I’m a Director, I’m Not Bad

Chapter 432 430. Big difference (Thanks to the leader of "Shadow Zhi" for the reward!)

March 17th.

Yuan'an County.

Xu Xin, Zhang Mo, Wang Lei, art director Liu Yichuan and Liu Lao, costumer Zhang Li and prop Ning Daming of "Black Cannon Incident". The crew formed by Zhong Ling, the stylist of "Yellow Earth", Tian Geng, the costumer, and Ma Huiwu, the art director of "Scented Soul Girl", have been in Yuan'an County for a day.

Also accompanying us were the apprentices who were led by the older generation of industry leaders, as well as the apprentices' apprentices...

There are nearly thirty people in the art direction team alone, including consultants and staff.

This does not include the decoration team next to it.

If you include the construction team who came to adjust the details according to the crew this time, the number of people in the service department alone may reach more than 70.

This also broke a new high in the number of people in the crew controlled by Xu Xin.

how to say……

These people are so professional. No matter what slogans they have, such as "Firmly Support", or what the garbage bins of that era looked like, whether there were telephone poles, etc., there is no need for Xu Xin to say.

As soon as people arrived here, they naturally found out what was wrong.

In addition to the fact that state-owned facilities such as telephone poles cannot be changed and may need to be repaired through the lens at that time, the scenery of the filming location provided by Yuan'an County has undergone earth-shaking changes in the past half month.

On the other side of the traffic light is a street that, although not very modern, can be said to be advancing with the times. But after passing the traffic light, the factory area of ​​Yuan'an Old 1023 Factory made Xu Xin feel like he had really traveled through time.

Maybe it was because he had watched "Bu Bu Jing Xin" too much in the past two days. It felt really strange for him to walk on this hard surface.

But...professional people do professional things.

In one morning, except for some very minor flaws, other details have been basically accepted.

It completely satisfies all the sense of time in the era that Xu Xin wants to restore.

The arrival of the crew also attracted the attention of many spectators.

But most people came for Zhang Yimou.

But this time the old man was not there.

He went to Nanjing to work on "Thirteen Hairpins".

Although "Three Guns" received a box office of 240 million, its reputation was a mess. Coupled with Takakura Ken's letter...the old man's seriousness about "Thirteen Hairpins" has reached a whole new level.

He needs to use this movie to regain his lost reputation.

Therefore, we have been paying attention to the training level of the amateur actors and children since the beginning of the year, so as to achieve the most realistic restoration.

In addition, he also knew the strength of Xu Xin's team, so he didn't come this time.

The weather in Yuan'an in mid-March was far from warm.

But since everyone is here, what needs to be done must still be done one by one.

In the morning, a group of seniors pointed out some deficiencies and flaws, and in the afternoon the engineering team took the time to make improvements.

It's all superficial work, and it only takes a day or two to deal with it.

But that doesn't mean we'll leave it alone once it's dealt with. The old man is also talking to the leaders of Yuan'an County.

We are even talking with the villagers of Qinglong Village.

After filming, these buildings will be restored or not.

The architectural restoration of Qinglong Village is relatively simple. Because the local style is slightly backward, the crew put all the renovation of the entire village on the exterior scenes. Some slogans adapted to the times, but the renovation of the old facade is not high.

If you want to restore it, just paint it directly.

Except for the two families who built a two-story house, and the crew had to re-tile the facades of the houses, there was no waste of effort in the rest.

The difficulty in Yuan'an County is that both the 1023 factory area that the crew transformed into a school, the entire street, and even some filming locations have been properly restored with the approval of the county party committee.

I have to praise the artistry of these veteran veterans. When they renovated the facade, they all used the hanging mesh technology. When some walls need to be removed, they will directly hang the mesh together. demolish it, and the layer that fits the building is basically made of natural materials. Some are even made of yellow mud mixed with straw and hung with netting. First, give the wall a protective layer...

This technique was taught by these old-timers, and is practiced in many places in Qinglong Village and Yuan'an County.

But it really gave some young costume and prop masters a lot of experience.

