At five o'clock in the morning, Zhang Ran got up from bed. Today, the scene will be filmed after the earthquake. There are many extras used and the shooting is relatively complicated. As a director, he must arrive at the scene early to make corresponding arrangements.

After Zhang Ran finished washing up, he and Zhang Jingchu came to the door of the students' dormitory in the class, and slapped the door and called out the students.

Yang Mi opened the door and yawned and accused Zhang Jingchu: "Sister Jingchu, your Xiao Ranran is too cruel."

Zhang Jingchu smiled and patted Yang Mi's shoulder: "I'm so confused, stop making trouble, hurry up and clean up, we're leaving!"

Zhang Ran glared at Yang Mi and said, "You think you are here to be a lady. You are an extra. Other extras start putting on makeup at five o'clock. No more nonsense, I'll arrange a rain scene for you later, ng you twenty times!"

Yang Mi had filmed rain scenes before, and knew that it was not good. When she heard that Zhang Ran was about to ng herself twenty times, she was shocked and hurried back to her room to clean up.

After several students finished packing up, Zhang Ran took them into the crew's car and headed straight to the set of Nanhu Park. When he arrived at the set, hundreds of extras had already changed their clothes and were queuing up to put on makeup. The earthquake occurred in July. The weather was hot, so the extras naturally changed into shorts and vests. But it was almost October, and it was morning and the temperature was very low, so the crew gave each actor a green plastic raincoat and military quilt. At this time, everyone was wearing raincoats and wrapped in quilts.

Zhang Ran glanced at several of his students and said, "See it. Others have come a long time ago, and many people have put on makeup. You guys quickly change their clothes and then come over to put on makeup!"

Yang Mi and the others quickly changed their clothes and came out. The boys all had shorts and vests, the girls all had men's tops and shorts, and some wore skirts and long-skinned pants. The clothes were dirty, covered with mud and red blood. It was impossible for everyone to wear shoes when the earthquake occurred, so some of them also had shoes, while some didn't.

At this time, Yang Mi and the others saw a few girls coming from the stylist with their heads covering their heads. It turned out that they had been changed to small braids from the 1970s. They were dirty and messy from head to toe. Their faces were covered with brown mud, and blood was smeared on their hands and bodies, and they all looked extremely miserable.

Chen Er touched his hair. This was just permed the hair the day before yesterday, and it was very stylish. He thought that he would soon cut it into the old-fashioned hairstyle from the 1970s, and he was a little unhappy. He was thinking about how to tell Zhang Ran to see if he could keep his handsome hairstyle.

At this moment, a child's cry came. Zhang Ran turned his head and saw that it was a little girl cutting her hair. After cutting, she felt that her hairstyle was too ugly, so she couldn't help crying: "Woooo, it's too short, so ugly, just like Taro Yumi!"

The extras around were amused by the little girl's words, and her hairstyle looked a bit like Taro Xigua.

The little girl's mother comforted her, "It's okay, it's pretty good. My mother had this hairstyle when she was a child."

Zhang Ran remembers that when the little girl was auditioning with her mother and extras, the little girl's mother brought her to audition. The staff said that it was very hard to make a movie, and the child was too young and could not stand it. But the little girl's mother said that when the earthquake occurred, she was also so old, and that they came here like this. She felt that her children should experience history, which is of great significance to the child's future life. Zhang Ran was particularly moved and felt that this mother was very great. He not only agreed to let the girl act, but also arranged a very important shot for her.

Seeing the little girl crying, Zhang Ran walked over and comforted her: "This hairstyle is very cute and very cute. Also, my mother told you whether she was a child, right? What you want to play is when she was a child. Will your mother cry when she was a child? No, right! A crying child cannot play her mother when she was a child, so the uncle can only find other children to play her mother!"

When the little girl heard Zhang Ran wanting to find other children to play her mother when she was a child, she immediately wiped away the tears from her face and said, "Uncle, I won't cry anymore!"

Zhang Ran touched the girl's head and smiled and said, "So good, mom will be proud of you!"

Chen Er felt embarrassed to speak. The girl who was a few years old had cut her hair. Can't even compare with the girl?

Zhang Ran waved to the makeup artist, called him over, pointed at the girl's face, and said, "If you put on makeup, your eyes should be a little swollen, and there should be a wound on the right cheek. I will give the child a close-up, and the wound on her face should be visible. Do you understand what I mean?"

The makeup artist nodded and said, "I understand, director!"

Zhang Ran instructed: "Hurry up and put on makeup for the children, bring them over to show me the effect after they are finished!"

After the earthquake, almost everyone was injured. If the actors were clean, it would seem fake. However, there were nearly 500 extras used in this scene today, and it took time to put on scars. There were only more than a dozen makeup artists in the crew, so it was impossible to put on scars that everyone was very clear. Only close-up actors would put on scars, and the long-range actors would simplify the treatment, spray some blood, and apply soil on their bodies. In order to shoot, Zhang Ran specially selected more than 20 extras as close-up actors and asked the makeup artist to put on scars.

After selecting the extras, Zhang Ran called the producer director over: "Be prepared with ginger soup, hot water, dry towels, and hair dryers, so don't let everyone catch a cold. In the afternoon, prepare the hot water in the bathroom."

The extras were very dirty, full of mud and plasma, so it was impossible for them to go back so dirty. Therefore, the crew set up a bathroom on the set. After filming, everyone could take a hot shower, change into clean clothes and go back.

