Chapter 128: A Day as a Director of a Great Singer (5K)

More than 100 actors wearing burgundy school uniforms were all densely gathered in the corridor and stairwell on the fourth floor of the teaching building at this moment. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 ο½‰ο½Žο½†ο½

The reporter and the audience looked up and asked the same question curiously: "Which scene is this filming? Why do you use so many actors?"

After asking a few times, one insider in the crowd finally replied: "It seems that F4 is going to shoot the game of punishing the students who offend them." ”

"Isn't that just an ordinary rich kid bullying the common people, a few noble sons, followed by ten or eight younger brothers, and the younger brother stepped forward to teach a lesson, such a simple routine plot also needs to use a big scene of more than 100 people?" The reporter was incredulous.

"Same routine, different ways to play! A big singer as a director, not taking the usual path, is to distinguish himself from professional directors and play new tricks. The insider replied with a smile.

"Hong Kong directors filming costume war scenes, I remember that it's just a small number of people, right? The big singer is doing such a thing, if there are a few more scenes, won't the crew's funds be stretched and they can't play?" Seeing that this guy seemed to know a lot about the inside story, the reporter struck while the iron was hot and continued to ask.

The insider pouted and said, "I'm not afraid of funds, someone is stupid and has a lot of money sponsors." Didn't you see the dozen or so luxury cars that slipped away just now? Tell you, they were all found for free, and there were even car dealers who paid the crew. The big singer is famous, and the car dealers are willing to give him face. ”

The reporter was excited, and he then asked: "I heard that Cheng Weiliang came to the door of a company a while ago to fight the autumn wind, oh no, pull sponsorship, in fact, I ate a lot of cold eyes, to be honest, which companies did he pull in the end? How much sponsorship money did he get? Brother, you must have exploded?"

"Sponsorship money, uh, of course I know, but it's a trade secret, I can't give it away! I'm sorry, I'm leaving. When asked about the specific amount, the insiders actually only knew a little bit about it, and only a few senior executives of ATV could grasp the specific situation.

"Hey, don't go, man! Explode some other material!" the reporter hurriedly chased after him.

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After more than an hour of rest and adjustment at noon, Zeng Huaqian returned to the set, and greeted the crew all the way in a warm spring. Originally, everyone saw that she was still quite depressed when she left in the morning, but they never thought that this little girl was quite optimistic, and she would recover her vitality from the countless blows of ng in the morning so quickly!

"Zeng Huaqian, such a happy mood, I hope you can keep it this afternoon. Cheng Weiliang walked into the busy set and greeted Zeng Huaqian with a smile, but there seemed to be something in the words.

Zeng Huaqian's eyes widened, her lips were pursed, and she raised her small fist in front of Cheng Weiliang, as if demonstrating and cheering herself up, "Director, even if I am hit, I will keep my mood happy and will not give in easily! I will definitely let you reduce the number of ngs!"

The corners of Cheng Weiliang's mouth were slightly upturned, and he looked at her with interest and nodded, his eyes seemed to tell Zeng Huaqian: I am waiting to see your performance.

"Everyone, please stop what you're doing and listen to me a few words before you start filming this scene. After Cheng Weiliang and Mei Xiaoqing exchanged glances, they clapped their palms and motioned for all the crew to look over.

The field staff, props, cameramen, lighting engineers, and assistant directors who were doing various preparations turned their eyes to director Cheng Weiliang who was standing in front.

"Colleagues, the filming in the morning was very good, everyone has worked hard, I would like to express my gratitude in advance!" Cheng Weiliang bowed his hand to the crew with a slight smile.

The smiles of the employees below gradually changed, but Cheng Weiliang's next face suddenly became solemn: "However, the morning is just an appetizer! Let me tell you, this afternoon is the big scene and the main event! I hope everyone will continue to maintain the previous strong fighting spirit, make persistent efforts, and shoot a few important scenes today!"

Ordinary employees couldn't help but smack their tongues when they heard the pomp and circumstance of borrowing so many luxury cars just now, which was just a piece of cake.

The few people who really know the specific shooting plan for today feel the same way. Cheng Weiliang is not wrong, the few scenes in the afternoon are the biggest scenes in the first episode, the most test of the actors' performance skills, and the most important scenes that test the director's ability to schedule large scenes, which is very difficult to shoot!

