Director: The special effects are too expensive, so I had to make real shots

Chapter 321: What is it like to make yourself cry?
Blue Star Ground.

The space agency received a video from the Tiangong Space Station.

This is a video that has been edited and is about 6 minutes long.

"Director Li, the first video from the Tiangong Space Station "The Wandering Earth" film crew has been sent back to the ground. It is noted as the announcement video for the movie "The Wandering Earth"."

Li Yunxiao, who was dealing with other things in the office at this time, received a message from the space agency staff.

"Oh?"

When Li Yunxiao heard that it was a video sent back from Xu Nuo's movie "The Wandering Earth", he became slightly excited.

Who makes Li Yunxiao Xu Nuo's number one fan?

In the past two years at the space agency, Li Yunxiao has been mainly responsible for the computer technology and artificial intelligence of the space agency, and now he has reached the director level.

The videos sent back from the Tiangong Space Station, or the calls and videos connected to the ground, are now closely related to the space agency's AI, so Li Yunxiao can be regarded as the person in charge.

Director Zhang has explained that after the footage shot by Xu Nuo and the crew of "The Wandering Earth" on the Tiangong Space Station is transmitted back, it needs to be reviewed by the space agency.

It’s not to get stuck, I just want to review the video sent back to the ground by the “Wandering Earth” film crew to see if there is anything that shouldn’t be there.

As long as the footage appears within the scope of permissions, it will definitely be passed in seconds, and then the space agency will send the video to the real media.

Wen Ruohan from Real Media has also received news from his boss, saying that he has sent back a promotional video and asked the company to use this video to promote a wave of propaganda according to Xu Nuo's previous promotional methods.

However, Wen Ruohan has not received the video yet.

But Wen Ruohan knew that this video should still be under official review at the moment, so he was not in a hurry.

Li Yunxiao immediately put aside the other work on hand and took the space agency's media review team staff to watch the 6-minute video sent back by Xu Nuo and the others.

In fact, if this video can be sent back to the ground, it basically means that there is no problem, because according to the rules of the space agency, when on the Tiangong Space Station, the person in charge of the space station will first conduct a second inspection of the video. One round of review.

"When we review, we strictly follow the list of open permissions for Director Xu's film crew at Tiangong Space Station. Do you want to know it carefully?"

Li Yunxiao warned the members of the review team many times.

Even though I am Xu Nuo's number one fan, I still have to do my best in this kind of work and in principle.

The entire working group spent about an hour repeatedly screening and comparing the promotional video, and found no scenes that should be "banned". These are all shots that were stated above to be available on the Tiangong Space Station.

"Confirmed."

The review team made a final summary.

"Okay, then I will send the video to Assistant Wen immediately."

When Li Yunxiao saw this, he was naturally happy. It was of course a good thing to see "The Wandering Earth" using the opening ceremony materials shot on the Tiangong Space Station for promotion.

Moreover, Li Yunxiao and his review team were among the first people to see this promotional video material on the Blue Star ground.

After Director Xu and the others left Blue Star this time, it was Li Yunxiao who contacted the space agency on the Blue Star ground and Wen Ruohan, the head of operations of the Real Group.

So Li Yunxiao quickly encrypted the video and sent it to Wen Ruohan.

After Wen Ruohan received the video file from the space agency, without saying a word, according to the instructions of his boss, he started a new round of publicity about the movie "The Wandering Earth" on his own media platform.

According to the video, the focus of this round of promotion is not actually on the movie "The Wandering Earth". Instead, it focuses on the Tiangong Space Station and our astronauts. Wen Ruohan's editing skills in the video are obvious at a glance. I know it is the work of Sister Guan Ju, because no one can cut out a video that expresses the meaning very clearly and clearly, and is impressive after watching it, including movies!
Wen Ruohan quickly made arrangements and personally supervised this round of announcements.

Just as the real media on the Blue Star ground began to announce the start of filming of "The Wandering Earth" in full swing, on the Tiangong Space Station, the filming of "The Wandering Earth" had already started.

