I become a big star after I sleep

Chapter 261
"Let's rest, let's eat!"

The scene manager yelled at the top of his voice, and the staff in various positions in the studio immediately dispersed to get their lunch boxes.

Working in the hot studio every day, what I look forward to most is the meal time.

The old employees who have been with Qin Muchu's production team all know that the production team is sometimes very hard, because Director Qin has strict requirements for shooting, and he will repeat ten or dozens of times for an inconspicuous scene in the movie until he is satisfied.

But the benefits of the crew are also really good.

In addition to paying high overtime pay for overtime work, even the lunch box is not ordinary.

The daily meals are custom-made from the hotel, no matter the taste or the quality of the ingredients, they are definitely affordable for families above the middle class.

Therefore, under this benefit, no matter how hard it is, you can suffer, and you don’t even feel bitter.

Regarding this, Qin Muchu just couldn't make himself suffer because he also ate box lunch.

The electric fan was whistling, and the director of the film crew and a few male actors didn't have much airs. They put the dishes on the chairs, and they squatted beside the chairs to cook.

"When is your new album coming out?"

Picking up the lunch box, Qin Muchu asked Zhou Jiaolun.

"Shuliu... On October 10th, Suliu, "Capricorn", Suliu...shocking release!"

Zhou Jiaolun, who originally wanted to come up with a cool advertisement, was so "sucked" by the spicy food that the advertisement did not have the desired effect at all.

Today's dish is Sichuan cuisine, very spicy and appetizing.

Delicious is delicious, but with the blessing of summer, everyone who is already hot is sweating profusely.

"Don't force yourself if you can't eat."

Seeing that Zhou Jiaolun's face was blushing, Qin Muchu handed him a bottle of ice water.

Zhou Jiaolun took a mouthful and put it in his mouth, and he swallowed it after a while.

"Spicy is spicy, but it's very refreshing..."

After a pause, he touched Downey and Takuya Kimura next to him:

"Uncle Ni, Uncle Mu, right?"

These two people, one American and one Japanese, are not from countries that can eat spicy food.

This will make my eyes sweat, but I still don't want to stop my chopsticks.

"great."

Donnie gave a thumbs up and continued cooking.

Takuya Kimura couldn't understand Chinese, but seeing Downey's reaction, he also replied:

"well."

Qin Muchu didn't care about these people's behavior of talking and ignoring their buttocks, and looked at Zhou Jiaolun again:

"It will be released on October 10th. After that, we will focus on shooting your scenes. You should be able to wrap up before the release."

"No need, just shoot normally, and give me three days off when it's released, and I'll run around to promote it..."

Zhou Jiaolun rejected Qin Muchu's kindness, and didn't want to be special in the crew.

His scenes were filmed ahead of time, and other people's scenes had to be moved back, that's for sure.

At this time, Downey spoke:

"Sister's main job is a singer, and releasing an album is a big deal. It's okay to move my role back. I'll be fine after I finish filming this scene. I plan to accompany my wife... Tear it up, give me water..."

Downey stuck out his tongue, and even said Zhou Jiaolun's English name "Jay" as "Sister", which was very hot.

Qin Muchu handed over a new bottle of ice water on the ground, saving Donnie's life.

"Remember to prepare one for me when the time comes, and ask for the collector's edition."

Downey patted Zhou Jianlun.

Several people were eating and chatting when Qin Muchu's cell phone rang and received a message.

A raised eyebrow.

The old man is here.

……

"I thought you would have to rest for a while after the closing ceremony, but I didn't expect you to come so soon."

Qin Muchu accompanied Zhang Yimou to visit the studio.

The huge "hotel aisle" caught Lao Mouzi's attention, and he kept looking around.

"It's been a long enough break. I've been resting since the opening ceremony... What is this device for?"

In just a few words, Lao Mouzi got around to things related to movies.

"When shooting this later, turn it so that actors can stand on the wall or fight on the ceiling, as if they are weightless." Qin Muchu explained.

Lao Mouzi thought for a while, and made gestures to show the camera. He quickly understood what Qin Muchu meant and smiled.

