China Entertainment: Director’s happiness is so simple

After a brief chat, Lu Ping'an went to the screening room to watch the movie.

The shooting mode this time is the same as that of "Wonderful Night 2", using a producer-centric approach and modular production. Lu Ping'an checked for omissions and filled in the gaps, allowing director Ning Hao to make adjustments according to his wishes.

This will also be Xingchen's usual approach to S-level projects in the future.

As long as Lu Pingan is not the director, this method will be adopted.

In this way, Lu Ping An can save more time and effort, and the director can be guided to smoothly handle projects that exceed the limits of his abilities and achieve faster growth from them.

The words come.

Currently, the "Source Code 2: Edge of Tomorrow" project is divided into 16 modules.

It has been 5 days since it was started, and the non-special effects part of the first module has been completed.

That's the plot of the first few minutes of the movie.

The protagonist Xiao En, as a major in the military propaganda department, was summoned to the headquarters.

Then he was assigned by the general to go to the battlefield to film the "Decisive Battle" clip. As a result, Xiao En was greedy for life and was afraid of death. He threatened the general by writing an article. He thought that this would get him to lose his place on the front line, but the general could not tolerate him. In the end, Xiao En En was labeled as a deserter and forcibly taken to the front line

In this opening sequence, several characters from "Source Code 1" will appear.

For example, Yu Feihong in "Source Code 1" played the heroine, a train passenger in the first film.

In this film, because it is a parallel world, Xiao En's tragedy did not happen, and there were no terrorists trying to blow up the train.

But the two still met together and became the colleagues Xiao En advertised.

Yu Feihong's scene only lasted for one second, and it was filmed two days ago.

The other is the "General", the fat man who sends the protagonist to the battlefield in "Edge of Tomorrow".

This time, because it is "Source Code 2" and involves a series, the fat man was played by Yan Danchen.

In "Source Code 1", she was a female captain. Now in this world, she has become a general. The logic makes sense, because at this point in time, human beings have almost been disabled.

There is also another character that is the same as "Source Code 1", and that is the doctor played by Xie Yuan.

In the first part, Xie Yuan successfully invented the source code program, but this world did not. It was not until the aliens arrived and met the first female protagonist who gained abilities that her talent was completely unlocked.

Then he became the person in the world who knew the most about alien "mimicry", but except for the female protagonist and later the male protagonist, no one believed it, so now he is still considered a mentally ill mechanic.

At this point, the connection between "Source Code 2: Edge of Tomorrow" and "Source Code 1" ends.

The rest is a completely new story.

Lu Ping'an put on his headphones and read the first module he had shot, and wrote while reading.

After I finished watching it, I just finished shooting outside and was ready to have dinner.

Lu Pingan then called Ning Hao Guorong and Liu Qianqian.

"Mouse, come take a look at this shot. It needs to be retaken."

Lu Ping'an didn't talk nonsense and directly pointed out the defective shots.

Ning Hao was confused: "How to change it?"

"This shot shows the male protagonist panicking when he hears that the general is going to send him to the front line, right? Overall it's okay, but it's not accurate enough. You have to blur the background and focus on Guorong's left eye. Your performance is very good, but it needs to be amplified. This is a commercial film, not an artistic film. You have to understand it at a glance. Damn, the camera needs to shake a little more to reflect the inner panic of the characters. Do you understand what I mean? "

Lu Ping'an explained patiently.

Ning Hao understood instantly and gave a thumbs up: "The boss is the boss. Once he makes a move, it will be different. The details really show his true nature!"

Ning Hao said so, but he actually thought so in his heart.

In fact, it is not impossible for him to use the lens language mentioned by Lu Pingan.

But you must know that this is only the first time for him to take on a film of this level. There are so many scenes in "Edge of Tomorrow". Even for a "newbie", there will always be omissions.

Lu Ping An's commercial blockbusters, or Hollywood-style blockbusters, look like a generic three-act plot, which is very silly.

But if you really think so, it will be troublesome.

In fact, no matter how clichéd the plots of these films are, they are really meticulous in various details such as camera language.

And not only is it very fine, there are also many lenses.

A movie has about twice as many shots as an average domestic movie.

Domestic movies with 800 to 1,200 shots are considered blockbusters, while Hollywood blockbusters often have 1,600 to 2,200 shots.

Now, according to Lu Ping'an's storyboard, "Edge of Tomorrow" must have more than 2,600 shots, of which the number of deaths given is 45.

No wonder Lu Ping'an took so many years to complete the painting.

So Ning Hao is very sober. Even though he is considered very good in China, the successful "Wonderful Night 2" he directed is the highest level among domestic films in terms of technical indicators and box office results.

But really according to the standards of Hollywood's first-tier blockbusters, "Wonderful Night 2" is still far from enough, at least the number of shots is still not enough.

On this basis, every shot must be refined.

So Ning Hao was still under a lot of pressure.

Fortunately, Lu Pingping was still there to take him.

For example, now we are checking and filling in the gaps step by step.

This feeling is very wonderful.

Of course there will still be pressure.

At least Lu Ping'an is telling him now that he is still far behind the world's top commercial film director.

"Five months, take your time and don't rush."

Lu Pingping comforted him, and then continued to point out other flaws.

At his current stage, in terms of originality, he is definitely not as good as someone like Ning Hao.

But when it comes to one-to-one copying, there must be no one better than him.

The original version was directed by Doug Liman, the director of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" and "The Bourne Supremacy". Technical indicators such as lens language were beyond the reach of Ning Hao.

So taking advantage of this time, it's just the right time to give him some military training and make some progress.

Of course, Lu Pingan also believes that after the filming of this scene, Ning Hao will definitely play to his strengths and give something eye-catching after he adapts to the rhythm.

Hope this road is safe.

An hour later, everyone had dinner together.

Ning Hao and others ate ordinary meals, while Lu Pingan accompanied Liu Qianqian to eat fitness meals.

Liu Qianqian trained for her current role for five months, which was very hard. On the surface, she had no complaints, but privately she and Lu Ping'an used this as an excuse to feel wronged many times.

It's not really aggrieved, it's just used to flirt and act coquettishly.

Of course Lu Ping'an had to follow her, and he had to do it in a big way to show her. He was the best at this kind of thing, so he gnawed grass with her today.

Seeing Lu Pingan swallowing in pain, Liu Qianqian raised the corners of her mouth, and the boiled chicken breast in her mouth had a bit more flavor.

It's a pity that my mother was afraid that she would be injured during the action scenes these days, so she stayed on the set to watch over her.

Otherwise, I will let Brother Ping An experience the fighting power of the Valkyrie tonight!