Huayu: Start by asking ex-girlfriends for alms

Chapter 284 One hundred times! One hundred times!

"Brother!"

"Senior!"

"Teacher~"

Before the people arrive, the sound comes first.

It has just created a new quantifier unit for movie box office statistics; it has set an example for the friendship between alumni of Beijing Film Academy directors; it has made outstanding contributions to the sales of traditional paper media and the spiritual entertainment needs of the people, what a dirty thing!
She came trotting over with a harmless and well-behaved face, bright and sweet dimples, and bags full of gifts.

The gifts were for the entire crew, and everyone got one. Lu Zheng was wealthy, and in addition to the gifts Jing Tian brought, there were more on the way, including a chef team.

Wanda was very happy about the outstanding performance of "Those Years" in the box office market.

Originally he was planning to use money to create a star, but unexpectedly he turned into a producer of entertainment resources, and became a member of the domestic billion-dollar club, whose members can be counted on one hand in the circle!
This can no longer be described as a surprise.

After all, celebrities are entertainment products, while directors belong to the cultural circle, and their social status is worlds apart!

"You are so impatient. Can you be a little polite?" Zhen Jiecheng glanced at him. "But the box office unit did a good job! It is good to remember the well-digger when drinking water and always mention Brother Lu. Having a grateful heart is the true embodiment of moral cultivation!"

"Senior, I have to thank you for this. After all, I am a red bird that lives near red birds." Jing Tian bent his eyebrows and smiled, "It was because I saw you use Brother Chao as the acting unit that I had the idea to use Brother Lu as the box office statistics."

Everyone couldn't help laughing at the conversation between the two.

Bao Dexi couldn't help it anymore.

"Ahem, Tiantian, don't listen to Jiecheng's nonsense, and don't imitate him. You are a girl."

"Hey, Old Bao! Where did I say that?" Zhen Jiecheng interrupted Bao Dexi, "Also, what do you mean you can't learn from me? Didn't you hear what Tiantian said just now? Those who are close to Zhu will become red, and I am Zhu!"

"Oh yes, you are a pig!"

"Old Bao, you are talking nonsense."

Listening to the two people arguing, Jing Tian slipped over to Zhang Mo and Han Jianu.

"Sister Zhang, Sister Han."

"Congratulations, Tiantian. You'll soon be joining the billion-dollar club."

"Hey, it's all the seniors and teachers who are helping me. It has nothing to do with me."

"It doesn't matter, it's still a billion-dollar club!" Zhang Mo said with a smile, "By the way, Tiantian, Uncle Zhen and Teacher Bao are bickering like this, are you okay?"

"It's okay! It's normal!" Jing Tian waved his hands. "This is just the beginning. Teacher Li and the seniors are really lively! For example, in Those Years, when Ke Jingteng was learning English and his neighbor was scolding each other, the guest performance of Teacher Li was pure and natural. It was all emotion, no tricks!"

As he said this, he pointed to the IMAX camera.

“This thing is quite heavy, but the senior asked my teacher and Mr. Li to hold it for some of the shots.”

“In terms of art setting, even with the help of my seniors, Teacher Cao is under a lot of pressure.”

"Needless to say, in terms of lighting, from Jay's "Secret" to "No Return", and now "Interstellar", Teacher Ji has never had an easy time."

"The senior students are working the old guys to death. Although the old guys are enjoying the movie, they are so tired that they are a little resentful. Naturally, they have to find a chance to vent!"

After a pause,
"It's like when the camera keeps getting cut and then the senior student scolds the actor. In essence, they are partly connected, and they are all about adjusting their mindset."

Hearing this, Zhang Mo and Han Jianu nodded in relief.

Guo Fan on the side seemed to be thinking about something.

understood!

This is how the story of Ao Lao Tou unfolds!
Providing the old man with a channel to vent his grievances is also a part of PUA.

The old man thought he enjoyed the spraying, but he was in a better state for the next work. So in the end, the old man was still tired, and the director was still satisfied!
Thinking of this, Guo Fan became very excited.

Learned something new!

Great, another day of progress.

"All units, prepare, action!"

Matthew McConaughey's acting is indeed amazing.

I've been shooting for more than ten days, and I've never been "clicked" three times in a row!

Whatever feeling Zhen Jiecheng needs, he can always adjust quickly and perform just right.

The stereotyped "eye looks" and "micro-expressions" in the textbooks were transformed into vivid teaching on the set, which amazed Wang Kai and Zhou Yiwei, who had secured the roles of two astronauts.

Neither of the two supporting roles were chosen from artists signed by Jiecheng Film and Television, but were put on the market by Zhen Jiecheng as a resource exchange.

Of course, the exchange also has to go through competitive screening, and those who don’t have the ability will be kicked out directly.

For example, Wang Kai, who graduated from the Central Academy of Drama and is a contracted actor of Huayi, had previously been recommended by Huayi to join the Nirvana in Fire project, a collaboration between Jiecheng Film and Tangren, playing the role of Xiao Jingyan.

