Actor: I picked up attributes on the set

Chapter 203 Domination!

Fortunately, Lin Yuan is only a director, not a producer, and there are not many things he needs to worry about for the time being. A series of things, such as hiring photographers, recording crews, artists, etc., are basically handled by Guangguang Media. The producer is in charge, and there is only one casting left in his current job as a director.

On the second day after returning to Shanghai, Lin Yuan saw Xu Zheng again in a restaurant box.

Originally, he asked Xu Zheng out alone to talk about the casting of the movie, but as soon as he met, he saw Xu Zheng's expression like a resentful woman.

You can tell at a glance that this is Xu Zheng who is angry with him.

But this is also understandable. After all, after Lin Yuan decided to shoot the movie "I'm Not the God of Medicine", the three of them made an agreement to complete the preparatory work as much as possible before the beginning of the year, so that it would be convenient to start shooting the movie directly after the new year. .

As a result, within a few days, Lin Yuan flew directly to the capital to promote the release of the "Mermaid" movie.

If it was just to promote the movie, Xu Zheng would not be so angry, but the problem is that the box office of the movie "Mermaid" is too exaggerated, so exaggerated that he, the director of "Lost in Thailand", couldn't help feeling envious.

And Lin Yuan also relied on the movie "Mermaid", the cumulative box office directly surpassed him and Huang Bo, and the most important thing is that the movie "Mermaid" will end in more than ten days, and the final box office is conservative. It is estimated that there is also 25 billion. With this movie, the box office gap has widened all of a sudden.

It is worth mentioning that Xu Zheng's animated film "Nian Beast Wars" was originally planned to be released during the Spring Festival. Choose to undo.

Under such circumstances, Xu Zheng naturally did not intend to give Lin Yuan a good face.

Xu Zheng deliberately pretended to be a teacher to inquire about the crime, and said jokingly: "You kid can do it, keep quiet, with a box office of 16 billion, you eat meat, at least you also leave a mouthful of soup for brothers!"

Lin Yuan smiled, and said modestly: "Brother Zheng, you have to tell Master Xing about this. The audience owes Master Xing a movie ticket. Can you blame me for this?"

"Okay, okay, you kid, don't pretend to be innocent, I've watched all the movies, you kid is really good at acting in comedy, fortunately, I have transformed now, otherwise I will starve to death with you kid .” Xu Zheng waved his hand, and with joking words, gave Lin Yuan a very high evaluation.

Xu Zheng didn't continue to chat, and brought the topic back, and asked, "Tell me, what is it that called me out? You can't just show off the box office for me, right?"

"Brother Zheng, look at your words, am I such a boring person?"

"Aren't you?"

Xu Zheng's voice suddenly raised an octave, and asked back: "I remember who said that the filming of "The God of Medicine" will start after the next year, why did it disappear within a few days?"

Being grabbed by the tail by Xu Zheng, Lin Yuan couldn't help but smile awkwardly.

Fortunately, actors have thick skins, so he didn't care. Instead, he said with a red face, "Didn't I go to the capital to find actors?"

Xu Zheng gave Lin Yuan a blank look, did he really think him stupid?
The news about the "Mermaid" crew's road show has been on the hot searches. Lin Yuan, as the leading actor, is naturally the focus of the media reporters. There are photos, and you want to lie to him?
However, Xu Zheng didn't intend to expose Lin Yuan, but followed Lin Yuan's words and asked, "Then did you find it?"

"Of course I found it." Lin Yuan said bluntly, but he was glad for a while. Fortunately, he invited Wang Yanhui and Zhang Yu during the training class of Beijing Film Academy, otherwise it would be really hard to fool them.

Seeing Xu Zheng's skeptical look, Lin Yuan directly told the story of Wang Yanhui and Zhang Yu starring in the movie.

After hearing that Wang Yanhui and Zhang Yu agreed to star in "The God of Medicine", Xu Zheng's eyes on Lin Yuan suddenly changed. He didn't expect Lin Yuan to be quite reliable, and he went to the capital to promote the film , Don't forget about the movie casting.

