This director needs to apologize

Chapter 107 You can’t copy if you’re not a human being

After filming the most difficult scene, Chen Yiming felt relieved.

If the director can classify the shots of a movie, there are only two types.

One is left to fate, and the other is under control.

The ultimate example of the former is the thawing scene of the Yellow River in the first part of "Armageddon" in the previous life.

The purely natural documentary shots of the exterior scenes, whether you can capture them all depends on whether God will give you face.

A photography team from the Bayi Factory drove to shoot from the upper reaches to the middle reaches of the Yellow River during the thawing period. The first year was not completed and the second year was continued. It took two and a half years to complete this shot.

The latter is relatively much easier. As long as time, budget, and actors' schedules allow, you can shoot it over and over again. You can always pick out the right one after dozens or hundreds of shots.

Directors who have been working for a long time usually tend to be a little anti-human. This is not a derogatory term, it is a completely neutral description.

This means that during filming, people are not treated as human beings, and power is treated as a tool. Not only are the actors and behind-the-scenes treated as human beings, but they themselves are also treated as human beings.

Of course, whether you leave it to fate or have it under control, both are extreme left and right theoretical states. In actual shooting, the shots are basically in the middle state of left or right.

Looking at the storyboards of "1951" according to this splitting method, the opening scene and the airplane scene are both significantly left-leaning, and the airplane scene is relatively left-leaning.

Although a large number of special effects are added so that a single shot is not very long, the plane in the sky is too uncontrollable, and there are also many difficulties in the underwater scenes.

Being able to complete 4/1 of the scenes in 3 passes in one day is definitely an ideal progress.

Therefore, after returning to the station, Chen Yiming specifically asked Xiaomei to inform the entire team that the departure would be delayed by 2 hours tomorrow morning so that everyone could get more sleep.

From March to April, the cloud cover in northern Shanxi is moderate. As long as it is not so heavy that it rains directly, you can always catch some cloudy periods throughout the day.

Therefore, the crew's schedule is relatively fixed. They arrive at the location early in the morning, make all preparations, and then look up at the sky.

When Yun comes, we will actually shoot, and when Yun leaves, we will rehearse.

Even if you're unlucky and it's cloudless, you can guarantee two shots in the two short periods before sunrise in the morning and before sunset in the evening.

In the following three days, there were not many clouds. The K-3 flew a total of 18 times, and the crew successfully completed the remaining 7 scenes in which the aircraft was used.

Out are the jets and in are the howitzers.

It was still the military artillery unit that Uncle Gao helped contact, and Yang Xiaoguang and Professor Sha followed up the modification.

On March 3, Chen Yiming and the backbone of the crew saw the legendary Nut M24 2MM howitzer.

Go north along the east side of Highland 470, climb a small mound, and you can see a huge artillery position from the top, filling the depression behind the mound.

The 18 artillery pieces were neatly stationed on the position, with their coats removed and their frames deployed. The barrels pointed diagonally in the direction of Tianma Mountain.

Each cannon was wiped spotless, reflecting the luster of metal under the sunlight.

Especially the two big wheels, with pure black base paint and pure white outer ring, just like the white five stars on the oil pick, exuding an inexplicable Midi atmosphere.

Of course, so many 105 howitzers cannot be original. In fact, they are all new guns brought from the Northern Ordnance Industry.

Since our army suffered from the phobia of insufficient firepower, artillery has always insisted on thick and long equipment lines. The 105 caliber has long been insufficient, and currently only a small amount is equipped with mountain troops on the western plateau.

Looking at the artillery parameters alone, the current 105MM mountain light howitzer can barely pass for the old Nut M2. It is generally regarded as a slightly reduced version of the M2. Looking at it from a distance, it is almost the same.

The problem is that this towed artillery has limited uses. Our army does not have a lot of equipment. It is not worth the time and effort to transfer it from the Western Military Region.

So Uncle Gao thought of the research and development unit of this gun, the Northern Ordnance Factory.

It was a coincidence when I asked, they just happened to produce a batch of AH-4 105MM mountain grenade, which is actually the foreign trade monkey version of this gun.Pre-ordered by a major dog owner in the Middle East, but has not yet been officially delivered.

Uncle Gao mentioned that the Ordnance Factory was all-powerful, and the test firing of these foreign trade artillery was moved from the Ordnance Factory's experimental site to the mountainous area of ​​northern Shanxi.

The Imperial Military Region dispatched an artillery battalion, pulling out 18 guns at a time, and arrived at the training ground north of Tianma Mountain on Monday.

After that, it took another two days, under the guidance of Professor Sha, to build artillery positions and set up cover positions in accordance with the peninsula war nut artillery drills.

The location of the artillery position was selected with reference to the performance parameters of the Nut 105 gun and the combat habits of the Nut artillery.Choosing here, the range and shooting range meet the requirements, and the surrounding terrain is also easy to defend.

Everyone got off the mound and couldn't wait to experience the charm of the "thick tube" up close.

After passing several machine gun nests built with stacked sandbags, everyone approached the first artillery gun on the outside of the depression.

However, upon closer inspection, the initial impression of chilling and ferocious nature faded significantly.

After all, it is a modern modular process, which makes the artillery somewhat look like toy building blocks. What’s more, these artillery pieces have just come off the production line and are so new that they don’t smell like pyrotechnics.The artillery battalion soldiers built the position very neatly, and the soil was pushed in front of the artillery body, forming a semi-arc, half-meter-high earth breast wall.

