Entertainment 1998

Chapter 747 Chapter 746, finalized

There was not one coffin, but four!
With the help of the crew members, Song Jiagang climbed into the coffin buried in the earth. Before he had time to feel the fear, a truck drove over from outside the village.

When we arrived at the entrance of the village, several employees of [Sun Laojia Coffin Industry] immediately jumped off the car and unloaded three coffins.

The shapes of these three coffins are somewhat peculiar. One of the coffins has no coffin lid on top, one of the coffins has no coffin lid in the front, and the other coffin has no coffin lid in the back.

Seeing the three coffins, Xie Fei, who had recovered his energy after a nap in the afternoon, immediately applauded.

"Clap clap clap..."

This is right!

In order to fully capture Ye Ke’s various movements in the coffin, it is necessary to shoot from different angles, not just from the side.

However, just when Xie Fei was feeling emotional, he saw one of the employees of Sun Laojia Coffin Industry taking a basket from the cab of a truck.

"Grandpa Qi, we caught the snake for you. Several of us went to Zhangzhuang to catch it."

"OK, thanks!"

Jiang Feng took the basket and opened the lid. Then, a snake jumped out from it.

"what…"

"what…"

For a moment, both Li Xing and Gong Li were frightened out of their wits.

Jiang Feng was fine, he just reached out and pinched the snake.

"Song Jia..."

"Director, tell me."

Although he was lying in a small coffin, Song Jia still noticed what was happening on the set.

"There is a plot like this, where this snake will crawl into the gap of the coffin and then crawl into your collar..."

"what!"

Before Jiang Feng finished speaking, Gong Li and Li Xing screamed again.

However, Song Jia, who was lying in the coffin, gritted his teeth and said, "It's okay, director, I can shoot this kind of plot!"

Although he said so, everyone could see that Song Jia's face had turned pale.

After taking a look at her condition and then at the sky which had already turned completely dark, Jiang Feng snapped his fingers.

When the sound was heard, all the lights on the set went out, and it became pitch black, with only the faint red light from the camera.

And in this pitch-black environment, everyone heard Jiang Feng speak.

"Song Jia..."

"Ok?"

"Now, you don't know where you are. You just woke up from a coma. After waking up, it was pitch black. You groped around to check the environment, and then you touched a lighter, and then you lit the lighter... Well, this is the first shot we are going to shoot.

When you perform, you have to set the pace for your performance.”

"Okay, director!"

After hearing Song Jia's answer, Jiang Feng pondered for a moment and then applauded at the filming site.

"Okay, everyone be silent!"

"All departments prepare!"

"Actors prepare!"

As this series of orders were issued, Zhang Yimou, who had worked with Jiang Feng before when they were filming the movie "Departures", knew that it was his turn to work now, so he quickly raised the clapperboard in his hand.

"Action!"

It is important to hit the board.

By 03, computers were becoming more and more powerful, and film editing had entered the digital age, also known in jargon as "non-linear editing."

During post-production, we rely entirely on the timeline marked by these scenes as the interface, which is countless times faster than the old days of cutting film with scissors.

After Zhang Yimou finished playing the game, he quickly stepped aside.

The dull and depressing atmosphere just came.

There was silence for about ten seconds, and then rustling sounds and faint breathing gradually emerged from the darkness.

"Xu Xu!"

“Ahhhhh!”

“Ahhhhhhhh!”

Finally, when both sounds could be heard clearly.

"Snapped!"

In the picture, a lighter is lit.

Behind the swaying oil light, a corner of the coffin was revealed, and Song Jia's face was covered in dust and wounds, making people feel tired at first glance.

"Move the camera forward to capture a close-up of Song Jia's face."

"Push the camera forward to capture a close-up."

"Close-up, damn!"

"Crack!"

The sound was made by two people. The one who asked the photographer to push the camera forward and captured the close-up was Tian Zhuangzhuang, while the one who shouted "cut" was Jiang Feng.

At Jiang Feng's command, the lights at the shooting site came on.

At this time, Tian Zhuangzhuang was still teaching photographer Liu Jie a lesson.

"what's wrong with you?"

"Little Song Jia's performance was so good. The fear in her eyes didn't seem to be acted out."

"Fuck, do you know that if you miss this opportunity, you will waste a lot of Xiao Songjia's feelings?"

