My Hong Kong Island Filmmaker

Chapter 196 The flood washed the Dragon King Temple
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Chapter [-] The flood rushed to the Dragon King Temple
In Sha Tin, the abandoned fan factory building is brightly lit and full of voices.

"Deadly Two Heroes" was filming the prison scene. Xinyicheng contacted an abandoned fan factory to film Han Lilai's "changed into Zhou Run's face" to "hook up" Tang Maru, the younger brother of the original Tang San, played by Wu Zhenyu. role.

This abandoned fan factory was chosen for the interior shooting of the prison, and Xinyicheng, the exterior scene, contacted the tanker for reshoots according to Wu Xiaozu's request.

This abandoned fan factory involves the issue of "Ding Quan". The factory area is huge in Hong Kong Island, a place where women have to pee upright to avoid wasting space.

After pre-stage scouting, he set many interior scenes here.While remodeling, shooting at the same time.

Compared with live shooting, the cost control of this kind of scene shooting is more reasonable.

When Mr. Xu filmed "A Chinese Ghost Story", most of the scenes were shot in Songcheng, Lai Chi Kok, Kowloon.

In the rest of the scenes, Old Monster Xu carried forward his spooky spirit.Last year, he filmed "Dao Ma Dan", and built a stage and theater building in the courtyard near the public housing village on Tsing Yi Island, Kwai Tsing District.

This time when shooting "A Chinese Ghost Story", waste was utilized and the scene was rebuilt.The stage on one side became the two-story Lanruo Temple, the pillars became dead trees, and the other side became Yan Chixia's room, and a fake waterfall was built.

Wu Xiaozu listened to Wang Zuzhen on the phone in his spare time, "A Chinese Ghost Story" filmed a pair of stone lions, and went to the Three Cups Hotel in Saigon to make up for it.

Film shooting and creation itself is a very intensive and fragmented work.

The most amazing thing about the movie is that through the simplest splicing and combination, the scattered pictures are combined to create a confusing storyline.

In the 80s, Wu Xiaozu couldn't do it even if he wanted to shoot with blue screen or green screen in Hong Kong Island.Live shooting is too costly. In comparison, the combination of setting and real scene can not only make the movie achieve the expected effect, but also save money.At the moment, Hong Kong Island basically adopts this shooting method.

Although Wu Xiaozu also wanted to learn triumphant songs, make a film "Legend of the Demon Cat", and build a city with a lot of money.It's a pity that the Hong Kong Island film business does not have such a large investment capital and market.

As for the fan factory, Wu Xiaozu watched the engineering team busy setting up the scene in the main factory building.

The steel bars are ferocious, and a huge keel fan is hung, and the whole space is full of gloomy oppression.

A group of artists squatted on the wall to outline the mottled and rusted metal, and the set team was in full swing to arrange the scene according to the requirements of the art directors Yu Jiaan and Kuang Zhiliang, making the prison layout more and more in line with the requirements.

The set group, modeling group, props group, scene management group, and art group worked together to arrange the scene. On the camera group, Huang Yuetai, Huang Zhongbiao, and Ao Zhijun also carried their assistants and continued to set up the camera boom to delineate the camera position.

"Dim the lights two degrees..."

"Remove the skylight mirror, add gray mirror and light reduction night scene mirror!"

Zou Lin led the lighting team and was also busy.

In the movie "Deadly Two Heroes", Wu Xiaozu posed a very high challenge to Zou Lin, a big star of the later Lighting Association.

In the film, the roles played by Zhou Runfa and Liang Jiahui must have contrast, and at the same time, they must not be overexposed. This is a test of the lighting engineer's grasp of "degree".

A good lighting engineer is like a good chef.The chef pays attention to the heat, and so does the lighting engineer.The reason why a director has a queen assistant director or camera is nothing more than to continue his own style.But it is not impossible to change.

Mr. Xu's royal camera should be Huang Yongheng at this time, and later it became Cai Chonghui.But lighting engineers are rarely able to change.The first is that there is a serious shortage of top lighting engineers, and the second is that the job of lighting generally fits the director's aesthetics.

Therefore, for a truly mature team of master directors, the lighting engineer is the one with the least fluctuations.

From "Rainy Night Butcher" to "The Birth of a Prefix" to "Young and Dangerous", Zou Lin fits Wu Xiaozu's style more and more.

Among the three films, Wu Xiaozu's use of light is second to none on Hong Kong Island.This is inseparable from the credit of Zou Lin, the master of the lamp.

