I am a director, but I have the skills of an actor

Chapter 97 Explosion scene

On the crowded street, Dong Xuan, who was dressed in a white dress and looked pure and charming, passed by Zhang Jin, who was wearing a black short-sleeved shirt. He stopped and looked surprised.

Dong Zhuan turned around and took two quick steps to catch up with Zhang Jin.

"Brother Wu?"

Zhang Jin glanced at Dong Xuan expressionlessly and continued walking forward as if he ignored him.

While chasing Zhang Jin, Dong Xuan said in surprise, "Brother Wu, it's me, Xiaoyue, the Xiaoyue who used to be next door to your house."

"Stuck!" Wan Qingshan shouted from behind the monitor.

"Dong Xuan, your surprise should be smaller. According to the plot, Jin Chengtao's men are around now."

Dong Xuan reacted immediately and said apologetically, "I understand, Director Wan, I'm sorry."

"Take a 2-minute break and start again!"

After Wan Qingshan finished speaking, he stood up and walked to the rest area and asked Zhang Zhao, "Zhang Zong, have you contacted the Korean pyrotechnics team?"

There are several explosion scenes in "Loyal Liver and Righteous Brave", but there is no good special effects pyrotechnics team in China.

Wan Qingshan originally wanted to see the special effects pyrotechnics in Thailand first, and if possible, use the Thai pyrotechnics team.

But the special effects pyrotechnics here were even worse. The explosion effects had no impact at all, so Wan Qingshan thought of South Korea.

The Korean pyrotechnics team is second to none in Asia. The explosion scene in "Assembly" was led by the Korean pyrotechnics team and worked with the Bayi Factory.

"I've already made contact, and I'll be here in two days. But their price is really high, a blasting scene costs nearly one million."

"There's nothing we can do about it. Who can tell someone else's skills are great?"

Zhang Zhao sighed, "Oh, I know that too, but the price is really expensive."

Wan Qingshan joked, "Mr. Zhang, you can find someone to follow them. If you can learn something secretly, then Enlight Pictures will have a powerful pyrotechnics team."

Zhang Zhao was stunned for a moment, and then said excitedly, "Director Wan, you are right, I will contact the person right now."

Seeing Zhang Zhao quickly walking aside to make a phone call, Wan Qingshan couldn't stop him even if he wanted to. He could only murmur in his heart, "I hope it's not the pyrotechnics team from "Assembly" who came."

The Korean pyrotechnics team of "Assembly" is very strict with technology and will not let people from the Bayi Factory watch it at critical moments.

Zhang Zhao's call took a little long. The two-minute break was up, but Zhang Zhao still hadn't come back.

Wan Qingshan put the matter behind him and continued busy shooting.

Zhang Jin's current acting skills are very immature, but he is more interested in starring in "Loyal Liver and Righteous Brave" than Yang Junyi, and he consulted many seniors for advice before filming.

Therefore, if you have a thorough understanding of the role, you can basically make no mistakes when performing it.

Dong Xuan was born in a major, and now his acting skills are basically passable.

"Loyalty and Bravery" is originally an action commercial film, and Wan Qingshan did not have high requirements for the two of them, which led to the rapid progress of the filming.

Three days later, the Korean pyrotechnics team arrived.

"Director Wan, this is their leader Zheng Xuandao." Zhang Zhao introduced the leader to Wan Qingshan.

"Hello, Director Wan Qingshan!" Zheng Xuandao bowed and addressed him respectfully in broken Chinese.

Seeing this, Wan Qingshan, who had already stretched out his hand a little distance, retracted his hand and said with a smile, "Hello!"

After greetings, Zheng Xuandao got into work mode and asked Wan Qingshan about his requirements for the explosion scene.

Because he was using a Korean pyrotechnics team, Wan Qingshan was worried about the language barrier, so in the past few nights, he roughly drew the required explosion effects.

After Zheng Xuandao read the draft, he said confidently, "No problem, we can do it well!"

"Sorry to trouble you, I need to shoot the scene in the villa and manor in three days."

Zheng Xuandao immediately bowed and replied, "Director Wan, please don't worry."

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"Don't worry, I will definitely take you away." On the bed, the shirtless Zhang Jin hugged Dong Xuan and said in a deep voice.

"Yeah!" Dong Xuan, who was leaning on Zhang Jin's chest, looked out the window and murmured.

"Okay! It's over."

After Wan Qingshan shouted, Dong Xuan, who was wearing a tube top, quickly got up from Zhang Jin, lifted the quilt, and got off the bed.

"Dong Xuan, your play is finished. You can go back and rest first. There will be your wrapping party tonight."

"Director Wan, thank you for taking care of me during this time!" Dong Xuan thanked him from the bottom of his heart.

Dong Xuan was a little unbelievable when he received the invitation to play "Loyal Liver and Righteous Brave".

As for the supporting actress in Wan Qingshan's new film, although "Loyalty and Loyalty" is a man's film and the supporting female role is a bit small, when it is released, there will be a lot of female stars competing for it.

Think about Zeng Li. After she appeared as the supporting actress in "The True Meaning of Love", although she was not as popular as Gao Yuanyuan, she became the target of commercial endorsements.

But Zeng Li's commercial value has also greatly increased. If you look for her commercial endorsement, the price will directly increase several times.

Dong Xuan and Wan Qingshan didn't know each other, and they had never even met each other. The role fell on her, making her feel like winning the Mark Six Lottery, which was very dreamy.

This also made Dong Xuan wonder if Wan Qingshan wanted to seduce her. In order to make money, she came to the crew with the mentality that Wan Qingshan was handsome anyway.

But during this time together, Wan Qingshan had no intention of hiding from her.

