After the spring breeze, Linghu Chong was overjoyed and faced great sorrow.
Bury the body on a rainy night and then conspire with Ren Woxing
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After reading the character biography assignment handed over by Yi Yi in advance, Yan Qing decided to use such a night battle with a relatively low difficulty setting to kick off the crew's opening banquet.
Of course, this is only the first night scene. In fact, the crew of "Laughing East" had already started filming the first scene in Tianjin as early as Tuesday during the day.
Generally speaking, it is not uncommon for production units to implement group shooting in order to catch up with the schedule. The crew of "Laughing East" naturally took this measure because of the short shooting period and the large number of shots. The director's desire for control does not count.
Yan Qing, who was too strong, entrusted some unimportant empty shots and outdoor group scenes to two senior assistant directors appointed by Whisper Pictures and Shanghai Film Studio to shoot independently with a stroke of his pen.
In the opening scene of the Sun Moon God Cult, the Ming Dynasty, and the Fuso Ronin robbing Western arms, because it involves some rough seas, empty shots of ancient forts and Dutch gunboats being shot and sunk, Yan Qing, who is not short of money buffs, does not have it.
Planning to film the film as crudely as the original film using only miniature models, he arranged for Zhao Zhongyi, an experienced assistant director from Whisper Pictures, to take the B-Team to an antique naval battle location in Tianjin for real-life shooting.
Filming of the night battle directed by Yan Qing actually started at the same time as part of the bonfire night scene at the Ronin Camp. This part of the crew was assigned to Group C and directed by Zhou Siwen, the deputy director of Shanghai Film Studio who is proficient in Fusang language. HMG even supported it.
Several translators came to assist him in scheduling the group performances.
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Desert terrain·xerophytic reed set
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Most of the studios are arranged in a state of tightness on the inside and tight on the outside, and the same is true for the night battle of "Laughing East".
The central part of the painting is particularly empty for the convenience of camera shooting: there are a few withering reed poles, low shrubs scattered on the ocher soil, black bloodstains and broken sword blades scattered all over the ground.
The outside is full of hustle and bustle, except for the nanny car that serves as the actor's mobile dressing room, the articulating arm truck carrying the Wia crane, the winch motor, the recording extension rod, the mechanical control platform, the track and crane camera, the magic leg, and the scaffolding.
In addition to all the professional facilities on the set, it is also equipped with professional rain-making trucks, high-power blowers, high-frequency flash tungsten light arrays and other night scene all-climate set support facilities.
Wearing a black long gown with a white lining, a navy blue Confucian robe, and a white turban on her head, Yi Yi got out of the car after putting on makeup.
To be fair, Yi Yi's image of a Huashan disciple in men's clothing is quite good. He has a certain demeanor of a young Confucian scholar with red lips and white teeth, and the elegance of the people around him can prove it. Even Zhou Peipei, Professor Weng's brainless fan, is
Just call the experts.
"The actors are preparing for the scene, and each camera will rehearse the moves..."
It's a pity that Yan Qing was a bit confused and didn't give Yi Yi, who was the co-ordinator of Chong Miao, Zhang Actor, Producer Zhou and others, more opportunities to interact. After entering the director's role, he was obviously a little serious, and he directly greeted the executive director Mo Ran.
Start giving orders, dispatching shots, and continue rehearsing the moves.
“Classic handsomeness lasts only three seconds!”
With a slight grunt, Yi Yi was still very dedicated. With the help of the stylist and makeup assistant, she cooperated to make her neatly pressed clothes dirty and loose, then walked to the drawing position and sat down to take out Yue Lingshan's state.
Start preparing the scene.
After the other actor who acted as a prop was in place, Yan Qing stared at the monitor and continued to adjust the camera for pre-production before filming started:
"Tan Sen, please control the shaking amplitude of the third lens of your handheld camera more smoothly!"