Filming is already difficult, but this singer director doesn't know how to make detailed trade-offs, and is too demanding on the actors' on-the-spot acting skills! Moreover, filming a game of F4 punishment for classmates actually requires the use of hundreds of extras to fill the stage. These old people who have been immersed in the set for many years, have been filming for so many years, and they have seen a lot of knowledge, but they have never seen any Xiangjiang director who needs such a big pomp to help in fashion dramas except for large-scale costume dramas and historical dramas?

In this scene, hundreds of students were invited to be extras, 50 yuan per person, and 5,000 yuan a day, which cost a lot of money for filming. The waste of this money made the financial staff of the crew hurt for a while.

The finances are a little distressed, but those young and ambitious crew newcomers are more excited in their hearts. Which of the middle and low-level staff who strive to be a film director does not want to participate in the filming of a big drama to increase their experience and knowledge?

It's just that TV stations have always been strict in the principle of economy, TV scenes can be saved, and the war scenes of tens of thousands of people in costume dramas are just pulling a hundred people to fill the number, not to mention fashion dramas!

Laymen come to film with this advantage, at least Cheng Weiliang, a loser, is willing to invest his own blood to film, unlike ATV and wireless stations, filming dramas buckle and rope, which restricts that restriction! As for whether the cost of filming can be recovered, it is not for them, middle and low-level personnel, to worry about.

There is a contradiction to everything. Since some people like it, there will be people who don't like it.

As a senior member of the crew, Deputy Director Chen's status is second only to Cheng Weiliang and Mei Xiaoqing, and he is also one of the senior executives responsible for the success or failure of the play.

He thinks that there is no need to shoot such a big scene for a small plot, which is not in line with ATV's usual convention. Cheng Weiliang is a newcomer who does not understand the importance of controlling the cost of filming, and if he does this, the budget will definitely be overspent in the end! However, Xu Xiaoming and Mei Xiaoqing are both biased towards Cheng Weiliang's side, and the top management of the TV station respects Xu Xiaoming's opinion. Deputy Director Chen was unable to support it alone, and his opposition was ineffective.

He also gently suggested Mei Xiaoqing in the morning, asking Cheng Weiliang not to shout "click!" to the actors like today in the future, he is addicted to shouting, he is really a waste of money and a waste of filming schedule by "playing" like this.

"Quiet, I still have news to tell you, after filming the first episode, I personally invite the whole crew to a high-end seafood restaurant for a big meal!" Cheng Weiliang pressed his hand, so that the people below could not be impatient. This was followed by the announcement of a good news that made the majority of the cast and crew very excited.

"Oh oh! Long live the director!" Everyone has never heard of the finale banquet, and now the director is willing to invite them to the big hotel for a meal after filming the first episode, which is really the best benefit for the low-level staff who are bitter! Some of the grassroots people in Xiangjiang who were originally jealous of Cheng Weiliang's good luck on the mainland, forgot that they had said Cheng Weiliang's strange words behind their backs, and they all excitedly shouted flattering slogans such as "Director Cheng is a good person, long live the director!"

"Alright, let's all go back to their places. Cheng Weiliang waved his hand and let them disperse.

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More than 100 students sat in various classrooms, waited for the signal of the assistant director, and rushed out of the classroom.

The field workers moved all kinds of equipment and props to the fourth floor of the teaching building, where the first scene of the play with a large number of people will be filmed - at the beginning of the play, the students of the whole school were called out of various classrooms, and all participated in the pursuit and interception of the unlucky boy who was labeled with a red card, and the unlucky boy fled in panic, but was blocked in the stairwell on the second floor by the students who came out of each floor, and was arrested by a group of people to go downstairs to the lobby, waiting for the disposal of Daoming Temple!

Finally, Cheng Weiliang gave an order, the machine started, and the personnel were dispatched.

This group of scenes was nothing, it was just that the number of participants was a little bigger, the scene was a little bigger, and the experienced Mei Xiaoqing helped dispatch the students and all groups of the crew, and Cheng Weiliang was also filmed smoothly. The only thing that happened was that Cheng Weiliang really couldn't stand this Tang cameraman with extremely mediocre photography skills, and the stable picture taken by the other party ruined the big scene that Cheng Weiliang had worked so hard to create. The captured picture lacks any visual impact at all.

As a last resort, Cheng Weiliang had no choice but to deprive the photographer of his rights, personally control the camera, and let everyone do it all over again.

Cheng Weiliang quickly and skillfully controlled the camera, and used a variety of photographic techniques such as lens shake to create a tense, exciting, and crazy atmosphere for the shocking scene of the whole school students catching the unlucky students who were pasted with red notes!