The first scene that Xu Nuo will shoot today is the highlight. He will give the actors intensity as soon as it starts, so that the actors can get into the mood quickly.

And this scene is the one where Xu Nuo talked with the road bureau.

That is to say, humans need to transport nuclear bombs to the moon and arrange them in a phased array to detonate the moon. However, the first batch of nuclear bombs transported up there encountered various problems and there was still a lot to go wrong. The first batch was played by Xiong Li. Liu Peiqiang and his group.

Later, the second batch of support teams were those of Liu Peiqiang's masters Zhang Peng and Mao Zinov.

This is a journey destined to go without return!
In order to shoot this scene well, Xu Nuo had already made a lot of preparations before coming to the space station. From the portrayal of the astronauts as a group to the expectations of individual actors and the shaping of the characters, these are all Xu Nuo As a director, you need to know what you are doing.

All in all, in one sentence, after filming this plot, it should give people a feeling of sublimation.

To put it more simply, it is just to trick the audience into tears!
In this scene, the main actors and characters appearing are Liu Peiqiang played by Xiong Li, Liu Peiqiang's master Zhang Peng played by Bai Yutang, and Nove played by Maozi actor Artem.

Of course, there is also a role on the space station that Xu Nuo arranged for Colonel Luo Wei.

This character is a representative of the young and strong generation of Chinese astronauts. He is younger than Zhang Peng, played by Bai Yutang, but he is also the backbone of the space station astronauts, which suits the image of Colonel Luo Wei quite well.

Originally, he took the initiative to volunteer for the second batch of "go without return" support, but Zhang Peng took the initiative and said that this time, it would be his group of older astronauts who would go. !

Ever since, Zhang Peng, Nov, and astronauts from other countries who were over 50 years old collectively stepped out and embarked on a journey to save human civilization without hesitation!Xu Nuo spent more than two hours on the central bridge of the Tiangong Space Station to clarify his next shooting ideas for the actors.

At the same time, the Bureau also called in many astronauts from the space station, including not only our own astronauts, but also astronauts from other countries.

Because in the past two years, the relationship between my family and Western countries such as the United States and Europe has gradually become very good, and there are more and more areas of cooperation. In addition, our family's structure is not that small, so in the past two years, there have been many Other astronauts from the United States, Mao Xiong and Europe also came to the Tiangong Space Station to perform tasks.

It just so happens that in Xu Nuo's filming of "The Wandering Earth" this time, he has to show some foreign "astronaut" characters. Even if no names are mentioned except for Nove, foreigners must appear on the scene. Just acting.

What's more, the gringo characters in the transport ship team who were the first to go with Liu Peiqiang and others still had a scene and lines, and they were even emotionally-charged.

If this is the case, then these foreign astronauts on the Tiangong Space Station can come in handy.

Of course, there are not many of them. They mainly use our own astronauts. Xu Nuo only needs to reflect the astronauts from all over the world in the lens. After all, one of the core themes of "The Wandering Earth" is "A community with a shared future for mankind", if it is just like the movies made by American Hollywood in the past, and the people who save the world are all from the United States, then what kind of community with a shared future for mankind would it be called?
"Xiong Li, what we are going to shoot first are the plot shots of your first batch of transporting nuclear warheads to the moon. Then we will use a real-time reversal of the scene, which is what we often call a 'slap in the face'."

Xu Nuo began to talk about the drama with actors such as Xiong Li and Bai Yutang.

This is what Xu Nuo, as a director, often does before filming starts, that is, communicate well with the actors, explain clearly the effect he wants, and even instruct the actors on how to perform to achieve the picture or effect he wants. It is the effect of emotional expression.

The actors will also fully communicate with Xu Nuo. Only in this atmosphere can high-quality shots be taken.

Instead of being like the previous domestic film and television entertainment industry, popular stars or big-name stars are very arrogant and communicate with the director?
They may not even understand their own scripts. Otherwise, why would every performance have a different face and basically no acting skills or emotional expression?

