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Hengdu Film and Television City, an abandoned street near a street in the Republic of China, ushered in the opening ceremony of the film crew "Midnight Coffin Opener: White Fox Cover".

"Crackling ......"

10,000 firecrackers surrounded the main creative staff of the crew, and the thick smoke enveloped the scene of the entire start-up ceremony, reflecting the red flowers on the camera, which was particularly vivid.

In front of the camera body with red flowers, there is a nine-legged sacrificial tripod, and thick incense ash is spread all over the tripod.

Three thick sticks of incense burned, bringing a burst of tranquility.

"Bye! All the best and a big box office hit! ”

With the guidance of the staff, the main creative staff led by Tang Nian had three incense sticks in their hands, emitting a swirling smoke, and soon filled the entire tripod.

'Brush! ’

When Tang Nian reached out and ripped off the red cloth and red flowers on the camera, the entire crew burst into warm applause.

Since then, "White Fox Cover" has officially entered the pre-filming stage.

"Attention to the staff, the 1st ~ 4th shots of the first scene of "White Fox Cover" will start filming on time after half an hour, the makeup artist, prop master, and lighting engineer are in place, and the actors begin to change their costumes......"

Soon, a voice familiar to many people in the Huangliang Performing Arts Workshop sounded at the shooting site.

Under the command of this voice, the behind-the-scenes staff began to be nervous and busy, making one last adjustment of the props, camera positions, and lighting on the shooting site, while the actors began to prepare for costume change and makeup under the leadership of makeup artists and costume artists.

"Brother Hu, this first scene was started by you, so I won't bother!"

Seeing that the executive director had already started preparations for the first shooting, Tang Nian ended his communication with Brother Hu and came to the monitor.

"Well, I have a reputation for being a huyi...... This first scene, then I'll get off to a good start! ”

Brother Hu patted Tang Nian on the shoulder, and under the leadership of his assistant, he entered the clothing room.

……

"Lao Cheng, thank you very much! If you hadn't come over to help, I wouldn't have had the confidence! ”

TV series and movies are completely different, looking at the four monitors in front of him, Tang Nian patted Lao Cheng's shoulder and was very emotional.

That's right, at the end of August, when the preparation of the crew was coming to an end, Director Zhang suddenly turned on the phone and sent Lao Cheng over to support Tang Nian's first film work in a voluntary way, which surprised Tang Nian and moved a little more.

"Hi...... You've thanked you eight times for this, and you just know it in your heart...... In North America, the division of labor in film shooting is too clear, and I can't get involved at all! ”

"Compared with our domestic film shooting model, Hollywood can really be called an industrialized process, and the executive director and assistant director are all dispatched by the capital; The actors are very dedicated, all of them are closed at the same time, there is no such thing as adjusting the schedule for the actors, they all arrange the shooting process in advance, send the notice over, they will definitely arrive on time, and the requirements of the director can be quickly understood and implemented in place...... However, "Civil War" is an epic war drama, and it is still in the trial shooting stage, and all aspects of the scene construction are in a state of debugging and running-in. ”

"It is precisely because of the pre-scene construction and professional special effects follow-up at the same time that people will really shoot very smoothly, and the real assembly line operation will be ...... Then, I became superfluous......"

As Lao Cheng spoke, he turned up all the pictures in the monitor, compared the storyboard script of this scene, and while chatting with Tang Nian, he notified the staff at the scene to readjust the camera position and angle.

"Hey, camera 7, your main task in the future is to point the long lens at the hotel, the current camera position is a little forward, you follow the guide rail and take a look! Good...... That's it! ”

"Camera 9, adjust the light in the room with the gaffer, the picture is too dark now, and it affects the ...... of the lens"

"Camera No. 3 should pay attention, the swing arm is too high, and the angle that shines into the room is from a top view, discuss with the assistant staff, and adjust the swing arm down by three degrees!"

"Camera No. 1 is checking the lens, and your main responsibility is to take in all of Brother Hu's facial expressions and switch between multiple angles......"

“……”

After issuing several instructions in a row, Lao Cheng took the cup handed over by the staff, took a sip of herbal tea, looked very comfortable, and sighed: "It's still a good shooting atmosphere in China, whatever the director says, he r......evolves around the director."

"So it seems that Lao Cheng, you have been wronged in North America?"

While Tang Nian gave Lao Cheng's instructions, he also compared the picture in the monitor with the storyboard script on the side, and saw that some shooting angles that were not very in place were quickly fitted with the storyboard script under Lao Cheng's instructions, and there was still a lot of shock in his heart.

I remember that during the filming of the crew of "Meng Jiangnu", Tang Nian had seen a bigger battle, and the last war scene used two sub-crews and twelve monitors.

But at that time, Tang Nian, most of his attention was on comparing the character interpretation methods and emotional propulsion skills of those well-known actors in the camera, and did not pay too much attention to the areas that were exclusive to the director's work content such as monitors.

Even during the filming of the super web drama "The First Chaos in History", Tang Nian's focus was on the actors' performance in front of the camera.

And "The First Chaos in History" is a funny sitcom similar to "Wulin Gaiden", which is basically indoor studio plays, although there are outdoor scenes, but there are not many, two monitors can cover up to ten cameras and seven or eight cameras.

Although Tang Nian still held the title of producer and executive director at that time, his focus at that time was not on the director's position.

