It was not until the second phase that brick private rooms appeared. The surface was brick and the inside was still adobe. The courtyard walls were upgraded from fences to rammed earth walls and began to have steel-framed doors and windows.
At this time, the plot has developed to the point where the villagers have begun to grow mushrooms, their income has increased, and their living conditions have also improved.
Brick houses, brick walls, and small iron gates only appeared in the third phase. According to the original plan, the three phases of the village were to be built at the same time, but Kong Sheng hoped that the scenes in Jintan Village could evolve and grow with the development of the plot and the shooting sequence.
From the underground house to the adobe house, to the brick private house, and then to the brick house, whether it is the interior decoration or the overall environment of the entire village, it must reflect the process of change one by one?
And which family gets rich first and which family starts to change first?
Good guy, the art design alone has been revised for twenty-seven drafts!
The art team was so busy that they finished filming the first phase of Villager A's family in the morning and rushed to shoot Villager B's family in the afternoon. As long as the camera couldn't reach Villager A's family, they would start to grow the Villager A's family.
But if you need to reshoot or add the previous shot, you have to dismantle the growing part and change it back.
They even specially asked local elderly people to come over to see the details and find faults in all kinds of ways?
Su Ze was shocked!
"It stinks!" Reyza joined the team the next day and came to the mushroom greenhouse for the first time. This is the key to the village's fortune. The moment the tarpaulin was lifted...
I almost vomited!
Su Ze and Zu Feng looked at each other and laughed at the same time. The fertilizer was prepared by the locals in advance. The smell was beyond description in words. The first time Su Ze entered, he felt like he had been punched in the face.
The manure needs to be fermented in a bacteria shed at more than 40 degrees Celsius, and then bacteria can be spread on it. After that, there are a series of processes such as moisturizing, heat preservation, and ventilation.
The taste is amazing!
"Are you okay?" Kong Sheng saw Reyiza retching, who had just given birth to a baby and was still breastfeeding, and couldn't help but said: "You can't wear a mask when the time comes!"
"Me?" Reyza really didn't expect this. He gritted his teeth and took a deep breath and said firmly: "It's okay, director, I can overcome it!"
Su Ze nodded secretly. He still didn't know how his acting skills were, but his dedication was still passable. After all, she was a woman, and she was naturally more sensitive to taste than men, not to mention that even the big men couldn't handle it.
"When the mushrooms grow well, you can change it to grass charcoal ash." The props team leader nearby suggested: "The smell will be much smaller."
Seeing Kong Sheng nod, Reyza breathed a sigh of relief. This was a rare opportunity. There were so many people lining up to film Kong Sheng's scenes, so she had to perform well.
Look at Su Ze next to me. It was my first time to see him in person yesterday, but his works are definitely familiar to me. Didn’t I expect to have the opportunity to collaborate this time?
Unless I saw it with my own eyes, I wouldn’t believe that this rustic country bumpkin in front of me is actually Su Ze!
During this time, Su Ze had become accustomed to Kong Sheng's strict requirements. In order to recreate the scene of growing mushrooms, he specifically consulted Mr. Zhao Hong, a master mushroom grower from Diaozhuang immigrants, and also interviewed the prototype character of Ling Yinong, played by Huang Jue in the play.
Even so, we still encounter various problems. For example, according to the traditional methods of the year, it was difficult to control the yield and growth rate of mushrooms. Once mushrooms emerge, they grow very fast and must be harvested every four hours, otherwise they will grow.
Yellow and smelly.
But you can’t just shoot with mushrooms!
The shooting schedule may be adjusted at any time due to the distance between scenes, the time of the actors, and some emergencies. Either the mushrooms have grown and the scene has not yet been filmed, or the last mushroom has just been harvested and the next mushroom has not grown yet.
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Moreover, the production of mushrooms in the play is very large. The villagers collect mushrooms in boxes and sell them, but the crew has limited manpower and material resources.
So only the mushrooms in the Depot mushroom shed and the mushrooms in Professor Ling's experimental shed are actually grown by the prop team themselves, and there are only two boxes at most?
Fortunately, a living person cannot suffocate his urine to death. After being introduced to an agricultural base that specializes in growing mushrooms and provides a large amount of mushrooms at a low price, the matter was finally solved.
In the past half month, Su Ze had seen various problems. Kong Sheng was very demanding and specially invited local experts to serve as consultants. Every detail must be perfectly matched.
For example, every resettlement house had a water storage tank in its yard back then. This was not seen in the data, including where exactly the pool was located in the yard and how water was filled into it.
In fact, it means digging a hole in the ground. In order to prevent water from seeping down, the villagers will lay plastic sheets in the hole and use bricks to hold it down.
Another example is canned tea. The locals will use canned bottles to boil a can of eight-treasure tea and eat some dry food for breakfast. There is no way to check the information on these details of life. They are all personal experiences of the immigrants at that time.
Including the Kang fencing in the villagers' homes, many furniture and daily necessities were collected by the prop team from door to door in the surrounding old villages. If they couldn't collect any, they made their own imitations.
I have to say that Su Ze has benefited a lot from this quality of life and its details!
Even the experienced props master lamented: This drama is not the largest workload he has ever taken on, but it can almost be said to be the most detailed and cumbersome.
From the distressing of a sapling to a brick, the handling of specific details, and the meticulous restoration of the times, this is an experience I have never had in the more than 20 years of my career!
During this period, Su Ze's eyes were opened and he truly realized what it means to strive for excellence.
Kong Sheng is very busy, and has been adjusting the script to make the story more reasonable based on feedback from local people. Every night when he comes back from work for dinner, he will talk about these things with everyone, and then keep an eye on Hua Dao, and then change the script. He is busy until very late.
When did you see him pull out his hair?
Just about to get mad!
The scene that impressed Su Ze the most was: A den was originally built on the west side of the village, and the drawings were completed. When the scene was resumed, Kong Sheng suddenly stopped while walking and said, "Isn't that right?"
Pointing to the sun and saying, looking at the direction of the sunlight now, the nest should be to the east of the village, should we dig it again immediately?
Su Ze later learned that according to the director's design, when filming this scene, there was a village as the background in the backlight direction. If it were to the west, it would be Helan Mountain directly, and the shot would feel very desolate.
On the back, the village is more humane, making the audience feel that Shuihua, as a new immigrant, is not alone.
Don’t accept it!
In just over twenty days, although he didn't shoot a scene, Su Ze has captured the essence of the character, and his image and temperament are earth-shaking.
I usually work with my fellow villagers, and there is no sense of disobedience!
Not only him, but Principal Bai, played by Zu Feng, is also the same. He has a weathered face, black-rimmed glasses, and a fat head, and he sticks to the Gobi Desert.
In just twenty days, the entire creative staff retraveled the poverty alleviation road of the past. The weather in the Gobi Desert was like a child's face. Sandstorms came at any time, rolling up stones and smashing the glass of houses.
The most difficult thing is the ultraviolet rays. Even if they are fully armed and only their eyes are exposed, everyone will be tanned. In Kong Sheng's words: Not bad, even the extras are omitted.
Yesterday I had a video with Kong Xue. I almost didn’t recognize him. I regretted taking on this drama. How could a good-looking young man be tortured like this?