Moreover, Xu Zheng is aware of Wang Yanhui's acting skills. After all, the two have worked together before. As for Zhang Yu, although he is not well-known, since he can be picked by Lin Yuan, his acting skills will not be bad.

Xu Zheng confirmed the confirmed starring role, and said, "According to what you're saying, the cast has basically been decided?"

Lin Yuan nodded: "That's right, I asked you out to talk about this matter. If Brother Zheng thinks the cast is okay, we can determine the start time and shooting location."

"I have no objection. You are the director. You can decide when to start the film and where to shoot." Xu Zheng shook his head with an attitude of unwillingness to intervene.

This is the first film directed by Lin Yuan. He can give suggestions, but he must not make a decision. This is a challenge to the authority of the director. Once he intervenes, it will be difficult to produce the feeling Lin Yuan wants in this film. .

Speaking of this, Xu Zheng seemed to suddenly think of something, and said, "By the way, have you decided which film and television base to shoot in?"

After the beginning of the new year, there will definitely be many production crews who will start work. If you don't quickly decide on the shooting location, if you wait to find a location for shooting, it will definitely delay a lot of time.

As Xu Zheng's voice fell, Lin Yuan showed an intriguing smile on his face, and asked: "Brother Zheng, what do you think of the natural film and television base?"

"Natural film and television base?"

Hearing Lin Yuan's words, Xu Zheng couldn't help searching in his mind.

But after thinking about it for a long time, I didn't know which film and television base in China is called "natural film and television base".

Seeing Xu Zheng's confused look, Lin Yuan explained: "Isn't Nanjing a natural film and television base?"

After filming "In the Name of the People" in Nanjing last time, Lin Yuan found that this city is quite suitable for filming this kind of film and television drama with a sense of age, such as the old factory buildings, Yeshan Iron Mine, and Meishan in Yuhuatai District. These places still have the epitome of the industrial age, and the authentic old buildings and old streets have polished the aura of the film and television base over the years.

After recalling the architectural style of Nanjing's old city in his mind, Xu Zheng suddenly slapped his thigh and said excitedly: "Lin Yuan, you can do it, how did you come up with the idea of ​​shooting in Nanjing?"

"I filmed a TV series in Nanjing before, and I feel that the atmosphere there is quite old. After thinking about it, it is more suitable for our shooting of "The God of Medicine." Lin Yuan simply explained.

In fact, in the final analysis, it is still too expensive to shoot at the Huairou film and television base.

Lin Yuan could immediately understand the feelings of director Ukrainian filming "Looking for the Dragon". Originally, their actors paid a lot for the film, and they would go to India to shoot scenes later. Naturally, they had to control the expenses from other places. .

Xu Zheng nodded, and had no objection to Lin Yuan's choice of filming in Nanjing.

"Okay, then it's settled. I'll tell Ning Hao when the time comes. After the new year's crew has passed, let's hold a launch conference."

"Okay, then I will trouble Brother Zheng."

After bidding farewell to Xu Zheng, Lin Yuan took care of the matter at hand and returned to his hometown in Nanchang to prepare for the New Year.

What is different from the previous Chinese New Year is that when other people are busy visiting relatives, Lin Yuan has to record a video at home. One is to wish the fans a happy new year, and the other is that the movie "Mermaid" hit the box office on the first day of the Lunar New Year. A staggering 3.5 million yuan!As the leading actor, Lin Yuan naturally also sent a Weibo to thank the fans and audience for their support.

Statistics from the media.

"Mermaid" has 7 of the top 12 movies in the mainland's single-day box office!And the single-day box office has remained at more than 30 million for [-] consecutive days. It has successively refreshed the highest box office of Chinese-language films on the first day, the highest box office of Chinese-language films on a single day, the highest box office of Hong Kong Chinese-language films on the first day, the highest box office of the Spring Festival in the Mainland, and the highest box office of Chinese-language movies in the first week. More than [-] records, including the most consecutive days where the single-day box office broke [-] million.

