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Chapter 209 "Those Years" Officially Starts Filming

The pre-shooting cost of "The Girl We Chased Together" was controlled by Li Xian at around 500 million. The filming cycle of this film will not be too long, so after the cast is confirmed, it is convenient for the day of November 11 In the official start.

Li Xian, who was sitting in Xiao Ruichao's Santana, arrived early in the morning at the location of BJ No. [-] Middle School.

In the past few days, there has been a lot of news on the Internet about him being the casting judge for "The Girl We Chased Together". Everyone is guessing what Li Xian has to do with this low-budget film that is not considered a big production.You know, at this time at the end of 2001, there had never even been a youth romance film in the domestic film market.

In this era of blockbusters, this type of movie is clearly coming for the street.

Li Xian did not respond publicly on the blog or post bar, so the outside world still does not know that Li Xian is the chief director, chief screenwriter and number one actor of this movie.However, when "Those Years" was launched on the first day, the crowd of passers-by watching around the set could still be described as full.

After all, the filming site was chosen on a high school campus, so it was difficult to prevent the teachers and students in the school from getting the news, and it was even more impossible to say that the school would be closed directly. Li Xian was far from having enough ability and influence to make the whole school work for him temporarily. All staff are on vacation.

Most of the scenes shot on the first day were in the classroom, and then I will record some scenes from the movie in the third and second classrooms of BJ No. [-] Middle School and Senior High School for three consecutive days. BJ No. [-] Middle School is an extremely well-known key middle school in China. Although Li Xian only rents this classroom for three days, the rent is ridiculously expensive. He has to pay tens of thousands of yuan every day, and the school also earns a lot of money because of this. It's fun.

BJ at the end of November is already a freezing season, but in "Those Years, The Girl We Chased Together", the extra classroom clips are all summer scenes, in order to restore the original work of Nine Swords as much as possible In the scene in the novel, the actors still wore all-short-sleeved school uniforms as required.

The school charged a high rent, and specially equipped the classroom of Class 27 and Class [-] with a large central air conditioner to raise the indoor temperature to a relatively warm level of [-] degrees. In addition, BJ is sunny these days In the bright weather, the sunlight entering the classroom from different angles illuminates the entire lecture hall, which is enough to present a summer campus feeling in a false and real way.

In addition to Li Xian and Fan Bingbing, there are also new actors such as Xu Liang and Hu Xinrui who have stood out from the casting operations in the five major cities, as well as some students from BJ No. [-] High School who actively signed up to be extras. I was worried that they would affect the shooting. Anyway, it was just a soy sauce and a face recording was enough.

In fact, the cost of the movie "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years" can be controlled at no more than [-] million. The biggest reason is that this is a campus-type youth love movie that does not require too many movie special effects. , Even the makeup is simple and simple, and sometimes it is not a problem to appear on the stage without makeup. After coming and going, it leaves a lot of production funds for the film.

"Audio, multimedia, and the logistics team are checking the equipment!" At around ten o'clock, the assistant director Han Li hired by Li Xian spent a lot of time wandering around the classroom, and then ordered the staff to carry out the final inspection.In fact, Han Li and Li Xian only met once, and it was established a few months ago when Li Xian was filming the "Legend" game endorsement video.

Fortunately, Li Xian had the heart to ask for Han Li's contact information at that time. Han Li was not a well-known director in China, but after the shooting of the promotional video, Li Xian, who had personally experienced it, really felt that the new director Professional skills are no worse than other great directors...

What he lacks is an opportunity, an opportunity for the audience to recognize him.This time Li Xian decided to shoot "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years" and contacted him not long after, and finally persuaded him to be the assistant director of the film with a sincere attitude.Although he is an assistant director, when Li Xian cuts the film, he will make Han Li's name appear alongside himself in the chief director's list.

Although Li Xian has already used points to raise his director level to level four in the "Astrology" system, keeping pace with his highest acting skills, being a director is after all a technical job that requires practice. Li Xian's current professional " "Intelligence" is there, but it still lacks a lot in terms of actual operation.Inviting Han Lilai to act as the second leading actor, firstly, he can take charge of the camera when he has a part in the scene, and secondly, he can also learn more about specific photography operations from him when Li Xun has nothing to do...

Li Xian and Fan Bingbing were already sitting in their seats as honestly as other "classmates".Li Xian's seat was arranged at the front table of Fan Bingbing. I have to say that Fan Bingbing in school clothes looks really refreshing. She is almost bare-faced, as if she is not an actor now, but she is a real person. senior high school girl.

Speaking of it, because he has no filming experience and no qualifications in the directing industry, the filming team of "Those Years" this time can be said to be completely pieced together by Li Xiandong.The recording team, logistics team, filming team, and props team have different capital expenses, and they even meet each other for the first time.

But everyone is a professional after all, after a few hours of running-in, basically there is some tacit understanding.Once there is a deviation in the direction of their production, Li Xian, as the chief director, will immediately correct it. He has already clearly remembered the movie prototype of "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years" in his mind. Except for some minor modifications, it is enough to restore the original version as much as possible in general.

"You don't know what kind of material your brain is made of. You have restored all the scenes in this script to the greatest extent, and when you put on your school uniform, you really look like an uneducated big ruffian on campus. Of course Han Li didn't know that Li Xian had watched the original version of "Those Years" several times, and when he praised Li Xian's style, he kept being amazed at his ability to direct and arrange scenes...

"You have to take your time to shoot later, don't waste the film... Also, try to shoot according to the shot plan I gave you, and you can shoot carefully, and you can minimize the cost as much as possible." Li Xian has no positive Back to Han Li's question, but once again earnestly told him to be careful in everything and not to waste expensive film and equipment.

If you are not in charge of a family, you don’t know the price of firewood, rice, oil and salt. Li Xian, who was the first investor and chief director, has now thoroughly understood this truth.

Now everything in the crew needs to be purchased with funds. If there is a little waste or a lot of mistakes, then the pre-controllable pre-shooting costs will be overrun, and there will not be enough funds for post-production. Maybe this movie will be turned into an anticlimactic, four-faced bad movie...

(End of this chapter)