Didn't you say that we would lose money after filming?

Chapter 144 Where’s Your Fucking Italian Cannon (1)

"No way, Director Xia, I came all the way here just to play a member of the Eighth Route Army?"

"Director Xia, let's make a deal. Can we not arrange for the Eighth Route Army to play the role?"

A group of college students were talking at once, and when they heard that Xia Yuan was going to arrange for them to play the role of the Eighth Route Army, they all shook their heads rapidly.

This confused Xia Yuan.

Even the Eighth Route Army doesn't want to act? Then what do you want to do?
Don't actors all want to play positive roles? This not only makes them popular with the audience, but also makes them look great.

Adding such a group of people will add a buff to Hanxia’s history.

Just look at Chu Zhongtian and you will know. Even if he wanted to play a positive role, there was no chance for him. The entire crew, the general, the lieutenant, the colonel, they were all well-known figures in Hanxia and the whole country. None of the familiar actors could be brought in this time. It was a blessing to be able to bring him in. He dreamed of playing a positive role with a lot of screen time.

How come the situation is exactly the opposite for this group of college students?
But just when he was still confused, a group of college students expressed their opinions with shining eyes.

"Exactly, who plays the role of the Eighth Route Army? If you want to play one, play the role of Baga Yalu!"

"Give me a Japanese boy, I promise I can act like the real thing!"

"To be honest, Director Xia, I want to play the role of a devil."

Then, a scene that left Xia Yuan speechless happened.

The first batch of college students who arrived joined the crew before he had time to enter the training stage.

It means that everyone wants to play the role of a Japanese soldier. Seeing the Japanese soldier's costumes makes them more excited than seeing anything else. Everyone rushes to try it out.

"Okay." Although Xia Yuan was a little shocked, he didn't say anything.

Anyway, we are short of extras now. A few hundred people are not enough. If they want to act, then let them act.

However, Xia Yuan had not yet realized the seriousness of the matter.
In the next few days, more and more college students arrived. Although there were not as many as on the first day, there were still at least dozens of people joining the crew every day.

The crew's dilemma of lack of extras was immediately solved.

After a short period of training, Xia Yuan discovered that this group of college students were surprisingly studious and learned very quickly.

It's totally effortless to train them. In fact, many people, once they put on that yellow skin, it's amazing. Their clear and stupid eyes instantly become vulgar at a speed visible to the naked eye.

There were even some students majoring in Japanese who came over and said that they had professional skills and that they were the perfect fit for the role of the little devil.

What else could Xia Yuan say? This film really needed Japanese.

Of course, there are also some actors who will be forced by Xia Yuan to play the Eighth Route Army.

After all, there is no other way. There must be someone to play the Eighth Route Army, right? Otherwise, how can we shoot it?

However, these college students who were assigned to play the Eighth Route Army seemed reluctant.

He was extremely enthusiastic about playing the role of the Japanese devils, and even performed every look and expression perfectly. Every day in the crew, there were "flower girls" coming and going to "do some work", with occasional shouts of "Yoshi" and "Baga".

Xia Yuan wanted to call and report his own crew more than once. He wanted to drag all these people out, one by one, and investigate their three generations of ancestors.

However, the crew was able to officially start filming thanks to the injection of such a large number of fresh blood.

Still after the brief opening ceremony, it was time to shoot the first scene of "Bright Sword".

Since there are enough extras and everyone is complete, we must arrange to shoot the large-scale scenes first.

This is the characteristic of shooting this kind of war drama. Generally, when there are many extras and everyone is ready, all the big scenes are shot first. If it can be shot, it will be shot in one cycle. When there are no large-scale extras, it is the process of thinking about the literary drama.

Now, we are about to start filming the first scene, which happens to be the head-on confrontation between Li Yunlong and the Sakata Regiment of the 4th Brigade.

Everything is ready on the set at this moment. All the track camera positions and aerial camera positions have been set up and marked. The props team has buried explosive devices at specific locations and trenches have also been dug.

At this moment, Xia Yuan was holding a loud speaker and shouting continuously.

"Group three! Group three, guard the edge! What are you doing? Keep an eye on the extras under your command! Extras over there, don't cross the line! There's explosives over there!"

"Don't play with props! I've told you so many times! You can't play with props! Put them down now!"

"Those two extras in group one! Start getting ready! They're still playing games!"

"And those two Japanese female soldiers over there! Yes, the ones dancing to 'Send to the Moon', stop filming! Put away your phones! Let's start filming!!"

"The one on the right! Yes, that's you! Can you please take the bottle of Pulse out of your pocket for me? You know you've exposed me, don't you?"

"Whose is that gun that's broken into two pieces?! Take it away from me! I've told you so many times not to play with props! They're not as strong as you think!"

It's hard, the fist is hard.

Blood pressure is high.

This is the most true portrayal of Xia Yuan at this moment.

Looking at the crowded set with hundreds of people, a group of enthusiastic college students, Xia Yuan sighed tiredly.

This group of college students are good at everything and learn quickly, but they love to play too much. Moreover, many of them are filming a movie for the first time and are very curious, so it is sometimes difficult to manage them.

Xia Yuan also took a lot of effort to coordinate everyone.

This is the stage when the official shooting begins.

During the large-scale shooting of the first scene, the extras were first divided into several positions and stood behind each camera position, where there were code positions for the extras.

Then some people also lay in the trenches, a total of several hundred people, and Xia Yuan would need central control to coordinate later.

At a specific time, a loud speaker is used to direct the actions of the extras and then arrange the explosion.

This kind of war scene does not use synchronous sound and is not recorded using synchronous sound.

Li Youbin and a group of actors from cultural and art organizations also changed their costumes and were waiting.

This time, Xia Yuan didn't even sit comfortably in front of the director's monitor and watch the screen on a stool like before.

Instead, he sat directly on the basket of the ladder, holding a large loudspeaker and wearing headphones at high altitude, overlooking the entire set.

Xia Yuan's expression was also very serious.

After all, this was the first time he had shot such a large-scale scene after being a director for nearly three years and shooting a TV series for the first time.

After the script supervisor came forward and made the decision, the various camera positions began to move. All the cameras seemed to be activated instantly and moved automatically, adjusting the lenses according to the program that had been set long ago.

"At twelve o'clock, the second group, the third team, seven people, jog from position 75, pass positions 76, 77, and 78, and enter trench number one."

Xia Yuan shouted with a loud speaker.

(End of this chapter)