Humanistic documentaries need stories, and hospitals are places where most stories happen.
They are not there to film the process of treating patients, which is what medical documentaries do. They are just here to find stories that belong to ordinary people in Sudan.
Noble did not find a protagonist for this part. In other words, the patients who come to the hospital these days are all protagonists.
The filming progressed very quickly. The patients they met in the past few days were very suitable for what they wanted to shoot. They even thought that these patients were recruited by the guide through connections.
But it is indeed all coincidence. Chen Xing sighed and came out of the black man's shabby shed. This is a person who fainted on the street and was found and sent to the Sudan United Hospital. After regaining consciousness, he ran away. However, the hospital was well prepared and was caught before he could escape from the hospital.
I guess I can't afford the medical expenses either. After being caught by hospital security, Nobel advanced his medical expenses and followed him to his home to conduct a series of interviews.
Chen Xing left the 'room' midway and came outside his house. This is a slum area in the Sudanese capital.
There are small shacks built with tarpaulins or cloth strips of various colors, rotten wood and bamboo poles everywhere.
There are tens of thousands of these slums, making it the largest slum in Sudan. There is a management office here.
The film crew learned from this management office that there are a total of 3,200 tents here, housing 2,798 families, including 7,846 men and 7,400 women, as well as more than 100 orphans.
It's hard to imagine how the orphans here survive. Mr. Dia, who is being interviewed by them, said that most people here are doing all kinds of menial jobs that no one can do, and earning pitiful wages.
Orphans who have no one to take care of them, or families with many children, will pick up leftover food from others. The difference between the poor and the homeless here is probably that the people here get married, have children, and have a fixed place to live, while the homeless cannot even apply for a shack here and can only sleep on the street.
The country was poorer than he imagined. Rifbod was also outside. He was angry and was cursing.
When he came here just now, he didn't know if he had stepped on dog poop or something. His already dirty shoes looked even dirtier. When he saw Chen Xing coming out, he asked, "Are you leaving?"
"It will probably take a while." Chen Xing suddenly remembered something and said, "Ford still wants to make his documentary, but it's different from what we thought. He only wants to make a 40-minute film. Do you want to come with us?" "
"40 minutes?"
"Well, he said that one episode would be enough to shoot the migration scene." Lavbode said with a smile: "He probably wanted to get some qualifications. He has been interested in documentaries for a long time, and he didn't have much money to shoot by himself. , and the serious film crew didn’t invite him.”
"I don't know. Anyway, I want to see the animal migration, just as a side trip."
"Then I'll join too." Laif Bode and Chen Xing have similar ideas. After all, they've come here. If they don't take a few photos to record, can they still be called photographers?
Moreover, Sudan is not far from these grasslands. It takes less than an hour to fly there.
This matter had to be discussed together when Ford was around. Chen Xing chatted with Laif Bode for a few words. He didn't want to go back to the tent to hear the things that he found worrying, so he walked to a nearby commanding height to take pictures.
This is a small hillside, covered with sharp gravel, and on the top of the hill is a hollowed-out rusty classic car body.
Chen Xing jumped onto the car shell again, first took a photo carefully with his camera, and then took it with his mobile phone, and posted it to the news on station B and his circle of friends - they once had a home, but it was destroyed by the war and Disasters take away.
They once had dreams, but they were shattered by reality and difficulties. Putting down his phone, Chen Xing sat on the roof of the car.
Compared with the ground environment, this car roof is relatively clean except for rust spots. Living in a place like this, life is probably hopeless, right?
he thinks. In China, even an ordinary person without any ability can still have enough to eat and drink and even support a family.
But here, people without talent can only waste away and wait for death, and it is difficult for people with some talent to get ahead.
Ability is of little use because there is no hope. If he hears someone say that life is not good again in the future, Chen Xing will have to recommend him to come to Africa and see it. Compared with the people living here, the homeless people in the country live the life they dream of.
