independent filmmaker

In "Consummation", Cai Kuan finally confessed to Lang Ying after one night.The two of them sat on the edge of the bed, Caikuan held a cigarette in his hand, and said bitterly to his lover that he must go to get a red book with his classmate Li Fangfang, but they did not interfere with each other, and they parted ways two years later.He said that his parents still have a small house with two bedrooms and one living room, and the two of them will share one room and live together peacefully as roommates.He helped the other party stay in Beijing, and Li Fangfang helped him deal with his parents temporarily.Lang Ying was very distressed when he heard this. Naturally, he didn't want Cai Kuan to live with him, nor did he want Cai and Li to be recognized as husband and wife, but Lang Ying had no choice.He couldn't help thinking, Caikuan's parents wanted him to fall in love with his girlfriend and get married immediately, otherwise he would commit suicide, Caikuan used his classmates as an expedient measure to ease the situation, but when Caikuan separated from Li Fangfang, the underground relationship between the two of them would be ruined Will it be exposed again?Could it be that his parents will forget it as long as they are careful?

But just as Cai Kuan surrendered himself, Lang Ying couldn't refuse the other party. After a long while, he had to light a cigarette, and stayed silent with Cai Kuan.

Caikuan's parents were very anxious, and when they saw Li Fangfang for the first time, they kept urging them to get married.Caikuan and Li Fangfang pretended to be loving, looking at each other with tenderness.On the same day, after Caikuan sent Li Fangfang away, the two old people were satisfied and said to each other: "Look, my son is still not sensible, our parents must intervene. Can parents still harm them? Naturally, they will find the most suitable way out for their children. Ah. Isn’t it true that we’re back on the right track again? I think Europe and the United States pay attention to ‘children’s marriage is their own decision’, so how can it work?”

Finally, the two held a "grand" wedding after graduation.Caikuan's parents called all the classmates and colleagues who could be called, and the two of them talked again in the speech: "As long as you really want to live, all conflicts can be resolved..." Finally, in the part of kissing, Caikuan Hiroshi covered his eyes with his back, and the two of them drew their lips back and touched very stiffly.Finally, when the wedding ceremony entered the banquet, Cai Kuan Langying secretly met in the hotel bathroom, and Cai Kuan put a ring on each other.

These episodes were filmed for a week.

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On this day, the crew moved to a new location.

After marriage, the young couple, who were silent all the way, walked to their parents' house on foot to attend a "dinner".There they will be spawned for the first time.

Because the weather was very cold, it didn't go well at first.

The camera was frozen off.

"Uh," Yu Qianzi said, "Director Xie, it's too cold today, huh...how about changing it to an interior scene?"

"No," Xie Lansheng said, "Beijing is getting colder and colder in winter, we can't take this risk." After saying that, he turned his eyes, "Little red and little green, can you gather firewood? Build a fire in front of a tripod and let Qi Da photograph it Shot later. I saw that the waiter in the hotel carried an iron bucket every day and borrowed one." The weather is chilly today, but there is no wind, which is suitable for lighting a fire.However, Xie Lansheng was quite worried that a sudden wind would blow away the branches, so it would be safer to put them in a bucket.

Little Red and Little Green said, "No..."

The on-set assistant director of "Consummation" happened to be from the countryside. She heard the words and shouted: "I can help!!!" This is a pungent girl named Jia Ting, who just graduated from Beiguang and is also a directing student. Come and gain experience.After graduating from the third year of high school, she planned to be admitted to an art school because of her bad math. Later, she met a classmate in the art college entrance examination class. The boy wanted to study directing and said that Jia Ting couldn't pass the exam, so Jia Ting was furious She also said that she wanted to go to the Broadcasting Academy. Anyway, art and director are all the same to her. In the end, she really passed the exam, but the other party didn't. This temperament can be seen.

"Wait." Xie Lansheng thought about it again: "Let's boil some hot water and put it in a thermos bottle from the hotel. Buy two more big hot water bottles, cover them with a towel and press them on both sides of the camera, try it." If As long as it works, it's easier than making a fire.

Little Red and Little Green: "OK!"

Qi Yong put his hands in his sleeves and said, "Hiss...then let's wait for them."

