Chapter 61: Shooting

Wu Yuchen spent ten days building the crew. Finding venues, surveying and taking scenes, and setting up the team.

The experience of shooting *Bus 44* last time, Wu Yuchen had basically figured out everyone's level. Some people could be used, such as recording and art design. For some important positions that were a bit worse, he had to find someone with experience, such as a photographer.

Wu Yuchen could shoot himself, but shooting *The Two of Us* was not a single-camera shoot like *Bus 44* last time. Many scenes had to use dual-camera shooting. For example, when Xiao Ma and the old lady were arguing, they had to shoot both people's reactions at the same time. One camera was not enough.

Through the introduction of his teacher Xie Xiaojing, he found a photographer whose level was quite good. Although he was not famous, he also had seven or eight years of shooting experience, which was enough.

It was also during Wu Yuchen's preparation period that Beijing began to snow, which made the four-nine city white in an instant.

Wu Yuchen reached out to catch the snowflakes falling from the sky, thinking that it really came at the right time!

The next day, it was still snowing, but the *The Two of Us* crew had already set up the camera.

At the intersection of the crisscrossing hutongs, a military green coat was particularly conspicuous in the white snow. Zhou Xun was riding an old-fashioned 28-inch bicycle, wrapped in a black scarf, revealing only a pair of bright and energetic eyes. Her previous long hair was gone, and a short hair highlighted her crisp and neat personality.

When Zhou Xun rode past the camera, the camera followed with a panning shot, always taking her as the main body.

Before shooting, Wu Yuchen had already explained the lens language to the photographer very clearly.

For Zhou Xun, who was vigorous and full of vitality, a large number of handheld panning shots were used, and the lens switching must be rapid and smooth, or even jumpy, which invisibly highlighted the vigorous vitality and reckless personality of the young girl.

As for the lens on the old lady, most of them used fixed shots, stable, fixed, and stagnant. Time seemed to be glued to her, with a heavy sense of accumulation and vicissitudes.

But when the two intersected and performed actions in the same space, the film lens was no longer jumpy, nor was it a single stability. The lens changed with the exchange of the two people, or the sharpness of the contradiction, or the softness of the relaxation.

So just this photographic language, the photographer who hadn't graduated really couldn't be competent, and there was a lot to learn.

"Cut!"

After Wu Yuchen shouted stop, he walked to Zhou Xun: "Breathe, you are an impatient person. You rode your bike all the way here without stopping. Now there should be that kind of panting sound, understand?"

Zhou Xun nodded, but Wu Yuchen stopped her again, thought for a moment and said: "You go outside, just wear this clothes, run for 5 minutes and come back."

Zhou Xun was not tall, and the thick and long military green coat almost dragged to the ground. It must be tiring to run in this, but she had no opinion and went out to the hutong to run after listening.

Wu Yuchen wouldn't have any thoughts of feeling sorry for the actors at this time. In shooting this kind of realistic warm film, details were extremely important, which could unknowingly increase the audience's sense of substitution, so he must grasp it fiercely.

A moment later, Wu Yuchen saw Zhou Xun running back, stopping and panting heavily. Wu Yuchen stepped forward and wrapped her mouth and nose with a scarf, let her breathe like this, and after her panting was not so intense, he said: "Good, remember, just this degree now."

"Action!"

The old wooden door was pushed open. In the lens appeared most of Zhou Xun's face wrapped in a scarf. White gas kept coming out of the scarf, and the broken hair covered with water vapor on her forehead covered her eyes, revealing a pair of big eyes looking around, and she could hear her constant panting sound.

"Cut!"

Wu Yuchen sighed in his heart after shooting this for not long. Xun Ge was worthy of being Xun Ge. Although Jiang Qinqin was his girlfriend now, he had to admit that there was a gap between the two in terms of comprehension and spirituality.

It wasn't that Zhou Xun passed once, but that after she didn't achieve the effect, you went to explain the play to her, and her comprehension was amazingly amazing. She could meet your requirements in two times.

You know, shooting *Bus 44* last time was a short film after all, and it won by plot. Wu Yuchen's requirements for actors were not as strict as *The Two of Us*. Even so, Xun Ge could always meet Wu Yuchen's requirements.

This saved Wu Yuchen a lot of trouble. He wanted to take advantage of the few days when this snow was there to shoot as many scenes with snow as possible. After all, who knew how long it would take for the next snow to come if this snow stopped?

The story line of *The Two of Us* started in winter and ended in the next winter. It could be said that it was exactly a cycle. Winter scenes accounted for half of the whole film. The first winter was particularly long, about 35-40 minutes.

This first winter was almost spent in the quarrels and bumps of the two people. Both of them didn't like each other.

Xiao Ma and the old lady experienced a series of things such as selling waste, using gas, making phone calls, using refrigerators, and electric heaters causing circuit trips. Every time there was a dispute, it could be said that they were all trivial things in life, but it was precisely these small things that had more life atmosphere and were more realistic. The old lady wanted to drive Xiao Ma away, and Xiao Ma was also looking for a new home. The two spent time in this friction.

At this time, half a month had passed since the shooting. The heavy snow lasted for 10 days from falling to melting, but it was enough for Wu Yuchen to shoot all the scenes with snow scenery.

The handheld camera followed Zhou Xun. I saw her pushing her bicycle, entering the small courtyard angrily, leaning the car against the wall casually, and rushing to the old lady in the room with the phone bill in her hand, questioning angrily:

"Did you make a long-distance call?"

"No!"

"Playing dumb again, this long-distance call cost more than 300 yuan, and it was to Guizhou. I have never known anyone in Guizhou! You pay this money yourself, return the money to me!"

"When did I make a long-distance call? I said I didn't make it, I didn't make it! If it doesn't work, just cut off the phone and don't use it in the future!"

Zhou Xun's face turned red with anger when she heard this, she stiffened her neck and shouted loudly:

"Why? It's your phone, so you should pay the money. What did I do wrong! Why do you want me to carry the pot?

You are too selfish. You can't discuss anything. I want to talk to you clearly, you cut off the phone line, and you don't let me use gas, water and electricity also let me pay, you are too bullying!"

"Who is bullying you, little girl! What are you shouting in front of me!"

"Just shouting, what's wrong, you are bullying people! I am not a millionaire, why should I carry the black pot for you!"

"You know what phone you made yourself, and you still come to wrong me! I will return the room money to you, don't live here!

Someone looked at the house yesterday and was very satisfied, 500 yuan a month, I agreed.

You go! Hurry up and find a house. I don't want to see you ever again, I can't stand this anger! I don't earn this money from you either!

People are very polite, who is like you!"

Zhou Xun burst into tears when she heard this: "You are ungrateful! You only recognize money and not people!"

"That's right! At this age, I just recognize money! Recognizing people is useless, can it be eaten as a meal? In this day and age, you can only take care of yourself, is it useful to take care of others?!" The old lady showed her mean side completely.

Zhou Xun looked at the old lady with tears, trying to hold back from crying, but her chin couldn't help trembling, her big eyes were full of grievances, and there were a few complaints and anger, and then she turned and left.

The old lady shouted at the end: "Hurry up and leave here!"

"Cut!" ===== CHAPTER 62 =====

"Cut!"