The old man is now discussing with the county whether the sets in Qinglong Village and Yuan'an County should be demolished after the movie ends.

Yuan'an County hopes to use the old man's name and Xu Xin to turn this city, which not only has rich historical and cultural heritage, but also has an important strategic position in modern times, into a tourist area.

Yuan'an has already started building a hawthorn industrial park a few years ago.

Promote the economic development of the county through tourism.

So they are very supportive of the location selection of "The Hawthorn Tree".

However, due to the special nature of Yuan'an, even if the land of these old factories is abandoned, it is still a state-owned resource.

After the crew modified it, logically speaking, it must be restored.

Of course, there are also crews or some directors who don't care about these things.

Accustomed to the days when people are superior to others, the so-called scenery, scenic spots, and nature reserves are just the background of their lenses.

Choose a location, build what you need, shoot and leave.

Whether it will damage the scenic spot, these finishing touches will not be seen at all.

To be honest, Xu Xin didn't pay much attention to these things at first.

Or there is no concept.

In "Secret", his exterior scenes were all shot on the Wanwan side, and there were no changes. They were all shot at the original location. After filming, everyone cleaned up the leftover garbage and left.

"The Wind" was shot directly in Hengdian. Although scenes were shot in several cities including Lushun, there were no major renovations. And let alone after returning to the factory... There are many good things in the factory, and the foundation is solid. Let alone modifications, you won't feel bad even if you take them down and light them on fire.

This is the first time he has made a film like this that directly transforms a street.

When I heard the old man's request, "We have to restore everything after the filming," I was not surprised, but I was still a little surprised.

After all, this demolition work needs to be done more delicately.

Although it is inappropriate to ask for money, it is true that the project budget for demolition work is not much less than that for construction.

Very expensive.

He understood the truth, but he didn't expect the old man to be so serious.

As for how serious it is?

When I came to Yuan'an last time, I held a meeting with the main people in charge of the crew, and made several points in this regard, which must be resolutely implemented.

First, don’t touch the crops.

According to the old man’s words:

"This is not about compensating others for trampling on the wheat seedlings. These crops are the fruits of the villagers' cultivation with their backs to the sky and their faces to the loess. We must respect the fruits of other people's labor!"

Second, whether it is for shooting or framing reasons, if a door or a section of a wall of a fellow villager's house is demolished, everything must be restored after the framing is over. When things happen, we can adjust ourselves and prioritize ourselves.

"Everyone remember, you must not develop this habit of indifference. What do you think you do when you make movies? You go to people's homes and use their places to shoot things. Try to have as little interference as possible and don't do these things in a big way. . We are here to make a movie, we are guests, we cannot be bad guests."

Third, at the end of the day's shooting, the cement yard was dirty with the things from the fellow villagers' homes, the mud under their feet, etc... everything had to be cleaned up.

"We came clean and left clean. In the future, people will not point at our spines and scold us..."

These are the key points of the old man's meeting. With Xu Xin's nod, they have become the military orders of the crew.

Military orders are like mountains.

After that meeting, the old man told him something.

Without naming anyone, I just told him:

"You have to be careful when filming this kind of scenes in the future. Don't be like some people who went to Jiuzhaigou to shoot scenes and built a big shed in a national key nature reserve. During the construction, they were rough and rough, not to mention destroying a lot of places. , you didn’t dismantle it after filming, but just left tens of thousands of dollars and let people do it themselves...

The beauty that has been formed naturally for thousands of years, because you destroyed it yourself... then it is not about money. You will become the sinner of those latecomers who have not seen the true appearance of these beautiful scenery. "

When saying this, he not only cited the examples of Jiuzhaigou, but also the Old Summer Palace and Shangri-La...

Xu Xin was a little confused after hearing this.

I don’t understand which great directors can do such things as destroying the ancient ruins of the Old Summer Palace and the natural environment of Jiuzhaigou and Shangri-La...

It's not that rough, right?

