Chapter 93 Real-Life Shooting Maniac: Only Real-Life Images Can Stand the Test of Time!

A few seconds passed.

With the sound of the elevator prompt, the two arrived at the Art Department and walked towards the familiar meeting room.

Pushing the door open, there sat an old man in his seventies.

His head was shining, with a circle of gray hair around his head. He wore square-framed glasses and was reading a thick book with a serious expression.

As if he heard the sound of the door opening, he raised his head, adjusted his glasses and stood up, his face still cold and serious.

Without waiting for Secretary He to introduce himself, Chen Xiao stepped forward and said, "Hello, professor. I am Chen Xiao, the director of our film. It's an honor to meet you."

A trace of surprise flashed in the old man's eyes.

He came here in a low-key manner and had never seen the secretary next to him. How did the young man guess his identity?

Could it be that the staff in charge of contact showed him the photo?

"Have you seen me?"

Chen Xiao nodded, "I like physics knowledge. I have seen your photo on some website or book. But at that time, my attention was all on physics knowledge. I can only vaguely remember your face, but not your name. I'm sorry."

The serious expression on the old man's face melted a little, and he smiled lightly: "My surname is Ning, my name is Ji Lin, you can just call me Professor Ning."

"Hello, Professor Ning."

"Director Chen likes physics, oh, no wonder the Ministry of Science and Technology is looking for you."

Professor Ning's eyebrows showed a kind smile.

When he first received this task, he checked the screenwriter online. He found that it was a well-known genius director who had written two emotional scripts.

At that time, he still thought that making science fiction films must be a small thing for young people.

But now, although I still haven't read the script, I suddenly feel... Well, like physics? This kid will become a great man.

Secretary He on the side looked at the change in the expression on the old professor's face and sighed in his heart.

A sweet mouth can fool people, and they are popular wherever they go.

Director Chen really praised people without leaving any traces.

First, he pointed out that he liked physics, and then he said that he had seen the professor's photo.

In theory, not knowing the name is a deduction.

But Director Chen actually said that his mind was on physics knowledge and he didn't pay attention to the name of the person in the photo.

After this operation, the distance was instantly shortened.

How could this old man in his seventies and eighties, who has been focusing on research for many years, not have a good impression of the young man in front of him who is about the same age as his grandson but has the same interests as him?

I'm really envious. It's only been ten seconds since he entered the door?

How did he recognize that this is the physics instructor and organize the compliments?

Chen Xiao smiled and sat opposite the old professor.

What he just said was of course nonsense.

How could he look through a physics magazine?

The reason why he can judge his identity is that this conference room is for the crew to hold a meeting.

He has already pointed out that he wants a strong core member.

Of course, the one who can appear here is not the physics instructor who doesn't need to climb mountains and go to the sea with the crew.

And... this professor has a glowing head like his father who teaches mathematics.

I heard that among the world's top ten outstanding physicists, eight have hair loss, such as Planck and Galileo.

Chen Xiao took out the complete script and handed it to Professor Ning.

"Professor Ning, this is the complete script. I'd like to ask you to take a look and give me some advice."

Ning Jilin took the script and felt the thickness, estimating that it was about 100 pages.

"You will have a meeting later, so it shouldn't be my business, right? Otherwise, I'll find a room, take a quiet look, and calculate whether there is any problem inside."

Chen Xiao smiled and said, "Thank you for your help."

As he said that, he stood up and sent Professor Ning out of the conference room.

Then he returned to the conference table and moved the things to the main seat.

Five minutes later, it was almost 2:40.

The door of the conference room was pushed open again, and it was the old acquaintance Fang Rong who came in.

"Director Chen, Happy New Year."

"Happy New Year Director Fang, I didn't expect that we would cooperate again."

"Haha, there is no way, Secretary He came to me and insisted that I come here, it is convenient for us to be familiar with each other and cooperate."

Chen Xiao smiled.

Well, Secretary He asked you to come, right?

Just quietly watch your performance.

But then again, it's no problem to give Fang Rong the position of director of photography.

He has good ability and he cooperates well with acquaintances.

