A clearing on the east side of Nanhu Park was enclosed and construction was in full swing. This is the most important outdoor site for the Tangshan earthquake and a shooting base carefully built for the film.

How to restore the life scenes of the 1970s in the movie was a major problem faced by Zhang Ran. In order to find this Jing Art Department for more than a month, I consulted a large amount of information and finally decided.

In order to truly reproduce the style of Tangshan at that time, the crew built a real scene in the area where the protagonist's home was located 1 to 1. Tangshan invested nearly 10,000 yuan in this real scene, and built more than 10 buildings and many bungalows on both sides of the three or four hundred meters long street.

Of course, it is impossible to build a real building. The cost is too high and the construction period is too long. Therefore, the building is built with semi-set and semi-real building. The building has neither poured nor foundations. From the outside, there is no difference between it and a real building, but after entering, you will find that there are only four walls, no floors or rooms inside.

Although it took nearly 10,000 yuan to build these scenes, this part of the scene was only filmed for four to five days, and then all the buildings were knocked down to shoot scenes after the earthquake.

At this time, the two cars stopped at the entrance of the base, the door opened, and Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu got out of the car; the other car was Liu Lin, the Propaganda Minister of the Municipal Party Committee.

The art director Huo Tingxiao, who was waiting at the entrance, walked up and greeted Zhang Ran and the others, and then handed them the three yellow hard helmets he was carrying. The construction of the base has not been completed yet, and you must wear a hard helmet when entering the base.

Zhang Ran and the others wore safety helmets and entered the base under the leadership of Huo Tingxiao.

When she walked into the shooting base, Zhang Jingchu felt very shocked. She had everything inside, and the sense of age was particularly strong, such as the Hongqi courtyard and the front grocery store. She felt that this scene was really amazing, and it was like this in the past!

Zhang Ran also has a feeling of traveling through time and space. The restoration work of the ancient transportation post, traffic lights, convenience stores, street lights, cinemas, hospitals, supply and marketing cooperatives, and art teams is very good. Zhang Ran believes that when an actor enters this area, he will be brought in all at once. There is no need to experience it at all, and all the feelings are created.

Zhang Jingchu said with some emotion: "It's like I'm back when I was a child, I really miss it!"

Zhang Ran stared at Zhang Jingchu's face and looked left and right, and said with a smile: "Have you changed your age?"

Zhang Jingchu didn't react: "What?"

Zhang Ran said, "You said you were born in 80 years, but this is a scene from the 70s. How could you think that when you were a child, you must have changed your age, and you must have been born in 70s." Zhang Ran said seriously: "Comrade Jingchu, I am going to criticize you now. It's obviously a post-70s like me, so why do you have to pretend to be a post-80s? You are an old cucumber with green paint and tenderness!"

Zhang Jingchu smiled and punched Zhang Ran: "Hate, you are the old cucumber that pretends to be young!"

Zhang Ran laughed, looked up at several buildings that were still under construction, and asked, "How is the project progress?"

Huo Tingxiao introduced: "The bungalows have been built, and they have been made old, and the slogans have been painted. Now it is mainly the building where the male and female protagonists live, and the two buildings next to them have not been completed. The entire project will take about a month to come, and it should be completed by the end of March!"

Zhang Ran nodded: "It's faster than I expected. I thought it would take May and June to complete it!"

Zhang Ran was not worried about the architecture. With Huo Tingxiao staring here, there would definitely be no problem. Judging from the bungalows in front of him, the effect was very good and the sense of age was very good. There were many shots of the protagonist's house. If he wanted to know how it was going, he said: "Take us to see the protagonist's house!"

According to the movie, the protagonist's family is a driver of a steel rolling mill, the heroine is a female worker at Huaxin Textile Factory, her mother is still alive, she has a sister in high school, and two children. The protagonist's house is a three-story Su-style building, a typical style in the 1950s and 1960s. The house is still being built, and an iron rack is being built, and a group of workers are busy.

This building is different from other semi-set buildings. There must be floors and rooms, because the protagonist's family lives in this building, and the shots of ups and downs and downs and entering and exiting the building must be shot in real time, so the construction of this building is slower than that of other buildings.

Zhang Ran stood in front of the building and looked at the busy workers, and reminded him: "This building can be slower, and it doesn't matter if it costs more money. The key is to ensure quality. Some scenes must be filmed in the building, and machines and people will enter the building. If they collapse, we will not be able to bear this responsibility. I have no other requirements for this building, just one thing, safety first!"

Huo Tingxiao nodded and said, "Don't worry, our art team works the longest in the building, so we will definitely not joke about our lives."

6 Lin also said: "The city is also watching the quality of the building. There are relevant experts to check. Although the foundation is not laid, the building has been poured and has absolute security."

Since they were all so sure, Zhang Ran didn't need to say anything more, looked at Huo Tingxiao and asked, "How are the other aspects, how are the props prepared?"

Huo Tingxiao couldn't help but sigh when he heard the props: "I was just about to tell you about this. The props were a little troublesome. The props from the 70s were not easy to find, and we needed a large number of props, such as flying pigeons and permanent bicycles. Now we only found a few, but we needed hundreds; enamel tea trays, enamel cups, ** quotes, old posters, etc. Each of them requires dozens of them; in addition, various vehicles from the 70s, including Yellow River trucks, Volga sprinkler trucks, fire trucks, motorcycles, etc. We contacted several film factories, and some props were not found, and some were not enough. Now I am having a headache about this!"

