Chapter Forty-Seven: The First Scene and the First Shot
Dunhuang Film and Television Ancient City, located in the southwest of Dunhuang Ancient City, the two places are 11 kilometers apart, the entire film and television city is full of ancient buildings, specially designed for costume movies and TV series to provide filming venues, the opening shot of "Dragon Gate Inn", naturally also selected here for shooting. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
At seven o'clock in the morning, after breakfast, all the crew went to Dunhuang Film and Television Ancient City in three buses and two trucks, Luodong's luck is good, if their crew came a few days earlier, there were still three crews filming here at that time, and the already small Dunhuang Film and Television Ancient City was full, and now, the three crews have finished filming, and the entire Dunhuang Film and Television Ancient City will belong to the crew of "Dragon Gate Inn" in the next few days.
What is going to be filmed today is the scene of Cao Shaoqin's trial of Yang Yuxuan, only Chen Shaokun needs to play among the four leading actors, but even so, the other three leading actors can't be idle, compared to Chen Shaokun, they have to start working hard earlier, because today they need to train to hang Weiya, according to Luo Dong's plan, at least the three leading actors must be able to make somersaults on Weiya smoothly to be qualified, as for Chen Shaokun, he will also train together after he finishes filming today's shot.
There are a lot of tricks needed in the scene of the trial of Yang Yuxuan, most of which were recruited by Xiaolin's drama near the ancient city of Dunhuang Film and Television, as for those important supporting roles, they came from Shangjing, such as the four major stalls around Cao Shaoqin, and they also need to be trained to hang Weiya, but because of time, they can only be ranked behind the four leading actors.
In addition, there is the most important group of people in the crew, that is, martial arts stand-ins, speaking of which, the profession of martial arts is not very prosperous in this world, after all, even martial arts movies are not very popular here, let alone martial arts stand-ins, the current martial arts substitutes in the crew are still recruited by Yi Zhenfeng specially to a martial arts school in Beijing, and they also have to train to hang Weiya, ranking behind the important supporting roles of the four major stalls.
After arriving at the filming point, the crew quickly began to set up the scene, until nine o'clock in the morning, the first scene was completed, the roles were in place, the starring and supporting roles were put into makeup, and Luo Dong finally sat on the director's chair, next to Lin Qianxi, Yi Zhenfeng and Luo Nan.
"Xiao Dongzi, how is it, is it the first time to be a director, are you nervous?" Yi Zhenfeng looked at the camera with a smile, most of this question was funny, after seeing Luo Dong subduing the entire crew in two meetings, Yi Zhenfeng was no longer worried about Luo Dong's directing ability.
"A little." Luo Dong leaned back in his chair and replied, although he has all the experience memories of Xu Ke, a great director, but in the final analysis, it is the first time for Luo Dong to really be a director, sitting in the director's chair and looking at the camera at the moment, surrounded by a group of crew members and various actors, this feeling is very novel.
"Luodong, come on!" Lin Qianxi clenched her little fist and softly cheered for Luodong, her childhood sweetheart changed from a student to a singer, and from a singer to a director, Lin Qianxi witnessed all these changes with her own eyes, and her heart was full of pride for Luodong.
Drama Xiaolin hurriedly ran over, came to Luo Dong's side and said, "Director Luo, the actors are all in place, all departments are ready, and they can start at any time." ”
"Okay, good work." Luo Dong waved his hand, Xiao Lin immediately stood aside, and then Luo Dong stood up from the chair, looking at the orderly arrangement of dragon sets and the starring and supporting characters in the field, Luo Dong suddenly felt a huge sense of accomplishment.
"Everyone, the filming of the first shot is about to begin, this is the opening scene of our "Dragon Gate Inn", I want a good start, do you understand?"
"Understood!" All the crew members shouted in unison, and Luo Dong only felt that his blood was stirring, "Scene notes, start!" ”
"Dragon Gate Inn, the first scene, the first shot, the first time, action!"
On the high platform, Cao Shaoqin, played by Chen Shaokun, sat alone; Under the high platform, the four major stalls of the East Factory are lined up left and right, and the four rows of East Factory internal guards are lined up in twos and twos to defend their East Factory Governor!
In the middle of the square, a middle-aged man in a ragged prison uniform, covered in blood, with a cloak and a disheveled hair, was locked on the torture rack, and the No. 1 camera was behind him.
"Who is he?" The No. 1 machine could just shoot Chen Shaokun on the high platform through the gap of the torture rack, and Chen Shaokun also read out the first line of Cao Shaoqin played by him in this play in a timely manner.
One of the four stalls under the high platform came out in formation, turned around and bowed to answer Cao Shaoqin's question, "Duke Yu, he is Yang Yuxuan, the secretary of the Ministry of War." ”
"Oh?" Chen Shaokun held his chin with his right hand and asked lazily, "What did he do?" ”
Although the No. 1 machine is some distance away from the high platform, and Chen Shaokun's expression cannot be clearly photographed, Chen Shaokun still perfectly integrates into the role of Cao Shaoqin, elegant with coldness and viciousness.
After the No. 1 machine went from left to right to the bottom, the No. 2 machine fell from mid-air and advanced towards Yang Yuxuan from far and near, while the sound of the big stall continued to sound.
The head of the big stall always maintained a bowing posture, and then replied: "On the eighth day of the fourth month, Yang Yuxuan submitted a letter to the emperor to impeach the East Factory, requesting the emperor to close the East Factory and punish the governor!" ”
The No. 2 camera finally gave Yang Yuxuan a close-up, and the supporting role who played Yang Yuxuan also showed an unyielding expression in due time, and then, the No. 3 camera, which had already been in place, shot a close-up of the big stall head, and the scene continued.
After the big stall head answered, he straightened up, and then, the second stall head came out of the queue, and also bowed his body and said to Cao Shaoqin: "Governor, Yang Yuxuan's edict is here." The second gear head stretched out his hands, and a letter of advice was presented under Cao Shaoqin's nose.
At this time, the camera returned to the No. 2 camera again, and it was Chen Shaokun who was aimed at it.
Chen Shaokun picked up a white square scarf, wiped it lightly at the corner of his mouth, and then lowered the corner of his eyes to look at the admonition in the hand of the second-tier head below, and a trace of unhappiness appeared on his face.
"Lord Yang, you are specifically looking for trouble with me, our eunuchs in Dongchang have always been loyal to the emperor, you slander and make false accusations like this, and go against me, aren't you afraid of losing your head?"
The camera returned to the No. 3 camera and focused on Yang Yuxuan, only to see Yang Yuxuan angrily spit out a mouthful of blood, "Phew! Eunuchs are not allowed to participate in politics, this is the testament of Ming Taizu, you set up a private court, indiscriminately kill the loyal and good, and ruin the souls, and dare to deceive the emperor, heaven is intolerable! ”
“CUT!”
As Yang Yuxuan's words fell, the first shot was completed, and Luo Dong stood up from his chair excitedly.
Strictly speaking, in fact, this shot should be divided into three or even four short shots to shoot, but before the start of filming, Luo Dong had already coordinated the insertion time of several cameras to ensure the coherence and concealment between the shots, which was also an attempt by Luo Dong to do a precise cooperation with the crew, and the result was very successful!
"The first shot, it's over!"