"Rest, let's eat!"

The field staff shouted at the top of their voices, and the staff at each post in the studio immediately dispersed and went to get a boxed lunch.

Working in the hot studio every day, the most anticipated thing is meal time.

The old employees who have been following Qin Muchu's crew know that the crew will sometimes be very hard, because Director Qin's strict requirements for filming, and he will repeat ten or dozens of times for an inconspicuous shot in the movie, until he is satisfied.

But the crew welfare is also really good.

In addition to overtime and high overtime pay, even boxed lunches are not ordinary.

The daily meals are made to order from the hotel, and both the taste and the quality of the ingredients are definitely affordable for families above the middle class.

Therefore, under this welfare, no matter how hard I suffered, I didn't even feel bitter.

In this regard, Qin Muchu just because he also eats boxed lunches, so he can't be bitter about himself.

The electric fan was whirring, and the director and several male actors of the crew didn't have any shelves, putting the dishes on the chairs, and they squatted next to the chairs to cook.

"When is your new album released?"

Pulling the box lunch, Qin Muchu asked Zhou Jiaolun.

"Suck and slip...... On October 15th, "Magic Jack", sucking and ...... Shocking release! ”

Zhou Jiaolun, who originally wanted to come up with a cool advertising slogan, was so spicy that he "sucked" non-stop, and the advertising words did not have the desired effect at all.

Today's dish is Sichuan cuisine, which is very numb, spicy and appetizing.

It's delicious, it's just that with the blessing of summer, the already hot people are sweating like rain.

"If you can't eat it, don't force it."

Qin Muchu saw that Zhou Zhuolun's face was red, and handed over a bottle of ice water.

Zhou Jiaolun took it and put it in his mouth, and swallowed it after a while.

"It's spicy, but it's refreshing......"

After a pause, he touched Donnie and Takuya Kimura next to him:

"Uncle Ni, Uncle Mu, isn't it?"

These two people, an American and a Japanese, are not countries that can eat spicy food.

It will make my eyes sweat when I eat, but I still don't want to stop chopsticks.

"It's great."

Donnie gave a thumbs up and went back to cooking.

Takuya Kimura couldn't understand Chinese, but when he saw Donnie's reaction, he also replied:

"Yo Xi."

Qin Muchu didn't care about the behavior of these people, and looked at Zhou Jiaolun again:

"It will be released on October 15th, and then you will focus on filming your scenes, and you should be able to finish it before the release."

"No, just shoot normally, give me three days off when it's time to release, and I'll run around to promote......"

Zhou Zhilun rejected Qin Muchu's kindness and didn't want to be special in the crew.

His scenes were filmed in advance, and other people's scenes had to be moved back, that's for sure.

At this time, Donnie spoke:

"My sister's main job is to be a singer, and releasing an album is a big deal, it's okay to move my role back, and I have nothing to do after filming this scene, I plan to accompany my wife...... Tear, give me water ......"

Donnie stuck out his tongue, and even Zhou Jiaolun's English name "Jay" was called "sister", which was very spicy.

Qin Muchu handed over a new bottle of ice water on the ground and saved Donnie's life.

"Remember to prepare one for me when the time comes, I want a collector's edition."

Downey patted Zhou Jiaolun.

Several people were chatting while eating, and Qin Muchu's mobile phone rang and received a message.

Raised eyebrows.

Lao Mouzi is here.

……

"I thought you would have to take a break after the closing ceremony, but I didn't expect it to come so soon."

Qin Muchu accompanied Zhang Yimou to visit the studio.

The huge "hotel aisle" caught Lao Mouzi's attention, and he kept looking around.

"I've had a long break, and I've been resting since the opening ceremony...... What is this device for? ”

Lao Mouzi's two sentences went around to something related to the movie.

"When this one is filmed, turn it around so that the actor can stand on the wall, or stand on the ceiling and fight, as if he is weightless." Qin Muchu explained.

Lao Mouzi thought about it, and made a gesture to make a gesture to look like a camera, and soon understood what Qin Muchu meant, and smiled.

