Chapter 209: Kuliwa drum washing machine, it's a steamed egg!
"The Ancient City of Jingjue" is the first part of "Ghost Blowing the Light", and there are three stories in total.
One is "Niuxin Mountain Guandong Army Treasure", located in Changbai Mountain, Jilin.
The second is "Kunlun Iceberg Nine-story Demon Tower", the location is naturally in Kunlun Mountain.
The third is the main line of the first part, the westernmost section of the Hexi Corridor, the "Ancient City of Jingjue" in the thousands of miles of desert outside Yumen Pass.
Meng Bai and Li Muge ran around the northwest, braving the autumn sunshine and the wind and sand of the Gobi Desert, and finally determined the right location for filming.
But this is not over yet, the crew also has to build the scenes that need to appear in the plot on the real site.
For example, the appearance of the ancient city of Jingjue, the tower under the Kunlun Mountains, and so on.
In other words, the most expensive part of filming a film and television drama is the location. If you want a good picture, you have to spend money to make a real scene.
On the contrary, things like tombs and temples can be shot in the studio.
After staying in Dunhuang and Hami for more than half a month, Meng Bai came back first.
Instead of returning to Beijing, he flew directly to Changsha.
"Gardenia Blossoms" has been taken off the screen, and the post-production finishing work has been completed. He Jiong's schedule was freed up, and the planning of "Star Detective" was put on the agenda.
The recording studio is not in the headquarters of Mango TV, but a factory area rented in Xingsha for renovation.
When Meng Bai went there, he happened to see He Chen and others confirming the camera setup.
"...The guests must wear a GoPro on their chests, and all enclosed spaces, such as cabinets and drawers, must be guaranteed to have a camera position. Yan Ji, you will be on the scene later to ensure that you can mobilize the appropriate camera position at any time to switch between medium and close-ups and close-ups..."
Meng Bai sat next to her for a long time, waiting for her to finish her work arrangements, and then stepped forward to say hello.
"Director He is very busy."
"Hey, Mr. Meng is here."
He Chen glanced at him, first with a smile on his face, then looked at him in confusion: "Did you just come back from a vacation at the beach?"
It's only been a month since we last met, how did "Meng Bai" become "Meng Hei"?
"The beach is indeed the beach, but it's a sea of sand."
Meng Bai laughed and explained briefly.
"Ah, it's the location selection for "Ghost Blowing Light." He Chen said enviously: "I heard about it, an investment of 100 million, what a big deal!"
Compared to the audience watching for fun, the platforms are jealous and hateful, and practitioners like He Chen are very envious of such "S+ level" projects.
Who doesn't want to meet a funder who can give a "100 million budget" with a wave of his hand!
The two exchanged a few words and then came to a separate room together.
Meng Bai had mentioned before that he wanted to set up an assessment first to examine which guests are more suitable for this program.
In the next few days, the artists invited by the program team will come to try shooting one after another.
In this way, the right guests can be selected, and the program team can also take this opportunity to "actually" run-in.
In addition, after deciding on the final members, this part of the assessment can be broadcast as a pilot episode.
It can not only serve as a warm-up for the program, but also allow the audience to experience the format of the program first.
He Chen and his team followed the proposed ideas and made a low-difficulty assessment test, which is the room in front of the two people.
"Teacher Meng, are you interested in being the first to experience our pilot assessment test?" He Chen joked with a bit of "provocation".
"Do I test it too?" Meng Bai smiled, but did not refuse, "Okay, let's take a look at your design."
Because the assessment is just a preliminary test, there is no need for a plot. The scene was designed by He Chen and his team, so he didn't know the specific content.
He Chen opened the door and the two walked in together.
As soon as he entered the door, Meng Bai looked around.
Judging from the furnishings, this should be the living room of a house.
The room is divided into two parts by the sofa and coffee table in the middle. The front half is a common TV, cabinets, etc., on which are neatly placed things such as photo frames and remote controls.
Next to the TV cabinet, there is a CD rack, which is rarely seen nowadays. It fell to the ground on its side, and the CDs on the rack rolled all over the floor. There
is also a router next to it. Behind the sofa, it was a mess. Overturned bookcases, broken cups, torn curtains...
On one side of the sofa, there was also a simulated dummy lying. The clothes were messy, and there were several bruises and scars on the body.
Obviously, this was a simulation of the crime scene of a murder.
After looking around, Meng Bai asked, "What do you need me to do?"
"According to the assessment tasks we set, there are three levels in total. The first is to explain the cause of death of the victim, the second is to explain the murder weapon, and the third is to find the evidence left by the murderer." He Chen introduced.
"Okay, then I know."
Meng Bai responded, and then he stopped paying attention to her and turned around to look at this "crime scene" with interest.
It's true that the feeling of watching the scene is really different from writing a script.
