his backpack on his back, the buildings on both sides of the street have been emptied, and there is a dead silence around him, and he is the only one "floating" in these dead buildings.

From time to time, he walks in the alley, or walks on the stairs of the building, or walks on the roof of the house to look into the distance, or sits in a corner and looks down on something, and the atmosphere of the whole MV shooting is very depressing.

No one's street, no one's residential area, no one's shopping mall, no one's factory, nothing but him, not even a cat.

Then he took out a glow stick from his backpack and lit it, and walked into an abandoned building, the miserable green light from the glow stick shone on the mottled walls of this building, and the graffiti was everywhere, he crouched on the empty window and looked into the distance, still nothing.

In the end, he may not be able to bear the depression brought to him by this dead city, he ran on the overgrown wilderness, and accidentally fell to the ground, the huge puddle, the ruined buildings, he picked up a stone and threw it into the distance, as if he wanted to take the depression in his chest away from the stone.

The camera cuts to the abandoned railroad and the tanker car again, his hand touches the cold steel tanker, and then a warm ray of sunlight shines through the corner of the tanker on his right eye, as if he sees hope to run in the wilderness again, but the endless wilderness makes him run out of breath, and finally stops in the wilderness.

At this time, he saw a familiar building in the distance, he took out a photo from his pocket and looked at it, and then looked at the building in the distance, it turned out to be "home", but at this time "home" only had a wall in front of it, and finally he slowly pulled down the black scarf covering his face in disappointment.

"PERFECT!" says director Rikkard Höggbom.

Although some scenes were reshot several times in the middle, Zheng Xudong understood the director's intention, and vividly expressed the eagerness, disappointment and loss of this wanderer to return home, just before the director was about to call it a day, Zheng Xudong said to the director: "Director Rikkard Höggbom, just now I saw two factories very close to each other over there, I think it can't be like this again, I saw the "home" on the roof of one of the factories Just ahead, and then I couldn't wait to jump from this factory to another factory, and then jump from this factory to the ground, and then ran to the distant "home", and finally disappointed to see what the current "home" looks like, and slowly pulled down the scarf on my face. I think it might be better. ”

The two directors sat down and studied it when they heard him, and after a while, director Rikkard Höggbom said, "You take me to see the location of the factory first, and then we will go to the scene to see the situation." ”

Zheng Xudong took the two of them and the team to the two factories they saw during the filming just now, which are two two-story factories with a height of ten meters, and the closest distance between the factories is more than eight meters away. Mr. Zheng, we didn't prepare stuntmen for this shooting, nor did we prepare stand-ins for you, and there were no somersaults and jumps in our script, so the crew didn't have the tools to hang Weiya (tightrope), which means we couldn't do what you asked. ”

Another director, Rikkard Höggbom, also nodded when he heard his brother's words. At this time, Scott came to him and said: "Anton, are you crazy? Do you know the distance between these two factories? I think it is at least eight meters, can you jump over? Besides, even if you jump over, you have to jump from the ten-meter-high factory, which is three stories high, we are shooting MUSIC VIDEO (MV), not ACTION MOVIE, so we don't need to take such a big risk!"

Zheng Xudong smiled and said to Scott and the two directors: "Everyone, I mean, if I can jump over and jump off it, will it increase the popularity and sales of our MV." ”

Maybe the director Tobias H?ggbom just now felt that he had a bad attitude towards speaking, so this time he said: "Of course, if you can really do it, it will definitely detonate the entertainment industry, and you will become the first person in parkour sports, I haven't heard of anyone who can jump the distance of eight meters? I dare to give you a guarantee, if you can complete this action, your MV will definitely be popular!"

Hearing him say this, Zheng Xudong made up his mind and said to the three of them: "I have decided, I will do this action myself, and there are no protective measures, and I will be responsible for any problems." Seeing that Scott still wanted to persuade him, he said to him: "I've decided, go and prepare!" Zheng Xudong is about to do a move that ALAN WALKER wanted to do but didn't dare to do in this MV later.

The director hurriedly asked the staff to prepare two drones, one to shoot Zheng Xudong's take-off and jumping process from top to bottom, and the other to shoot him jumping between the two factories from the side, and it can only be successful once, not NG.

Another work took a tape measure to measure the distance between the two plants, and the result of the measurement was "eight meters and twenty-five", and the staff in the field were stupid when they heard this result.

Director Tobias Höggbom called Zheng Xudong to his side again, and said bitterly: "Mr. Zheng, I hope you can carefully consider your proposal again, do you know, the distance between the two factories is 8.25 meters." ”

"Eight meters twenty-five, what's wrong?" Zheng Xudong asked with some confusion.

After hearing his words, Scott said directly: "FUCK! What's wrong with 8.25 meters! You don't even know!" Seeing Zheng Xudong's ignorant expression, he said: "I told you that the world record in the long jump is 8.95 meters, set by the American Powell." ”

At this point, director Tobias Höggbom continued with Scott's words: "And Mr. Zheng, as far as I know, the Asian record for the long jump is 8.48m, which was set by Saudi Al-Qual-Qualidi in 2006. Are you sure you can jump over the distance of 8.25 meters?"

"Yes, I'm sure! I can do it!" Zheng Xudong said firmly.

"OH MY GOD! HE MUST BE CRAZY!" THE STAFF AT THE SCENE SAID IN UNISON.