Zhen Jiecheng originally thought that the actors this time would be either from the Central Academy of Drama or the Shanghai Theatre Academy, or even amateurs.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Yiwei came in and successfully won the role, consolidating Zhen Jiecheng's reputation of "caring about his alma mater and giving priority to Beijing Film Academy".

It’s just that others all believe that “family disgrace should not be made public”, but this guy will openly publicize the dirty feng shui of Beijing Film Academy’s brotherhood on the screen in the future: “They are my beloved relatives, friends, brothers and sisters.”

Alas, it’s unfortunate that the school produces only rebellious sons!

"Crack!"

Seeing Zhen Jiecheng picking up the loudspeaker, McConaughey was not in a hurry. He stopped his performance and walked over calmly.

"Director, what adjustments do I need to make? What feeling do you need?"

"McConaughey, there is no problem with your performance of this plot. However, we need to understand this plot from a more macro perspective."

Zhen Jiecheng pointed to the bookcase.

"Behind it is your future self in a cube in five-dimensional space, watching!"

"So your performance is not only for your daughter, but also to 'stimulate' your future self to some extent."

"There is an old Chinese saying that you can't have your cake and eat it too."

At this point, Zhen Jiecheng paused.
"One bad news, one good news, McConaughey, which one do you want to hear first?"

"Bad news!" McConaughey laughed, "This way I can have peace of mind."

"Sorry McConaughey, I have to put it in a difficult position for you. I want to have my cake and eat it too!"

"And I can only tell you the general direction. How to grasp the details and find the balance requires you to make specific adjustments on your own."

"What about the good news?" McConaughey asked.

"Ten times! Fifty times! A hundred times! I have enough patience to wait for you to adjust, and I firmly believe that you can adjust the performance I want!"

After saying this, he smiled brilliantly.

He patted McConaughey on the shoulder and walked towards Li Pingbin and Bao Dexi.

"Lao Li, Lao Bao, I have a new idea. The shooting idea needs to be readjusted. Come on, let's discuss it!"

"Ahem, Hathaway, how many takes did the director say we need?"

"One hundred times! Maybe more!" Hathaway cast a sympathetic look. Seeing McConaughey looking a little confused, she quickly comforted him, "Of course, maybe next time, emmm, within fifteen or ten times you can find the exact feeling and meet the director's requirements?"

"Okay, thank you for your blessing!" McConaughey nodded.

The bulging veins on his forehead trembled uncontrollably. Although Zhen Jiecheng's tone was gentle, his smile was bright, and his hand on his shoulder was warm, McConaughey only felt the chill of the plateau in May.

"Hathaway, have you ever heard of a hundred takes in Hollywood?"

"McConaughey, you shouldn't ask me. You have a longer acting career than me and have participated in more works than me." "Okay Hathaway, you are right." McConaughey scratched his head, "I think we misunderstood. The director is using exaggerated rhetoric to express his patience and requirements for lens quality."

"Is it an exaggeration? No!" Jing Tian suddenly came in. As an "ordinary person" who had received the President of the United States and was also the spokesperson for American Northwest Cherries, fluent English was a standard feature.

"A few years ago, there was a movie in China called Let the Bullets Fly. There was a long shot of about ten minutes in it, which took a whole week to shoot and burned 100,000 feet of film. But the crew prepared more than 100,000 feet of film!"

"Hiss!" McConaughey and Hathaway took a deep breath. "Is this Director Zhen's work? Why haven't I heard of it?"

“It’s not my senior’s work, but I also participated in the filming and controlled this shot together with the director of the film.”

"Hiss!" McConaughey and Hathaway said in unison again, "Which director agreed to do this? One shot, one week, 100,000 feet of film! This... This is simply..."

"Why don't you agree? The director's name is Jiang Wen, and he has the same idea as you. If you don't believe me, you can ask other people, everyone knows."

As he spoke, Jing Tian looked at Wang Kai and Zhou Yiwei who were nearby and waved.

"Director Jing!" Wang Kai called politely.

Zhou Yiwei was about to speak when Jing Tian interrupted him.
"Senior, you can just call me Jing Tian. After all, I haven't graduated yet. If we have a chance to work together in the future, you can call me by my title."

"Okay." Zhou Yiwei nodded, but did not call him by his name.

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I explained the general situation again.
"Hey, both of you, give us some evidence. Just tell us what's being spread out there. There's no need to hide anything."

Seeing Jing Tian's words, the two of them did not hesitate.

"Before, people in the industry described Director Jiang Wen as using film to wipe his butt when he went to the toilet. But Director Zhen used film to cover the toilet."

"Director Wang Jiawei praised Director Zhen for never being distracted by mundane matters in his pursuit of lens art."

"You know director Wang Jiawei, right? His basic operation is to shoot a scene dozens of times. He would shoot until the investor's capital chain broke and he went bankrupt, and then he would bring in new investors to continue shooting."

The guy translated their words accurately to McConaughey and Hathaway.

As a result, the veins on McConaughey's forehead trembled at a higher frequency.

As for Hathaway, the sympathy in her eyes had disappeared.

If McConaughey is like this, what about me?

