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Chapter 162 Multi-line Narrative [Two in One]

"Recently, the movie "The Unknown" starring my country's famous actors Zhang Guoli and Zhou Xun, invested and shot by China Film Group Corporation, has been filmed in our city. This will be an excellent external publicity event for our city. The Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government Relevant government leaders have issued important instructions and must ensure the cooperation and guarantee of the crew."

"We also ask the general public, when meeting the film crew, please respect the order of the scene, do not watch, do not interfere with the crew's filming, try to cooperate as much as possible, and maintain a good external image of our Duyun people."

"Okay, that's it for today's Duyun Evening News, viewers, see you tomorrow."

Is there a big star filming a movie in the city?

This is a novelty.

This was the first reaction of most Duyun citizens after seeing the news.

The reason is that when the crew was filming location scenes, they were watched by local people on several occasions, which greatly interfered with the crew's filming work.

The two policemen in the group couldn't cope with it at all, so they had to ask the bureau for support and send more manpower to maintain order.

Sun Yi had no other way to deal with this matter except to contact the relevant local authorities. The common people watched the crew filming like a "Peep Show". What's more important is that they would comment on it from time to time. What's more, they just wanted to see the true appearance of the stars. , desperately crowded into the filming location, which caused great interference to the crew's filming work.

The filming has been going on for a week. The scenes these days are all about the male protagonist Ma Xianyong, Zhang Guoli has performed stably, and Yang Mi has also found her own feeling. In addition, Sun Yi has prepared and perfected the scenes and shots in advance. The entire filming progress is very fast. quick.

But once it comes to street scenes, there will always be interference from various things, so Sun Yi had to make this move.

Fortunately, the relevant departments took it very seriously and not only dispatched additional police forces in a timely manner, they also conducted publicity and persuasion on the city's TV stations.

In the next few days, although there were still citizens watching the outdoor scenes, there was no loud noise and the citizens also cooperated with the crew's venue requirements, showing a high level of quality.

The filming progress of the crew has also been resumed.

In fact, not only China Film Group has requirements on the time for the completion of the film, but the actors' schedules are also very tight. For example, a big shot like Zhou Xun can spare a month, which is already very impressive.

Another reason is Sun Yi's multi-line narrative technique.

This shooting technique is naturally suitable for group portrait scenes, and the use of multi-line narrative mode can make the storyline more compact, making the movie fast and rhythmic, which greatly enhances the dramatic tension of the entire film.

And by interweaving multiple character story lines and depicting the experiences of multiple characters, the characters can be made more plump and three-dimensional.

But there is a problem with multi-line narratives, which is the fear of being ganged up on.

In Sun Yi's script, the entire story takes place in one day through different characters coming together.

When shooting, different characters must not be photographed together, but can only be photographed separately.

Then there is a problem, the time is different.

This was relatively easy to handle. It was divided into two days and both were shot at 10 a.m., but another problem arose.

Who can guarantee that the weather conditions will be the same for two days? It is cloudy and gloomy today, but it may be sunny tomorrow, and it may be rainy the day after tomorrow.

If it were filmed like this, it would be over, the movie would be straight forward, and the audience would be confused after watching it. Why is it that the sun is shining brightly on the front foot, but it is gloomy on the back foot.

This matter initially troubled the crew for several days, but finally Sun Yi understood it after a shower.

It rains all the time in Duyun, so Sun Yi simply set the weather in the movie to be cloudy and rainy.

Every time when shooting on location, the ground should be wetted in advance.

Unexpectedly, this not only solved the problem of weather at the same time, but also brought unexpected gains.

Duyun is located in the southwest with a pleasant climate, so the vegetation is rich and layered, matching the rising mist.

The whole shot has a wet feeling under the sunlight. When combined with the filter, the atmosphere of the shot changes subtly, forming a moist and hot yellow-green tone, which is particularly beautiful.

And with water vapor, you can also use water elements to create a lot of light and shadow changes, and even brushed lens effects.

Sun Yi was very satisfied.

On the 10th day of filming, the main scenes were the triangle scene between the "robber duo" composed of Sun Yi and Zhang Yi and Zhou Xun.

During this filming, Sun Yi once again held a moment of silence for his hair. Fortunately, this time he was not bald, but half-bald, with a "cockscomb" left in the middle.

"Sister Xun, how are you preparing?"

"No problem, it's fine."

Zhou Xun wore pure white pajamas and sat in a prop wheelchair with a thin blanket covering his legs.

