Chapter 500: What Zhang Jingyi Saw (Part )
"Okay, let's just stop here for now, Mr. Wang. I have something else to do, so I'll leave first."
Outside the classroom, Wang Hao watched the training of the new students of the "Spark Project" and then said goodbye to teacher Wang Jinsong.
He was just visiting these students today, as he had other things to do when he came to Beijing Film Academy.
In the classroom, the students had no idea that they were being watched by industry leaders and they continued to devote themselves fully to performance training.
After a busy and hard day of training, Minami Hamabe returned to the dormitory and fell directly onto the bed. She was so limp that she didn't even want to move a finger.
"きもちいい(Comfortable)!"
Zhang Jingyi had the same performance as her. As a member of a study mutual aid group, the two of them were naturally assigned to the same dormitory.
The dormitory is well furnished and the interior decoration is also new. There is a bed above and a desk below. It can accommodate two people. It has air conditioning, bathroom and hot water. Except that high-power electrical appliances cannot be used, there is nothing wrong with it.
The two little girls had nothing to do, so they chatted with each other enthusiastically. You talked about the scenery of Japan, and I talked about interesting things in my hometown. For them who were already extremely tired physically and mentally, this was a great way to relax.
Of course, the training courses for students in the "Spark Project" could not possibly be so tiring and stressful. At least after staying in school for half a month, Minami Hamabe and her classmates had an extremely interesting course.
Hamabe Minami, who had been notified in advance early in the morning, carried a small bag and boarded a bus with her good friend Zhang Jingyi, hand in hand, as they followed the main group.
The bus, loaded with students and teachers from the "Spark Program", drove out of the Beijing Film Academy campus and traveled on the crowded road for an hour and a half before arriving at the destination.
"Wow! This is so spectacular! This place is so huge!"
On the bus, the students looked at the buildings outside the window and couldn't help but open their mouths and sigh heartfeltly.
【Eastern Galaxy Movie Metropolis】
The name of the destination is so dazzling on the tall portal formed by metal frame and film-shaped decoration.
When the car passed through the access control and entered the gate, the row of silver-white buildings that suddenly appeared in front of them made Hamabe Minami couldn't help but put her face against the car window.
Is this the famous [Oriental Galaxy Movie Metropolis], the largest and most advanced international film and television production base in the Asia-Pacific region?
The sunshine in Beijing in September is still strong, and the dry air makes people feel dry mouth even when staying in an air-conditioned car.
Hamabe Minami looked at everything outside the window, pursed her lips subconsciously, and her throat rolled.
For an aspiring actor, she knew at first glance that only by coming here to participate in the filming and production of film and television works can she be considered to have a high-quality acting career.
And when they got out of the car, followed the teacher out of the parking lot, and began to visit and study in the campus, she became more convinced of her previous opinion.
The first attraction the students visited was the Galaxy Movie Museum.
This is a single-family building near the Film Capital office building, and it looks like an old-fashioned studio.
Minami Hamabe and others walked in and were led by a specially arranged tour guide who explained to them the "River of Light and Shadow" theme exhibition inside.
The theme exhibition is divided into two major units: "Stories from the Past" and "Light of New Stars". Among them, "Stories from the Past" is mainly about the past glory of China's film and television industry.
This is not limited to the Beijing Film Studio in Shangjing. Given the status of Galaxy Group in the industry, they have also collected many old movie items from all over the country.
For example, the 1958mm film editing table produced by Beijing Film Studio in 35, the hand-painted storyboard of "Camel Xiangzi", the original opera headgear of Cheng Dieyi in "Farewell My Concubine", the original design of Sun Wukong in "Havoc in Heaven", and the prop military satchel in "The Garland under the Mountain"...
Just when Minami Hamabe and Jingyi Zhang walked into this part of the exhibition hall, they felt as if they had traveled through time in an instant, back to several decades ago, witnessed the filming and production of the movies at that time with their own eyes, and felt the love and pursuit of film art by those predecessors.