And most importantly, in less than 20 days since "Mermaid" was released, the box office has exceeded 25 billion, breaking the previous box office record set by the movie "Looking for the Dragon" starring Lin Yuan and Huang Bo!

When the movie "Mermaid" became popular, as the biggest star in the movie, Lin Yuan also became the object of praise from many media.

[Lin Yuan, the actor with the most box office appeal among the powerful actors of the new generation! 】

[From Hengdian dragon set to double actor, small people can also achieve great things! 】

[Frequently breaking box office records, talk about Lin Yuan's terrifying box office appeal! 】

[Lin Yuan, Huang Bo, Wang Baoqiang, Zhang Yi. Who is the first box office winner of tens of billions? 】

You don't need to think about it, but nine out of ten these topics are all managed by Xitian Media or Guangguang Media.

The purpose is to build momentum for Lin Yuan, and when the new year begins, he will promote a wave of "I'm Not the God of Medicine" that Lin Yuan is about to direct and act. Capital has already understood the traffic.

The only pity is that Lin Yuan has no time to appear in the media cameras now.

Logically speaking, at this time, Lin Yuan should be accepting interviews with major media with the main creators of "Mermaid", or doing various roadshows with the crew, but his upcoming schedule is too tight, so he can only Taking advantage of the Chinese New Year to rest for a few days, I had to take the crew to Nanjing to prepare for the filming of "The God of Medicine".

Fortunately, the Internet is well-developed now, and Lin Yuan can also help promote the movie "Mermaid" by posting videos, which can be regarded as maintaining the current popularity.

The days of the holidays always fly by quickly.

On the night of the sixth day, Lin Yuan received a call from Wang Baoqiang.

As early as the first day of the Lunar New Year, Lin Yuan had already said these polite words of Happy New Year to his friends in the circle in the address book almost all the time.

So after receiving Wang Baoqiang's call, Lin Yuan didn't say anything polite, but asked straight to the point: "Brother Baoqiang, is the filming of your "Havoc in Tianzhu" going to start?"

"That's right!" Wang Baoqiang's honest voice came from the phone: "The crew will go to the Huairou film and television base tomorrow to prepare for the start. I see that your film seems to be starting after the next year, so let's show you and Huang Bo's scene." It’s okay to shoot later, right?”

The circle is so big, the fact that Lin Yuan is going to make the movie "I'm Not the God of Medicine" has been rumored in the circle for a long time, and even Wang Baoqiang has heard about Lin Yuan's letting Xu Zheng play the leading role.

It is true that he and Xu Zheng have some conflicts, and the relationship between the two is a bit stiff now, but this is a matter between the two of them after all, and there is no need to bring it up to Lin Yuan, just like Huang Bo and Xu Zheng have a very close relationship. But Huang Bo is different, is he still Wang Baoqiang's good brother?

"No problem, Brother Bao Qiang, just let me know when we're filming, and I'm sure I'll be there whenever I'm called!"

Lin Yuan patted his chest on the phone for reassurance.

Although he didn't have many roles in Wang Baoqiang's "Havoc in Tianzhu", basically the same as Huang Bo, that is, he showed up a few times, but his current identity is after all the director of the crew of "The God of Medicine", how can the crew make half of the filming , the reason why the director ran away from other crews halfway through the play.

Now that Wang Baoqiang put his play to the end, this can be regarded as saving Lin Yuan from worrying about the things in "Havoc in Tianzhu" all the time.

Not long after I hung up the phone with Wang Baoqiang, Xu Zheng called again.

"Lin Yuan, the media for the launch conference has been invited, how is the notification from your actors?"

Lin Yuan said in a relaxed tone: "Don't worry, I have already notified you."

