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Chapter 233

Having just arrived in Canada, Chen Xi also has a familiar feeling now.

After all, Chen Xi and the others participated in the Toronto Film Festival in Canada, and got a good ranking...

This time, Chen Xi and the others are not only going to Canada, but also to the United States...

They were going to shoot transitions between Vancouver, Canada and New York, USA.

There is also a long distance from Vancouver, Canada to New York, but for Chen Xi and the others, this is not particularly different. After all, the United States and Canada are almost one country now, and Canada has already entrusted its defense to the United States.

For Chen Xi and the others, this cross-border shooting was indeed quite a test.

In the past, every time Chen Xi and the others took pictures, they were only in China, and the furthest one was also in Nanyun, which felt far away. Now it is directly across the ocean...

Moreover, when filming a lot of things here, you have to accept the filming laws of Canada. Their laws are more troublesome than those of China. Sometimes Chinese film crews even have rumors that there is no such thing as human rights, especially some Extras are miserable.

Chen Xi has a lot of these things in his memory...

There was a movie filming a water scene, and the extras were soaked in the water, but because of some conflicts between a big name and the crew, the big name delayed the shooting progress, and it was really too troublesome for these extras to climb out of the water Yes, it needs to spend a lot of extra costs, so no one in the crew will take care of these extras, and everyone is just wandering about the big-name matter.

So these guys soaked until the afternoon, their skin turned pale, but there was nothing they could do... In the crew, sometimes things are like that, if you are not famous, or even if you are just an extra, no one will care about you, No one pays attention to you, except for some things, everyone will not think about you, and the crew would rather pay big names a lot of money than give ordinary extras half of it.

Diaosi has no human rights, and sometimes it does.

But the various laws here are relatively perfect. Of course, don’t think that others are really good people just because their laws look more powerful and perfect. There is absolutely no problem of abuse of actors in filming here. In fact, There are still more here, but they do it more covertly.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and where there are rivers and lakes, there are superior policies and countermeasures!

Here is something that makes Chen Xi and the others the most uncomfortable...

That is, on the Canadian side, there are strict laws and regulations, and there is also a tacit understanding between the cast and crew, which can be regarded as an unspoken rule: once it is off-duty time, they can immediately give you a pick and quit, even if If you have worn your tongue, he will not dare to stop doing it, because it is off-duty time, and even if you convince him that he must do it, he will still ask for money.

In China, there are so many things. If you are in a film crew, you have to work overtime, and overtime pay depends on whether the director wants to buy people's hearts... This is also the unspoken rule of filming in China.This can be regarded as a cultural difference. Of course, strictly speaking, the filming systems of Canada and the United States can be regarded as an improvement. China is also used to Chinese characteristics, and many things are different from others. , Of course, the efficiency of the Chinese crew is obviously relatively high if you want to show it, but the quality is short due to many problems such as funds.

...Chen Xi and his crew inevitably have many foreign employees, including those from the United States and Canada. Not only do they require a lot of salary, but they also ask for overtime wages directly. Xi is a little annoyed... Although he knows that it makes sense logically, but...

When I was in China, every time I worked overtime, although I didn’t pay overtime pay, Chen Xi would give everyone money to buy something for a meal. This is one of the reasons why Chen Xi is more popular and the crew admires him so much. .

But now they have to adapt to a new set of rules when they come here, and according to the rules, Chinese actors and actresses have to be separated from foreign ones... After all, some things cannot be easily damaged by foreign friends. It is easy to go frugal into extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagant to frugal. It seems that in those European countries, the government is constantly increasing welfare, which seems to be a good thing. China's finances are constantly collapsing, all kinds of things are happening, many countries are just struggling to support themselves, and there are even terrible things like the four European pigs...

Chen Xi and the others are relatively conscientious in the Chinese crew, but if they have to ignore some actual situations and raise their crew members to the level of foreign friends, then it will be almost impossible to get along , This is not only a problem of increasing expenses, but also changing the rules of the industry without authorization. This kind of thing is not something that Chen Xi can do in his current status. He has already made many enemies, and he doesn't want to provoke a few more.

