Coquettish Rebirth

Such a "Hero" film is about to start shooting.The first place to start shooting is naturally in the palace area.In the Huaxia Film and Television City on the other side of Kunshan, the pre-Qin and Han areas were actually built at the end of last year, so they can come to Kunshan directly for filming.The so-called pre-Qin and Han areas were actually expanded on the basis of the earliest "Three Kingdoms City".The so-called pre-Qin and Han Dynasties, that is to say, from the beginning of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the unification of the Qin Dynasty and then to the demise of the Han Dynasty.And the fall of the Han Dynasty just happened to be the period of the Three Kingdoms?Therefore, if such a Three Kingdoms City is built forward with some historical buildings, it will basically become such a pre-Qin and Han area.

Relatively speaking, the scale of such a pre-Qin and Han district is actually not very large. The main reason is that several city gates of different grades have been established, which can be named after different cities. The scene of the palace, and the scene of some streets, and that's it, in fact, it's not as big as a complete copy of the Forbidden City!But although it's not big, but in such an area, almost half of the scenes of "Heroes" have to be filmed!

In addition to the most important scene of assassinating Qin, there are also a series of scenes in Yan, which will also be filmed here.As for location shooting, relatively speaking, Qing Ke’s journey before going to Yan State, and the road to Qin State after leaving Yan State need to be filmed. Just go outside and shoot the exterior scenes.To shoot interior scenes in the film and television city, of course a lot of extras are needed. For the convenience of filming, Jia Hongjian and his crew just covered the pre-Qin and Han areas for a full three weeks!These 3 weeks, that is, such an "interior scene" shooting period, after 3 weeks, it will be more troublesome to renew the fee, because there will be various tour groups and so on, and now this scenic spot has been closed Start buying tickets.You can't tell the tour group that has already bought tickets that you have to postpone it?

Such a 3-week shooting time limit still put some pressure on Lao Mouzi.But after all, he is not a director like Ang Lee, not a director who doesn't know what kind of shots he wants before every shoot.Before his filming, Lao Mouzi had several "bound volumes" that looked like comics in his hands.In these "bound volumes" are the sketches of the shots that he designed and drawn by an artist.These detailed drawings are really the same as those in comics. Even the fighting postures of the specific characters in the shots are all drawn!So when the old Mouzi was filming.In fact, you only need to follow the steps step by step and you can shoot well quickly!

During the specific shooting process, Jia Hongjian looked at the screen on the monitor, and he could directly feel the difference in style between the old Mouzi's film and Nolan's film!The films made by Nolan are all fierce in style and fast-paced, making people feel a little excited when they watch them, and want to keep watching them.As for Lao Mouzi.Although the shot can’t be said to be bad, the overall style is really quite different from Nolan’s.If the content shot by Nolan has a fast "professional" style, then the content shot by Lao Mouzi is more aesthetic, more artistic, and slower!

Would Jia Hongjian interfere with the filming process?For the time being, it doesn't look like it will, although he can see that Lao Mouzi's filming rhythm is a bit slow.But this is not drawing comics after all, this is making a movie.In the process of making a movie, it is not what the director shoots, so what must be presented in the end.According to the producer's accusation, the final editing must follow the producer's instructions!That's why there are various director's cuts coming out.At the same time, because a producer like Jia Hongjian controls the editing, even if Lao Mouzi's shooting pace is a little slow, most of the shots can be sped up by editing!

It can be said.In such a period of filming with Lao Mouzi, it was really the first time that Jia Hongjian began to perform his duties as a producer almost completely.He followed the crew every day, followed the camera and watched the images transmitted from the camera viewfinder to the monitor.Every time he saw the picture, he was always thinking about how to edit it. He was always thinking about how to put such a scene in the movie to make it more attractive!It can be said that such a period of experience has helped him a lot!Jiang Wen said before that the job of being a director is the easiest to mess up, because no one can tell if it's a bad job.It's easy to get to the point where it looks okay.

When Jiang Wen said this, Jia Hongjian had no professional foundation, so he never thought of becoming a director.But this time, during the filming process with the "Hero" crew, he fully saw how a professional director like Lao Mouzi directs the film.How did he communicate with the actors, how did he turn a scene in his mind into a real picture!Therefore, it can be said that without knowing it, Jia Hongjian has really learned a lot of professional knowledge about directing. On the other hand, as a producer, he has to consider various things from a commercial perspective. There are also various considerations from the perspective of editing and post-production.Such a series of considerations is much more than the assistant director thinks, and the assistant director is generally a process for people who want to be directors in the future to follow the existing directors and learn various knowledge.So in fact, such a filming process really helped Jia Hongjian lay a foundation for being a director, but he didn't realize it.

