Chapter 18 Crew Life

Although Shaogong was in a hurry to "Zhu Xian", he had no time to save the manuscript until the fourth volume, because Ouyang Fenqi was very satisfied with Shaogong's learning, and he had already left. www.biquge.info For this director, Shao Gong left his mobile phone number, planning to repay this teacher in the future, and at this time, the crew Ouyang Ke found for him also had eyebrows.

It is said that the crew is a movie with the theme of the Anti-Japanese War, called "Pingxing Fengyan", and the movie tells the story of a battle of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army in Pingxingguan during the Battle of Taiyuan during the Anti-Japanese War. CCTV is the investor, and Bayi Film Studio is the producer.

The film tells the story of the Eighth Route Army crossing the Yellow River to the second theater of war to participate in the war, although it suffered unfair treatment along the way, but the morale was high, not moved by the difficulties, when the Jin Sui Army and the Central Army disagreed on the discussion of the combat plan, the Eighth Route Army keenly seized the fighter from their current intelligence, in order to encourage the determination of both sides to resist the war, they decided to take the lead and fight a medium-sized ambush in Pingxingguan.

The plot is very clear, the historical Anti-Japanese War theme, war film, director Song Yeming, a veteran director of the Anti-Japanese War, but unfortunately the cast of the crew is except for the senior generals of the Eighth Route Army, and the rest is the team selected by CCTV itself.

And Shaogong's identity in the crew is the assistant of the scene record team leader "Li Changhe", assistants like him, there are seven in the group, and the team leader Li Changhe's main job is to record each shot of the scene in detail, including the lens number, shooting method, lens length, actors' actions and dialogue, sound effects, scenery, props, costumes, makeup and other details and data details, all of which must be accurately recorded in the admission sheet.

Since a film is divided into several scenes and hundreds of shots for shooting, and the shooting cannot be carried out in the order of shots, the recording made by the scene notes helps to connect the various shots of the film, and provides accurate data and information for the director to continue shooting, reshooting, editing, dubbing, and printing. The most important task of the scene reporter is to assist the director in planning the shots reasonably to prevent mistakes such as goofs and overstepping the axis. Once the film is complete, these recordings can also be used to produce the finished script.

On this job, it was Ouyang Ketuo Ouyang Fenqi who let Shaogong in, although the work was not particularly ideal, but the opportunity was rare, so on the day he received the notice to report to the crew, he prepared a few changes of clothes and prepared to put them in the suitcase, only to find that the script of "Blind Well" written last year was still in the suitcase, but he didn't think much about it at all, he put the clothes in directly, and followed the special car of others and left.

But when he arrived at the crew, he learned that Director Song was not there to preside over the work at all, but went to prepare another modern military action film "Out of the Amazon" of the factory, so he was received by the assistant director "Li Yang".

Speaking of this Li Yang, he is a highly educated person, who was admitted to the National Theater in 1978 and the directing department of the Broadcasting Academy in 1985. After dropping out of the Broadcasting Academy in 1987, he went to study art history at the Free University of West Berlin in Germany. He then studied theatre, film and television theory at the University of Munich. From 1992 to 1995, he completed his master's degree in directing in Cologne.

During his studies, he made three documentaries for German television, the first of which was "The Kingdom of Women", which was about the Mosuo marriage system, and the second was "The Swan Song of Joy", which recorded the joyful funerals of the Hani people and described their concept of death.

But after returning to China, Li Yang did not get more opportunities to display his talents, and only after creating a documentary "Traces" on the 50th anniversary of the Anti-Japanese War, there was no information. And Ouyang Fenqi and Li Yang are both marginalized people in this circle, and they are also friends.

Thanks to Ouyang Fenqiao's wealth, Li Yang knew that Shaogong was a close disciple of his old friend, so the main thing about the scene recording work arranged for him was to go to the scene and follow him to play the board, and by the way, study hard.

With Ouyang Fenqi's empowerment-style teaching, Shao Gong naturally knows what the process is for this job. His job is to make a board, and when each shot starts, he needs to record the number of episodes, scenes, lenses, and strips that the camera will shoot on the board, and then write the content of the shooting on the board, and then the director will say "start" to ensure that the scene is captured by the camera.

After the day's workload is over, the timecode should be recorded at the end, and the number of items that the director is satisfied with should be recorded, and the number of items that are not satisfied should also be recorded, and the reason for the director's dissatisfaction should be added at the end, and then a reasonable time should be arranged to start again. Therefore, to make a scene note, you must always be by the director's side, record what the director said in time, and the most important thing you need to pay attention to is to practice good words.

For the font, Shao Gong is confident that although this body was not a calligraphy master before, he loves fountain pen words, so the pen words written are very neat, neat and neat like a printer typed, revealing a childish atmosphere everywhere.

