my movie years

Guo Fan has experience in making war films. He directed "The Battle of Songgu Ridge", which received good box office and gained a good reputation.

But Lao Guo is currently busy with the post-production of "The Wandering Earth 2", otherwise Zhang Hao would really consider bringing Lao Guo over to co-direct.

After solving the problem of the leading actors, the second step is to solve the problem of the extras.

As we all know, group acting in war movies is actually very hard, no matter what era, even if it is a cold weapon war movie.

In the past, similar films were made with the help of the military, and the Bayi Factory played a very good role here.

But now there are very few troops directly participating in movies, which leads to a large difference in the scale of such large-scale scenes.

In order to restore the truth, Zhang Hao asked Fu Ruoqing, who went directly to the army propaganda department.

When the troops took a look, it turned out that there was such a thing, and it was directed by Zhang Hao, the top international director.

With a wave of his hand, a team of 800 people came to the crew to report.

In addition to the experienced extras recruited by the crew themselves, such as veterans, or those who practice sports, who meet the height requirements and can be trained, a further 500 people were recruited.

This isn’t the end of the story, we also need to do some extra performances by foreigners.

So the crew began to recruit foreigners from all over the country to perform as extras, and finally gathered 200 people.
Therefore, the number of troops, plus group performances by foreigners and foreigners, reached 3500.

This is not enough. When the leaders heard about such a project, they were very satisfied and came to inspect it!
But looking at the various scenes prepared in the early stage, the props were all quite unprofessional, and the so-called military experts were also half-hearted.

This didn't work, so the leader waved his hand, and truly professional experts came.

In addition, many surviving weapons from that year were dug out and provided to the crew for filming.

In the early preparations alone, the crew prepared 1 sets of military uniforms of various types, and strived to restore the authenticity of the details.In addition, there are [-] guns of various types and [-] modified tanks.

Said to be tanks, only about twenty of them are real, and the others are modified tractors and trucks with a layer of skin on the outside.

What's even more amazing is that the producer Liu Hao didn't know which shipyard he went to, and he actually found four old warships that were about to be dismantled.

What else could he say? Zhang Hao immediately asked Liu Hao to negotiate and rent these four boats for filming.

Of course, it is impossible to shoot completely in real life, and it must be shot with a lot of CGI and models.

But this aspect is precisely the advantage of Tiangong Yicai and Yuegong Studios. The studio is fully responsible for the production of these aspects.

Currently, under the leadership of visual effects supervisors Gong Jun and Wu Yinghao, special effects engineers have created several special effects scenes.
It was very realistic and Zhang Hao was very satisfied.

We have what is on earth and what is in the sea, how can we lack what is in heaven?

The old fighter jets were dug out again and repaired by a professional repair shop to see if they could fly.

Not to mention, everyone from all over the country helped, rummaging through various hangars and aircraft cemeteries, and produced more than 30 aircraft.

Zhang Hao also used the relationship between Warner and Universal to purchase more than a dozen aircraft that were used by the other side at the time.

If there are not enough left, existing small aircraft will be refitted, bringing the number of aircraft of various types to more than 70.

If all these weapons and equipment are real and brought to Africa, they will probably dominate one side.

But this is just for making movies, which is a big deal.

All scenes are realized through real shots and special effects.The overall tone of the film is cooler, and the real shots are more effective.

The crew was set up, and all the leading actors began arduous military training under the guidance of instructors.

Including those group performances, they will practice some classics, such as interleaving and three-three tactics.

Including group performances with a scale of 200 foreigners, all of them need to receive military training and practice the opponent's classic tactics.

Jingting and Zhang Wanyi are both contracted artists of Tianmi Film and Television Production Company. Jingting plays a messenger soldier. He doesn't have many scenes, but he still needs to participate in military training.

During the training period, you need to ask for leave to go out for business performances or participate in variety shows. In the end, it depends on whether Zhang Hao approves or not.

To be honest, Jingting is a little bit dissatisfied. After all, he has done a lot of variety shows and commercial performances recently.