As early as the first day of the Lunar New Year, Lin Yuan sent a notice to all members of the crew in advance, asking the main creative team to arrive at the crew before February 2th. It is enough to arrive at the crew to report before the start of the film on the 4th.

Seeing that Lin Yuan had taken care of these things, Xu Zheng felt relieved.

He knew that this was Lin Yuan's first time as a director, and he was afraid of making mistakes in these matters, so he called in advance to remind him. Fortunately, Lin Yuan was still very attentive in the film preparation, and there were no problems.

In the next few days, Lin Yuan took Xu Zheng, Ning Hao, and the production director, photography team, art director, life producer and other key members of the production team to determine the filming locations to be used for filming in Nanjing. At the same time, all chores such as crew accommodation and lunch boxes were also solved.

Seeing that the time for the movie to start was getting closer, Lin Yuan became more and more excited.

Now he has a first-class team, first-class actors, first-class equipment, and a first-class script. As for whether he can make this movie well, it depends on his control.

Many cutting-edge directors always have a high level of tolerance for their first works, but Lin Yuan has never had such an idea. This time, he not only wants to shoot a good story, but also has to integrate the screen, lighting, makeup, props, etc. , setting and many other aspects must be the best!
On the day before the opening press conference, all crew members had arrived, and no one was late. That night, the crew had a kick-off banquet in the banquet hall on the third floor of the hotel. The main purpose is to get to know each other and facilitate subsequent shooting.

Considering that tomorrow is the opening ceremony, everyone in the production team did not touch the wine. After dinner, they went back to their respective rooms to rest, waiting for the arrival of tomorrow.

February 2th is suitable for offering sacrifices and praying for blessings, and it is also the day for the opening ceremony of the crew of "I'm Not the God of Medicine".

Originally, Lin Yuan didn't believe this, but Xu Zhengfei said that today is an auspicious day. As long as the crew starts up today, the filming will be smooth sailing later. He took out his mobile phone and showed Lin Yuan the "定" and "定" on the calendar. "Ji", but when he saw the consecration, travel, and ground breaking of Ji behind, Lin Yuan didn't believe this set of rhetoric even more.

Sure enough, people only see the answers they want.
The launch conference this time was held at a Nanjing Auto Show. Fortunately, not many media reporters were invited, otherwise the crew would have to stand outside the venue to hold the launch conference.

The venue was nearly [-] square meters. There were reporters sitting in the first row, and the crew of "The God of Medicine" in the back. There were twenty or thirty photographers around who were fiddling with cameras in front of tripods.

When Lin Yuan, Xu Zheng, Ning Hao and other main creative personnel entered the venue, the scene that was originally full of discussions became more lively.

"I heard that this seems to be Lin Yuan's first self-directed and acted movie. Looking at it now, the cast is quite luxurious!"

"Tsk tsk, Enlight Media and Bad Monkey Films invested, can this movie be small?"

"Can director Lin Yuan do it? If you want me to say that Xu Zheng or Ning Hao are more reliable than Lin Yuan."

"Who knows, are there fewer movies for tickets now?"

"Playing tickets? How old is Lin Yuan, the 24-year-old double actor, starting to play tickets now? Is there a problem with your brain or my brain?"

"Shh, don't make noise, don't make noise, people are going to start talking."

The media reporters in the audience quickly stopped discussing and watched Ning Hao step onto the stage as the host.

"Welcome all friends from the media to attend the launch conference of "I'm Not the God of Medicine""

Although Ning Hao has never been a host, he has often been interviewed by the host. He has already memorized the words of these scenes. After a brief opening remark, he handed over the microphone to Xu Zheng and sat down obediently. Return to your position.

""I'm Not the God of Medicine" is the first film directed by the actor Lin Yuan, and it's also the first film I collaborated with him. As an actor, Lin Yuan is definitely better than me. As a director, although he is better than me. It’s not close, but it’s definitely a qualified director. I believe that director Lin Yuan will be able to present a satisfying work to the audience.”