When filming "Forensic Qin Ming" before, he actually saw a lot of "scenes".
But first of all, it was designed by him, and he knew all the details of the cause and effect.
Secondly, it is a criminal investigation drama after all, and the way to solve the case mainly relies on forensic examination and investigation.
In comparison, this "assessment test" simulates something closer to the "reasoning type", and Meng Bai immediately put himself into the "Conan perspective". He
walked around the room twice, and then flipped over the simulation dummy. Finally, he lay on the ground and looked under the furniture.
It took only five or six minutes for Meng Bai to return to the door.
He stood here and pondered for a while, then smiled a little, and then sighed.
He Chen was a little confused by the change in his expression, and couldn't help asking: "Teacher Meng, do you have an idea?"
"Almost."
"So fast!" He Chen widened his eyes in surprise.
Meng Bai smiled, pointed at the furnishings in the room and began to explain.
"The first cause of death is a wound on the neck and a strangulation mark. If you look closely, you can find that the strangulation mark is pressed on the wound. So the neck should be injured first, and then strangled to death. Oh, praise the props team, the life reaction and fragmentation state of the wound are very professional."
Hearing this, He Chen smiled bitterly and said, "I have to thank Mr. Meng for introducing our props team."
It seems that the props are too real, and there are also shortcomings.
Since it is a "mystery-themed" variety show, there are naturally murders and victims.
Meng Bai introduced the team that made props for "Forensic Qin Ming" to He Chen, after all, they are experienced.
Of course, he did not forget to remind them that there is no need to simulate the real human body this time, and a silicone dummy will do.
The boss of the props team said that our original business was to make dummies.
"Then there's the murder weapon. The cable behind the router was plugged into the wrong port, and there are traces of bending. The murderer should have used this to strangle the victim."
"As for the evidence left behind by the murderer..."
Meng Bai raised his hand and pinched half of the broken CD with his sleeve: "It should be this. There is a little blood at the tip, and there should be fingerprints or palm prints of the murderer."
He Chen couldn't help but ask, "Mr. Meng, how did you figure this out? I think we have set it up very secretly!"
Meng Bai smiled and said, "I didn't think of it at first, I just thought the scene was a bit strange. Later, after watching for a while, I suddenly found that the CD rack fell too conspicuously."
The back half of the sofa was a mess, which was no problem. It was obvious that the murderer and the victim had fought here.
But in front of the sofa, the TV, cabinets, photo frames, and remote controls were all neatly arranged, which showed that the fight did not affect here.
But the CD rack fell, which was very abrupt.
Meng Bai didn't understand this at first, until he saw the messy and broken CD fragments all over the floor, he finally reacted.
If you want to hide a drop of water, the best place is the sea.
Similarly, if you want to hide a broken CD, the best way is to have fragments all over the scene.
The process should be like this: the murderer first scratched the victim with a broken CD, then was knocked to the ground, and then strangled the person with an Internet cable.
After the end, he found that he could not find the half piece of debris. In desperation, he could only overturn the CD rack and scatter the broken CDs all over the floor to cover up the evidence.
As for where the evidence is?
The ground was clean at the beginning, and everything was in full view, but the murderer could not find it. There are only two possibilities-
either it fell in a corner or it was hidden.
Meng Bai is a bit tricky here. He thinks that if it fell in a corner, it belongs to the category of criminal investigation and trace inspection, which does not match the "reasoning" attribute of the program.
If it is hidden, there is only the victim at the scene except the murderer. It should be hidden in the process of being strangled to leave evidence.
Meng Bai turned it inside out and found the half CD inside his pants.
"Pa, pa, pa!"
He Chen clapped his hands and said with admiration: "As expected of Mr. Meng, the idea is exactly the same as ours."
Meng Bai said politely: "It's mainly because I've seen too many reasoning routines, and our program group follows the routine, so the reasoning is fast. But then again, the difficulty is indeed not high, and many clues are too obvious."
"It's just a primary assessment, so we can't make it too difficult for everyone. And too high a difficulty is not very friendly to the audience, after all, they can't see the scene."
He Chen explained, and then couldn't help but smile bitterly.
It's not difficult, but Meng Bai's speed of solving the puzzle is too fast.
In fact, they thought of letting Meng Bai experience it first at the beginning, as a proof of the strength of the program group itself.
I thought it would take him half a day to embarrass him, but he finished in less than ten minutes.
He Chen suddenly felt a little worried. He Jiong and Sa Bening would also come to test in the afternoon.
The logical ability and IQ of the two should not be underestimated, and Sa Bening has many years of experience in "Today's Statement".
Will these two also finish in less than ten minutes?
Recruiting candidates for Yang, the advisor in Ghost Blows Out the Light. Currently nominated are Wang Ou, Qiu Ya, Ni Ni, Zhang Junning, and Lu Jingshan
(End of this chapter)
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