chapter 5: walking(1/2)
The advanced prosperity of the Chinese film and television industry is not simply composed of good directors and good actors. More importantly, it has a complete system, the most important of which is the trade union system.
Thanks to the superiority of the political system, there are many trade unions in the Chinese film and television industry: from directors’ unions, actors’ unions, makeup artist unions, and field unions, basically as long as crew members with clear responsibilities can find their own union organizations.
Joining a trade union requires paying money and paying membership fees every year, but in contrast, the union protects you - the trade union will guarantee all your legitimate rights and interests and prevent vicious incidents like wage arrears, so everyone is happy to join a trade union. The size of the union members is extremely large, which also creates the convenience of group formation.
What position do you need? Just go to the corresponding union. I dare not say that the excellent ones can be found, and there are a lot of those with a little decent level.
This is still in the environment of Nanyang. If you go to Hengdian, the efficiency will be higher. After all, it is the most developed place in China's film and television industry. Countless film and television personnel with dreams gathered there, looking forward to an opportunity.
Thanks to the help of the union, the crew was basically formed by the third day, and the script had been copied long ago. It was sent to the actors to seize the time to get familiar with it. The filming officially started on the seventh day.
The shooting location was selected at the Xianlin Film and Television Base in the eastern suburbs of Nanyang City. The crew rented a section, which happened to be a large warehouse, which was very suitable for the set of this movie.
The people in the set team started working first, and arranged several main scenes needed in the script here. Duane participated in the whole process, but once the setter Chen Song asked him, "Is this good? Do you need to add something?", he responded with "Okay, fine, perfect! That's it."
Because the director is easy to talk to, the setter Chen Song felt that this was the easiest job he had ever done, and the cost was controlled very low - so the producers were happy and everyone was happy.
There is really nothing more satisfying than this.
The shooting location is in this city, and all the cast and crew live in this city. In order to save money, Shu Yu did not book a hotel at the Xianlin Film and Television Base, but took the method of filming: all the staff came to work on time and went home after get off work. This saved a lot of money. Of course, our producers were not too stingy, and the transportation fee was still paid, which was already indicated in the contract as a subsidy.
This day is the first day of starting the filming, and the opening ceremony will be held. Whether there are any shows or not today, they will arrive early. There are unprecedented staff, but the director has not arrived yet.
Seeing that the filming time was five minutes before the 9:00 am, the director had not arrived yet, and the staff on the scene were a little impatient. They looked around and some people ran outside the area to check.
Shu Yu grabbed a drama business that was walking by the side and asked, "Where is Director Du?"
The drama officer looked at her innocently, "I didn't see it."
Shu Yu let go of him, took out his cell phone and wanted to call and urge him, but he only remembered one thing when he opened the cover of the cell phone - that guy didn't have a cell phone.
Damn it!
Shu Yu, who had always been as calm as water, couldn't help but curse in her heart.
Fortunately, there are still landlines, I just hope that this landline can be contacted with him.
Just as Shu Yu was about to type in the landline, a sound came from a distance.
"The director is here!"
Shu Yu turned her head and looked at the exit, and Du An was hurriedly walking over.
The staff looked at the top leader in the crew with interest, but were stunned the next second.
The one who called out, are you sure this is the director, not a migrant worker?
I had a bad-quality shirt with Yeliang (a cheap textile material from the last century). Because it was too hot, my sleeves were rolled up to my elbows, and my lower body was obviously larger. There were some mud stains on the lower edge of the trousers. I was wearing a pair of old sports rubber shoes on my feet. The upper of one shoe was cracked and stuck with white glue.
This is very migrant worker-like.
As the starring actor, Zhang Jiayi was a little stunned.
Duane sat there for the interview that day, so he didn't look at it carefully, and now he saw the whole picture.
What is this director's outfit? Is it popular with the style of migrant workers now?
The atmosphere at the scene was a little weird for a moment.
"Hello everyone."
Duan got closer and closer, and found that everyone was looking at him foolishly. He couldn't help but feel a little restrained, and subconsciously looked down at him.
Nothing is wrong. He looked in the mirror before going out today.
So he ignored it and walked to Shu Yu, looked around, "Are you ready to start shooting?"
Shu Yu pursed her lips, her eyes flowing, as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she just said: "The opening ceremony will be held first."
Du An was stunned.
He thought he would start shooting today.
"Oh, then hold the ceremony."
After the opening ceremony is held in a regular manner, the first scene will be filmed.
Sitting behind the monitor, Shu Yu sighed in his heart as if he was sitting in the director's chair with a comfortable look beside him.