"Wait," Xie Lansheng said, "How long has it been since they came back? They have to go back to the hotel first, and then heat the kettle and fill the hot water bottle. It's too much effort."

Qi Yong was stunned: "Then now...?" The cameras froze and turned off!

"..." Xie Lansheng removed the camera's hood, then, he knelt down on the ground, opened his down jacket, put his arm around the camera, lifted the sweater with the other hand, and stuffed the camera inside.

His sweater is very baggy and his mother knits it herself.

Reluctantly stuffing most of it, Xie Lansheng closed the down jacket again, holding the zippers on both sides with a few thin fingers.

The cold camera was pressed against the flesh, which almost made him cry out.

"Hey! Thank you, Director!" Qi Yong and Yu Qianzi were all shocked when they saw Lan Sheng.

Xie Lansheng knelt on the ground, looked down at the ground, the brown sweater was propped up, it was a little funny, but everyone was shocked.

"It's all morning, so don't delay if you can." Xie Lansheng still clutched the equipment and said, "If you have time to wait, it's better to shoot a few more difficult scenes a few more times, or give more time to post-editing. If you have enough time for lighting, the movie will always be better. Yu Qianzi, you are also a director. Remember, whether you are rushing to a movie exhibition or a movie release, you must never stop when you encounter difficulties. Rest. If you want a way to overcome it, don't always wait. If you can get one more day, it will be one day, and if you can get better, it will be a little bit. Making movies, you have to go through ninety-nine and eighty-one difficulties. If you wait, you will definitely end up I found out that your movie can't be finished."

Yu Qianzi: "...ah, I understand. Thank you, Director."

Holding the camera and covering it for a while, Xie Lansheng's stomach went numb.He took the device out again, and this time it actually turned on.

"Hey," Xie Lansheng said, "Come on, take another shot."

Yu Qianzi was a little serious and said, "Okay."

This morning, Xie Lansheng used his temperature to warm up the camera three times, and Xiaohong, Xiaolu and Jia Ting finally rushed back.They carried two large thermos bottles of peonies, one red and one blue, and filled two hot water bottles made of rubber with twill stripes. Each of them chose a side station, and used the hot water bags to stick the camera.

Then, every time the water got cold, they took the thermos and poured water.

Yu Qianzi told them that Xie Lansheng sacrificed his life for the machine, and Xiaohong and Xiaolu, especially Jia Ting, were all a little frightened.

Xie Lansheng thought: In the future, we must prepare hot water bottles, not only for cameras, but also for film.After a few days, after minus 15 degrees, the celluloid will be charged with static electricity due to the severe cold and low humidity, and the exposed film will secretly appear light marks. Therefore, for the film being shot and the film that has been shot, the director The temperature around the film must be strictly guaranteed. This is the experience and lessons Lan Sheng learned when he filmed "Black and White" a few years ago.

Making a movie means encountering accidents all the time and then resolving them.

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Recording Cen Chen, as always, is focused, serious and responsible.

He wore a headset and yelled at every turn: "A bird flew over in the sky! Do it again!" "The two props touched! Do it again!" Cen Shen, who Xie Lansheng didn't notice, could hear it.

However, at a certain time, Cen Chen's expression was obviously wrong, he seemed very hesitant, completely different from his previous self-confidence and decisiveness.

He frowned, pursed his lips, listened nervously to the recording, and pressed his finger on the headset.

Xie Lansheng felt something was wrong, so he stopped filming and asked, "Cen Chen, what's wrong?"

Cen Chen didn't speak, and took out another pair of earphones from his voice backpack, and listened again.Finally, Cen Chen finally confirmed something, raised his head, and said in a desperate voice, "Director Xie, the tape recorder is broken."

"...Huh?" Xie Lansheng hurried over.

"Really, the sound has been intermittent, and there is a distorted noise, that is, a crackling sound. This may be because the wire is broken, and the connector inside needs to be re-soldered." Cen Chen was very professional. On the casing, mark it.

After hearing it and found it to be true, Xie Lansheng's scalp went numb, and he asked, "This thing has only been used for a year! Why did it suddenly break down?"

"It's hard to say," Cen Chen said, "It may just happen to be 'broken'."

