On November 15, the crew officially started filming, with the scheduled shooting period of one and a half months. To be more precise, Huo Dong was accurate to 43 days.

There are some reasons why the shooting cycle is greatly compressed:

First of all, Tao Xue and Youth Pioneer have been invited to participate in the New Year's Day and New Year's Gala on Magic City Satellite TV.

This evening party is mainly pop songs, and will invite the most famous singers of the year to sing the most popular pop songs. It has also become an annual event in the Chinese anthem. It is very interesting. China does not have any influential music awards. Therefore, being able to enter this New Year party is also an affirmation of the singers and a great honor.

As the number one "Golden List" in the year, Tao Xue and Youth Pioneer will definitely be invited. For the sake of honor, they will definitely appear and sing.

However, it seems embarrassing during the filming period of the crew. It is not necessarily a few days before New Year's Day? This situation needs to be avoided as much as possible and work will be completed before New Year's Day.

Secondly, Huo Dong has fully controlled the crew. This is also his first time in control of the crew.

In the previous crews, no matter how Ye Guicheng and Liu Shi listened to Huo Dong's suggestions, Huo Dong himself would never make the decision. Therefore, he still needs to accommodate those previous "old habits", and his efficiency will always be affected a little.

But this time it is different. Through Huo Dong's careful calculation, there is a very complete storyboard script, and the topic composition is also written, and there is a lot of preparation work in advance, so the efficiency will definitely be higher. Moreover, Huo Dong has full control of the power and can be fully implemented according to his arrangements. It does not take the original two and a half months, and can save a full month.

Finally, of course, it is about funding considerations. If the shooting period is shortened, then the funding will definitely be greatly saved.

However, with such a huge change, even Huo Dong himself did not have much confidence. Therefore, it was still announced to be two and a half months externally. Only internal plans will occur for one and a half months, and it is strictly kept confidential. It is because he is afraid that any accident will happen, and there will still be room for maneuver.

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On the Huaxi campus, we have prepared for the filming.

This is the second time that Huo Dong came to this university within a few days. This time his identity is different. He is the director of "Dream of Returning Home".

Unlike other universities, Hua Opera supports the crew's shooting on its own campus, especially the semi-autobiographical movie of its own alumni, which films the story of its own university. Therefore, the arrangements were made long ago, giving the crew three and a half days. And also mobilized many students in school to become extras, and even the fees were only a little symbolic.

The shooting plan formulated by Huo Dong is to first take the external scene and then the interior scene; first group play and then individual play; first complex scene and then simple scene. In short, it is to shoot from difficult to simple ones.

This is different from the habits of many directors. They usually start with easy things and then difficult things, so they need to leave enough time to run in.

But the reason why Huo Dong chose this is because of the reasons mentioned above. In order to speed up the construction period, it is easy to take advantage of the situation and there will be no repeated shooting of complex scenes in the later stages, but the entire crew is doing nothing in the middle.

Secondly, that is Huo Dong's personal habit. When he was performing projects, he always liked to gnaw bones first and then eat meat. This would cultivate enough willpower and confidence in the entire team.

In fact, these two methods cannot tell which one is good or bad. As long as the results are successful, they are both feasible. No matter whether it is white or black, the one who catches the mouse is a good cat!

So since Huo Dong chose this one, the crew should implement it as required.

So the first scene was a group scene with campus scenes:

Sun Qin, a child from a large courtyard in Beijing, has a typical cadre background. She has been versatile since childhood and was admitted to the Department of Chinese Opera Performance as expected. She was also the focus of the school at that time. She was lively and cheerful and has strong organizational skills. In today's terms, she is the existence of the school beauties and is the harmonious fantasy goal of all male classmates.

Pu Jianhua, both a child from the courtyard, grew up with Sun Qin. From the background of the script, it can be inferred that his father's position should be higher than that of Sun Qin's family. Therefore, he entered the Hua Opera Director Department through relationships and performed more strongly everywhere. He believed that he and Sun Qin were childhood sweethearts and had a strong possessive desire. He also served as a student cadre, revealing a sense of a superior person everywhere.

This is the character attributes Huo Dong did. Unlike the actor's character biography, the character attributes analyzed by the director are not so detailed, but they are more profound, and they must be able to grasp the essence. That is, they can prevent the actors from not making character biography at all, and there are always actors who are scattered, which can facilitate their own play; it cannot frame the performance of actors, so that they have their own performance space.

This scene is a group of freshmen gathering on the playground of the campus, spontaneously showing their talents, forming a literary and artistic performance.

Pu Jianhua is played by Guo Zifeng. Although he is not good at appearance, his talent is a bit arrogant in his personality and is not very likable. This role challenges Guo Zifeng's acting skills.

As for Sun Qin, she is the most dazzling star. Every move, every frown and smile is so charming, and she is always the central figure in the audience.

Because he was dressed in this era, he did not abuse any cosmetics, and he basically performed without makeup. So for Guo Zifeng, the difference in appearance is a little smaller. As long as he is dignified and neat, he can be used in appearance. After all, in the film, he is still a little villain. Moreover, the talented man is not necessarily very beautiful and handsome. In reality, few famous directors in China can be called handsome. Sweat!

On the contrary, Sun Qin, a plain dress and two braids, suddenly got closer in appearance. Therefore, how to show a dazzling feeling in the play still has a certain challenge to Tao Xue. Don’t forget that the extras here are all students of the Chinese opera, and they are all members of the Justice League of Appearance!

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To be honest, Huo Dong was also a little nervous before the first shot started. Although the preparations were done very thoroughly, he always felt a little unsure without Liu Shi around him. However, when he came to this point, he could not stand back.

Seeing that all the positions were ready, Huo Dong did not return to his director's lounge chair, but stood beside him holding the script:

"Photography?"

"alright!"

"light?"

"Ok!"

"recording?"

"no problem!"

“…”

After all the working groups answered, the scene record immediately took the blackboard and put it in front of the camera: "The third set of lenses of the sixth act!"

There was a "pop" sound!
Chapter completed!