In the main scene of the confrontation between Zhou Runfa and Liang Jiahui in the prison of "Deadly Two Heroes", Zou Lin adopted Rembrandt lighting, which he used in "Young and Dangerous", Chen Haonan and Pheasant' In the scene of "Rupture", the black and white are clearly distinguished, which is the use of this Rembrandt lighting technique.

This lighting technique emphasizes the contrast between light and dark.Generally, spotlights are used as the light source to illuminate the action area, leaving other areas hidden in darkness.

"This lighting allows for greater drama and a greater sense of realistic realism!"

Zou Lin recalled what Wu Xiaozu said to him when he was filming "Young and Dangerous", and told the words to the apprentices beside him.

"In this scene, Tang San and Han Li met for the first time after their identities were swapped. In such a critical scene, a strong and clear judgment must be made."

He said, pointing to the sketch of the story in front of him, and explained, "Director Wu needs strong contrast in this scene to express the strong conflict and contradiction between good and evil. Remember, the lighting must conform to the temperament of the movie. Artists need to communicate more with photography and art, so that the light you shoot has life..."

Not far away, the set crew removed the door frame from the right side and welded it to the left side as required, and set up a "visiting room".

"The audience's movie-watching habits are limited by our reading habits. Westerners and the new generation of audiences on Hong Kong Island are more accustomed to reading from left to right.

Therefore, Fa Ge disguised himself as Tang San after changing his face, and entered the painting from the left.This subconscious habit will make the audience more comfortable and fit the "good guy" personality.

On the contrary, after Ka Fai changed his face, Han Li had to enter the painting from right to left, giving the villain the familiar sense of discomfort. "

Wu Xiaozu explained to Luo Lichen, Huang Yuetai, Zhou Runfa, and Liang Jiahui, "When these two forces oppose each other, the audience will naturally expect a collision between them..."

Zhou Runfa looked at Wu Xiaozu who was talking eloquently in front of him, and felt something called 'professional' from the bottom of his heart.

He has been shooting dramas for more than ten years, and no director has ever described an actor in a painting so clearly and clearly.

For the young director in front of him, he considered every detail of guidance, which made him feel refreshed and benefited a lot.It makes Zhou Runfa know what it is, and even more why!

This kind of simple X-axis horizontal composition, not to mention professional film and television majors, even ordinary photography enthusiasts can sum up 6789 in future generations.

However, in Hong Kong Island in the 80s, Wu Xiaozu was definitely the most scientific and professional filming theory. At this time, even the relevant people in Western film and television research had to wait until the early 90s to start summarizing and researching...

Commercial films, especially commercial films with big productions and big casts, are actually more difficult to shoot than independent low-budget films.It also tests the director's overall planning ability.

A good director of literary and artistic films only needs to take care of his own heart. At most, he uses his own literary and artistic emotions to resonate with the audience.In comparison, commercial films consider more and wider areas.

Begging for the audience's favor is much more difficult than self-gratification!
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shooting scene.

"Blasting group, props group, scenery group, lighting group..."

With a hoarse voice, Luo Licheng kept waving at the on-site staff in a disheveled manner, orderly directing the scene to "fireworks and blasting".

Next to him, Wu Xiaozu folded his arms and stood behind Huang Yuetai holding his breath, his eyes observing back and forth between the scene and the mirror image.Make sure that the framing of the camera perfectly presents the scene you need.

In order to match the theme of the movie, Wu Xiaozu required every explosion to have a poetic and violent beauty.

Each lamp, each beam of light, each pyrotechnic blasting point, and the amount of each blasting charge.Wu Xiaozu has strict requirements.

Film is an art, and it is also a delicate and complicated project.Even the wrong choice of filter will cause the audience to play.

A movie, to put it bluntly, is made up of pictures one by one, but what about the pictures?Shots are composed of shots frame by frame, and behind each shot is the result of the cooperation of the entire crew.

Being a director is a very simple yet complex job.

The threshold is low, but the door frame is high!

...

"Grandpa-"

While filming, suddenly, Gu Tianle recklessly broke into the set.

"boom!!"

The explosion sounded, and beautiful sparks shot out in umbrellas, rendering the entire warehouse full of vivid and violent beauty.

Gu Tianle stood under the sparks in a panic, like Teddy who made a mistake and was kicked in the corner by his master, trembling and horrified, with sparks splashing all over his back, against which, Gu Tianle's face turned pale again.

"Pu your mother!!!"

