Entertaining Children - Chapter 1019
Chapter 1019 The crew’s emergency vehicle
Chapter 1019 The crew’s ambulance
There was no official publicity plan for this film during the shooting period, and there was no press conference to start. A group of American staff and a group of young American filmmakers did not engage in complicated start-up ceremonies such as “burning incense and worshiping God” like the domestic crew. After all the staff arrived on the day of the shooting, the two directors Mu Ying and Xiao Yao announced the start of the machine, and everyone immediately started work.
The filming of film and television works does not necessarily follow the sequence of the plot. Shooting according to the sequence of the plot is undoubtedly better for the actor’s performance. It will help the actor to enter the role and maintain the same state and emotion as the role in the play. However, due to cost, time, equipment and other considerations, it is better when shooting. It is not often filmed in the order of the plot.
Shooting the same scenes together can reduce the number of venue rentals and the trouble of repeating the scene arrangement, especially the action scenes that need to be suspended or safety measures. It takes a lot of time to make it once, so many movies are shot. It’s not in the order of the plot.
Muying made a pre-plan for the filming plan in advance. Since this film does not have particularly high requirements for the actors in terms of performance, when making the filming plan, Mu Ying’s idea was not to shoot in the order of the plot, but to separate the literary and action dramas, and the same scenes Try to put the action scenes together and shoot them together, which saves time, money, and effort. Specifically, it is literary play and then action play. Whether it is literary play or action play, it is also a gradual process from easy to difficult.
As for Mu Ying’s shooting plan, everyone basically agreed, except that Xiao Yao had some objections to the arrangements for the first day of booting. On the first day of the boot, Xiao Yao wanted to set the tone for the entire shooting. After discussing with everyone, everyone also agreed with Xiao Yao’s idea and adjusted the shooting plan for the first day.
The first scene filmed after the crew started was the scene where seven people gathered together to discuss the target building at the beginning of the movie plot.
The specific content of this scene is that seven people came to the basement of a building one after another, the character played by Xiao Yao spread a picture on the table, and then determined a building as the target on the picture with the seven people, and then left the basement one after another. It’s over.
When determining the goal, the seven people did not quarrel. The character played by Xiao Yao pointed out a building, and the six people nodded in excitement. They didn’t even have much lines. This drama is a literary drama, and it doesn’t seem difficult. Even if it’s a relatively simple drama in literary drama, but under the strict requirements of Xiao Yao and Mu Ying, everyone took four shots.
There are not many lines in this scene. The most is Xiao Yao. Everyone said that there is no problem, but both Mu Ying and Xiao Yao are not satisfied with the facial expressions of the actors in the previous ones.
Xiao Yao appeared in this scene, and Mu Ying was the only director sitting behind the monitor. During the filming, Mu Ying called the card before the first two shots were finished, and after Mu Ying waited for the whole filming to be finished, Xiao Yao, another director, went over to watch the replay and discussed with Mu Ying. After a while, everyone took another fourth shot.
Climbing stairs with bare hands is a very dangerous and cool thing. Just from this one thing, it can be reflected that the team should be that kind of very cool, not afraid of the kind of personality. Therefore, when discussing such things, in addition to excitement, you should also show the unruly temperament of this team member that is very cool and fearless. This kind of temperament is not expressed through lines in this scene, but should be expressed in terms of their expressions, demeanor, and even temperament. Every time before filming restarted, Mu Ying and Xiao Yao directed the actors in this aspect.
There are seven protagonists in this movie. In addition to Xiao Yao and other four Chinese and ethnic Chinese, the other three starring actors are not all American. The white actor is British, the black actor is French, and only the Latino American is American. However, apart from their parkour skills, these three are all real actors, but they are not very famous and have not played the leading role.
These three have good financial conditions. Being an actor is more interested than life. Perhaps it is precisely because they are not popular, they have not received much work, and there is no pressure in life, they will have free time to play parkour, and the British and French actor will see the news of the crew recruiting actors on the official website of the film. After that, he flew to the United States to audition. These three are parkour enthusiasts, purely because the parkour veteran team is the main creator and starring role. The movie is the theme of parkour, so they came to participate in the performance. Whether it is an audition or a movie, it is inevitable to have some mentality for fun.
