Chapter 019 The Crew
The sky is blue, but the earth is yellow. The occasional green growth makes people realize that spring is coming.
"Tukuikui~"
A strong but special noise came, a shabby tractor was galloping on the dirt road, and thick smoke from the front of the car floated back with the wind.
"Ah~ Bah!" Wang Baoqiang, who was sitting in the tractor truck, touched his face and looked at Dong Xi opposite him unwillingly.
"Brother, let's change the position!"
Dong Xi looked at the scene around with a smile, and spit out two words: "Dream!"
Wang Baoqiang turned his head again to Duan Yihong sitting at the end with his hands and knees, showing a flattering smile: "Brother Duan, just change the position!"
Duan Yihong, who cut her hair short, also smiled and said, "Mo Mada!"
It was Wang Baoqiang's turn to be stunned. He understood that Duan Yihong was speaking the dialect of Shaanxi and Qin regions, which was also the language that would be used in the movie.
"Uh? Krima?"
As soon as Wang Baoqiang finished speaking, Dong Xi's slap fell on his head: "You melon seed, let me learn dialect well. Have you thrown it behind me?"
Wang Baoqiang grabbed his head hard, not because it hurts but because it feels embarrassed.
The Shaanxi-Qin dialect consists of three parts: Guanzhong dialect, northern Shaanxi dialect and southern Shaanxi dialect. The story of "The Boy of the Wind" mainly uses northern Shaanxi dialect, which also belongs to Northwest Mandarin.
Wang Baoqiang's main problem is that he is not good at speaking Mandarin, with a Zhongyuan accent.
"Ha-ho!" Wang Baoqiang didn't know anything. He turned his eyes and pointed at Dong Xi and shouted.
This time it was Dong Xi's turn to be stunned. He didn't understand the meaning very much, but when he saw Duan Yihong next to him smile, he knew that this was not a good thing.
"Hammer, let you not learn well!" Dong Xi is not the kind of person who has to tell evidence for everything. He follows his heart more.
The palm-sized slap of a palm fan was flying in the air, accompanied by Wang Baoqiang's screams and Duan Yihong's laughter, floating far away from the vast wilderness.
"This section of the road is not easy to walk!" Dong Xi held a cigarette in his hand and handed it to Duan Yihong one.
"It's okay! Isn't this what the countryside should look like?" Duan Yihong lit a cigarette and took a sip.
Neither of them are children of wealthy families. Although they have been in the city for some years, they are still friendly to this environment.
The shooting location has been selected long ago. Sun Haiping led the crew members here in advance, and the producers and photographers of Hong Kong Island were also in their seats a few days ago.
Only Dong Xi and the other two were still procrastinating in the capital. After completing Duan Yihong's contract, the few people rushed to Shaanxi and Qin, first took a green car for more than ten hours, then changed to a hard-seat bus, and finally turned into a tractor.
It is false to say that it is not hard along the way, but neither Duan Yihong nor Wang Baoqiang said anything, and Dong Xi was even less qualified to say anything.
This is his play!
From now on, this crew of more than a dozen people has been in the hands of Dong Xi, and both Sun Haiping and the head of Hong Kong Island have to act under his command.
Dong Xi, sitting on the tractor, seemed to be a little stable, but in fact she was still a little nervous.
Although I have practiced shooting skills and processes many times in the cinema in my mind, it is not a big deal that Dong Xi is nervous after all.
New actors can fail many times, but for new directors, one failure is basically over!
Investors' confidence is entirely based on the director's personal prestige. No matter how bad the script is written, as long as the director's fame is sufficient, there will be no shortage of investment.
For example, if Zhang Yimou adds bad scripts and Dong Xi adds good scripts, who will investors choose?
The result is self-evident!
After all, investors do not mean that they can judge the quality of the script, but the director's reputation is on the table.
Dong Xi now has no advantage. Not only do investors lack confidence in him, but even the rest of the crew are the same.
Why can you be a director even if you are a wild person?
So what Dong Xi needs to do now is not to join the crew to film quickly, but to establish prestige!
From Liang Guanhua to Duan Yihong, all of them were actors he personally won over, which fundamentally solved the problem of actors' obedience.
The rest are the crew members, but Sun Haiping has already found a way to reduce the burden on him in this regard. In terms of the choice of the deputy director, Sun Haiping's cunning and experienced skills are revealed.
There are only one or two deputy directors in ordinary movies, but the crew of "The Boy of the Wind" has four deputy directors!
Among them is an older woman, an experienced associate director, who has abilities but is not outstanding, and she wins in stability.
He is an existence with a relatively transcendent status and is an assistant director who can sign at the beginning of the film.
The remaining three were all picked up by Sun Haiping from campus and were about to graduate.
Maybe they lack experience and ability, but they have a sense of impetus, and the three of them compete with each other.
You should know that there is only one deputy director who can sign at the beginning of the film, and the other two can only appear on the list of staff at the end of the film.
To put it nicely, it is the director's assistant, but in fact it is just a chore on the set!
This is a tacit understanding among industry insiders. For students who are about to graduate, the difference in their resumes is very different!
The crew's station is a village called Shicheng, with only a few dozen households and a relatively traditional cave.
"Tututututututututututututututututututututututututututututututu" The sound of the tractor entering the village sounded, and a large group of people walked out of it.
Dong Xi tidied up his clothes and descended to this mountain village in the manner of a leader inspecting his soldiers.
Compared with the tall and strong Dong Xi, the other staff of the crew of "The Boy of the Wind" seem much more crooked.
The photographer is from Hong Kong Island, named Ah Wei, and is a fat man. Hong Kong Island producer Han Bin looks much more gentle, tall and thin, wearing black-framed glasses, always smiling.
In contrast, Sun Haiping has a cheap ponytail, a goatee, and a wretched face!
In fact, there is another producer, that is, the representative sent by Boss Liu. After all, they have taken the money with real money, so it is impossible for Dong Xi and the others to do whatever they want.
This man named Ma Shang is said to be Boss Liu's brother-in-law. His prominent features are red hair dyed and half of the front teeth are missing.
That was the last time I took the lead in asking Sun Haiping for the debt, and was beaten by Dong Xi when he spoke rudely to someone!
So this guy is quite afraid of Dong Xi. Sun Haiping cannot let him be a producer. Now he is a prop administrator if he is suffocated.
He dragged a heavy box every day to follow the crew. Sun Haiping told him that the inside was filled with important props for this drama, and in fact they were dumbbells used by Dong Xi for exercise.
That’s right, Dong Xi’s body didn’t grow for no reason!
As for the only female assistant director, she is really an ordinary woman with an ordinary appearance. Apart from her better figure, she has no characteristics.
The three students' assistant directors became even more shabby. They had already changed into clothes they borrowed from their fellow villagers' homes. The clothes that were obviously bigger were funny but real when worn!
Others include makeup artists, dressmakers, lighting and other behind-the-scenes staff, all of which were exchanged from the corners of the corner. There is nothing to say, it’s just a word.
Cheap!
Even the entire crew was filled with cheap feeling, and it seemed like the kind of movie that was so confused that it was thrown into the warehouse to eat dust after filming.
At least that's what female assistant director Zhang Fang thinks!
She has never participated in any decent production in her life. Most of them are low-cost movies and TV series with no meaning.
Over time, she became so comfortable that she could not take the blame even if she was just an assistant director!
Dong Xi thought he was facing a palace drama, but in fact it was a pool of stagnant water, and he urgently needed his loach to make trouble!
Of course, it is a bit unsatisfactory to say it is a loach, at least it is an electric eel.
Still the kind that is full of electricity!
Chapter completed!