Stephen Roweinstein: "Have you ever been to the studio before?"

Joel Cohen: "The first day of filming of "Blood Maze" was the first time I saw the studio, and I haven't even visited it before."

Ethan Cohen: "Everyone is the same, you know, Barry hasn't seen it before." Barry Sonanfield, photographer of "The Maze of Blood".

Joel Cohen: "Barry walked to the parking lot and started vomiting, and he was so nervous. We were all the same. So were the lighting engineers and the mixers, and it was everyone doing this for the first time."

Rowinstein: "How did you feel when you first started making a movie?"

Anthony Ggra: "I was very nervous when I was shooting the first five or six sets of shots. I remember that during the filming of "Unfined Yin and Yang", I had the idea that I could not hold on anymore. Even years later, during the 3-day shooting time of "Genius Ripley", I still felt nervous and very nervous on the way to the set, and it was like this every day."

Rowinstein: "What's the hardest thing in shooting except for lack of sleep?"

Ang Lee: "Pushing Hands is my first official film. I feel that the responsibility is heavy because everyone is looking forward to this work and full of hope for it. For a low-cost work filmed in New York, hope is the only motivation because you can't afford a lot of salary.

The hardest thing is probably confidence and the trust others have in you, because the crew must fully believe that their director is a genius before your ideas will be implemented ideally. They do a great job - I certainly like this feeling

But on the other hand, you have a great responsibility. Your language and your ideas must be consistent. You can make it clear that once you have a good idea, everyone will respect you.

I'm not an arrogant man or a yelling person, so I have to make a lot of preparation. Just standing there, you have to have the power to boost morale and inspire people, which is what a professional director has to do. On the set, everyone is busier than you, but as long as you stand there, they just need you to stand there, that's an invisible power."

—"My 1st Movie"

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As the King of the set of "Sunlight Beauty", he directed nearly 50 people in various departments, including two superstars in the 260,000-year-old club. None of the other actors are fuel-efficient. Even Abigil, who is about to be 9, is a talented young actor, and he is a 17-year-old half-rookie.

Ye Wei is nervous? Of course

Although this is actually not his first feature film, it is really different from the sets of "The Marriage is Coming" and Exorcist Videos".

For the new version of "The Marriage is Coming", except for himself, others don't have much expectations. Because the shooting cycle of the new material is short, the budget is very low, and there are no big names in the crew, the pressure on the set has always been very light, and it is as easy and funny as the movie itself. Only Cage's guest appearance and two cakes made everyone's nerves tense for a while.

"Exorcist Video" is like a race that starts from the first step. In the B-day filming, everyone is just doing things and doing things, and they don't have time to think about anything. Because he is a sole proprietor and a big figure, he has absolute power. He can fire anyone who wants to fire immediately, so he is not very nervous.

What about the Little Sunshine Beauty? Yes, he is the first producer and director, and one of the investors, and the soul of the project... However, without absolute power, facing superstars and old foxes, he not only needs to explain his intentions clearly, but sometimes he also has to work hard to convince them. This begins from the preparation period.

This aspect cannot be solved by power. A team that is in harmony with one's appearance cannot produce anything good. The director must have the prestige of a wolf.

Ye Wei has never been a person who lacks confidence, but he also knows that he is still a mature director. Even if he is a big director, most of them will still have nervous problems. He admitted to himself that he was very nervous. After all, this is the first official film feature film, with a medium-sized crew, a budget of 600,000 yuan, and huge expectations from all parties.

nervous

When you are nervous, you are prone to making mistakes. If you make a mistake, what the director has to do is... the college, textbook, and experience are all talking about the same answer:

Of course I know what I am doing, but you don’t know, only I am the right one

"Director, this camera will cause it to cross the axis..."

At nearly eleven o'clock in the morning, the set was filming for more than two hours. After filming Oliver's opening scene in the lobby, as well as the scenes of several characters walking in the lobby, he was filming the kitchen scene. Because it was not a real-life shooting, the studio's landscape provides the largest shooting space, the walls can be moved, props can be rearranged, and all angles can be used, without the lighting crew having no place to stand or the camera cannot move.

The kitchen setting is in the style of an ordinary middle-class family on the lower floor, and the upper floor of the double-layer refrigerator is covered with photos and label papers with something written.

