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

Chapter 210 High Special Effects Production

Xia Yuan was helpless.

What can he do? He can't beat or scold his wife. Now they are newlyweds and still in the sweet period of their relationship. It's a time of deep love. If you ask Xia Yuan to treat his senior sister like an ordinary actor, it's definitely impossible.

But fortunately, he was lucky and married a very gentle wife, which is a good thing.

Tang Ying was also somewhat helpless: "You don't have to be like this, just treat me the same way you treat other actors."

She also understood very well that the director's authority was the director's authority, and it must never be dispersed. The director must have enough control and say on the set.

If you want to lose money, you must not stop the director from messing around! As long as they let go, the money will be burned very quickly.

This is the principle of losing money that she has always believed in.

Otherwise, you see, without considering the company, Xia Yuan would have to spend hundreds of millions to buy a costume. If he lets go and does it, how much will he lose?
This is simply unthinkable.

Tang Ying added, "Besides, I don't have a role to play right now. Just treat me the way you usually treat me. Just pretend that I don't exist."

Xia Yuan also sighed: "I'll try my best."

After that, he began to direct the set, preparing for the first scene to come.

It was also Tang Ying's first time filming a movie in her life and her first time on the set as a leading actress, so naturally she felt it was new.

Many crew members passing by have also become accustomed to Tang Ying's presence, and would specifically greet her when passing by: "Hello, boss!"

At this time, Tang Ying would correct him: "Don't call me boss when we are filming!"

So, the address became: "Hello, Teacher Tang!"

Tang Ying was very pleased and said with satisfaction: "8 wrong 8 wrong!"

Tang Ying has made great progress, and this is not something her old master can do.

After a series of preparations, the set was completed, and after Xia Yuan finished directing everything, he went to do the styling.

His styling has also been completed.

That’s right, as the core actor, Xia Yuan naturally has the most scenes, and he has returned to the time when he directed and acted in the film himself.

This made Xia Yuan feel that familiar feeling of being busy, the kind of busyness that made him work so hard that he had to do everything himself, and he sighed.

When did he start to pursue directing and acting in his own films? What was the reason?

After thinking for a long time, he figured out the key.

Because of Chu Zhongtian!
"Okay, okay!" Xia Yuan looked at himself in the mirror wearing the Monkey King makeup and stood up.

The first scene they were going to shoot was the series of exchanges between Sun Wukong, Guanyin Bodhisattva, and Monk Tang. It was also through this scene that the background story of the whole story was explained to the audience.

His assistant director Wang Dashan once again took over his duties, taking the camera and signaling the actors to take their positions: "Everyone, take your positions, actors please!"

When he was in position, Xia Yuan took the medicine in his hand, swallowed it in one gulp, closed his eyes and opened them again, and the dissociation and analysis process was completed. He successfully dissociated his ego and integrated it into the personality of the Monkey King as he understood it.

This movie is a bit special. The Supreme Treasure is the Supreme Treasure, and the Monkey King is the Monkey King. Although strictly speaking these two belong to the same character, their personalities and expressions cannot be confused.

He has to perform two different images in two states.

Fortunately, he is becoming more and more proficient now, and his speed of dissociation and analysis is also faster. He has even become so proficient that he can do it at will.

Although Xia Yuan also knew that his frequent use of the experiential techniques might bring certain risks to himself.

But he is already completely used to this style of performance. If you ask him to switch to another style now, he will not be used to it.

(Note: Master Xing is also one of the rare masters of the experiential school. In fact, several world-famous comedy masters, including Jim Carrey, are almost all experiential masters, except Mr. Chaplin.)
Fortunately, he doesn't have any health problems now. I think as long as he pays a little attention, keeps taking medicine, and remembers to take medicine for prevention every time, nothing will happen.

When Xia Yuan finished the dissociation and analysis, everyone present noticed something different.

At this moment, Xia Yuan was wearing a golden hoop on his head, a golden chain mail armor, a phoenix-wing purple gold crown on his head, lotus silk cloud-walking shoes on his feet, and a golden hoop stick in his hand. His eyes were bright and full of pride, a hint of rebelliousness, and a little bit of manic anger.

A sense of aura came over me.

On the other hand, the actor who played the role of Avalokitesvara was a special actor who was good at playing such deities and Buddhas. He was also stunned for a moment when he saw Xia Yuan at this moment.

Chu Zhongtian changed into a cassock, which was a little crooked and looked like it didn't fit him well. He held the abbot's golden staff in his hand.

In fact, their scene is just a large green screen, plus some props that are enlarged in proportion. Several camera positions surround the set, and the code positions on the set are marked with yellow tape.

The three actors walked to the positions with their serial numbers on them.

Assistant director Wang Dashan raised his trumpet and said, "Start shooting!"

The script supervisor stepped forward and said, "A Chinese Odyssey, first scene, first section, first shot, first take, three, two, one, action!"

Snapped!
The actor who plays the role of Guanyin Bodhisattva holds a jade bottle in his hand and sits on a lotus throne-like support wrapped in green cloth. He looks solemn and has some magnetic dots connected by lines on his face.

Their film is going to be produced using high special effects, and most of the funds will be invested in the special effects, so the presentation method chosen will definitely be different from the original film.

The original film was limited by the times, funding, and the substandard special effects technology of the 1990s. When shooting this scene, they could only use dry ice smoke creation and spatial expression methods to present the majesty of immortals, Buddhas, gods and demons, which they naturally didn't need.

In Xia Yuan's opinion, if they can ensure that every penny spent on special effects is accurately used with the special effects technology they currently have, then they will definitely be able to create even more stunning scenes.

If it is combined with the plot, it will complement each other even more.

This movie has a very high threshold for appreciation, and Xia Yuan can naturally understand the deep meaning of it. He found that although the performance of this movie is very poor, you can't say it is a bad movie.

I can only say that probably the moviegoers couldn't appreciate it.

After all, some movies may take ten years for the audience to understand them. Within ten years, no one will be able to understand them.

Perhaps that is the case with this film.

Xia Yuan didn't care whether they could understand it or not, he just had to take the pictures well. With the support of his senior schoolmate, he could just take the pictures boldly.

He has already realized that the senior's system is nothing more than a bottom-up system that allows them to do what they want without worrying about losses.

Spend your money with confidence!
So Xia Yuan decided: "I will use 70% of the funds to make special effects!"

the other side.

"Hiss, so expensive? Teacher, can you please take a look here and see if there are fewer scenes with green screens? We can use props and scenes to perform the scenes without using green screens, okay? We can also change this part."

"OK, Mr. Chen, you decide. I won't interfere. No problem."

The director and producer are discussing and finally coming up with a plan.

The producer then looked at the blond director in front of him and nodded with satisfaction: "That's it. Then I'll go see Teacher Zhang. There are still some things that need his cooperation. The current publicity efforts are not enough."

This is exactly the set of the film "Where is the Way?"

(End of this chapter)