"Director Fang, please sit down." Chen Xiao sat down and handed him a script.

Fang Rong took the script with a smile, sat down, and breathed a sigh of relief.

Yeah! A smooth landing.

He successfully fooled both sides, so that he did not lose face and joined the crew that was sure to take off smoothly.

The old ones are still spicy, worthy of him!

Five minutes later, the others arrived one after another.

Seeing that Fang Rong and the chief director had arrived, they all made excuses saying that they were not familiar with the road and had been looking for a while in the Ministry of Culture building, so they were late.

Chen Xiao smiled and said, "Director Fang and I came early, everyone, please don't be polite, sit down."

The others were all in their thirties and forties, capable but not very experienced.

Originally, I was worried that the chief director would become famous at a young age and be arrogant, but now it seems that Director Chen is still very approachable.

The stones hanging in everyone's hearts fell to the ground.

After the nine people introduced themselves to each other, Chen Xiao handed out the script, preparation and shooting plan to everyone and got down to business.

"Today, I invited everyone to come here, in addition to getting to know each other, mainly to discuss the division of labor."

Everyone nodded.

In addition to Chen Xiao, the youngest is the art director Wang Rui, who is 32 years old this year.

At this time, his back was straight, and he listened to Chen Xiao seriously.

Years ago, he never dreamed that he could join this film crew led by Chen Xiao and shot by two departments.

On the morning of New Year's Eve, after receiving a call from the Art Department, he slapped himself twice to make sure whether he was dreaming.

After all, he was only 32 years old. Although he was outstanding among his peers, he could only be said to be above average in the field of art director.

He had a hunch that this was a rare opportunity in his life, and he wanted to use his life's strengths to do a good job in art!

Just as he was full of fighting spirit, the voice of the chief director came to his ears as he wished.

"Director Wang, you are responsible for props and scenes. Let me talk to you first." As he said, he glanced at the others, "You can listen to it or read the script."

"You say! I remember!"

Wang Rui opened his notebook with a firm look.

"Take a look at the preparation plan. Pages 3 to 5 are the work of the art director."

Wang Rui immediately opened the file as Chen Xiao said.

He started to seriously investigate the art style of science fiction movies and aerospace props on the second day of the Chinese New Year.

Absolutely competent for every task!

Thinking of this, he twisted the paper with his fingers and turned directly to the fourth page.

The top line of text came into view.

Job 3: Plant 3,000 acres of corn.

Wang Rui paused and blinked blankly.

?

Plant corn?

3,000 acres?

This line of words seemed to pour a basin of cold water on him.

Is this the purpose of the crew looking for him?

He looked up at Chen Xiao and asked in disbelief: "Director Chen, I'm going to plant 3,000 acres of corn?"

Chen Xiao touched his eyebrows, "I didn't ask you to plant it, I asked you to arrange people to plant it, you need to pay attention to the visual effects of the cornfield."

Wang Rui breathed a sigh of relief, but his frown was still there, "Director Chen, I read the simplified version of the script, this is the cornfield planted by Cooper's family, right? Can't we use special effects?"

Chen Xiao shook his head, "No, special effects technology is iterating too fast, and real shots can stand the test of time."

Hearing this, everyone nodded.

Indeed.

Special effects always give people a sense of being out of touch with reality.

Moreover, no matter how advanced the special effects technology is, it will be outdated in the future.

The traces of time on real-life movies are much lighter.

Everyone looked at Chen Xiao and expressed their approval.

While looking at him, several directors suddenly remembered two things.

Chen Xiao built a ship and cut off the sinking sea for the filming of "Titanic", and built an ancient street for the filming of "Farewell My Concubine".

He can be called a real-life shooting maniac.

What's the big deal about planting 3,000 acres of corn fields?

While others were still sighing, Wang Rui, who was in charge of the scenes and props, suddenly had a question in his mind.

He asked tentatively: "Director Chen, glaciers, artificial intelligence robots, spaceships and their pods, airships and the like, are also... going to be built?"

Chen Xiao nodded: "Yes. But the glacier is not built, we will go to the Dagu Glacier in Sichuan Province for field shooting."