The Best Director

The white ordinary helicopter with the \u0026nb logo and five armed helicopters painted in camouflage were hovering at their respective positions and were on standby. Novels*collection~reading.com) On an ordinary helicopter, Wang Yang, who had fastened his seat belt, stood at the cabin door, listening to the huge roar of the propeller turning, and looked at Suowei below through the viewfinder in his hand. Trust the slums.

The Soweto slum is located in the south of the center of Johannesburg. It is the largest slum in Africa. It now covers an area of ​​120 square kilometers, including 33 towns, inhabited by 9 black tribes including Xhosa and Zulu. The difference between this place and other slums is that it also has some brick houses, and even beautiful big houses built by rich black people, but the area under the helicopter is all dilapidated iron squatter houses, and the roofs are full of bricks. , rags and other sundries.

"Please fly to the right again, try 30 meters first!" Wang Yang yelled towards the driver's seat, and Brandon, the pilot controlling the helicopter, gave a thumbs up and said, "Got it!" There is a flight crew member, Harry George holding a camera, a lighting engineer and several film crew members.

After Wang Yang gave the order, the helicopter immediately flew to the right rumblingly, and the strong wind rushed towards his face, blowing his hair up, and his cheeks were a little painful. He kept paying attention to the picture in the viewfinder, and saw that the adjustment was A suitable camera direction, then shouted: "Stop!"

At an entrance to the slums below, on the dirt road full of potholes, more than 30 white mine armored vehicles and several camouflage armored vehicles were lined up in a long line. The shots that will be shot are mainly transitional scenes, such as armored convoys driving into the ninth sector, air units plundering in the sky, and so on.

In order to shoot these shots well, and save time and effort, the crew has already prepared well and practiced moving positions during the rehearsal; there are also eight cameras shooting in all directions, three in the air, directed by Wang Yang; five on the ground. On the other hand, there is Walley Pfister sitting in charge, in front of the convoy, behind the convoy, and in front of the perspective... Each machine has an assistant director or camera assistant in charge of the camera, so as to capture rich materials from different angles.

"Well, this position is good." Wang Yang put down the viewfinder worn around his neck, picked up the walkie-talkie on his waist, and said, "Ware, Ware, this is Yang. Are you all ready? vr." Warley's hoarse voice immediately sounded on the intercom: "Everything is ready, vr." Wang Yang hummed, and said: "Entering the final inspection stage, the 'Lightning Operation' will officially start in five minutes, vr."

He put down the walkie-talkie with a smile, looked back, and said, "Hey, fat guy, what are you doing standing there? Come here!"

I saw Harry George, who was holding the camera, move over slowly, his fat face was full of tension, and he said in a trembling voice: "Dude, I think I seem to be a person who is afraid of heights, so scared..." Wang Yang laughed With a smile, he leaned on the cabin door and stretched out his foot to kick the fat man. He laughed and cursed: "Damn fat, who are you lying to! If you say another word, I will kick you down!"

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Everyone on the helicopter suddenly laughed, Harry George also swept away his nervousness, raised his head resolutely, raised his camera and said: "Okay, I'm a warrior!"

"Fat guy, remember?" Wang Yang looked at the bearded Harry, and suddenly remembered something, as if it was a long time ago, or just a few days ago, he smiled and said: ""Donald and Heaton" A trace of doubt flashed across Harry's fat face, he frowned and thought about it, and suddenly laughed out loud: "Ah! "Donald and Heaton", a panoramic overhead shot!"

Wang Yang smiled and nodded. At that time, they were pointing at the TV in McDonald's, discussing how to shoot a group of cross-cut montages of "Donald and Heaton"... He looked at the blue sky and white clouds outside and the miniature model below. He spread his hands and said, "Rumble, this is the helicopter." Harry looked under the helicopter, his eyes were full of flying spirits, and took a deep breath, "This is the panoramic overhead shot!"

"K, everyone take your place!" Wang Yang slapped his palms hard a few times, and everyone responded and picked up their equipment. He said to the walkie-talkie: "This is Yang, everyone listen, and respond when you are ready, vr " Then the other 7 cameras all replied "ready" and "everything is ready"... Wang Yang took a deep breath, looked at the convoy on the ground and the helicopter group around in the distance, and shouted: "Guys, Lightning action, n!"