Chen Xing looked at the horizon in the distance in a daze. It wasn't until someone shouted in French: "We're leaving, Chen!" that he came back to his senses, jumped out of the car and walked towards his companions. A woman living in the tent might be curious about hearing French, so she walked from I came out of my tent and looked outside. Chen Xing happened to be passing by.
The two looked at each other. Chen Xing thought this girl's eyes were very beautiful, blue with a bit of green, and she was of mixed race.
Chen Xing was dressed like a rich man, which shocked the girl.
"List?"
"I'll be here right away!" Chen Xing replied, then searched in several of his pockets, then took out a few fruit candies bought in the supermarket, and said in English: "Your eyes are very beautiful, eat candies "French is widely used in Africa, but it is not popular in Sudan.
Only English and Arabic are popular in Sudan, and the popularity of English is not high. Only those who are educated and have learned well can understand English or talk to them using some simple words.
The girl didn't understand, but her eyes were eager for the candy in Chen Xing's hand. In any undeveloped place, exquisite sweets are very important.
At this time Laifu Bode urged her again. He didn't want to stay in this damn place at all, so Chen Xing saw that she was a little afraid to accept it, so he pinched the candy with his palms facing down.
In this way, she subconsciously stretched out her hand to hold it. Probably because he couldn't understand English anymore, Chen Xing stood up and shook his head, returned to the film crew and went back to the hotel with them.
This hotel is actually incomparable to hotels in Paris and domestic hotels, but the only thing that cannot be compared is this building. They are all at the level of star hotels in terms of keeping the guest rooms hygienic and tidy.
Another thing is service. All the wonderful services you can think of can be provided here, as long as you dare to ask for them.
Chen Xing has no interest in this. So he still likes to travel in China or Europe, Australia is also okay, at least he can find a girl he can get his hands on when he wants to.
After dinner, Ford invited Liver Bode to their room. Started discussing a trip to Tanzania in a few days.
Chen Xing and Laif Bode both thought they were going on a trip and were very relaxed. They were looking for delicious food there on the Internet.
Generally speaking, African food is not very good, but people always have to eat, so you should be taller than the short ones.
Moreover, there are many tourists watching the Great Migration of Animals every year. In order to make more money, these local vendors are willing to improve their bad taste to cater to more and more tourists from all over the world.
Ford talked up his plans. The last three raised money. Shooting a documentary is not a simple matter, and money is of course the most important thing. For example, renting equipment requires a lot of money.
They planned to buy Chen Xing accessories for ten time-travel machines to prevent them from crashing, and then rent a video recorder from the film crew and several disguise cameras.
There is also a telephoto lens. When photographing animals, you must have a good telephoto lens so that you can capture the details of the animal while ensuring clarity.
All documentaries are operated in this way, and a telephoto lens is essential, because no photographer dares to get close to the wild lions on the African savanna unless he is prepared to be a delivery boy.
Chen Xing hesitated for a moment and said, "I still have 50,000 euros. Ford, do you have a plan? How much will it cost to film? This is almost all my savings." He had just renovated his house and even Not decorated well.
"That's almost it." Ford nodded repeatedly, then looked at Reif Bod. Laif Bode said: "I don't believe that good documentaries can make money. Chen Xing, you can just pay 30,000, and I will pay 30,000, and Ford will give another 30,000. Ninety thousand euros is more than enough for us." At his home There is a professional director who knows the price of renting equipment very well.
There will be a lot of 90,000 euros left over in the end. Ford laughed awkwardly and said: "I only have ten thousand..." How could he compare with these two people? One of them was attracted by Chanel as soon as he came to Paris. He took a few photos and was spotted by a group of fashion media. Damn it, now you can get tens of thousands of euros just for a photo shoot.
The other is a rich second generation, and tens of thousands of dollars is other people's pocket money. I am just an ordinary person. According to his previous thinking, Chen Xing's 50,000 euros would be enough. After all, who would use their own money to make a documentary.
I just didn't expect that this would also require aa.