They all met Xiao Yao and others before the start of the game. The Chinese star, boss and director Xiao Yao in their eyes was not only very friendly, and they did not even ask them to call him the director in the crew, but let them call him directly. Yang, like a friend, was more relaxed when they were happy. But I didn’t expect that when I got to work and started the first scene as simple as the first scene, the two directors asked for three reshoots before and after the filming, and each time they came over to give them individual guidance, which looked serious. It also makes them unconsciously put away the mentality of play.
Fortunately, this movie is not a literary and artistic film aiming to win awards. There is nothing particularly advanced in the performance level of literary opera. Mu Ying and Xiao Yao have requirements for their performances, but the requirements are not high enough. Therefore, after shooting the fourth article, Mu Ying and Xiao Yao both expressed satisfaction.
After the first scene was filmed, Mu Ying signaled everyone to rest for a few minutes, and then moved to the shooting location of the second scene.
The continuous shooting of four articles in the first scene surprised the actors and crew, but when everyone moved to the shooting location of the second scene, several leading actors were shocked again.
The second scene was a scene of seven people climbing stairs with bare hands in the second act of the feature film. Since the shooting plan is given to the actors in advance, the actors know in advance which scenes and shots will be shot today. The actors were not surprised that the second scene was filmed outside a high-rise residential building, but to their surprise, there was an emergency vehicle parked next to that building.
“Young, why is there an ambulance there? Is someone sick or an accident in this building? Will our filming be affected?” The black French actor named John Diawara found in the leading role Xiao Yao pointed to the ambulance and asked.
The building they were shooting to climb had more than a dozen floors, and there were over a hundred households in it. It was impossible for the crew to empty everyone in the building when filming. They just said hello to the residents of the side they were shooting. Don’t open it casually. Window, so as not to appear in the lens and cause piercing. There is an ambulance parked here, it is likely that someone has committed an emergency or accidentally injured, this coming in and out, it is very likely that there will be unrelated people appearing in the camera, which will affect the shooting.
“No, no one in the building is sick or injured,” Xiao Yao replied with a smile. “This ambulance and the medicines in it are spare vehicles that our crew rented from the hospital with two real first-aiders. We hired them with money. They didn’t come for the people in the building, but the crew prepared for us!”
“What?” Xiao Yao said, Diawara’s face changed, and she shouted to Xiao Yao, “Yang, are you going to kill us?”
“What’s the matter?” Diawara called, and the other two actors also ran over curiously.
“That’s a real emergency vehicle,” Diawara pointed to the emergency lane next to the building. “Young said it was for us!”
“You mean we all have to go to the hospital after filming this scene?” The other two also looked at Xiao Yao in surprise.
“Hey,” Xiao Yao said helplessly to Diawara, “I said it was prepared for a few of us, including myself! Why do I plan to kill you?”
“Of course I don’t want anyone to be injured in the hospital while filming,” Xiao Yao said to the other two people, “but the scene we are going to shoot is dangerous. You have all read the script and you should know it. Although we take safety measures when shooting, there are a lot of shots in such a high building, and the shooting time will be very long, and accidents will inevitably occur. We called an emergency vehicle to stand by in advance. Provide better protection. Once there is any unexpected situation, professional medical personnel are present, and correct and effective treatment can be made immediately in time!”
The three of them nodded unconsciously, but still looked at Xiao Yao with a look of surprise and said: “Yang, we were the first time we encountered a situation where an emergency vehicle was parked by the side when we were filming.”
“Have you heard of Mike Zhou?” Xiao Yao asked with a smile. “When I was in China, I heard people say that when he was filming on China’s Hong Kong Island when he was young, he called an ambulance to park next to him. ”
“Mike Zhou?” Diawala made a Kung Fu gesture, “Is that the famous Chinese Kung Fu star in Hollywood?”
“Yes!” Xiao Yao nodded, “He is a Kung Fu superstar, and he shoots all action movies. No matter how dangerous the action is, he always plays with him. He never needs a substitute, and he is never afraid that the action is too dangerous. If he is injured, he will reduce the difficulty of the action and reduce the requirements for himself. Some of his actions are very dangerous and the possibility of injury is very high. Also, because he has suffered a lot of injuries during filming, the crew helped him rent an ambulance when filming. In the filming location, injuries are always treated at any time.”