Li Yang took him to his accommodation, which is a mountainous county called "Chen Gang", most of the extras are also from here, the hotel is a three-story hotel, and the crew has chartered a room for four people. Since this was filmed by CCTV, the local government was also very cooperative and gave strong support to the crew.

After the crew checked into the hotel, they had a day of rest. Through their introductions, Shao Gong also knew that several people in the same room were members of the fireworks group, and the three of them were also very cool, and soon the four of them became acquainted.

On the second day, the crew set off for filming, and the first one was to shoot the scene of the Eighth Route Army crossing the Yellow River.

It's not too wide, and the surface of the river is so mixed up that it really looks like the Yellow River. With the director and actors in place, Shao Gong took the board and shouted in front of the camera: "Time: March 15, 2001; "Flat Beacon Smoke": the first scene, the first shot, the scene: the river outside Chengang County, the shooting content: the Eighth Route Army crossing the Yellow River, ......"

"Let's go!!"

As Li Yang shouted, Shao Gong hit the board, his figure quickly retreated to the side, the camera advanced, and the group performers began to flow into the river in an orderly manner, they were wearing gray cloth military uniforms, some were wearing cotton shoes, some were stepping on straw shoes, and some were wearing thin clothes, and the guns on their backs were also varied, with a poor and depressed atmosphere at a glance.

Although their image is very poor, their eyes are bright, this is a group of real grassroots troops.

But Li Yang looked at the colors in the lens and shouted: "Ka!!" As soon as he heard this, Shao Gong immediately went to Shao Gong's side and leaned over to listen to Li Yang say a few words, then nodded, rearranged the order of the scene, and let the group performance that flowed into the river reset again, and then rearranged the camera and exterior scenes, and arrived again with the playing board: "Time: March 15, 2001; "Flat Beacon Smoke": the first scene, the first shot; Scene: The river outside Chengang County; Shooting content: The Eighth Route Army crosses the Yellow River...... The last one was not well lit, now reshoot ......"

"Let's go!!"

With everything rearranged in place, Li Yang shouted again and began. This time, the lighting is adjusted, and as the camera advances and zooms out, the shot shows a team coming with the intention of killing, how they are down, how poorly equipped, and how determined they are to win. They are fighting hard not for themselves, but for the future of the nation, and this is a respectable army.

"Okay, card. ”

Li Yang looked at the picture and was very satisfied, and then waved his hand and said, "Prepare for the next one." ”

"Next, the senior generals raised their eyes and galloped towards Taiyuan to prepare!!"

With the next preparation time, Shao Gong seized every opportunity to chat with Li Yang, and the two sides chatted from his acquaintance with Ouyang Fenqi to the interests and hobbies of both parties, they are both directors who pursue truth, but now in this society, the pursuit of truth cannot grasp business opportunities.

Filming what they want to shoot, what the audience loves to watch, and what they need for business has become an eternal pain in their hearts. When they wanted to change their original intention to shoot what others needed, they found that they were already marginalized. Otherwise, Song Ye Mingming took over this movie, but pushed him to an assistant director and ran to shoot "Out of the Amazon", it's not that the movie has gimmicks and tricks! !

"It's okay Director Li, although Amazon is good, but the script is good, I believe that it is certain that it will be filmed and awarded, but the box office of the movie is not necessarily good. ”

Shaogong naturally knows that "Out of the Amazon" is a classic, but it is such a classic that is not recognized by the audience in today's society, and the Chinese soldiers it renders are indeed very manly, but it is just a created image, and there are many deviations from the real soldiers, so its box office was only seven million that year, and it is still the box office that many schools organize students to watch, and its investment is more than 10 million, which can be said to be lost to grandma's family.

Perhaps it is the sadness of this era, without the popularity of "I Am Special Forces" and "Soldier Assault" in the future, there would be no market for modern military themes at all. And the future movie "Wolf Warrior" was born in the right era, and the box office of the film can exceed 300 million, which is definitely not blind, it is precisely after the fire of special warfare films that the popularity is driven.

In terms of the tense and orderly rhythm of the film, clean and upright, and not dragging mud and water, "Out of the Amazon" is really not inferior to "Wolf Warrior". And if "Wolf Warrior" was also born in this era, it would inevitably be as dismal at the box office as "Out of the Amazon".

In Shaogong's mind, "Out of the Amazon" can be said to be a success or a failure, his success is to win several awards, and failure is the box office. His success is in this era, that kind of film can easily get the support of the country, two special forces go abroad to win glory for the country, this is a face, it is a film that promotes the demeanor of my Chinese soldiers, and it must be supported!

