Chapter 449: Shooting Slowly
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Standing on a mountain, the sunset on the horizon was slowly sinking, and the whole land was dyed blood red. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The endless yellow earth seemed to be burning with the light of the setting sun, and Su Li's shadow was stretched long by the slanting sun. At this moment, standing in front of the camera, he was faintly lonely under the lazy illumination of the sunset.
Now this time is not suitable for continuing to shoot a movie, the actors are ready to live their own happy lives in twos and threes, Su Li looked at the camera and never walked away.
"Director, let's keep the equipment first." A few people walked over on the left, their faces flashing red in the setting sun, and they had come to collect their equipment.
"Okay, take it away, be careful." Su Li let them take the camera away, and then walked step by step to his makeshift studio, opening his laptop to see what he had filmed these days.
It has been more than a week since he filmed in Gansu, and this is his first time filming a costume drama.
Although "Zhu Xian" is an empty Xianxia world, and there are some habits that can be set by yourself, there are still many details that are completely different from the previous shooting during the filming process, interspersed in the interval of shooting, and after the accumulation of small problems, they slowly become big problems.
In this way, there were some problems during the filming of "Zhu Xian".
―――――― according to the original plan, the filming of "Zhu Xian" on the set in Gansu would only take a week at most, but now it has exceeded the original plan.
And in Gansu, there are still some scenes that have not been filmed.
Su Li was suppressing his anger, because he knew that this situation was no wonder to everyone. In fact, his directing ability has reached the point where no one has ever come before or after him at level 15. It's just that with the improvement of Su Li's directing ability, his requirements for a movie are also much higher, and he is more and more demanding perfection.
The improvement of his vision makes him sometimes dissatisfied with the quality of some actors, but after all, the movie has just begun, and the actors who come here to shoot are thousands of miles different from themselves in popularity in the entertainment industry. However, their qualifications and ages were there, and Su Li did not reprimand them for their thoughts.
Therefore, he can only ask everyone to make movies according to their own ideas over and over again, and shoot no more than a few until he is satisfied.
The effect of such a shooting is remarkable, and what is in front of Su Li are the beautifully shot film clips that have come over these days. Judging by these movie clips, it is indeed exquisite, beautifully like a painting. It's just that, with it, is a serious exceedance of the shooting time...... More than eight days have passed since the plan that could have been written on a storyboard that could have been completed in a week, and only a little more than half of the shots have been completed. In addition, the investment in filming has far exceeded the budget.
This was a situation that he hadn't expected before, and Su Li lightly hammered his head with his fist and began to think about the solution to so many problems these days.
In fact, the other actors in the crew, who had worked with Su Li before, can now feel that Su Li seems to have improved. Compared with the original movies, even a layman can find that now Su Li's directing ability has been completed, and every actor and every prop will be put in the most suitable place by him. For every shot, Su Li has a plan that is accurate to the peak, how long to send it, and what method to shoot...... Su Li felt as if he already had a movie in his heart, and these practices obviously improved the quality of the movie a lot.
However, what made the actors a little unbearable was Su Li's strict requirements for them...... It's arguably one of the hardest movies they've ever encountered.
These days, there are very few shots that pass by, almost to the point of extinction, and the number of reshots of a shot is constantly breaking records these days. They estimate that "Zhu Xian" will soon be able to break the Guinness World Record for the number of reshoots of a shot...... They also saw that the crew of "Zhu Xian" has lost more and more at least on the film film, and even to the point where the color of the talk has changed, plus other losses these days, the entire "Zhu Xian" crew has completely become a huge devouring machine, a large pile of RMB, in front of this devouring machine, there is no power to fight back.
At this moment, everyone also has a lot of complaints in their hearts, not only because they feel that Su Li is too strict, but also a little doubtful that Su Li has seen the series of situations that happened in the first few days of filming of "Zhu Xian".
Of course Su Li noticed, but now he can't end the footage in Gansu as soon as possible by reducing the quality, this "Zhu Xian" has been given too much meaning, and he wants to turn every shot and every second of the movie into the most exquisite work of art, so that people can't find fault with it.
is also like this, 25-year-old Su Li is under unprecedented pressure on his shoulders. On the one hand, he had to endure some whispers from the cast and crew, who were complaining about why Su Li had such strict requirements. On the other hand, he has to endure the higher and higher expenses and larger investments of the crew of "Zhu Xian", as well as the continuous waste of time...... Su Li has pressure from two sides in his heart, but he is a director, and a director can't be cowardly.
