Chapter 124: Rushing to shoot martial arts

As more and more dry goods were excavated from Mr. Jin, Cao Ping felt that his performance level was improving rapidly, and it was no longer Wuxia Ameng, and the few classes he took with Mr. Jin were almost comparable to the harvest of a month's professional classes, which made Cao Ping's enthusiasm for learning high. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

However, with the step-by-step filming of the literary drama, soon, Mr. Jin's role ended.

On the day that Mr. Jin finished, everyone unanimously agreed that if they didn't go out to eat, they would let Cao Ping fry a few dishes and everyone would sit in the crew. That night, the road guide finally got his wish and tasted Cao Ping's craftsmanship happily, and Mr. Jin was also very happy and made an exception to drink some red wine. The next day he left quietly, but Cao Ping received a script signed by him, which was the drama "Forever Smiling" he wrote in 02, which read: I look forward to seeing you on the stage of the drama - Jinbao, which is the affectionate name of acquaintances for him. Cao Ping sighed, sure enough, he still didn't mean to accept himself! Solemnly put away the script, Cao Ping was about to prepare for the next major play.

After continuous training every day, the leading actors have become more and more proficient in martial arts movements, and finally, the action scenes are about to start filming. The scenes are all ready-made, the studios are all set up, all the martial arts dramas have begun to be filmed intensively, and the crew has begun to perform many more group performances.

The director of the first martial arts drama wanted to shoot Zhang Zhen, Liu Shishi, and Nie Yuan in Nuanxiang Pavilion, because Liu Shishi's schedule time was insufficient, so he needed to hurry up the time to shoot, fortunately, Nie Yuan and Zhang Zhen's action practice was relatively hard, and there was very little NG during the filming process, so the filming was completed within the specified time.

After this scene ended, Liu Shishi left the crew, and it was the busiest time for the crew, and they didn't care about saying goodbye to her, so everyone just said hello and turned back to continue filming.

With the start of filming of action scenes, everyone's rest time has been greatly compressed, Cao Ping is fine, but director Lu Yang's situation is more worrying.

Lu Yang can be said to be the busiest person in the entire crew, big and small things need to be handled by him, coupled with the tight investment cost, the shooting cycle needs to be compressed as much as possible, and the early stage of literary drama shooting has dragged on for time, but for the sake of the finished film, he still set aside enough time for the actors to rehearse martial arts actions. This led to a further reduction in the time left for him to shoot, which made him very anxious, often staying up all night, and his eyes were bloodshot behind the monitor.

There is a sprinkler on the top of the studio that specializes in creating a rain effect, and it has been on for hours. The heavy clothes soaked in water made it even heavier, not to mention that there was a mezzanine inside the flying fish suit worn by Cao Ping and the three of them, and the goose wing knife Wang Qianyuan was holding was more than four catties, and it was unbearable to wield it for several hours in a row.

"Click!" the road guide took off his headphones irritably and shouted, "The group performers over there!

In the group performance, a bold old fritter shouted: "Director, it's been raining for hours, I'm cold and hungry, I can't hold the knife, and we're not iron men!"

"Do you want to do it?" The group is coming!" Director Lu walked over angrily, Cao Ping stretched out his hand to stop him, and persuaded: "Forget the director, don't get angry, it's really a little late, why don't you rest first and shoot again?"

The road director also knew that it was late at night, and it was normal for the group performers to be emotional, but the director's authority could not be challenged, and after a symbolic reprimand, he announced a fifteen-minute break, and the supper that had been prepared for a long time was also brought over.

Filming late at night, you have to add an extra meal, although a bucket of instant noodles can also be used, but these days are filming hard scenes, and the food still can't be saved, so he ordered an extra box lunch.

Since he started filming action scenes, Cao Ping's small stove has also stopped fire, and he really doesn't have time, although the boxed lunch is unpalatable, he can't take care of it so much when he is hungry.

The road guide took a boxed lunch, ate two bites, and sat back in front of the monitor to watch the picture just taken. Cao Ping walked over with a boxed lunch and said to the road director: "Director, don't be too anxious to get angry, after all, the group performance is not as experienced as the regular martial arts, and it still needs to be run-in." ā€

Lu Yang has been so anxious these days that his mouth is blistering, he can't eat, and he said worriedly: "Don't be in a hurry, we won't be able to shoot in Inner Mongolia later, and people will have to eat tens of thousands of horses on this day, and the funds will not be able to keep up." ā€

Cao Ping was silent, he couldn't help much with the financial problem, after thinking about it, he still comforted: "The action scene here will be almost done in another week, and when you go to the Chifeng grassland, you don't need to bring so many people, and the group performance will recruit some locally, and the actors are only Wang Qianyuan, Zhang Zhen, Nie Yuan, Zhou Yiwei and me, and there is only one fight scene, two days is enough." ā€

Lu Yang lowered his head and thought about it, and when he raised his head again, his eyes were full of determination, and he said resolutely: "It's still not enough, there will be four more days to shoot here, counting the one-day journey, Inner Mongolia will give two days, and it must be completed within a week! Cao Ping, the drama here mainly depends on you, you have to find a way to help me get it, otherwise it will be worse." ā€

Cao Ping frowned and thought about it, and said: "It's not impossible to speed up the progress, but I guess it will steal the show." ā€

"Let's grab it! Try it first, if it doesn't work, I'll let you be on the stand-in!"

