On April 15, 1999, the preparation of the crew of "Journey to the West: The Great Sage" was roughly completed, and Wang Qinian led a group of more than 40 people to the Feiteng Film and Television Base in Yang Song Town, a suburb of BJ City, to "set up camp"!

Feiteng Film and Television Base has begun construction in 95 years, and in 2oo5 it was renamed Huairou Film and Television Base, becoming the second largest film capital after Hengdian.

With the rise of Huairou Film and Television Base, many film and television workers in Beipiao have been diverted to Huairou more than in front of Beiying Film Studio.

Wang Qinian chose to shoot in Yangsong Town, one is that it is relatively close to the city and the cost is relatively low. The second is that this is mainly based on the ancient buildings of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and there are mountains, rivers and waterfalls, and most of the exterior shots in "Journey to the West" can basically be met here.

CCTV's 86 version of the classic "Journey to the West", as well as Zhang Jizhong's version of "Journey to the West", were all filmed in Yang Song Town.

All the scenes in the movie "Journey to the West" can basically be satisfied here, especially by Wang Qinian!

This is a suitable place for Wang Qinian to make a film!

Many directors do not shoot in the order of the movie script, but according to the scene, shoot out of order, and shoot the scene after the scene. Finally, the shots are stitched together to form a coherent film.

But Wang Qinian is more accustomed to shooting in the order of the script and shooting under his nose, which will make the style of the movie easier to control.

But Wang Qinian's filming of movies is essentially telling stories with camera lenses, and if the shooting sequence is messed up, Wang Qinian will feel that the actors are brewing love, and there may be problems with the mentality of everyone in the crew.

What's more, the shuffling of the order of shooting will also affect Wang Qinian's own mentality.

Wang Qinian himself doesn't like to shoot out of order, and this time he loses a sense of telling a story with a camera.

Wang Qinian, as the boss of the crew, has to shoot according to his own habits. The rest of the crew naturally has to abide by the rules set by Wang Qinian!

Besides, there's nothing wrong with shooting like this!

Directors at home and abroad, although directors who disrupt the sequence of shots occupy the mainstream. But there are a lot of shoots like Wang Qinian!

The crew of more than 4o people rushed to Yangsong Town and settled down in the hotel. The standard of food and accommodation per person per day is calculated according to 15o yuan, everyone is the same standard, and no one is more special.

Even so, the crew's accommodation cost for a day is over 6ooo yuan.

In addition, the 4o people who came out were not all the participants in the whole film. In fact, when it comes to filming, you still need to recruit extras in the film and television city. If you recruit additional extras, you need to spend a lot of money. The cost of props and equipment during filming will be much more expensive!

To put it simply, don't look at "Journey to the West: The Great Sage", the budget is as high as 1.25o yuan. But when it came time to actually shoot, the budget was still very tight.

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After the crew settled down, they had a night's rest.

Next.

Early in the morning, Wang Qinian asked the crew to officially start filming.

It's a little more feudal and superstitious, start the camera and put a pig's head, incense, ask the gods to bless, the new film is a success, and the box office is a big hit!

In the first scene, it was a scene of an average mountain village!

In this shot, Wang Qinian chose to shoot this ancient village scene with mountains and rivers from top to bottom on the top of the mountain.

Because, the extras of Huairou Film and Television Base, according to Wang Qinian's explanation, performed a normal scene of rural life.

A girl rowed a small boat towards the village pier.

In addition, the villagers haggle with the vendors in the market, and there are scenes of naughty children playing, villagers working and resting, full of details of life.

This shot is not very long, only half a minute.

However, Wang Qinian knows that this shot is very important, and it is easy for the audience to feel a taste of the story. Wang Qinian has seen a lot of fairy tales and mythological traditional themes, and uses this kind of lens to enhance the audience's "sense of substitution".

This sense of substitution is not substituted for the protagonist, but into the atmosphere of the story.

Later, Stephen Chow's 1o billion box office blockbuster - "Journey to the West: Demon Conquering" was also handled like this at the beginning.

Wang Qinian compared several later film and television works related to "Journey to the West", and naturally knew that it was the best choice to learn from the lens of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons".

A lot of other films are rotten!

For example, Liu Zhenwei, the director of "Journey to the West", later made several Journey to the West films. But one is not as good as the other.

"The Great Sage of Love" is okay, although it is not as classic as the previous work "Journey to the West", but it can still be watched. But director Liu Da filmed another "Yueguang Treasure Box", which made people want to die.

Of course, Director Liu Da doesn't know how to make films, but he is very unstable. If you can't make a masterpiece like "Journey to the West", if you don't wave it well, it's just a bunch of bad movies!

On the contrary, Stephen Chow and Liu Zhenwei have all the films he has participated in, directed and produced, and the quality control is very good, and he rarely disappoints the audience.

Of course, Wang Qinian thinks it's interesting to compare Liu Zhenwei and Stephen Chow. After the two cooperated in filming "Journey to the West", they each made a lot of Journey to the West films, but they often found shadows that paid tribute to each other.

"The Great Sage of Love" and "Journey to the West: Conquering Demons" both have shots from a high altitude at the beginning.

The bad movie "Yueguang Treasure Box" and the masterpiece "Journey to the West: Demon Conquering Chapter", at the beginning of these two movies, there are scenes of a person rowing a boat.

However, the silly rose fairy in "The Treasure Box of Koshihikari" had a bit of a taste for rowing at first, but then she sang, sang and sang, and with her company, she switched from watching movies to watching music mV all of a sudden! In this way, it is easy to make the audience play, and people start to feel that this is a bad movie. Later, it turned out that "Yueguang Treasure Box" is really a bad movie, and it can be used as a bad movie for negative teaching materials to criticize and learn.

Wang Qinian absorbed a bunch of lessons from the gains and losses of later Journey to the West-themed movies, and naturally knew how to make it better. Avoid some of the mistakes made by later directors.

"Okay, that's it! This shot is over! Wang Qinian nodded and said, "Let's take a break, the prop master, the makeup artist, and that monster...... What about youkai? Where did it go! ”

"Report to the director, the monster went to the toilet." Next to him, he spent a lot of time eating melon seeds with his newly made girlfriends, and cousin Liu Xihan said with a smile.

"Hahahaha......" everyone laughed.

Half an hour later, the "monster" came!

It is Wang Xiaoqiang of the little partner company, he is a little short and fat, and he wears a special pig's head prop. It's very hideous and terrifying.

This pig's head is not as honest as Zhu Bajie. Instead, the fangs bulged out, and it was a plastic hood made in the shape of a real boar's head.

The actor puts it on, and it looks very scary!

The head of a pig, the upper half of the body is bare, and the lower half of the body is only wrapped in the skin of a happy animal.

Wang Qinian asked him to perform on air and miniatures! Because of the details of his movements, the camera looks like the ground is shaking!

Next, it was shot from mid-air.

In order to highlight the height of the pig demon, some miniature houses, streets, rocks, bamboo forests, and fence props were placed around.

Those props are placed as if they are really a lifelike village.

In order to make these miniature props, Wang Qinian spent at least more than 300,000 yuan. Hire some carpenters with a good reputation and make zuò by hand.

"Hmmm! Well! ”

The pig-headed monster roared, and his stature was obviously a lot taller than those toy-like buildings and landscapes, to show the astonishing proportions of his stature!

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