Chapter 273: Swordsmanship for the mentally handicapped
"Or why don't you stop?"
Duan glanced at the man beside him and couldn't help asking again.
Standing next to him was Xie Jin.
Xie Jin was wearing a gray wool coat, with glasses on his nose, and was looking around. After hearing Duan's voice, he turned his head. The fierce noon sunlight shone directly on him through the thin clouds, plated his whole body into gold. The sun was so fierce that the old man's eyes couldn't help but squint, and his wrinkled face was wrinkled, full of traces of time.
After hearing Duan's words, Xie Jin shook his head with his eyes squinted against the sun, and said with a smile: "We had a lot of hardships in those days than you are now, and the shooting is much more dangerous. I have survived so many difficulties, are you still afraid of this?"
When Duan heard this, he shook his head gently and looked around: in front of him was a pickup truck, and the rear compartment of the pickup truck was filled with equipment. The pickup truck was a vast field, and there was no edge at first glance. The end was the sky; behind him was the same vast field, and at his feet was a spacious road, east-west, with no end at both ends; around him were busy staff, with about twenty or thirty people under a rough number.
This is Gansu. If the land they are currently on is divided according to administrative divisions, it belongs to Wuwei City and is also the outdoor shooting site for "Liberation Day".
After the annual leave, the crew started again.
"That's OK."
Seeing that Xie Jin disagreed with his repeated persuasions, Du An gave up on his plan to continue persuasion, in fact, he himself did not think that the immediate work would be too dangerous.
As soon as he finished speaking, Du An saw Xie Jin, the old man, climbing up the back compartment of the pickup truck under the guards of the two staff members, one left and one right. Just looking at the movements, it was really hard to tell that this was an old man over 70 years old.
Duane didn't waste time, so he followed behind and flipped up, then walked carefully through the instruments in the rear compartment and came to the innermost point.
In addition to Xie Jin who came up just now, there is also a man in his thirties who is holding Xie Jin with a smile on his face and greets him constantly, looking like a terrible person. It is Kang Junan, the photographer of their crew.
Du An sat down and smiled and joked, "Didn't you always complain before you came? Why are you so happy now? You can really like this place. When we finish shooting, I will let you have a two-month vacation and let you live here for a while. How do you use it? I'll treat you well, right?"
After saying that, Du An saw Kang Junan rolling his eyes at him, his lips squirmed twice, and the mouth shape was "get out". Then, after facing Xie Jin, Kang Junan smiled again with a doggy smile on his face.
Du An smiled, distracted himself, and looked down at the storyboard picture. He thought about it in his mind for a while and then waited for the shooting method and mirror effect. He even took a pen and wrote mathematical formulas in the blank space on the paper. He didn't know what to calculate.
After a while, the sound in his ears gradually lowered, and then Du An heard Kang Junan's voice ringing in his ears: "Director Du,"
Du An looked up and found Kang Junan looking at him, as if he had something to say, while Xie Jin next to him smiled slightly.
After the recording mission of "The Good Chinese Actor" came to an end, the old man joined the crew of "Liberation Day" with a silly face. He also called communication and learning, you should know that he was a silly old man. Maybe one day he would lie in the coffin and learn how to communicate?
Regarding Xie Jin's idea, Duan could roughly guess some of the previous communication between the two, but the result would be good, so Duan did not refuse.
Withdrew his gaze on Xie Jin's face, Du An looked at Kang Junan who had just spoken, and asked concisely: "What's the matter?"
"Don't you think the next drama is a bit fake?"
Kang Junan talks about the next drama of airplanes irrigating farmland.
There are many characters in "Liberation Day", and the three major actors have the most roles on average, and there are a few more people a little later. One of them will be played next: this character is Zhang Muchuan, a drunkard, in his forties, with a son and a daughter. He makes a living by flying a plane to help others irrigate the farmland. He often misled things because of alcoholism and was disgusted by everyone, including his relatives. Until the alien invasion, he played a crucial role in the final battle. He is a character with few scenes but profound meaning in the film. What they are about to film is Zhang Muchuan's daily work.
"Di you should also know that in our country, let alone airplanes, in fact, irrigation in many places is even done by people. Once your plane is irrigated, it is out of reality. The sense of incongruity is too strong. It is too fake, and it is easy for people to get out of the show."
