Chapter 1101 Finding and Solving Problems

  Xiao Yao and his group lived in Qingshuihe County for five days before they found a suitable shooting location in a place called Dahebao Village in the northeast of Qingshuihe County.

  This village is located in the middle of several hills, with a large pasture. However, this pasture is not an endless grassland, but a grassy **** with undulating terrain. More importantly, there is the Great Wall, the ancient castle, and the cave dwellings at the foot of the city wall. The whole environment exudes a strong sense of historical vicissitudes, which makes Xiao Yao feel a lot like the scenes seen in the previous movie.

   "I think this place is good." Not long after watching here, Xiao Yao took the lead in expressing his opinions and asked Lin Jingliang, "Ms. Lin, what do you think?"

   "The environment is very good." Lin Jingliang nodded and looked at Xiao Yao, "But what about the scene in the movie? The movie tells a story in a school, but I don't think there is a suitable building in the village."

   “Isn’t there a primary school in the village? Anyway, it’s summer vacation and the students are on vacation. Can’t we borrow the site of that primary school for filming?” Pei Minyi on the side suggested.

"The school site is big enough, but it's not very suitable." Lin Jingliang shook his head, "This movie tells the story of the Republic of China. The school in the Republic of China is different from the current school. Although I haven't found the information. What kind of small schools in such poor rural areas during the period of the Republic of China looked like, but at least the simplified characters, writing habits, and some things that only appeared after the Republic of China have to be changed?"

"Then can we rebuild that school?" Pei Minyi continued to ask, "For example, if you change simplified characters to traditional characters, change from left to right to right to left, or even rebuild a school gate, etc. Yes, time shouldn't be too late? Anyway, we are not shooting now."

   "It depends on what Director Xiao means." Lin Jingliang smiled and looked at Xiao Yao, "For money matters, he has to nod his head!"

   “It’s okay to spend money, but I don’t think it’s a good idea to rebuild that elementary school in the village.” Xiao Yao touched his chin and said to Lin Jingliang.

   "Why?" Lin Jingliang asked.

"There should be no problem in terms of time and funds to rebuild the village's primary school," Xiao Yao said, "but the problem is that we can't return a primary school in the village during the Republic of China period. After the movie is filmed, we will help them change the school. It’s very troublesome to come back. What’s more, it’s summer vacation and no one in the school. We can rebuild, but when we start the school, the school should have started."

"The school is one of the most important scenes in the movie. It can't be filmed in a few days." Xiao Yao continued, "If we keep occupying it, it will have too much influence on the children in the village who are going to school. Could it be that we Do you want to make a movie so that dozens of children in the village have no place to go to school for a month or two?

   "That's it!" After hearing Xiao Yao's words, everyone nodded.

   "Then what do you mean?" Lin Jingliang asked Xiao Yao again.

   "It's very simple. We build the school scene by ourselves!" Xiao Yao laughed, "We can build a school from the Republic of China period by ourselves!"

  "Build your own school?" Pei Minyi asked in surprise.

   "Yes!" Xiao Yao nodded, "We can't create the natural environment, can't we create the man-made environment?"

"Schools in places like this during the Republic of China could not be buildings. We just built a bigger bungalow by ourselves." Xiao Yao continued, "It seems that the cost of building a house in this kind of place will not be very high. Let's choose. Build a suitable vacant land and build a house by yourself. Everything is built according to the requirements of the movie. You can build whatever you want, so that Teacher Lin can give full play to. After the movie is finished, if the village needs it, we can build the house. Leave it to the village. I think they should be needed, so they don’t even need to be demolished."

  "Good idea!" Lin Jingliang rubbed his hands happily, "We build it ourselves, and the room for development is much larger, and it won't affect the lives of the villagers. I agree!"

   "It is indeed better to build it yourself," Pei Minyi said with concern, "But is there time to build a school in two months?"

"Two months?" Xiao Yao shook his head, "No, we don't have two months, we only have one month. But building houses in villages is different from that in cities. This kind of bungalows, as long as we are efficient enough, will take one month. It should be covered."

  "One month?" The people in the same group looked at Xiao Yao puzzledly, "Don't you plan to start the machine after two months?"

