This director needs to apologize

Chapter 228 Be prepared but not used

At 9 o'clock in the morning, the wind was sunny and sunny.

Having been filming together for more than two years, Chen Yiming's behind-the-scenes team has become very familiar with them.

All the staff got up at six o'clock and entered the scene at seven o'clock. The scenery team inspected the scenery, the props team correspondingly unpacked the boxes respectively, the actors changed their costumes and put on makeup, and the camera team laid tracks and set up machines for final debugging.

All preparations before the shooting started were quick but not chaotic and orderly.

The three assistant directors each have their own division of labor. Wang Wei, who was hired first, became a potential junior supervisor, responsible for summarizing feedback from various departments and communicating with Chen Yiming in the supervisory shed.

Tian Li runs errands for the two photography instructors full-time and picks holes in Fu Huadao part-time.

Because Li Zhun has rich experience in Hengcheng, he works full-time as an extra and takes over Wang Wei's clapper board part-time.

Today's scene is considered a small group scene. There are six people on Mulan's side. The leaders are Yu Nan, Lin Feng and Lin Geng. The remaining three supporting actors are Wu Xing under Wu Yuanrong.

There are seven people working with Nie Yuan. In addition to Nie Yuan who was sitting on the sidelines in the early stages, the number one pawn is Wang Chuanjun, a young actor who graduated from Magic Theater. His ancient costumes bring a sense of joy. Chen Yiming specially selected him to be in charge of acting in the film. Liven up the atmosphere.

The other five people in the border army are all served by Wu Xing.

The plot tells that after Mulan entered the military fort, her small gang of the Fu army and Nie Yuan's small gang of the border army belonged to the same camp.

During the first military exercise, the newly arrived soldiers gathered around Mulan, which naturally made Nie Yuan, the original second man at the head of the battalion, displeased.

Ma Zi and Wang Chuanjun jumped out and fired at Mulan. Mulan's companion Lin Geng immediately retorted, and Wang and Lin moved from talking to fighting, leading to a group fight.

The five members of the government army were accustomed to fighting in groups to meet the enemy. Three defended and two attacked. They took the lead and beat the arrogant Wang Chuanjun into a black-eyed chicken.

As cavalry scouts, the frontier army was accustomed to fighting alone, and was once overwhelmed by the small number of government troops. The boss, Nie Yuan, took the lead and lost his composure. He joined the battle group and regained the upper hand with his super personal strength.

Mulan then came off the field and took over from Nie Yuan. She defended and led the attack, giving Nie Yuan a powerful start. In the end, she used a flaw to tie the game and stopped, and she took the initiative to give in to save Nie Yuan's face.

Although this scene is the first appearance of the adult Mulan after joining the army, the real eye-catcher is not Yu Nan, but Nie Yuan, who plays the opposite role.

As the current small leader of the border army and the future deputy general of Mulan, Nie Yuan needs to perform three levels of content.

First of all, as a frontline soldier and cavalry scout captain, he is a representative of the elite force of the military fortress. In addition, in the setting, he is a veteran who has been stationed for many years, so he is arrogant and confident, and he looks down on new recruits.

Secondly, Nie Yuan plays a frustrated young officer whose achievements are swallowed up by his superiors who just leave as soon as they are gilded. In terms of position, he actually belongs to the same front as the government army led by Mulan. In this scene, he has to act cynical and aloof.

Thirdly, the scenes that set up Mulan’s character and personality in the early stage are also the process of Nie Yuan going from dissatisfied to convinced to convinced. In other words, Nie Yuan’s attitude change is a mirror reflection of Mulan’s growth and transformation. .

If you want to show that a person is very strong, forward presentation is definitely not as good as reverse comparison. As Mulan's early opponent, the more powerful Nie Yuan is, the more unfathomable Mulan will be when he conquers him.

On the other hand, as a veteran stationed on the border, Nie Yuan is familiar with the intrigues on the grasslands. He can pave the way for the subsequent plot of betrayal, which also highlights the difficulty of Mulan's maturity.

At 9 o'clock sharp, Li Zhun loudly ordered the scene to be cleared through the electric horn. After feedback from all departments, Chen Yiming gave instructions through the walkie-talkie to start filming!

Li Zhun said, "Mulan, scene 15, scene 5, first shooting, start!"

The first thing the camera focused on was Nie Yuan, who was sitting upright against a pillar in the school grounds. He was sitting on a low stool with his legs spread wide, holding a straw stick in his mouth, squinting and looking at the center of the school grounds. direction.