"Interesting, flexible mind."

"Hey, it's okay."

Qin Muchu couldn't help feeling a little complacent.

The effect of this method is that special effects cannot be achieved.

After visiting the hotel studio, he took Zhang Yimou to the studio next door.

A three-story Japanese-style izakaya.

"Is this the main scene of the movie?" Lao Mouzi asked.

The izakaya is very finely built, with a hall on the first floor, a rest room on the second floor, and a kitchen.

Before Qin Muchu could answer, he shook his head again:

"No, you can find a place outside to shoot these things, why do you set up the scene yourself, it costs more money and wastes time."

Qin Muchu smiled.

"To answer your first question first, this is indeed not the main scene of the movie, it's just the beginning and end of the movie."

He looked up and looked around the lobby on the first floor of the izakaya. He said it was the first floor, but the high ceiling was nearly ten meters high from the ground, which was as high as three floors of an ordinary small building.

There are wooden stairs on the left and right sides, leading to the aisle on the second floor. Looking down from the air, it looks like the word "口" is missing a horizontal line below.

"right here."

Qin Muchu walked to a place where roadblocks were placed, and this was the midpoint of the horizontal line of the character for "口".

"The reason why I didn't find a place outside for real shooting is because no one would want me to tear down the shooting place..."

"Removed?" Zhang Yimou asked in surprise.

The area of ​​the izakaya is not small, and the lobby on the first floor alone is not inferior to the lobby of most star-rated hotels.

If such a building is demolished, how big a scene would it be in the movie?
"Yes, the house collapsed first, and then here, everything was washed away by the flood!" Qin Muchu said very firmly.

The construction of this izakaya cost more than 1000 million.

In addition to not laying the foundation, moving out can be regarded as a Japanese-style hotel and start business.

And it's still very high-end and atmospheric.

Zhang Yimou also built a palace when he filmed "Golden Armor", so he can figure out how much it cost to build this izakaya.

asked a sentence:
"How long can you shoot here?"

Qin Muchu made some calculations and replied:
"It is expected to be 20 days, but it is relatively smooth now, and the filming will be finished in a few days."

"Ten days?"

"A week."

"Cough cough..."

Zhang Yimou coughed for a while and couldn't stop covering his mouth.

"What's wrong with you? This is?"

Qin Muchu quickly walked to Zhang Yimou's side and patted his back to help soothe him.

While clapping, he said:

"Don't even think about touching porcelain, there are cameras everywhere in this studio..."

As soon as these words came out, Zhang Yimou coughed harder.

Qin Muchu wanted to call a doctor, and the crew was prepared with medical staff.

But Zhang Yimou had already slowed down, and waved his hand to stop Qin Muchu.

"It's okay, I just choked."

Seeing that Zhang Yimou's face turned a little red because of coughing, and there was nothing wrong with it, Qin Muchu also heaved a sigh of relief.

It's not that he promised Lao Mouzi that he couldn't explain what happened to him, but because Comrade Lao Zhang is indeed an elder worthy of respect and study.

Be regarded as my own half teacher.

He took out a pack of tissue paper from his pocket, handed it to Zhang Yimou to wipe his mouth, and said with a smile:

"If you fell here just now, tomorrow's reporter will say that you have dedicated yourself to the Olympic Games and died. Fuck it, no one in our Heavenly Dynasty director will be able to talk to you in the future..."

Qin Muchu jumped away, avoiding Zhang Yimou's loving slap.

Zhang Yimou had three black lines on his forehead.

If the kid hadn't said he touched porcelain, he wouldn't have coughed so hard just now.

"No kidding, you really need to pay attention to this, don't be overworked in the past two years." Qin Muchu said seriously.

Although I haven't heard anything about Zhang Yimou after the Olympics in his previous life, it's not certain in this world.

"It's okay, don't worry."

Zhang Yimou waved his hand.

The reason why he coughed just now was that he had suffered too much mental shock.

It took less than a week for filming to destroy such an izakaya. This is not destroying the house, but burning money!

He walked to the place where Qin Muchu was standing just now.

That is, the missing horizontal midpoint below the word "口".