Facing such big-name stars, it's hard for ordinary directors to say anything, and communication probably won't be effective.

This is why Xu Nuo is able to shoot every shot, every plot, and every picture with top-notch effects, while other domestic film and television dramas focus on a picture that "just works" and do not pursue the ultimate effect.

"At that moment, I told Peiqiang, don't worry, Peiqiang will definitely not be chosen to transport the nuclear bomb, and then in the blink of an eye, Nov announced Peiqiang's name on the list, right?"

Actor Bai Yutang analyzed it and said to director Xu Nuo.

"Yes, yes, what we want is the comedy effect of being slapped in the face as soon as you turn around. Because our plot is very emotionally contagious and will make the audience cry, but before that, we must use this atmosphere. It’s a small comedy effect, just to stimulate the mood, don’t make it too heavy, it’s not good if it’s too depressing.”

Xu Nuo nodded immediately and continued to say seriously: "Then when the time comes, Xiong Li, you will show that, even if I am chosen, then I will carry out this responsibility with no hesitation. A mission to deliver nuclear warheads.”

"Yeah, Director Xu, I understand what you mean."

Xiong Li also nodded. He was already prepared to brew that state and emotion in his heart.

"For the same scene shot on the central bridge, we shot the first and second batches at one time, and in the second batch, Lao Luo, Mr. Bai and the others played Zhang Peng and Nove, And when the older generation of astronauts from all over the world take the initiative to perform missions, you should take the lead in saluting. This time is very critical. The eye scene and the tear scene are your biggest tests. You must have that kind of admiration, respect, and unrequited love. Surrender and admiration, anyway, these are the emotions that are shown to the audience through your performance."

Xu Nuo turned around again and seriously told Colonel Luo Wei about his role.

Although there are not many, this shot is still quite important. It is accompanied by the background sound and the older generation of astronauts played by Bai Yutang and others, coupled with a close-up of the young and strong generation, that is, the character played by Colonel Luo Wei. The scenes in the camera directly bring the emotions of the entire "tragic" journey of no return to the most extreme peak state.

In this way, I believe that as long as the audience is sitting in the cinema and watching the movie "The Wandering Earth", they will all be fascinated by this plot.

"Okay, okay, it seems like this close-up of mine is a bit important."

Colonel Luo Wei also listened carefully to every word of Xu Nuo's narration.

After all, I am now an actor on the crew of the movie "The Wandering Earth", so I must do my job as an actor well.

Even if I have an excellent relationship with Xu Nuo, I can't lower the strict requirements of my performance just because of this.

"It's not just a little bit important, but if you stretch your hips during this scene, you may stretch your hips for the entire scene, which won't achieve the heart-warming effect. So, Lao Luo, you know!"

Xu Nuo reached out and patted Colonel Luo Wei's shoulder gently. He had to put a little pressure on him.

"In crying scenes, especially in scenes like this, I need to completely immerse myself in it and make myself cry. This is the best effect."

Colonel Luo Wei was not ambiguous and directly expressed his understanding of the performance of this scene.

"exactly!"

Hearing this, Xu Nuo immediately nodded with great appreciation: "What I want is to play yourself in, and experience what it feels like to play yourself crying. How about it? Can you do it?"

Xu Nuo was still a little worried.

Colonel Luo Wei previously participated in his own "Iron Man". The character he played did not have a crying scene, let alone a crying scene like the space station scene in "The Wandering Earth".

If you don't put yourself into the role, you will definitely not be able to perform well.

"I feel this emotion deeply, Lao Xu, don't forget that I did it in the army before."

Colonel Luo Wei was quite confident. After a moment, he said: "If you let me think about it for a while, or if the whole scene has been exaggerated to that extent by then, I should be able to take part in it!"

"Okay, then if we can't do it, just do it a few more times, and we can always get you to perform!"

Xu Nuo nodded. He definitely didn't ask for it and acted it once. If he couldn't do it, he would do it a few more times. Anyway, this is what happens when filming.

(End of this chapter)