In particular, there is a character analysis biography written by the actor himself, which is a palm-sized notebook with dense handwriting on it.
Although the owner of the notebook is just a little-known actor and the character analyzed in the biography is not an important character in any well-known work, even if it is a small work, we can see through this biography that the actor is fully committed to the role.
In addition to these past movie props and artifacts, as they move from "Stories of the Past" to "Light of New Stars", both sides of the corridor also show the progress of the Chinese film industry over the years.
A comparison between the silent film projectors of the Peking period and the recording equipment of the Beijing Film Studio in the 1990s, as well as the hand-drawn animation manuscripts and computer animation materials of the former Shanghai Animation Studio.
After finishing this road of film progress, we arrived at the "Light of New Star" exhibition hall which can show the achievements of Galaxy Group in recent years.
When entering the exhibition hall, the first thing Minami Hamabe saw was a wooden box.
"what is this?"
Minami Hamabe widened her eyes. She really didn't expect that such a thing would be placed in the exhibition hall representing the achievements of the Xinghe Group.
She rubbed her eyes again and looked carefully. Yes, it was just an ordinary wooden box.
The wooden box was about two meters long and half a meter wide, just big enough for one person to lie down. It was made of extremely cheap logs, nailed together with iron nails. The wood had not even been polished and had quite a few burrs.
"What is this for?"
Before their tour guide could start explaining, Zhang Jingyi next to Hamabe Minami had already given the answer.
"Ah, this... I know this!"
She took Hamabe Minami's hand, pointed at the wooden box and introduced it enthusiastically:
“This should be the box prop that Director Wang Hao and his team used when they filmed their first movie, Buried.”
"Buried Alive?"
"Yes, 'Buried Alive'! 'The Heart Labyrinth - Buried Alive'!" Zhang Jingyi nodded repeatedly, "That's the first work of the [Galaxy Cinematic Universe]!" After she said this, the foreign students and a small number of Chinese students at the scene looked at the wooden box with different eyes.
In a small sense, this is an important prop in director Wang Hao's first work. In a big sense, this is the beginning of the legend of the "Galaxy Cinematic Universe".
"Jingyi, you are amazing. You know all this!"
The Sakura girl naturally showed her full emotional value again, and other students also praised and complimented Zhang Jingyi on her erudition.
"That's right. I have watched every movie of the Galaxy Cinematic Universe directed by Wang Hao, and I have watched some of them several times."
Outside the crowd, another girl watching this scene couldn't help but frown, pout and snort.
"What are you so proud of? You're talking as if others haven't seen all of Director Wang's movies."
The girl is very young, with long arms and legs. She is not the traditional delicate beauty, but her appearance is particularly memorable. She looks like the actress who played Scarlet Witch in the foreign [Marvel Cinematic Universe], but the difference in figure is a little bit bigger.
Kim Sae-ron, another girl from South Korea who was her companion, noticed her dissatisfaction. As someone who had been hanging out in the crew since childhood and was in the hell of the Korean entertainment industry, Kim Sae-ron immediately noticed her companion's sour mood and immediately followed her words and said:
"That's right, Haocun, let's go over there and take a look."
Kim Sae-ron and a girl named Haocun left the main group and came to a display case on the other side.
Inside the display case is a strange bronze object, more than one meter high, like a green tree with branches and leaves spread out, with a simple and majestic shape.
The branches of the bronze tree are divided into three layers, and each branch is covered with dense bronze leaves, which are lifelike and even the veins on the leaves are clearly visible.
There are ten golden spherical fruits between the leaves, one at the top and the other nine below. Inside the fruit there seems to be a strange three-legged bird bathing in flames, emitting a hazy golden light.
"Source Code, the Bronze Sacred Tree!"
The two guessed the origin of this "tree" almost immediately, and sure enough, when they looked at the introduction board next to it, they found that this was the ancient creation that appeared in the post-credits Easter egg of the movie "Source Code".