... "everyone standby^" Chen Xi also came to a series of English now, and began to give orders, so the people on the Chinese side and the American side in the crew started to get busy. This shot is of Wen Jiajia at the seaside The part selling bags is actually quite important for expressing the character of the characters in the movie. If this part is not well filmed, for Wen Jiajia, many people just position her as a gold digger. The mistress on the face and the like...

This passage is indeed very effective. Many audiences changed their views on Wen Jiajia through this passage, and then gradually began to reverse their impressions of Wen Jiajia.

"Tang Wei, your performance is still not quite right." After taking another shot of this one, Chen Xi walked to Tang Wei's side, and the others were busy rearranging the arrangement.

Tang Wei was listening to Chen Xi with confidence.

It was extremely cold in Canada in January, and the wind blowing from the Pacific Ocean carried a fierce biting smell, and Chen Xi and the others couldn't stand the cold wind.Although Tang Wei is wearing a lot of clothes now, his ears and the like have long been red from the cold.

Tang Wei is indeed very convinced of the director Chen Xi these days. She found that Chen Xi not only has a high reputation now, but also made 2 million box office movies, as well as the real break with Zhuang Guofei at the director's meeting. Among them, his control over the entire crew, and his control over the subtleties of the actors are also quite strong...

In addition, there is another point, Chen Xi seems to have a well-thought-out plan for everything, and there are almost no useless shots in the actual shooting. Chen Xi has a steelyard in his control of many things.

"You need to show Wen Jiajia's innocence and optimism here. Of course, this is a superficial statement. Let me tell you that Wen Jiajia is actually a girly person. She has her own persistence. And kindness, in this period, many of her feelings still need you to experience and express them yourself."

Tang Wei nodded and said I understand.

In fact, the performances of Tang Wei and Wu Xiubo are not bad. These two actors make Chen Xi feel very good, because this way, there are very few bad shots.

After Chen Xi talked about the play, Tang Wei's performance became much more vivid...

Chen Xi and the others are speeding up here, shooting all the scenes of "BJ Meets Seattle" in Vancouver at a very fast speed, and then they will switch to the Empire State Building in New York to shoot. Chen Xi's goal is to shoot in Vancouver. Before the Chinese New Year, they finished filming all the scenes in the United States, and then went back to China for the Chinese New Year holiday. After the Chinese New Year, they came back and then finished the filming. However, they only had two days to shoot on the Empire State Building. They easily allowed the movie to be filmed here, but they only gave Chen Xi and others two days, and only two hours a day!This is almost a nightmare for such a large crew, so they can only let the actors make up in advance and prepare everything in advance...

Chen Xi and the others could only choose the time period from six o'clock to eight o'clock. After eight o'clock, the tourists would come up, and the crew was not allowed to continue filming here, so Chen Xi and the others only had two hours...

In this way, Tang Wei and Wu Xiubo had to get up at three or four o'clock in the morning to put on makeup, and even came here to make up on the road, and then started shooting... This kind of shooting process is quite difficult, especially for Chen Xi. That's it, he basically doesn't want to sleep in New York these days, because he has a lot of things here, so he can only come here to deal with them.

These two days were really difficult shoots for Chen Xi and the others, but the two days in the Empire State Building were still over, and the shots that were shot were not bad. Anyway, I got a lot of material, and I was lucky. , I just captured the sunrise on the Empire State Building, and the shooting here is basically perfect!
So just a few days before the Chinese New Year, "BJ Meets Seattle" finally filmed all the scenes in the United States and Canada. It can be said that this film has been completed internationally, and then Chen Xi and his entire crew flew back to China by plane. After returning to China, Chen Xi didn't have time to take care of other things. He just explained most of the company's affairs and planned to go home.

The current Chen Xi also hasn't been home for a while, so she has to go back now.

The company now has a lot of shooting equipment in "BJ Meets Seattle". Relatively speaking, it will not take too much time, energy and money to stop the film crew in the middle, and the loss of not shooting for a few days during the Chinese New Year is not too big. .

(End of this chapter)