Entertaining Children

  Chapter 1118 Did you give money?

  It is early August, which is the hottest time of the year. However, Dahebao Village, the filming location of the movie "Donkey Deshui", is located at the junction of northwest Shanxi and Inner Mongolia. The highest temperature in August last year was less than 30 degrees Celsius on average, and the highest temperature in August was only 32. Celsius is much cooler than cities like Yanjing and Shanghai. Although the living conditions here are worse, the climate and natural environment are still very good in this season.

  At present, the main job of the filming location is to build a house, followed by the props team purchasing and making some furniture and decorations that are needed in the set according to the requirements of the art director Lin Jingliang.

Xiao Yao is the director. Like Lin Jingliang, the art director, he doesn’t need to work by himself. They only need to grasp the progress of various tasks and ensure that the house under construction and various props meet the shooting requirements. .

  But after Xiao Yao came here, in addition to checking the progress on the site with Lin Jingliang every day, he would also discuss with Lin Jingliang the aesthetic plan during filming, and formulate future shooting plans after the start of the movie. Sometimes when I am interested, I will work with the props team to make the necessary furniture, paint the furniture, color the beams and columns, and show off my woodworking skills and painting skills. In his spare time, Xiao Yao will find local people to learn Mongolian and the dialects of Shanxi Province, and his life is quite fulfilling and comfortable.

  Day by day, the house for the main scene is built, the interior furniture and decoration are also finished, and the day of starting the machine is getting closer and closer.

  When Xiao Yao finally received the news that Sun Tingting had ended his teaching support, he quickly determined the start date of the crew and notified all the actors and crew members to gather at the filming location.

  Originally, Xiao Yao planned to go back to Yanjing and personally pick Sun Tingting to the filming location. However, because Sun Tingting's support education was in northwest Shanxi, Xiao Yao's plan to start the machine in advance forced her to give up going home to analyze the role with her parents. After the support education ended, she did not go home at all and came directly to the crew.

  Dahebao Village is not easy to find, and there are no suitable places to settle the entire crew in the surrounding townships. Instead, the nearest county seat to Dahebao Village is Qingshuihe County in Inner Mongolia. Xiao Yao put the entire crew in Qingshuihe County.

  Compared with Dahebao Village, Qingshuihe County is much easier to find. Xiao Yao saw Sun Tingting again two months later, in the hotel booked by the crew in Qingshuihe County.

   "Why are you darker than me?" Sun Tingting looked at Xiao Yao with a little surprise when she saw Xiao Yao's first glance.

Since the role of Zhang Yiman in the script is not a local, but a beautiful woman with her own romantic dreams, Sun Tingting, who went to support education, also paid attention to this problem. She did not turn black in the past two months and her skin is rough. The changes are also limited, but they look haggard. On the contrary, Xiao Yao stayed here for more than 20 days, running outdoors every day, the whole thing became darker, and his skin became a lot rougher.

"You play Zhang Yiman and I play the little coppersmith. Isn't it normal for me to be darker than you?" Xiao Yao laughed, "Is it going to turn black when I'm outside these days? But this is fine, you can help with makeup. Teacher save a little trouble!"

   "So you did it on purpose?" Sun Tingting looked at Xiao Yao and said, "To show that you are more serious than me?"

   "No!" Xiao Yao said, "You went to support teaching for your role for two months. During these two months, I went to write songs and choreography for others, watch people rehearse, and go to concerts. Where are you serious?"

  "Stop talking about this!" Xiao Yao rubbed his hands, hehe smiled, "It's been two months, shouldn't we?"

   "You have to turn on the phone in advance, so that my plans to study the role with my parents are ruined," Sun Tingting took out the script from the bag and said with a serious face, "You should help me study this role now!"

   "The crowd hasn't arrived yet, and the crew hasn't started up yet, do you need to be so anxious?" Xiao Yao said bitterly.

  After confirming the actors, Xiao Yao just gave the actors an approximate starting time. The specific start-up time was set according to the time when Sun Tingting ended the teaching support. Xiao Yao temporarily notified that other people could not leave right away, so the start-up time set by Xiao Yao was delayed a few days based on everyone's situation. At this time, Sun Tingting was the first major actor to arrive, and other actors will not be able to arrive until a few days later.