Luo Lizhen was so angry that he kicked a staff member of the demolition team who missed his hand with anger, kicked and rolled the little demolition worker, and then looked at the colorful fireworks in the arena with distressed feet, tearing Neck roared, "Hurry up and cut off the line!!"

The scene instantly sang wildly.

This explosion will cost at least 10 Hong Kong dollars! !Fortunately, Luo Licheng's explosion switch was safe enough, and it didn't destroy everything with one touch like some anti-Japanese dramas in later generations.Otherwise, at least 30 losses!

"Zu... Zu..."

Gu Tianle raised his eyelids, and looked at Wu Xiaozu pitifully with tears in his mouth.

At this moment, Chairman Gu is far from the ambition of the later generations to call for drastic reforms. His lips are trembling, and he has long been frightened and panicked.

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Wu Xiaozu looked at Gu Tianle calmly.

10 yuan has been wasted, what's the use of getting angry again?Director Wu has always been broad-minded.

"Give me a reason not to eunuch you!" Director Wu's voice floated coldly.Gu Zai's legs are X-shaped, he is really afraid that the boss will ruin his sexual fortune, he still expects to get married and have children at the age of 20!
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Causeway Bay, the filming location of "Young and Dangerous".

"Hey, is there anyone alive?"

A yellow-haired man staggered into the set, followed by four young and Dangerous boys who looked like skinny fairies, with an arrogant face, "Come out and answer out of breath."

The crew of "Young and Dangerous 2" blinked Kazilan's big eyes and stared at the five fighters in front of them.

"Why are you in a daze? Calling someone!" Huang Mao looked at the stunned crowd, shaking his legs impatiently, showing his fashion trend with a kind of shaking of hemiplegia, "Sanitation fee, tea fee..."

In the Hong Kong Island film circle, before filming, there must be a producer and supervisor to manage the nearby clubs to ensure that the filming is complete and filmed.If you don't manage it well... then all kinds of ghosts and monsters will emerge.

Wu Xiaozu still had to say hello to Yiqun in Sha Tin when he was filming "Deadly Two Heroes", and Xin'an was naturally in charge of "Young and Dangerous" in Causeway Bay.

Xin'an, Hesheng, and Shuifang in Causeway Bay are all powerful.

"Guys, we're filming here, and we've ordered a carton with Brother Da from Xin'an. I don't know everyone?" Seeing the situation, Uncle Li walked up to him with a pack of cigarettes in his hand, with a smile on his face.

"pick!"

The yellow-haired man arrogantly raised his middle finger, glanced at his mouth and said disdainfully, "Stuff me up to scare me? Old man, are you blind? You are my father and I won the victory. We are in charge of this area now. Just pay if you know what you know." , or I will give you some sugar cane food."

"Yi Sheng?"

Li Zhaoji, Wu Zhixiong and others walked over with their lesbians, staring and snorting coldly, "I don't care if you win or the Number Gang. We started work and handed in the numbers. Do you want me to hand in the letters to hundreds of companies in Hong Kong in turn?

Go home and tell your adults that I, a fat guy, paid the bill and want to find Manpida by myself. "

"The quality of the short mules that come out to play is getting lower and lower." Fat Guy Ji glanced at his mouth and said.

"There is no successor for the community on Hong Kong Island."

Fei Cheng walked over, glanced sideways at A Gui, and said in a strange way, "Now, any cat or dog would dare to report the number. People's hearts are not old, and the world is going downhill!" As he said, Fei Cheng sighed and shook his head. Head, a look of pity for heaven and man.

The ghost next to him stared coldly at the yellow hair in front of him, "Get out! Get out of here if you don't want to die!"

Huang Mao looked at the crowd, his face changed, and he took a step back sternly. Then, as if thinking of something, he pointed at the ghost wearing a peaked cap and cursed, "Throw away your mother! We don't have the money for Yisheng." It’s fine, if you don’t drink the toast, then you’ll have a fine wine.” Then, he curled his finger, put it in his mouth, and blew a whistle.

"Don't run away if you have the guts!" Huang Mao yelled arrogantly, "Today's health expenses will be treated as your medical expenses!" While speaking, forty or fifty young and Dangerous boys with machetes suddenly appeared viciously.

Seeing this, Huang Mao raised his chin and showed a smug smile, then the smile froze, his eyes dilated, and he looked confused.

　The last few chapters may be a little delayed, and the whole person is still in a holiday state.At the same time, take the time to check the information.Adjusting the state will speed up the pace.

　　
　
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