"Sister Xiaoqing, transfer Xiao Tang away, let him be the main photographer, my work will lose at least 20% of the excitement!" After the filming of this scene was completed, Cheng Weiliang made a serious request to Mei Xiaoqing.

"This ......," Mei Xiaoqing muttered. Xiao Tang's ability is a little mediocre, he usually does auxiliary photography okay, but as the main photographer of this drama, his ability is indeed lacking, which makes Cheng Weiliang very dissatisfied. In the scene just now, the pictures shot by Xiao Tang and Cheng Weiliang successively, Mei Xiaoqing also felt that the gap in shooting effect was very obvious. The same actors, the same performances, and different cameramen operate and shoot, and the picture effect is completely different!

It's just that this Xiao Tang has a relationship with an old ATV courtier, and everyone usually sells affection and will not be too strict with Xiao Tang. Mei Xiaoqing was suddenly very angry with the veteran producer of the other crew, not to mention pulling away the senior cameraman she had originally scheduled, and also recommended Xiao Tang, who was originally scheduled to be an assistant photographer in his crew, to be the main photographer of "Meteor Garden"!

Hey, she Mei Xiaoqing is a woman, her qualifications in Taiwan are not as deep as others, after all, the "Meteor Garden" project is not exactly ATV's own biological child, even if the director Xu Xiaoming attaches great importance to it, it still can't compete with other senior producers in terms of resource allocation. Due to the affection of the old courtiers and the urgency of time, Mei Xiaoqing had no choice but to agree, but he didn't expect Xiao Tang to be so bad that Cheng Weiliang couldn't tolerate it!

"Sister Xiaoqing, I know that ATV may have a complicated internal relationship, if you are difficult to do, I can not transfer him, but he must change his position. Cheng Weiliang said solemnly. "Also, I decided to take it upon myself until I found another photographer I liked. ”

Mei Xiaoqing thought for a while, and finally nodded, "Okay, I'll talk to Director Xu if I can bring in an experienced photographer in the stands." ”

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After filming the scene of chasing and intercepting, it was the turn of Daoming Temple to rectify the unlucky ghosts in the lobby downstairs, Shancai was resentful that he was forced to participate in this perverted boring game, and he hated the high-tide scene of Daoming Temple.

"Gaffer, brighten the lights a little more...... Brighter a little more...... The light is softer and brightens the face. Cheng Weiliang observed the people and objects in the monitor, and at the same time kept instructing the veteran gaffer to play the lighting effects he needed.

The quality of the lighting setting is related to the imaging effect captured by the camera. Idol dramas need to turn on the lights more, and the reason why Korean idol dramas give people the feeling of handsome men and beautiful women is that in addition to the great makeup and post-production, another point is that the lights are very good when they shoot.

The lighting is good, it can modify the face shape of the actor being filmed, can cover up some defects on the actor's skin, and make the actor's image in the camera more beautiful. On the contrary, if the lighting is not good, the fairy will also be photographed as a ghost! It is precisely because of the importance of lighting to the actors that a good lighting engineer often has a very high status in the film and television crew, and the actor has the honorific title of "Lantern Master" in the mouth of the actor. Ordinary actors who are not big enough to be famous usually dare not offend the lighting engineer.

According to Cheng Weiliang's requirements, the gaffer was busy and repeatedly debugging many times before he achieved a satisfactory effect to Cheng Weiliang, and Cheng Weiliang made an "OK!" gesture to the gaffer behind him.

"Sixth scene, 1st shot, 1st time!" "The young field reporter stretched out the playing board in front of the camera and shouted!

"Ikesh!" The camera camera was pointed at the hundreds of actors who were already ready to wait for the official boot order, and Mei Xiaoqing shouted to start.

Downstairs in the teaching building, the extras wearing the uniforms of the Yingde College were crowded into a large circle, leaving an open space in the middle, and the students of the ATV training class, Yin Tianzhao and Luo Dahua, played the unlucky boys who offended F4 and the boys' good friends respectively, and the two were pushed back and forth by the students, laughed loudly, and were tightly surrounded in the middle.

Cheng Weiliang's Daoming Temple, as well as the other three F4 members, half-leaned on the sofa chair for a long time, looking at the unlucky ghost who was being rectified with meaningful eyes, as if they were fun prey.

In this scene, there are many performances involved, there are many protagonists, many supporting roles, and many actions and expressions that need to be performed.

Therefore, it is not surprising that this scene has a record number of ng times!

At the scene, Cheng Weiliang's roar was constantly heard!

