Chapter 1319 Preparations
In this way, Julia and her film team were stationed in Xingwang Village.
After a day of rectification, the next day, the film team staff began to explore the site and arrange the scene.
They traveled all over Xingwang Village and then circled several places as future shooting venues.
One is a small hill behind Zhang Kun’s grandmother’s house.
The mountain is not high, about a hundred meters, and there are some strange rocks and rocks on the top of the mountain that are not considered to be considered. It is a very common hill in Nanhu Province, but in Xingwang Village, it is also the only mountain with a slightly distinctive feature.
Then there is the stream that runs through the entire village but can only cover the ankles.
Fortunately, the stream is clear and visible at the bottom. There are some green aquatic plants floating on both sides of the stream. Occasionally, a few little finger-sized swimming fish jumping among the aquatic plants, which is a bit interesting. Then it is not impossible to choose a certain filming place.
For this reason, the film team paid Xingwang Village a considerable rental fee, which made Li Botao laugh from ear to ear.
This money can be kept in Xingwang Village without having to be handed over, County Mayor Wang personally agreed last time.
In contrast, County Magistrate Wang instructed Xingwang Village to serve this film team as much as possible, do a good job in logistics for foreign friends' shooting, and provide the greatest convenience.
For this reason, Li Botao naturally agreed happily.
In addition, the film team also took a fancy to two large vegetable fields in the village.
The two large pieces of vegetable fields are about two acres wide. Green vegetables and cabbage are planted in the fields. In one corner of the field, there are also rows of bamboo poles. Loofah vines are hung on the bamboo poles. Loofahs as thick as babies' arms are hung on the vines. The melon tails also carry light yellow flowers, which look lively.
However, these two fields are privately owned.
With the film team staff coming to the door to communicate and coordination with Li Botao, the film team finally bought all the crops on the two vegetable fields and the right to use the vegetable fields for two months at a price of 10,000 yuan per acre.
To be honest, if you only talk about the price of the food, the price is actually very high.
According to past experience, acre of land is generally produced in about 3,000 kilograms to 4,000 kilograms per acre.
Then these crops are seasonal vegetables, not off-season. At this time of year, vegetables and cabbage are on the market in large quantities, so the prices are usually very low.
As for cabbage, the retail price of Shaoxi cabbage is only 80 cents to one piece, and if it is wholesale, it is less than 50 cents.
The price of vegetables is slightly higher, so it is only 1.5 yuan. If you go wholesale, it will not be 1.1 yuan.
For retail, although the price is slightly higher, it requires labor.
If you go wholesale, two acres of cabbage and green vegetables will be sold for up to 10,000 yuan.
Therefore, the film team bought two crops in the vegetable field for 20,000 yuan, and the price was very high.
But if you add the right to use the vegetable field for two months in the next period, the price is actually average.
After all, two months is enough to plant another round of vegetables. If this is included, 20,000 yuan is not a big deal.
But considering that they are foreign friends after all, they are here to shoot movies.
As the host, he naturally couldn't seem too stingy. The old man from the two vegetable fields agreed to the half-sell and half-given gift.
After determining the future shooting location, the film team staff began to arrange various scenes.
In addition to many original scenes, the staff also need to arrange some other artificial scenes.
For example, on the third day, a large truck brought a whole truck of wooden boards.
Then, in amazement, it took only two days to build a slightly Western-style European and American wooden house among the two rented fields.
I also took some old measures. If the villagers had not seen it with their own eyes, if it were a new one, if it was the first time I came here, I would probably think that the wooden house had been built for a long time.
After building the wooden house, the staff built a small path in front of the wooden house and between the two vegetable fields, laying some pebbles scattered, and planting some flowers and plants on both sides.
In just a few days, the originally serious farm vegetable fields have become a slightly ancient European and American pastoral scenery.
In addition to the changes in the vegetable fields, the film team staff also made some decorations on the hill and on both sides of the stream.
In addition to some of the original large stones, foreign staff also transported some extremely realistic prop stones. They looked cold and heavy, weighed like a thousand pounds, but were actually made of bubbles, and could be lifted by one person.
The staff bought dozens of small fish in the stream and put them in it, which made the calm stream look a little more lively.
Then, after all the preparations were completed, the filming of the movie finally began.
The filming started, and then the elderly in the village went to watch with great enthusiasm.
In fact, during the preparation stage before the filming begins, many elderly people come to watch curiously every day. After all, filming movies is indeed a new thing for elderly people in the village who don’t even have many opportunities to take photos.
I haven't seen it before, especially when it's a movie made by foreigners.
In response to this phenomenon, the director of the film team did not stop or object, and allowed everyone to watch their work and film.
Only two requirements were made. First, they pulled out a safety line when shooting, so that everyone should never cross the safety line when watching.
Second, because the movie is still in the early stage of filming and is in the confidentiality stage, I hope everyone will not take photos and will not promote their shooting work online.
Only these two points.
The elderly in the village naturally agreed.
It's normal not to cross the line. Anyway, they just watch the fun and don't want to participate. Just watch it from a distance.
As for taking photos and posting them online.
Let’s not talk about the fact that most elderly people in the village use elderly machines, and not many have the function of taking photos, let alone surfing the Internet. Many elderly people have not even been exposed to the Internet yet.
For them, the technical requirements for surfing online are too high, and maybe they will not be able to learn it in their lifetime.
So in this way, the two people got together in harmony.
The film team focused on shooting, while the elderly in the village were smiling and watching foreigners film foreign movies.
And Zhang Kun... stayed honestly in his clinic.
Zhang Kun didn't join in the fun, not that Zhang Kun didn't like it or was not curious about how the filmmakers made movies.
However, Zhang Kun is a person who likes quiet but not moving. He doesn't like too lively and noisy and crowded places. Zhang Kun prefers to stay alone in the same place, read books, or surf the Internet.
For example, the clinic is good.
As for how to watch movies, you can see them from a distance in the clinic.
Moreover, if I was really curious, my mother also went to the filming site and just went back to ask her at night.
Chapter completed!