The film didn't offer much money and was tiring. To be honest, he didn't want to participate in the film at first.After practicing a set of movements, Jingting and Zhang Wanyi rested against the wall and drank water.Jingting vomited: "This high-intensity training is probably just the training for new recruits. What is the boss thinking? Do you still need training?"

Zhang Wanyi frowned and said, "Can we not follow the training? All big names need training, what will we do if we don't practice?"

"But the big names are the leading actors! We are not, and we don't have many scenes." This is what Jingting complained about.

Training is not impossible, but after all, he is a starring role, just a messenger. The script contains less than five lines and five lines, so he needs to spend a month to receive training.

Zhang Wanyi glanced at Jingting and said, "Since you don't want to train, go and talk to your agent, go and talk to the boss."

Jingting was scared: "Forget it, I'll just keep practicing!"

If other little fresh meat heard Jingting's words, they would probably want to beat him.We have no chance to appear in a movie directed by Zhang Hao, but you are so picky?Deserve a fight.

But then again, even though Jingting was complaining, he practiced really, he didn't make fun of things, and his attitude was still serious.

And those little fresh meat, especially a certain brother.Earlier, Du Hua strongly requested Zhang Hao to let Brother Jue play a role, even if it was a guest appearance.

As a result, he was rejected by Zhang Hao, and Du Hua was so angry that he cursed Zhang Hao for being ignorant. Then Du Hua was warned by Yu Feihong.

If Zhang Hao agrees to let Brother Jue Jue play the role, I wonder if Brother Jue Jue can withstand this military training?
Anyway, Zhang Hao won't approve the leave, so just stay on the set and train!

It's a good thing that he didn't come. When Zhang Hao comes, he still doesn't know what role he can play with his poor acting skills.

But I'm not angry at all. If I can't play a supporting role in Zhang Hao's movie, I will play a leading role.

It is said that it is also a movie about a test pilot. The name has already been thought of. It is called "King of the Sky" and is scheduled to be released on National Day this year.

But to be honest, the moment I saw Brother Jue starring in the movie, there was no reason to look forward to the movie "King of the Sky".

Brother Jue Jue aside, after a long period of preparation, the film officially held its launch conference.

The title of the film was announced at the press conference, called "Flags". It was originally intended to be called "Flags of Our Fathers", but there is already a Hollywood movie with the same name.

So let’s just call it “Flag” and shoot it as a three-part series in one go.

To control such a large project, the number of extras alone has reached 500. Including the crew members, the number of people will reach [-].

Including the post-production staff, the number of direct participants in the "Flag" project reached tens of thousands.

It is rare in the history of Chinese films for so many people to participate in one project.

The only one that can be compared with it is probably the "Armageddon" trilogy.

With tens of thousands of people, even eating, drinking and having diarrhea is no small matter, not to mention that no matter how big or small, everything needs to be managed.

Fortunately, Zhang He's team has sufficient experience, and each position has a clear division of labor. If the responsible person can be found, the work will appear to be stable.

Before starting the filming, Zhang Hao held more than 20 meetings, large and small, and also held separate meetings with each group to determine the detailed work process.

Such a large crew cannot work without rules, regulations and work procedures. These must be decided by Zhang Hao.

Now I know why three directors were needed to direct "Changjin Lake" in the previous life. In addition to their qualifications, it was also related to the heavy workload.

Fortunately, Zhang Hao is quite energetic and has a group of excellent deputy directors, assistant directors, and the best producer team in the country.

In fact, every assistant director in Zhang Hao's team can act independently, after all, they have worked with Zhang Hao for so many years.

There are indeed assistant directors who, after working for Zhang Hao for a period of time, were poached by other companies to direct independently.

This group of directors are all called chapter directors, just like the Spurs coaches in the NBA.

Now in the Chinese director circle, ambitious young directors want to learn from Zhang Hao.Not only can you learn skills, but you can also gain qualifications.

I went to other film companies for interviews and saw on my resume that I had served as Zhang Hao's assistant director. I passed the interview 100%.

Many of Zhang Hao's assistant directors have now become the backbone of young directors, waiting for a group of directors to grow up again.With Zhang Hao's filmmaking philosophy, Chinese-language films have ushered in a new era. (End of chapter)