"Can you fix it?"

Cen Chen immediately shook his head: "I don't know how to repair it. Just because one person can drive an F1 car doesn't prove that he can repair an F1 car."

"Then how can it be repaired?"

Xie Lansheng thought: too much!He needs a tape recorder badly!

A video camera can only record the simplest original sound, but a recorder can use the mixed sound to add effects at any time.It's fine if it's anything else, he has very high requirements for "Consummation".

Cen Chen's expression became even more desperate: "I don't know. The recording equipment is too unpopular, it's not the same as a video camera. I can inquire about it, but... Director Xie, I'll inquire here first, and I'll borrow another from your other side." Taiwan bar."

"Borrow, where can I borrow it?" Xie Lansheng suppressed the irritability with great perseverance, "This is not a camera, it's a tape recorder! It's only used by film studios! It's not used for commercials or MTV! It's for commercials The recording function of the camera itself, MTV shoots in the recording studio and then mixes it, the studio has it! But who would lend it to our crew?!"

Here we go again, Xie Lansheng thought: here we go again.

During the four years of being banned, because of the regulation that "no individual or unit shall support or help the above two people to make films", no unit dared to help him, and everything was arranged by himself. I don't know how much torture I suffered.

Like this tape recorder.Lan Sheng couldn't go abroad by himself, so he asked someone else to bring it from the United States—this is how the tape recorders from various studios were brought back.

None of the other independent directors had bought high-end equipment, and Xie Lansheng was the richest.That is to say, once the special equipment is broken, he can't borrow one from his domestic counterparts at all, and only the common equipment such as the camera can be fiddled with.If it breaks, it will be gone. In fact, it is a great test.

Cen Chen said, "Then, are you going to buy another one?"

"Who will buy it?" Xie Lansheng's head hurts too much, "Xin Ye? Qi Yong? Go to Europe and America? How many days does it take to go back and forth?" In this era, photography and recording equipment are all produced in Europe and the United States, and Japan does not have them.However, there are only two routes from China to the United States. Civil Aviation of China operates Beijing-Shanghai-San Francisco-New York, and China Eastern Airlines operates Beijing-Shanghai-Los Angeles. They all have to stop in Shanghai first, and there are only two flights a week!

Xie Lansheng was about to die from a headache.When something breaks, it is necessary to find someone across the ocean to repair it, which costs money and time.Nuo Da is a Chinese and no one can help him or lend him a little.

He thought about buying another one before the filming of "Consummation", but a decent tape recorder would cost at least 100 US dollars, and better ones would be even more expensive, almost as much as half of the movie. Xie Lansheng sold "Beautiful Sea" There is only [-] million yuan left in the money, so I dare not spend it indiscriminately.He went back to participate in the film festival because he planned to buy an advertisement.Regarding magazine advertisements, he still remembered Morita's words - the cheapest ones are $[-], and the mid-level ones are $[-].He also wants to hire a media publicist to invite film critics and journalists to see his film screenings.It was time again that he had to sell the rights to continue shooting.

What's more, the tape recorder was bought last year, and the possibility of failure is almost negligible. It is indeed a big deal to prepare two devices specially.The tape recorder can be used for many years, and the product replacement is relatively fast. If the spare equipment is eliminated within a few years, it will be in vain.

Moreover, he set aside eight days to deal with various accidents at first, which was enough time, but who knew that he became very passive after being detained for four full days because of the gangster.

So what to do now?

Xie Lansheng said: "That's all I can do...Cen Chen will go to inquire first, and then I'll think about who can buy it for me. Xinye Qiyong is staying here. What if Cen Chen can fix it."

However, at this moment, Jia Ting, the newly graduated actor and assistant director of Director Beiguang, said: "Thank you, director, please say goodbye."

Xie Lansheng: "???"

"Director Xie," Jia Ting said suddenly, "I'll go to the entire recording equipment!"

"...???" Xie Lansheng was stunned, and asked, "Do you know the director of the studio?" Borrowing equipment from the studio must be approved by the director, and no one can steal the equipment for them to use for a month. .

Jia Ting said, "I don't know."

Xie Lansheng asked: "Then... how do you set up the recording equipment?"