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Chapter 374 Prehistoric Giant Beast

On the afternoon of January 1th, Tang An led the crew to the edge of the Yangtze River in a small city in northern Hunan. This is the location with the most scenes in the movie, the riverside battlefield.

The actors all went to a nearby studio to rest, and Tang An brought various departments and the action director team to inspect the scene.

This empty beach has been turned into a huge battlefield after more than a month of construction by hundreds of employees.

All previous fighting scenes involving alien creatures have been completely simulated on the computer through [-]D animation, and the entire battlefield was also determined by the action director and special effects director after repeated calculations and drills.

Including where there is a hillock and where there is a pit, every detail of the entire battlefield of more than 60000 square meters has been done.

Holding the computer while walking, looking at the three-dimensional map above, and the fight between aliens and soldiers simulated by three-dimensional animation.

The alien creatures in the movie move quickly and have many "tentacles", often sweeping across a large area at once.

For a certain action shot, five or six extras are involved, and there must be a complete design in advance, and each of the extras must go through repeated simulations on which side to turn, and which poses.

Holding the laptop all the way from the river to the shore, looking at the computer screen, forming pictures in my mind.

"At this location, make a hole about 30 square meters and nearly three meters deep."

Tang An stood in one place and looked back to estimate.

"Deng Chao on the right rear was hit by a falling plane when he first landed. Liu Ye was in this position. The air wave generated by the explosion directly threw him into the pit."

Tang An made an approximate location for the person in charge of the set crew.

"Okay Director Tang." Chen Jinhe, who was in charge of the set, responded immediately, turned his head and gave instructions to his subordinates, remember the location.

The entire battlefield turned around, and retreated to the distance to prepare to return to the set.

"Cheng Dao, Li Dao, in the next week, you will bring people to familiarize yourself with all the action scenes on the entire battlefield, and see if there is anything that needs improvement."

This film has a lot of action scenes, so Tang An found Li Zongzhi, who had previously collaborated with Wu Jing on "Spike" and is considered one of the best action directors of the younger generation in Hong Kong.

Later, Yu Dong invited Cheng Xiaodong over again, and two generations of the best action directors escorted the action scenes of the movie.

"Director Tang, don't worry, we will make sure everything is safe." Cheng Xiaodong and Li Zongzhi nodded.

Tang An then asked Zhao Jun, "Mr. Zhao, it's okay to block this area of ​​more than 6000 square meters for a few months."

Zhao Jun immediately replied, "No problem, the local government welcomes our filming."

Tang An nodded. The riverside battlefield and the airport are both within the scope of this small city. In addition to paying some fees, there is also a public relations fee of nearly 100 million, otherwise it would not be so smooth.

This is not the most troublesome thing. A large number of fighter jets, armed helicopters, large transport aircraft, and dozens of warships that can carry tanks and armored vehicles are used in the film.

Han Sanping has helped a lot here, otherwise he would hardly be able to apply because he has little relationship with the government and the military, but he owes a big favor.

I took a car to the nearby studio, a military base with a total area of ​​more than 15 square meters, three runways, hundreds of fighter jets, transport planes, armed helicopters, and a large number of armored vehicles and tanks.

But most of them are empty shells, and only a few are real, used to shoot a panoramic scene overlooking the sky.

Experts were invited to plan the layout of this military base, try to be as reasonable as possible, otherwise it will look messy.

In fact, if you want to save money, you can scale down and build a model.

But since it was shot, it should be bigger. This full shot of the bird's-eye view needs to go through the entire base from beginning to end.

After dinner at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, it took two hours to prepare, and the filming officially started at 6 o'clock in the evening.

In a huge military base of more than [-] square meters, thousands of ensemble performers dressed in military uniforms are distributed throughout the military base, standing guard and patrolling. From time to time, there are transportation landings and take-offs, and a large amount of ammunition and materials are brought in.

Armored vehicles and tanks returned to the camp after a day of training.

Two helicopters in the sky took pictures one after the other, flying back and forth 4 times to finish the full shot.

The sky is getting darker, and the entire military base made of steel (with a layer of paint on the wood) stands quietly in the wilderness, exuding a cold and dangerous atmosphere, like a dormant prehistoric beast, coupled with the unique texture of the film, After repairing the lighting in the later stage, it couldn't be more shocking.

"it is good!"

"Let's call it a day, everyone. Xu Tao will send someone a lunch box."

"Rest early, get enough energy, and get up early tomorrow."

Tang An stopped eating with them. He still had to deal with the bureaucrats of the local government and took Zhao Jun and Zhao Lei to drink.

Woke up at 6 o'clock the next morning to prepare for the shoot.

It is such a huge military base, and the entire production crew lives in it, saving the need to rent a hotel.

And there is also a special kitchen, employing a large number of chefs, some cook big pot meals for group performers and ordinary employees, and some specialize in cooking meals for middle-level and above crew members and actors.

It's not as scary as those big-name celebrities who often eat a dozen dishes alone. Tang An's food is best to only have two meats, one vegetable and one soup.

It just tastes better, after all, the chef was hired at a high price.

The production team spends money everywhere, and what can be saved should be saved.

After eating breakfast in two or three bites, and drinking the milk, watching the actors eating slowly, Tang An said with a smile.

"Eat well, don't run out of energy when filming."

"Director Tang, I'm full." Deng Chao wiped his mouth and said.

"Guide me well, Tang."

Everyone put down their bowls one after another, indicating that they can start to make up and shoot.

Tang An glanced at the bowls in front of them, no one had eaten them all.

"I can tell you that you must do 50 push-ups later, don't blame me if you don't eat enough and have no energy."

"Director Tang really filmed it?" Everyone smiled wryly.

This push-up is not easy to deal with. It is not easy for them to do 50 consecutively according to the army's standards.

And God knows if one can pass, and it will fall apart if I take a few more shots.

"Don't tell me that you can't even do 50 standard push-ups during this period of exercise." Tang An asked after scanning around.

50 is still a small number. In the movie, a group of [-] people does two groups. If they are not afraid that they will be exhausted after doing too much, they will look like soldiers by then.

How can a soldier who has actually been on the battlefield lie on the ground after doing two hundred push-ups?

Regardless of their sad eyes, Tang An came to the road in the middle of the base and started filming the first scene, which was the scene where Liu Ye was thrown into the base at the beginning.

(End of this chapter)