Chapter 42: Shooting (Part I)

After the scene was almost arranged, the actors in the crew also arrived one after another, and the start-up worship ceremony also began.

On the one hand, it is to inform the gods of all parties that they are filming and not the actual event, on the other hand, to inform the gods in advance that they will borrow the venue so as not to disturb the sacred or anger the sacred, and it is also to pray for the blessing of the gods of all parties so that the play can be successfully completed. There is another theory that is to take the opportunity to gather all the actors during the worship of God to facilitate the interviews of reporters for publicity to increase the ratings of the play!!

The crew members stood in front of the case, Li Yihua stood at the front, everyone was holding the incense that had already been lit in their hands, and in the shouting of the company, everyone bowed and saluted, and then put on the incense one by one. Li Yihua stepped forward to cut the suckling pig and distributed it to everyone.

Since the scenes in "Nightclub" are all at night, everyone is previewing the script, and Li Yihua came to Christopher Doyle's side.

Li Yihua took the scripted "Nightclub" written by himself and explained what he wanted to photographer Christopher Dukefeng. Let him analyze the rest by himself, the sub-shot is just a not very mature composition of Li Yihua, it is not certain whether it is good or not in actual shooting, it is better to let Du Kefeng understand the shooting by himself, and he will definitely be able to shoot amazing shots.

"You mean I don't have to follow your storyboard?" Du Kefeng asked with a surprised expression, not quite believing Li Yihua's words. Making movies is like a director's child, in the Hong Kong director industry, the cinematographer basically has to follow the director's ideas, and no one is allowed to interfere with half a point, and the ugly thing to say is that the photographer is the puppet of the director, and the executor without thought.

"Of course not, I believe in your abilities." Li Yihua said with a smile, no one knows better than Li Yihua that Duke Feng has infinite imagination only when he is on the scene, and he is super powerful in temporary use. Christopher Doyle is a genius photographer who uses his head to shoot films, and with full imagination and free play, he can create many whimsical lens expressions in cinematography.

Duke Feng touched his head and smirked: "The director is so good, many directors, especially those who can draw their own shots, don't like the photographer not to shoot movies according to his requirements, although I am a photographer, but I don't like the director to point too much fingers at the camera, I like to have enough free creative space." ”

Li Yihua nodded and said very understandingly: "I always think that the director just tells the photographer what he wants, and then the photographer gives the work to the director through his own creation, rather than the director telling the photographer how to shoot this shot and how to shoot that shot, in that case, the director is too tired, and there is no need for the photographer to exist, so my movie, Mr. Du, you can shoot how you want, and everything in terms of the lens is up to you." ”

Duke's lens imagination is completely capable of making any movie well, so there is no need for Li Yihua to point fingers at him on this, and if he completely lets go of his hand, Li Yihua believes that it will stimulate this highly creative photographer to have a better performance in the movie, which is what Li Yihua really wants, what he needs is an excellent photographer with his own ideas, not a well-behaved "robot" who listens to him.

Duke Feng did not expect Li Yihua's views to be so the same as himself, Li Yihua is the first director who can completely let go of Du Kefeng to play completely freely, Du Kefeng is full of gratitude, and now after the inspiration of Li Yihua's storyboard script, he also found that as long as this type of film is willing to use his brain, he can still make a breakthrough in photography and composition.

Wu Mengda, Wang Zhuxian, as well as lighting engineers and radio engineers...... The focus of everyone on the set was on him, and Li Yihua exhaled deeply and shouted out his life: "action!" ”

The first set of shots in "Nightclub" is the dialogue between Brother Shui and Tao Xiaolian when he first came to "Want Want Supermarket" to ask for an account, and when the proprietress was not there.

"You don't allow you to smoke here, why are you selling me? Not only am I going to smoke here today, I'm going to get my money back!! Brother Shui shouted loudly, Wu Mengda's performance was very good, showing a heart-rending feeling, no worse than Xu Zheng's performance, this is the quality of an old actor.

“cut!” After Li Yihua shouted to stop, he looked at the monitor and thought for a while before he said, "Zhu Xian, you should first show surprise, and then show fear; Lin Cong, you wear a hood, you have to show a sense of fierceness, not softness. Brother Feng, we're here once. ”

“ok!” Duke Feng nodded.

"Alright, let's do it again!" Li Yihua commanded.

The movie was shot in the order of the storyboard script written by Li Yihua, because most of the leading actors except Wu Mengda were newcomers, so the shooting was very slow, and for the first shooting, Li Yihua was very satisfied with this progress.

"It's okay young man." Wu Mengda patted Lin Cong's shoulder encouragingly, "I was scolded to death by the director when I was filming for the first time, and then I didn't act like that, I have confidence, I must have confidence, I believe in myself, I will definitely be able to do it." ”

"Thank you,, I know how to do it." Lin Cong is very grateful for Wu Mengda's encouragement, he used to be a trick, but this time he finally got a role, and he was too excited in his heart, for fear that he would be fired by the director if he didn't act well.

After being encouraged by Wu Mengda, Lin Cong's re-enactment was much smoother, the camera passed over and over, Li Yihua gave them a satisfactory thumbs up, sure enough, it was more effective for the seniors to speak, the old man led the newcomer, this is very good, it can save him a lot of worry as a director, it seems that if he makes a movie in the future, he still has to find an old actor to take charge, not for the star effect, at least it can also play a leading role for the newcomer.

No matter how rich the theoretical knowledge in his previous life was, Li Yihua was a first-time director after all, and when he really arrived on the set, he knew that many things were in books, or he couldn't learn them by looking at examples, and he needed to experience them himself.

Many directors, especially Hong Kong directors, can tell a lot of stories, but they can tell stories and accurately grasp the mentality of the characters. Li Yihua hopes to combine the two to shoot his true feelings, and strive to be both applauded and popular.