Faced with Kang Junan's doubts, Duan agreed, "You are right."
As he said that, he glanced at Kang Junan again.
Why have I collaborated on several works? He still knows this companion. He knows that Kang Junan is skilled and talented, but his personality is a bit like a donkey. He will only take a step forward if he whips. He usually talks about photography skills with himself. Why are you still discussing the shooting content today?
Thinking of this, Du An casually glanced at Xie Jin next to him and saw the old man smiling slightly.
Retracting his gaze from Xie Jin, Du An looked at Kang Junan again, thought for a while, and continued, "That's why I set this scene on Gansu, and I went to Gansu to film it."
When Duan saw Kang Junan's expression, he knew that he could not understand what he meant, so he could only explain it little by little.
"The agricultural level of our country is indeed not at the level of popularizing aircraft irrigation, but it is undeniable that our country does have such technology now."
In fact, this technology is indeed not a high-end technology. It is mentioned in junior high school geography textbooks, but it is rare to apply it to social practice.
Duane saw that he nodded in agreement with his words, and then continued: "So this is out of reality, but not out of reality."
As he said that, Duan drew a large circle in front of him, and pulled all the surrounding world into it.
"Gansu is located inland, with a vast land and sparse population, and a weak sense of existence. For many people, this is a completely unfamiliar land, especially those residents on the coastal line with heavy box office positions. Except for Lanzhou, they have almost zero awareness of this place. They don't know how many people there are, how many cities there are, how big the area of this province is, what the specialties of this province are, what they know nothing about, so as long as we do the set well, the plot is set reasonably and realistically, then when the movie is released, most viewers who don't know the truth will only be amazed at the beauty of the camera."
"So, this plot may be very inconsistent in the southeast, but it will be different in Gansu."
Du An looked at Kang Junan again, but he still looked like he was not very comprehensible, so he had to continue: "For example, many movies and TV shows have this kind of scene: someone smoked in a room marked with prohibited smoking, and there was a fire sprinkler head above his head. After the smoke entered the fire sprinkler head, the spray head began to spray water, splashing the character's body with water."
Kang Junan nodded subconsciously: This kind of shot is indeed uncommon.
"But in fact, if you have filmed such a plot, you will know that this is also fake. Fire sprinklers usually need to spray water at the sensing temperature around 60 degrees. The smoke is far from reaching this temperature. Smoking will only make the smoking alarm sound. So the directors who took these shots deceived the audience, but most viewers do not think it is fake. Why? Because ordinary people do not understand the working principle of fire sprinklers. When the shots come out so well, they will only think, 'Oh, so that's it', and believe it without doubt, and regard it as common sense. The same is true for what we are about to shoot."
After saying this, Du An saw Kang Junan suddenly realized, and knew that he understood, so he stopped explaining, but lowered his head and looked at him on his right hand, took out a hat and put it on.
For a Sujiang man like him, the altitude of this ghost place in Hexi is too high and the clouds are thin. The sun in February actually showed off the summer days in Jiangnan, which are irritating eyes and spicy skin, but the air temperature is not high. This is a very strange experience.
He shut up on the side of the house, and Xie Jin spoke again on the other side.
"Movies are an art that wanders between reality and falsehood. The most common thing to do is to use falsehood to make the real and falsehood. In fact, this can also be used in photography, and it has the same effect. At the same time, these are two elements that influence each other. Just like when the shooting is a little later, you need your technical help to shoot the picture well and shock it, and completely attract the audience's attention. In that way, the audience will not have time to think about whether this is true or not, and can only accept the information we convey to him obediently. Director Du said?"
At the end of the speech, Xie Jin threw the topic on Du An again.
Du An was not going to open his mouth and shut up for a while, but since Xie Jin threw the topic over, he could only respond, "Yes, now I'm waiting for you to use the camera to use the previous idiot sword technique to reduce the audience's IQ and defeat the audience. If you don't use this trick well, then we will be defeated by the audience."
As soon as Du An said this, Xie Jin's eyes lit up, and then he smiled slightly, as if he thought Du An's metaphor was very interesting.
Duan's eyes hidden in the shadow on the lower edge of the baseball cap accidentally passed Xie Jin, thinking about something. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!