Chapter 28 Movie Starts

"Now I declare that the opening ceremony of "All or Nothing" has officially begun!"

Half a month later, the crew, which had been preparing for a month, finally started filming!

Although there were no media friends, the crew still held a grand opening ceremony at the suggestion of Beret and others.

After Beret cueed the process, he invited Cheng Cheng to the stage to speak.

Cheng Cheng walked onto the stage, picked up the microphone, and said:
"Although today is the opening ceremony, in fact, I have been working with everyone here for half a month, and with the crew for even longer. I don't know what you think, but I have full confidence in you and this movie-"

As he was speaking, his cell phone suddenly rang.

Cheng Cheng covered the microphone and said, "Excuse me, I need to take a call."

As he spoke, he put one hand on his waist, put the earphone to his ear with the other hand, and started making a phone call while standing on the stage.

"Hello, Manager Zhang, have I sold my house?"

"120,000 per square meter? It's a bit too low. My house is a large flat within the Fourth Ring Road. It's hard to find a house like this. I know I'm in a hurry to sell it, so I marked it at 140,000. Otherwise, people would rush to buy it at 150,000 under normal circumstances! How about this, Manager Zhang, you take the client to see if he likes any of my furniture."

"Okay, Manager Zhang, please help me. I'll treat you to a meal when we get back to Imperial Capital."

After hanging up the phone, Cheng Cheng calmly endured the strange looks from the audience and seamlessly continued the previous topic:
"Heart, I believe that in the next half month, everyone will be able to cooperate very well and come up with a big hit in 2021!"

After saying that, Cheng Cheng walked off the stage.

After several other main creators came on stage to speak, Cheng Cheng and Beret led everyone to burn incense, unveil the red cloth, and take a group photo. In the afternoon, the official filming began.

The first scene is the one where the male protagonist Pan Sheng, played by Li Yang, is in the conference hall.

Mr. Pan is a senior programmer who works in a large company and has made many achievements. At the company's job meeting, he originally thought that he would be promoted, but unexpectedly it was a person with connections who got the promotion.

In a rage, Mr. Pan threw down his work badge, left the venue angrily, and used a program to project many funny expressions on the screen in the conference room. Finally, he left the hotel in a cool manner.

This is a large-scale scene. Because it is a company meeting, there are many people and frequent switching between long, medium and close shots, which is a great test of the director's scheduling ability.

Before going on stage, Li Yang encouraged himself:
The director sold his house in order to make the movie. I must give my best performance to live up to the director and myself!
I want to take back everything I lost!
As a result, something happened beyond his expectation. He had just been on the stage for a while and had not yet reacted when Cheng Cheng finished filming in no time and started shouting to retreat.

It took less than half an hour in total!

You know, this plot would take two or three minutes in a movie!

Is that all?
Li Yang was nervous and asked, "Director, should I do another take?"

Cheng Cheng was surprised and asked, "It's a good shot, why do you want another one?"

"Ah?" This question made sense. Li Yang scratched his head and began to doubt himself. He said, "I just think it's a bit too fast. I feel a little uneasy."

Cheng Cheng said seriously: "We have rehearsed this scene many times. You acted very well. You have to be confident, okay? I plan to make at least 100 movies in my lifetime. Time waits for no one, Li Yang."

Li Yang said: "But I still think it's a bit too fast."

Cheng Cheng: "Think of it this way, the faster you shoot, the more time you have left. The more time you have left, the more time you waste. The more time you waste, the slower you shoot. So the faster you shoot, the slower you shoot." Leaving Li Yangshang to think, Cheng Cheng continued to call on the crew to load the photographic equipment into the car and head to the next shooting location.

In fact, what Li Yang didn’t know was that Cheng Cheng didn’t need to shoot so many waste shots. He already had the complete film in his mind, and he just had to shoot according to the film.

Generally, the length of shots in the movies we watch is about two hours, and the ratio of the material shot on the set to the length of the movie is generally 50:1, which means that the length of the material is 100 hours.

However, the length of Cheng Cheng's materials will be reduced tenfold, at most 5:1, which will save a lot of time.

And it does not stop there. In addition to shooting the materials, Cheng Cheng knows what he wants to shoot and does not need frequent trial and error. In other words, he not only saves time in shooting the materials, but also saves time in shooting the materials, which is double time saving.

In one afternoon and evening, Cheng Cheng finished shooting two scenes, one of Pan Sheng at the venue, the other of Pan Sheng on the plane, and the other of the exterior scene transition.

Such an efficient filming speed made Cheng Cheng famous as a quick shooter.

Over the next two days, the crew members learned even more about what it meant that the speed of setting up the scene could not keep up with the speed of filming. Many times, they had to work on two fronts in parallel. That is to say, when Cheng Cheng was filming, some of the crew members were already setting up the scene for the next scene. When Cheng Cheng was filming the second scene, the crew members would immediately set up the third scene.

Even this cannot keep up with Cheng Cheng's filming speed, which means there are not enough people and equipment. Otherwise, at least three lines would have to be run in parallel.

Soon, Cheng Cheng’s first scene arrived.

After Pan Sheng was tricked into northern Myanmar, he was taken to the park like a pig. It was at this time that Lu Bingkun, played by Cheng Cheng, appeared.

"Come on, come on, let's watch the director perform!" Wen Lian said excitedly to Yan Gou'er.

Yan Gou'er was trying hard to put on his white shoes and said, "Wait a minute, wait a minute."

Soon, the two arrived at the set and found that the set was already full of people, all of whom came to watch Cheng Cheng acting.

During this period of time, Cheng Cheng's image as a top-tier dandy has faded in their minds, and has been replaced by a young director who is proficient in acting, experienced, talented, and has clear ideas.

But he had been explaining the play to the actors for half a month, but the actors had not seen Cheng Cheng perform a single scene, so they could not help but become curious: How good is our director's acting? Is it just talk, or is he really talented?
Yan Gou'er tiptoed to look inside, and Wen Lian's eyes were filled with anticipation.

There were constant whispers around:

“This is our first scene as a director!”

"The wait is finally here!"

"Do you think the director can get it right in one take?"

"Of course I can."

"Do you trust the director so much?"

"I think it's risky. Sometimes I can explain the play very clearly to others, but when it's my turn, I may not be able to act it out."

"Yes, that's possible."

"Shhh - stop talking, let's start!"

(End of this chapter)