China Entertainment please answer! 1997

Chapter 15 By Cao Qing, the protagonist of Stockholm

He opened his eyes and stared blankly at the ceiling of the house, where water was dripping from the ceiling.

The house Cao Qing lives in has been built for a long time. With the growth of age, there are inevitably many cracks on the roof and ceiling of this house.

Whenever it rains heavily, the house always leaks a little bit.

It has only been two or three months since Cao Qing lived in this house, and he has seen six or seven water leaks with his own eyes, and he is used to it.

After living here for a long time, sometimes Cao Qing even thinks that the moss on the roof and ceiling is quite cute.

But I want to think so, but to be honest, it is really not safe to live in such a dilapidated house, except for abandoning a kind of inexplicable nostalgia after living for a long time.

If it weren't for the fact that most of the factories in this filming base looked like this, and the only few good ones had to be supplied to the middle and senior management of the factory and the girls in the crew, Cao Qing would never have agreed to live here from the very beginning.

Lying on the bed blankly looking at the roof and ceiling, Cao Qing just lay there for a long time without any purpose.

It wasn't until the afternoon that his stomach was so hungry that he struggled to get up from the bed.

When he got up, he took his pillow towel away.

He was going to take this pillow towel outside to dry, and during the time he was lying down just now, for some reason, the pillow towel got wet for most of it like this.

"You got up, in another hour, if you don't go out, I want to break in to see if something happened to you."

"It's all my brother's fault for pulling you to drink last night. I didn't expect that this drink not only made me too drunk, but also harmed you."

"Oh, thinking of the farce last night, I feel ashamed when I wake up in the morning. What kind of person is Miss Li Ruotong, and what kind of person am I?"

"As a purchasing master in a mold factory like me, I still fantasize about others as my dream lover. Sometimes I feel that I am defiled by others."

After saying this, after all the drinking and frantic torment last night, today the kitchen old Chen who has completely restrained his emotions from yesterday, squinted his soybean-sized eyes, and patted Cao Qing on the shoulder with a laugh.

Cao Qing shook his head helplessly. He wanted to comfort the simple and honest dumpy man in front of him, but he didn't say it when he got to his lips.

Some things are impossible in the first place, talking nonsense to comfort others is not a good thing for those who are deeply trapped in it.

Smiling and chatting with Lao Chen, Cao Qing turned around and walked to the door of a small locked room in the factory building after drying the pillow towel outside.

Although just a dozen hours ago, he really wanted to go for a stroll in the mountain city, and wait until he had had enough fun before coming back to cut the film.

But after all the fuss last night, he has lost all interest in it. He just wants to finish cutting the large amount of film and return to Beijing as soon as possible.

He took out the key and carefully opened the five big locks hanging on the door one by one in sequence.

Opening the door, a puff of dust rose up in the room, and under the sunlight coming in from the window, they rushed towards Cao Qing.

After waving the dust away, Cao Qing sat down on the small bench in the room and began to work seriously.

A little unfamiliar, Cao Qing picked up the photographic film that was piled up in the room, and Cao Qing used a specially configured film editor to cut out the feature film developed some time ago bit by bit.

After cutting a small section, Cao Qing had to put down the clipper in his hand, and use tools to add the two ends of the cut film piece by piece and slowly polish it until the joints of the films were slowly polished to only When it was 1/2 of the original level, he carefully glued the films together with scotch tape.

During this series of processes, it really took a lot of time and effort.

Even after two film simulation editing processes in the system space, Cao Qing already has a certain understanding of editing work at this moment, but these complicated workflows still torture him like a punishment.

Fortunately, Cao Qing's character can be regarded as relatively tenacious. In such a long time of slowly editing the film bit by bit, after spending three months, Cao Qing finally survived alone. The movie "When Crazy" was successfully edited.

After these three months of suffering, Cao Qing even fell in love with this penance-like editing process with some Stockholm syndrome.

In a small airtight house, only a ray of bright light can be seen through the window, and the breath is filled with the strange smell of film mixed with the smell of sweat in the room, immersed in the continuous work bit by bit A bit of killing time.

After being familiar with this strange life for a long time, it gradually became a kind of pastime for Cao Qing.

Any kind of thing, as long as you get used to it for a long time, you will always adapt, whether it is comfortable or uncomfortable, this is the terrible inertia of human beings.

In this kind of continuous work and killing time, Cao Qing even began to feel that the connection between the world and himself was deepening.

It is a sense of familiarity, a sense of belonging that gradually emerges after the barriers and strange emotions are slowly worn away.

"Movies in the film era are really troublesome, laborious, and expensive. No wonder most people have directly abandoned this primitive way when the digital age comes in a few years."

"Compared with the convenience of being able to see the effect on the spot in the digital age, the sense of unknownness in the film era where only vague and blurred effects can be seen after on-site shooting is really enough to drive most new directors crazy, crazy, and even Yu was completely blocked from the threshold of film directors."

"The threshold for becoming a director in this era is so high that it is not comparable to the era of traffic that can quickly become a director by relying on convenient tools in ten or 20 years."

Cao Qing never knew that filming in this era would be so cumbersome until he came to this era at the end of the 20th century and used film to shoot movies with his own hands.

In the entertainment novels that Cao Qing read in his previous life, it seems that no matter which era he travels to, all the protagonists seem to be using digital cameras to shoot movies after they become directors.

As long as they learn how to draw a few sub-shots and arrange for the photographer to operate a few camera positions, they can easily shoot a qualified and wonderful movie. This kind of simplicity and fluency makes Cao Qing, who is really living in this era, simply Envious.

Cao Qing also didn't know if the protagonists in those entertainment novels had any cheats. In short, Cao Qing has been really struggling to shoot this movie these days.

Because the lens on the viewer is so blurred that only a rough prototype can be seen, and the effect cannot be seen on the spot like in the digital age, Cao Qing not only has to use a tape measure to measure it many times before shooting The specific focus of the camera lens.

At the same time, he also needs to measure the distance between the lens and the real object many times through walking, rehearsing, and real shooting, which wastes a lot of time unnecessary.

Not only him, but even the lighting engineer of the crew needs to rely entirely on his own experience. When the light and shadow effects cannot be seen on the scene, he keeps using the light meter to measure the light on the scene, relying on experience, intuition and instinct to measure the light. I feel that it took a lot of effort.

As for the old Wang of the crew, it is not easy for him and his colleagues to be photographers. Because the cameras in the film era are very heavy, they need to use the largest high-position crane arm every time they move. Ordinary The boom cannot bear the weight of the film machine, which has led to the fact that every movement of the camera in the film era is a big event, requiring a lot of effort and physical strength, which is very tiring.

　Weekly News 20, Xu Qing 5, and then there are two or three chapters where mysterious characters appear from the mountain city of Chongqing.

　　
　
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