The filming of "Mountains and Seas" started. The crew filmed the behind-the-scenes of the opening ceremony and posted them online to make the official announcement.

Fang Xing started the filming work in full swing. As before, he was both the director and the male protagonist.

The male protagonist "Ma Defu" has a relatively calm and reserved personality, he is passionate in his heart and can act calmly.

This is a story about the immigrants from Diaozhuang in Xihaigu area of ​​Ning Province.

Diaozhuang immigration is to immigrate people from poor mountainous areas to plain areas.

Although they are immigrants, they are not immigrants to prosperous areas, but to plains with better geographical environment.

Therefore, the immigrant people still have to open up wasteland and build homes on the loess land, which can be said to be starting from scratch.

Opening of the first episode.

Diaozhuang immigrants encountered troubles.

People in impoverished mountainous areas were born and raised there. Even though they are poor, many do not want to immigrate.

After all, there is a deep-rooted idea in Chinese tradition, that is, fallen leaves return to their roots.

In the hearts of the people, they will always feel that the place where they were born and raised is where their roots are, so they are unwilling to leave.

This also makes diaozhuang immigrants very difficult.

The male protagonist "Ma Defu" returned from agricultural school and was seconded to the Diaozhuang Office. The first thing he did when he took office was to return to his hometown of Yongquan Village to persuade the folks in Yongquan Village to Diaozhuang.

Because the number of households in Diaozhuang does not meet the requirement, there is no way to get electricity.

After all, wires need to be laid from far away places. If there are only a few households, it consumes too much manpower and material resources and does not comply with regulations.

The make-up of the entire cast of actors can be described in one word, "stupid".

Not only his temperament, but his face and body are really all covered in loess.

Because there are frequent sandstorms in the Xihaigu area, it is said that people eat sand. Although it is a joke, it is not entirely a joke.

actually.

The assistant director had arrived in Ning Province half a month in advance and set up camp in the most sandy place to shoot scenes of sandstorms.

Because in this drama, there will be many scenes of encountering sandstorms.

It is impossible for the crew to let the actors stand on the loess and wait for more than ten days for a sandstorm before filming.

Therefore, distant shots of sandstorms need to be shot separately.

The assistant director and cameraman will lead a team, which started half a month ago.

Due to the need for editing in post-production, we needed to shoot a few more distant views of the sandstorm.

For close-up views of sandstorms, you don’t need to wait for sandstorm weather.

For close-up shots of actors performing in sandstorms, just use a blower to blow them.

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In addition to sandstorms, there is another thing that requires the crew to grow for a long time, and that is Agaricus bisporus.

Agaricus bisporus, also called white mushroom and mushroom.

In the 1990s, it could be sold for 10 yuan per pound. The price at that time was indeed relatively high.

This mushroom has a unique taste that may seem strange to you for the first time, but once you accept it, you won’t be able to stop eating it.

It is no longer the 1990s. The cultivation of Agaricus bisporus has been spread across the country, so the price is relatively cheaper.

Nowadays, Agaricus bisporus costs 6 or 7 yuan per pound. Just looking at the number, it doesn’t seem to be much lower than 10 yuan.

However, if inflation is taken into account over the past 20 to 30 years, the real price gap is huge.

in the play.

Minning Village, built by immigrants from Diaozhuang, has established a one-to-one poverty alleviation program with Phuoc Province, so a professor who specializes in growing Agaricus bisporus came to Minning Village in Ning Province to teach the villagers how to grow Agaricus bisporus.

Therefore, it is necessary to photograph the process of growing Agaricus bisporus.

At the beginning, the props team discussed whether to use materials to make Agaricus bisporus props.

With the current strength of the props team, they can indeed make it very similar. When captured on camera, the audience can hardly tell the difference.

However, this is only static.

Fang Xing wanted to film villagers planting Agaricus bisporus and picking Agaricus bisporus. Every detail was made to be realistic.

It's definitely not possible to do it with props.

