This morning, before the sun had risen and the smell of meat wafted out from the breakfast shops on the street, there was a special sound in Istanbul, some like chanting.

It's Fajr time for Muslin.

Amanda was still sleeping in her bed, and she wasn't woken up by such a sound.

Li Shengyao woke up, he rolled over, and then got up and went downstairs for a run.

In the morning, the temperature was a little low, about three or four degrees, and when I got out of the hotel, I felt a cold wind blowing.

However, there are still benefits to exercising.

I sweated a little, and I felt that my body was much lighter, and the whole person was more energetic.

Li Shengyao likes this feeling, which makes him more confident in himself and the filming of "Hurricane Rescue 23".

The crew officially started work at 9 a.m.

The filming team, as well as the martial artists of the family class, all arrived on the set at half past eight.

Li Shengyao also came over at this time, and there were some locals, who were regarded as field workers and did some relatively simple work.

After all, it is impossible not to hire locals when filming in local chickens, otherwise people will say that you discriminate.

The English of the Tuji people is actually very ordinary, and it is not comparable to the European side.

Many domestic media promote that the native chicken people are good in English, French, and German, which is bragging.

Many local chicken people have been to Dekueh for many years, and the German language is still very bad, and the government has to set up language tutoring classes to help them integrate into the local society faster, which is news.

As an international tourist city, Istanbul has more English speakers, but the general level is terrible.

In order to communicate more effectively and fluently, Li Shengyao invited four translators here.

In terms of docking work, there is no need for so many translations, but when it comes to the start of construction, there are still a lot of local chicken group performances, and this group of people also needs translation.

Soon after, four translators came, all of whom were good at English.

The filming team brought by Li Shengyao, as well as the martial artists of the family class, are all good at English and can communicate with them directly.

Today's shooting is relatively cumbersome.

The plot is that the male protagonist takes his ex-wife to go shopping, and his daughter is on a video call with her boyfriend at the hotel.

At this time, Alba Niya's gang members chased after him, and they pursued the male protagonist and his ex-wife.

The male protagonist and they drove into a local small commodity market, where they launched a tracking and fighting scene.

This small commodity market is a very traditional kind of small market, some like the old vegetable market in China, there are storefronts on both sides of the street, and there are stalls at the entrance of the storefront, which seems to be more crowded.

There are also people who set up stalls directly on the roadside, plus there are also canopies.

Visually, it feels like the space is relatively small.

The reason why this scene is troublesome is naturally because of the large flow of people in the small commodity market, and the crew needs to create this effect, so they need a lot of group performances.

If you need to use a wide-angle lens, such as setting up a camera in a high place and then shooting it from above, and you can shoot the whole small commodity market in it, the scene will be very large.

It is estimated that thousands of people can be filmed.

This should be more impressive, but the cost is undoubtedly greater.

In Li Shengyao's previous life, the clip of "Hurricane Rescue 2" followed the actor's line of sight and followed him to shoot, and it was a medium-shot shot, so that if the camera is gathered around the actor, there will be much fewer people, and this will naturally be much less.

Lee Shengyao plans to learn this kind of shooting, and the main camera is on the male protagonist and follows the male protagonist.

But even so, they still found a group of 120 performers.

Fortunately, the salary here is relatively low, and there are many extras, but it doesn't cost too much money.

But this is all a trivial matter, and the real trouble is to let these more than 100 extras cooperate with the filming according to the needs of the plot.

Lee Shengyao discussed with the assistant director, the cinematographer, and the martial artists of the family class for almost an hour last night, and everyone made suggestions, clarified requirements, and arranged work.

The respective tasks were determined.

At this time, the translator came, and Li Shengyao immediately called the four translators over, and then seriously talked about the next shooting requirements, telling them the details of the next shooting, what the group performers need to do, and how they need to coordinate.

About twenty minutes later, the ensemble, along with the main actors, came.

Amanda didn't need to play this scene, she came over the same.

Cheng Long and Elizabeth. Hao Li's task is heavier.

However, these two people are both professional actors, and there is no problem with their acting skills and attitude, in fact, Li Shengyao is not very worried about these two people.

