It's just that in the crew, extras are not qualified to choose roles.
Unless a production team is in the preparatory stage and looking for some actors to audition.
But this kind of role can be regarded as a supporting role. Supporting roles are not group performances. No matter how low the series is, they are still "characters".
After changing their clothes, it didn't take long for them to be gathered together.
The assistant director first gave an overview of the play to the extras.
Then he gave a speech to Gu Yi and another prospect group alone.
"Wait a minute, just follow Murata into the tent, and then stand behind him. Don't speak or move. When he goes out, you can just follow him out. In short, your task is to follow Murata. When he walks to Just follow me wherever I go, don't make unnecessary moves or say unnecessary words, got it?"
"I know the director."
They both nodded.
Then they went outside to wait.
Standing outside, Li Jiefang, who was among the Japs, looked at Gu Yi with some envy. He had been working as a group actor for two years and had no prospects of becoming one, but Gu Yi became one as soon as he came.
When the assistant director was talking to Gu Yi just now, although his voice was not loud, he still heard some of it.
None of them recognized Gu Yilai and thought they looked similar.
"It's good to be handsome. Why didn't my parents give me such a face?"
About ten minutes later.
The field recorder held a slate with "War Eagle", A3#, 25A, 2, 1, Chen Qianyuan, Xiong Zuoren, and 20250803 written on it.
The information is the film title, reel number, scene number, shot number, times, director, photographer and shooting date.
Just looking at the name of this play, Gu Yi always felt that it sounded familiar.
"Shouldn't this name be for aerial combat shooting?"
"Forget it, I'm just an extra actor anyway and can't get the script. I guess the name is something like a serial number."
Soon, under the direction of the director, all the crew members were in place and the camera was turned on.
The keeper came to the camera with the slate.
"Scene 25, first paragraph, first time, Action!"
With the sound of slapping the board.
The actors also started to move.
Murata was specially recruited by the crew, and he was already considered a supporting actor, and the price was called the salary.
The cameras outside first scanned the Japanese soldiers, and then focused on Murata.
After Murata moved, Gu Yi followed him, straightening his back, looking serious, and with a gun hanging on his body.
Once you get in, this section will be filmed.
The next step is to transition to the tent.
They re-entered. After entering, Murata glanced around and began to speak Japanese. The other officers also spoke Japanese and pointed on the sand table while speaking.
The giggling Gu Yi couldn't understand a word.
Gu Yi's understanding of Japanese is limited to Missi Missi, Nani, Na Na Na and Ya Zhu Die.
The junior officers below nodded vigorously.
Gu Yi kept a straight face the whole time.
When Murata finished speaking, he looked forward blankly, as if he saw the battle ahead, and smiled meaningfully.
"cut!"
The director shouted stop.
"Murata's lines weren't strong enough. Try it again."
When the director speaks, they have no choice but to go out and start over.
But the second time, Murata forgot the words again while talking.
They can only continue to do it again.
But the third time, another prospect actor unconsciously glanced at Gu Yi and was scolded by the director again.
In this way, Gu Yi walked in and out again and again, and it wasn't until the eighth time that this Murata shot passed smoothly.
Gu Yi became a little impatient when he saw the director. It was obvious that the director had a bad temper.
The next step is for Murata to set off with his troops.
Murata is riding a horse, Gu Yi and another foreground actor are walking on the side, and other extras are following behind.
They stopped after walking about three hundred meters.
Finished filming the third segment.
The morning's shooting ends here.
Since they had to shoot in the afternoon, they had to wait here.
The crew takes care of the meal at noon.
Gu Yi and Li Jiefang queued up to receive lunch boxes together.
I saw Li Jiefang put his lunch box in front of him, took out his mobile phone and placed it opposite.
"Hello everyone, I am Li Jiefang. I am playing the role of a Japanese devil today. I really don't want to act, but the director asked me to do it. I can't help it, but the food today is good, including celery, fried cabbage, and two fat pieces of pork belly... .”
"By the way, I would like to introduce you to a new friend, an extra who looks like a celebrity. He became a prospect the first time he became an extra."
After saying this, he also asked Gu Yi to come and say hello to the audience.
"Hello everyone, I am the actor who looks like a star."
Gu Yi said curiously.
After saying hello, Li Jiefang started to cook, putting the rice directly on the dishes, followed by big mouthfuls of rice.
Gu Yi was also eating with half his body at the side.
"This meat is really fat." Li Jiefang said.
"Yeah, such a big piece."
"But it's good to have such a big piece of meat. I've met a very stingy crew before, and they were reluctant to give out meat. The rice is also stuffed with raw rice, but you have to eat it when you need it. This place has no place, no store, no place. shopping."
"Yes." Gu Yi said, put the large piece of meat into his mouth, then took two mouthfuls of rice and started chewing it.
After eating, Li Jiefang turned off his phone.
"Brother Li, do you have someone to take the video?"
"Yeah, I don't make any money as an extra. I earn eighty or ninety a day, and more than a hundred on a good day. I can only do side jobs. Now I can make eighty or nine thousand a month."
"That's pretty good." Gu Yi said.
"It's just average. Earning eight or nine thousand in Yanjing is nothing. I used to know a special agent who was really awesome. His starting price was four hundred an hour. No one would accept anything less than that. Once he took more than thirty pictures. Hours, I made thousands of dollars.”
"Are the extras usually in their eighties, nineties, or early one hundred?"
"Yeah, you can't pay much. Generally, it's ten yuan for smearing blood, ten yuan for laying a corpse, and there's also a rain shower fee, ten yuan for light rain, thirty to fifty yuan for heavy rain, and then nothing else."
"It's hard work."
Gu Yi felt that if he didn't come into contact with these, he would probably never know.
A-list stars are picked up and dropped off by nanny cars every time they come, and they leave immediately after filming. How do they know the price of extras? Even their remuneration is negotiated between the company and their agent.
I'm going to shoot a war in the afternoon.
It's just that they have been waiting here for more than an hour before the leading actor arrives late.
They can only stay here and bask in the sun.
The director wasn't very happy either, but he didn't dare to say anything to the leading actor, even though Gu Yi didn't know him at all.
The charge sounded.
The orders given by Sass also sounded from the Japs army.
The demolition team started blasting remotely, and one after another the extras fell down and began to lie dead.
According to the requirements, the adjutant played by Gu Yi needs to be shot in the chest by an eighth-level sharpshooter and fall down.
"Prospect, down!"
As the director shouted.
Gu Yi immediately covered his chest and squeezed out the blood bag hidden inside. His eyes were filled with disbelief. He looked down at his chest and finally fell to the ground.
Gu Yi's first role in his life, the Japanese adjutant, was completed.
