Chapter 1118

It's early August, the hottest time of the year. However, dahebao village, where the film "donkey gets water" was shot, is located at the junction of Northwest Shanxi and Inner Mongolia. The highest temperature in August last year averaged less than 30 degrees Celsius, and the highest temperature in August was only 32 degrees Celsius, which is much cooler than Yanjing and Shencheng. Although the living conditions here are worse, the climate and natural environment are very good in this season.

At present, the main work of the shooting site is to build a house, followed by the props group. According to the requirements of art director Lin Jingliang, the props group bought and made some furniture and decorations that they said they needed.

Xiao Yao is a director. Like Lin Jingliang, an art director, he doesn't need to work by himself. They just need to keep track of the progress of their work and ensure that the houses and props under construction meet the shooting requirements.

However, after Xiao Yao came here, in addition to checking the progress of the shooting site with Lin Jingliang every day, he would also discuss with Lin Jingliang the aesthetic plan of the film shooting, and formulate the shooting plan after the movie starts. Sometimes when interest comes, they will work with the props group to make the furniture they need, paint the furniture, color the beams and columns, and show their woodworking skills and painting skills. In his spare time, Xiao Yao would find local people to learn Mongolian and the dialect of Shanxi Province. He lived a full and comfortable life.

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

When Xiao Yao finally received the news that sun Tingting had finished supporting education, he quickly determined the start date of the cast and informed all the cast members to gather at the shooting site.

Xiao Yao originally planned to go back to Yanjing to pick up sun Tingting to shoot in person. However, because sun Tingting's place of supporting education is in Northwest Shanxi, Xiao Yao's plan to start the program ahead of time forced her to give up her plan to go home and analyze the role with her parents. After the end of supporting education, she did not go home at all and came directly to the cast.

Dahebao village is not easy to find, and there is no suitable place for the whole crew in some surrounding towns. The nearest county to dahebao village is Qingshuihe County in Inner Mongolia. Xiao Yao put the whole production team 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 that was contracted by the cast in Qingshuihe County.

"How did you get darker than me?" At the first sight of Xiao Yao, sun Tingting looks at Xiao Yao in surprise and asks.

Because Zhang Yiman is not a local character in the script, but a beautiful woman with her own romantic dream, sun Tingting, who went to support education, also paid attention to this problem. In the past two months, she didn't get dark, and the change of skin roughness was limited, but she just looked haggard. On the contrary, Xiao Yao stayed here for more than 20 days and ran outdoors every day, which made his skin a lot darker and rough.

"You play Zhang Yiman, I play the little copper Smith, I'm darker than you, isn't it normal?" Xiao Yao said with a smile, "these days, if you're out in the sun every day, won't it get dark? But that's good. It can save the makeup artist some trouble! "

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

"No!" Xiao Yao said, "you go to teach for the role for two months. In these two months, I go to write songs, choreograph, watch rehearsals and go to concerts. Where are you serious?"

"Don't say that!" Xiao Yao rubbed his hands and said with a smile, "we haven't seen each other for two months. Should we now?"

"If you want to start the machine ahead of time, my plan to study the role with my parents is in vain," Sun Tingting took out the script from her bag and said solemnly, "now you should help me study the role carefully!"

"People haven't arrived yet, and the crew hasn't turned on yet. Is it necessary to be in such a hurry?" Xiao Yao said bitterly.

At the beginning, after determining the actors, Xiao Yao just gave the actors a general boot time. The specific start-up time was set according to the time when sun Tingting finished supporting education. Xiao Yao gave a temporary notice, and other people couldn't start right away, so Xiao Yao delayed the start-up time for a few days according to everyone's situation. At this time, sun Tingting is the first major actor to arrive, and other actors will arrive in the next few days.

"It's because the cast hasn't arrived and the crew hasn't turned on yet, so we have to hurry up!" Sun Tingting said, "after a few days, when the actors arrive and the crew starts up, I'm sorry to be occupied by you and tell me the play!"

"You mean it?" Xiao Yao grabbed sun Tingting's script and threw it aside. "No matter you occupy me or I occupy you, no one can have an opinion!" With that, Xiao Yao jumped on it.

"No!" Sun Tingting finally showed a smile, blocking Xiao Yao way, "I just arrived, the bath did not wash it!"

"Just right, let's do it together!" Xiao Yao picked up sun Tingting's leg, picked her up and went to the bathroom.

Although it is a long time to meet again, Xiao Yao and sun Tingting are more restrained. Sun Tingting arrived in the afternoon, and they were only gentle for two hours. At dinner time, Xiao Yao also took sun Tingting to meet Lin Jingliang, who came back from the shooting site.Near the start-up, the crew's preparations are almost done, and Xiao Yao doesn't have to go to the shooting site every day to stare. In the next few days, while waiting for other actors to gather in the cast, Xiao Yao also performed her duties, holding the script research with sun Tingting and playing the role she wanted to play.

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

When the crew starts up, it is necessary to have a start-up ceremony. It's just that Xiao Yao didn't like to do publicity during the shooting stage, so the media reporters were not informed of the opening ceremony, and basically all the crew members were there. As there were no media reporters, we were relatively relaxed, and the whole ceremony was very lively.

I don't know if the start-up ceremony of the crew was too busy. On the day when the weather forecast didn't rain, it suddenly rained. However, the sudden rain did not dampen everyone's enthusiasm, because according to the old people in the cast, Chinese people pay attention to "hair when meeting water". The rain on the day of the opening ceremony indicates that the film will sell well. In this way, people are more excited.

After the opening ceremony, the crew officially started.

