There are not many pre-quake scenes in "The Great Tangshan Earthquake". Many large scenes can only be built through the later CG. Only Yuanni lives in the place where she lives...

After filming the outdoor scene, you need to push down the entire scenic spot, arrange it in a state after an earthquake, and start filming the scene after an earthquake.

How to represent earthquakes?

Zhang Junsheng, Brad Payton, and other staff members worked hard and initially planned to use blasting. Later, after experiments, it was found that the state after blasting was different from the collapse effect caused by earthquakes. In the end, the crew chose to demolish the building. However, the building where the protagonist's home was located needed to show the entire collapse process, which can only be accomplished through blasting.

In order to make the state of the house collapse closest to the real state after the earthquake, the crew did not let the excavator push the house down directly, but tied ropes to the walls and pulled the house down through mechanical pulling force.

The effect presented in this way is closer to the real earthquake state...

The master of the construction company worked hard all day before he pulled down the houses in the entire shooting area and arranged them to look like after the earthquake.

Now only the building where the protagonist and their family are still in their original form.

The collapse of the protagonist's house is a close-up scene in the movie. The collapse process needs to be shown. The collapse of the building is first completed by blasting, and then corrected in the later stage through computer special effects, so that the effect looks like a collapse...

As for Zhang Zifeng being pressed under the steel plate, this shot must be fake...

In the later stage, Zhang Zifeng only needs to put on makeup and lie on the ground to make a shot that is pressed by a steel plate. In the later stage, the steel plate and other objects are added through special effects, and the effect of being hit by a human being...

Of course, these all take time, and it is impossible to do it directly for the director to show it as soon as possible. Therefore, the special effects and the group refer to the crew that there is a special drawingist on the scene. As long as the director needs it, he will tell him to draw me a steel plate and he will draw what the director requires. If the director thinks it is feasible, he will immediately send the image to the special effects group. After a series of operations such as rendering and synthesis, the image will be finally completed...

The fireworks masters are from Brad Payton's team. They have been responsible for the fireworks effect of "2012" before, which is very good!

In fact, there are also pyrotechnicians in China, and the Bayi Studios are best at pyrotechnic operations.

But to be honest, the industry of mainland fireworks engineers is not very standardized!

There are six pyrotechnicians with qualifications in the country, including six Bayi Factory and four Shanghai Film Studios... Responsibly speaking, there are no more than fifty across the country.

Fifty professional fireworksmen face the annual output of 15,000 episodes of TV series and the annual output of four or five hundred movies.

It is conceivable how many fake fireworkers will be wandering in this market.

Zhang Junsheng is not short of money, and he doesn’t want accidents!

Fireworks are the most likely to have problems!

Two years ago, a fake shell exploded while filming a war scene in "My Corps Leader My Corps", and the leader of the fireworks team, Guo Yan, unfortunately died...

"I Have a Date with Spring", Yu Haoming and Ren Jiaxuan were burned because the crew's safety measures were incomplete and the fireworks master's skills were not in place!

Life is at stake!

This is really not that Director Zhang does not support domestic production...

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The second crew members rushed over, and they also wanted to learn Hollywood's blasting technology...

Zhang Junsheng smiled and said nothing. It is normal for the director to be studious!

At about 10:30, Zhang Junsheng picked up the megaphone and shouted: "In the last fifteen minutes, everyone retreated to a safe distance!"

Except for the blasting team doing the final inspection, other workers retreated to the safety line one after another.

Soon, Brad Payton came over to report to Zhang Junsheng, and the blasting team was ready!

"Finally confirm that everyone has exited the safe distance?"

No one spoke, the countdown began: “…3,2,1! Detonation!”

"boom!"

With a muffled sound, the ground swayed slightly.

Everyone turned their attention to the direction of the sound source. The department store surrounded the blocking network was filled with smoke and dust. At the same time, the building also had a chain reaction like dominoes.

In eight seconds, the entire building became a ruin, and then dust that covered the sky and the sun spread out from the ruins...

At the same time, the sprinkler truck that was already on standby drove at full speed to sprinkle water and reduce dust.

The whole process lasted about five minutes. After the smoke and dust dissipated, Zhang Junsheng quickly walked to the back of the monitor and looked at it. The camera was very good!

However, the camera just now was blasted, and it has to be modified later to be an earthquake collapse!

"Attention, take part in the extras, and prepare for aerial photography!"

How to show the tragic situation?

Of course, we need to take aerial photos through long shots...

This requires a group actor who is wearing a lot of clothes and is unconcealed...

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"Director, will we be scolded if we have such a main theme?"

After the filming that day, Guo Fan suddenly thought of something and asked Zhang Junsheng.

The subsequent filming mainly focused on the dangers of the People's Liberation Army's aftershocks. Of course, Zhang Zifeng was trapped under the stone slab and stayed strong for three days...

"...There is no main theme. After the Tangshan earthquake, did the People's Liberation Army rush to the scene as soon as possible? We took the film according to the recorded data, what are we afraid of?"

The People's Liberation Army will always be the cutest person!

According to the "Great Earthquake", a unit was stationed in the gymnasium at that time. After the earthquake, the tap water pipeline was paralyzed, and the victims had difficulty drinking water, so the drinking water distribution system was used. The People's Liberation Army drank the water from the swimming pool in the gymnasium and gave all the drinking water to the victims.

After the earthquake resistance came to an end, the People's Liberation Army began to evacuate. When the troops left, Tangshan citizens spontaneously organized farewells and stuffed food into the arms of the People's Liberation Army. The scene at that time was like the scene of the volunteers leaving North Korea in Wei Wei's "Goodbye, Relatives". It was really a family of military and civilians.

The 38th Army will always be the cutest person in the hearts of Tangshan people.

Sighing, Zhang Junsheng said: "Actually, in China, as long as the main theme is involved, even if what you say is really happening, someone will scold you, don't worry about them..."

There are a group of people who are free and democratic in the United States. However, they don’t know that the patriotic education of the United States is even better than that of China. In the big deal, a group of people gathered together and shouted ‘USA! USA!’

Guo Fan nodded, and Zhang Junsheng continued, "Okay, don't think so much. Although the script is not perfect, it is definitely not a problem with the main theme. It is not a problem with many things we cannot touch on. For example, if we smash and loot during a major earthquake, can we shoot it head-on? It definitely not possible!"

"Go back and have a good rest, you'll shoot a rain scene tomorrow!"

It's March now, and the weather is definitely not hot, but the movie reflects the incident in July. The actors need to wear shorts and vests to shoot rain scenes. It will be very cold when poured on their bodies, so the rain scene must be finished as soon as possible...
Chapter completed!