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Chapter 821 The main event, folding flowers on a moonlit night
Since cooperating with Lao Mouzi in "Zhu Xian", carefully observing his composition, setting, photography, and modeling requirements for many big scenes, Zhou Xia combined his own experience, and has a deeper understanding of this aspect of film.

Movies are an art of light and shadow. Using a person as an analogy, the story is the inside, the picture is the appearance, and the soundtrack is the sound.

These have to be at their best to make a good movie.

If there is one point that is not done well, there will be flaws and it will not be recognized and liked by some people.

As for movie screens, a small number of directors rely on personal talent, while most rely on acquired learning and accumulated experience. Zhou Xia is one of the majority.

For "Sword of Heaven", he invited the famous photographer Du Kefeng to take the shot, and he cooperated very satisfactorily to complete the fairy tale type movie he personally envisioned.

The pure and rich ethereal and elegant fairy-tale images, the adventure plot with oriental characteristics, monsters breaking through levels, and the well-designed shapes and costumes all make the characters and monsters in the movie perfectly unified with the movie style, appearing unique and charming.

Now, after more than a year of post-production, the special effects, soundtrack, etc. have all reached the level that Zhou Xia wanted. For him, "Sword of Heaven" is within his ability, the movie that has invested the most time, money, and energy. Made it to the extreme.

Now there is more than one month left for the movie to be released, and Zhou Xia is looking forward to the audience's reaction when the time comes.

This time, I invited Lao Mouzi to direct the filming of "Zhu Xian". Zhou Xia just wanted to see if this senior who has a deeper traditional culture and is a world master in terms of movie screens and shapes can make the fairy tales in this category Movies do better.

It has been more than a month since the filming started. Judging from the filming completed so far, the overall presentation of the screen is more in line with classical aesthetics, and the overall sense of fairy-tale style formed is indeed more beautiful than "Sword".

Some scenes are like freehand Chinese paintings. The pictures alone can make people enter the play, as if they have entered a world of cultivating immortals.

Zhou Xia is very satisfied with this, Lao Mouzi is indeed a master in this regard.

From "Red Sorghum", "Ju Dou", "Raise the Red Lantern", "My Father and Mother", "Hero", "House of Flying Daggers", "Golden Armor", "Three Guns", to the later " The Great Wall" and "Shadow", including the opening ceremony of the 08 Olympic Games, as well as many live-action impressionistic landscape performances.

Among Lao Mouzi's works, the pictures and shapes always leave the deepest impression on people.

Even for some pictures, the integrity and rhythm of the storyline are affected.

This time "Zhu Xian" is Lao Mouzi's first blockbuster film after he changed his new owner. Need to focus on shooting.

He also really used [-]% of his focus to make movies, slept for more than three hours a day, and spent the rest of the time thinking about movies.

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Zhou Xia worked all night last night, packed up in the morning, and came to the set on time. Seeing that everything was in order and everyone was busy, they greeted him one after another, said congratulations, and continued to work. He knew that Lao Mouzi had already Arrived.

"Morning, director."

Zhou Xia was heading to the dressing room when he saw Lao Mouzi walking towards him after explaining things to several set designers, and stopped to say hello.

"Morning, Director Zhou, congratulations, I heard that you came back after eleven o'clock last night, so early." Lao Mouzi walked over with a smile.

There were two directors on the set. In order to prevent confusion, Zhou Xia asked everyone to call him Director Zhou and Director Lao Mouzi.

Zhou Xia blushed for a while, he just started shooting on time after changing clothes, styling and makeup later.

"Hehe, it's getting late. The director has worked hard these days. You're busy, so I'll prepare right away." Zhou Xia didn't delay either.

"Don't worry, before you shoot, I arranged two other scenes, we will shoot your scene at ten o'clock." Lao Mouzi quickly reminded.

"It's still the director's thoughtfulness, then I'm ready, and I'll go and shoot with other actors first." Zhou Xia said with a smile.

Although I had agreed with Lao Mouzi in advance that the filming could start smoothly today, Lao Mouzi still gave him a longer preparation time.

