Chapter 126 Good luck from the painting and literature (Ch 126)

September 23rd,

Qi Jia followed the crew for another day and finished filming all the scenes of Lin Zhendong’s character in Xijiang.

I had dinner with Shen Teng and the others, and before leaving, we agreed to meet again in Shanghai.

Because, several scenes for the role of Lin Zhendong need to be shot in Shanghai.

After bidding farewell to the crew, Qi Jia immediately rushed to the airport with his assistant.

Under the night sky, I boarded the flight to Qindao.

The Shanghai sea at dawn,

Xu Zheng and Wen Muye had just finished communicating with the distributor of Medicine God about the premiere schedule for the 25th.

At this moment, both of them looked a little solemn. This movie was a turning point for them.

Since Xu Zheng directed and starred in “Lost in Hong Kong” in 2014, the reputation of his works in the past few years has been terrible.

The same is true for Wen Muye. In 2014, he directed a movie called “City of Love” with several directors.

Although the lineup includes Yang Mi, Huang Xuan, Jiang Shuying and Korean Oppa Lee Hyun,

But after its release, the word of mouth was terrible and it didn’t even get a passing score.

The successive Waterloos have caused the value of both of them to decline in the eyes of capital.

Therefore, both of them have placed high hopes on “Dying to Survive”, hoping that they can use it to further enhance their own weight.

“Drink something?”

Xu Zheng touched his bald head and looked at Wen Muye and asked,

“Walk!”

Wen Muye put out his cigarette and stood up without hesitation.

“It was Lang who tempted me, and I started singing a love song~”

The two of them hummed a little tune, hugged each other’s shoulders and left the hotel.

I took a taxi to a nearby bar and chose a seat where I could see the stage but not be too conspicuous.

“Come on, Lao Wen, let’s go first.”

Xu Zheng raised the bottle and clinked it with Wen Muye, then said with a hint of emotion,

“Success or failure depends on this one move”

“Don’t worry, we’ve already made arrangements with the theater chain, and we’ll be shown during prime time on the premiere day.”

Wen Muye comforted Xu Zheng with some trepidation.

“Well, everything that needs to be arranged for theaters, media, communities, and film critics has been arranged. There shouldn’t be anything left out.”

Xu Zheng counted on his fingers, one by one.

Wen Muye listened on the side and nodded in agreement.

On the stage, the resident singer sang Zhao Lei’s “Chengdu”.

Wen Muye listened for a while, and suddenly said something out of the blue.

“It would be best if we could ask Qi Jia to come over for a few days. He’s so popular right now. If he could come and help with the promotion, it would boost the box office and save us a lot of trouble.”

Hearing this, Xu Zheng smacked his lips, patted his bald head, and said,

“That makes sense. We asked him to help promote the movie online before, and he directly brought hundreds of millions of free exposure to the movie, saving us a lot of publicity costs.”

Speaking of this, he himself was somewhat moved, but after thinking about it, he shook his head and said,

“However, he has been flying all over the place recently. He just came out of Han Han’s crew and now he’s flying to Ning Hao’s crew. He’s even busier than both of us. Let’s do this for now. If it really doesn’t work, we can ask him for help.”

Wen Muye nodded after hearing this, and said with some emotion,

“But you know what, this kid is really lucky. When he first joined the group last October, he was just a rookie who had just debuted. It’s only been a year, but he already has the momentum to advance to the top.”

“If you say so, it seems that we are lucky. He joined our crew right after his debut, and we have a pretty good relationship. You have given him advice on his acting skills, and I have introduced him to resources. If we fail in the future, he can still help us.”

Xu Zheng chuckled twice, with a cunning look on his face.

“Oh, that makes sense. Congratulations to Director Xu~”

“Congratulations, Director Wen is also happy~”

The two of them clinked their wine bottles with tacit understanding. For some reason, they both felt much better when they started talking about Qi Jia.

…

September 24, 7:00 a.m.

Qi Jia woke up from the hotel arranged by the crew, and stretched out on the bed with great difficulty.

I could still hear the snapping sound of bones being pulled apart.

I went out at 7:30 and went downstairs with my assistant. I happened to meet Huang Bo downstairs.

“Qi Jia, you got up early enough. Let’s go have breakfast together. I tell you, the breakfast in this hotel is amazing.”

Huang Bo came up to them kindly and took Qi Jia and the other person to the hotel restaurant.

While having breakfast, I happened to meet Director Ning again. There was a foreigner sitting next to him.

His name is Matthew Morrison and he plays the foreign agent Zack in the movie.

Although it was the first time I met Ning Hao, but with Huang Bo as the warm-up king, the two of them had a pleasant chat.

After breakfast, the group separated at the hotel.

Ning Hao and Huang Bo were going to the set to film, while Qi Jia, under the guidance of another staff member, went to a professional green screen room to complete the expression capture of the alien Chica.

At first, Qi Jia thought motion capture was a very interesting thing, but when he put on the motion capture suit with the help of the staff,

The whole person became obedient. First of all, the clothes were very tight, not to mention that they pricked my body and made it itchy, but I couldn’t scratch it.

Because there are many reflective balls on the motion capture suit to record your body movements.

If you accidentally scratch it, it may cause errors in data transmission.

The most uncomfortable thing is that you can’t go to the toilet after wearing it.

I can’t play with my phone. If I move it a few times, I’ll feel very hot!

In addition, in order to capture his facial expressions, he also had to wear an extra helmet.

The helmet would have poles extending out of it with lights and cameras pointed directly at his face.

Fortunately, Qi Jia has a solid acting background and is quick to learn and master.

After a morning of hard training, we gradually got used to this way of performance by the afternoon.

If the above points can be overcome, the next point will be even more difficult.

Although the crew gave clear facial expressions, due to the green screen indoors,

Therefore, he had to use his imagination to imagine which scene in the movie this expression belonged to.

Then determine what the alien’s expression and actions should be at this time?

It can be said that every excellent motion capture actor is a professional “actor” whose acting skills are no worse than those of first-line actors.

This way of filming is fine for a short period of time, but in the long run it is a huge challenge to both mental and physical strength!

For example, there is a scene in the movie where the alien Chica is outside the window trying to lure a monkey with a banana.

Let the monkey help him take out Geng Hao’s superpower headband from his pants.

In order to act this scene well, Qi Jia had to imagine not only the alien’s expression, but also the monkey’s reaction.

Then, based on the monkey’s reaction, the alien’s various expressions are naturally transformed.

By the time he had successfully collected this scene, Qi Jia had already bitten through 20 to 30 bananas.

When I talk to people, my mouth smells like bananas.

In order to complete the motion capture as quickly as possible and hand it over to post-production, the entire team is working overtime.

I was busy until after eight o’clock in the evening, and today’s work was finally finished.

Qi Jia was lying in the car on the way back to the hotel. He was so tired that he just wanted to be quiet and didn’t want to talk.

But just at this moment, the phone rang again.