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Chapter 21 Setting the Tone for the Film

What can a group of men talk about when they get together?

Apart from the pretty young wife in the village, the rest are military channels.

As usual, he cursed the United States for dozens of minutes before starting to analyze the situation in Syria.

A group of people at the village entrance were talking about all sorts of things, and Jiang Wu immediately became one of the villagers.

Tian Xiaole found Lu Yang, who was in charge of transporting the equipment, and asked him to familiarize himself with the environment before filming.

The ancestral houses and temples where filming was needed were all renovated.

After taking a look around, I have to say that the current rural conditions are a bit harsh.

If the film was really shot according to the actual situation, it would go against Tian Xiaole's original intention.

He is not Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, or Jia Zhangke.

It's not that they are bad, they just have other intentions.

However, all the art films they shot showed the backwardness and poverty of the countryside.

Of course, the conditions back then were incomparable to those now.

Film festivals also like this type of film, which shows the backward side of different systems.

If this continues, foreigners will have the impression that China is a backward and poor country.

The scene that Tian Xiaole was preparing to shoot was definitely not a backward and poor rural area.

He wants to beautify it and show the good side.

Only three years after joining the WTO, the domestic economy has already shown signs of taking off. As a latecomer, he knows what the real situation is like in the developed rural areas.

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The village chief's house is naturally the most luxurious and magnificent in the village.

At this time, it has been rented by the crew.

All departments of the crew gathered together for a meeting, including Zhang Xiwen, who was in charge of art, photographer Park Zhonghe, and Li Wenwen, who was in charge of costumes.

They all worked together on "Crazy Supermarket" and are senior and junior colleagues at the Beijing Film Academy.

Tian Xiaole shared his ideas and set the tone for the filming.

The style of painting he needs to shoot is clean, with a background of warm and cool tones.

The suspenseful atmosphere is achieved through the advancement of the plot.

Instead of being covered in dirt, with a pale face and thin body, and wearing tattered clothes.

"Do you need to make any adjustments to your clothing?"

After listening to Tian Xiaole's request, Li Wenwen, who was in charge of the costumes, asked.

She was worried that if the previous version was overturned, it would take time to redesign and would delay the crew's filming progress.

"The clothes don't need to be in line with the current public aesthetic."

Tian Xiaole shook his head, looked at Zhang Xiwen and Park Zhonghe, and said seriously:
"Let's make some adjustments to the art and photography. Make the suspenseful atmosphere more solid. In addition to highlighting the contradictions of the characters, the control of rhythm is also very important."

"There are a few scenes where the rhythm is something I wish I could have been more nuanced."

After Tian Xiaole finished speaking, he pointed to the script, in which Xiao Zongyao decided to go back and surrender himself, transforming from a cowardly man who only knew how to escape into a responsible man.

After Xiao Weiguo burned the body, the faith he had always held began to collapse.

After learning of Chen Zili's death, Liqin felt complex and changing emotions.

These three scenes are the key factors in making the characters more vivid, and also require the actors to engage in the most frequent psychological activities.

The artistic composition and camera lens must capture the actor's micro-expressions, and the color tone and style must ensure the visual effect of the picture and make the light and shadow match the character setting.

This is about the texture of the film and the visual effects it presents.

After listening to Tian Xiaole's story, I felt like he had suddenly become a different person.

When filming "Supermarket", there were not so many requirements.

Every detail of this movie needs to be taken into account.

Light brightness, character positioning, background board layout...

Is this the difference between art films and commercial films?

Art films focus on emotional expression and the actors' subtle and subtle acting. Commercial films are more concerned with visual effects and set design.

But Tian Xiaole wants both of these aspects.

The tone for the filming was set and quickly implemented.

The actors also integrated into rural life in an orderly manner.

Tang Yan should go to the fields to work, and Jiang Wu should deal with the neighborhood matters.

Luo Jin plays a gambler who invites people to play cards.

A week later, Lao Tian and Wang Jinsong also reached the same level.

The two looked at the main actor who had become quite dark-skinned, and were sweating in their hands for themselves.

I thought to myself that I had to quickly integrate into the local lifestyle.

The Central Plains accent is quite easy to imitate, and Jiang Wu has already done about 70% of the like.

During this period, the county leaders heard that a film crew was coming to shoot, and they specially invited Tian Xiaole to entertain the crew.

The county town was not a wealthy one, so Tian Xiaole immediately refused.

He also promised to donate 200,000 yuan after the filming is completed to improve the environment of the village where the filming was taken.

As for how to distribute it later, that is not his concern.

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[Heart Labyrinth] has started filming. The opening ceremony is very simple. There are no media or reporters. They just pull down the red cloth on the camera and it is considered completed.

Although Lao Tian and Wang Jinsong arrived late, they got into the game quickly.

Both of them are guest stars with few roles, and they also have substitute teaching duties, so priority is given to filming their scenes.

For the first scene, Tian Xiaole conducted a simple test shoot, using Wang Baoshan, played by Lao Tian, ​​as the starting point.

The story begins with the scene where he is misunderstood as being involved in Huang Huan's disappearance and is beaten by villagers, and the background of his affair with Liqin is used as the backdrop.

Huang Huan has a bad reputation in the village, while Xiao Zongyao is famous for his strict family education. He is notoriously strict because Xiao Weiguo had made meritorious contributions in the army.

He would definitely not let her marry into the family since she had a bad reputation, so he made up a lie about her pregnancy.

Xiao Zongyao proposed the idea of ​​eloping.

The filming of the movie also began with the first lie.

"Click." Tian Xiaole shouted while sitting in front of the monitor.

Wang Baoshan, played by Lao Tian, ​​was misunderstood by the Huang family, who believed that he was related to Huang Huan who did not return home at night.

Only then was he grabbed by the collar and beaten up.

In fact, he was with Liqin that night. They had admired each other when they were young, but they did not get together because she disliked his poverty.

When he thought Liqin would testify for him, he was ruthlessly rejected.

"Xiao Le, you're so cruel. You arranged for me to be beaten in the first scene. Did you get beaten when you were a kid and you're holding a grudge?"

Among the crew members gathered around the monitor, including Yan Ni, Xu Zheng, Tang Yan, Huang Bo and others, only Jiang Wu could and dared to make this joke.

It also revealed that Tian Xiaole was Tian Zhuangzhuang's beloved son.

When they heard Jiang Wu's joke, their eyes lit up.

There is a big difference between being a relative and being a biological son.

There is no need to say much about Tian Zhuangzhuang's status in the Beijing circle, and his previous generation is the founder of Chinese film.

Tian Xiaole had always told them that he and Tian Zhuangzhuang were just relatives.

"Old Tian, ​​don't listen to Uncle Jiang's nonsense. It's not true. It's just what the plot requires."

Tian Zhuangzhuang looked at him suspiciously, and Tian Xiaole could only quickly explain.

He remembered that when he was a child, when his mother was still alive, Tian Zhuangzhuang was away from home for several months because he was filming, and he was very naughty.

Every time he came back, Tian Xiaole would get beaten.

All of this changed after my mother passed away.

(End of this chapter)