"Because the actors have not yet arrived and the crew has not started yet, so we have to hurry up!" Sun Tingting said, "Wait a few days for the actors to arrive and the crew starts, so I will be ashamed to dominate you and me alone. Talking about the play!"

   "Did you deliberately?" Xiao Yao snatched the script in Sun Tingting's hand and threw it aside, "No matter if you occupy me or I dominate you, no one can have an opinion!" Xiao Yao rushed forward.

  "Don't!" Sun Tingting finally showed a smile, blocking Xiao Yao and said, "I just arrived, and I didn't even take a shower!"

   "Just right, wash together!" Xiao Yao picked up Sun Tingting's legs, picked her up, and walked to the bathroom.

  Although it was a long time to reunite, Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting were more restrained. Sun Tingting arrived in the afternoon, and the two only stayed warm for two hours. At dinner time, Xiao Yao brought Sun Tingting to meet with Lin Jingliang, who had returned from the shooting location.

As    is about to start up, all the preparations in the crew are almost done, and Xiao Yao doesn’t have to run to the filming site to stare every day. In the next few days, while waiting for the other actors from the crew to gather, Xiao Yao also fulfilled her duties and studied her role with Sun Tingting holding the script.

  A few days later, all the actors and staff arrived, and the crew officially started.

  To start the crew, there is a start-up ceremony. It's just that Xiao Yao doesn't like to do publicity during the shooting stage, so this opening ceremony did not notify the media reporters to be there, basically all crew members. Since there were no media reporters, everyone was relatively relaxed, and the whole ceremony was very lively.

  I don’t know if the launch ceremony of the crew was too lively. It rained suddenly on the day when the weather forecast was not rainy. However, this sudden rain did not extinguish everyone's enthusiasm, because according to the old people in the crew, the Chinese people pay attention to "when it encounters water," it rains on the day of the opening ceremony, which indicates that the film will sell well. . With that said, everyone is even more excited.

  After the opening ceremony, the crew officially started.

  The shooting plan was made by Xiao Yao before, and all the preparations were done in place. Although Xiao Yao encountered some problems during the preliminary preparations and changed the start-up time, Xiao Yao is still relatively confident in the progress of the filming. What everyone didn't expect was that the crew ran into trouble on the second day of the startup.

  The start-up ceremony had a more complicated blessing process, and then it rained again, and the crew just took a few symbolic shots and ended. The real shooting state should start from the next day.

  Since there is no suitable township nearby where the crew can be stationed, most of the crew members live in Qingshuihe County. It takes more than an hour to drive from Qingshuihe County to Dahebao Village. Although everyone got up early the next day after the boot, and set off to the shooting location early, but when they arrived at the shooting location to set up the machine and prepare to start shooting, it was already past nine o'clock in the morning, and it was not too early.

  The sequence of shooting does not necessarily have to be strictly in accordance with the sequence of the script, but in order to keep the emotional development of the actors and the characters as consistent as possible, Xiao Yao also tried to follow the sequence of the scenes in the script.

  The beginning of the movie is the story of the physical education teacher Zhou Tienan discovering that the school bell is broken, and the bell is removed. The teachers have a meeting and found that the donkey shed is on fire and everyone is fighting the fire.

  Although Xiao Yao wants to follow the development of the plot as much as possible to shoot, but it is not impossible to make some small adjustments in the middle. Xiao Yao planned to gather together to shoot the part about the fire in the donkey shed and the people fighting the fire.

  There are two scenes of fire in the donkey shed. In the previous scene, there was smoke from the donkey shed. Everyone tried to put out the fire with various tools, but the fire failed. Instead, the fire became more intense and the donkey shed was completely burnt. In this scene, there are only four teacher roles. In the latter scene, after the donkey shed was completely burned, Jiajia who came back from fetching water wanted to use water to put out the fire, but was stopped by others. In this scene, the six most important characters are all played, including the little coppersmith played by Xiao Yao.

  In the previous scene, several actors approached or even entered the donkey shed when they took things to put out the fire. However, at this time, the donkey shed was just smoking and no open flames appeared. In the latter scene, the donkey shed was completely burnt up, and the actors just splashed water from afar to put out the fire, without getting close. On the whole, the danger is not great. However, Xiao Yao didn't dare to take it lightly, and repeatedly asked the prop group responsible for making fireworks, and he went to check it himself.

