"Take your time. I''ll go back to my room and take a shower. I''ll see you later." Xiao Yao wiped out the egg cake in his hand, got up, put on his helmet and sunglasses, and told three people.
Now that he has agreed, Xiao Yao will not delay. These three people can start after eating, but Xiao Yao went out riding in the morning, sweating a little, and had to go back to his room to take a bath and change clothes.
After saying goodbye to the three, Xiao Yao went back to his room to take a bath, changed his clothes and cleaned up a little. By the time he was ready, it was almost eight o''clock. The shooting scene is a distance from the hotel. At this time, it''s almost time for Chen Jun and others to start. Xiao Yao goes downstairs to join Chen Jun and others.
When Xiao Yao went downstairs, the people from the hotel to the set had almost arrived. After Xiao Yao went downstairs, he got into the car of the crew and waited for a long time, then the team set out.
This is a modern urban drama, there is no need to do special effects of the scene, all are live shooting, no part of the studio shooting. The two scenes to be shot this morning are coffee shop scenes. The crew hired a real coffee shop to shoot them. This coffee shop is not in a prosperous area, so although it is the morning rush hour at more than 8 a.m. and there is a lot of traffic on the road, the crew did not encounter any traffic jam along the way. More than 20 minutes later, the group arrived at the shooting site.
After Chen Jun and his party arrived, Yin Xi did not immediately enter the coffee shop, but took the script to the crew''s dressing car to change clothes and make-up. In the morning, there was no part of Xiao Yao in these two plays. Xiao Yao didn''t need to make up. After getting off the car, he followed Chen Jun to the coffee shop where they were shot.
The announcement of the crew says that shooting starts at 9 o''clock, which doesn''t mean that everyone in the crew starts to work at 9 o''clock. This shooting time is written for the actors. Before the actors arrive, part of the crew need to arrive at the shooting site earlier to prepare for the shooting.
When Chen Jun and Xiao Yao entered the coffee shop, the shop was busy. People from the lighting, photography, props, recording and other departments of the crew are arranging machines and equipment to prepare for the shooting for a while.
Every director has his own style. To be more general, directors from different backgrounds will have different characteristics when shooting.
The director is a professional director, who basically does not interfere with the work of the photography team before and during shooting. Generally speaking, I will explain my requirements to the photography team, and then the photography team will arrange their own seats. When shooting, I just communicate with the head of the photography team to see if the camera lens is enough. I don''t care about the aperture, focal length, or even the light when shooting. I will give it all to the head of the photography team.
Some directors with a background in photography will personally participate in the arrangement of camera positions and lighting before shooting, and give instructions to photographers and lighting engineers directly when shooting. In this case, the photographer is basically reduced to the handheld.
Chen Jun is a professional director. Xiao Yao said that for young people''s film and television led projects, TV plays should be made as movies, which is the same way. The head of the film crew is a cinematographer. Chen Jun quite recognized the photographer''s ability, let alone in some specific layout and operation of the finger.
Chen Jun had discussed with the photography group and props group about the scene. He didn''t care about the location and lighting of the photography group, so he was able to arrive later than those from these departments and join the actress Yin Xi. Now after entering the coffee shop, Chen Jun does not participate in the arrangement of the on-site staff. He sits in the director''s position behind the set up monitor and asks the deputy director about the progress of the on-site preparations and the situation of other actors.
In this drama group, Xiao Yao is not a director and does not need to be a director, but this does not change the fact that Xiao Yao is also a director. Xiao Yao came to the shooting site this morning to check on Yin Xi''s performance. Before shooting, Xiao Yao had nothing to do, so he went to chat with the staff who arranged the scene.
Since he decided not to be a director before, when discussing the shooting plan in the early stage, Xiao Yao only participated in the discussion of the shooting plan with his own part. This morning, there was no him in the two plays, only Yin Xi, so Xiao Yao didn''t know what the whole shooting plan was, so he took the opportunity to understand.
Xiao Yao is different from Chen Jun. Although he is now a master''s degree in director and performance of Yandian, before he entered Yandian, he had been a director and made short films and long films. Therefore, Xiao Yao is not the typical style of Keban director. At the same time, although Xiao Yao can take photos, he is not a director with a photographic background.