Therefore, Fang Xing asked the crew to contact the local agricultural science institute very early to ask for advice on growing Agaricus bisporus. He also built more than a dozen sheds where the crew was stationed and grew Agaricus bisporus himself.

However, the cultivation cycle of Agaricus bisporus is not short. Even with the help of the Agricultural Science Institute, it will take seventy or eighty days to produce mushrooms.

Fortunately, I started planting in advance. When I turned on the machine, I had already been planting for a month and a half. In more than a month, the mushrooms should start to bloom.

For the purpose of filming, the planting time of each mushroom shed was staggered.

Because the planting process needs to be photographed, every stage must be photographed.

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During the day, Fang Xing was filming on the set. When he was free, he still learned how to grow mushrooms.

After the crew got off work in the evening, Fang Xing used his mobile phone to call Lu Xiang'er and talked on the phone for more than an hour.

At first, he was worried that there would be no signal in Ning Province, so before coming, Fang Xing bought a mobile phone that could make satellite calls, which was really convenient.

When other actors in the crew had no signal, they would come over from time to time to borrow their mobile phones and make calls.

Fang Xing had no choice but to buy a few satellite phones and use them as public phones on the set.

The crew started filming for a week, and it was their first day off.

After the crew started shooting, they didn't shoot every day.

There will be several rest days every month, and the specific rest days will be arranged according to the shooting plan.

The day before the rest day, assistant director Wang Yutao came over to discuss the subsequent shooting plan, but found Fang Xing packing his luggage.

"Director Fang, are you leaving?" Wang Yutao was a little surprised.

In the past, after Fang Xing joined the team, he rarely left the team. Even on his days off, he would discuss subsequent shooting plans with the director team.

"Yes, I have to go back to the East China Sea. You should work harder. I will reward you after the filming of this drama is completed."

Fang Xing finished packing his luggage, but he couldn't leave directly yet. He had to find the director team and arrange the follow-up work.

After convening the director team, Fang Xing said that he had some personal matters to deal with, so he had to go back to Donghai, and the subsequent work would be left to several assistant directors.

"Don't think it's hard, just think of it as a test. You can't be an assistant director forever. After filming this scene, it's time to think about the follow-up development, so this is also an opportunity for you to come forward." Fang Xing

Don't hide it, just make it clear.

Of course, I won’t talk to them about my private matters for the time being.

The assistant directors looked at each other and immediately agreed: "Don't worry, Director Fang, we are not afraid of getting tired, and we will definitely arrange the work of the crew well."

In fact, the more mature the crew is, the easier it will be for the director.

When he first started filming "Wulin Gaiden", Fang Xing was very busy, from costumes to props, from location selection to camera placement, to actor makeup, every detail had to be taken care of personally.

Because at that time, we couldn't afford to hire a top team, and even the actors had to do a lot of their own makeup.

Things are different now, Ark Culture has a mature crew.

The assistant director can complete a lot of work, and even if Fang Xing leaves for a few days, the crew can still start work.

Of course, Fang Xing still has to check the final shot. If it doesn't work well, it still has to be retaken.

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Fang Xing never suppresses the assistant directors in the directing team.

Usually the assistant director is responsible for the crew's trivial matters, no matter how big or small, and has to take care of everything.

However, these assistant directors actually all graduated from the directing major of film schools and have good abilities.

In fact.

Many film and television companies contacted Fang Xing's assistant director, and almost every one of them was poached.

But no one was poached.

Because Ark Culture will give them everything they need, and Fang Xing never suppresses them.

For example, Zhang Yigao was the first to become the director of a hit drama from an assistant director.

The directing industry is inherently something that cannot be rushed.

It was only when Zhang Yigao was forty years old that he got the opportunity to film "The Dark One".

In fact, every assistant director dreams of becoming a director and hopes to get a director one day, but experience and knowledge need to be accumulated.

It is true that some film and television companies have approached them, but the film and television companies that approached them were more general and their projects were more general.

After all, it is impossible to find a newcomer who has not been a chief director to film a large-investment film and television project.
To be continued...