Chapter 8: Appearance
In his previous life, Tang Qin ran through many crews, but the first time he faced this kind of old-fashioned camera, he still felt stunned.
This is the oldest 300p camera, and it takes a lot of effort to adjust the focus, and if you don't pay attention to it, it will blur, as if you have added a diffuser.
Also, all the shots of the Journey to the West crew were completed by this camera.
Moreover, the camera and the video recorder are still separate, and the video recorder is still a one-inch machine, which is very cumbersome, and when the camera moves, two people need to carry the video recorder to move with it.
Photographer Wang Chongqiu planned to shoot a close-up of Tang Qin from far and near, but it was too difficult to adjust and focus the camera.
The crew also does not have a telephoto lens, which can be pushed closer to the character's expression from a distance, and the character can also be deformed, and the lens of the camera of the crew can also zoom, but the magnification is not enough, and the effect is different from that of a long focal length lens.
And there is only one long shot in the entire China TV drama production center, you have to report, queue up, and allocate time, and when it is the turn of the Journey to the West crew, I am afraid that it will all be in the west.
Now, Wang Chongqiu can only hold the camera and slowly walk forward before starting filming, and try it first.
The mountain road was too slippery, and there were people holding the VCR behind them, and after trying the camera several times, the VCR was almost broken.
"No, let's shoot normally." Director Yang Jie looked at the storyboard script in his hand, "It can't affect the next scene." ”
"That's a pity." Wang Chongqiu really couldn't think of a good way, so he could only give up his idea painfully.
Zhang Jin was about to lead the white dragon horse, but Tang Qin said, "Director Yang, do you think this can be done," he pointed in front of him, "This is a small hill, and the camera can be set up fifteen meters away from the top of the slope, so that Jin Lai will lead the horse, and we will slowly walk up from the bottom of the slope......"
Down the slope?
Wang Chongqiu glanced at Tang Qin suspiciously, then stared at the hillside in front of him, and suddenly, he slapped his thigh, "Xiao Tang, it's really yours, it's best to shoot like this," Yang Jie didn't react, he explained again, "In this way, Xiao Tang's head enters the camera first, followed by his body...... Finally give a panorama, close-up ......"
In this way, the road slippery and debugging focus on rainy days were also avoided, and Director Yang Jie also figured it out, she smiled, "I'll just say, Xiao Tang, you really haven't made a movie before?" ”
Not really, I promise the old man!
Listening to Director Yang's praise, Tang Qin was a little ashamed, this kind of shooting technique is too common in later generations, and when Hong Kong film beauties get off the car, they start shooting with stockings and beautiful legs, and then shoot the whole body, which is much more shocking than this.
"Okay, the first scene of the seventh episode of Journey to the West, it will start in ten minutes." Director Yang Jie made the decision happily.
Seeing Yang Jie praising Tang Qin with a smile, although Tang Changyuan couldn't hear it clearly from a distance, he also knew that the director was happy.
But the more this is the case, the more worried he is, everything is difficult at the beginning, the beginning of the shooting is smooth, the performance is excellent, and the future will get better and better.
If the beginning is not filmed well and is reshot over and over again, then the director will also have an opinion about his son.
Besides, he looked at the many people around him, so many people were looking, the two old men sitting on the chairs in front of him seemed to be the masters of the crew, the two of them didn't chat, they were staring at Tang Qin.
"Everything is difficult at the beginning, isn't there another sentence at the end, as long as you are willing to climb." Zhao Mingli retorted to her husband in a low voice, although she said this, but in such a cool weather, her palms were already sweating.
Tang Qin was indeed climbing.
He led the white horse to the bottom of the hillside, according to the script, he was to sit on the horse, and Zhang Jinlai carried a tin staff on his shoulders and led the horse in front.
But the white dragon horse didn't give the senior brother this face, snorted, and didn't leave.