As soon as he stood here, he discovered the difference in this position.

This has the widest view of the hall, and you can see the entire hall clearly.

At the same time, because the entire hall can be seen clearly,

It feels so small to stand here.

In other words, if the picture of the hall being destroyed is shot here, it will be the most impactful.

"You just said that a flood destroyed the house?" Zhang Yimou asked.

"That's right, in the dream on the first floor, the hero fell into the bathtub, so in the dream on the second floor, it shows that the place where the hero is, is suddenly washed into by the flood..." Qin Muchu said.

Lao Mouzi nodded. Although he couldn't fully understand what Qin Muchu meant, it was enough to know that the flood had destroyed this place.

He pointed to the highest windows on the left and right sides of the hall:

"If the water rushes into the hall, I think the effect of the water rushing in from those places will be more shocking."

"Yes, I thought so too."

Qin Muchu gave a thumbs up.

Lao Mouzi is worthy of being an Lao Mouzi, and he can see the mystery at a glance.

From this point, we can see the skill of the director.

The same scene, shot by different directors, gives people completely different feelings, and this is the reason.

"I'm going to install water tanks outside those windows, and use the pump to flush dozens of tons of water into the hall at once." Qin Muchu continued.

"Dozens of tons of water?" Zhang Yimou opened his mouth.

One ton of water is one cubic meter, and dozens of tons of water equals dozens of cubic meters of water.

Such a large water flow rushed into the hall, the scene was no less than a flood.

Just thinking about it makes me feel shocked.

It will definitely impress the audience.

Thinking of Qin Muchu saying that this studio filmed the beginning and end of the movie, he asked:

"Is this the scene at the end of the movie?"

There is generally a climax at the end of a movie, and it is a common method to use this "big scene" to push the movie to a climax.

However, Qin Muchu once again gave Zhang Yimou an unexpected answer.

"No, it's just the beginning."

"beginning."

Lao Mouzi frowned habitually.

Not because it was denied, but because it couldn't figure it out.

"If this kind of scene is used at the beginning, what about the rest of the movie? You have to have at least one scene that is not weaker than this to support it."

It's a matter of pacing the movie.

In a two-hour movie, if you want people to watch it, there must be some ups and downs.

Just like something, you can't rush at full speed with all your strength at the beginning, and then slow down to death, just like old age.

You have to rush for a while, slow down for a while, rush for a while, slow down for a while, and repeat.

Reasonable distribution of physical strength can finally become the winner amidst cheers.

That's right, it's long-distance running.

Qin Muchu, as a veteran who often...makes movies, naturally understands the truth.

"Don't worry, there are many similar scenes like this, don't worry about 'anticlimactic'."

a lot...

Seeing Qin Muchu's confident smile, Lao Mouzi lost confidence.

After a while, he shook his head and smiled wryly:
"I probably know how you spent the [-] million dollars."

With a restrained smile, he hesitated for a moment before speaking:
"Xiao Qin, I'm not talking about being discouraged, there is still one point, you should have considered it yourself... If you can't get the cost of spending so much money, this..."

Qin Muchu looked at Lao Mouzi in surprise.

He won't be surprised if ordinary audiences, reporters, employers, and even some directors ask this question.

But the person who asked this question is Lao Mouzi, who is currently the No.1 director in China.

How could such words come out of your mouth?
Qin Muchu wanted to ask, but his lips twitched and he still didn't say anything.

After pondering for a moment, he asked back:

"What do you think of the scenes I just mentioned? The hotel aisle that can rotate and the big water rushing into the lobby."

"very good."

Zhang Yimou told the truth.

He doesn't doubt that Qin Muchu can shoot it, because the difficulty of those scenes lies in how to shoot, and the methods Qin Muchu said are all feasible.

"That's it."

Qin Muchu spread his hands,

"There are a lot of scenes like this behind me.

It's not that I purposely want to attract attention through these pictures, but I'm shooting 'dreams'.

Dreams have to be grotesque, such as weightlessness, floods, city flipping...

There must be something beyond the logic of reality, this is a dream.

