Chapter 57: Shooting the Condor (4)

Grinding is not a particularly unusual thing.

But for the actors, it is absolutely painful.

Among them, the most powerful director is the eye king of Xiangjiang.

At the beginning, I almost grinded the actor and actress to doubt my life.

Generally speaking, actors act, and very few are over.

Of course, it's not that no one has superb acting skills, but generally speaking, directors are "greedy and insufficient" people, and after the actor performs a kind of performance, the director thinks, can it be better?

So generally speaking, when the director is filming, he will shoot several back and forth repeatedly, with the best one as the final excerpt.

Previously, although Fang Siyi occasionally had adaptations, the overall shooting was based on the work itself in the dream.

That's why he shoots so fast.

Because in his mind, with the final effect of this play, it is natural that appropriate adjustments can be made in order to achieve the best.

But "Shooting the Condor" is different.

"Shooting the Condor" is a well-known classic IP.

In other words, every grass, tree, stitch and thread in "Shooting the Condor" has been thoroughly studied by many people.

This has become a certain degree of difficulty in shooting.

After all, even if you haven't read the original book, you will have watched the TV series.

Therefore, some details need to be paid great attention to.

In order to strive for the maximum effect, the entire crew does not have any stand-ins.

The profession of stand-in, in fact, most of them are not required by the actors, but configured by the crew.

Some keyboard shrimp shouting that there are too many stand-ins for whom, and who needs stand-ins for filming, which is actually wrong.

At least, not exactly.

The stand-in industry generally appears in costume dramas, after all, not everyone is born in filming, and not everyone has dancing skills or has filmed martial arts.

In the event of injury or disability, it is extremely easy to affect the subsequent shooting.

There are even some artists who may not plan to use stand-ins, but the director will even set up the so-called ABC group behind the actor's back for the sake of filming.

In other words, it's about shooting two or three crews at the same time, and then piecing it together through editing.

So at this time, what if there are more than two crews and one actor is needed at the same time?

Inevitably, only stand-ins can be used.

This also has the existence of the so-called lying replacement, back substitution and other stand-ins.

It's just that most people, when they hear that when they are filming a literary drama, they are not filming by themselves, and they raise this situation to the issue of the actor's personal quality, which is a bit funny.

Do you really think that in the previous film and television dramas, there was no such thing as Wenti?

Sorry, but there really is.

It's just that at that time, few people would do this kind of thing, and those who did it would not declare it to the public at all.

It wasn't until after entering the era of self-media that some people kicked out this kind of thing for all kinds of interests, in order to seek a little pitiful benefit.

Naturally, it has also caused a representative of the real chaos in your circle.

However, since it is Fang Siyi's first costume drama, what is naturally needed is full control.

So Fang Siyi would rather shoot very slowly, but still insist on using a crew to grind.

The consequence of this is that the filming progress is slow.

It took two months of filming, and the specific filming progress was less than one-tenth of it.

This is also because some classic war scenes were not filmed.

If you wait until the real shooting, then the run-in time will only be more!

Especially in the most famous battles, Fang Siyi does not plan to use any special effects for filming.

In other words, he intends to shoot live.

The difficulty of real shooting, I believe that many people do not have a specific concept.

So here is a brief explanation.

For example, in a war scene, if you want to create a scene of tens of thousands of people, if you want to create a scene of tens of thousands of people, then when filming, you need to dispatch at least hundreds of group performers.

The salary of a war drama group performer is basically about 80, that is to say, the price is at least 8,000 and at most tens of thousands.

And this, this is a group performance.

Coupled with all kinds of preparations, shooting, and the running-in of various unexpected events, basically a war scene will burn at least 100,000 yuan.

And this is just the simplest war scene.

But when it came to Fang Siyi, there was nothing else.

Burn money.

It's a real burner!

Group performance, 1,000 people!

The selection of candidates for the battle scene is basically maintained at about 100 people, and the rest of the people are under the command of the deputy director of the scene, carrying out a siege posture.

For example, in the battle of Temujin as emperor in the early stage, in addition to basically restoring the scene in the original book, the most important thing is the number of group performances!

What is the concept of a 1,000-person ensemble?

Previously, the maximum number of simultaneous group performances in China was only maintained at about four or five hundred!

In other words, Fang Siyi directly doubled.

As for the effect......

When Sister Li was distressed about the financial report, and at the same time looked at a war scene that had just ended on the computer from time to time, she suddenly felt that the money was well spent!

Come to think of it, it is obviously a generation of Tianjiao Temujin, but in the filming process of the past dynasties, because of the limited cost, the shooting scenes often make people feel funny.

A few hundred people are worthy of thousands of troops?

Several leading actors led the way in front, followed by hundreds of people sporadically, and deliberately made an aerial perspective......

That makes people laugh, okay?

And Fang Siyi did not show too many people in the crew, but through a few clips, this group of shots, obviously there are only thousands of people, but they were stunned to shoot the posture of more than 100,000 people!

However, the filming time of this scene is not short.

A month and a half.

There's no way, it's not that Fang Siyi doesn't want to continue, but ......

If you continue to shoot, the budget will really exceed the standard.

Although Fang Siyi only treats this play as a work of hand practice, he always has to consider how to recover the cost.

Even if you can't make a lot of money, you can't lose too much.

Of course, he knows this kind of thing, but if he really says it, it will be very embarrassing.

It's just that although the filming progress is slow, when the rough cut footage is handed over to those investors, all doubts are gone.

It's not that no one has ever made war scenes in China, and even war blockbusters were very popular in the past few years.

But in fact, the effects of many war scenes are helpless.

Indeed, limited by the balance of cost and overhead, it will inevitably shrink again and again, but if the war drama is reduced, is it still called a war drama?

It's just clear that before that, few people were able to balance the ratio between literary drama and war drama, resulting in the shooting effect was often top-heavy.

But the most critical thing in a film and television drama is this "foot".

That is, the plot.