Then he looked at the tall figure who was discussing with the photographer with his back to him.

I shivered inexplicably.

“Close-ups, high-frequency flashes, thumping sound effects, left-right compositions, and accelerated editing!”

Zhen Jiecheng was speaking while scratching on the script with a pen.

"I'll briefly talk about the plot after the protagonist Cooper enters the black hole. We can discuss it in detail when we return to the studio for filming."

"Our focus now is to readjust Cooper's perspective of the cabin across timelines."

The main and subplots of "Interstellar" are quite complicated, and it is crucial to know how to better use "montage" to sort them out.

What a coincidence! After the training of "Parasite", Zhen Jiecheng is very good at montage!
"Our setting is that in the future humans have already mastered the fifth dimension, and they set up a space in the black hole for Cooper to save humanity. Here, time becomes a visible dimension."

"But we can't directly transmit information to the past when we are in the future, so we consulted physicists and introduced the concept of world tube in theoretical physics."

"The protagonist creates gravitational waves by influencing the world tube, which creates movement to alert his daughter Murphy in the cabin. Because gravity is the only force in theoretical physics that can act across dimensions!"

He took out another script and turned to scenes of the daughter's life in the cabin at different times, which corresponded to Cooper's observations in the black hole in the subsequent plot.

"In this scene, Cooper hit the cube hard, accidentally triggering the world tube to create gravitational waves, causing items on the bookshelf in the wooden house to fall."

"Mr. Li, use a panning shot to quickly drop the foreground! The item falls, and my daughter Murphy turns her head quickly."

“Shoot, drop, and turn to pave the way for the subsequent brisk editing!”

I closed my eyes and thought for a moment.
"Then the camera pans out to daughter Murphy."

"Next, pan left and highlight the object that fell to the ground. Circle left and film Murphy picking up the object and putting it back where it was."

“All camera movements must be slow! Compare this with the subsequent shots of Cooper moving ‘fast’ in five-dimensional space to create an emotional contrast.”

"Also. Old Ji!"

"I'm here!" Ji Jianming took two steps at a time and came over quickly.

"Re-arrange the lighting. I want warm light! Oh, remember, the following scenes when Cooper is inside the hypercube are in cool tones."

“The camera speed should be compared, as should the warm and cold tones!”

"Jiecheng, if that's the case, I suggest you wait until the evening to shoot. The effect will be better with natural light," Ji Jianming suggested.

"OK, let's shoot again in the evening!"

Before he knew it, Zhen Jiecheng was surrounded by people.

McConaughey, Hathaway and other foreigners listened to the guy's instant translation, trying to better understand the director's ideas and then construct a more appropriate performance form.

Guo Fan pulled Jing Tian aside to take notes and study.

Compared to Jing Tian, ​​who has a lot of theoretical knowledge but uses it in a relatively rigid way, Guo Fan's understanding of the lens is much deeper.

The reason why the filming of "Those Years" was smooth was mainly because Pau Tak-hei was in charge of the camera. The young apprentice gave one example, and the old man could infer three more, which made the young man's ideas appear on the screen smoothly.

"The angles given to my daughter Murphy are mainly from the front, but not from the front or the back."

"The angle given to father Cooper is mainly side shots."

As Zhen Jiecheng spoke, he quickly drew the storyboard.

Guo Fan, on the other hand, kept his eyes fixed on it while explaining it in detail to his junior sister.

"Usually, when shooting two people facing each other, most of the time, we use a reverse shot, with symmetrical framing on both sides. The teacher didn't use that here because the father and daughter are separated by a timeline and there is no direct communication between them."

"In the eyes of her father, the daughter is a subjective perspective. The father's heart is full of his daughter, so he uses a front shot that is closer than a side shot."

"For the shots of the father, because the father does not exist in the daughter's subjective perspective, but in the audience's bystander perspective, we choose a side shot that is more psychologically distant."

"Tiantian, this is the teacher's detail! Only by grasping more details can we better construct the lens language and subtly guide the audience's visual senses."

"Old Li, Old Bao."

"Remember, add some shake to the subsequent shots of Cooper. Fast vs. slow, shaken vs. steady, cold vs. warm!"

Zhen Jiecheng's "thinking whatever comes to mind" did not hinder his drawing at all. He drew one picture after another without stopping.

It's not just a storyboard, there's also a montage of the three corresponding time and space lines.

“The first timeline is when the daughter was a child. In the composition from the father’s perspective, some books are added on both sides as the foreground to strengthen the sense of distance.”

"The second timeline cuts into the background, with a foreground that heightens the sense of distance."

"The shot for the daughter is overexposed and bright. The shot for the father is desperate and dark!"

“Another panning shot, without cutting, directly panning to the back of the daughter leaving the father’s field of vision! Use the ‘panning’ to interpret the distant view and to highlight the despair!”

"Finally, the third timeline"

Zhen Jiecheng's writing and painting are still going on.

McConaughey swallowed and said hoarsely:
"Now I understand what the director meant by 'a hundred times'."

Patted Hathaway on the shoulder,

"Good luck to you next time, too, Hathaway."

(End of this chapter)