The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 158 Shooting in Mountain City
The filming location of the TV series "Signal" was chosen in the mountain city of Chongqing. If it is said that actors are not photogenic, then the mountain city is completely the darling of the camera. Whether it is a big screen or a small screen, he can show a very strong expressive force .

For crime suspense dramas, the temperament of Shancheng can bring a great bonus, especially when shooting chase scenes-there are several chase scenes in "Signal", and Shancheng is a match made in heaven.

"CUT!" Tian Xinye picked up the guide tube and shouted with satisfaction: "Have a half-hour rest, pull up the green screen, and we can call it a day after this shot is taken!"

Zhang Ruoyun hurriedly trotted towards the RV where Chen Jingxing was. It was still very cold in Chongqing in early December. Although the temperature was not below zero, the actors were not acting in winter, and the clothes they were wearing obviously couldn't keep warm.

This scene was filmed behind an abandoned tube building. The first case of "Signal" is that the policeman Qin Hai played by Zhang Ruoyun contacted the old criminal policeman Li Shian played by Deng Chao 18 years ago through a scrapped wireless walkie-talkie .

Li Shi'an found the body of the male suspect involved in a kidnapping case in the sewer well behind a tube building, so he informed Qin Hai 18 years later through the radio.

The victim of this kidnapping case was Ma Xiaojing, Qin Hai’s childhood classmate. When Qin Hai was a child, he saw a woman in a dress take Ma Xiaojing away. The child went to the police station but no one paid attention to it. Only a piece of paper left on him was picked up by the then criminal policeman Li Shian.

Li Shian found the body in the underground well based on clues, and was killed while talking with the walkie-talkie.

Out of guilt for his childhood classmates, Qin Hai believed the message from the walkie-talkie. He came to the abandoned Tongzilou that Li Shian mentioned, and found the bones that had been separated by 18 years in the underground well.

And this scene was filming the scene where Qin Hai and Li Shian found bones/corpses in the underground well in the backyard of this Tongzi building 18 years apart.

The first shot was the scene where Qin Hai, played by Zhang Ruoyun, found the corpse, and then the green screen was pulled to shoot the scene where Li Shian, played by Deng Chao, found the body.

Because although the Tongzilou was abandoned 18 years ago, it is obviously much newer than the current timeline. This part can only be handled by special effects. The special effects team needs to scan the entire Tongzilou and restore it to the way it was 18 years ago. , In order to facilitate modification, the cover of the green screen is required.

This is a relatively mature technology that has been used in the filming of the movie version of "Signal". It can be said that the TV series version is basically the same cast and crew except for a few different leading actors.

As soon as Zhang Ruoyun entered the RV, he was shocked by the oncoming warmth and let out a comfortable sigh, and ran to the small kitchen to start brewing coffee.

"Sister Li, Director Chen, do you want some sugar?" Zhang Ruoyun asked while turning on the coffee machine.

There are not only Chen Jingxing, but also Sun Li in the RV. In fact, this is a RV specially prepared by the crew for several leading actors. After all, it is not a film and television city, and it is impossible for actors to rent a RV here.

Of course, the crew has also prepared other RVs, and the crew can sometimes go in to rest and warm their feet, but generally there is no such time.

Filming is hard work, but actors complaining about suffering with high salaries will naturally make people feel hypocritical, but without high salaries, people who suffer much more than actors have no right to speak and cannot complain.

And what Chen Jingxing can do is to try his best to ensure the working hours of 8 hours a day-just doing this can greatly improve the working comfort of the crew, which in turn can actually improve the shooting quality of the whole film.

Chen Jingxing took a sip of his coffee and looked at Sun Li: "Sister Li, are you still reading the script? I heard that you almost memorized the entire script."

"I'm not a non-human being. Can I memorize such a thick script in such a short time? I just memorized the lines of the scenes I'm going to shoot this week." Sun Li couldn't help laughing, then sighed: "It's just I thought I understood it before, but after you explained the script to me, I realized that my previous understanding was wrong, and this drama is much more complicated than I thought."

Zhang Ruoyun also sat down and echoed: "When I first saw the script, I was shocked. When I watched the movie "Signal" in the theater, I thought, wow, this movie is too imaginative.

As a result, after reading the script, I think the TV series version is much more complicated and exciting than the movie. Now I can imagine how surprised the audience will be when they watch the TV series. Director Chen, where do you get all these fantastic ideas from? ? "

Chen Jingxing smiled and pointed to his own head - it wasn't that he was lying, it was really in his head.

Zhang Ruoyun let out a frustrated sigh: "People's brains are too different. In fact, I also wanted to be a screenwriter before, but after reading this script, my self-confidence has been blown to pieces. Such an exquisite plot, I’m afraid I won’t be able to figure it out for the rest of my life.”

Although the "Signal" TV series and the movie both use the same type of sci-fi setting, connecting two people across time and space through a walkie-talkie, the structure of the TV series is more subtle.

The structure of the "Signal" TV series is a circle, with two snakes biting their tails and connecting head to tail. The first contact between Li Shian played by Deng Chao and Qin Hai played by Zhang Ruoyun was before Li Shian died.

That is to say, the timeline is pushed forward. The first time Qin Hai met on the walkie-talkie was Li Shian who was investigating the kidnapping of Ma Xiaojing 18 years ago. After Li Shian sent Qin Hai clues about the corpse in the underground well in the backyard of Tongzilou, He was killed by the mysterious man.

At this point in time, Li Shi'an knew that the person on the walkie-talkie was Qin Hai 18 years later, but this was the first time Qin Hai knew about Li Shi'an.

When Qin Hai contacted Li Shian through the walkie-talkie for the second time, it was indeed Li Shian 20 years ago.

Until Qin Hai contacted for the nth time was Li Shian who first discovered Qin Hai on the other side of the walkie-talkie 25 years ago.

Therefore, the timeline is positive for Li Shian. The first time he contacted Qin Hai through the walkie-talkie was 25 years later, and then 7 years passed in the middle, and the last call before his death was 18 years later. It was Qin Hai who knew about this for the first time.

But for Qin Hai, his connection with Li Shian was indeed backwards from the timeline, and as time went by, he also contacted the earlier Li Shian.

Qin Hai's first contact across time and space was Li Shian's last, and his last time-space contact was Li Shian's first.

Such an end-to-end plot structure is also nested with many joint cases and butterfly effects. Therefore, in terms of drama structure, TV dramas are much more complicated and wonderful than movies, and conflicts are more contagious.

(End of this chapter)