"It's interesting, it's flexible."

"Hey, it's okay."

Qin Muchu was inevitably a little proud.

The effect of this method is not achieved by special effects.

After visiting the hotel studio, he took Zhang Yimou to the studio next door.

A three-story Japanese-style izakaya.

"This is the main scene of the movie?" Lao Mouzi asked.

The izakaya is very well built, with a hall on the first floor, a rest room on the second floor, and a kitchen.

Without waiting for Qin Muchu to answer, he shook his head again:

"No, you can find a place to shoot these outside, why do you still set up the scenery by yourself, spend more money and delay time."

Qin Muchu smiled.

"To answer your first question first, it's true that this is not the main scene of the movie, just the beginning and end of the movie."

He looked up at the lobby on the first floor of the izakaya and said it was one floor, but the high ceiling was nearly ten meters above the ground, which was more than three stories high in a small building.

On the left and right sides are wooden staircases, which lead to the passage to the second floor, and when viewed from the air, it looks like the word "kou" is missing a horizontal line below.

"Right here."

Qin Muchu walked to a place where the barricades were placed, which was the midpoint of the horizontal line of the word "mouth".

"The reason why I didn't find a place to shoot outside was because no one wanted me to shoot ...... Demolished. ”

"Demolished?" Zhang Yimou said in surprise.

The area of the izakaya is not small, and the hall on the first floor alone is not inferior to the lobby of most star hotels.

If such a building is demolished, how big of a scene does it have to be in the movie?

"Yes, first the house collapsed, and then here, everything was washed away by the flood!" Qin Muchu said extremely firmly.

It cost more than 10 million to build this izakaya.

In addition to not laying the foundation, moving out can be completely opened as a Japanese-style hotel.

And it's also a very high-end atmosphere.

Zhang Yimou also built a palace when he filmed "Golden Armor", so he can estimate how much it cost to build this izaka.

Asked:

"How long can you shoot here?"

Qin Muchu calculated and replied:

"I expected it to be 20 days, but now it's going well, and the shooting will be done in a few days."

"Ten days?"

"A week."

"Ahem......"

Zhang Yimou coughed for a while, and he couldn't stop covering his mouth.

"What's wrong with you? This is? ”

Qin Muchu hurriedly walked to Zhang Yimou's side and patted him on the back to help soothe him.

While shooting, he said:

"Don't even think about touching porcelain, there are cameras everywhere in this studio......"

As soon as these words came out, Zhang Yimou coughed even harder.

Qin Muchu wanted to call a doctor, and the crew was prepared with medical staff.

However, Zhang Yimou had already eased up and waved his hand to stop Qin Muchu.

"It's okay, I just choked a little."

Seeing that Zhang Yimou's face was just a little red because of the cough, there was indeed no problem, and Qin Muchu also breathed a sigh of relief.

It's not that I promised Lao Mouzi that he couldn't explain what happened to him, but because Comrade Lao Zhang is indeed an elder worthy of respect and study.

It's half a teacher of your own.

took out a pack of facial tissues from his pocket and handed it to Zhang Yimou to wipe his mouth, and said with a smile:

"If you fell here just now, the reporter will say that you are doing your best for the Olympic Games, and you will die,, no one can ...... you in the future."

Qin Muchu jumped away in one step and dodged Zhang Yimou's slap full of love.

Zhang Yimou has three black lines on his forehead.

If this kid hadn't said that he touched porcelain, he wouldn't have coughed so hard just now.

"No kidding, you really have to pay attention to this, don't overwork the first two years." Qin Muchu said.

Although I didn't hear anything about Zhang Yimou after the Olympics in my previous life, this world may not be possible.

"It's okay, don't worry."

Zhang Yimou waved his hand.

The reason why he coughed just now was because of the impact on his heart.

It took less than a week to shoot and destroy such an izakaya, where is this destroying the house, it is burning money!

He walked to the place where Qin Muchu had just stood.

That is, the missing horizontal midpoint under the word "mouth".

As soon as he stood here, he noticed the difference in this location.

It has the widest view of the hall and allows you to see the entire hall clearly.

