Today's noon is everyone's first main meal after arriving in Africa. Director Nobel insisted that everyone first eat the daily 'food' of African brothers.
After that, you can only eat the food you brought from tomorrow. Even though everyone had no expectations for African food, when they gathered together and saw the black things on the table, the atmosphere was still silent.
Bread is not like bread, cake is not like cake, what the hell is this? Chen Xing had already been mentally prepared. Looking at this black wowotou, although he didn't have much appetite, he still wanted to know what he tasted like.
It’s ugly, it’s a bit ugly, please understand. At least he knew that it was made from whole grains mixed with water, and it was edible. No matter how dark the food was, how could it be as dark as fried moss?
If Song Shulan knew that Chen Xing was so obsessed with the food from their hometown, she didn't know how she would feel.
This is not the first time Professor Nobel has come to Africa. He picked it up and ate it. When Chen Xing saw this, he also picked up a piece.
It feels a little hard, but that’s okay, take a bite and taste it. Pasta always tastes best when it's hot, and you can taste the taste of whole grains... what a taste!
Chen Xing suddenly stopped chewing. At this time, almost everyone looked at Chen Xing and wanted to know what Chen Xing thought of this African bread.
They have given up on getting answers from Professor Nobel. As a well-known documentary director, Nobel has been to Africa countless times over the years. Whether it is his body or taste, he has probably adapted to African specialties.
Like them, Chen Xing came here for the first time. Seeing Chen Xing stop moving, Laifu Bode asked: "How is it?" Chen Xing glanced at all their faces, and suddenly said with a smile: "It doesn't look a bit ugly, but I feel the taste , Uh, it tastes okay, you guys eat it quickly, it won’t taste good after it gets cold.” Laif Bode looked disbelieving, half-convinced: “You’re not lying to me, are you?” Chen Xing put some food in his mouth Bite the dough head and swallow it.
"Look, I've eaten it all!" The translator and guide looked at Chen Xing with strange expressions, but everyone else seemed to believe what Chen Xing said and started eating. They drank a cup of coffee when they got up this morning. I was thirsty and hungry, so I had already thought about eating.
As soon as Laifu Bode took a bite, he spat it out.
"What does this smell like? Why does it taste like mud?" Yeast powder is needed to make steamed buns in China, but they don't use it here, and there are no other condiments. Of course, the products made have no taste.
If I really want to describe it, it would be a dry baguette that tastes like mud. No, the texture is much denser than that of a baguette. It is estimated that after leaving it for a day, it will be able to kill people after it dries.
The sound engineer of the film crew also said: "Why can you eat it?" He also spat out the black buns in his mouth and looked at the Nobel director, translator, guide... and Chen in disbelief. star.
Forget about the other three people, can you still eat it? Chen Xing shook his head indifferently. It tastes bad, but I just eat it and leave the rest to my stomach.
Nobel said: "This thing is called mud biscuit in Africa. Normally, they bake it in the stove after making it. The material is soil made of special stones and filtered into mud. But the kind we eat Just a little bit of mud is added for seasoning, and more of it is flour, so it tastes like mud." Are you really eating dirt?
No wonder it tastes like dirt... It's okay if he didn't say it, but after he did, fewer people ate it. The translator said: "Just eat it as African specialties. You have a day off anyway, so you can get used to it." Being acclimatized is mainly reflected in eating habits.
The earlier you get used to the local food, the earlier you can get into shooting mode. There was still dissatisfaction, but no one said they were quitting.
After all, the TV station paid a lot of money this time. Then eat it. Two hours later, several people were rushing to grab the only toilet in the hotel. Lavbode felt his stomach and was glad that he didn't eat those earthy biscuits...but he was hungry.
He found Chen Xing who was reading a book and said, "Chen, let's go outside to find something to eat?"
"Are you sure?" When eating here, at least what you eat is strictly controlled by Nobel. Even this so-called clay food has a lot of flour added to it. If you eat it outside, it will be even more unclean. What to do with the things?
Laifu Bode thought for a while, sighed and said: "This is your first time in Africa. Why do I feel that you are more adaptable here than us." Chen Xing continued to read on the balcony, and after hearing this, he said: "That's because of you. You don’t have a good body. If you are as strong as me, you won’t have to worry about this kind of thing." Laif Bode looked down at his strong figure and Chen Xing, who looked neither fat nor thin. , obviously my physique is better than yours!
