Wang Wei realized that he had entered a wonderful state.

After the run-in of the first two crews, most of the crew of "The Silence of the Lambs" are already quite familiar.

He was sure he didn't add any buffs, but he seemed to have established some kind of "psychic connection" with the group.

- He can feel that other people are adjusting better and better, he can feel the growing confidence of others, and he can feel that the whole crew is in an optimal state of preparation.

In the examination of the preparatory work, many blurry clips of the original work are also clearly flashed, and the comparison between the two makes him more and more comfortable.

So Wang Wei made a decision, and "The Silence of the Lambs" was officially launched.

This opening ceremony was quite unremarkable, and a few media outlets with good relationships were arranged to come in, and a brief interview was done.

According to the original plan, Wang Wei planned to take out all the newspaper clippings of "The Silence of the Lambs" sung by public opinion, firstly, to give the crew a bloody beating again, and secondly, to engage in gimmicks by the way.

But seeing that the crew has entered a once-in-a-lifetime overall "into the play" state, what kind of gimmick is there at this time, just start filming quickly!

On December 16, the crew officially started.

The first scene of "The Silence of the Lambs" is the opening scene of the movie.

The first shot is very simple, it is a cold morning, a gloomy sky, a misty forest, and a cold and oppressive atmosphere.

- It fits well with the current bleak winter background.

In the oppressive atmosphere, a small figure appeared in the fog, a girl, pulling a rope and climbing up the steep slope with great difficulty...... The tone of the film is beginning to hint at.

One of the most important words in this movie is "women", women are more fragile and sensitive in the heart, more sexist in the workplace, and more vulnerable because their bodies are weaker than men.

From the female police officer, to the victim girl, and even to the serial killer "butcher" who is a women's clothing boss, they all show the characteristics of women in different aspects.

The girl was out of breath, but continued to run into the woods, and ran into the fog, which seemed to frighten her, and the pace of her running suddenly increased.

Not far ahead, there is a climbing net propped up by two wooden stakes.

The sun came out and began to have a warm light, and the girl ran to the net, and struggled to climb the net, and after overcoming the biggest obstacle, the sky in the background turned blue, and the sunlight completely dispelled the coldness of the opening film.

At this point, the whole tone of the movie is set, and there is no need for the girl to continue running, and there is a cry outside the picture to stop her.

An instructor ran over and delivered a message to the girl - her boss, Lauder, told her to go to the office.

"Click, this period has passed, and the time and weather have been perfectly matched!" Wang Wei clapped his hands and announced.

Without waiting for everyone to cheer, assistant director Zhuang Geng dutifully arranged the next step: "Transition, hurry up and shoot the next scene." ”

- Yes, Zhuang Geng also joined the crew of "The Silence of the Lambs" and became Wang Wei's deputy.

It stands to reason that if you are demoted from director to assistant director, you must have dropped the price.

In particular, Zhuang Geng's "My Sassy Girlfriend" has been released, and has achieved a domestic box office of 466 million, an overseas box office of 320 million, a total of 786 million yuan!

The debut score is almost the same as Wang Wei, although the identity and coffee position are definitely not on par with Wang Wei, but at least, Zhuang Geng is already a top-ranked cutting-edge director.

As long as he says that he wants to make a new movie, there will be countless film and television company CEOs rushing to send money, why not lower his price to become an assistant director?

But Zhuang Geng didn't dare to float.

The so-called "cutting-edge director" is just a difference between Wang Wei's thoughts!

With a thought, he gave himself the project "My Sassy Girlfriend" and asked him to be in charge of directing, so he has the glorious label he has today.

If someone else directs, the box office may be a little lower, but it's not much worse.

So no matter how the outside world praises him, Zhuang Geng knows very well that this cowhide can't be blown.

Of course, he didn't plan to join the new crew so early - not everyone is like Wang Wei, filming movie after movie starts one movie after another, as if the story ideas are endless, and there is no need to rest.

However, once after reading the script, he was very interested in the role of "Hannibal", and was fooled by Wang Wei and joined the crew to help.

Well, that's the way it is, but he's actually learned a lot too—

For example, this crew is too well prepared in terms of details.

Zhuang Geng actually doesn't like to be limited to the so-called "complete plan", but likes to play freely in the shooting.

But I have to say that when the details are perfected to a certain extent, it is really conducive to "actors and audiences entering the play".

For example, now, the crew has moved to the office building-

The girl Judy ran into the building, and most of the colleagues she met along the way were uniformly dressed, and there were more men and fewer women, and she greeted the oncoming female colleagues, which showed that the popularity was not bad.