And at the same time, because I can see the whole hall clearly, so

Standing here makes you feel small.

In other words, if you shoot the destruction of the hall here, it will be the most impactful.

"You just said there was a big flood that washed away the house?" Zhang Yimou asked.

"Yes, in the dream on the first floor, the male protagonist fell into the bathtub, so in the dream on the second floor, what was shown was where the male protagonist was, and he was suddenly washed into the ...... by the water," Qin Muchu said.

Lao Mouzi nodded, although he couldn't fully understand what Qin Muchu meant, it was enough to know that the flood would wash away this place.

He pointed to the highest windows on the left and right sides of the hall:

"If the water rushes into the hall, I think the water rushes in from those places, and the effect is more shocking."

"Yes, that's what I thought."

Qin Muchu gave a thumbs up.

Lao Mouzi deserves to be Lao Mouzi, and he can see the mystery at a glance.

From this point, you can see the director's skills.

The same scene, shot by different directors, gives people a completely different feeling, and this is the reason.

"I'm going to put a water tank outside those windows and flush dozens of tons of water into the hall at once through a pump." Qin Muchu continued.

"Dozens of tons of water?" Zhang Yimou opened his mouth.

A ton of water is a cubic meter, and dozens of tons of water are dozens of cubic meters of water.

Such a large flow of water rushed into the hall, and the scene was no less than a flood hitting.

Just thinking about it makes me feel shocked.

It will definitely impress the audience.

Thinking of Qin Muchu's statement that this studio filmed the beginning and end of the movie, he asked:

"This is the scene where the movie ends?"

There is usually a climax at the end of the movie, and it is a common means to use this kind of "big scene" to push the movie to the climax.

However, Qin Muchu once again gave Zhang Yimou an unexpected answer.

"No, it's just the beginning."

"Beginning."

Lao Mouzi habitually frowned.

Not because it was denied, but because it couldn't figure it out.

"If this kind of scene is used at the beginning, what about the rest of the movie? You have to at least have a scene that is not weaker than this to support it. ”

It's a matter of the pace of the film.

A two-hour movie, if you want people to watch it, there must be some ups and downs.

It's like something, you can't just start with all your strength and rush at full speed, and then the back is slow to death, just like retirement.

You have to rush for a while, slow for a while, rush for a while, slow down for a while, and so on.

Distribute your physical strength wisely, and in the end, you can become the winner in the cheers.

That's right, it's a long-distance run.

Qin Muchu as a regular ...... A veteran of making movies naturally understands the truth.

"Don't worry, there are many similar scenes like this, don't worry about 'anticlimactic'."

That's a lot......

Looking at Qin Muchu's confident smile, Lao Mouzi was no longer confident.

Ban Yan shook his head and smiled bitterly:

"I kind of know how you spent your $100 million."

The smile retracted, he hesitated, but still spoke:

"Xiao Qin, I'm not saying something discouraged, there is still a point, you should have considered it yourself...... Spending such a lot of money, if you can't collect the cost, this is ......"

Qin Muchu glanced at Lao Mouzi in surprise.

He would not be surprised if ordinary audiences, reporters, management, and even some directors asked this.

But the person who asked this is Lao Mouzi, who is currently the first director of the Celestial Empire.

How can such words come out of your mouth?

Qin Muchu wanted to ask, but his lips squirmed, and he still didn't say it.

After a moment of silence, he asked rhetorically:

"What do you think of the images I just mentioned? The hotel hallway which can rotate and this big water rush into the lobby. ”

"Good."

Zhang Yimou told the truth.

He didn't doubt that Qin Muchu could shoot it, because the difficulty of those scenes was how to shoot them, and the methods Qin Muchu said were very feasible.

"That's it."

Qin Muchu spread his hands,

"There are a lot of similar scenes behind me.

It's not that I deliberately want to attract attention through these images, but I shoot 'dreams'.

Dreams are bizarre, weightless, flooding, and city flipping......

There has to be something beyond the logic of reality, and this is a dream.

I can't always use the guise of dreaming, and what happens in it is no different from reality, so what's the point?

