Chapter 27 Cantonese Mandarin
Inside Shaw Studios, the next shot is being filmed.
Shi Tian has been put on by a makeup artist and has a bit of a taste of Dragon Four, but he shows that he is kind and friendly, and he is very affable.
Professor Chen, played by Shi Tian, came out to play a round, everyone sat down in the hall, Professor Chen asked Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan about the origin of the conversation, and the conversation between several people was very natural, three cameras shot at three angles, and one camera captured a close-up of the face.
"Cards. ”
Wang Zheng interrupted the conversation and walked to Guan Zhilin, who was sitting in the corner of the table with a deer hunting hat.
"Miss Guan, this scene needs to capture a close-up of your face, you have to keep an indifferent expression on your face, don't have other expressions, just pay attention to a few of them chatting, you have to show that you give people a cold feeling. ”
"Director, I'm sorry, I'll try again!" Guan Zhilin smiled apologetically.
Seeing that Guan Zhilin's apologetic expression was full of amorousness, Wang Zheng's eyes were stunned, and he put aside distractions and continued to shoot.
"One more time. ”
With Wang Zheng's reminder and narration, it was easy to pass this time and move on to the next shot.
Professor Chen admired Hu Bayi, who had been in the army and had actual combat experience, but as a team leader, he also needed to understand the Tianxing Feng Shui, and only the Tianxing Water Splitting Technique could find the location of the exquisite ancient city.
Hu Bayi will talk about the knowledge he learned from the "Sixteen Characters Yin Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique".
"Today, I would like to tell you about a branch of Feng Shui, the Dividing of the Stars. Liang Chaowei talked eloquently to the camera.
"The so-called Qiankun gathers the beautiful area, the place where yin and yang meet, the dragon's cave sand water, no beauty is not collected, the situation is reasonable, all the auspicious and salty, the mountain water law, the order is detailed, and Xun is the soil of the auspicious. ”
"Cards. ”
"Ah Wei, don't say this line like an endorsement, you have to be the leader of the archaeological team now, you have to speak with heavy words, and you have to show confidence. ”
"Ah Zheng, I'm sorry, this line is too long, I've been memorizing the lines and I can't control my facial expressions. Liang Chaowei hurriedly apologized.
Wang Zheng forgot about this, and he hurriedly beckoned the props team to prepare the teleprompter.
With the teleprompter, Liang Chaowei also slowly performed better, and after NG a few times, he finally passed this scene with a lot of lines.
Shi Tian saw that Wang Zheng was so serious, thinking about every detail, and he also attached importance to Wang Zheng in his heart, those entertainment weeklies said that this movie was a failure of Shaw Brothers Pictures, and he was also worried that this was a bad movie, but now it seems that he underestimated Wang Zheng, thinking of this, Shi Tian also became serious, he can't let the newcomer's acting skills compare himself.
Shi Tian's next soaring acting skills drove the competitiveness of other people and accelerated the filming progress of the entire crew, which made Wang Zheng very happy, and it was really the right choice to find him to play.
The following shot shows Professor Chen introducing Shirley Yang to Hu Bayi, who tries to say "Harrow" thinking he is an American who does not know Chinese.
Wang Zheng set Shirley Yang in this movie to only speak English and Chinese, not Cantonese, but can understand Cantonese, and the people who talk to her must also speak Chinese, which makes it difficult for Liang Chaowei and them.
Guan Zhilin's Chinese was not bad, and he said lightly to Liang Chaowei: "Mr. Hu, I can speak Chinese, let's talk in Chinese." You can call me Shirley Yang from now on. ”
Next, she wants to question Wang Kaixuan's ability, Guan Zhilin has a lot of lines here, Wang Zheng made a teleprompter for her, she still stumbled more than a dozen times before she counted, everyone else was watching the excitement, but Wang Zheng, who was telling her a play, was tired enough. Although Guan Zhilin's parents are both actors, her acting skills are really not very good.
When I arrived at Da Fei, there was a problem again, Da Fei rarely spoke Mandarin, and his pronunciation was not accurate, although he had already started practicing, but he failed to pass more than a dozen times, which made Wang Zheng roll his eyes angrily, and he had no choice but to stop and rest, and wait for Da Fei to familiarize himself with the pronunciation again.
The filming process in the next ten days was very slow, because Guan Zhilin had more scenes, and Liang Chaowei and Da Fei, who played opposite her, had to talk to him in Chinese, which made several people miserable and stammered, but they did not complain and practiced Chinese hard.
Among them, Shi Tian's performance is the most satisfactory to Wang Zheng, he was born in Beijing with a foundation in Chinese, plus he acted very seriously, Professor Chen's obsession with the exquisite ancient city was played by him very well. Zhou Xingchi also performed well, all the comedic effects in the film were figured out by himself, Wang Zheng did not stop him, let him play freely, and some unsuitable clips could be edited in the later stage.
A month later, after everyone's efforts, the scene before leaving the desert was finally filmed. Although Liang Chaowei's Chinese dialogue is somewhat flawed, Wang Zheng feels that this Cantonese Mandarin also has a unique taste. A lot of film was burned, but it was inevitable that everyone was in the learning stage.
There is still a week to prepare for filming in India, Wang Zheng sorted out the film, and considered how to shoot the scene of the exquisite ancient city, the exquisite ancient city is the essence of the whole movie, and there is no good special effects technology in this era, and the crew has limited funds and can't do too many special effects, which makes him very annoyed, he can't ruin the movie.
After calming down and thinking about what low-budget movies have been box office hits in later generations, I finally thought of the shooting techniques of several movies, maybe I can learn from them.
Thinking of this, Wang Zheng also had some confidence in his heart, and quickly walked to the Shaw Brothers Cinema to find the equipment warehouse, where he found the smallest shoulder-mounted camera.
This 35BL camera produced in Germany is a lightweight low-noise reflective camera, weighing 12 kilograms, which is considered high-tech in this era, and it is also owned by Shaw Brothers' wealth, and other film companies really don't necessarily have it.
A few days later, Wang Zheng reported the filming progress to Shao Daheng and the next shooting plan, but Shao Daheng was not very satisfied with Wang Zheng's shooting progress.
"You're shooting too slowly, we at Shaw Brothers produced more than 30 films last year alone. ”
"Uncle Six, I also hope to make a good movie, some media say that I will make a bad movie, Uncle Six doesn't want to see such a result, the crew and actors are running in in the early stage, and the progress below will be accelerated. Wang Zheng explained to Shao Tycoon.
"Hopefully, there are no other issues with the film. Shao Daheng asked, stretching his brows.
Wang Zheng waited for his words, and said busily: "After returning from filming in India, the post-production shooting needs to be carried out in Shaw Cinemas, and I hope that Uncle Six can build the site model I need." ”
"I've already explained to Ah Hua, you go directly to her later. Shao Tycoon agreed very happily.
"Thank you, Uncle Six. ”
found Fang Yihua and told her the simple drawings and plans he had drawn, so that she could go to India for filming with peace of mind.