"Okay! It's over! Let's get here today, and we'll continue tomorrow. ”

At about eight o'clock in the evening, in a small room in the Kowloon Walled City, Xu Jing wore headphones, staring intently at the materials replaced on the monitor, and only after a long time did he take off the headphones, put the walkie-talkie in his hand to his mouth, and commanded.

"Roger. The intercom heard the sound of a reply from the field notes.

After a while, there was a commotion outside, and a group of energetic actors frolicked and left in twos and threes, leaving only a staff member of Jiuzhou Company, busy packing up equipment and props.

It's the sixth day of filming, except for the first two days when the 'amateur' actors were a little uncomfortable and encountered Lu Xinyan's small troubles, the filming of "Borderless City" went very smoothly, and nearly a quarter of the progress was completed in six days, which was both unexpected by Xu Jing and expected by him.

Unexpectedly, the shooting speed was much faster than I expected, and the expected speed was completely orderly. Not to mention that Zhao Xiaojun's early preparations are almost the same as the general execution of the troops when they perform combat missions, it can be explained by the particularity of this film.

"Borderless City" is a realistic film based on the shooting technique of hand-held cameras, compared with most other films, there is no need for too many sets, nor does it need much artistic lens composition, and most of the scenes are shot in the walled city, and the transition is just a few alleys, which is a lot easier than shooting other films.

On the other hand, although the actors are all amateur actors, almost all of them grew up in the walled city, and have an unclear relationship with the black state organization, it is not an exaggeration to say that they are performing in their true colors, and Xu Jing's requirements for their 'performance' are more relaxed than those of the professional actors in "Killer" and "King Haibian", not only to a large extent let them play on their own, so that there are many scenes of actors improvised performances, and even listened to their opinions and revised the script.

For example, there is a scene in the film where the 'red-haired' gang prays before committing the crime, but during the filming, an actor said, 'No one of us who worships God before the fire is here, we only worship Master Guan'.

The walled city was originally the favorite place for Christian missionaries, and there was no sense of disobedience in prayer itself, but Xu Jing thought about it, and finally recognized this statement, and replaced the original prayer scene with a scene where the 'red-haired' group of people collectively offered incense to pay homage to Guan Gong, and filmed an extremely shocking shot, full of a sense of scene and ritual.

Xu Jing let them wave and listen to their opinions like this, naturally not to save trouble, but to make the whole movie more objective and real, so that the movie has a realistic style closer to the appearance of the market, but I didn't expect that this would speed up the filming of the film a lot.

By the time the crew packed up their equipment and came out of the walled city, the lights were already brilliant outside, and the flickering neon lights made the night of Xiangjiang more public.

Back at the company, the lights were still on in the office, and when I walked in, I saw that Zhao Xiaojun was still dealing with chores.

"Lao Zhao, you don't have to follow the crew every day, why haven't you gone back yet?" asked Xu Jing.

"Well, I'll be back in a minute. Zhao Xiaojun replied: "By the way, the few rolls of film negatives a few days ago have been washed out and turned magnetic, do you want to take a look?"

"Oh, let's go, let's take a look. Xu Jing said.

After a while, Zhao Xiaojun took out a few boxes of copies from the safe and walked into the screening room with Xu Jing.

Speaking of which, because there are only film cameras for filming at this time, it is not possible to shoot as immediately as a digital camera, and it is far less convenient than a digital camera.

Although the shooting effect can be observed through the monitor when shooting, the clarity of the picture presented in the monitor is less than one percent of the giant screen image, and Xu Jing can only vaguely see the performance and composition. As long as conditions permit, the negative will be processed while shooting, and the negative will be magnetized to observe whether the final effect meets the requirements.

When Zhao Xiaojun put the tape on the projector and projected the picture on the screen, he saw that in a room lit with dozens of candles on the screen, a missionary was sitting on a chair and instructing the 'little overlord' in front of him.

Because only part of the shooting negatives were washed, there was neither editing nor soundtrack, dubbing, and the two of them watched at this time only the images and no sound, if ordinary people watched it, they would inevitably have a strange feeling, of course, this was already used to Xu Jing and Zhao Xiaojun, and even when Xu Jing watched it, he had silently spliced these images in his mind and matched them with the lines they should have.

"The devil showed you the way and brought you, why did you stay in the Kowloon Walled City, which God had forgotten?"

"I know what you want, and what you want is authority. ”

"I have a way to get you right. ”

"I will give you the amulet to change your luck, but you must not desecrate it, or you will die because of it. ”

"You're no longer a little bean, you're a little bully. ”

"Little Overlord will grow up, if you follow me, I will stand behind you. ”

"Hahaha... ”

Originally, Xu Jing also thought about whether to replace 'God' with 'Buddha' or 'Guan Lao' and other Chinese gods and Buddhas, but in the end it was not changed, although the city's black state action was worshiped 'Guan Lao', but the most active in the city was the Christian missionary, and it was a little untrue to change.

Although the light in the room on the screen is dim, under the wrong candlelight, the close-ups of the three people such as 'Little Overlord', the missionary, and the real name of 'Applejack' are extremely clear, and one of the clips even inadvertently intrudes into a small mouse crawling around on the beam of the house as if no one is around.

Looking at the textured picture on the screen, the effect presented is like an oil painting, which is not inferior to the original, and even slightly exceeds, if it is an ordinary camera, the lens shot in this light is afraid that even people can't distinguish it, and where is the beauty?

Thinking of this, Xu Jing couldn't help but feel a sense of jealousy, although he is not a professional photographer, but from the director's point of view, he is still full of love for the two Zeiss Planar 50mm f/0.7 lenses.

It's just that those two lenses are Kubrick's most precious things, and where can he worry about it, and after some itching, he has to give up.

After a short time, after the two of them finished watching the printed materials, Xu Jing and Zhao Xiaojun left the company.

On the way back, Xu Jing looked out the car window at the whole city flashing with brilliance, several pop songs were mixed, indistinguishable, unpredictable, the sound of the engine accompanied by the sound of music drowned out the laughter of the crowd outside, and the noise swallowed up the tranquility of the night.

When the car drove into the small courtyard, under the bright courtyard lights, I saw a thin figure standing in front of the door, as if waiting for him to return, who else could it be besides Zhou Xiaoxun?

When Xu Jing got out of the car, he thought that he would be greeted by the laughter of the past, but what he didn't want to usher in was an unusually low voice, and Zhou Xiaoxun's mood seemed to be a little low.

"Big barley, my parents can't come. ”