With the sound of a start, the armored convoy started up immediately, and drove into the slums within the wall one by one, and the helicopter group in the air was also flying according to the predetermined trajectory. When the convoy stopped slowly, each vehicle's Immediately, the white armored vehicle jumped out of a group of MNU security guards, the site manager of District 9, and others, and walked towards the dilapidated iron houses on the four sides.

\u0026nbt! Seeing that the performance process of this scene was completed, Wang Yang yelled to stop, and then asked Warley Slant and others through the machine: "How is it?" "

There are no actors in this shot, and there are no stunt problems to put together, so the key is whether the photographers can do their tasks well. Harry George smiled and said, "Director, I have no problem here!" The voices of Vale and others also came from the machine one by one: "Very good shot!", "Perfect performance."... Wang Young hummed happily and shouted: "So guys, get ready for the next set of shots! Try to finish these shots today!"

Today is the tenth day that the crew came to South Africa. As early as the filming stage in Vancouver, producer Stephen McCormie came to Johannesburg to arrange matters, including finding suitable slum areas, dealing with the local government and security companies, renting These helicopters and armored vehicles... As soon as the crew arrived in Joburg, Wang Yang confirmed several scenes in Soweto on the first day, and started shooting on the second day. Everyone's efficiency and enthusiasm are very high. I hope the filming will be finished soon. Come home early for Christmas.

9/11 has just passed and it will be less than three months. At this moment when everyone is terrified, almost all crews have canceled their filming plans. It is Australia, Hong Kong and other places, and the whole Hollywood is unwilling to leave the United States. South Africa is still full of dangerous slums. The media called it "you want the movie but not your life", and fans of the movie also sent their blessings, hoping that Miracle Yang and the entire crew can return safely.

\u0026nb), of course, Soweto is not a utopia. In addition to hiring more than a dozen professional bodyguards from the Israeli Army Specialist Security Company in the United States, the crew also signed a contract with the local hlls-ats company in Joburg to be responsible for the entire security work. In terms of security, the crew will spend at least 3 million US dollars before and after.

Don't drive around, lock the doors while driving, don't park for strangers, bring your own Euro notes, and don't resist when you are robbed... But these hidden dangers are not high for the crew, because everyone is either under heavy protection, Armored vehicles came to Soweto on the way; or they stayed quietly in the hotel in the center of Joburg, and no one came here for tourism.

The filming in Soweto went smoothly, basically within expectations, and the crew did not conflict with the locals. Before departure, Wang Yang told every member to respect each other! After coming to the slums to confirm the filming location, the crew distributed many gifts to the local children, including chocolate, Coca-Cola and other food, as well as football, basketball, rugby and other sporting goods, and some toys; a basketball hoop.

These actions changed the local people's attitude towards them from "hostility" to "suspicion", and they agreed to their framing and shooting; and some people who were about to make a move did not dare to make any rash moves in the face of the bodyguards with live ammunition.

"No. 13, please move about ten meters to the left!" Wang Yang looked at the sky outside through the viewfinder, and at the same time gave commands to the communicator to adjust the positions of the helicopters. The helicopter carrying them is circling sideways. Right in front of the hatch is the group of helicopters. The next shot is that they are flying towards the alien spacecraft in unison, and now they are in formation.

Following his words, a helicopter on the left immediately moved past Jiang Ye. Seeing nearly twenty helicopters roaring and setting up their positions, Wang Yang nodded, and said to Harry George next to him, "Dude, get ready." Harry panted heavily, squatted down, and held the camera on his shoulders. Go ahead. Wang Yang looked back at the driver's seat, and shouted: "Branton, when I call start, you can control it to rise slowly, k?"

"Received!" Brandon responded loudly. Wang Yang used the viewfinder to confirm again, then picked up the communicator and shouted: "Everyone is ready!" After a while, he shouted again: "3, 2, 1, n!"

Boom boom boom——in the blue sky, under the bright sunlight, a huge group of helicopters flew forward. There were no alien spaceships there, only a piece of blue sky, and the slums below, and Johannesburg in the distance.

"Mom, hurry up and look, there are so many planes!" At the door of the rusted iron house, a black child who was sitting on the ground and playing with mud suddenly jumped up excitedly, looking up at the group of helicopters flying over the sky , Amidst the roar of "rumbling", he jumped and shouted excitedly: "A lot of planes! One, two..."