  Sun Tingting asked Xiao Yao to give her three months of preparation time, so Xiao Yao planned to start the machine in October. Many people involved in the preparatory work are aware of this schedule. It's only August now, and everyone is puzzled by Xiao Yao's saying that there is only one month.

   "I was planning to turn it on in two months," Xiao Yao smiled bitterly and raised the phone in his hand. "But I checked the temperature history here in the past two days and found that it might be too late to turn on in October."

  "Temperature history?" A group of people looked at Xiao Yao.

"In Shuozhou, in the second half of October, the highest temperature during the day will drop to about ten degrees Celsius, and the lowest temperature at night will drop to zero or even below zero." Xiao Yao said, "This village is geographically located. In the northern part of Shuozhou, the temperature will only be lower than what I found. If we start it in October, not to mention that the actors and actresses filming in winter and summer will be particularly hard. At that time, the grass here may start to turn yellow. The effect will be much worse."

"Actually, the best time to shoot should be in July and August, that is now," Xiao Yao continued, "The highest temperature here is only a little over 30 degrees, and the temperature is only a dozen degrees at night, and the temperature is very comfortable. But we can't turn it on now. I don’t want to wait for the previous year and wait until this time next year to shoot again, so I can only switch it on in advance."

   "Suddenly turn on the phone a month in advance, is there enough time?" Fang still asked Xiao Yao.

   "Many people in the crew have not decided, and most of the actors have not been decided. We can choose people according to this standard." Xiao Yao said, "It should be possible to form a crew in a month."

"Most of the actors are not fixed, but some are fixed!" Fang still reminded, "Duo'er said that you had to wait for her for three months, and you agreed. And Mr. He Ying, you were also You said it won't start until at least three months, right?"

"This," Xiao Yao scratched his head embarrassedly, "Duo'er shouldn't have a big problem. She said that she would spend two months teaching and experiencing life, and then spend another month for Uncle Sun to help her prepare. For her role, the big deal is to let her end the support teaching in advance, or remove the next step, and go directly to the group after the support teaching is over. The big deal is to let her bring Uncle Sun into the group together and ask Uncle Sun to act as an actor guide. Sister He Ying, her There are not many scenes, and the preparation time between two months and three months should not be much different. Moreover, she has also experienced life. There shouldn't be other scenes in September, right?"

"In this way, I will contact Uncle Sun and Sister He Ying for a while to see if they have any problems entering the group one month in advance," Xiao Yao said at last, "If they have no problems, we will choose to shoot here. If not, Duo. I definitely won't change my son. Sister He Ying will negotiate carefully. If the negotiation fails, we can only go to a place further south to reselect the scene."

   "Teacher Lin, I'm sorry!" Xiao Yao said to Lin Jingliang again, "It's the first time to be an independent director. Some improper considerations have changed and changed, which makes you laugh."

"It's okay," Lin Jingliang chuckled. "It is not a simple matter to shoot a movie. It is inevitable to encounter some problems and situations. It takes a year or two or even longer for some big directors to prepare a movie. Before filming starts, you will encounter various things and make various adjustments. You are so young, and it is the first time that you are an independent director and also a producer. It is normal for problems to arise."

  "Thank you for your understanding!" Xiao Yao bowed his head.

"To be honest," Lin Jingliang said again, "Your enchanting name is too loud, as if everything can't trouble you, it doesn't feel really real. Now that I see you, there are places where you are not thoughtful. When encountering problems, it gives me a more real and vivid feeling."

   "Thank you!" Xiao Yao smiled, "I can't think of some mistakes, but it is actually a way to win good impressions."

  Although they encountered time problems, Xiao Yao and Lin Jingliang still preferred to use this place as the shooting location and start the machine in advance. Before discussing with the village about borrowing a place for filming and finding a place to build a house in the village, Xiao Yao must first get in touch with Sun Tingting and He Ying to confirm whether they can join the group in advance.

  He Ying is very easy to contact, Xiao Yao can call directly.

   During this period, He Ying did not take any long-term work. When she was fine, she pretended to go to the street and the vegetable market to see if she could meet a vixen arguing and scolding the street. The other thing is to take a look at the "fixed makeup photo" of the coppersmith's wife made by Xiao Yao, and even find a professional special effects makeup artist to apply makeup as shown in the photo to find the feeling for yourself.