"Senior Brother Liu, the shooting angle is from above Sister Xun's shoulders. Sister Xun, Brother Yi, and me, the three of us are arranged in sequence from left to right, and the picture is divided into three equal parts from high to low."

"Okay, no problem."

"Let's do it first."

Sheng He ran to the camera with the clapperboard in hand.

The original beater was not feeling well today and asked for leave. Sun Yi asked Sheng He to make a temporary guest appearance.

"The first shot of scene 11 of "The Unknown", A~ACtion."

Sheng He didn't know English at all. Originally, Sun Yi asked him to speak directly from the beginning, but he refused and insisted on speaking English, saying that it would appear professional. Fortunately, he practiced well and didn't make a fool of himself.

The show begins.

Sun Yi took off his helmet, took a deep breath, and wiped the sweat off his face.

"Oh, exposed."

Zhang Yi hurriedly came up to cover Sun Yi's face, but unexpectedly, he was pushed away by Sun Yi.

"You should take it off too. If I expose it, you will be exposed."

Zhang Yi, who was still wearing a helmet on his head, couldn't see his expression, but he paused for a moment, as if he was thinking about it, and then took off his helmet with the same bang, and kept mumbling:

"Exposed. Exposed exposed."

Sun Yi looked at Zhou Xun at this time and said to her with an unruly expression:
"brother!"

"Which one is your brother?"

"Oh, little girl."

The three of them now speak with Qiannan accents. After more than a week of surprise training, there is no flaw in their Qiannan dialects.

"Now that you have seen our appearance, according to the rules of the world, I must silence you today. I can only say that your fate is bad."

After hearing the silence, the expression on Zhou Xun's face was calm, as if it had nothing to do with him.

Sun Yi ignored her, leaned his upper body on the sofa, and continued with half comfort and half threat:
"Just listen to your greeting and I will keep silent. It's okay. Just relax."

At this time, Senior Brother Liu controlled Unit [-] and pushed it into close range, giving Zhou Xun a close-up of his face.

Zhou Xun tilted his head, his eyes half-opened and half-closed, and a disdainful smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Relax."

"Relax and don't move, are you doing it hard?"

Zhou Xun immediately opened his eyes wide, turned his head slightly, glanced at Sun Yi, and said with an extremely impatient expression:
"I'm crippled, I'm crippled."

Zhang Yi shook his head in time and sighed.

"So, this is fate."

"Then what do you do with your daily life?"

"There's a nanny."

At this time, Sheng He outside the field suddenly clapped his hands. Taking this as a signal, Zhang Yi and Sun Yi suddenly became nervous. Those holding scissors held scissors, and those holding guns held guns, aiming in the direction of the sound. .

Seeing the frightened behavior of the two people, Zhou Xun once again said disdainfully:

"Let's go. If I scold you, you'll run away."

"Okay, click."

After this short performance, Sun Yi paused at the right time and walked back to the monitor to review the effect just now.

"How about it, Lao Qi, what's the problem?"

"No, guide, very good, perfect."

Hearing Lao Qi's answer, Sun Yi smacked his lips and regretted asking him.

During this period of time, when he was performing, he could only arrange for Lao Qi to supervise the camera, but usually as long as it was not a large-scale, obvious mistake, the old boy would always say "the director did a great job" and "no problem", "Excellent" and other complimentary words can't be said to be faulty at all.

Sun Yi didn't believe it. How could he not notice anything wrong with him for so many years?

He told Lao Qi vaguely once, but he was still like this. Sun Yi had nothing to do, so he decided secretly.

When filming in the future, I still have to find someone who dares to speak up and flatter me. It sounds comfortable, but after a long time, I will easily drift off.

Sun Yi watched the scene he had just taken from beginning to end.

I really don't see anything wrong with it.

The overall effect was in line with his expectations, and it was not in vain that he and Senior Brother Liu spent a whole morning setting up the camera.In fact, this scene is very responsible. Although what is shown in the film to the audience is only the dialogue between three people, in such a small space environment, how can the scenes of three people be filmed to impress the audience and make the audience arouse Thinking about it, this requires a very precise shooting angle to express the language of the lens.

In the plot, Ma Jiaqi, played by Zhou Xun, is a high-level paraplegic. She can only move from the neck up.This is a challenge in performance and a difficulty in filming.Therefore, the scene's scheduling, lighting, camera angles, and even the actors who have a relationship with her will be restricted.

After discussing with Senior Brother Liu, Sun Yi decided to choose a benchmark point, which was to use Zhou Xun's prop wheelchair as the basis point, and place it in a position where she could communicate with Zhang Yi and herself normally, but not too smoothly, so that she could communicate with him every time. Every time I spoke, I had to glance away and couldn't completely turn my eyes to this side.

