A great director who grew up happily

Chapter 500: The filming location of the rain

Huang Bo is not here for vacation, but chose Yakushima as the location for the film's exterior scenes. He is currently working overtime to shoot the film in the hope that it can be released in the scheduled summer season.

For a completely new director, the best time slot that can be freely chosen is only the summer vacation. The National Day, New Year's Day and Spring Festival slots have already been divided and are impossible to be given to new directors.

Including Chen Jinnian, if his movie was independently invested, it still would not be able to squeeze into the Spring Festival period.

Because the Spring Festival is the only time of the year when the single-day box office can exceed 1 billion, scheduling a movie during the Spring Festival is no different from grabbing money.

According to the information Chen Jinnian has received, the 18 Spring Festival schedule has not yet ended, and the 19 Spring Festival schedule has been booked in advance.

China Film Group’s The Wandering Earth;

Jackie Chan's fantasy films;

Stephen Chow's comedy films;

Fanta’s Boonie Bears;

Ning Hao's Alien;

These five are all movies that will be released during the 19 Spring Festival. The tone has been set and they have to be released regardless of whether they want to or not.

Otherwise, Guo Xun wouldn't be so anxious and come to his company frequently to check the production progress.

After Chen Jinnian remembered that Huang Bo was in Japan, he called him and asked about the specific location of the crew. After finishing filming the advertisement, he went to visit the set and took the opportunity to travel in Yakushima.

In the next few days, Chen Jinnian led the crew to follow up on the shooting progress of the advertisement.

After all the hundreds of actors and actresses entered the venue, work officially began.

On the first day, we didn't shoot anything. I just worked with the dance director to sort out the positions of each actor. There were too many actors and the corridor was too narrow, so it was easy for people to be crowded, which would have turned out very badly in the filming.

The next day, there was still no filming, just repeated rehearsals with makeup on. The three leading actors were all professionals, but there were problems coordinating with the cameraman, so they had to rehearse repeatedly to let the leading actors adjust their habits to accommodate the cameraman, rather than the other way around.

This advertisement was shot in one take, with three commercials being filmed simultaneously. The cameraman's movement routes were fixed, and the actors had to take the initiative to find the camera.

On the third day, the filming officially started. Despite the preliminary preparations, there were still problems with the on-site filming. It was not until the fourth take that Chen Jinnian finally got a satisfactory result.

For the one-minute live shooting, a crew of more than 700 people was mobilized and the preparation and shooting took six days. This is the longest single-minute shot that Chen Jinnian has ever taken.

After seeing the finished product, Party A was very satisfied. He bowed and expressed his gratitude, and insisted on inviting him to attend the celebration party in the evening.

Chen Jinnian originally didn't want to go, but considering the perverted corporate culture in Japan, if he didn't go, it would probably implicate many staff members, so he simply agreed and took four crew members who were good at drinking to the banquet.

He thought that a celebration party was about eating and drinking, but the Japanese idea of ​​a celebration party was obviously different from his.

The celebration process is izakaya - KTV - izakaya, in short, drink, drink, drink.

Chen Jinnian couldn't believe it. It was bad enough that they went to the izakaya to drink, but why did they have to go back after drinking? The client's section chief was drunk and passed out, and the several members he brought with him were so drunk that they couldn't walk.

In the end, he managed to pull himself together, called other people from the hotel, and took his own people back.

As for the Japanese who also died of drunkenness, Chen Jinnian had no right to care.

From the nonchalant expressions of the izakaya owners and the drunkards in suits that can be seen everywhere on the streets, you can tell that their corporate culture is deeply ingrained and beyond repair.

The next day, Chen Jinnian gave the crew members a holiday. Those who wanted to stay and play could stay for a few more days and decide their own time to return home. Air tickets would no longer be arranged uniformly, and they could order them themselves and go back to the finance department to get reimbursed.

As soon as he gave the notice, several cameramen looked at each other in tacit understanding. They had heard before coming that Yoshiwara had a high artistic content, and now that they had the chance, of course they would go and take a look.

Then they formed teams of three or four and headed towards their respective goals.

Wang Yidi didn't understand the meaning and thought they were all going shopping.

As a man, Chen Jinnian knew where those people had gone.

In the past two days, he and the translator in the group talked a lot about the local situation, including the red-light district business that specializes in ripping off foreign tourists. They charge hundreds of thousands of yen for holding hands, and they just take off without caring about landing. The routines are quite complicated.

However, he did not want to remind them. On the one hand, he wanted to teach those who had wild thoughts a lesson and make them realize that they could not just have fun when they went abroad. On the other hand, he simply wanted to have fun and see who were the victims.

After the crew disbanded on the spot, Chen Jinnian, Wang Yidi and Sister Lan immediately went to Haneda Airport, flew to Kagoshima Airport, and then transferred to a flight to Yakushima from Kagoshima Airport.

It looks very troublesome, but it is actually not far at all. If there were not so many small islands, and the general airports were too small to accommodate large aircraft, a direct flight from Tokyo to Yakushima would take about two hours.

The first time Chen Jinnian knew about Yakushima was because it was the filming location for "Princess Mononoke".

But apart from this, no particularly famous crew came here to shoot. Chen Jinnian even suspected that Huang Bo was drunk and came to this place to shoot on a whim.

It looks good, but it is totally unsuitable for work in the crew.

As soon as the three got off the plane, they saw the rain falling.

"Okay, we're here today. Let's take a taxi directly to the hotel where the crew is." Chen Jinnian said with a smile.

What the crew fears most is rain and humid weather. People can overcome it, but machines cannot. If you don’t take good care of them, they really won’t work for you.

"Is it the plum rain season now?" Wang Yidi took the umbrella from Sister Lan and asked curiously, because he felt that this gloomy weather was really similar to the plum rain season.

"No, it's simply the waves that drive this place. Except for September and October, the rain can fall from the beginning to the end of the month without stopping for a single day."

Chen Jinnian never tired of poking at Huang Bo's soft spots, while Huang Bo was standing in the hotel room, looking out the window and couldn't help but worry.

Huang Bo's original intention was to find an island with a "doomsday feeling" and full of original ecological beauty. After searching for a long time, he couldn't find a suitable one. Finally, he chose Yakushima after being introduced by someone.

However, Huang Bo forgot one thing. For any area that is famous for its natural scenery and has not yet been developed by real estate companies, there is only one situation, that is, it is really not suitable for long-term settlement.

Wherever the climate is pleasant, it would have been developed long ago, and the original beauty of the forest would be gone.

He didn't even think about the fact that Japan's film and television industry is also very developed. If this place is really suitable for filming, it wouldn't be just one animation that uses this place as a filming location.

"Do you think I'm stupid? Running to this broken island and watching it rain every day?" Huang Bo turned around and asked.

Baoqiang was looking at the script, studying the role seriously and ignored him.

Xu Zheng, who was sitting next to him, stretched out tiredly. "Just so you know, I've made it clear in advance that I may not have time to spend time with you. I have a lot of things to do. If we really can't shoot, then I'll delete all my scenes."