Actor: My Entertainment Era

The script of "Dying to Survive" lacks a very important plot, which is why Cheng Yong was able to directly contact the Indian channels.

He is a small shop owner who is about to go bankrupt because of selling Indian magic oil. If he wants to go to India to buy medicine, he can directly contact the source factory there. Is it that easy?
He himself sells ZS Indian Magic Oil, but he must have purchased the goods from his upstream distributors. If he had an Indian ZS chain directly connected to the source factory, he would not have been in such a predicament.

However, considering the length of the film, Wen Muye and Han Jianu did not write this part. They chose to give Cheng Yong a cheat and let him go directly to India to find the factory to get the goods.

It cannot be written in detail to describe on the big screen how a person builds a complete ZS channel. It will not pass the review.

In reality, it took textile factory owner Lu Yong quite some effort to develop channels in India.

Since the filming of "Dying to Survive" began, the efficiency has not been very high. When filming on the streets, there are always many unexpected situations.

We've been shooting for several days since the filming started, but there's not a single usable piece of footage.

Zhang Yuanjun is not in a hurry. Good things take time. Just take your time.

Among the main characters, apart from Zhang Yuanjun, the most advanced group is actually Yang Xinming, who plays Pastor Liu.

As the filming in the past few days was not smooth, Wen Muye made a temporary adjustment and changed it to shoot a short segment of Pastor Liu selling medicine in the church. The content is very simple. Pastor Liu handed the medicine to the patients in the church and said, "God bless you."

This scene was not Zhang Yuanjun's place, but Zhang Yuanjun still watched it on the spot.

The assistant director in charge of extras was lining up the extras, and Wen Muye was learning about shots with photographer Wang Bo.

"Pull back here and film the patient getting medicine from behind the pastor." Wen Muye took out the storyboard he drew for this scene.

But Wang Boxue had a different opinion: "How about showing a full view of the church first? The pastor stands under the cross, and the patients line up in pairs and then receive their medicine."

Wen Muye disagreed with this filming plan, thinking that although it would be of great significance, it would be too big. The clip of Pastor Liu distributing medicine is expected to be no longer than 10 seconds in the feature film. A 10-second clip using a panoramic view to show the conflict between God and man is too big.

But Wen Muye was still moved by Wang Bo's suggestion and agreed to shoot one take like this first to see the effect, because such a conflict between man and god is indeed very attractive.

After talking about the shot, Wen Muye urged the actor coordinator: "Ask Wang Chuanjun if he can join the crew early, preferably tomorrow. We need to make use of this church and shoot as soon as possible."

The coordinator promised to urge Wang Chuanjun again.

After Wen Muye finished speaking, he went back to the set to discuss the play with Yang Xinming.

Mr. Yang Xinming is a golden supporting actor with a good reputation in the circle. His price is fair, his acting is good, and he is easy to get along with. Many crews are willing to invite him to play some elderly roles. The old man is not picky about the roles, so if you talk to him nicely, he will most likely agree.

However, perhaps due to the times, Yang Xinming's cultural level was not very high. Pastor Liu had a lot of English lines in the play, and Yang Xinming had no choice but to find someone to read them to him, and then he memorized the English lines word by word.

But you know what, his "awkward" English accent actually adds a bit of steadiness and humility to Pastor Liu, a clergyman.

Wen Muye told Yang Xinming on the set how his shots would be shot later and what he should pay attention to when performing.

After finishing the play, Wen Muye sat back in the director's chair.

The assistant director on the scene yelled, "All departments, get in position, start."

The crew shot in the church for a whole day but still failed to complete the scene, and only one or two shots were usable.

Zhang Yuanjun fulfilled the responsibilities of a producer on the set. He would help with script discussion and coordination, and also offer his own opinions on some filming issues.

"If this were shot on film, the producer would curse." Zhang Yuanjun laughed, "Has Muye ever shot on film?"

"I've shot it for student assignments, but I've never tried film since I started making movies. It's too expensive."

Zhang Yuanjun experienced film shooting in "Inception" - Nolan insisted on using the IMAX film camera.

He shared his experience of shooting film: "Nolan doesn't like to look at the monitor, he likes to follow the camera. The IMAX film machine is so big that it took several days to shoot a scene. We, the crew and the assistant director were very unhappy. Then the producer came on the set and said, "Go ahead, this reel is almost gone, say your lines!" None of us dared to offend the producer."

But Yang Xinming has experienced the film era completely. He said: "In the past, there were no monitors, and the quality of the film depended entirely on the judgment of the photographer and director. So you can see that many photos of old directors were taken while sitting next to the camera. At that time, when filming, as soon as the camera started to turn, my heart started beating. It was easy to perform well, but if there were too many NGs, the producer and director would scold me, asking what happened and how expensive this roll of film was! "Especially when shooting slow-motion shots, the camera would buzz and turn very fast, and new actors would make mistakes very easily."

Zhang Yuanjun had dinner with the crew before going back because he knew that Liu Yifei took the two children to the park this afternoon because the weather was good.

When Zhang Yuanjun came back in the evening, Liu Yifei, Liu Xiaoli and Zhang's mother were all having dinner.

Two little ones are sleeping.

"Have you eaten?" Liu Xiaoli asked.

"I've eaten on the set. You guys eat while I look after the kids." After saying that, he washed his hands and went to look at the kids.

Even Zhang's mother said, "You have forgotten your mother now that you have a child. All you have in your heart and eyes are the two of them. You don't even say a few words to us when you come home."

Liu Yifei replied: "You forgot your mother and your wife."

Zhang Yuanjun laughed and said, "How old are you? You're jealous of two newborn babies."

The door of the bedroom where the child slept was open, so that the adults outside could hear any noise at any time. The lights in the room were not turned off. Zhang Yuanjun walked straight in.

Zhang Yuanjun's voice came out: "Oh, you didn't even know the child woke up."

Liu Yifei put down her bowl and chopsticks, and the two mothers wanted to get up, but Liu Yifei said, "You guys eat, I'll go."

When Liu Yifei entered the room, she saw Zhang Yuanjun untying the child's diaper to check the situation.

Liu Yifei said: "I just slept for less than two hours."

Zhang Yuanjun said, "You won't cry now if I ask you to. You can cry a few times when you wake up, okay?"

The two children were still sticking out their tongues.

Zhang Yuanjun said, "Go eat, I'll watch, it's okay."

Then Zhang Yuanjun carried the two siblings, one in each hand, to the baby fence outside.

"I was holding the baby's diaper, and they probably woke up because they were holding it in," said Zhang. "They are two little fools, and they don't even know how to cry."

Zhang Yuanjun did as he was told, and sure enough, both of them urinated.

After peeing, Zhang Yuanjun took the toys and played with them. The brother and sister's feet were more flexible than their hands, and any toys placed near their feet would be kicked away.

"You like playing like this, right?" Zhang Yuanjun sat on the ground holding her daughter in one hand and placed various toys at her feet with the other hand for her to play with.

After my daughter finished playing, I hugged my son and played again.

Zhang Yuanjun said: "Your legs are so strong, why not ride a tricycle when you grow up?"

Mother Zhang smiled and said, "You taught me well."

Liu Xiaoli also laughed: "You're so smart."

Liu Yifei said: "When they grow up, will there still be people riding tricycles?"

Zhang Yuanjun smiled and said, "If we don't have one, we can buy one. When mom and dad get old, you can take them on a tricycle, okay?"

My sister screamed twice, but I don’t know if she understood or not. (End of this chapter)