Every movie needs to be adjusted in the early stages of filming.
Even Li Yi is like this today.
A nonsensical film like "Westward Journey" needs to be adjusted even more.
Because the actors need to experience the scale and style of performance required by Li Yi in this movie.
Nonsensical is just a general concept and general direction. When it comes to the performance, lines, etc. of the movie, it can be said that the difference is still very big.
Therefore, what Li Yi arranged on the first day was the scene at the beginning of the movie.
Here at the Beihai Mythology Themed Film and Television City, the scenery has already been prepared.
Although the first scene seems very simple, in fact, there are many elements.
The action scenes of Sun Wukong and the action scenes of Tang Sanzang.
Yes, action scenes.
It’s not that fighting scenes are called action scenes.
Sun Wukong plays with the stick, which is also an action scene. Tang Monk holds the moonlight box and naturally dodges Sun Wukong, which is also an action scene.
However, the difference is that Sun Wukong needs a movement director to teach the actors how to use the stick, while Tang Monk holding the Moonlight Box only needs to rehearse before filming.
"Go first!" Li Yi shouted.
Positioning is an essential part of rehearsals because planning the moves ahead of time speeds up filming and the actors, camera operators and crew all know what they need to do.
Posing determines where and how actors move and where they will deliver dialogue.
Deciding where the actors and camera should go is only the first step in positioning.
Zhou Xing, Liang Jiadong, and Xu Huiping, who plays Guanyin, all started rehearsals before filming at Li Yi's order.
Xu Huiping is better, she doesn't need to move, she just needs to determine her position.
Because she was almost stationary throughout the whole process, in the second scene, even though there was a fight between her and Sun Wukong, she still didn't move.
But Zhou Xing and Liang Jiadong are different.
Zhou Xing has a lot of actions that need to be done during the filming process, and Liang Jiadong needs to walk from one position to another, as well as Zhou Xing knocking him down, where he lies down, etc. These all need to be rehearsed and prepared in advance. .
These two opening scenes can be said to include all the necessary elements.
Although there are not many shots in the first scene, they are all relatively long shots, and there are a lot of lines.
In particular, the role of Tang Seng played by Liang Jiadong is very long-winded, which leads to an extra large number of lines, and at the same time, he has to take into account the action language, facial close-ups, etc.
Therefore, these two scenes were not easy to shoot, mainly because, of course, this was the first scene after the movie started shooting.
It is impossible to expect everyone on the crew to get into the mood right away. Therefore, Li Yi mainly uses this scene to get the crew started.
"Every department is in its place!" The rehearsal is over and the filming of the first scene is about to officially begin.
"The actors are in place!"
"Lights in place!"
"Blowers in place!"
"The prop team is in place!"
"The special effects team is in place!"
"Photography in place!"
"..."
"record!"
"The first scene, the first shot, the first time of "Westward Journey"! Action!" As the credits fell, "Westward Journey" officially started filming! …
Smoke billows and the wind howls.
In this scene, several cameras are facing three characters respectively.
Li Yi stood in front of the monitor, looking at more than one camera.
First of all, the first picture shows Guanyin sitting cross-legged on a lotus throne.
"Sun Wukong, you beast, you originally promised Tathagata Buddha to escort your master Tang Sanzang to the West to obtain scriptures, but you actually colluded with the Bull Demon King to eat your master! Do you know that you have committed a heinous crime?"
In shot No. 2, Sun Wukong, played by Zhou Xing, makes a handsome stick-playing move that makes people reach out and point at Guanyin.
"Stop blabbering, you chased me for three days and three nights, and I didn't kill you because you were a woman! Don't think I'm afraid of you!"
Soon, Liang Jiadong in shot No. 3 also took over the dialogue.
There were no big mistakes in the first pass, but this was only the first pass. In fact, there were many, many problems.
"Click!"
"Zhou Xing, your current identity is that of colluding with the Bull Demon King to eat your master's monkey head, instead of being the surrendered Sun Wukong. Be more fierce, and more ferocious!
There is also a golden cudgel that must fall naturally, rather than you throwing it away, because you were shocked by the words of your master Tang Sanzang. ． ． ． ． ． "
"Teacher Xu, Guanyin Bodhisattva, there is no need to have expressions on the face, there is no need to have ups and downs of emotions..."
"Teacher Liang, when you walk towards Wukong, you can go a little slower. Also, keep the smile on your face. You don't need to be so girly when speaking dialogue. He is just a talker..."
"The wind power of the blower must be controlled well. The wind power should not change too much all at once. I have to take it step by step, okay? Tang Monk's hair can be blown..."
"light......"
"photography......"
"Everyone, get ready, let's do it again!" Li Yi clapped his hands and said to everyone.
The actors reset themselves, and other departments also started preparations again in an orderly manner.
Fortunately, this is not the first time for these people to film with Li Yi, they are all skilled workers.
So we started shooting again very quickly.
In fact, in many scenes, it sounds like there are a lot of NGs, which means the actors are affected. In fact, this is not the case.
Actors are only what everyone sees, but in fact, from the filming to the end of a scene, a lot of things are consumed during the period, and if you start over, you need to rearrange and restore it to its original state.
For all types of work on the crew, it is necessary to restore the shooting scene.
"The first scene of "Westward Journey", the first shot, the second time! Action!"
The filming started again for the second time. This time it was much better than the first time, but there was something wrong with Liang Jiadong.
Adjust and shoot again.
The third time, Zhou Xing failed to play the stick well!
Adjustments continue!
The fourth time, the blower was not controlled properly and blew the ribbon on Tang Sanzang's hat directly onto his face.
The fifth time, the sixth time. ． ． ． ． ．
The first scene was shot over and over again, over and over again.
There are always problems like this.
This is the state when the crew just started filming.
Because actors need time to get into shape, and the crew behind the scenes also need to get used to it.
Shooting a scene repeatedly will definitely cause emotional fluctuations, and at this time, the director's attitude is crucial.
If the director is cranky, the entire crew will be cranky as well.
But if the director is calm, the same emotion can rub off on others.
Li Yi originally wanted to use these two scenes to get along, so he was not impatient at all.
Therefore, although I did not shoot any other scenes at all on the first day and just shot the first two scenes over and over again, as the number of shots increased, and as they repeated and adjusted over and over again, the actors' condition began to change visibly to the naked eye. better.
In the subsequent filming, the actors made almost no mistakes.
And the rest of the crew gradually began to understand each other.
