"How?"

"No, it's too dark, it's not bright enough. ”

The K8352 train from HZ to SH, car No. 8, the crew of "Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter" is preparing for filming. The filming content is the first scene at the beginning of the plot, on the day of the opening of the medical school of the university, the heroine Jiang Lingling rushed from her hometown to SH by train, the purpose of this scene is to highlight the heroine's character, and explain that the heroine is a girl from central China who is very curious about the outside world but is very cautious.

The reason why the plot does not start from the campus, but chooses to be on the train to the school, is because the train station will be an important symbolic scene of the movie, and every time the train station appears in the plot, it is a moment of psychological transformation of the heroine.

This setting that links the scene to the psychology of the characters is found in many classic movies, and the most famous should be the heroine Scarlett in "Gone with the Wind" every time her soul is sublimated under a tree at sunset. There are also domestic movies, such as the producers' use of Cai Qin's "Forgotten Time" in "The Way of No Sight", every time this song sounds, it is an important moment for the protagonist's psychological changes. The filmmakers arranged this way, naturally, in order to further emphasize and deepen. The scenes in the train station or train in "Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter", although there is no strong dramatic conflict, are very important for the character development of the heroine.

In order to shoot the first train scene as well as possible, Li Xiuping asked Liu Zhenyu to buy eight train tickets from Jia@Xingnan to SH Hongqiao in advance, each of which was to buy 118 seats in a whole carriage. Fortunately, it is not the peak season for train passengers, and the section from Jia@Xing to SH is generally the penultimate station and terminal station, and there are many vacant seats, so I can buy so many tickets smoothly.

In addition, Li Xiuping sent a group message after opening the start-up press conference this morning, asking the crew to have a good rest during the day, and the crew of "Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter" officially gathered at 6 o'clock in the afternoon, and they may have to work late at night.

In this way, the crew of "Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter" gathered at six o'clock, and then all the staff took the high-speed rail to Jia@Xingnan Station, and then took the ordinary train back to SH at Jia@Xingnan Station.

In order to save time, as soon as the crew got on the train, they immediately moved out various shooting equipment, and then took their places, performed their duties, and quickly prepared, the most complicated of which is of course the debugging of the camera.

Li Xiuping hopes to shoot a very realistic image, the kind of scene that people see with the naked eye every day, and he thinks that the real picture in this ordinary non-action and non-suspenseful youth movie is more substitutional. Now the problem is that the heroine's hometown is in HN, and it was already night when she arrived at SH by train, and the lights on the train at night were actually quite bright, but they were still not bright enough in the lens of the camera, and the scenes of the characters were not clear enough during shooting, in order to enhance the brightness, the lighting engineer of the crew needed to put the lights brought by the crew in some hidden places to enhance the background light of the environment, considering the movement of the camera during shooting, so the place where the lights were placed was also very particular, and the lighting engineer and the photographer were constantly coordinated, so Michael Lester and the lighting engineer shouted in English across the crowd.

Li Xiuping took a pencil and drew a storyboard script in his notebook, and there are many characters in his paintings, this is because this scene is a story that takes place in a train car, so there will inevitably be many people in the shot, and this will be a group drama.

A good group drama must be interesting, layered, and comprehensive, but how to highlight the protagonist while maintaining interest will test the skills of the screenwriter or director.

A good example is the wedding scene at the beginning of "The Godfather 1", and a good example is the extremely pompous banquet in "Gosford Manor". Li Xiuping doesn't need to highlight multiple characters like "The Godfather 1" or "Goldford Manor", he only needs to highlight the heroine, which is relatively much less difficult, but even so, this ordinary group scene is a decision made by Li Xiuping and Su after repeated discussions with Michael Lester.

Making a movie is definitely not about being able to say a perfect scheme design with just a few words, but it requires repeated speculation and discussion by the creator, which is a very complicated process.

For example, the first group scene that Li Xiuping is going to shoot now, first of all, is the problem of the interest of the camera in the carriage, the ordinary express train in China is generally two opposite seats, that is to say, half of the passengers to the left, half of the passengers to the right, if you don't set a special event, then no matter how the camera is used, half of the passengers must only be photographed to the back of the head, and this group of living people has become a special background board, so it looks boring.

In order to make the scene more vivid, Li Xiuping arranged for almost every express train in China to have an iron rice bowl - the train salesman appeared, this person entered the No. 8 car with a novel toy, and all the passengers looked at him, so that all the passengers' faces could be photographed.

The second is the problem of layering in the carriage, which is not only the layering of the shot, but also the layering of the story.

The layering of the lens is that the characters are tall and low, short and fat, the objects are red and green, large and small, and there are cylinders and cubes, so that the visual appearance will not appear repetitive and single. In order to reflect the diversified and layered effect, when the crew recruited group performers, some tall, short, fat and thin adults, children, men and women were found, and the group performers' clothes, cups, suitcases, and even snacks and fruits were specially designed to make the carriage environment in the lens both real and interesting.

The layering of the story is that the heroine left her hometown to study, and on the first train trip in her life, she saw all kinds of people, both men and women, old and young, dialect speakers, and Mandarin speakers, who got on the train in different places and got off in different places. In this carriage, people are like water droplets, sometimes gathering together, sometimes diverging to all sides.

and then to highlight the heroine's character, Li Xiuping's design is that the goods sold by the train salesman are very interesting, it is a plastic magic flower, which will emit different colors of light, can bloom or shrink, and can also be turned into a toy small umbrella, which is very popular with children and female passengers in the carriage, and the heroine also likes it, but others have paid for it, but the heroine has not.