  I heard that Xiao Yao asked to join the group one month in advance. He Ying immediately answered that there was no problem. Don’t say that the shooting will start after a month. As long as Xiao Yao needs it, he can join the group and start shooting at any time.

  Sun Tingting's connection is not so easy. Sun Tingting is still teaching, the place is very remote, the signal is not very good, it is not possible to contact at any time. However, Xiao Yao knew that Sun Tingting would contact her parents on a regular basis every day, so he contacted Sun Zhihao in Yanjing, told him about the problems he encountered here and made corresponding arrangements, and asked him to tell Sun Tingting on his behalf.

  I couldn't receive a reply from Sun Tingting right away, and Xiao Yao and others couldn't discuss with the village about borrowing a place to shoot. Xiao Yao and his party had to go back to the hotel in Qingshuihe County first.

  At ten o'clock in the evening, Xiao Yao received a reply from Sun Tingting. This reply was not relayed by Sun Zhihao, but received a call from Sun Tingting himself.

Sun Tingting inevitably complained about Xiao Yao’s behavior that Xiao Yao promised to give her three months of preparation time, but turned on the machine in advance. However, Sun Tingting still has to understand and support Xiao Yao’s difficulties and problems. .

  China’s education support activities can be carried out through various channels, but all have relevant policies and regulations. Sun Tingting did not go to a university in China. Chambers stayed in China for a year after graduating. He is not a fresh graduate, but an incumbent. He went there through a volunteer organization called the "Western Project." Volunteers of this organization must also abide by some relevant policies and regulations.

  The volunteers of this organization must go through the organization's unified physical examination and induction training before going to support the teaching, and the time for the support is usually half a year. However, Sun Tingting went to support teaching with the purpose of experiencing life. It is a little different from ordinary volunteers. The physical examination has been participated, the induction training has been simplified, and the time for teaching support is only two months, which is a special case in this organization. Although it was a special case in the organization, Sun Tingting did not intend to end the teaching support activities ahead of time, and had to complete the two-month support teaching task promised before.

   Regarding Xiao Yao’s proposal to invite Sun Zhihao into the group, let Sun Zhihao coach her in the crew and guide other actors by the way, neither Sun Tingting nor Sun Zhihao accepted. One reason was that Sun Zhihao couldn't get away with something on hand, and the other reason was that both Sun Zhihao and Sun Tingting said that they believed or wanted to test Xiao Yao's ability to direct actors, so Xiao Yao was in charge of Sun Tingting's performance. Anyway, he is a director, this was originally one of his duties.

  Sun Tingting’s reply was not so unexpected to Xiao Yao, and Xiao Yao agreed immediately.

  After hanging up Sun Tingting's phone, Xiao Yao checked that it was not too late, and immediately went to Lin Jingliang's room.

"Teacher Lin, Sister He Ying and Sun Tingting can all join the group in advance, so I think we will still shoot in Dahebao Village." After a simple greeting, Xiao Yao went directly to the topic and said to Lin Jingliang, "Tomorrow we will Go to the village to talk to the person in charge of the village about renting the venue for shooting."

   "Okay!" Lin Jingliang smiled, "It's best to be able to shoot there."

“It shouldn’t be too difficult to talk to the village about renting the venue.” Xiao Yao said, “After talking to the village, we will start building the school’s house as soon as possible. You are the art director, with props, art, and scenery. You are responsible. You have the final say about what the house will look like. So you have to come up with the overall design of the house as soon as possible. As for the layout and furnishings inside, you can design it while building it."

"It's no problem with the design. I have made a lot of ideas about the shooting scene these days, and I have a lot of ideas." Lin Jingliang knew that Xiao Yao was concerned about the progress of the scene construction, so he said seriously, "but the manpower and materials On the one hand, you have to make a guarantee. Building a school or building a house in a month is not something that can be done simply."

"Don't worry about this!" Xiao Yao said confidently, "A problem that can be solved with money is not a problem. For things like building houses in mountainous areas, I can find efficient and quality construction teams and professionals. As long as you can provide design drawings and requirements, they can build the house for you in less than a month."

  (End of this chapter)