"Mo Ran, the reverse shot of the fourth shot from the orbital camera must be in a correct rhythm. I'm watching it a little slower by half a beat."
"Director Ke, the movement axis of your second lens is still a little too fast. It must keep the movement direction consistent with Yi Yi's line of sight!"
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These sets of shots are all about Yi Yi sitting on the floor in a one-man show. There is no problem with the actor's position. Yan Qing only needs to arrange the camera position and shoot in strict accordance with the shot script and then make some fine adjustments according to the real-time picture on the monitor.
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After a not too short period of running-in and adjustment, the coordinator Miao Miao gave feedback that everything was ready. Yan Qing raised the director's microphone again and signaled the executive director to give orders silently.
The lighting on the set was turned off, and the high-frequency flash tungsten light array was turned on. After the lighting engineer team checked and debugged the equipment again, the lighting director Liao Jingyan raised the walkie-talkie and reported back: "gaffer stand by!"
Executive director Mo Ran used the intercom to inform the sound engineer team holding the radio extension pole high: "roll sound!"
Pressing the recording controller of the device, Chu Xiong from the recording guidance area announced in a deep voice: "sound speeding!"
Mo Ran signaled to Lou Junwei: "Call slate!"
Because the subjects were the same, Lou Junwei finished the newspaper in one go: "a/b/c machine "The Swordsman: The Unbeaten East" Volume 3, Scene 6, Article 1!"
"camera a/b/c rolling!"
After the executive director Mo Ran gave the feedback, he controlled the orbital camera, Tan Sen's portable camera, and the director of photography Ke Diwen personally shot the fixed camera shot and started recording at the same time.
"Marker!~Kacha!"
The clapperboard in Lou Junwei's hand struck loudly.
With his eyes fixed on the camera monitor, Yan Qing, dressed in a white shorts outfit, turned on the director's microphone and spoke quickly and calmly: "action!"
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The off-screen team of lighting engineers used high-frequency flash tungsten light arrays to simulate the bright and dark light and shadow effects of lightning.
The blower is working, Tansen's portable camera from the front, a close-up shot with slight shaking:
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"Sing... let's sing together..."
Yi Yi, who was covered in filth, with muddy fingers and disheveled hair, was holding a relatively intact corpse of a Huashan disciple in her arms. Her shoulders were twitching violently, as if she was too grief-stricken to control herself.
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The blower continues to work off-screen, with Mo Ran's handheld camera in orbit, a close-up shot from above:
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Yi Yi's miserable face was full of tears. Her dry eyes looked particularly dull and lifeless in the camera. Her chapped and dehydrated lips moved with difficulty: "A big laugh!"
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Ke Di asked the front of the handheld camera in a fixed position, taking a frontal shot, with the lens between a close-up and a close-up:
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Yi Yi in the viewfinder seemed to have heard something. She looked up at the camera warily, her eyes suddenly changing from a world-shattering despair to endless grievance and grief.
She struggled to get up and speak, as if there were thousands of words coming to her, and among the last few gentle twitching sounds, Yi Yi choked and shed tears before she spoke.
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"cut!"
After a pause on the set, everyone's attention was directed towards the director's seat, which was the only one seated. However, Yan Qing maintained his usual standing posture. He looked at Yi Yi with clear and translucent eyes: "Yi Yi did a good job, but I still have
I want to try another one.”
Mo Ran raised the walkie-talkie to greet various departments to prepare for reset.
"Oh, Yi Yi, your acting is terrible..."
Yi Yi, who is extremely experienced on the set, sighed helplessly. She shook her head and translated Yan Qing's subtext: "Give me a good reshoot!"
"Actually, Yi Yi's performance is already much more layered than that of Miss Hong Kong in the original film..."
As the whole crew was amused by Yi Yi's cute comments, Yan Qing was secretly thinking: "But I want to create a more contagious effect."