But thinking about it, it's not surprising that Chen Xing can lift a bed like a dumbbell.
"Then what should I do? I really can't eat any bullshit mud biscuits. How come people still eat dirt in this era?" Before he finished speaking, his stomach rumbled.
Chen Xing thought for a while and said, "Go right when you go out of the hotel. There is a snack shop at the end. I thought I saw bread selling there when I passed by it before." Laifu Bode rushed out like a wind.
"Thank you, good brother!" This sentence came from deep in the corridor. Chen Xing continued to read. He has been walking around this town for two hours in the morning, knowing that there is no entertainment here, so looking at the books he brought here is the only way he can think of to kill time now.
When it was time to eat in the evening, the hotel proprietress Aili actually made polenta, which surprised Chen Xing.
You can actually eat porridge in Africa, which Chen Xing never thought before coming here. Nobel also bought a local sesame nut, which tastes sweet and tastes really good.
Chen Xing finished his meal and was playing with nuts while chewing nuts. Only then did he see that Lav Bode was not on the table, so he asked, "Where is Lav Bode? Where has he gone."
"He has been occupying the bathroom alone for a long time." Chen Xing showed a disgusted expression. Sure enough, eating food from outside is probably not as clean as the food prepared in the hotel.
The next day, the filming finally started. Chen Xing and the other three participated in this shooting as photography interns, but on the second day they discovered that they were just handymen on the crew, occasionally helping to pick up things, and if they were lucky, they could touch the camera.
The cameras they brought were all camcorders of the same model, and the brand was Panasonic. They were taught how to operate it in school, so when the photographer was temporarily busy, Chen Xing and the others would take control of the camera and take some shots.
Giota, a 15-year-old black man, is the protagonist of this documentary. To be precise, the documentary shot by Nobel did not have a protagonist. He just wanted to introduce the life of the local Sudanese people from Giota.
And Giota is more typical among these people. He lives in a motherless family, and his father and he both work in a mine next to the town.
This is the only mine around them, and the man Chen Xing met was also burned here.
On this day, they followed Giota to the mine for filming. Chen Xing had a boring experience yesterday and brought his own time-travel machine with him.
While the crew was filming, Chen Xing was flying a drone in the distance. The sound of the drone was so loud that people in half of the mining area could vaguely hear the sound of the rapidly rotating wings. The sound became louder the closer you got to the drone.
Almost every place it flew over, black people on the ground jumped up and waved to the drone. They were a bit far away, and Chen Xing couldn't see their appearance clearly. He only saw a mass of black, and then they were jumping and jumping... Everyone knows what the environment is like in the mining area. Even if a white person goes in, he will still be a genuine black person when he comes out. What's more, They were already dark, so Chen Xing could not see clearly at all.
No wonder black women like to wear colorful clothes. Frilo, who was in charge of radio, was very annoyed by the sound made by Chen Xing. He took the walkie-talkie and shouted: "Take your little plane and go to other places to play. Now all the sound I receive is the sound of your plane!" Come on! Fu Bode laughed next to Chen Xing. Who told Chen Xing that he couldn't play with him? He must have been scolded.
Chen Xing scratched his head, took off his flying glasses, and was about to let the drone automatically navigate back, but then the director suddenly said on the intercom: "Chen, is your drone flying stable? I have an idea..."
"Well, you tell me." Chen Xing said.
"Come down and let's talk." Chen Xing put the drones back into his bag and walked towards the recording team.
I didn’t feel anything when watching the documentary. I just felt that the pictures were exquisite and the sound was magnetic and attractive. However, the shooting scene was actually very boring. I often squatted in the same place for several hours just to get a picture.
The two photographers also followed Giotta in shifts, and sometimes had to risk their lives in the mines. At first one of the photographers was unwilling to go, but Ford went down with the equipment. The director didn't say anything that day. He went back to the hotel that night and scolded the two photographers. The next day, the workload of Chen Xing and the others plummeted.
Nobel really treated the three of them as disciples. Ford is mature and steady. He took the exam for many years before entering Paris Haute Couture. This perseverance is very important to Nobel.
