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In mid-May, the temperature in Dahebao Village was already close to 30 degrees, which was suitable for filming "Donkey Gets Water".

After accompanying Li Qing to inspect the set up shooting venue, Feng Xiaogang instructed the photography team, lighting team, and recording team to unpack their equipment, and then called the actors to enter the venue.

The actors in the early nineties were quite dedicated, and before filming started, they arrived early, and they were all quite well prepared, which is like the uncles of later generations, who were late in the scene, put on makeup after arriving, and didn't remember a single line, and used "one two three four five six seven, seven six five four three two one" to deal with it after the start.

Li Qing is very satisfied with this, especially this group of actors is still the future actor, actress, best actor, and best actress!

After more than 100 years of development, the film already has a set of fixed processes, and Li Qing, who has been working as an executive director, is very familiar with this process.

The shooting of a movie can be divided into five steps: positioning, lighting, rehearsal, fine-tuning, and shooting.

The first step is positioning, the so-called positioning is that the actor simply plays the content of the scene roughly, so as to determine the position of the actor in the performance process and the actions of the characters.

Only by determining the actor's position, the photographer can finally determine the camera position, scenic spot and movement method according to the actor's performance area, and then determine the starting and falling frames, as well as the focal length and high and low position of the lens, etc.; at the same time, the lighting engineer can determine the light position in the performance area at all, so as to arrange the lighting; and the art can also set the scene according to the position of the performance area.

When the actors entered the performance area, the lighting, photography, art, and boom crew all began to cooperate with the actors according to Li Qing's instructions in advance.

Under Li Qing's command and correction, Zhou Xun, Wang Qingxiang, Wang Qianyuan, and Feng Yuanzheng walked twice to determine the area of the performance.

According to the actor's final position, the camera assistant put tape on the ground and marked it, which is a reminder to the actor, so that the actor does not walk outside the camera while acting.

Immediately afterwards, Zhou Xun, Wang Qingxiang, Wang Qianyuan, and Feng Yuanzheng left the performance area, and Lu Le led the camera team to place the camera according to Li Qing's requirements, lay out the tracks, rehearse the movement, and cooperate with the lighting team to start lighting.

Film lighting is a very complex process, you need a light meter to measure the brightness of the light, but also need to measure the color temperature of the light, only the parameters of the light are accurate to shoot the best picture, therefore, the lighting is the slowest of all departments, the most time-consuming, under normal conditions it takes about 45 minutes to arrange a panorama, and it takes 15 minutes to arrange a close-up.

The current lighting technology is far worse than after more than 20 years, especially in China, where film technology is backward, so Li Qing was shocked by this kung fu alone, and then obeyed Li Qing's orders.

Under the command of assistant director Feng Xiaogang, the recording assistant began to install wireless microphones for the actors with lines, and the artists and photographers worked with the photographer to clean up the venue and organize the props according to the range of the camera's lens.

After instructing everyone, Li Qing began to analyze in detail the motivations, psychological states and performance requirements of the characters in this scene for Zhou Xun, Wang Qingxiang, Wang Qianyuan, and Feng Yuanzheng, which is what is usually called a play.

When everything was ready, the actors returned to the performance area, and Li Qing began to guide the actors in rehearsals in the performance area.

At this time, the rehearsal is mainly to adjust the details of the performance, explain what kind of emotions, eyes, expressions, and tone the actor will use in a scene or shot to perform next, most directors will put forward clear performance requirements or tell the actors about the true state of the role, and some actors such as Jiang Wen will not give the actors too many rules and regulations to let them play freely, and a very small number of directors who are particularly good at guiding the actors' performances such as Li Yu will directly make demonstration suggestions.

"The actors are in their own places!"

"Lights ready!"

"Prop ready!"

"Animation ready!"

"Camera ready!"

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"Hit the board!"

With Li Qing's command to play the board, the scene reporter immediately shouted: "The ninth scene, the first shot, the first one!", then hit the board, and then exited the camera.

The action of striking the clapperboard is called a slapstick. Specific information such as camera position and scene sequence number is recorded on the slate board to facilitate finding and correspondence during post-editing, so as to avoid confusion in the sequence of scenes. Before the start of each scene, the slate uses the slate to complete the action of playing the slapstick, and the camera will shoot the slate shot and the percussion sound at the same time, so that the sound engineer can position it for easy editing.

Feng Yuanzheng: Principal, last semester we had a serious loss of students, and there were only six students left to take the exams at the end of the semester.

Wang Qingxiang: Kuishan, I have thought about the difficulty of recruiting students, and I have decided that from the next semester, we will give some scholarships to the children who come to the class.

Feng Yuanzheng: What does it mean to issue scholarships?

Wang Qingxiang: It's encouragement and encouragement!

Feng Yuanzheng: It's not good to give money to students.

Wang Qianyuan: I support the principal's opinion!

Feng Yuanzheng: If you hear something, you will support it!

Wang Qianyuan: I don't care, anyway, I just support the principal!

Feng Yuanzheng: Yiman, what is your attitude towards the issue of scholarships?

Weekly: What kind of scholarship?

Wang Qianyuan: Your support is over.

Zhou Xun: Ah, then I support it.

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The same lines and the same plot, spoken and performed by Zhou Xun, the future actor and actress, are completely different, too much fresh, and then lead to the fact that from the first act, "Donkey Gets Water" is no longer the "Donkey Gets Water" of the previous life.

In fact, Li Qing never thought about filming the original "Donkey Gets Water", Li Qing's ambition is big, and the cast found from Li Qing is not difficult to see.

Of course, at this stage, these future actors, actresses, and actresses are still a little bit unavoidable, and they are still honestly performing according to the lines and tasks given to them by Li Qing.

This will not work!

If they can't let go, how can "Donkey Gets Water" win an international award?

Therefore, although Zhou Xun and the others did a good job, Li Qing still never gave them to them.

After calling it off, Li Qing asked them to come over to watch their previous performances, and let them improve on what they wanted to improve, and then start over again.

All in all, if you don't squeeze out the maximum potential of these future actors, best actors, best actresses, Li Qing will never give them them!

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