In order to save costs and invest more funds in the production of the film, she did not hire another producer, but became a producer herself. The producer was already the responsibility of the producer, and many times the producers were also the producers, which was nothing to criticize.
She opened her mouth, but in the end she couldn't ask what she wanted to ask, but changed the topic.
"Why are you here so late?"
“Traffic jam.”
Duane answered her without changing her face.
God knows that he is not because of traffic jams, but because the bus is delayed.
As a director, he has preferential treatment. Other people's transportation subsidies are based on bus standards, but his transportation subsidies are based on taxi standards. However, in order to save money, Duane takes buses every day - it takes sixteen to take a taxi, and only one yuan is enough to save fifteen yuan a day!
No, it’s thirty yuan in the round trip!
My God, an ordinary worker now has only more than 30 yuan in a day, and he has so much transportation subsidy every day. Thinking about it, the director's job is really good.
However, Shu Yu cannot know this, otherwise she might have modified her transportation subsidy standard?
Shu Yu asked again: "Don't you go and guide the movement?"
Duane didn't even raise his eyes, "I think they did a good job and had nothing to guide."
Perhaps Duan's passive and slacking appearance finally stimulated Shu Yu. This woman who had always spoken plainly raised her tone for the first time.
"Are you really a director?!"
Du An was stunned, and then he began to panic, but looked at Shu Yu with a puzzled expression.
"What do you mean?"
Shu Yu asked again: "Are you really a graduate of the Director Department of the Central Academy of Drama?" His eyes were staring at Du An.
Of course she didn't expect Duane to answer truthfully. She just wanted to find some evidence from Duane's face that could prove her guess.
Unfortunately, Duane's acting skills are admired by professional actor Zhang Jiayi.
"certainly!"
Duan was very indignant, and the dissatisfaction and indignation of being questioned were reflected on his face. This expression really made Shu Yu wonder if his speculation was wrong.
Duane even took out the fake certificate for twenty yuan from his carry-on bag.
"I can lie, but certificates can't lie, right?"
The heavens show their feelings. The fake CAS director graduate has always been a bomb, which made Du An uneasy, so he always carried this certificate with him, and it came in handy again today.
Shu Yu stopped talking.
Seeing this, Du An felt relieved and stuffed the certificate back into his bag.
The dispute here is just a small clip, and even a trace of turmoil was not started, and the shooting began soon.
Duane, who didn't know how to shoot, shot it completely in the order of the script, so the first scene was that Han Sheng woke up in the bathtub.
The actor who played Han Sheng is named Zhu Yuchen. He graduated from the acting department of the Central Academy of Drama last year. After graduation, he signed a small agency. He just graduated and was young and angry and offended the big guys in the company. He was hidden before filming a movie.
He has been suing the company for the past year. He finally got his lawsuit a while ago and finally got his freedom back. Then he happened to catch up with Du An's crew recruiting people and joined the group smoothly.
Although the process went smoothly, Zhu Yuchen was very low-key and cherished this opportunity very much. She had been hiding for a year and finally came out to film. She was still a movie. How could she not cherish it? It was just that the director who dressed like a migrant worker really made him feel worried. Maybe he just likes to go this way? I heard that those big directors have their own quirks.
Zhu Yuchen could only comfort himself like this.
All the personnel are in place and wait for the director to issue an order.
Seeing that those people were in place and stopped moving, Duan was stunned.
Why haven't they started yet?
Shu Yu next to him also looked over, and he could see clearly the suspicion in his eyes.
Du An was anxious, and then became wise in a hurry, and he was blessed to his heart, and suddenly shouted:
"Go!"
"Puchi!"
Zhu Yuchen, who was lying in the bathtub, heard the inappropriate shout, and suddenly couldn't hold back his breath. He burst out laughing, then choked on the water, got up, and coughed loudly.
The staff around them all looked like they wanted to laugh but didn't dare. The photographer couldn't help it, and the camera was shaking.
Every director has his own slogans he is used to shouting, the most common is "start". Some personalized ones, such as Director Chen likes to shout "GO", but this is the first time that Duane has a local and without any momentum.
"Sorry, sorry, do it again."
Zhu Yuchen, who finally coughed out the water from the trachea, quickly apologized and then crawled back into the bathtub.
The only ones in the audience, Du An and Shu Yu didn't laugh. One of them didn't know where the laugh was, and the other was holding their thighs tightly, for fear that the other one could not help but question Du An next to him again, and even started arguing.
After the staff arrived again, Duan saw that it was nothing and shouted again, "Let's go!"
After laughing just now, everyone got used to it. Finally, no one laughed anymore and the shooting went smoothly.
But soon, Duane saw many people looking at him in confusion.
To be continued...