I’m a Director, I’m Not Bad

  Chapter 50 049. I have to shoot like this

   "Documentary?"

  After awakening the familiar rural complex, Xu Xin, who suddenly noticed that the scenes shot in this movie were a bit strange, asked in surprise.

   Yu Zhen shook her head:

"No, it's a movie. It's just that 10% of the people in it...well, 80% are non-professional actors. You watch it first, I'll make the dumplings first, you mainly read the story, after watching we are talking, see if you can I can't give you any inspiration."

"…good."

  Xu Xin nodded, followed the angle of the camera in a documentary style, and followed the dark blind shaft from the mine outside bit by bit...

   He is familiar with blind wells.

   What is familiar cannot be familiar anymore.

  According to what my father said, all of us started our careers by this.

   Know that there is coal underground, then dig a well, and then go down to dig.

   It does not pay attention to any technology, nor does it require any technical content. It is the simplest and most straightforward method of coal mining.

  Find coal, dig down.

   What is production safety and the like should be given for free, just dig it.

   Then when you encounter a place that cannot be dug, you use explosives to blast it, and then continue to send people to dig.

  Simple and rude, but it helped the owners of countless small coal mines save their first pot of gold.

  Xu Xin’s family can also be said to have started from a small coal mine, but it can’t be said that… It can only be said that Shenmu’s coal is so good, and the storage capacity of high-quality coal makes people envious.

   At that time, after discovering coal, Xu Daqiang also started to build a small coal mine.

   If you want to say whether Dad is ruthless or not, then Xu Xin doesn't know. But if you want to say whether Dad's life is good or not, then Xu Xin can only say that it is really good.

  When coal was discovered, Xu Daqiang had already amassed a fortune by relying on the mixing station. Then I wanted to get a coal mine... In fact, it was a special product of that era. For example, the coal of a large coal mine costs one yuan per ton, and this one yuan of coal needs various coal tickets, road tickets, queues, and checkpoints or other people.

   Actually very troublesome.

  But looking for small coal mines is different.

   Although the output of small coal kilns is not good, it can reverse the relationship between supply and demand.

   I beg you to buy coal and take the initiative to help you get in touch. Let alone the boss, the driver has to provide food and drink when he comes. Let them help publicize and let more people know that we also have coal.

  Anyway, this thing is a personal labor cost, and the coal is ready-made, which is money picked up for nothing in the field.

  Thus, a ton of large coal mines costs 1 yuan, while small coal mines cost 90 cents or even 80 cents.

  Then, the procedure is still the procedure of the "affiliated" large coal mine, and in the 80 cents coal mine, there may be 10 cents to 20 cents as a rebate for the buyer.

  In short, everyone has money to make money together.

  Think about it, if it goes on like this, can the business of small coal mines be bad?

  And why is it said that Dad was lucky... After he contracted a small coal mine, the quality of the coal under that place is so good, how good is it? No one may believe it. The fixed carbon content averages over seventy-three percent.

   High ignition point, but extremely fire-resistant, and the most expensive price.

   And this kind of coal also has a familiar name, called "anthracite".

  Under the ground that Xu Daqiang bought, there is a large piece of anthracite coal!

  So after realizing the value of this batch of coal, the villagers directly started a joint venture to buy that kind of formal mining coal equipment.

  The reason for not opening blind wells is also very simple. First, the output is slow, and there is not enough toss every day. Second, this coal area is a treasure land. In order to prevent others from doing bad things, the employees must be as close as possible to their own people. Be sure to be better with your own people, they are all sisters and brothers on the family tree. So no matter what else, the safety factor is higher. Otherwise, if it is caused by others with evil intentions and someone dies, then this treasure land will be gone.

  On these two points... don't say that there is no conscience, it is purely "forced by reality".

  Then... Xujiawan Coal Mine came into being.

   Needless to say about the management of various expenses in the middle, in short, Xu Daqiang, the factory director, has been appointed.

  Although it is not comparable to that kind of big coal mine, at least it is enough to make money.

It's that simple.

  And when Xu Xin built mines at home in those years, he often went to play nearby. He saw too many small coal mines with blind shafts in that area.

  So seeing these at this moment is very kind, and I am thinking about how the plot of the story will develop, whether there will be a group of people like him when he was a child who came to the mine to make trouble, and the two sides were fighting with picks...

   There was a "bang"... Among the three people who were older than younger, the thin man with protruding cheekbones was knocked on the head by a pick...

   "..."

  Xu Xin was dumbfounded.

This is…

   Killed someone?

  …

   An hour and a half later.

  Xu Xin frowned.

  Yu Zhen, who had been making dumplings, put down the last dumpling when she heard the news that the film was over, and asked Xu Xin:

"How about it?"

   "..."