After some reset, Lou Junwei made some changes to the slate and the slate in his mouth changed to: "The Swordsman: The Unbeaten East, Volume 3, Game 6, Article 2!"
When re-shooting the second scene, Yan Qing had to praise Yi Yi's understanding and ability to adjust. She soon realized that her state was a bit too extroverted, and consciously tightened it a little to make her performance more restrained.
"cut!"
However, Yan Qing stopped again. After all, he is not a director like the King of Sunglasses who likes to let the actors figure it out on their own. He will only describe the scene he wants in a cloudy and foggy manner and then keep shouting "click", letting the actors polish it over and over again.
"Sorry, Guo Zitao, please take a rest first."
Smiling apologetically at the dedicated actor playing the corpse of a Huashan disciple on the set, Yan Qing waved to Yi Yi and said, "Yi Yi, let's talk..."
"Brother Qing, tell me, I can withstand it..." Yi Yi stood up dejectedly, biting his lip and slowly leaning towards Yan Qing with his hands.
"Don't be afraid...am I that cruel?" Yi Yi's coy attitude made Yan Qing dumbfounded.
"Before we filmed "Brave", you were more cruel than the director!" Yi Yi gritted his teeth and buried his grievance against Yan Qing.
"I have changed it long ago..."
With an awkward smile, Yan Qing handed the monitor in his hand to Yi Yi: "Many people on the crew know, come on, let's take a look at this first. It's not easy for us to get off to a good start."
The images on the monitor have been rough cut by on-site editors under the guidance of Yan Qing, and the shots shot in three time periods of the handheld camera, the orbital camera, and the fixed camera are spliced together.
"That's great...I envy Sister Jing. How could I have this authority in other crews? Haha, the treatment given by the drama boss is awesome."
Changing his face very quickly, Yi Yi quickly took the monitor and looked at it carefully with a smile on his face.
"When we talked about the drama before, you did a good job with Yue Lingshan in the character notes."
Yan Qing waited for Yi Yi to watch the playback carefully several times before reciting the character notes she had written in a low voice: "Holding the corpses of her senior brothers, Yue Lingshan felt like the world was spinning. She was helpless, desperate, and helpless.
I can believe that after meeting Linghu Chong, my whole body felt like I was grasping at straws. I felt grievances and complaints, but more importantly, I found the hope of revenge..."
"Only after watching the replay did I understand my problem. My emotions were too superficial, my despair and grief were too open, and my complaints and hopes were too contained..."
It made sense and her attitude was very good. Yi Yi pursed her lips and lowered her head. She admitted with shame: "I thought I expressed some emotions, but in fact I didn't."
"Let's look at it again and look for new questions..."
Yan Qing smiled, and he controlled the monitor to replay the rough cut of only fifteen seconds.
"Brother Qing, I didn't see it..." After reading it carefully, Yi Yi looked at Yan Qing in confusion.
Yan Qing patiently explained her doubts: "Before you saw Linghu Chong, you heard the sound of horse hooves that did not exist, showing a sense of vigilance and awareness... It was a little bit unexpected!"
"Ah! Is there a problem with this?" The girl approached the devil director and continued to give him a confused look.
"I praised the merits of your biography and also found some fault with you..."
Leaning back a little, widening the distance again, Yan Qing said as tactfully as possible: "She carried Lan Fenghuang on her back and went through an exhausting escape in the first half of the night. Finally, she was sealed in a reed field before falling asleep and waking up.
Then we suddenly found out that all our senior brothers died unexpectedly, what kind of state should Yue Lingshan be in now?"
"She is exhausted, so her vigilance and awareness of precautions will involuntarily decline..." Yi Yi suddenly realized, she quickly took out the biography in her arms and looked at it carefully, as if she wanted to take out a pen and revise it immediately.
"Performance can substitute for the role but don't stick to the framework of the experience school..."
Yi Yi wrung her hands and said with a sad face to Yan Qing: "Brother Qing, you have pointed out this problem to me a long time ago. I have also learned some tricks from the method school but I still feel that I can't understand them all."