And its failure is not supported by the audience, because the film is indeed to promote the demeanor of Chinese soldiers, but to publicize for the sake of publicity, it loses its sense of reality, just like filming for the sake of show, for publicity.

"By the way, Shaogong, Director Ou said that you are a screenwriter, do you have any works coming out!!" For Shaogong, Ouyang Fenqi originally sent Shaogong here to study, and of course he shook all his details to Li Yang.

"It should be in the filming, the name of the play is Liu Laogen. Shao Gong touched his head a little embarrassed.

"Which one! I know, Brother Benshan, they did it. Li Yang nodded and said, "Then do you have a script in your hand now!" His sadness is different from Ouyang Fenqiang, Ouyang Fenqiang did not become popular after receiving a lot of invitations, and he never received an invitation so he can only be willing to live as an assistant director, if he can have a good script in his hand, he can get investment, as long as he can shoot a good movie, he will have a chance to turn over.

But looking at this young man, Li Yang really didn't have any hope for him.

"Yes, there is, but I feel like something is wrong. ”

Shao Gong said embarrassedly: "That book is a real event, but in order to pursue the truth, I feel that I have ignored something, so I have been pressing it in my hand." As soon as he heard this, Li Yang came to his senses: "Show it to me tonight, and I will give you guidance." "In pursuit of realistic scripts, he is the best at shooting real scripts.

At this time, the staff came over and said that the second shooting scene had been arranged, the actors were in place, and the filming could officially begin. Shao Gong looked around, nodded to Li Yang, signaled that everything could start, and then took the board and said: "March 15, 2001; "Flat Beacon Smoke": the first scene, the second shot, the scene: on the slope of the river outside Chengang County, shooting content: The Eighth Route Army crossed the Yellow River, the senior generals raised their eyes and looked into the distance, riding horses and galloping towards Taiyuan......

"Let's go!!"

Li Yang pointed at the camera again, ordered to start shooting, as the camera of the river-crossing troops turned, on a hillside, Commander-in-Chief Peng and several guards rode fast horses from the shallow river beach galloped quickly, after they crossed the river, Mr. Peng went up the hillside, raised his eyes and looked into the distance, there was a great momentum on his body, and said to the guards behind him: "Since the reorganization of our Eighth Route Army, we have crossed the Yellow River to the east and rushed to the front line of the Anti-Japanese War. Now, we have finally reached the boundary of Shanxi. ”

"Mr. Peng, I heard that Yan Laoxi is very picky, let's go, he will definitely make things difficult for us. A guard behind him said.

"It doesn't matter, our Eighth Route Army crossed the Yellow River to help him defend the territory in the Second War Zone, and we didn't grab territory with him. As long as we do our own responsibilities, we will be worthy of the Chinese nation. ”

Mr. Peng turned around, the sun shone on his face, and there was a sense of sparkle: "Comrades, our War of Resistance is not for **** or for him Yan Xishan, but for the Chinese nation." In the war, we wanted to get their support, but without their support, we resisted the battle. For the sake of the Chinese nation, in the face of fierce enemies, it is our generation's duty to defend the land and resist the war. After speaking, he turned over and got on his horse, waved his big hand and said, "Full speed ahead." Then he rode away.

As Mr. Peng galloped away, the troops who crossed the river first immediately ran at full speed, thinking about the battlefield in their minds, and the commander-in-chief gave them a firm step on the road ahead, without hesitation.

"Okay, card, the second one. ”

Li Yang immediately shouted and shouted: "Tell someone to prepare the first article of the second game." In this second scene, Mr. Peng went to see Yan Xishan, and then Wei Lihuang, the supreme commander of the Central Army in the Second War Zone, arrived, and the three giants met, admired each other and talked heart-to-heart, and reached an alliance with the East to resist the war.

This is not Taiyuan, so the scene of the second scene is arranged in the courtyard of an earlier large family in Chengang, which covers a wide area, with both front and back yards and gardens in the courtyard, and a large ancestral hall, which is in line with the environment of Yan Xishan's mansion.

As the staff continued to set up the scene, Li Yang, who was filming outside, would also come, and when they had just set up the machine, it was time to eat. Lunch is a boxed lunch, rice, steamed buns, steamed buns, and stir-fried meat with celery.

The big guys eat the same, no one's food is different, and the same goes for the director. Everyone ate in full swing, Shaogong ate two steamed buns and a box of vegetables, and also ate a box of rice, which was considered full.

This was followed by the afternoon shooting, and in the evening, there was a battle scene, which was on the hill outside the county, telling about the ambush battle of the Taiyuan Front. The atmosphere of this crew is basically the same as when Shao Gong was a group performer in Hengdian in his previous life, and he soon found a feeling of coming home.

Since then, his crew life has officially begun.