Cao Ping nodded, hurriedly finished eating, discussed the choice of the camera with the road director, and then called Zhang Zhen, Zhu Dan and Wang Qianyuan together and said something.

When filming again, Zhu Dan's fight scene canceled a large part of it, just took two frontal close-ups, and after grabbing the sharp shot of the straight stab, she changed to stand aside and command.

Wang Qianyuan's original long shots were changed to several segmented shots, and then edited and spliced in the later stage, Zhang Zhen added a few elbow strikes of Bajiquan, and the effect was good after the close-up was shot, so it was retained, as for the shots of him flying and rolling and Jiu-Jitsu falling people, Cao Ping made him a stand-in.

After the close-up was done first, everyone filmed a large-scale fight according to the rehearsed group scene, which is also the easiest long-range shot, and all the group performances were arranged on the outside, and the martial artists gathered around the three leading actors to fight each other.

After a sound started, Wang Qianyuan and Zhang Zhen slashed in the way they had discussed, completely ignoring whether they would hurt the martial artists. And Cao Ping is the internal qi into the back of the head, the perception instantly improved, all the movements around the body were included in his brain, the internal air flowed, his body was like a ghost, interspersed in the crowd, the positive and negative double-wielding short knives were danced by him as a ball of knife light, the body rotated like a spinning top, and the martial artists around him fell down one after another, and Wang Qianyuan and Zhang Zhen's wielding knives were about to hurt the martial arts, they would always be swept away by Cao Ping with a thunderous swing, turning the danger into a disaster.

The long-range lens does not have the problem of not being able to keep up with the action and causing false focus, therefore, in the picture, Cao Ping's swiftness is more prominent, just like adding a fast-forward person to a slow-motion shot, giving people the feeling that Jin Yichuan's strength has skyrocketed and he is full of lethality.

The director added a close-up shot of Cao Ping coughing and vomiting blood, indicating that this was Jin Yichuan's self-mutilating body, which could be regarded as making up for this bug.

After the group scene was filmed, today's scene was barely over, and Zhang Zhen's shot in the house was going to be filmed tomorrow, and the actors were exhausted, and they couldn't shoot a few good shots.

Under Cao Ping's deliberate control, the speed of martial arts filming accelerated sharply, the next morning filmed Shen Lian's fight in the inn, in the afternoon to shoot Shen Lian's fight scene between Nuanxiang Pavilion and the sword and shield hand, on the third day, the three brothers of Jinyiwei Yan Fu took people martial arts, and on the fourth day, Jin Yichuan and Ding Xiu just finished filming the decisive battle between Jin Yichuan and Ding Xiu in the medical hall. But it also paid the price of three martial arts injuries and Wang Qianyuan's ligament strain.

On the fifth day, three buses pulled the crew and equipment to Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, and the follow-up scenes were filmed on the Ulan Butong grassland.

Ulan Butong Grassland is located in the southwest of Keshiketeng Banner in Chifeng City, which was once the royal Mulan enclosure area of the Qing Dynasty, and is now a characteristic scenic spot, "Huanzhu Gege", "Kangxi Dynasty", "Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty" have been filmed here.

Before setting off from the Huairou base, Xiao Fang rushed back from Cao Ping's hometown, and this time he went back, and made up all the documents that he often used. Perhaps because he learned about the situation at Cao Ping's home, Xiao Fang deliberately avoided the topic of going back this time, and Cao Ping didn't ask much, so he took him on the bus and rushed to Inner Mongolia.

The Ulan Butong grassland is 450 kilometers from Beijing, and it takes five or six hours to drive, and the rare leisure time makes the road guide start snoring as soon as he gets in the car. During this time, he was exhausted, and everyone did not bother him, and made up two tables to fight the landlord.

Cao Ping played cards and learned a few hands of thousands of skills with Uncle Liu, but friends will not use these means to play cards, and after a few rounds of serious play, Cao Ping was pasted with several notes. After playing for more than an hour, everyone was a little tired, so they returned to their seats to catch up on sleep, while Cao Ping took his mobile phone and swiped Weibo.

Nie Yuan couldn't sleep and ran to chat with Cao Ping, this time he went to Inner Mongolia mainly to shoot the decisive battle between him and Zhang Zhen, but he still didn't have much confidence in the action.

Nie Yuan himself is a very famous actor, and since joining the group, he is also the most diligent actor in the crew, Wang Qianyuan and Zhang Zhen occasionally steal laziness when they practice knives, but Nie Yuan is thunderous, and practices gunnery every day according to the plan formulated by Cao Ping. In the early stage, when Cao Ping didn't have a clue about marksmanship, he stabbed a thousand times a day according to what Cao Ping said, and honestly practiced piercing the gun. Although he still used sub-shots when he was shooting because of the lack of post-design action practice, he strives for perfection in every shot, and he is a very sincere actor, and he is also quite good.