The behind-the-scenes production when I met him

The following excerpt is from a diary written by Zhuo Guanteng, a Fujian student from Nanguang College of Communication University of China:

After going home for three days, I can finally calm down and write about the experience of this trip to the north.

The trip to the north lasted more than a month, passing through Guantao, Handan, Xuchang and Zhengzhou. This is another great victory after my trip to Hainan. There are too many people to thank along the way, and it is not easy to pass in a word or two. So I will spend a lot of time later to praise you people. Now let me record the feelings and experiences of this crew life.

On July 4, 2009, we met in Guantao as scheduled, prepared a great plan for more than one semester, and finally reached the most critical moment. Since the winter vacation last year, Guo Dao has put forward a plan to make this film, and I agree with it very much. However, the most important thing is to put the plan into practice and turn the ideal into reality. As science students, we almost lost our imagination all day because of axioms and theorems, and script creation is the first great challenge we face. It's a shame to say that I really didn't help Guo with the script creation, just helped to play the script. Then, as a bystander, I watched my buddies behave badly, eat badly, sleep badly, work hard for the script all day, and want to eat and sleep in class. As a brother, I am really ashamed to think about it now, and I can't shirk my responsibility with any excuse. I'm sorry about Guo Dao here. However, during the difficult creative process, the script was successfully released. On May 1 day, Guo Dao went home alone with our posters to recruit actors. What makes us very excited is that the people of Guantao are very supportive of this matter. Three days later, the number of applicants reached 60, which brought the first good news to our previous hard work and made us more confident to make this film well.

However, the road to reality is really not as smooth as we thought. Although the script of Chen Mingyue, Guo Daoyu's screenwriter, was polished after arriving in Guantao, the integrity of the script also delighted us. However, we also found the greatness of this film in joy. A total of 73 games, at least 90 minutes long. It is a blockbuster for us, and the most important thing is to finish such a big movie without any financial support. In fact, we wanted to pull sponsorship, and later we pulled it, but we couldn't stand the sponsor's behavior. Originally, the sponsors agreed to make us 30 pieces of clothes for the crew, but they didn't show us the design drawings. After the clothes were made, we were disappointed. The quality was not good for the time being. What makes us most unhappy is the printing of the costumes of the crew. Although the words printed in front are the names of our crew, they are obviously much smaller than the fonts of the companies behind. Such unequal status makes us, although our crew members are not very professional, at least they are crew members. Even if you are poor, you must be poor and have backbone. Even if we don't wear uniform clothes, we can't accept such unfair conditions, so the sponsorship ended in failure I haven't made it clear to the actors here. The key is that there is no time to continue to compromise with them later, because the shooting task is much more important than sponsorship. Therefore, our film was produced under such difficult circumstances. Fortunately, some of our equipment is made by ourselves, as well as suspenders and tracks. Otherwise, the cost will be more expensive. Only four wheels of the track will cost 65,438+0,000 yuan, not to mention more than 20,000 cameras, more than 65,438 tripods and 65,438+0,000 microphones. Mirrors ... it can be seen that shooting does cost a lot of money, but almost all directors pay for it. Therefore, our film can really be regarded as a pure public welfare film, and the actors are completely unpaid. What we can give is the glorious title of Dreamer, the first homemade film in Guantao County.

Secondly, the problems identified by the actors make us afraid of the road ahead. Although the actors did well in the interview, they didn't fully conform to the characters in the script, and one of the actors had already decided, but because of something, he couldn't take part in the filming later, which was the biggest blow to us, and the news was only learned the day before the filming. The bad news was too shocking. The shooting date had to be postponed by one day.

Faced with this sudden setback, we thought of Jigglypuff (Ding Yu, a student from Xuchang, Nanguang College, Communication University of China), and Jigglypuff happened to be Song Yubo. He is fat, small-eyed, loyal, and completely conforms to the character and image of the character. So at this time, we called Jigglypuff, who is far away in Henan. After explaining the situation, Jigglypuff readily agreed. The next day, Jigglypuff hurried to Guantao. Tintin had no time to rest after a long journey, so we quickly asked him to check his lines. It's really not easy. Here, I would like to express my highest respect to the great Comrade Jigglypuff. However, after Jigglypuff finished reading his lines, our hearts cooled by more than half. We have to admire those actors. Some people are not born to be actors, so we can't force everything. In this respect, we also feel sorry for Jigglypuff, who shattered his dream of a star after a long journey.

However, Jigglypuff finally had to join our crew, and the Nanguang Trio was formally established.

However, the problem has not been solved, and the starring role is still missing. Shooting is just around the corner. In desperation, I can only apologize to Dongdong again. In fact, Dongdong originally wanted him to play Liu Weiqiang. He has been preparing for more than ten days, and he has changed his role. This is really sorry for him. But really helpless, Dongdong also understands the arrangement.

July 16, 2009, when I saw him started shooting as scheduled, but the road ahead is still full of difficulties. For Guo Dao, who has been engaged in photography for many years, it is still a great challenge to try track shooting for the first time, and it is not only the trouble of laying the track, but also how to lay the track and how to choose the angle with the camera to form a perfect combination. This is the biggest headache, which was later confirmed. We racked our brains for how to get the camera, and even had a little friction. Moreover, how to make the actors play the role of the characters in the play is the most critical, and how to make the characters alive in the play is the process we have been exploring. But what excites us is that the actors have done a good job and everyone will be able to join the show soon. But I stumbled all the way, and Li Weiqiang found out later, and everyone did well. Finally, through more than half a month's efforts, we finally finished shooting the middle and high school parts of the script.

However, it was originally expected that there would be 26 primary school plays to be filmed after the primary school started. Considering the problem of finding extras, Jigglypuff had something to go home at home, and I happened to be on his way, so I left the crew early after filming the high school part. But unexpectedly, a few days after we left, some actors in the primary school settled in smoothly, and now it's almost over. It's really gratifying. It's really a pity that I can't wait to finish filming together, but I'm still with every member of my crew when I see him every day, because although I'm back, my spirit will always be with you until the day we finished filming, and now I'm cutting films every day. Everyone's smile has been floating on our screen, even deeply imprinted in my mind. I have listened to every line of yours for at least dozens of times, so please believe that I will always remember everyone in our crew, because I will cherish this hard-won fate, and I believe everyone will remember this wonderful memory. Now I can only cheer for you happily in the distance. I wish our film an early success and look forward to the day with you.

I wish you * * * make concerted efforts, and wish our film the most complete success ~ ~ ~

Fujian Longhai Zhuoguan Tengyu

August 2009