“He was able to go from China’s Hong Kong Island to Hollywood, and still achieve such great success in Hollywood, to become a world-renowned Kung Fu superstar, that is how he worked hard!” Xiao Yao finally said.
The three reshoots of today’s first literary play were not designed and arranged in advance by Xiao Yao and Mu Ying, but their normal requirements for shooting based on film quality considerations, but the emergency vehicle next to the shooting location of the second action scene, It was deliberately arranged by Xiao Yao, Mu Ying and others. This ambulance is an attitude expressed by Xiao Yao, which is what he calls a keynote for filming.
But what Xiao Yao said just now is nonsense. Other Xiao Yao didn’t know Mike Zhou, the Kung Fu superstar Zhou Hu of China Hong Kong Island, and he had never heard of Zhou Hu’s deeds from other people. However, Xiao Yao vaguely remembered that he had read a report about Jackie Chan in his previous life that it seemed to have said such a thing, so he did the same, and even relentlessly settled on Zhou Hu, who was more similar to the previous Jackie Chan in this world.
Zhou Hu in this world is also very dedicated and very hard in filming. Even if he did not call the ambulance to stand by during the filming, this is not a discrediting remark, but it is a praise for his dedication. Don’t say whether these foreigners would pass these words to Zhou Hu’s ears. Even if Zhou Hu knew about it in the future, when Xiao Yao asked about this matter, Xiao Yao at most honestly admitted that it was made up by himself. It was to stimulate several foreign young people to act well in his name, and Zhou Hu wouldn’t have any opinion on his approach if he wanted to come.
Sure enough, after hearing Xiao Yao say that Zhou Hu did the same, the expressions of several foreign actors became serious, and no longer had any thoughts about Xiao Yao arranging an emergency vehicle to park next to him, so they turned to the side and started earnestly. Warm-up activity. Although they suddenly felt a sense of sacredness of serious filming, no one really had an accident when they wanted to film a film and lay in the emergency vehicle.
There are no substitutes for the actors in this play. Seven of them must actually climb on the outer wall of this building. Even if they don’t actually climb from the first floor to the top, but all the shots are taken, they have to shoot several floors. Climbing stairs from the outer wall with bare hands is not a common behavior in parkour. Even if there is, it is a jump from the first floor to the second floor and the third floor. No one will have the experience of climbing up the middle section of the outer wall of a dozen-storey high-rise building. If the three of them don’t think of accidents, in addition to being careful, they really have to prepare physically, warm up, and move their hands and feet.
Zhao Rui, Xu Fei and Zhou Jingyi knew the existence of the ambulance in advance. When Xiao Yao explained to the three of them, they were also preparing to warm up. The four of them also did not have the experience of climbing under the outer walls of a dozen-storey high-rise building. After explaining to the three foreign actors, Xiao Yao also joined the warm-up team.
After the rest of the crew is ready, the second scene will start filming.
The first shot is a few people rushing to the building’s outer wall on the ground and starting to climb upwards. This part is carried out on the ground and the first and second floors. It is not difficult or dangerous for the seven real parkour masters. The wall-climbing action was taken from the back of a few people, and it was completed smoothly. Up.
After the bottom shot is completed, the next shot will be moved to the outside of the six or seven storeys high floor. At this time, some safety protection measures need to be taken for the actors.
Xiao Yao, Zhao Rui and Xu Fei are the action directors of this movie, but they are not responsible for the specific safety measures during the filming of the action movie. The three of them have filmed action scenes, and they have experience in Diaoweiya, but they are not professional martial arts, so their action director is only responsible for designing the action, and the crew specially hired a person who is quite experienced in this area. The professional team is responsible for the safety measures during shooting.
In this regard, the crew spends a lot of money. This security team is a well-known team in Hollywood. It is not only experienced, but the equipment used is also very advanced. With these safety measures, the seven people also felt quite safe, and basically did not affect their actions.
Although there are very good safety measures, it is inevitable that you will be nervous when you are in mid-air. This scene is basically a wall-climbing shot, and the shooting time is not short. In addition to the physical exhaustion of climbing, the seven people are also under psychological pressure, which makes them more tired. Fortunately, none of the seven had any accidents such as slipping or slipping during the shooting, and the specially drove emergency vehicle was not really used.
Seven actors are tired, but generally speaking, the first day of filming went smoothly.
(End of this chapter)