As she descended into the upper echelons, the female colleague was nowhere to be seen, and several male colleagues were wiping their weapons, almost oblivious to her presence.

Entering the elevator, surrounded by tall and muscular male colleagues, wearing red clothes, and Judy, who looked a little thin and slender in the middle, formed a strong visual contrast!

- Note that Shen Zhenyi, who is 172 tall, is definitely not short, but almost all the actors in the play are looking for tall people over 185, and she suddenly seems weak.

- Weapons represent danger, and the red color of men's uniform clothing also represents danger, which is certainly not a coincidence, but a product of careful design by the crew.

There is no need to say it at all, the average audience can understand the difficult situation of the heroine through the countless details.

Filming continues –

The elevator took Judy upstairs. She walked down a hallway and followed a sign that read "Criminal Behavior Analysis Division" to the office.

A police officer who was outside saw Judy hesitant and told her that Lauder would be back soon and let her into the office and wait.

Judy walked into the office, her hands behind her back, and casually looked around.

Suddenly, she lowered her hand from behind her back and stared at what was on the wall in front of her—

The walls are plastered with photographs, several of which show panoramas of naked female corpses or partial limbs, which are horrific white.

At the bottom of the photo, a newspaper headline is even more shocking: "The butcher skinned the fifth man!" ’

The huge bold letters made Judy stand there in amazement.

"Good morning, Judy!" A voice came from the doorway, and Lauder, the head of the Behavioral Analysis Division, had returned. He wears a pair of glasses, is tall, and has the appearance of an intellectual.

He reminisced about the past with Judy and then offered her a job.

"We have conversations with serial killers to study their psychological behavior and help us solve the case. Most of the criminals were happy to talk to us. Lauder said this, and suddenly looked up: "Are you easily frightened?" ”

Judy smiled lightly and shook her head, "Not really." ”

"He's the only one who refuses to work with us, and I'd like to send you to try."

"Who is it?"

"Hannibal, the psychiatrist."

"Hannibal the ogre?" Judy was a little surprised.

Lauder said calmly, "I don't expect him to talk to you, but you have to try." If he doesn't want to cooperate, just report his situation as usual – how does he look? How's his cell? Is he drawing something...... Wait a minute. ”

As he spoke, Lauder picked up a stack of papers from the table and put them in front of Judy, "This is Hannibal's file, our questionnaire and your work card, can we hand in the report tomorrow?" ”

Judy answered, got up and prepared to leave, when she suddenly turned around and asked, "I'm sorry, sir, why are you in such a hurry?" Hannibal has been in prison for so many years, does he have anything to do with the 'killer butcher'? ”

Lauder, a little amazed at Judy's acuity, looked up at her and said, "I hope so, I hope you can get the job done." ”

"Yes, sir!"

Lauder admonished with some trepidation: "Be careful with Hannibal, Dr. Ziton will tell you all the procedures you have to do with him." For whatever reason, don't break these rules and don't tell him anything personal...... Don't forget who he is, remember that......"

——This paragraph directly paves the way for both stories on the surface.

Next, of course, is the transfer to Dr. Ziton's office-

"He's a devil, he's a psychopathic maniac, and it's rare to catch a live one. From a research point of view, Hannibal is our most valuable asset. ”

Dr. Zitton was visibly unserious, and even smiled at Judy a little flirtatiously.

Judy looked a little uncomfortable and turned her head to the side.

"There are a lot of police officers who have been here, but you are the most attractive!" Dr. Zitton continued to tease her, seemingly treating her like a vase.

Judy's expression was even more uncomfortable, but it was inconvenient for her to attack.

Dr. Zitton looked at her beautiful face and said meaningfully, "Are you staying in Qingcheng for the night tonight?" If you have the right guide, this is a fun city. ”

Judy perfunctorily changed the subject to get down to business: "It's really fun here, but my boss ordered me to talk to Dr. Hannibal and hand in a report tomorrow!" ”

Dr. Zitton felt a little bored, and stood up and led Judy out of the office......

——The next shot scheduling of Wang Wei's expression of environmental changes is a classic!

First, the heroine is shot vertically and walks down the spiral staircase, which is a metaphor for her about to go to hell layer by layer;

Then there's the constant switching between subjective and third-person shots;

"From the psychology of the audience, they have the desire to see everything that happens in the story, and if they can't see it, they will have fear and nervousness...... Wang Wei explains.

Zhuang Geng nodded: "Reducing the visible area of the picture is indeed convenient to create a terrifying atmosphere......