And in this "Light of the New Star" exhibition hall, there are undoubtedly many props similar to this ancient bronze tree.
From the coffin in "Buried" to the mechanical shark in "The Shallows", from the helmet of the subconscious therapy device to the bronze ancient tree in "Source Code", from the gyroscope in "Inception" to the Tiangong space station model in "Gravity"...
Each prop bears witness to the Galaxy Cinematic Universe's journey from its stumbling steps to its great strides to the present day.
"Okay, everyone has just witnessed the history of Chinese Film and the history of Galaxy Group. Next, we will take you to see the current Galaxy Group and the current top state of the Chinese film industry."
The tour guide waved the small flag in his hand, calling on the students who had just visited the "Light of New Star" exhibition hall to gather together.
"Everyone follow me. It's important to pay attention to where you're going in a moment. Don't touch anything inside casually, and don't reach out."
"Teacher, can we take a picture?"
Liu Haocun raised her hand and asked a question, and the guide nodded, "Everyone can take pictures."
The group walked out of the Galaxy Movie Museum, crossed the wide road, and walked less than a hundred meters under the scorching sun. They soon arrived in front of a huge silver-gray building.
They had seen this building when they just got on the bus. After all, it was the largest among a row of similar buildings, and there was a big number "1" in one corner of the building.
At this time, the gate of this huge building must be closed, but there is a side door next to the gate, so it has no impact.
Everyone filed in, and as soon as they entered, they all exclaimed "Wow".
They also have some understanding of this place. It's just a photo studio. After all, [Eastern Galaxy Film City] is a film and television base, and the most common things in it are definitely photo studios.
Moreover, many of them have made movies before and are not unfamiliar with this. At most, the studio is a little bigger, but what's so strange about that?
However, inside this huge Studio No. 1, a huge 8-meter-high wall and an ancient tower have been built.
Some parts of the city wall were still charred and damaged, as if it had experienced countless wars and was filled with the smell of gunpowder.
Of course, how could there be a war in this studio?
"Dear students, what is in front of you is the largest indoor studio in China and even in Asia, 'Oriental No. 1'.
This shed is 36 meters long, 25 meters wide, and 13 meters high. It is built entirely of steel structure. The huge working area can not only meet the needs of most indoor scenes, but also many outdoor scenes can be completed by setting up the scenery, which fully meets the needs of the film crew and eliminates the trouble of switching scenes back and forth. "
"What you are seeing now is the set of The Great Wall directed by Zhang Yimou. In the past, the filming of such movies could only be done outdoors. However, now we have the largest studio in Asia, plus the best props and construction team of our Galaxy Group, as well as the industry's top special effects technology, which is enough to make the fake look real."
As if to complement the tour guide's words, a sudden gust of wind swept through the studio, and the flags on the city walls were blown into fluttering sounds.
At the same time, the lights above their heads dimmed, from bright white to dim yellow.
Add to that the desolate horn that sounded from nowhere, and in just a moment, the entire studio seemed to have gone back in time and turned into an ancient battlefield under the setting sun.
"This is the full simulation technology developed by our Galaxy Group. With it and this 10,000-square-meter studio, we can simulate various natural scenes such as wind, thunder, rain, snow, morning, fog, dusk, and the night sky to meet the shooting needs of different crews.
In addition to this, Oriental Movie Metropolis also has various other high-tech features.
In today’s film and television production, let alone other places, we can say that [Eastern Galaxy Film City] has completed the construction of a full set of film industrialization systems, including preparatory work in the early stage, shooting and production in the middle stage, and post-production processing of works, a full range of one-stop services, covering all types of films..."
Following the guide's explanation, Zhang Jingyi and her team walked slowly forward. They first wore safety helmets to take a close look at the walls and towers of "The Great Wall" built with scaffolding, wood, plastic and foam. Then, wearing safety fall protection vests, they walked up the stairs to the plank road above the studio and saw the integrated equipment for snowmaking, rainmaking, air blowing and lighting worth millions.