An angry Tian Zhuangzhuang clenched his fists and shouted at photographer Liu Jie for nearly 5 minutes before he gradually realized that something was wrong.

"Uh..., I'm sorry, it's my fault!

I am not the director of this film, I do not have the right to direct the photographer, well, I have been holding it in for 10 years, and when I saw someone filming, I put myself in the role of director." Tian Zhuangzhuang, who is only over 50 years old, but his hair and beard are already gray, apologized sincerely at this time.

After he finished speaking, Jiang Feng said, "Dawei..."

"Okay, director, you say!"

Dawei, who was temporarily serving as the stage manager, ran over immediately upon hearing Jiang Feng's call.

"Find two idle staff members to come over and stand next to Professor Tian. If Professor Tian can't help but shout out again, have these two staff members drag him away."

"Uh…"

Dawei was a little confused.

If I remember correctly, Professor Tian Zhuangzhuang seems to be your doctoral supervisor? !
Although he is not the only one, Tian Zhuangzhuang is also your mentor. It seems impolite to drag your mentor away from the shooting site.

"What's wrong? Is there any difficulty?" Jiang Feng asked.

"Oh Nope!"

At this time, Dawei remembered that his boss was Jiang Feng, and he was the king on the set.

"If you don't have one, go and arrange it!"

Jiang Feng waved his hand back and snapped his fingers again.

Hearing this voice, Zhang Yimou immediately raised the clapperboard in his hand.

"Action!" Darkness surrounded the entire camera again, and the plot began to repeat itself. Soon, the lighter was lit again.

Jiang Feng said quickly:

“Close-ups of the actors!”

Swish.

Hearing Jiang Feng's command, Liu Jie's camera quickly moved forward and accurately locked onto Song Jia's facial expression.

Not only is there no wasted screen time, even the dusty hairs on the actors' faces can be clearly seen.

Looking at the images on the monitor, Jiang Feng nodded with satisfaction: "Very good!"

As expected of someone who had independently directed the camera in the movie "The Yellow Sea", Jiang Feng only said to take close-ups of the actors, and Liu Jie immediately knew what he wanted.

"OK, passed, next shot."

After just watching the playback on the director's monitor, Jiang Feng raised the walkie-talkie in his hand.

...

With this shot as a foundation, the crew's filming progress became faster and faster.

Because Jiang Feng, as a director, already had references to finished films in his mind, so he didn't have to think about what kind of shot effects were needed and could just give orders directly towards the goal.

This made Xie Fei and Tian Zhuangzhuang, who came to serve as instructors, so shocked that their jaws almost dropped.

We are all directors and we all know how filming a movie works. Sometimes, in order to find a certain feeling, a director may spend half a month shooting a single shot.

However, Jiang Feng in front of them made the two mentors dumbfounded. To be honest, after decades of working in the industry, they have never seen a director with such a strong and sensitive sense of picture and camera.

Damn, no wonder he won the Oscar for Best Director? !
At the shooting site, Tian Zhuangzhuang, who watched Jiang Feng filming with his own eyes, suddenly raised Jiang Feng's status in his mind a lot.

There are many kinds of actors. Some rely on hard work, some rely on skills, and they can all become excellent actors.

But there is a type of actor who is born to do this job. As the saying goes, they are born with this talent.

There are not many actors like this, but after seeing Song Jia's performance, Jiang Feng thinks she should be counted as one.

With a height of 1 meters and a chiseled face, she can fully display the helplessness, struggle and fear of Ye Ke lying in the coffin with delicate body language and distinct emotional transitions with just a little hint.

In particular, Song Jia got into the role very quickly. Jiang Feng had just given her a hint about what the next shot would be about, and this beautiful woman was ready in just a few seconds, without anyone having to wait.

Of course, this also has a lot to do with Jiang Feng.

Jiang Feng only gave her the story outline. As for the specific plot of the movie, Jiang Feng would tell her what to shoot next after she finished shooting the previous shot.

In this way, Song Jia's overall feeling is very consistent with the role of Ye Ke, because she doesn't know what will happen in the next shot.

In a blink of an eye.

Six hours passed and the shooting officially started at 6:6 pm. By 45:1 am, 00% of the shots of "Buried" had been completed.

Jiang Feng, who was a little tired, was happy at this moment. According to the current shooting speed, it was estimated that the movie would be finished in another three hours.