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Yin Tianzhao, you are a coward in the play, and you inadvertently offended the poor worm and unlucky guy of F4, Daoming Temple has a huge strength in the school and covers the sky with one hand, and when he starts beating you, you don't dare to resist at all. And how did you act just now? When you were beaten, the stubborn look in your eyes, did you want to tell the audience that you were an indomitable man? Do you have acting skills? Do you not want to follow the director's guidance, or do you not know how to act such a cowardly look at all?"

"I'm sorry, Director! Give me another chance!"

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Hanazawa, when you walk through the crowd, the expression on your face is more indifferent than the last time, so that the audience will feel at a glance that you are very bored with this game of punishing your classmates, and you are a special person in the F4 team!

β€œβ€¦β€¦ The duo of Jiao Lili and Feng Meijin, after Daoming Temple kicked down the unlucky guy, you have to show admiration and fascination, and your actions should be more exaggerated and nymphomaniac...... This is an idol drama, not a realistic drama, the style should be dramatic, exaggerated, exaggerated, exaggerated!

"Uh-uh, okay, director! Let's do it again. ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Li Ying, you are a new transfer student with a weak personality on the surface, the first time you have seen such a terrible group fight scene, you have to behave like a frightened little white rabbit, shrink your shoulders slightly, and let the audience see the panic and fear in your heart. Li Saifeng, when you played just now, your eyes were so bright, do you want to be heroic and righteous in the execution field? Please tell me, you just looked scared?"

"I ...... I, I'm sorry, director! I'll try again. ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Heroine Shancai, you see Daoming Temple arrogantly beating people, while the surrounding classmates show perverted excitement, you have to feel indignant, but also have to forbear, because you are the whole family to feed and clothe for you to go to an aristocratic school, you can't offend F4 and drop out of school! Zeng Huaqian, you just wrote all the anger on your face, are you afraid that other classmates will not see your anger towards Daoming Temple, and will not report you on the spot?

"It should ...... I should have a calm look on my face, and I expressed my anger with secretly resentful eyes and small fists that clenched the joints white. ”

"Very good, I'll act like this in a while!" The whole scene was filled with the terrifying sound of Cheng Weiliang's roar coming from the loudspeaker.

In this scene, the supporting actors in every scene were almost scolded by Cheng Weiliang! Even Yin Tianzhao played a role in a small dragon that was beaten by the protagonist, and his shots were shot three times, not to mention the other leading actors!

Cheng Weiliang's roar made the young actors truly understand the meaning of Cheng Weiliang's previous words "The morning is just an appetizer, and the afternoon is the real thing!", the actors and crew members, after a scene, were all tossed by Cheng Weiliang!

Guan Zhilin shook his head and looked at the colleagues who were criticized by the big singer director in the field, and only sighed lazily: "What a devil's director! The profession of director is really perverted, no matter how gentle and polite a person usually is, as soon as he is on the set, he will become unrecognizable, explosive and irritable!"

Cheng Weiliang is strict, and the film is very high-quality.

Mei Xiaoqing watched the playback of several scenes shot by Cheng Weiliang himself in the camera, and while watching, she sighed, "Not bad! This, and this, these shots, Weiliang, you shoot really well! Especially the scene in the stairwell to contain the unlucky guys, shooting from top to bottom, the camera rotates, and the picture is quite visually impactful! It feels like a movie!"

Regarding Cheng Weiliang's previous statement that he would personally serve as a photographer, Mei Xiaoqing was completely relieved. Cheng Weiliang gave her too many surprises, she couldn't wait at the moment, she really wanted to see what kind of effect the finished product would be after the filming of the first episode, the editing out, and then the dubbing and soundtrack?

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The gentle and elegant music talent turned into a devil director, and roared again and again at the filming scene, making the newcomer heroine sad and cryingβ€”β€” Daily Daily

The million-dollar investment shows the effect, and the filming scene of "Meteor Garden" is huge, which is comparable to a blockbuster movie-Chengbao

The new drama "Meteor Garden" can be regarded as the most anticipated new drama in Hong Kong this year -- Oriental Daily

Cheng Weiliang's director answered the questionnaire on the first day, Xu Xiaoming gave 80 points, and bluntly said that the future life is terribleβ€”β€” Ming Bao

Cheng Wei Liang Da director took office three times, from the male and female leading actors, supporting roles, to lighting engineers, photographers, artists, costumes, the whole crew was trained one by oneβ€”β€” recording the first day of the big singer turned director...... (To be continued.) )