The shooting plan was made before Xiao Yao, and all the preparations were in place. Although Xiao Yao encountered some problems in the early preparation and changed the start-up time, Xiao Yao was quite confident in the shooting progress of the film. What we didn't expect was that the crew was in trouble the next day.

There was a complicated praying process in the opening ceremony. Later, it rained again. The crew just took a few shots symbolically and finished the work. The real entry into the shooting state should start from the next day.

As there is no suitable town nearby for the crew to 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 and set out for the shooting site early, it was already more than 9 a.m. when they came to the shooting site to set up the machine and prepare for shooting.

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

At the beginning of the movie, PE teacher Zhou Tienan finds out that the school bell is broken. He removes the bell and all the teachers have a meeting to find out that the donkey shed is on fire and all the people put out the fire.

Although Xiao Yao wants to shoot according to the development of the plot, it's not impossible to make some minor adjustments. Xiao Yao plans to gather together to shoot the part about the donkey shed fire and people fighting the fire.

There are two scenes of donkey shed fire. In the first scene, the donkey shed was smoking. People tried to put out the fire with all kinds of tools, but the fire couldn't be put out. On the contrary, it made the fire bigger, and the donkey shed burned completely. There are only four teachers in the play. In the latter scene, after the donkey shed is completely burned, Jiajia, who comes back from drawing water, tries to put out the fire with water and is stopped by others. In this play, all of the six most important characters appear, including Xiao Yao's little coppersmith.

In the previous scene, when the actors took things to put out the fire, they wanted to get close to or even enter the donkey shed. However, at this time, the donkey shed was only smoking and there was no open fire. In the latter scene, the donkey shed burned completely, and the actors just splashed water far away to put out the fire. On the whole, the risk is not great. However, Xiao Yao did not dare to take it lightly. He repeatedly told the props group who was responsible for making fireworks, and he also went to check in person.

Seeing that the directors are so careful, the actors are relieved of their own safety, and the whole person is also relieved. When people are relaxed, their performances are naturally more relaxed.

However, because there are many characters, lines and actions in these two plays, and they also need to cooperate with the production of the props group, the shooting is not small. All morning, I just finished the previous scene.

The crew may not have lunch boxes for every meal, but they can only have lunch boxes at noon when filming in the valley. Because there is no place for the crew to have lunch boxes in the nearby villages, the lunch boxes were sent by the crew from Qingshuihe County, and they ran for more than an hour on the road alone.

After shooting the previous scene, it's almost noon, and the business of the drama has sent the lunch box. Xiao Yao announces that he will have a rest and let the meal go. He will shoot the next scene in the afternoon.

The previous fire fighting scene in the morning didn't have Xiao Yao's little coppersmith, but there was one in the scene in the afternoon. After lunch, Xiao Yao also went to change his clothes, put on his make-up, and was ready to shoot in the afternoon.

The two roles of the coppersmith and his wife are the most "ruined" actors in the film. Today, there is no part of "the wife of the coppersmith". Although he Ying still comes to the set, it's not the dress of the characters in the film. Therefore, the only focus of the cast today is Xiao Yao's "little copper craftsman".

Xiao Yao has taken makeup photos in Shencheng before. Several leading actors and Lin Jingliang have seen Xiao Yao's "little copper craftsman" image, but most of the crew and sun Tingting haven't seen it yet.

Seeing Xiao Yao with dark skin, dirty and messy hair tied with a white scarf, patched dirty clothes and barefoot cloth shoes, many people in the crew were shocked at first, and then couldn't help laughing."What are you laughing at? Haven't you seen the script? What's so funny about the image of the coppersmith? " Despite such a dress, Xiao Yao does not affect the authority of his director. He scolds those people who laugh so much, "if you have leisure to laugh, do you have a good rest? We'll start work as soon as we have a good rest! "

"Oh, good!" Xiao Yao felt more professional and strict in the whole preparatory stage. Although they couldn't immediately stop laughing, they stopped laughing and started to act.

We need to get out of the way before we do the shooting. In this group, there is no stand in, neither Wuti nor Wenti, and all the moves are done by the actors themselves. Because the master in charge of fireworks in the props group said that the fire in the donkey shed had enough time to burn, for the sake of shooting effect, we had to walk beside the burning donkey shed.

Xiao Yao also appointed an executive director in the crew because he was a director and actor. When Xiao Yao left the scene, the executive director controlled the scene.

The machines of all departments were set up, and the Department in charge of fireworks in the props group set fire in the donkey shed. While Xiao Yao and five other actors were walking on the scene, there was a noise coming from the outside of the cast. Xiao Yao followed the sound and saw that a dozen young villagers dressed up in the Zhuang nationality walked over with some hoes and shovel tools.

There is also a security department set up by the crew when they are filming outside. However, the crew filmed in such a remote place and did not disclose the media. No fans would come here to watch. They negotiated with the village to shoot in this village, and the conditions here are limited, so Xiao Yao only arranged two people to act as the external security guards of the drama group, to explain the situation and dissuade 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 them.

Xiao Yao walks beside the fire in the donkey shed. The executive director sitting behind the monitor is in the outermost part of the crew, which is also the one with the highest authority among those people. Seeing those people coming, the executive director got up to greet them.

Seeing the executive director coming, those people stopped.

"Folks, we are filming here! The fire was set on purpose when we were filming, not on fire. We've always been there, and we won't let it burn anything else. Thank you for your kindness. Please go back! " The executive director said to the villagers with a smile.

His first feeling was that the fire in the donkey shed caught the attention of the villagers. He thought there was a fire here. 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, "we don't care if you burn your own things! But did you pay for filming in our place? "

"What?" The executive director was stunned and looked back at Xiao Yao.