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Not to mention mythological TV dramas, the requirements are higher, because to shoot the gods soaring, changing, and flying around gracefully, one camera can only capture one angle, and if multiple angles are needed, only one The content was shot many times.

No matter how effective a film and television work is, no matter how good the actors and directors are, they all need the pictures captured by the camera to express them.

With this old camera, all the crew of "Journey to the West" overcame many difficulties, brainstormed, and completed many wonderful shots with creative thinking and methods.

For example, when filming the episode of "Smart Monkey King" in Shilin, Yunnan, there was a scene where the shameless princess of Baihua was riding a horse and chasing a rabbit, and the main perspective shot of the princess was to be shot.

For this reason, the director specially bought two rabbits, and released them in the wild, and the rabbits ran away quickly!

Cameraman Wang Chongqiu ran with the camera in front of the rabbit, two technicians carried the video recorder and followed behind, and someone ran with the monitor, and director Yang Jie ran with the monitor. Wire.

Just for a shot of chasing rabbits, a group of people ran out of breath, and when the shooting was over, they all collapsed to the ground from exhaustion, and the two technicians were still holding on to the precious video recorder of the crew.

Also, because there was only one telephoto lens in the entire CCTV at that time, many crews had to use it.

The crew of "Journey to the West" needed to use it when they were filming the Flaming Mountains, so they had to make a report, wait in line, and waited for a long time before the stage approved the crew to use a telephoto lens. It was only used for a few days before it was taken back. went.

The camera only has a tripod, so it can only shoot head-up.But in TV dramas, various angles need to be changed in many places. For example, when shooting the scene where the immortal Zhenyuan goes to heaven to meet the immortals, and the Taoist priests send him out of the gate, the angle needs to be changed from looking down to looking up.

In the end, the crew came up with a simple way, put the cameraman on a chair, hoisted it to the second floor, and then slid down, and used seven or eight people to pull the cameraman, but it was difficult to match the walking rhythm of Zhenyuan Daxian, so Multiple retakes.

The entire crew spent most of the day, and this shot was only a few seconds long!

In addition, when filming "Three Fighting Bones" in Zhangjiajie, Sun Wukong was dizzy and dizzy by Tang Seng's magic spell.

In order to shoot this shot, the director asked Sun Wukong to cover his head on the ground and spin around on the spot, and then a few people carried a ladder. The cameraman lay on the ladder and took a bird's-eye view of Monkey King.

Sun Wukong and the ladder bearer turned at the same time, Sun Wukong turned clockwise, and the cameraman turned counterclockwise, which caused Monkey King to be dizzy. After shooting this shot, the cameraman was also dizzy.

Another thing is that when filming the scene of "Monkey King Protecting Tang Seng", Monkey King was reprimanded by his master for killing six robbers, and left in a rage, Tang Seng had to go on the road alone.

The old man played by Han Shanxu took his grandson to send Tang Seng out of the hut until he reached the gate of the fence.

Here we need a shot from looking down to looking up. The artist made a seesaw-like thing. First, he placed the cameraman at the highest point to form a depression angle with the door. When the old man and Tang Seng came out of the house, he pulled the cameraman’s rope. The walking rhythm of the people and the actors is well coordinated, and the rope is slowly relaxed, so that the cameraman slowly descends, and the angle gradually changes to head-up.

A simple shot was solved by the crew's ingenuity under the condition of poor camera equipment.

There is also a classic scene where Monkey King and Centipede Jing fight in the water below the waterfall.

In order to shoot this dangerous scene, the angle must be changed. The cameraman shoots the depression angle on the upper waterfall, the actor shoots in the water of the lower waterfall, the cameraman carries the camera and stands in the upper waterfall to shoot, and two technicians carry the camera and stand in the water. In the film, the monitor is held by a person standing in the water, the director stands in the water watching the monitor, and there is someone holding the wire in the middle.

In order for the cameraman not to fall under the waterfall, there was a person behind him hugging his waist.

Cameramen and assistants literally risked their lives to film these scenes.

This is the secret that the crew of the 86 version of "Journey to the West" was able to shoot all kinds of wonderful shots under the extremely difficult situation of only one camera, and edited and stitched these wonderful shots to finally create a classic.

Now it sounds like it’s a bit of a bittersweet feeling, but those who want to create those shots, the hardships involved can be imagined.

So yesterday when Meng Shi proposed to let Yi Qing take the script and change the camera, he came up with this idea.

Do you also give some benefits to the Westward Journey crew?

Although he didn't train for a few months like he did in the Red Mansion crew, he was still a member of the crew anyway, and if we really talked about it, Xiao Bailong's part in the role still surpassed Liu Xianglian's.

The crew of the Red Chamber has helped out, and Yi Qing can't always favor one over the other.

I believe that with these two cameras, director Yang Jie's life would be much easier.

Chapter 174 It's hard for him

Meng Shi happily fulfilled his promise, and Wu Xiaodong and Hou Changrong took the camera away that day.

When the two left, their faces were full of shock, and they couldn't figure out why Yi Qing had such a deep relationship with Beijing Film Studio?

Just because Yi Qing got Beijing Film Studio a script?

The Beijing Film Studio shoots a lot of films a year, who has ever seen a screenwriter move a camera out of the equipment warehouse of the Beijing Film Studio!

If you can't figure it out, the two of you don't want to think about it. The equipment is in hand, the task is successfully completed, what else?Why do you care so much!

The two of them left, but Yi Qing had a problem, what about the remaining two?

In order to avoid Meng Shi's regret afterwards, Yi Qing directly moved the other two cameras to the crew of "The Second Son Opens a Shop".

But how to send it to the Westward Journey crew?

Director Yang Jie is flying all over the sky with the crew, who knows where they are now!

There is no other way, Yi Qing can only go home and ask Li Chengru's daughter-in-law if others don't know, is it possible that his daughter-in-law doesn't know.

Sure enough, after going to Li's house, Yi Qing finally got the whereabouts of Li Chengru.

A group of people are now in Yunnan.

It's really exciting.

According to what Li Chengru's wife said, the production crew didn't seem to have been there for a long time.

Yi Qing sent a telegram directly.

Two cameras are in Beijing, hurry up and pick them up!

Li Chengru, who was filming in Yunnan with the Journey to the West crew, was immediately stunned when he received this telegram.

"Director Yang, what do you mean by this?"

After Li Chengru came back, he and Director Yang Jie also smiled and lost their grievances. There was nothing between the two of them, and others followed them. This time when Li Chengru came back, that person had already left the group, and there was no more trouble. Of course they were both fine.

Li Chengru received the telegram yesterday, it was too late at that time, Director Yang Jie was sick again, so he didn't go there.

As a result, Li Chengru's heart was scratched by a cat that night.

Where did Yi Qing get the camera?

Production center?

That's impossible, and the life over there may not be so affluent.

Yi Qing bought it herself?

This is even more impossible.

Li Chengru knew that Yi Qing was rich, but if he wanted to buy two cameras, he couldn't do it even if he had money.

But where did it come from?

The whole night, Li Chengru was entangled in this matter. Just after dawn, he ran to Director Yang Jie's room and handed over the telegram.