After dinner, Zhang Ran went straight to the crew's conference room and prepared to hold a meeting to discuss tomorrow's work.

Since there was still some time before the meeting, Zhang Ran asked the staff to play the shots taken during the day to see the effects of the shots edited together. The actors performed very well and were also shot very well. However, after editing with the shots taken in front, Zhang Ran felt a little inconsistent, especially the long shot.

Zhang Ran was thinking about what to do, and Zhao Fei came in. Zhang Ran greeted Zhao Fei, showed the edited video to Zhao Fei, and then asked: "Do you think this long shot is a bit wrong?"

Zhao Fei said in surprise: "I think it's very good! This lens is a subjective lens. Through the shaking of the lens, we can feel the changes in Rabe's mood. For example, when we see the people being shot to death, the camera shakes suddenly, and we can feel that Rabe was startled. When we arrived on the street, we saw Japanese soldiers smashing and looting, especially when we ignored the German flag and ransacked the German shop, the camera trembled slightly, showing Rabe's anger. There was not much conversation in this lens, but through the shaking of the lens, we could clearly feel the changes in Rabe's mood. The whole lens was very perfect, how could there be any problems?"

Zhang Ran frowned and said, "This shot is very beautiful and wonderful, but I always feel that the movie tastes too strong and the techniques are too modern. It doesn't have the same feeling as old movies in the 30s and 40s. When combined with other shots, it looks a bit unreal."

Zhao Fei liked this shot very much and defended him: "This kind of first-person subjective shot was found in the 30s and 40s, and it can't be too modern. As for the strong movie flavor, there is a little bit. But this method of processing is very effective. Just like the little girl in red in "Schindler's List", the movie flavor is very strong and dramatic, but the effect is very good. Take "Pianist" and "Schindler's List" for example. "Pianist" is more restrained and more realistic, while "Schindler's List" has many artificial sensational places, which seems a bit false. But the audience is eating this set. "Schindler's List" has a much greater impact on the global scale than "Pianist". We shoot this movie to hope that more people will understand this matter. It must be that the more audience the better. Some techniques may not be so real, but as long as the effect is good, I think it is acceptable."

Zhang Ran initially considered this way when designing this long shot, thinking that in order to make the movie better, it would be OK to make one of the shots fancy. But as the film officially started shooting, when he felt that he had really entered this history, he was a little unable to accept this technique: "What our movie wants to express is different from "Schindler's List". In terms of narrative structure, the story of our movie is switched in different time and space, which is dramatic in itself. If you use too many skills in audio-visual language, it will affect the reality and seriousness of the movie. I think the film must be made like it was filmed in the 30s and 40s. At that time, the camera was bulky and difficult to move, and it was difficult to shoot such long shots."

Zhao Fei felt that the effect of using long shots is good, but he also thought that Zhang Ran's words made sense, and suggested: "Since that's the case, let's change the way and use the simplest shot to shoot today's scene again, and then see how the effect is, which one is better."

Zhang Ran nodded and said, "Then let's discuss how to shoot this scene in the simplest way."

The crew remakes the scene the next day. This time, Zhang Ran and the others finished the scene with the most simple and almost documentary techniques. The crew actors knew that this was Zhang Ran’s habit of filming movies. During the filming process, he often asked some scenes to be remake, or even all of them were remake. No one complained and completed the scene very well.

In the subsequent shooting, Zhang Ran adhered to his own philosophy, demanding that all kinds of "movie techniques" be avoided to the greatest extent, and requiring the audio-visual language of the movie to be truly simple and unpretentious, and try not to see the director's traces. During the shooting, Zhang Ran often said when looking at the monitor: "This is not possible, the movie tastes too much, so you can't shoot like this."

There was a scene where Toho Film Studio sent people to the gate of the refugee camp to distribute biscuits and apples, and took out a little copper plate to the refugee. The photographer Shirai Shigeru made the scene into a documentary for publicity. But at the same time, a group of Japanese soldiers climbed over the back wall of the courtyard and raped 12 women. Zhao Fei suggested taking pictures of Japanese people who were distributing candy at the gate of the refugee camp first, and then shaking the camera with a rocker arm or drone, taking pictures of Japanese soldiers climbing into the courtyard wall and raping women in the building, and showing the hypocrisy and shamelessness of Japanese people through comparison. But Zhang Ran firmly disagrees. He believes that there were no drones and large rocker arms in the 1930s, so such fancy shots could not be taken.

Time flies very quickly, February is coming in a blink of an eye, and the Spring Festival is just around the corner.

The crew of "Angel of Justice" is a "little United Nations". There are many foreign staff and many union members. Therefore, the crew strictly abides by the union requirements in the arrangement of working hours. They shoot for eight hours a day and have rest on weekends. On important holidays like the Spring Festival, the crew naturally put other long holidays for everyone in a very human way.

After last year's Spring Festival, Chinese films entered a cold winter. The industry first puts hopes on the summer season, then on the National Day season, and then on the New Year season, but the result is that everyone is disappointed again and again. Now everyone has placed their hopes on this year's Spring Festival season, hoping that the Spring Festival season can restore the decline.

This year's Spring Festival period has three main blockbusters, namely Stephen Chow's new work "The Mermaid" launched after three years, "Macau Storm 3" with stars gathered in Hong Kong, and the all-star visual blockbuster "Three Fights of the Bone Demon". All three movies have strong box office appeal, among which Stephen Chow's "The Mermaid" is considered to be likely to break the box office record of "The Apocalypse of the Future".