When Xiao Yao was a child with Xiao Chengru, he asked everything in the cast. In other people''s eyes, this is just a child''s curiosity. In fact, Xiao Yao, who is extremely mature in psychology and has a very good brain, has learned a lot in a down-to-earth way. Later, when Xiao Yao grew up, he learned everything in the crew, whether he was making a MV, a guest in a TV series or a movie, except that he was "Crazy" when shooting "Ling Yunzhi".
Actually, Xiao Yao should be similar to the director who gets up step by step from the bottom. He knows all kinds of film techniques well. Every department''s work, he is able to tell us the details.
Therefore, Xiao Yao went to chat with those on-site staff to understand the shooting plan, not to interfere with other people''s work, to make trouble for others. When communicating with them about the shooting plan, Xiao Yao could also give some suggestions on the setting, seats and lighting. Although Xiao Yao didn''t do it, he just moved his mouth, which was able to give some help to the staff.When Xiao Yao made "the tuner", the staff of that production group went to pay on the one hand, and on the other hand, they went to the luxurious cast. In their view, the short film is actually a means for Xiao Siqi and Ye Jiaying to hold up their son.
There are many directors who play well and direct well, even writers and other cross-border directors. Some of them have met many directors who don''t know anything. When shooting, the whole crew revolves around the photographers or producers. The so-called director is to sit in front of the monitor and pretend to shout a "card" when the media reporters come to visit, and then call the actors Say something and make an appearance.
Media reports boast more genius. For some people, seeing is believing. As for Xiao Yao, the media mostly talked about his music and acting. They didn''t say that he was a talented director. Before the shooting, no one believed that the 18-year-old was really the "director" of the crew.
But after shooting, all the crew members were dumbfounded.
Xiao Yaozhen is the director of that short film. From the setting before shooting, the angle of the camera, the position of the machine, the lighting layout, and the review after shooting, Xiao Yao decides whether to remake it or not, all of which are personally participated in and filmed by him. In addition to asking Xiao Chengru to help shout "start" and "card" when Xiao Yao was involved in the production, the production team did not supervise the production, and there were no media reporters to visit the class during the whole shooting period, and there were no reports.
In addition to Xiao Yao is really a director, the crew of Xiao Yao''s directing level is also quite surprised. Xiao Yao not only knows how to make movies, but also knows a lot and is very professional. Xiao Yao can find out the mistakes of any department. Although Xiao Yao is absolutely a rare good director in terms of temper, often with a smile on his face and seldom scolds others, such a young but professional director has brought a lot of pressure to the crew.
After the short film was shot, the staff of that crew were completely convinced of Xiao Yao. After the news that the film won the prize at the Clement Ferrand Short Film Festival spread, the most happy and least surprised people were the original crew.
However, compared with the star actors in front of the curtain, the staff behind the curtain are much more low-key and have little chance to accept media reports and interviews. After the news of winning the prize for the short film spread, although the people in front of and behind the scenes of that short film had been interviewed and reported by some media and praised Xiao Yao''s ability as a director, the star actors in front of the stage were Xiao Yao''s close relatives and friends, and they were basically regarded as "friendship blowing" and "family blowing" by the outside world, while those behind the scenes were not known at all, It doesn''t have much impact.
"Parkour boy" was shot in the United States. The staff behind the scenes are mainly Americans, and there are basically no relevant interviews and reports of such people. The Chinese actors in front of the screen are all close friends with Xiao Yao, and there is another older director in the film. Xiao Yao''s performance in directing is still not convincing. Later, when Xiao Yao filmed donkey gets water, many members of the crew experienced a similar mental process in their impressions of Xiao Yao.
Now "donkey gets water" has been released, with good reputation and box office. Many people are also surprised and curious about Xiao Yao. However, during the shooting period, there was no reporter visiting, no report, and there was no gag after the film came out. Many people have doubts about whether such a film was really made by director Xiao Yao.
Young people''s film and television companies only sign directors, screenwriters and producers, not actors and artists, and also don''t sign behind the scenes staff such as props, lighting and photography. Therefore, many people in this group have doubts about Xiao Yao''s role in the film donkey gets water.
Xiao Yao is not the director of the play. The crew thought that they could not see Xiao Yao''s ability as a director, but they didn''t expect Xiao Yao to come down to the set and discuss with them about the setting, lighting and camera position. Through this exchange with Xiao Yao, many members of the crew actually recognized Xiao Yao''s ability to be a director.
Originally, it was an unintentional move in the state of boredom, but many people in the drama group agreed with their ability as a director in their hearts, which Xiao Yao did not expect.
