The hero and heroine of this film are required to be professional pairs skaters, and professional actors can't complete the ice movements in the film at all. We started looking for a needle in a haystack two and a half months early. First of all, I am still looking for professional actors who have skated before, but the effect is not ideal. Most of the actors who come to interview can't free their feet, let alone perform on the ice. We saw the active athletes of the provincial teams. Their technology is relatively immature and too young to meet our requirements. The active athletes of the national team are all training on the ice, ready to compete for gold and silver, and the national team is determined not to let go. So we decided to look for it among the retired athletes of the national team. After retiring, most of the athletes of the National Figure Team worked as coaches in skating clubs, so we searched all the skating clubs and gyms in Beijing, and finally found that Zhongfei Ren, the coach of the champion club, was close to the hero in age, height, temperament and technology. But the heroine doesn't know where she is. As a candidate, the girls are either old or the image temperament is too far from the role. A month passed, we got nothing, and everyone was in a hurry. Many things happen. In the scene selection of Changchun, we found Guo Yalu, an active athlete of the national team, recovering from illness at home. Her age and image are just the person we are looking for. The only drawback is that she is a single skater and can't complete the typical movements of double skating such as throwing, twisting and spiraling. That's her. Find body double or Diao Weiya to finish the unfinished action. Next, we will find a director to rehearse according to the conditions of two people and the requirements of the play. The hero and heroine should concentrate on training at least one month in advance to restore their physical fitness and skills, and also practice the newly arranged dance combination skillfully. The selection of dance teachers is also full of twists and turns. The style required in the play is a combination of classical and modern, and there are few ballet, street dance and ice choreography. We were at a loss. But fortunately, we finally got to know Liu Yu of Harbin. She used to be the choreographer of the national team. She is young and modern. Now a university in Harbin teaches street dance. We invited her to fly to Beijing to talk about her ideas. The next day, she made up a set of movements and taught two actors in Beijing New Century Ice rink, which basically met my requirements. That's her. Next, the director, production director, hero and heroine, choreographer and art props arrived in Harbin 25 days in advance to start the preliminary preparation, art scene selection, production director talked about the ice rink, and the two leading actors and choreographers spent every day on the ice rink, and they had to compile, decide, teach and practice 25 action scenes in 25 days. The director also took the time to give two non-professional actors a performance class, tell a play, check their lines, do sketches and liberate nature. Everyone is exhausted every day. Someone asked me: Are you crazy to make such a TV movie? I thought for a long time, but I was speechless.
2. It is difficult to find the scene.
There are professional skating rinks and wild skating rinks in this film, which Beijing can't complete. Professional skating gymnasiums in Beijing either have national team training or are open to the public, so give us four hours at night or during the day, and we don't have all the time. We have a lot of competitions in the skating hall, and I have to spend eight whole days with the coordinator. If we break it and shoot it again, I'm afraid it won't be finished in 12 days. In addition, the wild lakes in Beijing (such as Beihai and Shichahai) should be frozen. It's almost New Year's Day when people get on the bus, and it's also the winter vacation for primary and secondary schools. All ice clubs are busy with students' holiday training business, that is, in their peak season, we can only fly away without receiving the film crew. First of all, I have some old relationships with the ice training base in Changchun where I filmed The Weight of Gold Medal. After I got in touch with the production director, I was recommended to Jilin Skating Hall by them. Jilin city is very enthusiastic and showed us the skating halls and some main scenes in the city. We decided to finish shooting in Jilin city. A week after we returned to Beijing, we received a call from Jilin City. For special reasons, they can't receive us. What are we doing? We have nowhere to go. It doesn't matter if the producer is in Harbin. I don't know what it's like there. It's a movie to be made anyway. Although there may be some difficulties, there is no way out. -Harbin.
3, shooting is difficult.
