Chapter 137: Shooting Problems

In the past few days, Yang Mi has been waiting for herself to finish the finishing work and check the camera before being sent home by Su Li, she is used to it.

On the way, the two always talked about something, and after talking a lot, they became really familiar with each other, and Su Li got to know Yang Mi more and more.

Sending her home, Su Li didn't go up when he got to the bottom of the stairs, he stood downstairs, waiting for the lights to turn on in the direction of Yang Mili. Originally, he wanted to take advantage of this time to summarize today's shooting, but he couldn't calm down, and it wasn't until the lights were turned on in that direction that Su Li breathed a sigh of relief, and the thoughts in his mind were lined up again, waiting for Su Li to clear up one by one.

The next few days are expected to be one of the hardest places to shoot the film, because tomorrow the time comes "Nightclub. There will be a lot of extras on the set of "The Supermarket", at least a hundred or so -- these extras will play the role of people who come to the supermarket to buy something.

Tomorrow's plot is that He Sanshui, played by Xu Zheng, grabbed the supermarket, but there are too few people to buy things, let alone one night, even if it is a week, don't want to sell back the money that the proprietress owes him. It just so happened that Li Junwei, played by Su Li, was scolded by the proprietress at this time and was dissatisfied, so he put forward an idea that damaged the proprietress - all the goods in the audience were 50% off! Seeing such a bargain, people naturally rushed in to take advantage.

This paragraph requires the use of a lot of extras, which is a response to "Nightclub. The toughest test for the crew of "Supermarket". First of all, they had never had the experience of shooting together with so many people before, and it was the first time that Su Li had coordinated such a shooting scene. Secondly, after there are more extras, many things will be difficult to control, and if someone takes away the things in the supermarket without permission, it will be quite difficult for the crew to prevent it.

This was the first severe test that Su Li and the others had encountered, and it was conceivable that this would be a serious war.

―――――― the next day, the hot scene of the supermarket began.

They had to shoot the shoot as quickly as possible, at least in terms of cost, and the plan set a day for the shoot.

The words of the low-level extras are really hard, but "Nightclub. The crew of "Supermarket" has to give their boss and the agency a lot of money, especially for such a scene filmed at night. There were a total of 115 people who negotiated with them, and Su Li paid 20,000 yuan for this, but the money that could really reach the extras was not much.

Although Su Li doesn't like this situation, he has to be like that, which is also a phenomenon in the film and television industry, and he is not qualified to violate it. Although he despises the heads of those blood-sucking brokerage companies and extras, he also has to find them, after all, the extras basically have a little acting quality, if you want to go to the street and find a group of people to act in a movie, just wait for the shots to pass and then the wasted film will fly all over the sky!

Tonight, the filming location has been carefully set up, the extras are gathering outside the supermarket, and a few security guards who have paid for this time are chatting with the heads of several extras.

Several security guards have the heaviest tasks, they have to stop the situation where individual extras will follow things from the supermarket, everyone needs to write down in advance what they are performing in the supermarket, and when they leave the supermarket, they will hand over what they have in their hands.

In order to cope with tonight's shooting, the crew also temporarily invited some more people from the security company.

Of course, most people will be conscious in this kind of shooting, and even if they are unconscious, then those leaders who basically don't take extras too seriously will use some rough methods to maintain their credibility. But there are always some exceptions to things in the world, there are not many expensive things in the supermarket, but there are some, and they always need to be guarded against. One of the reasons for the increase in security is also to prevent the occurrence of some accidents, and the number of people is also increasing, and the unstable factors will also increase.

Soon, the performance was about to begin, Lu Zhongfei and several other scene reporters all went out and began to direct these extras to return to each other, divide these extras into their own phalanx, and then walk over to Su Li and Xu Zheng according to the agreement, and then Su Li and they did a performance there to collect money.

Naturally, the money was also sent by the crew, and Su Li also deliberately learned how to use the supermarket cash register. Now, basically the venue has been mostly set up, and everyone is standing in their places. Then, the shot began.

The extras pretended to be looking down to buy something, and the bustling and boiling voices were so noisy that the empty shots needed in the middle would be saved for the last shot.

Then, the huge crowd began to surge, the supermarket was crowded, and several cameras began to get busy. The quality of the extras is good, and once they enter the state, they also follow the set position and movements, and each performs its own duties.

And Su Li and Xu Zheng also started cashiering, which is naturally a performance.

Lu Zhongfei quickly felt that something was wrong, and then called a stop.

"What's going on?" Su Li came to Lu Zhongfei's side a little strangely, and the first shot of the night was stopped, not to mention that it was stopped directly when there were so many people, but Su Li himself didn't feel anything wrong.

