Chapter 594: "IRIS" Starts Filming
Early the next morning, all the crew went to today's filming location and started the first official filming of this TV series.
On this day, the sky of Akita Prefecture was covered with a light snow, and when the breeze was blowing, the snowflakes danced and looked very beautiful, and it was quite a mood to shoot a TV series in this weather.
The first scene to be filmed this morning, well, is also the first scene in the entire filming process, which is about the scene where the male number one Kim Hyun Joon rescues the hostages from the cold-blooded killer B.I.G. The filming location was on a stretch of highway.
This section of the road is about 130 metres high between two mountains, and it is very steep and spectacular when viewed from below, and terrifying when viewed from above.
But the reason why I chose to shoot here is precisely because of its steepness and magnificence, because the more precipitous and spectacular, the more it can create a tense atmosphere for the next shots, and in addition, its straight up and down slope structure also provides conditions for the escape behavior of the male number one after rescuing the hostages.
This scene may only last three or four minutes after it is broadcast in the future, but it is quite difficult and time-consuming to shoot. Therefore, the crew was not going to use this scene as the first scene of the start-up, but because Zhang Chengyuan secretly insisted on asking the director to do so, the director reluctantly agreed.
And the reason why Zhang Chengyuan wanted to shoot this scene is because this scene can highlight his outstanding courage and superb skills, so that the crew members will be impressed with him, and they will no longer secretly question whether he can shoot this TV series with many action scenes because he has not participated in martial arts stunts and other training before.
In addition, this scene only involves three actors - Jang Sung-won who plays the male number one Kim Hyun-jun, Choi Seung-hyun who plays the killer, and Japanese child star Ka-ae Miyama who plays the little girl hostage. And among them, only Jang Sung-won has dangerous actions. In this way, it will not affect other actors who may not have entered the filming state.
Before shooting. In order to ensure safety, the staff of the crew's technical team repeatedly inspected the safety equipment many times to ensure that Zhang Chengyuan, who is now "delicate and expensive", will not be accidentally injured, and Zhang Chengyuan In order to ensure that he can perform more smoothly when he jumps off the road, he also deliberately held a humanoid prop and tried to jump twice - with his habit of not using a stand-in, he will naturally not use a stand-in this time, but the Japanese girl who plays the hostage does not need to take risks with him.
In addition, he also has to play against Choi Seung-hyun and Miyama Karen in advance. to cultivate some tacit understanding of co-acting a little. Because Choi Seung-hyun, who plays the killer, is a singer and has little filming experience before, it is absolutely impossible for him to enter the best filming state in an instant without rehearsals like Zhang Chengyuan, and he has an inexplicable awe of a senior actor like Zhang Chengyuan, which makes him nervous before the filming starts. In this case, Zhang Chengyuan must find a way to appease him, so that he can smoothly display his acting skills later.
However, these are just the common small problems of most new actors, and they are nothing, Zhang Chengyuan has his own way to solve them.
And the shooting obstacle between Japanese girl star Karen Miyama and Jang Sung-won. It's not a matter of acting skills and mentality, although she is small, her acting skills are quite good. Other than that. It's not a language problem, she only needs to speak Japanese in this scene, and Jang Sung-won's Japanese is also extremely standard and fluent, so there is no problem communicating with her. The real problem is actually the horn-cesium feelings.
In the script, when the storyline developed to the time when the male number one rescued the hostages, the relationship between the male number one and the little girl Yuki she played was already quite deep, but at the moment Zhang Chengyuan and her had just met, how could they talk about feelings, but now this scene is needed, so he has to arouse her admiration and liking for him in a short period of time.
Fortunately, it is not difficult for Zhang Chengyuan, it is just a matter of taking some time to talk to her, with his charm and special ability, he can easily make this little girl have a good impression of him, and then through her good acting skills, the "good feeling" is amplified into "liking and admiration", so there is no problem.
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After several hours of preparation, it was almost noon that the official shooting finally began.
With his back to the camera, Jang Sung-won walked towards Choi Seung-hyun and Miyama Kaeri, who was tied to a time bomb by him and controlled in his hands, his back was firm and calm, and he didn't see the slightest panic, as if he believed that he could safely rescue the hostages from the killer's hands.
His facial expression was then photographed, his expression was calm and a little dignified, his eyes were confident and a little cautious, and at the same time a little resolute, as if to indicate that he could sacrifice himself to save the little girl if necessary. In addition, from beginning to end, he did not show the slightest panic. This is the heart of a person who has experienced harsh training and countless life-and-death struggles and has firm beliefs. Zhang Chengyuan interpreted it vividly.
Driven by his aura, Choi Seung-hyun and Miyama Ka Ai also completely entered the state. Cui Shengxian's expression was blank, his eyes were cold, and his whole body gave people a cold feeling of hope, after Zhang Chengyuan's previous explanation and demonstration, he performed quite well at this time. It's just that it's still a little immature, and it seems to be on the surface, and it can't make people feel the cold-bloodedness of a killer hidden in his bones. Of course, he has this kind of performance at the moment, which is already very satisfactory to the director, and even Zhang Chengyuan, who has always been critical, feels that his potential in acting skills is very good, and he is expected to become an excellent actor.
And Miyama Karen has tears in her eyes at this time, her expression is sad and aggrieved, and she is a little afraid, and her eyes looking at Zhang Chengyuan are full of infinite trust, which completely shows the mentality of a weak little girl who is held hostage and longs to be rescued, truly and naturally. In terms of performance, she is by no means inferior to ordinary adult actors.