First of all, I must say the weather. Harbin may be due to latitude and longitude. It will be bright at 7: 30 in the morning and dark at 2: 30 in the afternoon. By 3 o'clock, it will be dark, two hours worse than the daytime in Beijing. This film is an inspirational film of a youth idol. Originally, there were fewer night scenes and more sun scenes (I have adjusted the atmosphere to increase night scenes and reduce sun scenes). We set off at 6: 30 in the morning and arrived at the scene at 7: 30 to start at 7: 30, so we can't shoot the sun scene for seven hours a day. Later, we canceled lunch time and took turns eating. However, actors always have to eat. The temperature is 28 degrees below zero, and they wear very little. They have no food in their stomachs and are shivering with cold, so they can't play. My upper body is cashmere sweater, fleece sweater, down jacket, wearing ski cap, mask, cashmere scarf and gloves. The lower body is a pair of autumn trousers, a pair of wool trousers, a pair of warm trousers, a pair of cotton trousers outside, two pairs of wool socks and outdoor hiking shoes. I've been standing in the ice and snow all day, and I'm freezing. What's more, the actors wear little clothes in order to be beautiful and not bloated. They still have a layer of skates under their feet, and they can't feel their feet. They have to ride motorcycles like knives in the cold wind, and their ears are frozen. If they shoot one, they have to throw the car aside for 20 minutes, but they can't say anything. It's too cold to start the car again. On the one hand, it is an athlete who can bear hardships more than ordinary people, on the other hand, it is the first time to get an electric shock. Otherwise, it won't be filmed at all. In the national team, they train on the ice for one hour in the morning, one hour in the afternoon and the rest of the time under the ice. They put on their skates at 7 am and filmed until 90 pm. They persisted, and we applauded them. In order to shoot good moves, we invited Liu Zhangmu, the photographer of the films warlords, Jiangshan Beauty and Fighting for Love, and invited Sang Lin, the martial arts director of the film Red Cliff, to join in the filming. It takes time to shoot well. In the last scene, the hero and heroine jumped up and down three times. We filmed this action scene from eleven o'clock in the evening to four o'clock in the morning. When slapping, the actor has to slide once to shoot an angle, and often he can't slide to the position of coding. The actor's physical strength is also seriously overdrawn. We have to adjust two cameras to shoot. If you add machines, you have to add people, and if you add people, you have to add cars, which is far beyond the budget of the production department. We chose the scene of Xiaye Lake under Songhua River Bridge, which is very romantic and powerful. The day before shooting, the production team hired 40 workers to clear the snow on the ice 100X 100 meters overnight, forming a wild ice surface. The next day, when the brigade went to the scene to shoot, it was found that there was a thin layer of ice on the clear ice and it was impossible to skate. The ice is under the dam. It was this scene that made the hero cry with cold. If you shoot under the Songhua River Bridge, I don't think you can finish shooting that day. It was the fourth day of September, the coldest day in Harbin. The bridge is just a vent, and the staff can't stand the wind. How can actors say their lines? Oh, God still cares about us. Another main scene is the hero's "home". We will set up a 30-square-meter tent next to the outdoor skating rink on the lake in Daixiu Lake Park, which will be used as the pavement for renting skates during the day and the dormitory for the hero at night. We played here for four days. It's cold, and we can't hold back our urine. The man ran to the river ditch behind the mountain to solve it, but the woman didn't know. Anyway, there is no toilet within 0/000 meters of Fiona Fang/KLOC. Although it is indoor, the tent is still ventilated, which is no different from outdoor. The actor's breath was full, his mouth froze, and his lines were mixed and he coughed. If it doesn't work, it will be dubbed again later. There is no solution at the scene, and electric heating doesn't work at all. There is also a scene in the script where the heroine waters the hero with a pot of water. It was not negotiable, so it was deleted. It snowed the night before, and when we arrived at the scene the next day, the ice was covered with snow and we couldn't skate. We all went into battle together to sweep and shovel snow, and then took pictures. I will remember this winter in Harbin. Later, a TV movie about polar rescue came to me and said that it was shot at Abel Ski Resort. I resolutely quit. For example, I wear glasses eight times a day, and I can't see anything when I enter the room. The hot air from urinating will stick to my glasses. It is said that the earth is getting warmer, hehe, this year's cold has made us catch up.
4. There is joy in suffering
This is an idol drama, which should be bright, sunny, healthy, fashionable and full of colors. To this end, the dressmaker has prepared a large number of colorful costumes for the actors on the ice, and they will change clothes as long as they don't walk the catwalk. The makeup design also attached the hair to the heroine, which changed a lot, and the hairstyle of the hero was more beautiful. Generally speaking, I still put a lot of thought into the overall modeling of the actors. I think it will look good if you cut it. The success of the film "Perfect" has played a very important role in fashion modeling. Fashion drama should pay attention to color, modeling and lead the fashion. The hero's temperament is a little soft. I want to use an old motorcycle with large displacement to increase the strength and intensity of the hero, but because of the safety reasons such as Harbin road slip, I changed it to a pedal stepless speed change motorcycle to make up the number. Alas, talking is better than nothing, and you can get it if you give up. The interior of the school is very good, it is an old Russian building, and the stairs and corridors are very distinctive, so I moved many indoor scenes to the stairs and corridors to solve them. Only in this way can the sports school have more cultural accumulation, atmosphere and taste. We found two skating gymnasiums in Harbin, a gymnasium, a comprehensive gymnasium and the architecture department of Harbin Institute of Technology. These five scenes together are the Shi Mei Jiahua Sports School in the film. Mark and Uncle chose light comedy in image orientation and flat expression in performance. Both supporting roles are very good and lively. Both the hero and heroine are non-professional actors, so it should not be too difficult for non-professional actors to play themselves well and restore their life style, but it is very difficult to play comedy, because they can't master the comedy of proper limit, and they have played tickling, which has no effect if the heat is over, and their ability to improvise is relatively low. They prepared their lines and memorized them on the first day, so I was prone to confusion when I was tuning them on the spot. But making a movie means feeling while shooting and sitting at home thinking. There will be new sparks at the scene, so it will be better and more vivid. I think they finally get used to me, and the play is over. Hehe, with the joint efforts of everyone, I think the cut film will still look good. I have written the director's explanation into a summary report, hehe.
5. Write a sentence.
At the age of 40, I am actually the boss of our young creative team. Actors and heroines, coaches, mark, photographers, sound recorders, artists, martial artists, choreographers, fairytales and producers are all younger than me. Working with young people is a pleasure.