When asked who did it, the old man waved his hand:

"You don't care who did it, just be yourself. We are directors. The audience discovers the beauty through our pictures and our lenses. He is interested in it. When he goes to see it for himself, we must also ensure that What he saw is consistent with what we photographed. Otherwise, if people watch it together, your movie footage will be so beautiful, but the scene will be just a pile of rotten wood and garbage... Why can't people scold you? "

These are the old man's original words.

After returning to Yanjing, Xu Xin told Yang Mi about this matter.

Yanjing Little Gossip immediately named these directors.

Apparently, she knew these things too.

The movie that destroyed Shangri-La and the Old Summer Palace was "The Promise".

The TV series that destroyed Jiuzhaigou is called "The Legend of the Condor Heroes"... Yang Mi herself starred in that version.

But Jiuzhaigou is not her fault, all her dramas are in Hengdian.

When Xu Xin heard this, he said "good guy" while silently taking the things taught by these old men as his own rules and memorizing them all in his heart.

In the current "Hawthorn Tree", the old man discusses this issue with the local leaders.

Demolition is absolutely no problem.

The project budget is all here. What this place was like when we came here can be restored to what it will be like when we leave.

Definitely.

But now Yuan'an County does not want to demolish it.

They want to turn these places into tourist attractions.

Maybe there is no charge, but at least it will make Yuan'an more attractive.

Hope to keep it.

But what the old man meant was that it couldn't be preserved, because the engineering treatment during the original renovation was to serve the movie.

Not to mention anything else, let's just talk about the modification of the hanging nets on the exterior walls. It takes up to a year. Due to wind, rain and environmental erosion, the exterior walls will definitely fall off in pieces.

Not to mention the safety risks, it will also become ugly.

What everyone is discussing now is how to resolve these matters.

I don’t want to demolish it, I want to keep it as a movie location to attract tourists.

But it can't be saved for long, and if it is remodeled, it will cost a lot of money. The most important thing is how to hire these "art consultants" to help restore it...

You see, film preparation is such a hassle.

In every aspect, perfection must be achieved both internally and externally.

The kind of story where a few people, armed with a camera, can earn hundreds of millions or billions in movie box office... It may exist in reality, but 99% of it can only exist in novels.

Because novels don’t need that many details.

But the fundamental reason why real movies can be called the "Seventh Art" lies in these details that the audience cannot see.

But fortunately... Xu Xin doesn't understand these things, but the old man does.

As the producer, he took over the entire process.

Xu Xin only needs to film according to his own film rhythm.

While the engineering team was working hard on the renovation in the afternoon, Wang Lei's machine bay had already been erected.

Wearing a military coat that she found somewhere, Lin Xinxin, shivering with cold, was waiting for Xu Xin's signal.

As soon as the signal started, he took off his coat, deliberately making the collar old and yellow, but the whole thing was a snow-white white shirt, a blue hurdle vest, khaki blue pants, and liberation shoes.

In Yuan'an's March weather, which averages 9 to 17 degrees, he dressed in summer clothes followed Xu Xin's instructions and started walking along the dirt road.

I walked around twice and got on a lot of bikes.

There is a little girl named Xu Chunchun in the costume design, who is about the same height and shape as Liu Yifei.

At this moment, the young woman was caught, sitting on the bicycle beam that hurt her buttocks. She was suppressing a smile, blushing, wearing a down jacket and letting "Brother No" take her up and down the road for several laps. .

All of this was captured by Wang Lei's camera.

It depends on whether the costumes and actors match or not, and what kind of texture appears in the image.

Then use real photos to set the makeup.

Everything is sitting and preparing for the smooth start of filming.

But Liu Yifei didn't arrive.

She was also born in Hubei, and her hometown is over Liangzi Lake in Jiangxia District, Wuhan. We were supposed to arrive this morning, but the car broke down on the way.

I am currently repairing my car at the Yingcheng Expressway service area.

After returning to her hometown before the Spring Festival, she cut off all "modern" things.

Silently, I let rural life smoke away the fairy spirit from my body and replaced it with a kind of fireworks.

But it took so long that after agreeing to leave, neither she nor Wu Qiqi expected that both their cars would be in Wuhan.