"Huh?" Lavbode looked at him sideways. You took the lead in making this documentary, but you can’t get the money. What do you want to do?
Ford quickly said: "But I have already made a plan. Let's do it this way. You will invest and I will contribute. Then all three of us will make money. This is definitely a win-win-win. Look, I have done all the writing." "He hurriedly went to the table to get the newly printed manuscript.
"You're here, do you think we don't know how to do it?" Laif Bode started quarreling with Ford over investment issues.
Chen Xing read the article written by Ford. The more he looked, the more he frowned. What is this thing written about? A few minutes later, Chen Xing read half of it and said: "Stop arguing, this article is not good either. It does not clearly introduce what the audience wants to see, and it is not attractive enough. You can't just rely on me flying through the plane to attract people, right? What the hell?" "Yes, Ford, you'd better become a photographer, and I'll write this article." Laif Bode held his head high.
"It's up to us great writers to take action, Ford, you go and resist that camera." Ford frowned, but was worried that they wouldn't play with him, so he nodded in agreement.
Is being a photographer a technical job? No, no, no, being a photographer is a physical job. Can you carry a video recorder without the arms of a Popeye?
Not to mention anti-VCR, normally, holding a SLR stably is not a simple matter.
Many novices tend to take photos that are not clear enough because they do not hold the camera steady, resulting in smear.
Automatic image stabilization is not omnipotent. If you really think that with this function, you can stop practicing basic skills, that’s not true.
the next day. The 36-year-old cameraman was standing behind a video recorder. His task was to shoot some shots of patients entering the hospital, while Nobel and others were interviewing the patient's family members in a room on the second floor.
This documentary is almost finished, he thought to himself. From the coal-mining teenagers in cities near the Egyptian border, to the poor people who fled the war in the impoverished capital, and the endless tent slums we saw before, their crew has seen the situation in Africa all over.
According to the shooting plan, if everything goes well, it should be completed this afternoon, or tomorrow at the latest. At this time, a student who was an intern on the set came over with a smile.
It's Ford. What does he want from me? He had an impression of this person. After all, it was rare for people to be in college over the age of thirty.
"Anni, I want to ask you if you have anything else to do this month?" Anni adjusted the camera and looked at the door of the hospital with a normal expression, and said: "If you have anything to do, just tell me. I have nothing to do, but I have already Missing my wife’s pasta, and my eight-year-old daughter.”
"..." Ford was a little speechless, so are you okay? Now the director of this documentary is no longer him, but Chen Xing.
Chen Xing himself felt indifferent to the director position, but Laifu Bode was determined not to accept it, and said: "Chen Xing has contributed money and efforts, and has also written the outline of the story. You can't do anything to make it suitable for this director." "?" Why is it inappropriate?
Okay, that's a bit much. Currently, there is only one episode of this wildlife documentary. Chen Xing is the director and drone pilot. It is estimated that Chen Xing will also do the dubbing in the future. Chen Xing’s English is very magnetic, although it has a bit of an American flavor. , but this small detail does not affect it.
Laif Bode paid 30,000 euros, asked for nothing, and just went along for the ride. Ford didn't have to invest money, but he still had to do something to prove that he was one of the main creative members, such as contacting the equipment needed for shooting, or - luring a professional person there. This matter was very important, because the three of them were all He is a new recruit, or rather an intern.
"Chen and I, as well as Laif Bode, are going to the Tanzanian savannah to shoot the great migration of wild animals, and we need a photography director. So I found you." Ford said frankly,
"The time is very short, we can complete the shooting in three days at most." Ani was a little moved. It was also his first time to come to Africa. He was a photographer for France 2 TV before. He rarely had the opportunity to travel at public expense, and it only lasted three days. He would have to take two more days off at most.
"It's my working time now. I'll come to your room to discuss this matter in the evening, okay?"
"No problem!" Ford breathed a sigh of relief after hearing his words, knowing that it was settled. The next thing to discuss in the evening should be the cost.