I can't pretend to be dreaming, but what happens inside is no different from reality, so what's the point?

It's like saying that you want to invite someone to eat seafood, but it turns out that all the things in the river are served. Isn't this fooling people?

Seafood is expensive, but since it's all a treat, you can't be afraid of spending money.

I think there are only two points for entertaining guests, one is whether you can afford it, and the other is whether the food is good or not.

As for whether the other party is worthy of treating me to this meal, whether the kindness of the treat is worth the money spent on this meal...

It can be considered, but not just this.

Earned, of course happy.

But no profit, no loss, how to define this loss?

I also ate this meal, it tasted very good, so I treated myself as a treat, I was happy to eat, so it's not a loss. "

Everyone knows that big scenes can attract people's attention, but not many people are willing to shoot them.

why?
Because in movies, big scenes and burning money are basically equated.

Just like Qin Muchu's scene of "flooding the hall", why can't it be "flooding the bedroom", "flooding the thatched cottage", or even "flooding the ant's nest"?
The cost of shooting in this way is small, but the effect is also poor.

Zhang Yimou looked a little complicated.

His eyes wandered, not knowing what he was thinking.

Qin Muchu taught him a lesson, which made him a little "embarrassed".

This "embarrassment" was not given by Qin Muchu, but from himself.

Once upon a time, and when...

……

During filming in the afternoon, everyone noticed that there was an extra person next to the director.

And almost everyone knows this person——Zhang Yimou.

Qin Muchu took him an hour to show him around the set, and then started filming normally at his request.

Zhang Yimou didn't want his arrival to delay Qin Muchu's filming progress. After all, everyone knew that once the machine was turned on, it would burn money.

All afternoon, he watched by the monitor, unless Qin Muchu took the initiative to ask him, otherwise he kept silent and said nothing.

In the middle, I have to pass a notebook and a pen to record something.

He didn't propose to leave until the crew finished work at 05:30 in the afternoon.

Qin Muchu naturally tried to persuade him to stay, and he was thinking of inviting Zhang Yimou to dinner tonight.

Not only out of politeness, Lao Mouzi helped him a lot this afternoon.

Qin Muchu brought up many problems on the screen one by one, and Lao Mouzi helped solve them.

And it is not a solution of "teaching a man to fish", but a solution of "teaching a man to fish".

In the afternoon, Qin Muchu could be said to have benefited a lot.

He was really reluctant to let Lao Mouzi go.

But Lao Mouzi's attitude was very firm, and he got into the car with his buttocks, and pulled Qin Muchu away to hold his hand:
"I still have something to do when I go back. After finishing the finishing work of the Olympics, I'll come to you to have a look. I also have some questions to ask you."

Hearing what Zhang Yimou said, Qin Muchu couldn't hold him back anymore.

At this time, the Olympics must be more important than anything else.

I had no choice but to let go of Lao Mouzi reluctantly:
"That's a good deal, you must come."

The tone is true.

Like a son sending his father away.

There is no way, he and Lao Mouzi are too in tune with each other.

He came up with an idea, stated the effect he wanted to shoot, and then turned on the sub-camera. After thinking about it for a while, Lao Mouzi could give a specific operation method, and he could also beautify his sub-camera.

These experiential things require a lot of shooting to accumulate. Even if Qin Muchu is a genius, he can only accumulate faster than normal people.

It is impossible to create something out of nothing.

If only there was an assistant director like this...

Quickly stop this dangerous thought.

swelled, swelled...

Before leaving, Zhang Yimou patted Qin Muchu on the shoulder, showing a rare smile:

"Xiao Qin, your level of directing is very high now, especially in terms of creation, camera sensitivity, and rhythm control.

Especially imagination, I am far inferior to you.

But there is one thing, these abilities of yours are not systematic, just like generals who have outstanding abilities but don't cooperate.

It may be because you haven't studied systematically, so it seems a bit messy. If you have time, calm down and sort out your abilities, including the experience of filming so many movies...

It is best to go to the college for further study, not to say how much you can learn, but to help yourself accumulate knowledge. Your future achievements will definitely be much higher than mine. "

(End of this chapter)