Therefore, when Tang Nian was preparing his first film, his inexperienced flaws were exposed.

Tang Nian is familiar with every plot and every storyboard script, because these are deeply engraved in Tang Nian's mind, especially after Tang Nian once again entered the state of 'Huangliang and a dream' because of the script after the script was finalized.

For this movie, Tang Nian knew what kind of pictures he wanted, and even knew how to edit it in post-processing, but he was blind about how to direct all this on the shooting site.

Deployment of camera positions, scheduling during shooting...... Tang Nian is not good at these.

And this point is what Director Zhang knows best, which is also one of the fundamental reasons why Director Zhang sent Lao Cheng over after learning about the progress of Tang Nian's preparation for the film through the phone.

About these, the crew knows that Tang Nian has to mention it every time, and the fact that he doesn't thank him doesn't mean that he doesn't need to remember it in his heart through words.

Just a week before the start of filming, Tang Nian followed Lao Cheng and learned the responsibilities of the director's position.

After all, some of the shots set on the storyboard script, Tang Nian can only communicate with Lao Cheng smoothly and shoot the lens material he wants only after he is familiar with the lens language.

"Grievance? It's not that much, it's just that the division of labor in Hollywood filming is too clear, and the director is just one of the positions, as long as the director is good. In other positions, everyone is professional, and they will not listen to your director's blind command, everyone has storyboard scripts, and the shooting is completely strictly in accordance with this, and there is no phenomenon of not following the script, and the whole crew can only operate organically by cooperating with each other...... It's like in China, where the director needs to worry about everything, but this feeling of being in power ...... That's nice! ”

Lao Cheng shook his head, enjoying the feeling of being a director at the moment.

"Lao Cheng, this storyboard script uses a long shot to shoot the first 26 shots, I understand...... But in this room, why do you need to use a wide lens instead of a short shot to switch intensively when shooting the crime scene? ”

Tang Nian looked at the time, and when there were still more than ten minutes before the start of shooting, he asked with the storyboard script.

"Xiao Tang, after the movie is filmed, it is still for the audience to see in the end, and your lens processing and lens language must be simple, clear and clear...... You see in this storyboard script, Liu Zhenming took three or five police officers into the crime room after the hotel staff reported the crime, if you use short shots to switch intensively, although you can also pass all the information of the crime scene to the audience, but it is easy to have the problem of missing shots and missing pictures, and it will produce chaos in the scene, purely because the lens language is not refined enough, and the duration of the film will be expanded, increasing the difficulty and cost of post-production! But this storyboard, if we use a wide lens, only two cameras need to be cut in pair, and everything in the room can be presented clearly and intuitively! ”

"However, it is difficult to shoot with this wide lens, in the case that the actor is not NG, it is generally an elliptical guide rail to push the shot, and the photographer in charge of the camera must be familiar with the script, and the process of pushing and shooting must be stable, in one go, not slow or fast......"

“……”

"Director Cheng, the actor's costume change is over, everything is in place......"

At this time, a staff member came over and reminded Tang Nian and Lao Cheng in a low voice.

"Five minutes to go...... Forget it, notify the extras to be in place, let's start filming early! ”

Lao Cheng raised his wrist and glanced at the time, and decided to start shooting, Tang Nian had to pick up the storyboard script and carefully ponder some tips for the lens that Lao Cheng had just told him......

"The first shot of the first scene of "White Fox Cover", start!"

After the staff played the board, the first monitor finally introduced the crowded street, and then the long camera focused on the only hotel in the town, Guangfu Hotel.

"Ah...... Dead man......"

The second monitor soon lights up, the camera rack is in the hallway on the second floor of the hotel, and an innkeeper runs out of the room in a panic, the camera shaking, and a corpse hanging in the half-open room......

"Hello? Is it a demon spirit? I want to report it...... Yes, in the room on the second floor of the hotel, someone hanged himself......"

Soon the picture of the third monitor lit up, the camera on the No. 4 camera was aimed at the street, a police car was speeding over, and Brother Hu, who was dressed in a handsome police uniform, pushed the car door and firmly occupied the core position of the lens, only to see that he was in the lower right corner of the picture, looking up at the surroundings of the hotel, and then took a few steps back, looking up at the room on the second floor, the closed window could not see anything at all, and there was no trace of peculiar smell when he took a deep breath.

"Xiao Zhang, you dock with the proprietress of Guangfu Hotel and get the personal information of the tenant of room 203!"

"Xiao Wang, you go to the surveillance camera at the entrance of the street and get all the personnel entry and exit information in the past month!"

"Xiao Liang, Xiao Hu, you two go up with me, quickly control the scene of the crime, avoid more vandalism in room 203, and bring the staff member who entered the room first to ......"

After just a few words of arrangement, Brother Hu (as Liu Zhenming) entered the hotel with two of his subordinates.

"Click! It's over! ”

Lao Cheng took the storyboard script in his hand and compared Brother Hu's performance in the monitor, until Brother Hu walked out of the camera with his subordinates, and announced with great satisfaction that the first shot of the first scene passed smoothly.

"He is worthy of being a powerful faction, and Brother Hu just made a few body movements in front of the camera, which fully showed his professionalism and ability as a police officer, as well as his rich experience in handling cases......"

Seeing that the characters in the storyboard script were perfectly presented in the lens under Brother Hu's interpretation, and even more brilliant, Tang Nian couldn't help but give a thumbs up.