Although Dong Xuan didn't know why Wan Qingshan chose her to play the role, since he didn't want to seduce her, she was very grateful to Wan Qingshan.After Dong Xuan got on the car and returned to the hotel, Wan Qingshan asked the crew to transition and start filming the intense scene.

At Dong Xuan's closing banquet in the evening, everyone didn't stop eating and drinking, and it ended at around nine o'clock.

Early the next morning, after watching Dong Xuan get into the car and go to the airport, Wan Qingshan went to the crew.

Today is Zheng Daoxuan's third day here, filming the scene of the manor battle.

All roads around the villa estate were sealed, and Thai police were conducting traffic control a few hundred meters away.

"In the harsh winter, explosion scenes need to have a sharp feel. You need to prepare a few more lenses, both wide-angle and close-angle. Also, all shots must be captured, and do not change lenses."

Explosion scenes are difficult to shoot. The performance of the group of actors, the distance between the landing point of the prop grenade and the explosion point, and the interval time are difficult to control.

Therefore, Wan Qingshan planned to shoot all the scenes from several angles. As long as there are a few minutes of footage that can be used, it can be used after editing and combining them in post-editing.

"No problem, I'll use a crane to shoot the near angle, and I'll let Fengzi and the others take charge of the wide angle." Yan Dong then waved to Zhao Shufeng and the two of them to set up the lens together.

Wan Qingshan turned to look at Zheng Daoxuan's team who were setting up the explosion point. He was about to walk over, but after taking two steps, he suddenly stopped.

Wan Qingshan suddenly thought that he should let them handle the professional matters, and he shouldn't be a layman guiding an expert.

After Zheng Daoxuan's team designed the explosion point, Wan Qingshan called on the extras and rehearsed the moves several times.

In such a close-range explosion scene, it is definitely not safe to just tell the group where the explosion point is.

As soon as the explosion started, if any of the extras were panicked and people were crowded in the panic, something could easily happen.

Only by rehearsing the moves and letting everyone remember the moves for a while can accidents be less likely to happen.

After everything was ready, Wan Qingshan, Zhang Jin and the extras took over the prop gun and prop bomb from the prop team.

"action!"

The explosion scene made Lu Bing very nervous and her voice trembled when she spoke.

In the camera, Wan Qingshan instantly enters the scene with a violent and ruthless expression.

He carried a prop machine gun, walked to the door of the manor in two strides, and fired at the two extras in suits at the door.

After the two extras fell to the ground at the door, the extras inside the manor, at the signal of the recorder, shouted angrily in Thai, "Someone is attacking!"

Wan Qingshan looked through the gate of the manor at the crowd surging inside, showing a cruel smile.

Immediately, he threw the machine gun to Zhang Jin, took off the prop grenade hanging from his waist, and shouted, "Throw it!"

Wan Qingshan pulled out the grenade ring and threw it into the manor.

Inside the manor, Zheng Xuandao's pyrotechnics team heard Zheng Xuandao's voice "press" coming from the walkie-talkie in his hand, and someone immediately pressed a button.

The prop grenade exploded immediately from the explosion point half a meter away.

Several extras around him immediately got down as instructed by the recorder.

As the extras from Wanqing Mountain threw props and grenades into the manor one after another, Zheng Xuandao's pyrotechnics team pressed several buttons in succession, causing constant explosions in the manor.

After a while, no more prop grenades were thrown from Wanqingshan. After the explosions in the manor stopped, Lu Bing took the horn and shouted, "Stop!"

Wan Qingshan immediately came out of his drama, walked to the monitor, and called up the images taken from several angles.

There were many problems in several scenes. Even with the previous positioning training and the instructions of the recorder, there were still some extras that were much slower when they fell to the ground, and there were also props where the grenade landed a little far from the explosion point.

However, the impact of the explosion was captured on film. Wan Qingshan thought about these shot and editing combinations in his mind. After finding that there were no problems, he shouted, "Okay, it's over. Makeup artist, props team, give extra performances." Put on makeup.”

When the props team and makeup team put makeup on the extras, Wan Qingshan found Tony Jia, an actor recommended by the Thai government, and a local policeman who played Jin Chengtao.

The role of Jin Chengtao doesn't have too few scenes, but it doesn't have too many scenes either.

Wan Qingshan always let Li Yancheng decide on the actors for this kind of role.

Li Yanchen originally planned to find an experienced special extra in China.It's just that TV dramas are very popular now, and those special extras are not short of work at all. When they heard that they would go to Thailand to film, the salary would not be high, so they were unwilling to come.

As a result, Li Yancheng could only find actors in Thailand, but after a local policeman found out about it, he volunteered to star.

The local police station helped the crew a lot, and Li Yancheng agreed without considering whether the policeman knew how to act.

After being conveyed by the interpreter, Wan Qingshan greeted Tony Jia and the policeman, then turned around and shouted.

"Yang Junyi, Zhang Jin, come over here."

"Yang Junyi, the most important fight scene in this movie is the fight between Zhang Jin and Tony Jaa. He has practiced Muay Thai and knows martial arts design.

The three of you have all practiced martial arts and are experts in martial arts design. I am an outsider, so I won’t say anything else.

I just want to fight wonderfully and feel like I’m going to the flesh with my punches. The three of you can discuss it among yourselves. "

After the translator said Wan Qingshan's words in Thai, Tony Jia immediately looked at Zhang Jin and Yang Junyi, his eyes full of excitement.

After Tony Jia said something in Thai, the translator followed up and said, "Hello you two, I have been practicing Muay Thai since I was a child..."

Wan Qingshan didn't hear the next words because he had already walked away.

There were a lot of extras, and it took nearly an hour to put on makeup.

Lu Bing wiped the sweat from his forehead and shouted, "Action!" with a loudspeaker, and then the crew started filming.

(End of this chapter)