  Seeing that the director is so careful, the actors are more at ease about their own safety, and the whole person is a lot easier. When people relax, they naturally relax a lot in the performance.

  However, because of the many characters in these two scenes, there are also a lot of lines and actions, and the smoke produced by the prop set is also difficult to shoot. For the whole morning, only the previous scene was filmed.

  The film crew does not necessarily have a box lunch for every meal, but when filming in a mountain, you can only eat a box lunch at noon. Since there is no place in the nearby village where the crew can have lunch, these lunches were delivered by the crew from Qingshuihe County, and they ran on the road for more than an hour.

  After the previous scene was filmed, it was almost noon, and the crew also delivered the boxed lunch. Xiao Yao announced that he would take a break for dinner, and film the next scene in the afternoon.

  The previous fire-fighting scene filmed in the morning did not have the little coppersmith played by Xiao Yao, but there was one in the scene to be filmed in the afternoon. After lunch, Xiao Yao also changed his clothes, put on makeup, and prepared to take pictures in the afternoon.

  The most "destroyed" actors in the film are the two roles of the coppersmith and his wife. Today, there is no "bronzesmith wife" role, although He Ying still came to the set, but it is not the dressing of the characters in the film. So today the only thing the crew focused on was Xiao Yao's "Little Coppersmith".

  Xiao Yao had taken makeup photos when he was in Shencheng before. Several leading actors and Lin Jingliang have seen Xiao Yao’s "Little Coppersmith" image, but most of the people in the crew and Sun Tingting have not seen it.

When I saw Xiao Yao with dark skin, dirty and messy hair tied in a white turban, and wearing patched dirty clothes and barefooted cloth shoes, many people in the crew were startled at first, and then couldn't help laughing. stand up.

"What are you laughing at? Haven't you read the script? Coppersmith is originally such an image. What's so funny?" Even though it is such a dress, it does not affect Xiao Yao's authority to show his director, reprimanding those who laughed. The humanity of leaning forward and backward, "If you have a leisurely mind to laugh at this, do you have a rest? When you have a rest, start work immediately!"

"Oh, good!" Xiao Yao felt professional and strict throughout the preparatory stage. Although everyone could not immediately suppress the smile in their eyes, they stopped the laughter anyway, and they all got up when they heard the words. Move it up.

  Need to walk before the official shooting. In this crew, there are no substitutes, no military substitutes, and no literary substitutes. The positions are all done by the actors themselves. Since the firework master in the props group said that the fire in the donkey shed had enough time to burn, for the effect of shooting, everyone had to move their positions next to the lit donkey shed.

  Because it is self-directed and acted, Xiao Yao also appointed an executive director in the crew. When Xiao Yao walked off the field, the executive director took control of the scene.

  The machines in each department were set up, and the department responsible for fireworks in the props group also set fire to the donkey shed. Just as Xiao Yao and the other five actors were moving about the scene, there was a loud noise from the outside of the crew. Xiao Yao looked at the sound and found more than a dozen young and strong men dressed as villagers walking over carrying some tools such as hoes and shovels.

  The crew is filming outside, and there is also a security department. However, the crew filmed in such a remote place, and the media has not been disclosed. There will be no fans and fans who come here to watch. They had negotiated with the village for filming in this village, and the conditions here were limited, so Xiao Yao only arranged two people to act as perimeter security guards for the crew. The role was to explain the situation and discourage the villagers who came here unintentionally. At this time, more than a dozen young adults insisted on coming here, and the two security guards obviously couldn't stop it.

  Xiao Yao walked by the fire in the donkey shed. The executive director sitting behind the monitor was at the outermost periphery of the crew, and was the one with the highest authority among those people. Seeing those people coming, the executive director got up and greeted him.

   Seeing the executive director come over, those people also stopped.

"Guys, we're filming here! That fire is what we need to burn up deliberately when we are filming, not a fire. We have been by the side and will not let it burn anything else. Thank you for your kindness. Please go back. !" The executive director smiled and said to the villagers.

  His first feeling was that the fire in the donkey shed attracted the attention of the villagers, thinking that there was a fire here, and they came to help put out the fire.

"Oh, you set the fire yourself?" A young man in his thirties who looked like a leader said, "You burn your own things, we don't care! But you are filming in our place and you paid for it. Huh?"

   "What?" The executive director was taken aback for a moment, then looked back at Xiao Yao.

  (End of this chapter)