Wang Chuanjun is in the frame, squatting on the lower right side of the viewfinder. His face is naturally funny, wrapped in a hood and a futou, and his expression is winking and dog-legged.

"Brother, the new guy is very smart. That little guy looks like a weak young man. Bah! The government army is full of such bastards!"

Nie Yuan's cool eyes slanted down and he glanced at Wang Chuanjun. Then he straightened his neck and closed his eyes slightly, looking straight without saying a word.

The younger brother Wang Chuanjun understood the situation and said, "Brother, look at me." He stood up, turned around and gave a wink to his companion behind him, and then walked towards Mulan casually.

The camera followed Wang Chuanjun all the way to the center of the school field. Yu Nan stood upright with his right hand on the hilt of a knife, watching his companions perform martial arts.

Noticing someone approaching from behind early on, Yu Nan turned around to face the camera.

Wang Chuanjun walked closer and closer in a daze, as if he was going to bump into Yu Nan directly. The latter frowned, but remained motionless.

The camera followed Wang Chuanjun and moved closer and closer until it showed a close-up of Mulan's upper body.

Half a step closer, Lin Geng suddenly cut across and entered the mirror. He stood in front of Mulan and punched Wang Chuanjun in the face. Then he turned the handle of the knife and pushed it, causing Wang Chuanjun to stagger.

As the distance between the two widened again, Qi Yu smoothly pulled the lens and completely included the three people in the frame again.

Lin Geng stepped forward and shouted, "Back off! Who are you and what do you want to do?"

The camera changes angle and pans, from facing Yu Nan directly to 90 degrees, to side facing Wang Chuanjun and Lin Geng, who are facing a confrontation.

"Ka!" Chen Yiming stopped filming and called Wang Wei to say a few words.

The latter trotted all the way to Wang Chuanjun's side, "Teacher Wang, Director Chen asked you to calm down a little. You are not playing a clown, and there is no need for unnecessary changes in expressions."

Then he walked towards Lin Geng, "Teacher Lin, Director Chen asked you to express your anger a little more. It is assumed that you are Mulan's fan, and you know Mulan's gender. To you, Wang Chuanjun's provocation is teasing. , this is intolerable.”

Reset, clear the scene, hit the board, and take the second shot.

The acting was much better this time. After Wang Chuanjun put away his unnecessary expressions, his own sense of joy in ancient costumes was immediately amplified, which effectively neutralized the third-party perception of this internal strife between the Tang army.

The reason why Chen Yiming arranged a clown next to Nie Yuan was to prevent the audience from pretending to be a fake actor and treating Nie Yuan and the frontier veterans he led as the real villains.

There are actually a lot of camp settings in "Mulan". In the limited time, it is not easy to clearly explain the positions and intentions of all the forces. Chen Yiming had to be as meticulous as possible in the script.

After Chen Yiming checked the samples, he still asked for "one guarantee."

After the third take, Chen Yiming shouted "pass", and Wang Lizing's lighting team came on stage to set up the lighting and reshoot the close-up of the previous shot.

In the script, this was one continuous scene, but after it was changed to storyboards, there were as many as a dozen shots.

For example, after Nie Yuan turned his head, he wanted to add a close-up of the second camera. Wang Chuanjun turned his head to wink at his companion and wanted to pursue a panoramic close-up of his companion. Yu Nan held up the knife to watch the martial arts performance and wanted to take a close-up of the martial arts.

After Lin Geng stands in front of Yu Nan, there needs to be a close-up of Lin and Wang's heads. Before Lin Geng raises the knife to attack someone, there needs to be a close-up of the knife spinning.

In addition, in order to meet the needs of subsequent plot changes, Lin Feng, who originally had no sense of presence in this scene, also needed to prepare a close-up in advance, a panoramic view of the school ground, and also had to shoot a wide range of empty shots from multiple angles in advance.

The close-ups of the same scene may not all be cut into the finished film, but they must be captured during filming so that they cannot be missed. It is better to prepare them than to use them, rather than to waste time and laborious reshoots after discovering inconsistencies later on.

It was almost twelve o'clock, and after a dozen short shots were completed, Wang Wei announced that it was time to break up and have dinner, and the filming would continue at one o'clock in the afternoon.

Starting from the meeting at six o'clock, only one complete shot was shot in the morning, which only lasts about ten to fifteen seconds in the final film.

Compared with "1951", which was shot to the end, the length of material in "Mulan" is several times longer, and the shooting time has also increased. Da Zhuang said that filming will be completed before June, which is obviously an ideal deduction.

　Sorry, it's a little late

　　

　

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