And Chen Xing is the genius he found. When he takes photos, he has a very special sense of story. How about shooting documentaries?
What did Riffbod say? He was a well-connected person who was put into the team by his colleagues. Nobel was sitting at the door of a large mine. Not only could he avoid the sun, but it was also inexplicably very cool, with the temperature much lower than other places.
Seeing Chen Xing coming, he waved to Chen Xing and said, "Come on, come on."
"Can your drone complete such an operation?" Nobel opened his notebook and simply drew a mountain with a pencil. The mine where Giota was located was replaced by several circles, and the other side of the mountain was On one side is desert, no man's land...
"Let the photographer take your drone to shoot Giota first, and then you suddenly take off, circle around the mountain, and then take a close-up shot of the wolves in this wilderness." The lens of Chen Xing's time-traveling machine is It is an additional installation, but no matter how good the time-travel camera lens is, it is just a time-travel camera.
The camera cannot be rotated greatly.
"It can be done, but there are two problems..."
"you say."
"First, is there really a wolf behind here? Second, what to do about the sound of the traversing machine?" Nobel said: "The wolf problem is easy to solve. I use a few sheep as bait. I am not afraid that the wolf will not take the bait. If I can photograph the wolf The body of a group of gnawing sheep will be better, and then as soon as your time travel machine passes by, the sound will definitely make the wolves flee, and you will chase them behind... Do you understand, this kind of picture." Chen Xing said in his When I said it, I was already simulating the effect in my mind.
Just one click.
"Got it!" Nobel smiled and patted Chen Xing on the shoulder. This student could always surprise him.
Moreover, the lens effect he asked Chen Xing to do was actually just his attempt. If Chen Xing completed it well, he would have a bigger task for Chen Xing to do.
By then Chen Xing will also be able to join the main creative team. The shooting plan is tentatively scheduled in the evening, and the guide goes to the locals to fulfill the director's arrangement.
Are there wolves in Africa? Of course there are wolves. Africa has the most wild animals in the world, more than Australia. It is normal to have wolves.
But Chen Xing didn't expect that the place where the wolves lived was so close to the human living area. There is only a mountain that is not very high.
In the evening, when the sun was setting in the west and some sunset scenery had already appeared at the setting point, a photographer held a stabilizer and slowly aimed at Giotta, who was about to get off work.
Although this group of shots was Nobel's temporary idea, it is very important in the entire documentary. The photographer didn't dare to make any mistakes. If the traversing machine fell down, he would be scolded to death by the tyrant Nobel when he went back.
Nobel was very kind to a few students, but not to them. If the scene he took was not right, he wouldn't say anything to you at the time, but when he returned to the accommodation, he would definitely be sprayed with blood.
Chen Xing watched with the camera. After Nobel said something from the side, he immediately double-clicked the start button of the traversing machine and flew towards the predetermined route without any stagnation.
The speed of the traversing machine is very fast, but this speed is what they want. The drone shuttled through the mountain forest, and some birds in the forest were so frightened that they spread their wings and flew away, until the drone broke through a gap in the forest and came to the other side of the mountain... Here is an endless wilderness.
Not even a mountain can be seen at the deepest point of the horizon. The ground is so barren that only weeds are sprouting out. When the wind blows, it feels like the whole world has a bit of wind and sand.
There were more than a dozen wolves on the ground, standing or standing guarding one of them, who was eating meat.
There really are wolves! Chen Xing's heart was pounding nervously and he was extremely excited. Before filming, no one knew whether there would be wolves on the other side of the mountain, and no one dared to go and observe. The main reason is that wolves are so smart creatures. If they smell a little bit of human smell, they might not Will come.
So everyone is betting. Nobel was also holding his hands. The moment he saw the wolves, he also waved his arms: "Beautiful! Rush down! Just chase this wolf king!" Buzz!
The wolf on the ground looked up and saw a strange-looking big bird flying towards him. run! Facing the unknown, any creature is afraid, not to mention that this strange bird can make such a loud sound. The wolves instantly ran towards the depths of the wilderness, no longer needing any meat, and their movements were neat as if they had been specially trained. .
Chen Xing controlled the drone and arrived behind them very quickly. In his lens. It’s a pack of wolves running wildly across the screen.