These props were all made during the preparation period. For this reason, the starring actors needed to cooperate with the prop group's photo work. Almost all of them were Oliver. She seemed to have done something amazing when she wore the prize flowers... In each photo, she couldn't see other family members, only a weird Polaroid photo, except for Oliver laughing, dad, mom, and brother had no expressions, and no grandpa.

This is a set carefully designed by the art team under Ye Wei's intention, revealing a lot of important information in the language of props, showing the status of the family

Oliver is the most important person in this family. Everyone loves her and regards her achievements as pride. At the same time, they have no success worthy of sticking up. Their lives are very failed, and success without family members is not really successful. Moreover, this family is actually on the verge of breaking and separation, and Oliver is the button belt that maintains them.

It's not a normal photo, but a Polaroid photo. The grandfather I can't see may be the one who took the photo, or maybe I don't know where to go, which indicates that he will leave in the story, and it also indicates that this family has no time and thought to take a decent family photo. Richard was thinking about becoming a successful person, and other members wouldn't be able to go much better.

Although in the storyboard script drawn by Ye Wei, the details on the upper floor of the refrigerator will appear in the close-up scene of the conversation between Richard and Cheryl, and there is enough time to stay, it is certain that these details are not noticed and appreciated by ordinary audiences. Only active viewers such as film critics, fans, and peers will be interested in the prop settings.

However, this is artistic creation. If there are no such details, then what is the difference between it and a commercial film? Or is it directed by Ye Wei or Michael Bay or Michael Angelo? What is the difference between different directors?

The long preparation period is not just a waste of time, and the expectation of impacting awards season is not just a mouth-to-talk. This set is just the tip of the iceberg.

The big guys will trust Ye Wei because he performed well in the early stage. Of course, during the execution process, the artistic team led by Donald Burt, Adam Khausen, Heather Lefler, and Tony Bonaventura really gave satisfactory homework.

"Over the axis?"

"Well."

At this time, the kitchen scene was crowded with crew members, and Ye Weizheng instructed the crew where the camera would be placed for the next camera.

But as soon as he pointed his finger, Mao Ruier felt something was wrong. What was wrong? Just as the two photography assistants were about to move the camera, Linen reminded Ye Wei softly. Linen was a senior field reporter with more than ten years of experience in the industry. She had very strong professional skills. She said that the more axis, the more axis it was.

Everyone was stunned when they heard this. When the idle people waited until they heard it, Mao Ruier figured it out as soon as he heard it. This camera position did appear to be out of line with the previous camera.

Look at Ye Wei, who was expressionless, Hanks and Roberts, who were performing this scene, frowned slightly. The second producer over there, Peter Huller, art director Donald Burt and others, all had worries flashing in their hearts. Going over the axis is a common mistake, but also a low-level mistake.

There are arguments about cross-axis almost every day on each set. Many times, all parties are quarreling and they are red in the face, and they can’t even decide the outcome until the editing is done.

This is not a big deal, but Maurier knows best that VIY rarely makes mistakes of over-scheduling, let alone that the filming has just started, and the refreshing morning has not passed yet.

Did his injuries still affect his mind?

This is a situation that everyone is worried about, because the child prodigy should have been lying on the hospital bed, not on the set.

People who work with VIY for the first time will inevitably feel a little bit. After all, it is normal for a 17-year-old director to make more mistakes than others...

Regardless of whether it is normal or not, there is a proven fact that no matter how old or seniority is, the more mistakes a director makes on the set, the lower his prestige in the crew and the smaller the strength of the team. Everyone will feel that "it's over, he is a general who can only defeat the battle."

Especially for a teenage director, his image collapses and he loses everyone's trust quickly. Making mistakes when he starts filming is not a good start.

However, as a scene record, pointing out the director’s mistakes is one of Lynn’s responsibilities.

Why are the directors very nervous, anxious, and even painful to the point of "I can't hold on" and "I want to leave here, the farther the better", because the director cannot make mistakes.

"Haha" Ye Wei understood this and understood it very much. Just two seconds after Linen's speech fell, he laughed like a conditioned reflex: "No, it has nothing to do with crossing the axis." Fuck, crossing the axis... I really shouldn't make such a low-level mistake, don't make it again

"Oh?" Everyone was puzzled when they heard this, that's it?

"I just want this camera position for this camera. Then I have to take a few more new shots I just thought of, and decide when I use to go to the editing room."

