Chapter 108: Filming Begins
The start-up worship ceremony soon began, and the crew officially started that night.
Although he has already gone through the filming of "Snail House", Su Li can almost be regarded as dew when it comes to filming. Today is the first day of filming, and the first shot will start at nightfall.
In the glory days of Hong Kong movies in the past, some directors even didn't write storyboards at all, and they didn't have any scripts, just planned what they would shoot the next day. Now this kind of thing is basically eliminated, but the time of Hong Kong film filming is relatively good, and the first scene after the start of filming is the tense and fruitful eavesdropping war at the beginning of the filming - Gu Tianle, Wu Yanzu, and Liu Qingyun played several colleagues from the intelligence department came to the building to install eavesdropping equipment, and Luo Yaoming, played by Li Zixiong, returned halfway, so one side was in the light and the other was in the dark, and a secret contest was launched.
This shot requires a full sense of rhythm, to show the tense and meticulous atmosphere, and also to show the tip of the iceberg of those bizarre and powerful eavesdropping equipment. In the whole movie of "Eavesdropping", the opening paragraph is a more commercial film atmosphere, which makes people feel a sense of tension and oppression that is connected to the blood of the characters in the play.
The filming of a movie is a little more intense than that of a TV series, with different equipment and different shooting requirements -- one of the more obvious places is that the film of the movie costs money, and every time it is NG, it will bring thousands of yuan worth of film to ashes.
Therefore, the small screen and the big screen are two different concepts, the boundaries of China's film and television industry are not as obvious as those in the United States, and many countries do not have the term film and television, in them, movies are movies, and TV series are TV series.
Su Li was involved in the filming of this first scene.
It may take three or four days or even more to shoot the content in this building, and Su Li has no camera in the building, so he came here mainly to watch the dynamic transformation of his opening section in the original "Eavesdropping" into light and shadow symbols. Of course, Mak Zhaohui also asked Su Li to come here and make suggestions on some specific details.
Su Li basically didn't think about it, he also knew that he was nothing in front of these people, he was just here to learn from experience, to learn some shooting experience.
Mak Zhaohui and Zhuang Wenqiang showed Su Li a lot of outstanding skills, and when talking about the script, Su Li found that he couldn't depict the scene that happened in the building. At this time, Mai Zhaohui took a pencil and slammed it directly on the paper, and according to Su Li's explanation, he was able to roughly draw some things in the movie!
Su Li secretly admired in his heart, of course, as a good director, many people still have some real materials when they draw pictures, after all, it is impossible to find the effect they want by using only words and language, and some of the movie ideas they want to shoot can also make people suddenly open up through the simple and understandable way of drawing.
It is not for nothing that some Hollywood directors in the United States are themselves masters of painting.
But for Su Li, that's all for the future, he is still busy now, and naturally he doesn't have time to pay attention to those things.
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"Prepare for shooting!" The two who directed this film are Mak Zhaohui and Zhuang Wenqiang, Zhuang Wenqiang is better at screenwriting, but his achievements in directing may not be as good as Mak Zhaohui, so the two are golden partners who can complement each other. Now, the main person in charge of this story is Mak Zhaohui, and Zhuang Wenqiang is in charge of some specific things on the side.
The shooting location quickly became busy, after Mak Zhaohui made instructions to prepare for shooting, everyone began to perform their duties and prepare, Su Li himself was more leisurely, and seized the time to talk to Mak Zhaohui about the next shooting feeling that he thought he should achieve.
The various departments responsible for the filming of this film can be regarded as the old team of Mak Zhaohui and Zhuang Wenqiang, and many steps have a certain tacit understanding, and after he issued instructions, all departments quickly mobilized, and when the preparations were completed, the first scene and the first shot of "Eavesdropping" unveiled the prelude to the filming location.
The most important thing for Su Li is to learn something, so he has been watching their shooting next to Mak Zhaohui, and occasionally taking charge of a little scene writing.
The filming location of the movie, if it is recruited from the real world, basically no one can be relaxed. The actor is under the pressure of the director, the pressure of being afraid that he will not act well, and the pressure of wasting film and increasing the cost. And the director goes without saying, the whole crew may be the most stressful person, no matter how big or small, their temper is also getting worse and worse in trivial things, or the major events of the movie's life and death challenges. And those others, scene reporters, on-site recorders, drama managers, and even assistant directors, all have their own pressures.
Don't think that the assistant directors are about the same, in fact, they basically don't have too high status, and they are also one of the directors' punching bags, and they are responsible for messy and tiring errands.
These are some of Su Li's experiences during the filming process, and sure enough, the people who make the movie look beautiful, and they themselves are complacent, but when it comes to filming, it is completely a chore.
As the shoot began, the film was constantly skimming through the camera, recording symbols waiting to be used further. The director calmly waits for the actors to play after a lot of energy has just been expended, and the cinematographer is the busiest type of person right now, and there is no room for mistakes in this busyness, so that their work is full of balance and precision.
Su Li really saw the various tasks of making a movie, the details of the work, and the complexity of the filming location. After the first shot passed by Mak Zhaohui, everyone applauded, and it gave "Eavesdropping" a good start just after the filming began.
Then, the crew, the on-site recorders, assistant directors, props, etc., got busy, and a few actors got a little respite.
The whole film shooting process is a high-precision instrument, and the process is quite compact, and it is these compact processes, like a screw, that connect a complete movie.