The actors are indeed a little scared of Su Li these days, he hasn't scolded people in the past two days, but after making movies for so many years, Su Li's eyes are as sharp as a knife, as long as he looks at people directly, even if this person is more senior than Su Li and older than him, he can only helplessly obey Su Li's command.
Therefore, everyone didn't dare to mess with Su Li, so they slowly became a little estranged.
That night, Su Li was busy with the work accumulated today, and saw that there were already stars outside, and he was standing alone in this dark night, as cold as fireworks. There is no role of Yang Mi yet, so Su Li didn't let him come, and the pressure that happened could only grit his teeth and hug his shoulder.
After walking a few steps outside, Su Li made up his mind, if every little detail will be the cells that make up a movie, then Su Li wants to make every cell perfect, although maybe he will offend some people because of it, and he will not hesitate to do so.
The next morning, Su Li got up early, practiced boxing, and came back for breakfast, only the staff began to set up the set.
At seven o'clock in the morning, the filming officially began, and the first shot was Tang Yan's scene, but this shot had been shot eleven times, and it still did not meet Su Li's requirements. After the twelfth shooting, Tang Yan looked forward to Su Li with a tired face, and Su Li was watching the replay of the shot just now.
"No...... Do it all over again. Su Li said coldly, his face was like frost.
The thirteenth was still not passed, Tang Yan felt that she was always repeating one action, and even a little stiff. Then she said to Su Li a little pitifully: "Director Su...... Still doesn't work? That's already thirteen. ”
Su Li waved his hand: "No, no, no...... Hurry up and start over, where is so much nonsense. As soon as he said this, he knew that his temper was starting to have problems, and he regretted it a little. But no matter what, he is a director, and if he wants to apologize to Tang Yan at this time, he can't say it very much.
At that moment, he pretended not to look at Tang Yan and looked at the playback, and the corner of his eye seemed to see tears flowing gently from the corner of Tang Yan's eye.
Because Su Li's sentence just now was a little heavy, and the most important thing was that she had failed to pass 13 articles in a row, and she was in a situation where she couldn't find a state, but she didn't expect Su Li to say this...... Suddenly, the grievances in my heart rushed to my nose, which was as sour and heavy as if it had been poured vinegar, and I couldn't hold back my tears anymore.
Then she stood there all at once.
Su Li sighed, then stood in the middle of everyone, motioning for everyone to be quiet for a while.
After everyone quieted down, Su Li stood in the middle of them, and he could actually easily feel the dissatisfaction in their eyes.
Su Li said loudly: "This movie has been filmed for nine days today. I know that people may be upset with me, thinking that I am too fastidious, and some shots even take twenty or thirty times to get people through. Yes, these days, there are so many shots that I ask for rehash that I can't count. It's just that it's not just everyone who is anxious, tired, and annoyed about these things, but also me. I'm the director of this film, my company is the investor of this film, and every time we reshoot a shot, it's a big addition to the investment, and I really don't want to do that. ”
"It's just that I want to tell you that "Zhu Xian" is a movie that I have worked on the most, and it is an unprecedented investment, and so far, the budget alone has been close to 2 billion yuan. It's unimaginable to make a movie with 2 billion, and I'm doing something unimaginable. If you compare every detail of a movie to a human cell...... What I want to say is that I want every cell to be perfect, and every cell is in the most suitable position for itself, with the most appropriate size and weight. What I want is to make a movie with you that will forever remain in the history of world cinema, and once future generations think of the good movies of these eras, they will never be able to avoid "Zhu Xian". ”
"So, these days, I've been quite strict with everyone, even to the point of being strict. Here, I apologize to everyone first. But I can't change my film plan for this, the money is not enough, I said that there is no cap on the investment of this movie, and if there is not enough time, it does not exist...... Even if we shoot for ten years, we will make the most classic movies. "Su Li quietly replaced me with us when he spoke, which also gave everyone some weight to be convinced.
"That's the one thing we're going to do." Su Li finally said: "We have all paid a lot for this, and now we are only in the first run-in stage, believe me, it will pass quickly." Having said all this, I'm not saying that everyone can't complain about me because of this incident, all I want is for everyone to continue this rigorous attitude until "Zhu Xian" becomes a real movie......"
(To be continued)