Makeup artist to Cheng Long and Elizabeth. Hurry put on makeup, the stylist styled the group performers, and Lee Shengyao took the storyboard script and began to move alone.

When the makeup of the group performance was almost done, he immediately called the translator, and then asked the translator to take the group performance and follow him around, different roles, and different things.

For example, a shopkeeper sits in front of a shop with a book and smiles when he sees someone coming.

For example, the owner of a fruit shop is cleaning fruits, and when he sees flies, he will go over and chase them away.

These need to be told to these group performances one by one.

The actors are generally quite obedient.

After all, "Hurricane Rescue 1" is very popular, and the big guys know that this is a blockbuster movie, and they all want to perform well.

However, obedience does not mean that they are strong, these actors belong to the weaker group of local actors' guilds, and many of them are newly registered extras.

Tuji's movies are actually very good in the world, they are a bit like Ah San movies, and local movies rank very high at the box office.

Moreover, local chicken movies are very popular in the Zhongdong area, and they own the world's third largest film studio, Bozdag Film Studio.

On the side of Zhongdong Xiya, it can be said that it is the status of Hollywood movies, and it has a bit of a self-sprouting taste.

In this case, Istanbul actually produces a lot of movies every year, and there are many related practitioners.

Most of the actors registered in the local actors' guild were selected early for other local chicken crews.

The group performances left for the crew of "Hurricane Rescue 23" are relatively inferior, and they belong to other crews.

But there is no way, Lee Shengyao has no time and no privilege to find an actor here again.

Only those actors who stayed were used.

At this time, the actors are more serious, and their attitude is very good, but Li Shengyao is not sure whether these people will mess up after they officially act later.

Just as he was leading the interpreters to move from place to place, a noise suddenly sounded in the distance.

“jackie，jackie，jackie。”

The crew has applied to the local government for the right to use this area, and now this film is all crew members, either group performers or field workers.

No one outside the crew is allowed to enter this film.

Istanbul is a tourist city, and the local government is still very happy to promote it, giving great preferential treatment, and arranging for the police to help maintain order outside the crew.

No, Cheng Long is too famous, not only local fans, but also some fans from other countries come to find Cheng Long.

Cheng Long had already put on his makeup at this time and was reading the script.

Hearing the shouting outside, he didn't get up to go.

This is the right choice, if Cheng Long goes out, there will be more fans yelling, which will affect the filming of the crew even more.

Lee paused slightly, noticing that several of the group performers had been affected by the shouting just now.

He slowed down, waiting for the shouting outside to stop, and then patted the arms of the few group performers around him, signaling that they were going to continue.

This explanation lasted about two hours.

All the group performances, whether they are actors who play small vendors, passers-by, or actors who play the Alba Niya gang, Lee Shengyao has gone through them and explained all the scenes they want to play.

He then called Cheng Long and Elizabeth. Herry, with these two relatively important characters.

These two people are professional actors with higher comprehension ability, and Li Shengyao is much faster to complete here.

Soon after, I explained all the things that the actors need to pay attention to before performing.

Lee Shengyao let the actors rehearse.

There are many people in this scene, and if it can be filmed in three days, Li Shengyao feels good, the actors rehearse, and he takes two assistant directors to stand aside to watch.

At the same time, the photographer is considering the best angle to shoot.

At the end of the first rehearsal, Li Shengyao and the two assistant directors explained the problems they had just discovered one by one.

Li Shengyao's attitude is very gentle, he does not hold a loudspeaker, it is one-on-one training.

After all, it's not the mainland, and it's best to keep a low profile when filming here.

It took a lot of time, and by the time Li Shengyao pointed them out one by one, it was already twelve o'clock.

The crew of "Hurricane Rescue 23" is now three hours in the morning and five hours in the afternoon, and it is time to get off work and eat.

It's twelve o'clock.

Most of the actors left without Li Shengyao's orders, and then took out the cushions that had been prepared long ago, or a piece of coarse cloth one meter long and wide, and spread it on the ground.

Immediately after that, the sound of chanting in the morning resounded throughout Istanbul.

This is the time for the second prayer, which is the ringing of the Muthrin.

Li Shengyao was a non-local, quietly watching the local actors and workers pray/admonish, and everyone stood up.