  Xu Xin was speechless.

   I just touched my pocket...

   "I'm going out to smoke a cigarette, Mr. Yu."

"good."

  Xu Xin left Yu Zhen's house and lit a cigarette that he wanted to smoke an hour and twenty minutes ago in the safe passage.

  At the same time, the plot of "Blind Well" was in my mind.

  What is the story of "The Blind Well" about?

A rough summary is that Song Jinming and Tang Chaoyang are desperadoes who specialize in murder. A relationship, to blackmail those small coal mine owners who chose to give money because people died in the mine and they were afraid of making things worse.

  The two committed crimes in partnership and cooperated tacitly. After killing a miner, they took the money and started looking for another family. In the end, she met Yuan Fengming, a sixteen-year-old boy who dropped out of school to work. After using some tricks to get the young man into the mine, when it was time to kill the young man, Song Jinming refused to do so. As a result, Tang Zhaoyang directly swung the pickaxe on Song Jinming's head, and the two fought among themselves.

  Yuan Jinming ran away in fear. After running out of the mine, the miners guarding the door thought that there was no one in the mine, so they blasted the mine. Tang and Song died in the mine, but Yuan Fengming survived.

   is such a story.

   Actually the story is quite simple...

  But Xu Xin guessed that the director of this story must have borrowed some real events when creating the script.

   And these things that really happened... Coincidentally, he also heard and knew it.

  So, the whole story, his sense of substitution is very strong, while watching it, he recalled the things he heard when he was a child.

  Although these things mostly came from the drunken words of the father or the elders, who would deny it when asked about it after waking up...but it left a very deep impression on Xu Xin.

  The location where he was filming... Although it doesn't look like northern Shaanxi, it also gave him a feeling of being there.

  So, I endured this cigarette in my mouth for more than an hour.

  Even when he took the first sip, his heart was still not calm, recalling the chimney in the last crematorium, his breathing fluctuated a bit.

   But after smoking a cigarette and calming down...

  He frowned.

   After thinking about it, he lit another one for himself.

  Then returned to Yu Zhen's house with the smell of cigarettes all over her body.

   Seeing him come back, Yu Zhen's first words were:

   "How was it? How did the movie go?"

"generally."

   Xu Xin said subconsciously.

   "..."

   Yu Zhen's mouth twitched...

  My good fellow, your tone is too loud. It was nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and won Best Film at the Asian Film Festival.

  It becomes normal in your mouth?

   And Xu Xin also saw Teacher Yu's strange expression, so he didn't hide it, and chose to say directly:

   "Teacher Yu, I'm not talking about the story, but about the shooting. If I come to shoot, I won't talk about other things, just the last scene in the mine. I won't give a fixed shot. The camera should be here."

  He pointed to the position below his side:

   “Camera here, close-up shot of the profile. And then the lighting has to be like this… also the profile.”

   Point to the position in front of the "camera":

"The light shone on Tang Zhaoyang's lower face, using the natural shadows of his facial features to outline his eyes more fiercely! And his Adam's apple had to be highlighted! Do you understand?...He has to sweat, one is because Nervous, the second is because of work, the mine is actually very stuffy. When speaking, half of his face in the camera must always be black. Only by using this contrast can we give the audience a stronger oppression! And instead of rushing "Fengming! Uncle will send you home!...with such a tone!"

  A tone of sternness mixed with ferocity and eagerness was born instantly, and it was conveyed through Xu Xin's mouth:

"The sooner the better! Gritting your teeth so hard! Understand?...Then the light has to simulate the dim yellow in the mine, and it has to shake, one light and one dark, that's right. And then in the helmeted Song When Jin Ming gave him a pickaxe from behind, the audience's emotions could be vented!"

   "..."

  Seeing him dancing and gesticulating there, Yu Zhen frowned all of a sudden.

  Xu Xin said, she understands.

   And because I understood it, I naturally sketched a picture in my mind.

In the dark underground, in the close-up close-up, Tang Zhaoyang's facial features fluctuate with the flickering yellow light, and the sweat is flowing wantonly on his neck covered with soot, the characteristics that represent workers, strength, and strong physique. This moment can be the best hormonal catalyst.

  Combined with the fierce tone and the cold eyes outlined by the light and shooting angle, and the Henan dialect...

   "Fengming~~Come~Uncle will take you home..."

Then…

   With a sound of "Boom!", Song Jinming, who was attacked just now, suddenly hit his head from behind, and that sudden counterattack...

   "!"

   All of a sudden, Yu Zhen felt goose bumps on her skin.

   Nodding unconsciously.

   Not to mention... If you shoot this way, if you find a suitable background sound, the tension will indeed pull the audience's heartstrings more than the original shot.

   This kid...

sure!

  (end of this chapter)