However, even if the crew recognized his ability to be a director, Xiao Yao did not intend to rob Chen Jun''s director. After the preparations before shooting were ready, Xiao Yao left the shooting area and stood behind Chen Jun.
When the scenes and machines are ready, and the actors are all here, Chen Jun arranges the deputy director to talk to the actors, and then let them go.
From the perspective of actors'' performance, it is better for the crew to shoot according to the sequence of the plot of the script when shooting. In this way, the actors'' experience in shooting is the same as that of the characters in the play, which is more conducive to the actors'' performance. But in terms of cost savings, the crew will try to put the same scenes together. Most of the time, the two are contradictory, so the crew generally considers them from a comprehensive perspective.
The arrangement of the two plays this morning is the result of this comprehensive consideration. This morning''s two plays are all about the female owner''s summer tour. From the script, the two scenes are not close together. In terms of time, there are several days between the two plays, and there are other plots in the middle of the play. However, the contents of these two plays are somewhat similar, and they are both relatively advanced. The editing should be in the first episode. The crew arranged these two plays to be shot together.Today''s first play is the first one in the script. It is about the daily shop tour of the female owner.
In addition to Xiao Yao, Yin Xi is the first actor to get the script and also the one who has been preparing for the play for the longest time. As the female owner of the play is an employee of the headquarters of a chain coffee brand, Yin Xi even went to experience life for the play, toured the store with the real employees of the headquarters of the coffee brand, and learned the performance of those people when touring the store.
The first scene of the shop tour is the female owner''s appearance, to explain her career and daily work. There is no fierce conflict, so it is relatively easy.
Yin Xi has experienced life and learned from real shop inspectors. No matter what the language, attitude and action are, there is no problem. This scene is a dialogue between the female owner and the shop owner and the shop assistant. After experiencing the character''s life, Yin Xi found Xiao Yao and the screenwriter to revise some of the lines according to the real situation of the shop tour. She was very familiar with them and recited them again while making up, so there was no such situation as forgetting the lines.
After finishing the play smoothly, we went to the official shooting, and Yin Xi''s performance was also good.
The scene was a long shot of more than a minute, and three shots were taken. In the first two times, the photographer made a mistake when moving the lens. The lens was shaken violently for a short time, which was called out directly by the boss of the photography team. Another time, there was a problem when a group actor who played as a shop assistant walked out of the camera and was called "card" by Chen Jun. Both failed shooting had nothing to do with Yin Xi, and Xiao Yao, who was on the scene, didn''t have any chance to offer guidance.
After filming the first scene, Yin Xi went to change clothes and had a rest, while the props, lighting and photography departments were busy.
These two plays are all about the female owner''s shop tour, but in the play, the female owner''s shop tour is not the same. The crew all took live action shots. They rented a real coffee shop to make a tour of the shop, but they didn''t rent two different coffee shops for the two scenes. After shooting one scene, they moved to another scene. Instead, they put both scenes in this coffee shop.
These two scenes took place in different stores, so the crew needed to change the layout of the store after the first scene and turn it into another store.
It takes time to change the layout of the store. In terms of time, after changing clothes, Yin Xi can also have a rest. However, after changing clothes and mending makeup, Yin Xi didn''t stay in the dressing car to rest or recite his lines, waiting for the crew to call him when it was ready. Instead, he took the script and went into the coffee shop.
Compared with the first scene, the second scene is a little more difficult. Yin Xi wants to talk to Xiao Yao about the play in advance, but after entering the coffee shop, Yin Xi doesn''t see Xiao Yao beside director Chen Jun.
"Chen Dao, where''s Xiao Yao?" Yin Xi asked Xiao Yao strangely, "won''t you run away?"
"No," Chen Jun pointed to the middle of the coffee shop with a smile, "there! Working as a porter in the props group! "
When Xiao Yao first came in the morning, the crew had already done almost all the preparatory work, so Xiao Yao just talked, not started. Now to change the overall layout of the store, tables, chairs, counters and the like have to change places. It''s not only a heavy workload, but also a lot of hard work.
Xiao Yao is an idle person. The people in the props group are working very hard, so they roll up their sleeves to join them and help them move together.
Yin Xi looked in the direction of Chen Jun''s fingers and found Xiao Yao. He immediately called out to Xiao Yao, "Xiao Yao! come here! How did you pick up things? What the hell are you doing here? "