In the Mousslin area, it is best not to lie down when others pray/admonish, otherwise people will think that you are disrespecting them.

You can sit, stand, squat, just don't lie down.

Soon after, the prayer ended, and the crew had dinner.

Lee Shengyao Nature and Cheng Long, Elizabeth. Hurry, Amanda at a table.

There is pork for sale here, but in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, when the crew was eating, Li Shengyao arranged to eat beef and mutton.

He didn't have very high requirements for food, so he hurriedly finished his meal, and then took the thermos cup and walked slowly, thinking about the morning's movement and rehearsal.

There is only one hour to eat at noon, and after eating, I take a short break and continue shooting at one o'clock in the afternoon.

So the afternoon just began, and the actors continued to rehearse.

At 2:58 p.m., the sun was falling and the whole of Istanbul was suddenly much quieter.

And Li Shengyao and Cheng Long had already prepared, and the smile stepped aside.

Local actors and field workers quickly removed the cushions, or coarse cloths, and the sound of chanting resounded in Istanbul again.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, when it was time for Ashr, the local performers prayed again.

At 6 p.m. and 10 p.m., there were two more prayers/confessions, but fortunately, the crew of "Hurricane Rescue 23" had already left work by then.

Li Shengyao doesn't comment on whether this way is good or not, respect the customs.

After the ceremony, the actors continued to rehearse, and at about six o'clock, the rehearsal finally looked a little better, meeting the requirements of Lee Shengyao's filming.

The camera that has been resting for almost a day is officially turned on, and the effect is okay, and there are still a lot of things that need to be improved.

Li Shengyao found the actors to talk about the play, and then it was time to get off work, and at the same time, it was time for the locals to mourn.

This time, Li Shengyao and the others did not stand aside to watch, and the big guy packed up his things and prepared to go back to the hotel.

The crew did not have dinner, only provided lunch, and Li Shengyao went back to the hotel to eat as soon as he "his own people" did.

It was almost half past six in the afternoon, everything was cleaned up, and Li Shengyao boarded the bus with the filming crew.

"Close the window, it's cold."

A photographer's assistant craned her neck and complained to a colleague sitting by the window.

"Ah-cut, ah-cut, ah-cut."

The photographer's assistant then sneezed several times.

Although it is said to be a Mediterranean climate, the altitude here is relatively high, and the temperature difference between day and night is very large, now three or four degrees at night, twelve or thirteen degrees during the day.

At night, be sure to wear thick clothes outside the hotel to keep warm.

Li Shengyao frowned slightly.

He realized that this time the shoot was not so easy.

He wants to complete the filming of "Hurricane Rescue 23" as soon as possible, wants to make other movies, and doesn't want to be bound to Cheng Long.

But it was not easy to finish shooting the two films on the set before September.

Especially when he and Cheng Long are busy next.

At the end of March, both of them will return to China, both of them are representatives of Renda in the entertainment industry, and there will be a conference at the end of March.

And when the Olympics begin, he must return to China, how can he show his face at that time, Cheng Long's words may have to stay for a while.

This way, they spend less time shooting.

What's more, the situation here is more special, and the shooting is not as casual as in China, so the shooting efficiency must be improved, otherwise it will be difficult to complete it before September.

He then closed his eyes and thought about the next shoot, and he planned to gather everyone after dinner, and everyone said that they would give suggestions and try to improve the efficiency of the shooting.

"Lee, what are your plans for the night?"

Amanda had been waiting for Lee Sheng Yew, and she was sitting next to Lee Sheng Yew at this time.

She was probably wearing a down jacket and her body was hot.

The straight right leg is attached to Li Shengyao, which is elastic and very warm.

Li Shengyao was a little moved for a while, but thinking of the plan he had just made, "Do you have any arrangements?" ”

"I want to go to the movies."

Li Shengyao shook his head and said in a low voice: "You can find Elizabeth to accompany you, I have to study tomorrow's shooting plan in the evening, and it will probably be done later." ”

Amanda doesn't really want to watch a movie, she just wants Lee Shengyao to accompany her to do something happy.

"Oh, that'll do."

She brushed her bangs on her forehead with her fingers, and continued, "Then I'll wait for you later." ”

(End of chapter)