"It doesn't feel right, maybe some people's positions don't quite meet the requirements." Lu Zhongfei had no choice but to say this, and then he said loudly to the extras with a small loudspeaker: "Please keep your position and don't cross the ...... Please keep your position and don't cross the ......," he repeated three times, then looked at the extras' adjustments before starting to prepare everyone for the shoot.

Who knows if it came again, and the first shot still didn't finish.

"What's going on this time?" Su Li came to Lu Zhongfei's side, but saw him frowning.

"I can't tell what's wrong, anyway, I don't feel good like this, it's just that something is missing, but I don't know what is missing."

Su Li also felt a little wrong this time, but he couldn't think of what was missing, so they had to start again, but after starting again, everyone still didn't achieve the effect.

Lu Zhongfei was a little anxious: "It's not okay to go on like this, it's not okay if you don't find the feeling you want, but where is that feeling of wanting?" Su Li also frowned slightly, such a big scene naturally requires many cameras to work at the same time, and every reshoot will be thousands of film dollars flying away, Su Li himself feels very distressed.

Therefore, he felt that this time he should think carefully about what the problem was before deciding on the next move, but for a while, such a problem was really difficult to find.

Just when the two of them felt a little anxious, in "Nightclub. Outside the filming location of "Supermarket", a car came through the darkness and stopped in the pale yellow night. The car door opened, and Zhang Yimou stepped out of the car.

The security guards are busy now, but they saw two people in the car heading to the nightclub. When the supermarket door walked in, a security guard hurriedly came to the two men and asked them what they were going to do.

The two men were Zhang Yimou and his assistants, and he had the title of executive producer on the film, but this was his first visit to filming.

The security guard said politely: "Sir, this supermarket is not open... A movie is being filmed, please do not enter. ”

Zhang Yimou smiled slightly and said, "I'm here to find Su Li, you tell him, and you can say that Zhang Yimou is here." Zhang Yimou himself did not hide his identity, and suddenly the security guard glanced at Zhang Yimou in a little dim light, and sure enough, he saw that he was exactly the same as in the photo, so he said directly: "Okay...... Please wait. ”

Hearing that Zhang Yimou was coming, Su Li was unprepared, although Zhang Yimou had already said that he would come to see the filming scene of this movie, but he didn't know that Zhang Yimou would choose to come at this time.

Zhang Yimou also walked in at this time, and immediately attracted the attention of Su Li and Lu Zhongfei, who hurriedly walked over and said, "Teacher Zhang, why are you here?" Zhang Yimou just smiled, and then said, "How is it?" The shooting went relatively well, right? ”

Zhang Yimou's arrival immediately attracted the attention of several actors, and Xu Zheng also came over to say hello to Zhang Yimou, but no one else knew what Zhang Yimou was doing except Su Li.

Lu Zhongfei thought that Zhang Yimou came because of himself, and felt that his face was really big, and his confidence soared for a while, thinking that his status in the crew would be higher now. After hearing Zhang Yimou's question, he affirmed that Zhang Yimou came to the filming site because of himself, and hurriedly replied in a flattered tone: "Mr. Zhang, the previous shooting was good, but now it seems that something is wrong, and I just can't find that feeling...... Something strange. ”

Zhang Yimou glanced at Su Li inadvertently, and Su Li also called Teacher Zhang, but he only bowed slightly. Su Li also chimed in and said, "Teacher Zhang, that's it...... I also don't think I can find the feeling I want, and I don't know why. ”

Zhang Yimou nodded to show that he was clear, and then said, "Show me the footage you took just now." ”

After watching the scene just now, Zhang Yimou thought for a moment, and then said: "Xiao Lu, I will cooperate with you in this paragraph, don't you mind?" ”

"Of course I don't mind, I'll study hard." The smile on Lu Zhongfei's face became more and more vigorous, Zhang Yimou really gave himself a long face when he said this! Thinking of this, Lu Zhongfei hurriedly asked Zhang Yimou to stand in the position of chief director, but Zhang Yimou did not do that, but came to the center of the supermarket, and came to the extras in Lu Zhongfei's somewhat curious eyes, and then he began to talk about the play in relatively simple words.

Zhang Yimou, a person who has made movies for almost a lifetime, has a very strong voice, and under his command, some extras have also changed their thoughts and positions a little. For Zhang Yimou, who has made movies like "The City is Full of Golden Armor", it is more than enough to control such a scene now.

"Attention of all departments, prepare to ......" Zhang Yimou stood in the position of chief director, and then began to give orders: "Start filming ......"

The scene notes quickly reported the number of scenes that appeared on the camera, and then the cast and crew went into action.

Su Li and Xu Zheng stood on the cashier counter again, and after a few seconds of this shot, both Su Li and Lu Zhongfei found that what they always felt was missing just now has now been found - that is, the real appearance of a supermarket, without any deliberateness.

(To be continued)