The shell boxes were stacked into a low wall, located on the side and rear of the artillery. Three scattered boxes of shells had been opened and placed on the outside of the parapet for easy access.

Chen Yiming shook his head and said to Professor Sha and Yang Xiaoguang, "It's too formal. You two also know that at that time, our army's offensive firepower was weak and the nut artillery was very arrogant. It was not in line with the habits of the nut soldiers to be so neat.

The artillery can be arranged neatly to make the scene more beautiful, but the details of the position do not need to be so uniform. "

He squatted down and looked at the cannonballs in the box in detail. Yang Xiaoguang introduced, "Only these opened boxes have cannonballs, the others are empty boxes and we use them to recharge.

All the ammunition brought over were blank ammunition. Experts from the Ordnance Factory confirmed that the smoke and sound when firing were not much different from live ammunition. "

Chen Yiming calculated in his mind, "The quantity is not enough. We must at least ensure a salvo of more than 10 rounds. Quickly send people to the ordnance factory to purchase and double the number based on the existing ones."

The group of people walked and looked around, making a counterclockwise circle and arriving at the southwest opening of the depression.

The mound that shields the artillery position extends here to the lowest point, blending in with the surrounding low trees and grass.

Yang Xiaoguang dragged two old 59 car casings from the factory and modified their faces to pretend to be M26 Pershing.

Of course, the side face cannot be exposed, otherwise the standard five pairs of wheels will immediately penetrate the gang. Professor Sha made a special design for this section of the cover position accordingly.

A 2-meter-high double-layer support point was built at the opening. The recoilless rifle and observation tower were placed on the upper layer, and the machine gun nest and shooting crenel were placed on the lower layer.

With the behemoth in the middle, the two "Pershings" can be parked on both sides of the position with peace of mind, with the muzzles pointing diagonally at a 45-degree angle, revealing a wide front face.

The trio of Duan Yining, Liu Dongjun and Paul were already simulating on the spot and were currently testing the visual effects of the initial artillery position on the edge of the mound.

Chen Yiming walked over quickly and found Lao Duan lying on the back slope of the mound, Xiao Liu beside him, and Paul crouched directly behind Lao Duan. He gestured with his hands up and down to form a viewfinder, and looked over Lao Duan's shoulders. An artillery position not far away.

When Paul saw Chen Yiming coming over, he mumbled a lot.

Xiangrui translated, "Chen, the height of the mound is much lower than the sand table demonstration. Under the premise of concealed passage, it is difficult to cover all the artillery from the subjective perspective.

The current tracking mirror is not jumpy enough. I think it needs to be sharper, or the camera position should be raised to the highest position to cover the panoramic view, or the camera position should be moved to the lowest position to highlight the contrast. "

Mr. Sang also joined the procession of crawling to take pictures. After a while of jumping up and down, he agreed with Paul's opinion.

"Xiao Chen, there is indeed a problem with our previous shooting plan. It was too mediocre and could not stand up to the huge array of 18 artillery pieces in front of us."

After hearing this, Chen Yiming was noncommittal. The suggestions of the two photographers were more out of consideration for the effect of the picture. He should listen, but he couldn't listen to them all.

This scene of sneaking through the nut artillery position mainly serves two functions in the entire movie.

One is the explanation of the artillery blockade in the first half of the movie. It was precisely because the enemy's firepower was so fierce that it had to be detoured upstream.

Therefore, in response to the previous paragraph, there must be enough artillery arrayed, and the sound of the gunfire must be loud enough.

The second is as a key profile of a scene, which together with Youtiaozi constitutes the background color of the entire movie, which is the overwhelming ground and air firepower superiority of the Nut side in the Peninsular War.

In order to highlight these two functions, this scene cannot be shot in the conventional way of war movies in the past, but must be shot in a different way.

There have been many classic works that have demonstrated how to represent artillery in war films.

For example, in the battle against Jinzhou in "The Great Battle", the long aerial shots gave a clear view of thousands of artillery pieces.

Or "A Bridge Far Away", which reproduced Xu Jin's barrage in the war on the big screen for the first time.

These two shooting methods fully embody the rough aesthetics of big is good and more is beautiful, and complement the character of the God of War.

The former focuses on depicting the firing of artillery, while the latter focuses on depicting the explosion effect. In Chen Yiming's impression, it is the ultimate expression of artillery in war movies.

It's a pity that neither "1951" can learn from these two.

Chen Yiming cannot ignore the laws of war for the sake of visual effects. Duan and Liu are sneaking into enemy territory, so their perspective is naturally limited.

When the enemy is surrounded by heavy troops, he observes from a high position. Is it because he thinks he is not exposed quickly enough?
He sifted through the war movies he had watched in his previous life one by one, but could never find a suitable lens to imitate.

Paul and Sang Ping climbed up and down the mound. After working for a long time, they turned around and found Chen Yiming motionless. They were very surprised.

Xiangrui ran up to Chen Yiming and shouted, "Yiming, don't be in a daze, I'm waiting for you to make up your mind!"

Chen Yiming was startled. After he woke up, he was still immersed in his own thoughts. He murmured to himself, "There is really no need to copy this time."

(End of this chapter)