Zhang Ran asked, "Can't you make the small props yourself?"

Huo Tingxiao said helplessly: "There are too many things. We made a statistics list of thousands of props, and there are more than 100,000 pieces. The amount is too large. The time and cost are all problems if we do it!"

Zhang Ran remembered that Feng Xiaogang encountered trouble when filming "Tangshan Earthquake". Finally, he asked the audience across the country for help through the media to solve the problem. He said: "In this way, we will hold a press conference for the launch of the project at the beginning of next month. At that time, I asked the audience across the country for help through the media. I believe that some of the audience must have retained the old items from that year so that everyone can donate them or lend them to the crew for use."

Huo Tingxiao slapped his thigh: "This method is good. Many older people have the habit of keeping old things. In this way, the problem of props will be solved. Director, you still have a solution!"

According to the plot of the movie, the heroine took her daughter back to her mother's home in Fengrun County because her mother was sick the day before the earthquake. The area where the heroine's mother's home is also an important scene for the filming of the movie. Huo Tingxiao and his team built accordingly at the other end of the shooting base.

The house of the heroine's mother is an old-fashioned building built with blue bricks, scattering nostalgia, with huge images painted on the walls, with slogans and slogans from the last century such as "Serve the people", "Catch revolution and promote production".

"How is it, are you still satisfied?" Huo Tingxiao asked at Zhang Ran.

"Satisfied, so satisfied!" Zhang Ran said with a smile, "But I am satisfied or not. When the scenery in the house is finished, please invite local old people to come and see it. If they say this is what they were like at the beginning, then there is no problem. If it is different, we have to start over."

"This is certain," Huo Tingxiao agreed very much. "My requirement for our prop group is that every prop must be able to describe the age and stand the test."

"Thank you for your hard work!" Zhang Ran said with a smile. The reason why he asked Huo Tingxiao to be responsible for the construction of the location and props was because Huo Tingxiao was meticulous and responsible enough. This movie cannot be as casual as other movies, and if something goes wrong, it will be scolded by the audience.

At this moment, 6 Lin's phone rang. He picked up his cell phone and looked at it. He answered the phone very respectfully. He said yes a few times before hanging up the phone. Then he said to Zhang Ran very politely: "Director Zhang, Secretary Zhao, please come over."

Zhang Ran knew that the city attached great importance to movies. He listened to Liu Heng's talk. Zhao Guoqiang, the secretary of the script he wrote, had watched them himself, and he would give some suggestions every time. Now he asked himself to go over and ask about the relevant work of the movie, and said, "Okay, let's go over!"

After leaving the film and television base, Zhang Ran and his team took a bus to the municipal government and led them to the office of the municipal party secretary.

The secretary did not dare to delay, so he went in and notified Zhao Guoqiang immediately. After waiting for about five minutes, someone came out of Zhao Guoqiang's office, and then the secretary took Zhang Ran in.

"Zhang Ran is here!" Zhao Guoqiang pointed to the chair in front of him through the table, and said, "Thank you for your hard work, sit down and rest!"

"Thank you Secretary Zhao!" Zhang Ran said politely and sat down in front of Zhao Guoqiang.

Zhao Guoqiang looked at Zhang Ran and smiled and said, "How is the project of the shooting base progressing? Are there anything you don't want to be satisfied with?"

Zhang Ran replied: "I am very satisfied. I just asked Huo Tingxiao that it can be completed by the end of March. The entire preliminary work was going smoothly. According to the current progress, we can start the computer on time by the end of July."

Zhao Guoqiang nodded slightly: "Just be able to turn on the camera on time. Have the actors started to choose?"

Zhang Ran waved his hand and said, "The heroine has been decided long ago. Zhang Jingchu has come to play and has not started to choose other roles. The more troublesome role is the protagonist's daughter, that little girl. The child must have a firm look and be very talented. The assistant director showed me some photos of the young actors. It doesn't seem that I want, so I can only look for them from all over the country. I have already spread several of my assistant directors and went to various key primary schools, youth palaces, and art schools to find candidates."

Zhao Guoqiang was a little surprised: "I didn't expect it to be so complicated. I thought it was easy to find a child! I think you can ask the assistant director to come to us, maybe there is a suitable candidate!"

Zhang Ran explained: "For a movie, if the actor is chosen correctly, the movie will be half successful. We have to work hard to choose the actors. We have an assistant director here to select people. It is best if there are suitable children, so we don't have to teach her to learn Tangshan dialect."

Zhao Guoqiang asked some questions about the movie, and he was very satisfied with Zhang Ran's answer: "The filming of the movie will be left to you. If you have any needs, you can ask for it. Our only requirement is that the movie must be made well."

Zhang Ran said seriously: "Please rest assured. I only have one requirement for myself when I make this movie. If I take it abroad for screening, foreign audiences will respect this city and our nation after watching it. Just like after watching the list of Schindler, we will feel that although the Jews have experienced a lot of suffering, the people of this nation are amazing and have hope!"

Zhao Guoqiang believes that Zhang Ran can do it. Except for "The Breaking Drummer", Zhang Ran's movies are full of hope. This is the biggest difference between him and the fifth and sixth generation directors. His body leaned forward slightly, looked at Zhang Ran's eyes and said, "Today I'm looking for you, in addition to filming, there is also the problem of film and television city. I wonder if you Century Peak is interested in film and television city?" (To be continued.)8
Chapter completed!