This short film, Lin Qingyi himself served as the director, and the photographer was from Ge Ming's team, called Wang Shan.

Wang Shan looked at the original simple teaching building and the children's learning situation, and was also very interested in this promotional video.

He asked Lin Qingyi: "Mr. Lin, where do we choose the first scene?" ”

Lin Qingyi directly took out the script of "Tree of Hope": "We started filming from this mountain path into the village, it just so happened that it was afternoon, the sun was about to set, and we filmed a set of sunset, the desolate background of the mountain village, and then in this background, teacher Chen Yuxin led the children to play games in the sunset......"

Remote, desolate, uninhabited...... What catches the eye is a scene of boundless desolation.

This is the most intuitive feeling of photographer Wang Shan, he is used to living in big cities, and it is the first time to come to such a remote place.

From the heart, Wang Shan began to admire Chen Yuxin.

This place, no salary, shopping, laundry is very inconvenient, there is no running water, you have to go to the mountains to pick spring water, which is not easy for a person who grew up in the city and was pampered by her parents, she can give up the prosperous life of the city and live here for three or four months.

Chen Yuxin was very embarrassed by the photographer Wang Shan's admiring eyes, she said: "What I admire most is Lin Hai and Teacher Wang, who have taken rural teaching as a career, and have been doing it for more than 20 years......

"What?"

Wang Shan was very shocked when he heard it.

In his understanding, it takes a lot of perseverance to live in such a place for three or five months, let alone more than twenty years?

Wang Shan immediately said excitedly: "Teacher Chen, can you take me to visit these two teachers?" I think that's very important for our shoot! ”

Chen Yuxin glanced at Lin Qingyi, and then said in a low tone: "The two teachers were killed half a year ago!" ”

Wang Shan suddenly remembered that the school that had just been built was called 'Linhai Hope Primary School', and he suddenly understood something in his heart.

Then, he said, "Let's start filming!" This will be the most meaningful short film I've ever made, and I'm going to be in the Oscar race! ”

This first scene was filmed very smoothly, and it was successful after only three shots, and the children were all in their true colors.

The important point is that they have not watched TV and have no idea what the camera is, which also causes them to have no idea that they are in front of the camera, so naturally they will not be shy and unnatural.

On the contrary, it was because of Chen Yuxin's unnaturalness that he paused three times.

After shooting the first shot, the sun went down, Lin Qingyi asked Wang Shan to carry the camera to Chen Yuxin's residence and shoot a set of shots of her correcting homework overnight.

Dilapidated tiled houses, old furniture, and oil lamps were all seen decades ago.

Here, there is a shot of a little boy delivering food to Chen Yuxin at night.

It was already winter, and there was no fruit or anything, so Lin Qingyi had an idea and replaced the fruit with a potato, a baked potato.

The little boy didn't know that it was acting, he was worried that the potatoes were cold, so he held the potatoes in his arms, and this scene moved Lin Qingyi and Wang Shan.

This kind of teacher-student relationship is extremely rare in big cities.

Chen Yuxin also forgot that there was a camera shooting, took the potato with the body temperature of a little boy, held it in the palm of his hand, and tears rolled in his eyes.

She knew that the kids were really fond of her.

Chen Yuxin doesn't know if other teachers teach students like this, she has never beaten the children in class, they are very obedient, which makes her very worry-free, and often brings her good things that she is reluctant to eat at home.

"Teacher Chen, you eat! If you don't eat it, it's cold! Don't you like potatoes? ”

The little boy looked at Chen Yuxin expectantly, with anticipation in his eyes.

"Eat! I eat! I love potatoes! ”

Chen Yuxin, with trembling hands, peeled off the skin of the baked potatoes.

Then, taking a bite, all of a sudden, the black ash on the baked potatoes stained her face.

"Hahaha! Teacher Chen has become a big cat! ”

After filming this scene, Wang Shan secretly wiped his tears, such a scene of true feelings is too precious, and he can't act out any kind of acting skills!

The next day, Lin Qingyi took Wang Shan to shoot the school scene.

Head straight to the 'school' in this small village, an old, cramped house that would be judged abandoned in a big city.

In the whole school, there were only seventy-four students, with withered yellow faces, messy hair, and dusty nails.

Wang Shan couldn't help but say: "Isn't there a health education class in the school? ”

He didn't say a word about the poor personal hygiene of the students, so they were prone to getting sick.

Chen Yuxin said with a wry smile: "There are no teachers in the school at all, counting me, there are now three, one teaches Chinese, one teaches mathematics, and one teaches physical education and mathematics in the lower grades......"

Lin Qingyi glanced at Wang Shan: "These children, it's not that they can't do good personal hygiene, don't you want to dress beautifully when they do?" In the village, new clothes can only be worn during the Chinese New Year, and the children of the poor are in charge early, and they are more sensible than you think, such as Wang Xiaohu, who gets up at four o'clock every morning, and then leads the family's cattle to herd the cattle, and then walks an hour or two to the mountain road to go to class after herding the cattle, and in winter, he has to bring torches to school...... Xu Xiaoya, she is the youngest child in the family, and she has to cut a basket of pigweed in the morning before studying......"

She pointed to the children in the classroom and told Wang Shan about their family situation.

Wang Shan was silent for a while before he said, "How can our country still have such a poor place!" ”

At this time, he looked at the dark and simple faces of those children and thought that they were really cute.

The filming of the micro-film went smoothly, and four days later, Lin Qingyi and others bid farewell to this extremely remote and extremely poor mountain village.

After a series of post-productions, Lin Qingyi uploaded the short film named "Hope Tree" to Weibo.

"Outside the long pavilion, by the ancient road, the grass is green. The evening breeze blows the willow flute......" A voice with a little hoarse vicissitudes sounded, impacting people's hearts.

"I would like to dedicate this film to those who are grateful."

Act 1: A young female teacher, some children with scorched hair but full of innocence in a modest classroom......

Act 2: An old man who lost his son in his old age and had no financial resources at home, he carried a bag of potatoes and a ten-yuan sheet, a few pieces of one-yuan, five-corner, and one-dime, and begged the female teacher to accept his grandson, and the female teacher accepted the potatoes on the grounds that the children also wanted to eat potatoes, and returned the money to the old grandfather......

Act 3: In order to let the children eat vegetables other than potatoes, the female teacher learned to make traps and make earthen guns with the hunters in the village, and went to the mountains alone to hunt game......

Act 4: When the female teacher hunts game, she will leave the children behind, raise a bonfire herself, and roast the hares, pheasants and other game she hunts on a rack, and a group of children surround the bonfire, drooling at the browned game, and then the female teacher begins to teach everyone to sing......

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At the end, the song sounded again: "Give me a candle to warm this cold, give me a little strength to pass through this darkness, give me a little courage to walk this road, give me a glimmer of hope to break free from this reality......"

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