This director is so innocent.

But if you ask them to step forward and criticize in public, they definitely won't do it.

Because they have no conflict of interest with Su Jin!

Even if they defeat Su Jin, it won't be their turn to take over.

So why bother being the first to stick your neck out?

Besides, if they fail to defeat the opponent and instead become a scapegoat, they'll end up losing more than they gained.

They didn't believe Su Jin would keep this troublemaker around; she would definitely get rid of him.

"OK, get ready to film."

"Action".

"Scene 27 of 'The Coffin in the Mountain,' shot one, first take," the script supervisor said, holding the clapperboard in front of the camera.

Please explain the meanings of 场, 镜, and 次.

The key to determining the scene and shot is how you arrange the shots.

"次" means that you say "how many times" a scene was filmed.

We say this every time we start filming, mainly for the convenience of post-production editing.

Click... Click...

Zhang Guoli, wearing a gray-blue coat, squatted on the ground, wearing gloves, holding a shovel, repairing the pigsty.

Liu Hua (Dao Ge) pushed open the door, his clothes bulging. He looked around carefully before closing the door.

He had just stepped into the courtyard when he saw Zhang Guoli squatting on the ground. He took a few steps forward and called out softly, "Village Chief."

"Ugh!"

Zhang Guoli, who was focused on repairing the pigsty, was startled by the sudden noise. After getting up, he complained, "When did you come in? You didn't even knock."

This wasn't about pretending to be someone else; it was because there was something under the pigsty, and the village chief was feeling guilty.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry," Liu Hua apologized repeatedly with an embarrassed smile. "I need to talk to you about something."

Immediately after saying that, Liu Hua felt it wasn't right, too direct, and added, "We're repairing the pigsty!"

"Um, what's up?"

Interestingly, Zhang Guoli kept his head down, looking at the pigsty the whole time, without making eye contact with Bai Guoqing, which suggests that he had something to hide.

Liu Hua looked around and, seeing no one was there, took a few steps closer to Zhang Guoli and whispered, "Village chief, I heard that the coffin didn't contain Chen Zili; their family brought it back?"

"Um."

"Village chief...uh...I..." Liu Hua pursed his lips, a little nervous. The words were on the tip of his tongue, but he didn't know how to start.

Seeing this, Zhang Guoli couldn't help but ask, "What is it? Tell me!"

Liu Hua swallowed hard, took out two bottles of liquor and a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, placed them on the wall, and said, "I want to borrow that corpse for a while."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Guoli's heart skipped a beat. She looked at Liu Hua, her lips slightly parted, as if she wanted to say something, but she couldn't open her mouth.

A dog barking sound will be added here later; the professional term is "ambient sound," which is mainly used to simulate a non-vacuum space to express the character's inner turmoil.

If you watch "The Coffin in the Mountain" carefully, you'll know that this kind of ambient sound appears many times in the film.

For example, when Xiao Zongyao discovered his medals were missing on the street at night, a car horn sounded; and when Dazhuang received the bracelet from Liqin, a chicken crowed...

Actually, we encountered this logic when we were kids.

For example, in cartoons, when animated characters are spacing out or speechless, a crow will fly overhead, followed by a string of ellipses and the sound of the crow cawing.

This indicates that the person is not in a daze, but rather experiencing some inner turmoil.

However, this fluctuation cannot be conveyed to the audience through overly expressive facial expressions or body language.

Therefore, I need to use a voice to tell the audience that my mind is not at peace at this moment.

Of course, there are even more advanced uses, such as not using ambient sounds.

Have you seen "The Mistake by the River"?

When policeman Ma Zhe couldn't catch the murderer, he went to pick vegetables downstairs from his own apartment. At that moment, several children passed by, shouting, "You can't catch me!"

These children may seem insignificant, but in Ma Zhe's mind, the words "you can't catch me" are a disguised provocation from the murderer.

Therefore, even if he is leisurely picking vegetables, even if he has his back to the camera, we can still perceive Ma Zhe's heart in catching the murderer through the child's lines.

Therefore, the characters' actions and behaviors are leisurely and calm, but Marxist philosophy's thoughts are not as we see them.

This is the "listening" aspect of audiovisual language.

To put it simply, in a logically consistent movie, every prop you see or every sound you hear has its own purpose; they're not just randomly placed there.

I've written a bit too much, and I don't know if you like it. If you don't, I won't write again next time.

Returning to the point above, after Liu Hua explained to Zhang Guoli the reason for borrowing the corpse, Zhang Guoli thought about it and agreed.

Because he knew that Baihu hadn't gone out to hide from debts, but had died and would never come back.

If the body is lent to Bai Guoqing and then buried, the villagers will never think of calling the police again. The secret that Xiao Zongyao's son accidentally killed Baihu will also be buried with Baihu's body and will never be known.

But things didn't turn out the way he expected, because after deceiving the debt collectors, Bai Guoqing left the body on a barren mountain instead of burying it in his family's ancestral grave.

The reason given was that the body belonged to an outsider and could not be buried in the family's ancestral grave. This would save the family from digging it up again if the owner of the body came looking for it later.

"Click." Su Jin, holding the megaphone, stood up and said, "Very good, one take."

Seeing the satisfied smiles on the staff's faces, he knew that there were quite a few superstitious people among them.

After a few minutes of rest, they filmed another scene where Zhang Guoli was wielding a hoe to dig open a newly plastered cement pigsty.

This is because the village chief secretly buried the white tiger's body under the pigsty.

The village chief stole the corpse because he knew it wasn't Chen Zili. If Chen Zili, who was working away from home, suddenly returned one day, the villagers would wonder who the buried corpse was.

Then the police will be called, and after that, they will definitely find out who the owner of the body is very quickly, and then they may trace it back to Xiao Zongyao.

If the body is missing and the owner cannot be found, even if the police are notified, there will be no way to investigate, and Xiao Zongyao will naturally get away with it.

After that, it was noon, and we started having lunch.

The crew's meals were purchased by the logistics team themselves, and vegetables and fruits were mainly bought from villagers, as agreed upon with the township head.

The chef was brought from the capital.

There were two teams of chefs, one for cooking in large batches and the other for cooking in small batches.

The meaning is exactly what you're thinking: a small kitchen is used to cook for the lead actors, while a large pot of food is used to cook for the crew and extras.

With a production budget of 2400 million, of course you have to treat yourself well.

As for gossip?

There are practically none; the staff are already used to it from working on other film sets.

Actually, this is normal. Some big stars bring their own chefs to cook for themselves, and they even ask the film crew to rent RVs so they can rest.

Personnel costs are naturally covered by the production crew.

Chow Yun-fat's character in "Golden Breasts" goes even further, demanding hourly wages, a luxury RV, and seven rooms at the most expensive hotel in Beijing.

Later, they planned to bring this approach to the "Red Cliff" production team, but the two sides couldn't reach an agreement, and Tony Leung temporarily took over his role.

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