In addition, next to Photo Studio No. 1 is a set workshop, which contains various wood, plastic, and foam processing equipment. The entire environment is well organized and arranged very reasonably.
However, most of the young students on the scene did not care much about these things that represented the strength of the film industry. Except for some boys and foreign students, most people were more interested in another place in the studio.
(End of this chapter)
"Okay, let's just stop here for now, Mr. Wang. I have something else to do, so I'll leave first."
Outside the classroom, Wang Hao watched the training of the new students of the "Spark Project" and then said goodbye to teacher Wang Jinsong.
He was just visiting these students today, as he had other things to do when he came to Beijing Film Academy.
In the classroom, the students had no idea that they were being watched by industry leaders and they continued to devote themselves fully to performance training.
After a busy and hard day of training, Minami Hamabe returned to the dormitory and fell directly onto the bed. She was so limp that she didn't even want to move a finger.
"きもちいい(Comfortable)!"
Zhang Jingyi had the same performance as her. As a member of a study mutual aid group, the two of them were naturally assigned to the same dormitory.
The dormitory is well furnished and the interior decoration is also new. There is a bed above and a desk below. It can accommodate two people. It has air conditioning, bathroom and hot water. Except that high-power electrical appliances cannot be used, there is nothing wrong with it.
The two little girls had nothing to do, so they chatted with each other enthusiastically. You talked about the scenery of Japan, and I talked about interesting things in my hometown. For them who were already extremely tired physically and mentally, this was a great way to relax.
Of course, the training courses for students in the "Spark Project" could not possibly be so tiring and stressful. At least after staying in school for half a month, Minami Hamabe and her classmates had an extremely interesting course.
Hamabe Minami, who had been notified in advance early in the morning, carried a small bag and boarded a bus with her good friend Zhang Jingyi, hand in hand, as they followed the main group.
The bus, loaded with students and teachers from the "Spark Program", drove out of the Beijing Film Academy campus and traveled on the crowded road for an hour and a half before arriving at the destination.
"Wow! This is so spectacular! This place is so huge!"
On the bus, the students looked at the buildings outside the window and couldn't help but open their mouths and sigh heartfeltly.
【Eastern Galaxy Movie Metropolis】
The name of the destination is so dazzling on the tall portal formed by metal frame and film-shaped decoration.
When the car passed through the access control and entered the gate, the row of silver-white buildings that suddenly appeared in front of them made Hamabe Minami couldn't help but put her face against the car window.
Is this the famous [Oriental Galaxy Movie Metropolis], the largest and most advanced international film and television production base in the Asia-Pacific region?
The sunshine in Beijing in September is still strong, and the dry air makes people feel dry mouth even when staying in an air-conditioned car.
Hamabe Minami looked at everything outside the window, pursed her lips subconsciously, and her throat rolled.
For an aspiring actor, she knew at first glance that only by coming here to participate in the filming and production of film and television works can she be considered to have a high-quality acting career.
And when they got out of the car, followed the teacher out of the parking lot, and began to visit and study in the campus, she became more convinced of her previous opinion.
The first attraction the students visited was the Galaxy Movie Museum.
This is a single-family building near the Film Capital office building, and it looks like an old-fashioned studio.
Minami Hamabe and others walked in and were led by a specially arranged tour guide who explained to them the "River of Light and Shadow" theme exhibition inside.
The theme exhibition is divided into two major units: "Stories from the Past" and "Light of New Stars". Among them, "Stories from the Past" is mainly about the past glory of China's film and television industry.
This is not limited to the Beijing Film Studio in Shangjing. Given the status of Galaxy Group in the industry, they have also collected many old movie items from all over the country.
For example, the 1958mm film editing table produced by Beijing Film Studio in 35, the hand-painted storyboard of "Camel Xiangzi", the original opera headgear of Cheng Dieyi in "Farewell My Concubine", the original design of Sun Wukong in "Havoc in Heaven", and the prop military satchel in "The Garland under the Mountain"...