The producer director promised: "Don't worry, everything is arranged, there will definitely be no problem."

Zhang Ran didn't say anything more and turned to the shooting area. At this time, the crew members were already making arrangements before the shooting started, and the crane was hanging the rain sprayer into the air.

The scene I want to film today is a rain scene. It started to rain heavily shortly after the Tangshan earthquake, which took a long time. In fact, after the earthquake, it is often accompanied by very strong rainy weather. Because the huge energy accumulated in the earth's crust is released by the earthquake and converted into heat, causing a lot of water vapor on the surface to evaporate into the air, and the water vapor will turn into rain when it encounters cold air.

Filming rain scenes is quite troublesome for the crew. Few crews will really wait until it rains before shooting, because natural rain cannot control the time and size, and the raindrop effect cannot be produced without lighting assistance. Therefore, crews usually use artificial handheld large-caliber high-pressure water guns to spray water into the air to create a feeling of rain.

However, the lens Zhang Ran and the others were going to take had a large panoramic view, and the lens would be pulled into the air. The area for spraying high-pressure water guns was limited. After the lens was pulled up, it would turn into rain and only in the foreground. When the scene was not raining, it would be missed. Therefore, Zhang Ran and the others borrowed several cranes and hung a bunch of rain sprayers in the air, so that the rain could cover a large range. In order to cooperate with Zhang Ran and the others' shooting, the municipal government also specially transferred four fire trucks to ensure that the shooting could be carried out smoothly.

Under normal circumstances, rain scenes are chosen to be filmed on cloudy days. In order to take care of the actors' feelings, Zhang Ran and others chose sunny days with relatively high temperatures. When shooting rain scenes on sunny days, they must block the sunlight, otherwise there will be sunlight at the same time when it rains, which will make it difficult. For this reason, the crew specially arranged several huge black flags in the air to block the sun, so that the entire shooting area is in the shadows and arranged a cloudy effect.

At the same time, Ning Hao and the second photography team also arrived at the shooting site. Today's rain scene will be taken by two photography teams. Zhang Ran and others are responsible for taking panoramic shots and long sports shots; the second photography team is responsible for close-up shots of extras. This can not only speed up the shooting speed, but also make extras suffer less.

Just as two photography teams were standing on the ruins discussing how the camera moves and the extras stood, Zhang Jingchu came over with a little girl wearing makeup and students of Zhang Ran’s class. She had not had Zhang Jingchu’s scene in recent days, so she became Zhang Ran’s assistant.

Zhang Ran carefully checked the scars on the little girl's face. Her eyes were swollen, and there were obvious wounds on her face, and blood was leaking out. It looked very miserable, but he was still not satisfied, mainly because the location of the wound was not ideal. Zhang Ran asked Chang Jirong to call the makeup artist over, and then carefully told the makeup artist what the scars he wanted and where they were located. After the talk, Zhang Ran asked the makeup artist to take the girl back to put on the scars and make up again.

Yang Mi pulled Zhang Jingchu by the arm and asked, "This requirement is too strict. Is your Zhang Ran always filming like this?"

Zhang Jingchu smiled and said, "Yes, Zhang Ran said that the success or failure of a movie is sometimes a little bit short of."

Yang Mi said in confusion: "But these are just extras. Is it necessary to be so strict?"

Zhang Jingchu said seriously: "Many Chinese movies die on extras."

After half an hour, the makeup artist came over with the little girl who had put on her makeup again and asked Zhang Ran to see the effect. Zhang Ran nodded with satisfaction, then took the girl to the ruins and stood still, and began to talk to her: "After the uncle shouted to start, you stare at the camera's lens!" Zhang Ran pointed to the camera on the rocking arm: "Just look at the camera's lens, don't talk or make expressions. When the actual shooting is taken later, it will rain and be colder, but you can't move. If you move, you have to reshoot it. When the camera's lens turns to the side, you can move. Do you understand?"

The little girl is very smart: "I understand!"

Zhang Ran touched the little girl's head, encouraged her a few words, and turned around to continue to arrange positions for other extras. There were hundreds of extras in this scene today, and Zhang Ran could not have talked about how to walk and how to act. He could only roughly tell the actors in the close-up scene how to act, and the others were handed over to the deputy director. Yu Feihong and Zhang Jingchu took on this responsibility, walking around the crowd, constantly telling everyone how to act and what to pay attention to. The makeup artists were not idle either, and walked around the crowd with small buckets, and they would fill up blood and dust to whoever had no makeup.

When it was almost 9:30, Yu Feihong came over to inform Zhang Ran that the shooting was ready and the filming was officially started. Zhang Ran stood up with a solemn expression: "Each group is in place soon, let's hurry up and take the time to shoot! Everyone uses snacks and strive for one pass!"

The extras, blurred by the sludge and blood, threw down their quilts, took off their raincoats, and arrived at the designated location according to the crew's requirements. The person who played the corpse lay on the ground, the person who excavated and saved people stood on the ruins, and the person who was responsible for walking was also prepared.

"The recorder starts!"

"The camera is on!"

"Give it rain, give it rain!" The rain sprayer in the air sprayed out countless raindrops, landing on the ground and crackling. Within a range of nearly a thousand meters, it was immediately covered by heavy rain.

"The extras started to move!" The extras began their own performance, and the entire scene suddenly sounded shrill and desperate cry.

Zhang Ran shouted: "Start!"

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