When I remembered it, it was already this morning.

I had no choice but to drive here in a van belonging to a relative in the village.

As a result, Lao Wuling lost the three people including the driver on the road.

Xu Xin felt outrageous when he heard this.

Is this something a “human” can do?

Forget it about Liu Yifei.

Qiqi, are you afraid that your mind has forgotten home in the past few months?

But Speechless was speechless, but he didn't rush them. Instead, he told the two of them not to be in a hurry and to put safety first.

There is no need to ask someone to arrange a driver and car from Wuhan.

He also wanted to see how the temperament of Liu Yifei, who came with Wuling, had changed.

So this afternoon's bad brother is destined to treat Xu Chunchun as Jingqiu.

Continuous movement, different adjustments to the split shots.

After dinner at noon, I was busy until about 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

Finally, a Wuling van with E-A suddenly arrived...

Then, Xu Xin saw a girl who jumped out of the car wearing a pair of very ordinary sneakers, baggy pants, her hair in a single braid, and wearing a bright red down jacket that had been criticized many times by netizens and fans.

Plain and clean.

The smoke and smoke of the past few months, coupled with the deliberate lack of skin care, showed a kind of... with a bit of firewood roasting, against the backdrop of the healthy complexion of winter work...

Jingqiu, who knew how to do farm work and help her mother fold envelopes, was qualified to stay in school in order to perform well, and used her thin body to do menial tasks such as hauling mud and bricks during the summer vacation... just appeared in front of him.

His eyes widened completely.

Not only him, but also Zhang Mo, Wang Lei, and everyone in the crew, their eyes widened when they saw Liu Yifei in front of them, whose fairy aura was gone, washed away, but looking more and more innocent.

The change... is huge!

It's so big that you won't believe what Liu Yifei can do!

But after Xu Xin was shocked, he was replaced by a kind of satisfaction from the heart.

"EMMM...Hmm!!"

He nodded vigorously:

"Not bad, very good! This is just right... this tastes just right."

Liu Yifei, who had been isolated from the world for several months, heard his words, and one after another she came out of her slightly uncomfortable trance.

In the past few months, she had really forgotten her identity.

So instinctively, she felt a little uncomfortable with the attention from these people.

But when I heard the recognition from the director, the goal that was established at the beginning "I want to be a down-to-earth actor" hidden under several months of hard work was reawakened!

It quickly turned into a flame of joy, which made her grin unconsciously, revealing her gummy smile that was flawed but looked more and more real:

"Hey hey hey..."

Hearing this laughter, Xu Xin no longer needed any response from her.

"Haha~"

He laughed heartily as well, and then said to the people around him:

"Let's go and go to the factory to find our Jingqiu's seat."

I didn't have too many pleasantries with Liu Yifei, for fear that any more words would destroy this simplicity and innocence.

After he finished speaking, he left directly.

The crew marched toward the factory area.

As for how much Liu Yifei has changed...

As soon as the crew left, someone among the people watching the excitement said:

"The girl who came down from Changhe just now...why does she look so much like Liu Yifei?"

"That's not Changhe, it's Wuling. Damn Moss, you can't see the big car logo clearly?"

"You have good eyes, right? Then is that girl Liu Yifei?"

"This... doesn't seem to be the case. How can Liu Yifei be so earthy..."

Earthy?

maybe.

But to Xu Xin, she is his best Jingqiu!

…

When we arrived at the factory, it was almost dusk.

The makeup artist will put makeup on her immediately.

But Xu Xin stopped him.

After thinking for a while, he said:

"Don't put on makeup first, just look at the housekeeper without makeup, get her a hoe!"

No makeup?

As soon as Xu Xin said these words, many people thought he was crazy.

Liu Yifei can be slapped in the face, but... this is making a movie, my director Xu!

You don't want to have any makeup?

Even Wang Lei looked puzzled:

"That facial shadow..."

"Shadows can be adjusted by camera position and light... Let's take a look at the state without makeup first. How about it?"

What he said next was to Liu Yifei.