Just when Minami Hamabe and Jingyi Zhang walked into this part of the exhibition hall, they felt as if they had traveled through time in an instant, back to several decades ago, witnessed the filming and production of the movies at that time with their own eyes, and felt the love and pursuit of film art by those predecessors.
In particular, there is a character analysis biography written by the actor himself, which is a palm-sized notebook with dense handwriting on it.
Although the owner of the notebook is just a little-known actor and the character analyzed in the biography is not an important character in any well-known work, even if it is a small work, we can see through this biography that the actor is fully committed to the role.
In addition to these past movie props and artifacts, as they move from "Stories of the Past" to "Light of New Stars", both sides of the corridor also show the progress of the Chinese film industry over the years.
A comparison between the silent film projectors of the Peking period and the recording equipment of the Beijing Film Studio in the 1990s, as well as the hand-drawn animation manuscripts and computer animation materials of the former Shanghai Animation Studio.
After finishing this road of film progress, we arrived at the "Light of New Star" exhibition hall which can show the achievements of Galaxy Group in recent years.
When entering the exhibition hall, the first thing Minami Hamabe saw was a wooden box.
"what is this?"
Minami Hamabe widened her eyes. She really didn't expect that such a thing would be placed in the exhibition hall representing the achievements of the Xinghe Group.
She rubbed her eyes again and looked carefully. Yes, it was just an ordinary wooden box.
The wooden box was about two meters long and half a meter wide, just big enough for one person to lie down. It was made of extremely cheap logs, nailed together with iron nails. The wood had not even been polished and had quite a few burrs.
"What is this for?"
Before their tour guide could start explaining, Zhang Jingyi next to Hamabe Minami had already given the answer.
"Ah, this... I know this!"
She took Hamabe Minami's hand, pointed at the wooden box and introduced it enthusiastically:
“This should be the box prop that Director Wang Hao and his team used when they filmed their first movie, Buried.”
"Buried Alive?"
"Yes, 'Buried Alive'! 'The Heart Labyrinth - Buried Alive'!" Zhang Jingyi nodded repeatedly, "That's the first work of the [Galaxy Cinematic Universe]!" After she said this, the foreign students and a small number of Chinese students at the scene looked at the wooden box with different eyes.
In a small sense, this is an important prop in director Wang Hao's first work. In a big sense, this is the beginning of the legend of the "Galaxy Cinematic Universe".
"Jingyi, you are amazing. You know all this!"
The Sakura girl naturally showed her full emotional value again, and other students also praised and complimented Zhang Jingyi on her erudition.
"That's right. I have watched every movie of the Galaxy Cinematic Universe directed by Wang Hao, and I have watched some of them several times."
Outside the crowd, another girl watching this scene couldn't help but frown, pout and snort.
"What are you so proud of? You're talking as if others haven't seen all of Director Wang's movies."
The girl is very young, with long arms and legs. She is not the traditional delicate beauty, but her appearance is particularly memorable. She looks like the actress who played Scarlet Witch in the foreign [Marvel Cinematic Universe], but the difference in figure is a little bit bigger.
Kim Sae-ron, another girl from South Korea who was her companion, noticed her dissatisfaction. As someone who had been hanging out in the crew since childhood and was in the hell of the Korean entertainment industry, Kim Sae-ron immediately noticed her companion's sour mood and immediately followed her words and said:
"That's right, Haocun, let's go over there and take a look."
Kim Sae-ron and a girl named Haocun left the main group and came to a display case on the other side.
Inside the display case is a strange bronze object, more than one meter high, like a green tree with branches and leaves spread out, with a simple and majestic shape.
The branches of the bronze tree are divided into three layers, and each branch is covered with dense bronze leaves, which are lifelike and even the veins on the leaves are clearly visible.
There are ten golden spherical fruits between the leaves, one at the top and the other nine below. Inside the fruit there seems to be a strange three-legged bird bathing in flames, emitting a hazy golden light.