"Take your time, Yi Yi, you can try this later to show your vigilance in fatigue..."
While talking about the play, Yan Qing demonstrated to Yi Yi how to match several micro-expressions and eyes: "There are many ways to enrich the layering of a performance. Using more eyes to match various subtle expressions is an economical way..."
After Yan Qing and Yi Yi finished communicating, the effect of the third line that was restarted was obviously greatly improved.
In the close-up shot, Yi Yi's twitching rhythm becomes irregular and emotional, and her sad expression in the close-up shot also adds a bit of fatigue.
When Yi Yi tried to perform and heard the sound of horse hooves, there was an obvious delay and separation between the change of her eyes and the reaction of raising her head. After confirming the arrival of Linghu Chong, the expression of finding sustenance and hope became delicate and real.
many.
"Children can be taught!"
Unable to help but smile happily, Yan Qing announced in a low-key voice that the crew had achieved a good start: "Very good, passed!"
Excitedly, Yi Yi rushed forward to watch the replay. While nodding with satisfaction, Yi Yi urged in a sweet voice: "Brother Qing, come on... I can finally watch you filming. I've been waiting for a long time."
"No rush..."
Looking at the clouds in the night sky and fanning the shooting plan in his hand, Yan Qing greeted Mo Ran with a smile and said: "The clouds are almost thick now, let's finish the next empty shot first!"
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Crane camera, panoramic aerial shot from above:
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Gray night sky with dense clouds.
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Crane camera, the lens is reversed, and the shot is shot from above to the ground:
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A clearing was created in the dry reeds by the prop master. The lightning and thunder illuminated the ground as bright as day, and also reflected the scattered broken bodies and limbs. The props were made so lifelike that one could tell that the corpses were all the same.
The Huashan disciples were dressed up, and even the soil was carefully dyed purple-black by the theater staff.
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After taking the empty shot, Yan Qing stood in front of the three-camera camera. In the dark night, which kept creating lightning effects, he got on his horse. The elegant temperament on his body suddenly disappeared. He walked in a hurry, with a hint of guilt mixed in his expression.
It's like a swordsman who suppressed the strong uneasiness in his heart appeared out of nowhere.
The five extremely short shots were all shot at once.
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Lens 1, crane camera, panoramic overhead shot:
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A disheveled swordsman wearing a white t-shirt, holding a long sword upside down, quickly climbed over the mountains and forests on horseback.
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Shot 2, orbital camera, medium shot:
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The swordsman, who was looking around, pedaled hard, picked up the reins with his left hand, and urged the horse to speed up. He kept looking for something in the reeds.
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Shot three, crane camera, close-up to close-up:
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Yan Qing's figure on horseback was rising and falling with a hint of guilt in his brows, his eyes were sharp but uneasy, and he looked around with a hint of anxiety.
Suddenly his eyes froze, the shame in his expression surged out, the feeling of disbelief flashed past, his face turned livid, and there was a glimmer of light in his eyes.
The camera finally zoomed in extremely close, and Yan Qing's deep eyes occupied the central axis of the entire viewfinder frame, with intense anger and hatred instantly surging out of his pupils.
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Lens 4, handheld camera, slightly shaking, panoramic shot from above:
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The swordsman, who reined in his horse, turned over with the help of Wia and hurriedly fell off his horse. Before he could stand still, he was already running towards the camera quickly.
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Shot 5, orbital camera, close-up shot from above:
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Amidst the lightning and thunder, and the howling wind, Yan Qing hurriedly stood still, his eyes wide open with anger and bloodshot eyes, and he roared: "Junior Brother!"
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The camera slowly pulls back to a close-up shot, then a mid-range shot from above:
At the same time, several rainmaking equipment started running at the same time
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A heavy downpour fell from the sky, drenching Yan Qing in the viewfinder.