Looking at the unfamiliar environment around her, Liu Yifei, whose thoughts seemed to have wandered off again, had no objection after hearing this:

"Everything is fine."

Soon, a young man came over with a hoe.

But before Xu Xin opened her mouth, she said:

"Is it the part where Jingqiu helps the school repair the playground and strives to stay in school for good performance?"

Hey.

The little local girl memorized the script quite well.

Xu Xin nodded:

"Yes. You can play freely in this scene... Hurry up, it will be dark soon."

Hearing this, Liu Yifei nodded, took the hoe and walked to the hard soil road where the bricks had been removed and specially pressed with a roller.

Standing in the open space, surrounded by dozens of people.

She was in a daze.

But he was quickly pulled back by staff members holding straw hats and shirts.

He took off his down jacket, put on a white shirt that was a little too big, and put a straw hat on his head.

He glanced at Xu Xin, who was already standing in front of Wang Lei's camera.

She took a deep breath...

"Huh... can we start?"

Xu Xin didn't speak, but moved closer to the small screen of Alai's camera and looked at the face of the girl in the straw hat.

There’s no need to say much about the capabilities of Alai’s camera.

As a leading camera company, its cameras have countless advantages.

In high-fidelity pictures, both advantages and disadvantages can be infinitely magnified.

But……

But...

Outrageous...

He looked at the static close-up on the screen and couldn't help but said to Wang Lei:

"Director Wang...how do you feel?"

"..."

Wang Lei remained silent while adjusting the focus.

After he changed another layer of light to record, he sighed:

"It's so natural...it looks like this without makeup, but with makeup...how beautiful does it look like?"

These words received the approval of everyone around him.

Even Zhang Mo couldn't help feeling a little jealous.

They are all raised by their mother and father...why?

Why do you look like this?

However, when Xu Xin moved his eyes from the screen to the faces of the people around him and saw their expressions, he understood...

None of them seemed to understand why she was their Jingqiu.

So he said directly:

"If she were any more beautiful, she wouldn't be Jingqiu."

"..."

"..."

"..."

These words made everyone couldn't help but look at Xu Xin.

What Director Xu said...

What's the meaning?

Xu Xin lowered his head again, looked at the girl in the camera, and said unhurriedly:

"The beauty of Sanli Bay is definitely not as good as the Yangtze River. Its beauty should be small, but graceful enough. It is so beautiful that the only thing everyone can remember is Jingqiu's face. And if you only look at Jingqiu's face, , it must be missing some flavor. So... I think her current state is just right."

After saying that, he suddenly showed a thoughtful look again.

After thinking for a while, he shouted:

"Get her a different shirt, one size smaller. This one is too big."

After hearing this, another shirt was quickly brought to Liu Yifei.

In front of everyone, the girl wearing a slim-fitting thin cashmere jacket changed it generously.

As soon as she put on this small-sized shirt, her bust curve instantly appeared.

"Very well, no need to change your pants... let's get started."

Following Xu Xin's words, Liu Yifei nodded.

After weighing the hoe in his hand, he quickly raised it high and raised his chest.

A hoe is not thrown down, but thrown down!

This is a technique taught to her by the aunt in the village.

The chest is raised, the waist is arched, and then it is thrown down in an instant!

"Bang!"

The hoe was driven directly into the hard soil of the playground by a method of exerting force that no one who had been farming all year round could find fault with.

Under the transmission of mechanics...

"..."

"..."

"..."

Including Lin Gou and Zhang Mo, everyone looked at the power of nature showing the looming waves under the shirt that was one size smaller...

Once upon a time, you didn’t know what Sanli Bay was.

But now...

Xu Xin, who looked away from the screen, looked at the male compatriots' eyes that... needless to say but everyone understands, grinned and smiled silently.

Ha ha.

Now, looking at the big guy who fell into silence, he especially wanted to ask:

Do you understand?

I had just arrived home and had to go to the hospital. My child had a high fever and was all over his body. I wasn't sure if I would stop updating in the past few days, so I told him in advance that I would leave.

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