Ye Wei smiled "everything is under control", as if he was happy with the outbreak of inspiration, which once again proved that the director had no advantage in learning performance, no bad

He knew that he had made a mistake, and every director would make some mistakes, and he was no exception, but he could not say carelessly, "Parts, I was wrong", he could only say "this is part of the plan", and in fact, he could not say that, that has become a term, and whoever said it would be equivalent to saying "Yes, I know I was wrong, but I don't recognize it."

If he had been filming for many days, if he was not injured, he could admit his mistake. Now he could not do anything about honesty or modesty, and maintaining authority is one of the director's responsibilities.

But no one is easy to deceive these people. Hanks herself can also direct it. Roberts' total length of time on the set can be more than his age. Well, she is not that old either.

Ye Wei's thoughts turned and smiled slightly as if he explained: "It's like the end opposite the door, the narrow kitchen was very long. Cheryl walked in and gave people a sense of pressure with a low angle. What a housewife, guys, let's take action."

"Oh" After hearing the director's words, everyone was relieved. Lynn went to the scene to note the shot. "It's not a cross-schedule, one of the multiple options to choose.

Roberts' expression was different, and Hanks smiled, no matter whether he made a mistake or not, his handling was satisfactory.

Many people breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the injury did not affect the VIYR spoon's ability and aura.

It was so dangerous. Ye Wei let out a secret breath and suddenly had a physiological reaction of vomiting. I don’t know whether it was the sequelae of the concussion not fully recovered or caused by this nervousness. If he lost his authority as soon as the filming started, it would be even more serious than falling down from a cliff.

However, Lynn had no objection, but when he saw Jennifer Anderson wink at him, he walked aside to talk to her director and the assistant director.

Jennifer Anderson said helplessly: "I must remind you that the process has fallen for half an hour..." After more than two hours of shooting, half an hour was fallen. How much would it take to fall for that day? This situation is caused by Ye Wei always takes more shots with extraordinary plans, and secondly, he likes to pursue perfection and always has many requirements for performance.

But now half an hour has passed the warning line

"Uh..." Ye Wei frowned and took the worksheet today handed over by Anderson, looking in his heart, time, time, time, time, and time.

He understood what she meant, would he want to delete which shots to get back half an hour? But he just added a few shots for "I'm right"... And now after looking at it, he was reluctant to delete which shot on it, so he threw the worksheet back into her hand and said seriously: "It's okay, I will pay attention to it later, so it's okay to rush back half an hour."

"It's better." Anderson whispered, "Don't add new shots."

Ye Wei shrugged. It was not the first time he fought with time, but every time it was so difficult. He didn't want to film "Gone with the Wind" in the morning and Hongguo in the afternoon. He worked overtime that night? Please, work overtime on the first day? Not to mention whether these people asked him to work overtime in his current physical condition. Roberts was going to go back to take care of his baby, but he didn't want to work overtime. Abigil was a child laborer and couldn't be too much...

The first morning is in a hurry, so it might be a better choice to delete the shots, because in the afternoon you can get at least some quality shots instead of all mediocre shots. But as long as you pull back half an hour in the morning, there will be no problem for half an hour, which is really a lot for the set.

He looked around, gritted his teeth, and fought hard

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Rowenstein: "Is there any more difficulties?"

Ang Lee: "From the first day you started shooting, your biggest enemy is time. You have been racing against time, which is the first lesson learned 丨 Plan to shoot 18 shots a day, but only 9 shots were taken. After that, you can't finish all the originally planned scenes. So you have to reduce the scale of the shooting, because the larger the scale, the longer the time spent on arrangement and rehearsal.

Ultimately, the problem is all about time. So you have to shoot on a relatively small scale, especially in independent production, reduce the shooting shots and reduce the shooting scenes, which determines the shooting style of "Wedding Banquet". I almost returned to the skills taught in textbooks. This is the experience gained from filming "Pushing Hands".

Reduce shooting shots and make better shots. Because if you spend too much time decorating the scene, you won’t have time to improve your performance and enhance your cooperation. I also discovered something related to time. I believe that many directors think that their task is to finish the movie when shooting their first work, and don’t exceed the deadline. The burden is heavy. Sometimes you will forget why you want to make a movie. You must always remind yourself: No, it’s too mediocre.

In my experience, you can’t make every shot perfect. In fact, such a movie may not be good either. You have to pick out the right clips, and you have to give yourself plenty of time to achieve the ideal you want to achieve."
Chapter completed!