Chapter 37: Fully exchanged opinions with each other

"Cut! All groups stay in place first."

Wu Bai called the photographer over, watched the playback of the just shot on the viewfinder, confirmed that there was no problem, and then said to the waiting crew: "OK! This pass, restore the props to the shelves and counters, and prepare for the next scene."

The quiet crew suddenly became noisy. The stage staff was busy dealing with the messy scene to prepare for the next scene. The assistant director began to distribute the parameters to be adjusted for the next scene to the lighting technician and photographer, and the actors came to the chairs on the sidelines to sit down and rest.

The whole crew was full of a kind of harmony of being busy but doing their own job.

The "Pendulum" crew has been in operation for half a month. From the initial unfamiliarity and jamming, after continuous running-in, it has finally gradually got on the right track and entered a period of rapid development.

It is really "fast" - in half a month, the crew finished the planned scenes that were originally scheduled for nearly 20 days.

This speed surprised even Meng Bai, the producer who has always wanted to meet the deadline, and quickly pulled Wu Bai to say that there is no need to be so fast, and quality must be guaranteed.

Wu Bai was also helpless when he heard what Meng Bai said. He had already set high standards for the quality of the camera and the actors' performances, all in accordance with the standards of those high-quality dramas, but the crew just cooperated well. What can you do?

Meng Bai looked at the previously filmed materials and found that there was indeed no problem. Not to mention the online drama, even the TV series on satellite TV is no more than this level.

Of course, if you insist on benchmarking the movie level, then it is really unnecessary.

Regarding such an efficient shooting progress, everyone in the crew also talked about it, but everyone still attributed the main credit to director Wu Bai, after all, he was the leader in charge of the shooting part.

"Nonsense, what does this have to do with me."

Wu Bai himself disagreed with this statement. Seeing that everyone was puzzled, he continued to explain: "The reason why we can shoot so quickly is that our producer solved many problems that may be encountered in the shooting during the early preparation."

What is the biggest problem for the crew in filming? It's not the venue, not the equipment, and not the weather, but the people.

The crew is a project that requires the cooperation of many people, and the more people involved in a project, the more likely it is to make mistakes.

Unprofessional technology, unreliable extras, producers who don't solve problems, leading actors who don't have acting skills... Many crews have trouble shooting because they don't deal with people problems.

Wu Bai has worked in some "wild crews" before. The biggest problem of this kind of crew is not "poverty" but "chaos".

The stage staff changes six people in two days, and the record keeping style is mainly abstract. When shooting a costume drama, the actors watched the playback after performing a plot and found that the extras in the background were chatting on WeChat on their mobile phones.

In comparison, the "Pendulum" crew is simply a paradise for directors.

Although the technicians are not big names in the industry, they are all experienced and experienced.

The production team is young and inexperienced, but all the shooting needs are arranged as well as possible.

Not to mention the actors, even the small supporting roles in each unit are at least students of the Film and Television Academy. Their abilities vary but they all have a foundation.

Especially the last one, it's okay for the director, but for the assistant director, the sense of happiness is no less than playing Tetris and giving four long strips in a row.

God knows how lucky it is to not have to tell the new extras over and over again that they can’t walk in front of the main character, must walk in an arc around the camera, and don’t touch the lighting stand.

Don’t think that extras don’t need to be managed.

A war scene involving dozens of people took half a day to shoot. When it was about to end, the protagonist was suddenly "stabbed to death" by a group soldier who was "killing" excited. This kind of thing has happened in the industry before.

It is precisely because these problems were solved by Meng Bai in the preparation period before filming, and after filming, he fully trusted Wu Bai to give the filming rights, which made the "Pendulum" crew, this "small chariot", run smoothly.

The crew ran smoothly, everyone was not so nervous at work, and the set was a little more cheerful. Even the producer and director had a dispute over the filming problem, and it seemed very peaceful.

"The same actor will play the plot before and after the transformation, and the audience will see it more smoothly. As for the contrast you mentioned, we can achieve it through makeup and styling." In the warehouse lounge of the convenience store, Wu Bai expressed his views.

"No, no, no, changes in makeup and styling are fine for other dramas to show the contrast between the characters before and after. But we are different. The "ghosts" that appear in the background of this plot are physical "gods". So we must let the audience feel at a glance that this character has completely changed."

The other people in the lounge were busy with their own things, but they also kept a little attention to listen to the debate between the two big bosses of the crew.

Although they have cooperated well for so long, Meng Bai and Wu Bai still often have arguments.

Of course, these arguments have nothing to do with individuals, they are basically about the plot and filming.

For example, the content of the two people's argument now is about a unit story called "Lust, Caution" in the script.

Don't get me wrong, this story has nothing to do with that youth enlightenment work, it's just the same name.

The unit "Lust, Caution" tells a story about plastic surgery.

A girl who was ridiculed for her ordinary appearance successfully transformed herself into a beauty through the "ghost power" she accidentally obtained, but she didn't expect that this power would come at the cost of vitality. In order to keep her looks, the girl finally chose to give up being ordinary and would rather become a monster that is "withered and old during the day, stunning and moving at night".

Plastic surgery has also been a hot topic in recent years. The main theme of the script of "Soul Ferry" is "using ghosts and gods to write about human nature", so it is naturally impossible to miss such a hot topic.

As for the dispute between Meng Bai and Wu Bai, it is whether the original actor should still play the role after the heroine has completed the last "worship" in this unit and has completely

changed. Wu Bai's point of view is that the same actor should be used, just changing the makeup.

Meng Bai thinks that since it is "reborn", why not just change a more beautiful actor for convenience and more contrast.

The two talked frankly with each other in the lounge, fully exchanged their opinions, and finally reached a common decision with Wu Bai being persuaded.

"What kind of actor do you want to change?" Wu Bai asked.

"Beautiful, delicate, and a little aggressive." Meng Bai described.

Wu Bai was speechless. With such general conditions, if you just find a film and television school, there will be at least 800 girls who meet the requirements.

Forget it, let him be. Anyway, I am only responsible for waiting for people to come and continue filming.

Finding people is of course the producer's job.

(End of this chapter)