It was also a polite remark, but Xu Zheng obviously relaxed a lot, and even made a joke, which caused the reporters in the audience to burst into laughter.

But after the words fell, a reporter immediately asked questions from the audience.

"Director Xu Zheng, you are also a successful director. Why is this movie not directed by you, and Lin Yuan plays the leading role? We believe that if we cooperate in this way, the effect of the movie may be better."

Xu Zheng shrugged his shoulders, and said helplessly, "If it was two years ago, I might still believe what you said, but now. Look at my last film "Lost in Hong Kong", the box office is not as good as that directed by Director Lin. "The Mermaid" is a lot of money, but I am willing to be the director, and Lin Yuan is willing to be an actor for me!"

As Xu Zheng teased himself, the atmosphere of the whole venue became much lighter all of a sudden.

Xu Zheng spoke alone for about 10 minutes, and it wasn't until the interview was almost over that it was Lin Yuan's turn to speak.

The media reporters also seized the time and raised various questions one after another.

"Hello, Mr. Lin Yuan, can you briefly talk about the movie "I'm Not the God of Medicine" and what story does it tell?"

"There are rumors that this movie is adapted from the real deeds of the character Lu Yong. Is it true?"

"Hello, Mr. Lin Yuan, what is your estimated final box office for this movie? Is it possible to surpass the movie "Mermaid"?"

"Hi Director Lin, may I ask why you didn't choose to make a comedy for the first film you directed, but instead boldly tried a challenging drama? Are you sure you can tell this story well?"

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Fortunately, Lin Yuan received many interviews, so he didn't panic in this kind of situation, but answered with ambiguous answers. The reporters saw that Lin Yuan was always unwilling to reveal the plot of the movie, and they didn't come up with anything explosive. topic, I couldn't help but pouted, feeling a bit lost.

The interview lasted nearly two hours. After the interview with the media reporters, the crew also carried out the opening ceremony according to the procedure.

The media reporters took pictures at the side, and finally left the venue satisfied with the red envelopes given by the crew.

After the opening ceremony in the morning, in the afternoon Lin Yuan led the crew to the temporary studio set up by the props team.

On the first day of starting, no matter what, I had to shoot a scene or two to find the feeling.

Otherwise, everyone has just passed the new year, and if they adjust their status, they will have to wait until the year of the monkey.

After arriving at the studio in a nanny car, Lin Yuan beckoned to the coordinator of the director team.

"Director Lin, what's the matter?" Coordinator Sun Jian trotted over.

Lin Yuan put down the script in his hand and said, "Show me today's shooting plan."

"Okay, Director Lin."

Sun Jian immediately opened the film schedule in his hand to the first page, and handed it to Lin Yuan.

The first scene is mainly through the language of the lens to complete the characterization of the role of Cheng Yong. There are not many scenes. After a cursory glance, there are only three scenes, but there are more than 70 shots. This kind of scene is undoubtedly It is a huge test of the director's lens language and the actors' portrayal of details.

Lin Yuan didn't intervene in the production of the film schedule. These things were arranged for the corresponding people in the crew. He thought very clearly that he was not a professional director. Take it with me, even though their crew is not a top-level production team, they can still do their best to complete these duties.

After looking at the film schedule, Lin Yuan nodded and said, "Okay, just follow this. You and the executive director will make an arrangement and notify all departments that they are ready. Try one in half an hour."

After speaking, he turned his head and glanced at Xu Zheng and Ning Hao next to him.

I saw the two of them staring at Lin Yuan with round eyes, their faces full of surprise.

"Brother Zheng, what's the matter with you?"

Xu Zheng shook his head, and asked full of doubts: "Your boy, tell me honestly, have you ever filmed a movie before?"

"What kind of movie can I make? If I had made a movie, media reporters would have exposed it." Lin Yuan didn't understand what was going on between the two of them.

Xu Zheng and Ning Hao nodded thoughtfully, thinking the same reason.