Then, the camera starts looking at Zhou Xun’s position.

Such angles and eyes can further highlight Ma Jiaqi's indifference and even a bit of ridicule when facing a group of robbers who suddenly visited.

In this way, the audience's impression will be deepened and questions will arise in their minds.

why?
Why doesn't she, a weak woman, care? Isn't she afraid?

Then the answer was revealed. It turned out that she was already a high-level paraplegic and didn't care about life or death. What about the robbers? She wished she could die early.

This is also the motivation behind Ma Jiaqi’s desire to die in the next plot.

"This part is okay. Next, we will film the scene where Brother Yi and I drug each other."

This plot can be regarded as the comedy part of the film. When Zhang Yi first received the invitation from Sun Yi to play a comedy-oriented role, he was very embarrassed and deliberately refused.The reason is that he has never acted in a comedy, and he doesn't know how to act at all. The filming delayed Sun Yi.

Speaking of comedy, most people have the impression that it is just for making people laugh and is not worthy of recognition. Moreover, many well-known film and television awards do not like comedy. They believe that comedy performances are something for low-level people to entertain themselves and cannot be recognized. Film art, an elegant place of spring and snow.

However, it is often more difficult for an actor to do comedy well.

Comedy is the most intuitive form of performance for the audience.If the performance is good, the audience will laugh; if the performance is not good, the audience will be confused.

When an actor masters a comedy performance, his lines, voice, intonation, including facial expressions and body movements must complement each other. If you make one mistake, the effect of your entire performance will be greatly reduced. If it is serious, it will fail directly. There is no effect.The audience will feel very embarrassed after watching it, and may even feel as if they are watching the movie.

Zhang Yi has this worry.

But Sun Yi didn't agree with his idea. Sun Yi knew Zhang Yi's future strength, and Zhang Yi's comedy talent had not yet been discovered.

In later generations, whether it is Chen Jianghe in "Chicken Feathers Flying to the Sky" or the five-star killer in "The Chaser", they all have comedy elements, and Zhang Yi performs them very well. It can be seen that Zhang Yi is very talented in comedy. , but it is temporarily buried.

This time, Sun Yi was ready to open the door to comedy to him.

"What are you doing?"

"Pull out the nail."

Zhang Yi's expression is exaggerated but not artificial.

"Ah, what are you doing?"

Sun Yi gritted his teeth in pain.

"Apply medicine."

Zhang Yi replied tremblingly.

"What kind of medicine was poured?"

"Safflower oil."

The two had a tacit understanding of each other and soon had a chemical reaction. Coupled with the hilarious dialect effects, some crew members couldn't hold back and started laughing out loud while standing in the corner of the set.

The three people's scene is the longest part in the whole film, and it took nearly two weeks to shoot, because as the plot develops, the three people have to readjust their camera positions every day during filming.

As we all know, the shooting angle of the camera is determined by the perspective of the subject, especially the shots involving two groups of characters.

In the initial plot, the pair of robbers, Spectacles and Datou, broke into Ma Jiaqi's home. Facing the paralyzed Ma Jiaqi, Spectacles and Datou were the dominant party.

At this time, the camera shot the glasses and the big head from above, while it shot Ma Jiaqi, played by Zhou Xun, from above, which created the initial sense of oppression.

As the story develops, Ma Jiaqi, played by Zhou Xun, is fierce and has a vicious tongue. She uses her only remaining mouth to scold her eyes and head until she is completely covered in wounds.

At this time, Ma Jiaqi, played by Zhou Xun, gradually became the dominant one, and the camera position during filming also needed to be adjusted accordingly, or even reversed. She began to shoot Ma Jiaqi from above, and her glasses and head from below.

And after the last scene on the rooftop, when Ma Jiaqi and Glasses reconciled, talked to each other, and even became friends and developed a little affection for each other, the cameras started to focus on each other.

During the filming of the rooftop scene, the number of ngs was the highest. Unexpectedly, the problem actually came from Zhou Xun.

It was the scene where Ma Jiaqi was hung up by a rope with glasses and a big head to take photos.

When a normal person with hands and feet is hung up with his feet off the ground and without support, the muscles of his body will subconsciously exert force to find balance and protect himself.

But Ma Jiaqi is not a normal person. She is a high-level paraplegic. She cannot move anywhere except her head.