Saying goodbye to Lao Mouzi, walked to the door of the makeup booth, already made up the makeup, the little fox who had put on makeup was walking out, and came when he saw him, with a smile on his lips: "Director Zhou, I just returned to the set last night, and I stayed up all night to work You have worked so hard."

While speaking, he glanced at Yu Fei who was also walking towards the dressing shed not far behind Zhou Xia, and Xiaohu's voice raised a little.

This make-up studio is very big, and there are separate make-up rooms for the three of them, and everyone else is in another make-up studio.

"There is no other way. Those who are capable work hard. Hard work is deserved, Yu Fei, don't you think so?" Zhou Xia was not at all shy, turned around and blinked, and looked at Yu Fei who was walking over.

"Ah? Oh, yes, but I think you enjoy this kind of hard work." Yu Fei was slightly taken aback, and seeing Xiaohu's expression, she immediately countered with a pun.

Seeing Yufei singing with Zhou Xia, the little fox implying that she and Zhou Xia were not tired and happy last night, she rolled her eyes angrily, turned and left.

"Why is this Yufei so thick-skinned now? If you are proud now, will you still be proud after ten months?"

As the little fox walked forward, he gently touched his deflated belly, thinking to himself.

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The filming in the next few days went smoothly. Because of Zhou Xia's suggestion, Xiaohu's daily scenes were arranged less, and they were all arranged after [-]:[-] in the morning and before [-]:[-] in the evening, giving her enough time to rest and protect herself. Body.

But starting from today, June NO.15, when the moon is full in the next two nights, Xiaohu must also shoot night scenes.

Because there are several night scenes about the full moon.

Among them, the scene where Zhang Xiaofan and Baguio meet for the first time on a moonlit night in the back garden of Shanhaiyuan is the highlight, and there are other scenes of Zhang Xiaofan at Dazhufeng and Lu Xueqi at Xiaozhufeng on a full moon night.

There is still plenty of time, as long as the weather does not cause problems, the filming can be finished in two or three days.
Otherwise, it will have to wait until next month to shoot.

Of course, this can also be achieved through post-editing, compositing images, and even special effects, but that would be laborious and costly.

Shooting in the natural environment is much more convenient, labor-saving, and money-saving.

Choose the scene, get ready, and start shooting directly. For other light sources, some fill lights are enough for the photography picture.

But if you are not shooting in a natural environment, then you have to think about it too much, and sometimes a small mistake will make it go wrong.

For example, the shadows of people and buildings under the moonlight, the changes of shadows when the wind blows, and the changes of shadows when people walk and run.

For this alone, it takes a few more hours to make real light and shadow effects by relying on ambient lights, side lights, eye lights, moving fill lights, etc.

And the shots of actors may only be tens of seconds, so all the scenes will take more time to add up.

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At 6:15 p.m. on June 8th, a garden where the crew of "Zhu Xian" was selected in Xiangshan Film and Television City.

This is the scene in the back garden of Zhongshan Haiyuan Restaurant in the movie.

The entire film crew of Group A has been prepared, and the director, cameraman, executive director, on-site director, lighting, and scene recorders are all in place.

As the director Lao Mouzi shouted, the scene notes also came to a halt.

"No. 20, the first shot of the first eight shots, start."

Zhou Xia and Xiaohu, who had been prepared for a long time, walked into the two main shots from two directions along the garden path.

Zhou Xia was dressed in blue and white robes from Qingyun Sect disciples, and Xiaohu was dressed in water green and smart clothes.

In this quiet night, they were all walking alone in the bright moonlight, walking in this deep garden, as if they were recalling some past events.

On the side of the road, a small flower trembled in the night wind, with crystal dewdrops attached to the pink and white petals, exquisite and translucent, very beautiful.

The two noticed this beautiful little flower almost at the same time.

But Zhang Xiaofan was all focused on flowers, but he didn't see Baguio.

He looked at the beautiful little flower, and unconsciously showed a dazed expression.

The faint fragrance came secretly, refreshing, and reminded him of many good memories with his senior sister Tian Linger.

Suddenly, a slender hand seemed to reach out from the eternal darkness, with a sense of quiet beauty, imprinted with the moonlight and stars in the sky, it reached the flower.

Fold it off!

(End of this chapter)