Of course, the prerequisite is that everything goes smoothly afterwards.

After all, according to the shooting habits in the film and television industry, the more time passes, the more difficult the shot becomes.

In the movie "Buried", it mainly refers to some dialogue shots and a shot of a snake.

Dialogue scenes test the actors' rhythm and the need for external help. For example, when Ye Ke called the police in the coffin, the female police officer who talked to her needed the cooperation of Gong Li who was standing at the shooting scene.

Of course, this is a bit difficult, but if you shoot it twice more, you can always polish it out.

The key is that shot of the snake.

Normally when filming a movie, if the scene involves giant snakes, pythons, snake demons, etc., it is accomplished through props and post-production special effects.

Even if it is a small snake, if you just want to shoot a shot of the snake lying motionless, you can still use props.

Real snakes are only used when there are shots that require the snake to crawl or wriggle.

unfortunately.

The poisonous snake in "Buried Alive" had to crawl into the actor's collar, then crawl out from his trouser leg, and finally crawl out from the gap in the coffin lid.

So, there was no choice but for Jiang Feng to use a real snake.

"Song Jia..."

"Director, tell me."

After shooting for 6 hours straight, although there was a 20-minute break for a midnight snack, Song Jia was already very tired.

But this kind of tiredness is very consistent with the setting of the character in the movie.

So Song Jia could only force himself to stay awake and continue shooting downwards.

"Song Jia, I forgot to tell you just now that this snake is a domestic snake and is completely non-venomous. In addition, in order to ensure your 100% safety, I also asked the snake catcher in our village to pull out the snake's teeth.

Um..., it was the guy who handed the snake to me and called me Seventh Grandpa, because in our village, my family has a seniority, so even if he is a few years older than me, he still has to call me Grandpa. "

"Ha ha…"

Jiang Feng's words were so playful that they immediately made Gong Li, Zhang Yimou, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Xie Fei and others laugh.

By the early morning, there were very few people on the filming site. At most, there were less than 20 people. For example, Li Xing went home to sleep.

Yes, it’s Jiang Feng’s house!

Perhaps Song Jia was infected by everyone's laughter. She was a little nervous just now, but now she relaxed.

After taking a deep breath, Song Jia waved his hand in the coffin.

"Director, I'm ready, let's get started."

"Ok!"

Jiang Feng smiled faintly. Dawei, who had already taken over the important job of script supervisor from Zhang Yimou, remembered the clapperboard in his hand at this time.

"Action!"

In the dim coffin, the fluorescent sticks emitted a cold light.

Song Jia looked around anxiously for something, and suddenly, her whole body froze and her breathing became rapid.

The camera lens followed her lowered gaze and locked onto her neck, where there happened to be a small piece of something that flashed and disappeared into the collar.

The camera lens began to move downward, and traces of the clothes being lifted up and falling were clearly visible, with pauses and twists and turns in the middle. Finally, it moved all the way to the trouser legs, and finally a snake head was seen coming out, spitting out its tongue.

By the time the snake had completely crawled out of the pants and swam out of the camera, the four-minute scene was already over.

However, Jiang Feng suddenly remembered something and immediately ordered: "Liu Jie, don't stop the camera, push it from bottom to top, and keep the close-up of the face for 30 seconds."

Although the plan changed, Liu Jie did not hesitate at all and immediately controlled the camera to push back.

When the images were transmitted back, everyone including Zhang Yimou, Xie Fei, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Gong Li and others felt as if they were electrocuted, and their scalps were numbing.

Song Jia's calves, thighs, torso, arms, lips, every part of his body was trembling.

The trembling lips were as pale as those of a dead person.

Moreover, her face was covered with cold sweat mixed with mud and dirt, forming clear grooves.

All these elements combined together express the protagonist's depression, helplessness and fear, as he clearly wants to move and escape, but tries desperately to suppress it, not daring to make a sound or make any big movements.

“It’s such a classic!”

This shout was made by Xie Fei and Tian Zhuangzhuang at the same time.

"Damn, Jiang Feng, you're really good!
With this level of ability, why do you still want to study for a doctorate? You should come to our Beijing Film Academy to be a doctoral supervisor. "

"Hey, Professor Xie, Professor Tian, ​​you guys are too kind."

But at this time, everyone heard the actor Song Jia breathing heavily.

"Director, please let me rest for a while!"

(End of this chapter)