And Zhou Xun is a "double gold" actress. This kind of scene that goes against the common sense of the human body is also a great challenge for her.

Even Sun Yi played a trust game with her all morning, just to make her relax physically and mentally and completely trust him and Zhang Yi.

This scene only lasts for one or two minutes in the movie, but it took two full days of filming on set to be completed.

Zhou Xun also showed a strong professionalism. Even though he was wearing protective gear, his arms and armpits were still stained with blood marks. There were countless bruises and bruises all over his body.

On the day when all Zhou Xun's scenes were completed, Sun Yi held a finals banquet for her alone.

He was really grateful to Zhou Xun. As a "double gold" actress, he was able to participate in the first film he directed in his life. He worked hard on the crew and was very protective of him as a director.

"Brother Xun, I have to toast you for this glass of wine. I won't say any more words of thanks. I'm already drinking. If you need anything from now on, just say hello."

Sun Yi raised his glass, raised his head and drank it all in one gulp.

After spending nearly a month together on the set, Sun Yi became familiar with Zhou Xun, and the two even became good friends. He also started calling her "Brother Xun" like a friend.

"Hey, hey, this isn't the time for Director Sun to shout "Ka" on the set."

Zhou Xun also drank all his wine and started teasing Sun Yi.

In fact, when she first joined this crew, she came because of the reputation of China Film Group. Although she had inquired about Sun Yi beforehand, her highest expectation was that Sun Yi was an actor with great potential, and he could also be considered a good actor. A qualified director.

But he didn't expect that this month of contact would really surprise him.

Although Sun Yi is young and young, he is extremely experienced in the crew. The entire crew is in his hands like an arm and a finger, and the up and down movement is extremely smooth, not at all like a movie. It's like directing for the first time.

Moreover, during the actual shooting, Sun Yi had his own ideas. He was able to find solutions to many sudden situations, and the various shooting techniques were arranged just right. In her opinion, Sun Yi's level was not inferior to hers. Well-known directors that I have worked with before.

So in the following filming, she also went all out to cooperate with Sun Yi. Outside of filming, she also consciously communicated with Sun Yi.

Sun Yi's talents and abilities were enough for her to make friends with him.

Zhou Xun is even sure that with just one or two films, Sun Yi will definitely become a blockbuster in the Chinese director field.

That is to say, there are not enough scenes in the movie this time, and the emotional expressions of the two of them in the scenes opposite each other are very restrained and reserved, otherwise she would have wanted to try the feeling of "old cow eating young grass".

Now she has finished filming, but when she looks at Sun Yi off-screen, she feels that he is a bit handsome, and he also has a mature flavor, which makes her want to try it.

Zhou Xun stared at Sun Yi with a smile, his round eyes bright and filled with a strange look.

Sun Yi subconsciously dodged away.

Later in the filming, Sun Yi felt that Zhou Xun was becoming more and more enthusiastic towards him.Now he no longer avoids shyness even in front of everyone, his eyes are very bold.

He was very familiar with this look. A mature young woman around 30 years old had her legs crossed, a wine glass in one hand, and a cigarette in the other. She looked at you with such unscrupulous eyes, it was like talking.

"Handsome guy, I want to eat the fruit plate."

In his previous life, he had heard about the popular drama couples in the entertainment industry, and he was quite yearning for them at the time, but when he really got the chance now, he was a little timid.

There is really no way. Although he is also a normal man, he also has emotions and needs, but if he is no longer on the crew, he may not just accept it.

But now the crew is here, and most of them are employees in his studio. As the boss, he really can't do this.

Besides, apart from Zhou Xun's temperament and fame, other aspects are a bit inconsistent with his aesthetics, so he doesn't want anything he wants.

Well, maybe this last point is the most critical!
After the closing banquet held for Zhou Xun, she returned to the capital with her assistant the next day. When she left, she looked at Sun Yi with a rather sad look in her eyes, and Sun Yi suddenly felt the urge to follow the car.

Simply, I held back.

Return to the cast.

Next, the whole film is left with the last climax scene at the Xishan Bridge, where all the characters’ multi-line narratives converge.

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　　Let me briefly talk about the update problem. It’s not that Lao Xiong doesn’t work hard. The coding speed really needs to be practiced slowly and hard.

　　My efficiency is very low now, and Lao Xiong is working hard to improve it.

　　Although it is one chapter a day now, the word count is satisfactory, but it is not divided into chapters.

　　The plot is coherent, but I don’t know how to name the chapters.

　　Lao Xiong saves up some and strives to add a few more chapters at the end of the month.

　　
　
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