The above three points are the core concept of this group drama, and the most important actor is naturally Reba.

Reba was a little nervous, she had been reading the script since she got on the train, and when everything was ready to shoot, Reba ran to the bathroom in a panic to wash her face, and as a result, she washed the makeup she had drawn before. After being pointed out by the stylist, Reba was anxiously about to cry, she bowed to the staff and apologized, and said sorry to Li Xiuping.

Li Xiuping noticed Reba looking at him pitifully, he knew that Reba might need encouragement now, but he just nodded, and didn't comfort Reba, in his opinion, everyone has a first time, if this needs comfort, it is really too fragile.

Reba returned to his seat, put on makeup, and then began rehearsals, Michael Lester smiled at Li Xiuping and said, "Li, my goddess has not yet entered the state, I think I can tell her that we will not take pictures in the first rehearsal, so that she may be much more relaxed?"

"Go ahead and say it, but still have to take pictures. ”

"Of course. ”

Michael Lester ran to Reba to tell Reba that the rehearsal was not photography, Reba really relaxed a lot, but her first time acting, she was still very weak in expression management, curious smile is okay, when the last train salesman asked Reba why he didn't buy magic flowers, Reba should have a reluctant but firm performance, she only showed firmness, Li Xiuping and Michael Lester looked at it and felt very abrupt, and the conversion was unnatural.

If the first rehearsal doesn't work, then come a second time, and the second time is still not good, so come a third time, a fourth time......

In the first train from HZ to SH tonight, the crew of "Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter" did not conduct a formal shooting, all of them were rehearsals, and the performance effect of Reba after rehearsing five times was still very average.

The train arrived at SH station, and according to the discussion of Li Xiuping and Michael Lester, the heroine will be filmed when she gets out of the train to bear the reception of the medical school outside the station, so as to show the insignificant heroine in the flow of people, and further emphasize her ordinariness and weakness.

Reba's rehearsal effect in the train car was not good, and the section from the train to the outside of the station still had to continue to rehearse.

Reba's face was very hot and her heart was beating fast, she knew that she was not performing well, but she still followed the script and carried a travel bag bigger than her back and walked out with the extras.

Three minutes later, in the square outside the SH Hongqiao Railway Station, Li Xiuping clapped his hands, "Very good, everyone is very good when they get out of the train station, and so are you, Reba, we will immediately carry out the next rehearsal, and the heroine enters the train station." ”

The train station is an important symbolic scene, and the heroine naturally has a plot to enter the train station, so it can be rehearsed.

Reba felt very broken when she heard Li Xiuping's perfunctory words, her frontal performance was not good, but her behind-the-scenes performance was great? Such praise is too insincere, right? She glanced at Li Xiuping, lowered her head and walked over, "Director, I want to talk to you." ”

Li Xiuping nodded, "Let's go to the waiting room." ”

Two minutes later, Reba sat on a blue plastic chair in the waiting room, "Director, I don't think I'm acting well." ”

"I know. ”

"What can I do better?"

Li Xiuping lowered his head and suddenly laughed.

"What are you laughing at?" Reba was very unhappy, she was familiar with Li Xiuping, and she didn't care about asking too directly.

"I'm sorry, I'm not laughing at you, I think it's ridiculous," Li Xiuping looked at Reba, "272, this is my first time directing a movie, in fact, I don't know a lot of things, but I don't say that everyone doesn't know, what about you, the first time you acted, you performed in front of everyone, so your shortcomings were magnified." You ask me for a solution, I can only say some vulgar official lines at this point, such as to experience the heroine's psychology, to relax and the like, but these are actually, your problem is actually very simple, that is, your expression management is not good, if you are not a genius, then you have to practice and act more, there is no shortcut, I expected it a long time ago, others said that my movie only needs to cost 10 million, but my own budget is 30 million, and the extra 20 million is because of you. ”

"Because of me, 20 million?" Reba stared at Li Xiuping incredulously, "This ...... That's too much, isn't it? ”

"You know how good I am to you, so you have to play well. ”

"Director, I'll work hard. Reba looked at Li Xiuping gratefully and said seriously.

Li Xiuping lowered his head, and then burst into laughter, "272, I was joking just now, how can it be that you have to pay 20 million more, don't take it seriously, I didn't turn on the camera before the rehearsal, I have been saving money, but if you don't act well, I still have to pay tens of thousands of dollars more for tickets, and I also pay a lot, so you have to work hard to repay me." ”

Twenty million to tens of thousands, this gap is still quite big, Reba looked at Li Xiuping sullenly, and then turned his head and did not speak.

"272, what's wrong?"

"I'm not 272, you're 272."

"Okay, what's wrong with you?"

"I really ask you for help, and you are perfunctory to me. ”

"So what...... Wouldn't it be better for us to talk like friends? Maybe you'll be moved by my humor and fall in love with me? ”

"Huh......" Reba made an exaggerated gesture of disgust, then giggled and ran away, "You dream." ”

"Hey, you have to act well, otherwise the extra ticket money will be deducted from your salary. ”

"Stingy people drink cold water. ”