It's like saying that you want to invite people to eat seafood, but it turns out that it's all from the river, isn't this fooling people?

Seafood is a bit more expensive, but since you're treated, you can't be afraid of spending money.

I think there are two things to treat, one is whether you can afford to be invited, and the other is whether the food is good or not.

As for whether the other party is worth the meal, can the favor of the treat be worth the money spent on the meal......

It can be considered, but not just this.

Earned, of course happy.

But I didn't make a profit, I lost, how to define this loss?

I also ate this meal, it tasted very good, I should treat myself, I was happy to eat, and it was not a loss. ”

Everyone knows that big scenes can attract people's attention, but not many people are willing to shoot them.

Why?

Because in the movie, big scenes and burning money are basically equated.

Just like Qin Muchu's "big water rushing hall" play, why can't it be "big water rushing bedroom", "big water rushing thatched house", or even "big water rushing ant nest"?

In this way, the cost of shooting is small, but the effect is also poor.

Zhang Yimou's face was a little complicated.

I don't know what I'm thinking.

Qin Muchu taught him a lesson, which made him a little "embarrassed".

This "embarrassment" was not given by Qin Muchu, but from himself.

Once upon a time, once upon a time......

……

In the afternoon, the crew filmed, and everyone found that there was an extra person next to the director.

And almost everyone knows this person - Zhang Yimou.

Qin Muchu spent an hour taking him to visit the crew, and then at his request, he started filming normally.

Zhang Yimou didn't want his arrival to delay Qin Muchu's filming progress, after all, everyone knew that as soon as the machine was turned on, it would burn money.

In the afternoon, he watched by the monitor, and unless Qin Muchu took the initiative to ask him, he would remain silent and not say a word.

Halfway through, I had to pass a notebook and a pen, recording something.

It wasn't until the crew finished work at half past five in the afternoon that he offered to leave.

Qin Muchu naturally kept it, and he also thought about inviting Zhang Yimou to have a meal in the evening.

Not only out of politeness, Lao Mouzi helped him a lot this afternoon.

Qin Muchu raised many of the problems on the screen one by one, and Lao Mouzi helped solve them.

And it is not the solution of "teaching people to fish", but the solution of "teaching people to fish".

In the afternoon, Qin Muchu can be said to have benefited a lot.

He is really reluctant to let the old man go.

But Lao Mouzi's attitude was very resolute, his ass was in the car, and he pulled away Qin Muchu and took his hand:

"I still have something to do when I go back, I'm done with the finishing touches of the Olympics, and I'll come to you again, I also have some questions for you."

Hearing Zhang Yimou say this, Qin Muchu couldn't pull him anymore and wouldn't let him go.

At this time, the Olympics are definitely bigger than anything else.

had to reluctantly let go of the old planner:

"That's okay, I have to come."

The tone is genuine.

Like a son who sends his father away.

There's no way, he cooperates with Lao Mouzi too well.

He came up with ideas, said the effect he wanted to shoot, and then lit up the storyboard, Lao Mouzi thought for a while to give a specific operation method, and he could also beautify his storyboard.

These experiential things all need to be accumulated by a lot of shooting, and no matter how talented Qin Muchu is, he can only accumulate faster than normal people.

It is impossible to create something out of nothing.

If there was an assistant director like that......

Quickly stop this dangerous thought.

Inflated, inflated......

Before leaving, Zhang Yimou patted Qin Muchu's shoulder and showed a rare smile:

"Xiao Qin, your current level of directing is very high, and you are particularly good in terms of creation, lens sensitivity, and rhythm control.

Especially in imagination, I am far inferior to you.

But there is one thing, these abilities of yours are not systematic, just like generals with outstanding abilities but not cooperation.

Maybe it's because you haven't studied systematically, so it's a little messy, if you have time, calm down and sort out your abilities, including the experience of filming so many scenes......

It's best to go to the academy for further study, not to say how much you can learn, but to help yourself precipitate your knowledge, and your future achievements will definitely be much higher than mine. ”

(End of chapter)