On the other hand, Jia Hongjian was not idle during filming, he was still writing various columns.Although not every word of this kind of column was typed by him himself, he did make an outline and provide materials to the employees of DreamWorks China, asking them to write the manuscript according to Jia Hongjian's outline. In the end, Jia Hongjian Gradually have to go through it again, and after checking it, send it to the media for reporting.In such a column that lasted for three weeks, Jia Hongjian really seemed to have transformed into a reporter, introducing various details of the shooting to the audience almost every day.

Many of these details have never been reported by various media before, and even in the movie circle, no one has ever told laymen about it before!For example, Jia Hongjian wrote such a column about how much box lunches a crew should eat every day—if extras are not counted, the entire "professional" crew alone would have as many as forty or fifty lunch boxes per day. !Besides the various actors and their assistants, that's the various crew members.Such as photographers, makeup artists, costume artists, sound effects artists, lighting engineers, prop artists, etc., don’t they all need box lunches?There are even scene notes, executive producers, etc., and of course Jia Hongjian and Lao Mouzi and others!Such a box lunch of [-] to [-] servings a day will cost a lot of money!After all, Jia Hongjian wanted to treat everyone equally. It was impossible to say that the box lunches for the actors were good food, but the ones for the employees were not good, right?

So even in this day and age, the box lunches that Jia Hongjian and the others make are all 5 yuan a box!You must know that in this era, the price of fast food box lunches delivered by various fast food restaurants in some small and medium-sized cities is not high!For example, one meat and two vegetables are five yuan a piece, two meat and one vegetarian are seven yuan, and chicken legs are about 7 yuan.After all, Jia Hongjian and the others are purchasing in large quantities for a long period of time, so the original purchase price for a boxed meal worth 10 yuan is 7 yuan.It costs almost 5 yuan for two meals a day just for box lunch!In addition to all kinds of breakfast, it was about 500 yuan that day!If extra actors are needed, in addition to paying the extra actors, of course they have to take care of a meal when it comes to meal time. Two to three thousand meal money for this day is normal!

These things are written in the column, it seems that there is not much attraction.But you must know that this is a column written by Jia Hongjian, and you must know that the content of such a column is "Film Insider" that no one else has introduced before, so this column is really popular all over the country!At least it is much more attractive than the "Yangtze Evening News" and other newspapers that used the content of various Chinese and foreign books as serial columns before!

Of course, in addition to talking about these daily operations, Jia Hongjian also did not forget to increase the exposure of the actors.For example, I write about the painstaking efforts of the actors to put on makeup every now and then—for example, Yuen Biao is the leading actor, and he himself has short hair. In order to be able to play a role with long hair in the pre-Qin era, he had to put on a headgear and put on makeup every day.For example, Chen Daoming, in addition to wearing a headgear, sticking a beard, etc., plus other makeup, it is really no exaggeration to spend two hours a day on makeup!And at the beginning of April, the temperature has obviously warmed up, and sometimes the actors are sweating too much, but they can't sweat their makeup!So a group of actors would use a small electric fan to blow on their faces at every turn - so there is no sweat on their faces!Makeup will not spend!But the sweat in other parts of the body is really out of control!From this point of view, the actors really worked hard!

Soon, such an interior scene shot in the film and television city was almost finished, and then the exterior scene was about to be shot.When it came time to shoot exteriors, some scenes required snow scenes.Lao Mouzi really likes the snow scene, which is full of romantic atmosphere.However, it is really not easy to shoot snow scenes in April, or they have to use chemical fertilizers, which smells too strong. In the end, Jia Hongjian and the others chose to use artificial snow to make snow.To put it bluntly, this artificial snow snow machine is actually making miniature small hail—because no matter how artificial snow is made, it is impossible to make real snowflakes!In fact, even if the things made by the snow machine are really condensed water vapor, they are still small ice crystals, but they are very small!So in fact, the snowflakes blown out by the fan are actually the same as those iceflakes in shaved ice!And what's different from other movies is that the artificial snow really melts on the actors!So many times after a shot is taken, even before a shot is finished, the makeup on the actor's face is a bit messy!As a last resort, I quickly stopped to touch up the makeup and continued to shoot... and this can only be edited together through post-editing!