The two exchanged briefly, and continued to look at the monitor—

Dr. Zitton opened the conversation all the way: "How clever it is for Lauder to send you! ”

"What do you mean?"

"Find a young and beautiful girl to seduce him, Hannibal has not seen a woman for eight years. You're to his liking, understand? ”

"I graduated from the police academy instead of the etiquette school!" Judy couldn't help but say a word.

"Very well, then you should be able to remember the rules. Do not touch, and do not go near the glass. Don't give him anything but paper, there can't be pens, staplers or clips in the paper, it can only be passed through the food channel, nothing from him can be accepted! Do you understand? ”

"Understood."

In front of the barred gate at the bottom of the floor, where the lights stained the environment red, Dr. Zitton paused, "I'll show you why you're on guard. One day, he said he had chest pain and was taken to the medical room, where he took off his mask to facilitate an ECG, and he did this to the nurse when he approached him. ”

Dr. Zitton pulls a picture out of his pocket and gives it to Judy.

Here is a close-up of Judy holding the photo, no photo is taken, but Judy's face is full of fear under the red light and shadow.

The doctor barely secured her jawbone and saved one of her eyes. When he eats her tongue, his pulse never exceeds 85 times! Dr. Zitton said, taking the picture back from Judy's hand and pointing to the red barred door that had been opened for them, "I'm locked him up here." ”

Trying to go further, Judy stopped him apologetically and wanted to go to Hannibal alone.

Dr. Ziton was displeased, but eventually agreed.

……

That's it.

Only then did Zhuang Geng realize that the filming speed of the crew was so fast that it simply shattered his experience and cognition of film shooting.

If this film continues to be filmed in this way, the total duration of the film is about 120 minutes, and it is very likely that the entire shooting will be completed in the early part of the month.

Zhuang Geng thought about it for a while, of course, there are reasons why actors, especially Shen Zhenyi, performed flawlessly.

But the more critical reason is still on director Wang Wei.

- though most of the time, he just sits behind the monitor and keeps saying "click", "nice" or "do it again".

But Zhuang Geng didn't dare to despise it a little.

Because of Wang Wei's state as a director, it's magical! It's even scary!

Every actor's every move seems to be drawn by him; How to shoot each shot, it seems that he knows it by heart;

- Well, that's understandable, after all, many of the basic requirements have been clearly explained in the script.

But there is another point that Zhuang Geng can't understand.

Wang Wei is like a roundworm in the actor's stomach - it is a bit disrespectful to say this, but it is definitely Zhuang Geng's true thoughts in his heart - he doesn't need the actor to confide in himself, he knows what the reason for a certain scene affects their performance status.

When the shooting is not smooth, he makes some fine-tuning of the scene, lighting, camera angle or rhythm, etc., and then it is all smooth!

So much so that he can pass the same scene after filming it three times at most.

This kind of precise and accurate control of shooting is not only reflected in the shooting speed, but also in the quality of the shots.

There's very little clipping between shots, so it's ready to go!

When he realized this, Zhuang Geng couldn't help but gasp.

Everyone is a director, take himself as an example -

When he was filming "My Sassy Girlfriend", a 120-minute movie, he accumulated more than 2,000 minutes of material.

The film consumption ratio, the ratio between all the footage and the final duration of the film, has almost gone to a 20:1 ratio, which is also a bit of an overrun on the budget.

Fortunately, the final return was not bad, which made up for his lack of experience - because he was not sure which lens was the best, so when shooting, he tried to shoot as many materials from various angles and various ideas as possible, wasting a lot of film.

Generally speaking, for low-budget films, a 10:1 or 15:1 shooting ratio is considered a normal category, and higher-cost large-scale productions usually need to afford a higher percentage of the film consumption ratio.

According to the chief photographer Zhou Lin, Wang Wei's previous two films can maintain a film consumption ratio of about 5:1, which has shocked Zhuang Geng.

And how much now?

It is certainly an exaggeration to say that one to one, but two to one is also ...... It's very exaggerated, okay!

If it's a big bad movie, you can still understand it, bad movie, seriously count him losing.

But when he looked back at the footage taken by Wang Wei, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a "work of art".

This only shows that the story, the performance, the art, the set...... All of this was in Wang Wei's hands, or rather, it was clearly formed in his mind.

- It turns out that "the film was made in the director's head before the actual shooting", which is really not a legend!

Zhuang Geng was shocked and excited.

Because, it's time for our Dr. Hannibal to appear!

Under the director's magical scheduling and control, what surprises will this lovely brother bring to the world?

……

More than 4,000 words, it's a big chapter~

(End of chapter)