After seven days of fierce competition, Stephen Chow's "The Mermaid" performed the most eye-catchingly, achieving a box office of more than 1.8 billion yuan. The movie has been breaking box office records since its release on the first day of the Lunar New Year: the box office exceeded 100 million yuan in the pre-sale stage, and the box office was 280 million yuan on the first day of release, becoming the highest first-day box office in Chinese film history, the highest single-day box office, and then the fastest record of 2,4,688,1 billion yuan, etc., and quickly set a record of one day and a single-day box office record that he just set on the first day of the first day of the Chinese film industry.

"Macau Storm 3" and "Three Fights of the Bone Demon", which are both sequels in the series, also relied on the series' signatures and super lineup to gain a good box office: "Three Fights of the Bone Demon" has a total box office of 750 million, and "Macau Storm 3" has a total box office of 780 million, which is evenly matched.

3.6 billion in 7 days! At the beginning of the Year of the Monkey, the Chinese film market attracted money in a crazy way, making rapid progress, setting a new box office high again: the box office from the first to the sixth day of the Lunar New Year to the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, and the first day of work after the holiday was Valentine's Day. The Spring Festival and Valentine's Day were seamlessly connected, setting an amazing record of 3.6 billion in box office, a 44% increase compared with the 2.5 billion yuan score of last year's Spring Festival. This amazing result brought warmth to Chinese films in the cold winter and also made many industry insiders breathe a sigh of relief. Many people began to predict that the most difficult time has passed and Chinese films will get out of the cold winter this year.

Zhang Ran is not so optimistic. The situation this year should be better than last year, but I’m afraid it won’t be much better. Watching movies during the Spring Festival is a must-have, and there is also the hit "Mermaid", so the box office during the Spring Festival has exploded. But just look at it all year round, in addition to the summer season "All-band Blockage Interference", there are still a lack of hit movies.

However, Zhang Ran felt that it would not be a bad thing to continue the cold winter for another one or two years. Now that celebrity capital is cold in the market, followers are leaving the market, it is gradually turning the entire film industry towards a healthy development path.

Early in the morning on February 20, hundreds of reporters rushed to Shiqiu Film and Television Base to interview the crew of "Angel of Justice". However, the security guards at the base did not stop them this time, because the crew opened media visits today.

As soon as the media reporters walked into the film and television base, Cao Bingkun came up. He smiled and said to the reporters present: "Dear media friends, welcome everyone to visit the crew of "Angel of Justice". I am Cao Bingkun. Teacher Zhang asked me to receive everyone and take you to visit. I will take you to the base first and then take you to the on-site interview!"

A reporter asked: "Cao Bingkun, what role do you play in the movie?"

Cao Bingkun smiled and said, "I play Han Xianglin in the movie, and I am Rabe's secretary!"

A reporter said: "It's the traitor played by Fan Wei in "Nanjing Nanjing"!"

When Cao Bingkun heard this, he stopped and corrected it very seriously: "No, Han Xianglin is not a traitor, but a real hero!" Cao Bingkun immediately briefly said Han Xianglin's deeds and finally concluded: "It is very shameful to smear such a hero into a traitor!"

The reporter who said Han Xianglin was a traitor said embarrassedly: "I was misled by Lu Chuan's "Nanjing Nanjing". I thought Secretary Rabe was really a traitor! Lu Chuan said he wanted to restore history, but it was restored like this. It was too messy!"

Under Cao Bingkun's leadership, the reporters visited the outdoor site of the crew. While walking, Cao Bingkun introduced the buildings on both sides of the road. The old buildings on both sides of the street and the dilapidated buildings made the reporters feel like they were traveling through time and space and returning to 1937. The reporters were very quiet and did not make a lot of talk. They just took photos with the camera in their hands from time to time.

Cao Bingkun told reporters that the scene layout is completely designed and built according to the historical security zone and related buildings, from the entire real scene to the small prop, it is very exquisite. Zhang Ran requires that all elements have historical sources, such as the furniture in Rabe's room are all antiques bought from the Magic City Antique Store, his watches are bought from the Japanese Antique Store, and the boxes are selected from more than a dozen antique boxes bought from the Magic City. Even the flyers thrown by the Japanese plane are imitated according to the original historical parts.

While visiting, Cao Bingkun also told everyone about interesting things about the crew. For example, when Chinese actors were filming, they basically didn't talk to Japanese actors. When they arrived at the filming scene, they felt uncomfortable and couldn't pay attention to them at all. For example, when they had a dinner party, Duan Yihong pulled the Japanese deputy director and said earnestly: "How can you do this? Do you think this is what people do?" The Japanese deputy director didn't know what to say for a while.

After walking around the base, Cao Bingkun brought the reporters to Jinnu University. At this time, the campus of Jinnu University was crowded with people. Not only were there a large number of staff busy, but there were also hundreds of young girls wearing refugee clothes standing. On the bushes around the lawn, they were drying clean clothes and children's diapers, which looked colorful.

Directly in front of the lawn, Zhang Ran was talking to the girls who played refugees and told them how to act. There were several actors standing beside Zhang Ran, and the reporters recognized Tukel, Sqingaowa, and Xing Jiadong who played Rabe.

The reporters took out their cameras and took photos at Zhang Ran and the others. While pressing the shutter wildly, a reporter asked Cao Bingkun: "What are the main shots of this scene today?"
Chapter completed!