If Lin Yuan really made a movie, they don't know, can't these media reporters still dig it out?
But thinking of Lin Yuan's command and coordination just now, the two couldn't help but look at each other with doubts in their eyes.

This is strange, there are born actors in this world, they believe.

Could it be that there are still born directors?

"Brother Zheng, why are you in a daze, hurry up and put on makeup, and get ready for filming." Lin Yuan's voice interrupted Xu Zheng's guess.

Only then did Xu Zheng come back to his senses, and walked towards the dressing room touching his shiny bald head.

After Lin Yuan finished speaking, he found an apple box beside him and sat down, took out the storyboard script, and began to prepare for the first scene.

Fortunately, the crew that Guangguang Media found for him was relatively professional, and it wasn't something his director worried about, so basically he didn't need to worry about it.

The executive director is leading the group of performers.

The field manager drove the generator car nearby, connected the wiring, and the assistant lighting engineer repeatedly adjusted the brightness, color temperature and position of the reflector.

90% of the production crews need to use generator cars no matter they are shooting movies or TV dramas, and they must use generator cars as long as they turn on lights.

After all, it is impossible for the crew to use only one kind of light, and the power is not comparable to that of our ordinary household lights. When shooting night scenes, it is not that you can shoot with two lights in the studio. At least one light is 6500K. This kind of light is generally above 5 kilowatts, as ambient light.

If he was the director responsible for these matters, Lin Yuan would feel like his head would explode. Fortunately, Lin Yuan does not need to be responsible for these matters in professional field affairs. He only needs to look at the screen on the monitor and make sure The lens image presented is just what you want.

At the same time, the camera assistant is also checking the camera and film.

The set crew went around checking the studio for any flaws.

The monitor also has an assistant director lead people to move it to a suitable position, put in a large battery, turn on the power, correct the monitor, adjust the chromaticity and white balance to make sure there is no color cast, this is a qualified crew, like Master Xing He has to do all the crimes by himself, and the effect of the shooting is indeed what he wants, but it is not necessarily the most professional.

There is no need for Lin Yuan to order anything, everyone consciously does their own thing.

As the director, Lin Yuan also walked up to the audience after the actors finished their makeup, and told them the things to pay attention to in the first scene.

After talking about the extras, Xu Zheng walked up to Lin Yuan with a wig and asked, "What about me?"

"what happened to you?"

"I don't need to talk about the show?"

Lin Yuan patted Xu Zheng's shoulder, and said earnestly: "Brother Zheng, you trust your acting brother, if you let me tell you a play, I'm afraid it will delay your performance, but you insist on me telling a play If so, it's not impossible, but can the salary be less?"

"roll!"

After uttering this word, Xu Zheng walked towards the set without looking back.

Ten minutes later, all the work was ready, and after a simple start-up ceremony, the first scene of "I'm Not the God of Medicine" was about to start filming.

Lin Yuan sat in front of the monitor, checked it, and nodded.

The scene has been set up, the messy old streets of Shanghai, the dim health care product store, the unkempt middle-aged man. Just these few simple shots, a dirty and messy real world emerged in the hearts of everyone present.

Xu Zheng was smoking a cigarette, trying to make himself look haggard as much as possible, sitting in front of the big head computer, brewing the emotions of the character "Cheng Yong".

After checking all around, Lin Yuan picked up the walkie-talkie and said loudly: "All departments are ready!"

"Photography OK!"

"Lights OK!"

"Props OK!"

"The actors are in place!"

"The first scene of "I'm Not the God of Medicine", one shot, the first time!"

The scene notes hit the board and quickly retreated out of the camera.

"start!"

Following Lin Yuan's order, the production crew started to operate slowly, everyone performed their duties, doing what they should do in an orderly manner, and the cameraman slowly advanced, preparing to give the close-up shot to Xu Zheng's haggard picture face.

"Crack!"

However, before the camera zoomed in, Lin Yuan, as the director, called the first pause!
(End of this chapter)