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Chapter 773 The Color of War

On October 10, Tang An came to Casablanca on the Pacific coast of western Morocco.

Morocco's economic center, transportation hub, and historical city known as the "Bride of the Atlantic", welcomed a large group of Chinese filmmakers a few days ago.

After the crew arrived, they completed all the preparatory work with another group of people who stayed there for preparation, and the Moroccan government, military and other aspects were well coordinated.

After a long flight, Tang An didn't immediately put himself into filming, so he took a day off and met with the local government and embassy by the way.

There is no entertainment, everything has been arranged by the foreign affairs department, and Morocco is a country in Africa that is relatively close to China.

Most of the scenes will be filmed in Casablanca. According to the plan, the scenes in the desert will be filmed first.

Arriving at the shooting location by car, looking at the Gobi desert, high mountains and ravines, and yellow sand all over the sky, Tang An smiled and said, "I didn't realize I was in Africa until I got here."

Zhang Yi, who got off from the car behind, followed up, and echoed behind Tang An, "Director Tang, when I first arrived in Casablanca, I thought I was in Europe. It's not like an African city at all."

Wan Qian asked with a smile, "What do cities in Africa look like?"

Zhang Yi froze for a moment, thought for a while but didn't know how to describe it.

"The people don't have enough to eat, there are many wars and turmoil, they are poor, backward, and dirty."

Tang An answered for him, and added at the end, "Plow Casablanca with cannonballs, and that's about it."

Zhang Yi rubbed his head in embarrassment, "After returning from Lujiang last month, I went to Venice with the crew of "Dear", and I feel that Casablanca is more like a European city."

"It used to be a French colony, so it's naturally a French-style building. Most European countries look similar, so there's nothing strange about it."

"Africa also has international metropolises, and Cairo ranks among the top [-] cities in the world. A city like Casablanca is almost equivalent to a second-tier city in China, and it won't be far behind."

After chatting for a while, each went to get busy with his own affairs.

Actors' makeup, equipment, vehicles, bombs, etc. used for filming must be checked one by one.

Everyone was busy with their own affairs, Tang An called the team leaders over.

Every movie has its own different style, and different styles affect many aspects such as photography, lighting, picture color, editing, soundtrack and so on.

The movie "Operation Red Sea" Tang An has talked with them many times, trying his best to let them understand his thoughts and know what kind of military movie he wants to make.

Movies are the art of directors, but there are hundreds of people in the crew, and everyone has a different division of labor. The director can only direct others to do it, and it is impossible to do everything by himself.

Even with so much time and energy, there is no such ability.

Some directors have studied photography and some have studied fine arts, but no one director can be proficient in all the work of the crew.

Of course, different films have different requirements, and a film like "Shark Beach" does not have high requirements for color, camera angles, lighting, etc.

The films of directors like Zhang Yimou and Chen Kai, although the storytelling is not very good, but in terms of professionalism, they definitely beat the current blockbuster directors.

The environment of the times is different. When they were young, there were no feature films, and the films at that time were not for telling stories.

Affected by the general environment, the directors of that generation were not very good at telling stories.

Feng Xiaogang was an exception, but he was precisely rejected by that circle.

"Lao Ye, Lao Zhang, I discussed the overall tone with you half a year ago, this is a war film, and the dark yellow tone should run through the whole film.

The previous scenes were all filmed in the desert, and the color of the desert itself is dry yellow. You have to handle it well. I need to give the audience a real feeling of facing the war, and I want a "painful" color! "

In "Operation Red Sea", the tone is always dark yellow, the smoke of war is endless, there are no extra colors to set off, tears have no time to flow, and eyes cannot be blurred.

There are also many different types of war movies. Although some battles are fierce, even if the protagonists die one after another, the whole process makes the audience passionate and adrenaline soaring without too much sadness.

"OPERATION RED SEA" is not such a film. A real war must make the audience "pain"!
There are no redundant colors in war, every color is pain!

As for how to express "pain", that is the business of the art director and lighting engineer.

They are all top talents in their respective fields, and they naturally know what to do.

After two and a half hours of preparation, Tang An confirmed to all departments that everything was ready before ten o'clock.

Tang An picked up the water glass and took a big gulp, put some more on his hand, and patted his dry face.

Although it's already mid-October, in the desert of Africa, you can still feel the dry heat in the air, and a wave of heat covers every exposed skin.

However, that little amount of moisture quickly increased, and my face was still dry and uncomfortable.

There's no other way, it's like this when filming in the desert, you can't find a few air conditioners to blow on Tang An.

Not to mention, in the future there will be crews who will do this. When some small fresh meats are filming costume dramas in summer, the crew will equip a few air conditioners to blow on them in the open air.

Not getting used to the climate here all of a sudden, and still in the desert, Tang An's mood became a little hot again.

I drank another bottle of iced drink, just like the sentence in the advertisement, "The heart is cool and the heart is flying", it was so refreshing.

Feeling a little more comfortable, Tang An picked up the loudspeaker and announced the start.

"Scene 41, one shot, one shot!"

"start!"

Following Tang An's order, at the other end of a road in the desert that was crushed by the wheels, a convoy drove towards this side.

This scene is the scene where the Jiaolong Special Forces and the local government forces protect civilians and go to the port.

Trucks, buses, and armored vehicles brought dust all over the sky along the way.

The footage from the aerial photography of the drone went from near to far, and first gave Zhang Yi and Wan Qian a close-up shot, then slowly elongated, raised, and shifted to the side.

Tang An stared at the shot closely in front of the monitor. Although there was nothing difficult, it was a very common shot.

Immediately afterwards, the picture captured the mountain peaks on both sides of the road. In the long shot, the peaks are not big, just like small hills.

But it is very dense, like a maze, with hidden murderous intentions inside.

Moreover, the lens is at an angle of 135 degrees to the sunlight, and the sunlight shines obliquely. Coupled with the dust all over the sky, the entire lens picture is not very clear, and it feels a little illusory.

The convoy stopped and the first shot was over, all in one go.

No time to celebrate, move on to the second shot.

The leader of the government army said that they had just been notified that they were going to a dangerous area and they had to divert.

But taking a detour would take a lot of time, so Zhang Yi hurriedly contacted Kunminhao.

"Okay, the blasting team is ready!"

Tang An yelled to stop, followed by an explosion scene.

The dense mountain peaks in front, through the light, angle and dust, look dangerous, and there is something dangerous inside.

Every shot in the movie is useful, and the audience may not notice it, but whether it is there or not, can indirectly affect the audience, but the audience did not realize it.

The scenery hinted at the front, and the danger will come immediately next.

Zhang Yigang was about to contact the Kunmin, but before he got through, the mortar hidden in the mountains next to him fired one after another.

"call out"

"boom!!"

The truck next to Zhang Yi was hit by a shell, and he was knocked to the ground by the huge air wave.

(End of this chapter)