Putting down the phone, thinking for a while, Xu Jing walked into the bathroom, washed his face, washed away the drowsiness, returned to the desk again, opened the yellowed notepad, and wrote a line of handwriting on the paper.

Since it has been decided to send "Borderland" to the Berlin Film Festival, the filming plan of the film naturally needs to make a lot of adjustments, not to mention that there is not much time left for Jiuzhou Company to shoot all the scenes and complete the post-production of the film before the opening of the film festival, and the short film sent to Rolf Lieberman, the chairman of the jury of this year's Berlin Film Festival, is also even more urgent.

Although Kubrick opened up Lieberman's relationship for him, this does not mean that "Borderland" can be shortlisted for the main competition unit of the film festival without hindrance, at this time, he failed to send the complete film to the ten judges, and only needed to cut out a short film for the preliminary review.

The short film submitted for review is not a trailer, it is not a collection that arouses people's desire to watch the movie from the perspective of the audience~, but to present a profound story to the judges in a short space, in which it is necessary to show the technical and technical side of the film.

If the cut short film is mediocre, there is nothing to impress the judges, and in the end it can't even be shortlisted, then Kubrick, who strongly recommends the film, is afraid that he will lose face because of this, even if Xu Jing is not sociable, he will not understand this truth.

The cool breeze outside the window blew the leaves rattling, and the sound of pen and paper rubbing in the window kept coming, until nearly three o'clock, Xu Jingfang put down the pen, closed the notepad, turned off the lights and went to sleep.

On the second day, when Xu Jing came to the company, he saw that Zhao Xiaojun, Han Xiaoxin and others were already packing up the props for the upcoming filming scenes and moving them to the car.

"Let's stop the meeting first. Xu Jing had to stop them immediately.

"What's wrong? Zhao Xiaojun wondered.

"There are some adjustments to the shooting plan, so let's have a small meeting first and call all the main creative staff of the crew. Xu Jing said.

"Then, should I go and pick up the probably, Axiong, and Ajie first?" asked Zhao Xiaojun.

"Xiaoxin, you can go. Xu Jing thought about it, the shooting plan had to be adjusted a lot, and it really needed the cooperation of Sun Dahai and other leading actors, so he nodded and said to Han Xiaoxin.

"'Borderlands' was going to the Berlin Film Festival, so we had to make a big adjustment to our shooting plan. When Han Xiaoxin left, Xu Jing pulled Zhao Xiaojun, the behind-the-scenes director, and ventilated in advance.

"Isn't the Berlin Film Festival going to start next month?" Zhao Xiaojun was not too surprised, the trip to the Toronto Film Festival made him learn a lot of things, and he also tasted the sweetness, and he came back to collect information about major film festivals, and he naturally understood that Xu Jing wanted to participate in the film festival, but he didn't expect to be in such a hurry.

"Well, so we have to compress the shooting cycle a lot, and I guess we have to delay a lot of work in the evening. Xu Jing handed over the short film scene plan written the night before, and said: "In addition, these scenes should be filmed in advance so that they can be used in the film festival." ”

"Yes, the environment in the Kowloon Walled City is indistinguishable from day and night, and the requirements for light are not high, so there is no big problem. Zhao Xiaojun took the notepad, browsed for a moment, and said.

After some discussion, a new shooting plan was finally determined, and there were no obstacles at the subsequent small meeting, as soon as Axiong Ajie and his extras heard that the film would be taken to Europe to participate in the film festival, not only did they not get angry because the working hours were extended a lot, but they also patted their chests and promised to fully cooperate even if they filmed all night, which made Zhao Xiaojun and others cold.

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"Let's prepare, there are a few scenes in this today, and strive to finish filming today!" In an apartment in the walled city, Han Xiaoxin encouraged the actors.

This scene is an independent ~ independent story in the film, called "The Story of the Apartment".

Although this is a story that stands on its own~, it is the most concise story in the film, only less than three minutes, but only these three minutes are the longest scenes in the movie.

Not a long shot, but one of the longest shots, it tells the story of the changes that took place in this apartment from the 60s to the end of the 70s. Most of the time in this segment is a multi-frame shot, which is several times more than the normal 24 frames per second.

This story begins with the protagonist Ah Pao walking into the apartment, the camera angle is in a fixed direction from the deepest part of the apartment towards the door of the apartment, the main body of the camera is the corridor and the living room of the apartment, with a very indifferent lens language, just like sitting in front of the window, looking at everything that happens outside the window absolutely objectively, watching without moving, no matter how touching everything happens in front of the window, everything is recorded with extreme indifference: happening, dying, ending, continuing, repeating.

In this story, the apartment changed hands several times, and it rose and fell several times during this erosive and dark period of the 'Borderless City', suggesting that the 'Borderless City' has evolved from the original individual management to the later group management model.

When the camera returns to the scene at the beginning of the story, Ah Pao asks the black boy to buy a big deal, and the story unfolds the next story fluently, with perfect interludes and flawless connections, so that the story of the whole film is completed in one go.

Although this shot is only less than three minutes, in terms of lens language, it can show a super ability to control the lens, and the operation of positioning the lens can be called a classic in film history, and in terms of content, it gives the film a profound connotation with extremely superb techniques.

For such a classic shot, Xu Jing naturally will not cut it into the short film submitted for review at the Berlin Film Festival.

The story in the film is only less than three minutes long, but the shooting of the apartment involves four owners, that is, it tells the changes of four stories, which naturally cannot be filmed in a few hours.

Dozens of people in the crew are crowded in the small space to rehearse the play, turn on the lights, set the scenery, and put on makeup, busy, you come and go, like a small vegetable market.

Fortunately, although there are many scenes filmed, there are no close-ups, and the actors perform more in a life-like attitude, speechless like professional actors to show their acting skills back and forth, filming and shooting, although there are a lot of NG, and finally all the scenes are completed.

By the time the crew finished work, it was already more than eleven o'clock in the evening, which was two or three hours longer than the usual eight or nine o'clock.

"Everyone's lucky, I asked the venue staff to buy some functional drinks, today first, when it's finished, take everyone to the best hotel in Xiangjiang to have enough!" Looking at the tired but uncomplaining actors on the scene, although their bodies are not very clean, they also have such a cute side, for a while, Xu Jing also sighed a lot, and shouted immediately.

"Good~"

"Long live the director~"

For a moment, those immature faces were full of smiles and cheered.