"This horse, evil nature." Zhang Jin came to the fire, and pulled hard to hold the reins, but the white dragon horse still didn't move no matter how he pulled it.
Tang Qin had no choice but to come over, stroked the white horse's head, and stroked the white horse's mane, the white horse was human, and snorted again, and suddenly became docile.
"Hey, this horse, evil nature." Zhang Jinlai muttered again.
Tang Qin ignored him and turned over on his horse.
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The eyes of the audience were fixed on the hillside, and the whole mountain was quiet, only the "da-da" sound of horses stepping on the mountain road and the restless chirping of autumn cicadas.
Director Yang Jie looked at the top of the slope in the monitor, she remembered that when Tang Qin auditioned, Director Ruan Ruolin said that it depended on Tang Qin's sense of the camera and ability to maintain his state when he was really shooting, because Tang Qin had never made a TV series or a movie after all.
Sense of lens, he is a newcomer, the first scene, I don't know how much film I have to waste?
Originally, the crew was not rich, and the film was even more insufficient, every time the film was needed, it was necessary to re-apply to the station, and Director Yang Jie thought that it was too big to do so.
As she was thinking, the white horse was already carrying Tang Qin slowly up the hill.
After the new rain, the sky is clear, and the mountain trees are even more colorful.
Tang Qinxiang wore Buddha beads, sat on a horse in a brocade robe, and slowly appeared in front of the camera with the white dragon horse.
Head, face, upper body, lower body......
Zhang Jinlai jumped forward with a tin cane, but the white dragon horse suddenly stopped.
"Why did it stop?" Director Yang Jie whispered.
Old man Kong Qi and old man Zheng Rong didn't speak, and the two of them almost sat up straight, well, in front, there is a play!
Assistant director Ren Fengpo was also stunned, only to see Tang Qin sitting on a horse in front of him, Jinlan's robe reflecting a dazzling light in the sun, he held the Buddha beads in both hands, raised his head slightly, and looked at the sky......
Cameraman Wang Chongqiu was stunned, Tang Qin in the lens, above his head was a cloudless and blue sky, and under the clear blue sky, there was a solemn and compassionate monk's face.
Is this Tang Seng possessed?
At this moment, Wang Chongqiu almost forgot to debug and focus, at this moment, what he saw was no longer the actor Tang Qin, but the compassionate sentient beings in the world, who was unstained by the mountains and rivers in his chest - the holy monk Tang Sanzang!
Holy Monk!
That's right, it's a holy word.
It's easy to play a monk well, but it's very difficult to play holy!
Zheng Rong, who was sitting in the chair, slowly stood up, put his hand in front of him, and looked at Tang Qin on the horse in front of him.
Kong Qi also stood up, he remembered that at the meeting at China Television that day, the young man clearly said that he was only twenty years old, could it be that the current young actors have such a good sense of camera?
Director Ren Fengpo knows Tang Qin's roots, he is really only twenty years old, and he has never been on the stage?
"He hasn't been on stage, he knows how to appear? He has studied Peking Opera! ”
As a famous flower-faced actor of the Peking Opera Company, he seems to have seen something in Tang Qin, yes, this is the spirituality of art!
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No one told Tang Qin what everyone was thinking, and the filming continued.
"Wukong, what's the place ahead?" Tang Qin asked softly.
"Whatever he is, master, it's still far from the western sky." Zhang Jinlai was a monkey, carrying a tin staff and looking left and right.
"Hey, I think it's better to find someone to have a meal first." Tang Qin leaned a little on the horse, as if he was asking and discussing.
Buddhism emphasizes the equality of all beings, even if it is an apostle, there is etiquette and compassion.
This action is the taste.
Director Yang Jie stared at the monitor quietly, she was resolute, but she was also angry. At this time, his face was already full of joy.
"Okay, master, wait a minute." Zhang Jin said.
"Okay, pass." Director Yang Jie stood up suddenly, "Tang Qin, one pass!" ”