After a "confrontation", Zhang Chengyuan handed over a USB with a password to Cui Shengxian, and then while he was checking the authenticity of the password, he suddenly swept through the air, swept away the pistol in his hand, and then stepped forward and pushed it down with a palm, and then wanted to snatch the bomb remote control in his hand, but in the process. The remote control left Choi Seung-hyun's palm. Flew into the air. And in the blink of an eye, it exploded, and the timer of the time bomb on Miyama Kakoi immediately began to beat.
Zhang Chengyuan was slightly stunned, and immediately understood that Cui Shengxian was deliberately going to detonate the bomb, and he secretly hated it in his heart, but at this time, time was pressing, and saving people was important, so he had no time to entangle with him anymore, so he immediately picked up Miyama and turned around and ran to the side of the road. When Choi jumped up from the ground and pulled out another pistol from his body to shoot at him, he grabbed a rope on the side of the road that he had prepared in advance and jumped desperately...... Well, of course I didn't really jump, I just made a show. After all, this is just filming, not really running for your life.
At this point, this group of shots is over, and this scene has come to an end for the time being, but because Zhang Chengyuan has always been "urgent" when filming, he cherishes time. So at his suggestion, he only rested for a few minutes. After making some preparations, we moved on to shoot the next shot. As for the effect of the shot just now, it is naturally very satisfactory to the director, you must know that Zhang Chengyuan has always filmed most of the scenes, even action scenes are no exception.
Next, what is going to be filmed is the scene where Jang Sung-won jumps off the road with "Miyama Ka Love" in his arms, and Choi Seung-hyun stands on it and shoots at him.
After the director shouted "action", Zhang Chengyuan held a puppet prop that looked like Miyama Kakoi, pulled a long rope, and jumped down without hesitation, of course, this is just an illusion, in fact, he was quickly put down through a special rope device, but under his excellent performance, it looks like he took the initiative to jump down, and he is also tied to a safety protection device, so the actual danger is not great. Otherwise, how would the director be relieved to let him shoot this scene himself?
After jumping down, Zhang Chengyuan was suspended in the air for about fifteen or six meters under the road for the sake of plot arrangement, and there were still more than 100 meters from the ground.
From a visual point of view, it still takes a lot of courage to shoot this scene. The other actors present were afraid that few of them had the courage to do so, and at the same time, they didn't feel the need to do so, because this kind of scene could be replaced by a stuntman. Therefore, in addition to admiring Zhang Chengyuan's move, they also feel that he doesn't seem to care for his body very much.
When everyone sighed, the filming of this scene did not stop, Cui Shengxian held a prop pistol and kept aiming and shooting at Zhang Chengyuan, and Zhang Chengyuan also "pulled" the rope with the help of the technical staff and ran up on the slope of the roadbed to avoid the attack of the "bullet".
In order to better reflect the thrill of this scene, this shot was shot back and forth about three or four times from different angles, lasting about 20 minutes, and the director felt very satisfied, and paused the shooting, wanting Zhang Chengyuan to come up and rest for a while, and then continue to shoot, after all, the filming of this kind of scene, although it didn't take much time, it still consumed the physical strength of the actors.
However, Zhang Chengyuan is extremely energetic, how can he feel tired? I thought it would be too much time to go up and down, so I asked the director to continue filming, but the director couldn't resist him, and saw that he did perform more than enough, so he relied on him.
Next, the scene to be filmed is the scene where he slides off the slope of the roadbed with "Miyama Kakoi" in his arms. Because the slope of the slope is more than 60 degrees and the entire slope is more than 150 meters, the scene of sliding down is actually much more dangerous than the scene of jumping. However, with the help and protection of safety devices, and Zhang Chengyuan wears two very wear-resistant special clothes inside his coat, so as long as there are no accidents and proper control, there will be no problems.
At the beginning of filming, Jang Sung-won let go of the rope, and his body suddenly fell from a high place and slid down, the momentum looked extremely shocking, and many actors and staff trembled just by looking at it, especially Kim Tae-hee, because he was too worried about Jang Sung-won, his face was completely white.
However, their worries are a little redundant, with Zhang Chengyuan's skills, how can they not cope with such a small scene? In the process of descending, he bent his head and legs as hard as he could, trying to keep his back and shoes against the cement slope, and he also had a safety rope tied around his waist to pull him slightly towards the slump, so that his descent speed was not very fast, and there was not much danger. So, after a while, he slid safely to the ground, and at the same time successfully completed the shooting of this shot.
Then the shooting stopped for a while, and the staff came over to remove the safety rope from his body so that it would not affect the next shooting, and helped him move about two or three meters above the inclined plane.
Immediately afterwards, the shooting continued, Jang Sung-won slid down again with the humanoid prop, and when he was about to touch the ground, he suddenly rolled on his side, his back hit the ground, and then quickly rolled sideways on the snow-covered ground, in order to make a gesture of rolling to eliminate the momentum of sliding down from a high place.
It took him more than thirty turns before he stopped, then took a breath and struggled to get up, then picked up the humanoid prop and staggered to the car parked on the side of the road......
Then, filming was paused for a while, but after only a little preparation, the crew immediately resumed filming, and this time it started at the urging of Zhang Chengyuan.
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This continuous filming lasted almost all day, and after the filming ended that day, the crew members couldn't help but feel strange, thinking: "In the past, I only saw the director urging the actors to film, but this time it was the actors urging the director to film-this Zhang Chengyuan is really worthy of being a 'drama maniac', he is desperate as soon as he starts filming, and it seems that he dares to shoot any dangerous scenes." filming with this kind of person, I'm afraid that I will be embarrassed to be lazy occasionally in the future. (To be continued......)