After Mu Qingyun tried Su Tongtong, he asked Zhang Li and Yang Xinyue.
I was sure that Su Tongtong had an easy-going personality, was strong on set, worked hard in acting, and studied seriously, so I officially signed a contract with her.
However, in the plot that Mu Qingyun knew, no matter which part it was, Su Tongtong was not mentioned.
This is not surprising. After all, there is still very little that can be revealed in the script.
Even popular artists in the entertainment industry may not always appear in the plot. Of course, the greater possibility is that Su Tongtong was unlucky. She didn't get a good opportunity after graduation and disappeared from everyone.
After all, in the entertainment industry, there is no big deal, nor is there a small one. Being famous depends not only on ability, but also on luck. Even if your acting skills are not bad, if you are just a little bit unlucky, you will not be famous.
The auditions conducted by Mu Qingyun and Zhou Maocheng went relatively smoothly, and before long, all the roles were almost chosen.
Zhou Maocheng paid great attention to it and asked an expert to calculate the start-up time. Then at the end of September in the crisp autumn weather, the start-up ceremony was officially held.
For the first scene after starting the filming, I usually choose a relatively simple one, hoping that the first day will go smoothly and it will also be a good omen.
However, director Zhou Maocheng always likes to put his own hard-working scenes first. Although the scene on the first day is not too difficult, it is also a very difficult scene in the whole movie.
We need to film An Shi’s fight scene on the mountain wall.
In Zhou Maocheng's vision, the best special effects in the entire movie must be used on the edge of the knife, and the part where he wants to burn money is in this scene.
Mu Qingyun also had requirements, if it can be done in real scenes, it should be in real scenes.
So there was no green screen for this play, it was actually shot in the mountains.
Because I had planned to shoot the first scene, I prepared all the equipment early in the mountains on the outskirts of Beijing.
As soon as the opening ceremony was over, Mu Qingyun, her co-star Hu Xuemei, Hu, and several martial arts masters began to audition.
The background of this scene is quite simple. An Shi and several classmates made an appointment to go on a casual trip. The group of people were driving and traveling by car when they came across a short video. There was actually a person in a nearby small mountain village. Villagers discovered an ancient ruins.
The ruins were built on the top of the most dangerous mountain in their area. At the foot of the mountain are tens of thousands of acres of wild forest. The terrain is dangerous and the scenery is extremely beautiful.
Especially the ruins, the villagers who were photographed at that time were almost mesmerized, saying that at a glance, they looked like a heavenly palace.
Later, there was an earthquake and many buildings were damaged. There was no other way, so the officials carried out protective excavation and restoration. After the restoration, some representative antiques were moved down the mountain and a small museum was built in the village to house them.
The students were all history majors and were very interested in it. They looked at the map and saw that it was very close to them, just over an hour away, so they immediately changed roads to go there.
When An Shi looked at this place, he was suddenly shocked to realize that this was the place where she was reincarnated in a certain life and where the demon "Chaos" Bai Cangcang was imprisoned.
Bai Cancang has two superpowers. One is that he is extremely powerful. He relies on eating human flesh and blood to maintain his strength. The more people he eats, the stronger his strength becomes.
The second ability is the particularly rare 'immortality'.
Even if you burn her to ashes, she can come back to life again.
In the previous life, Bai Cangcang went on a rampage and ate most of the people in the village, and he still wanted to eat more. The heroine An Shi received the order from the management committee and led people to stop Bai Cangcang. Because he could not kill her, he was here. A magic circle was built in Pianshan Village to guard it for generations.
Generations have changed, things have changed, and now the magic circle has become a relic. Mu Qingyun is worried that Bai Cancang will break out of the formation. Sure enough, as luck would have it, she just breaks the formation. In order to save his classmates, Mu Qingyun has no choice but to Catch the duck and put it on the shelf, and then have a battle with Bai Cancang.
Today is the day to shoot this fight scene.
Hu Xuemei hung up Wia and listened to the guidance of the martial arts teachers, correcting her movements little by little. Mu Qingyun didn't have so much trouble. The martial arts teachers were all seconded from Qiao's Pictures and didn't care about her at all.
On the cliff, Teacher Hu, who is in his sixties, went up and down, back and forth, correcting each movement.
Mu Qingyun was sitting in the shade on the edge of the mountain, drinking tea and reading a book.
A few extras squatting not far away felt a little awkward looking at them.
"I also know that Mr. Mu is the boss and not a professional actor. I never thought that she would be as diligent as the veteran actor, but is this too much?"
In particular, Mu Qingyun drank tea and read a book to relax, but she couldn't see others relaxing. The technicians in charge of the wires were called out by her three times in half an hour, and each time they had to carefully check the wires inch by inch.
The wires they use are relatively advanced and highly intelligent. Mu Qingyun requires the programmers among them that before starting to use the wires, not only do three people take turns to check them once, but they must also keep an eye on them throughout the process and not be distracted.
The extras were amazed when they saw this posture.
"Think on the bright side, what's wrong with being safe?"
The speaker was an old man. He had been an extra for a long time and had followed the crew around for quite a while. He was well-informed and had seen all kinds of crews. He really admired the safety precautions taken by the current crew.
A movie is a long process from project planning to release. Every wrong step may cause the movie to be cut in half before it reaches the stage of meeting the audience and being judged.
Among them, security issues are the worst.
Of course, Mr. Mu is not worthy of being praised for being such a lazy actor.
The extras murmured, but no one showed it on their faces. None of them were fools. What does Mr. Mu mean by being lazy? It was none of her business even if she lay down and used a stand-in throughout the whole process, and in the end relied entirely on cutouts to complete the performance.
They are just extras and don't have to worry about the movie's box office.
Hu Xuemei has done action scenes before when she joined the group. She has filmed many martial arts films in the past, and she is also a dancer. Of course, as she gets older, she cannot be as agile as when she was young, but she has maintained her body well over the years. His physical strength is ten times stronger than those urban young men and women who are exhausted in their twenties and thirties.
She was a little stiff at first, but she soon found the feeling. With the wire attached, her movements were beautiful and powerful.
Zhou Maocheng was very satisfied: "Teacher Hu is really a precious sword, so let's try it."
Everyone started to prepare quickly. Many actors, especially the extras, were ready to spend the whole day preparing for this scene.
"I'm just afraid that Mr. Mu won't want to work with us. Oops, we haven't decided yet which people will be Mr. Mu's substitutes. I don't think any of the big brothers in the martial arts industry look like Mr. Mu... ah."
Zhou Maocheng finally called to start filming.
"Start, ah ah ah, slow down, slow down, the camera can't keep up, slow down, slow down."
Everyone: "..."
(End of chapter)