"Source Code, the Bronze Sacred Tree!"
The two guessed the origin of this "tree" almost immediately, and sure enough, when they looked at the introduction board next to it, they found that this was the ancient creation that appeared in the post-credits Easter egg of the movie "Source Code".
And in this "Light of the New Star" exhibition hall, there are undoubtedly many props similar to this ancient bronze tree.
From the coffin in "Buried" to the mechanical shark in "The Shallows", from the helmet of the subconscious therapy device to the bronze ancient tree in "Source Code", from the gyroscope in "Inception" to the Tiangong space station model in "Gravity"...
Each prop bears witness to the Galaxy Cinematic Universe's journey from its stumbling steps to its great strides to the present day.
"Okay, everyone has just witnessed the history of Chinese Film and the history of Galaxy Group. Next, we will take you to see the current Galaxy Group and the current top state of the Chinese film industry."
The tour guide waved the small flag in his hand, calling on the students who had just visited the "Light of New Star" exhibition hall to gather together.
"Everyone follow me. It's important to pay attention to where you're going in a moment. Don't touch anything inside casually, and don't reach out."
"Teacher, can we take a picture?"
Liu Haocun raised her hand and asked a question, and the guide nodded, "Everyone can take pictures."
The group walked out of the Galaxy Movie Museum, crossed the wide road, and walked less than a hundred meters under the scorching sun. They soon arrived in front of a huge silver-gray building.
They had seen this building when they just got on the bus. After all, it was the largest among a row of similar buildings, and there was a big number "1" in one corner of the building.
At this time, the gate of this huge building must be closed, but there is a side door next to the gate, so it has no impact.
Everyone filed in, and as soon as they entered, they all exclaimed "Wow".
They also have some understanding of this place. It's just a photo studio. After all, [Eastern Galaxy Film City] is a film and television base, and the most common things in it are definitely photo studios.
Moreover, many of them have made movies before and are not unfamiliar with this. At most, the studio is a little bigger, but what's so strange about that?
However, inside this huge Studio No. 1, a huge 8-meter-high wall and an ancient tower have been built.
Some parts of the city wall were still charred and damaged, as if it had experienced countless wars and was filled with the smell of gunpowder.
Of course, how could there be a war in this studio?
"Dear students, what is in front of you is the largest indoor studio in China and even in Asia, 'Oriental No. 1'.
This shed is 36 meters long, 25 meters wide, and 13 meters high. It is built entirely of steel structure. The huge working area can not only meet the needs of most indoor scenes, but also many outdoor scenes can be completed by setting up the scenery, which fully meets the needs of the film crew and eliminates the trouble of switching scenes back and forth. "
"What you are seeing now is the set of The Great Wall directed by Zhang Yimou. In the past, the filming of such movies could only be done outdoors. However, now we have the largest studio in Asia, plus the best props and construction team of our Galaxy Group, as well as the industry's top special effects technology, which is enough to make the fake look real."
As if to complement the tour guide's words, a sudden gust of wind swept through the studio, and the flags on the city walls were blown into fluttering sounds.
At the same time, the lights above their heads dimmed, from bright white to dim yellow.
Add to that the desolate horn that sounded from nowhere, and in just a moment, the entire studio seemed to have gone back in time and turned into an ancient battlefield under the setting sun.
"This is the full simulation technology developed by our Galaxy Group. With it and this 10,000-square-meter studio, we can simulate various natural scenes such as wind, thunder, rain, snow, morning, fog, dusk, and the night sky to meet the shooting needs of different crews.
In addition to this, Oriental Movie Metropolis also has various other high-tech features.
In today’s film and television production, let alone other places, we can say that [Eastern Galaxy Film City] has completed the construction of a full set of film industrialization systems, including preparatory work in the early stage, shooting and production in the middle stage, and post-production processing of works, a full range of one-stop services, covering all types of films..."
Following the guide's explanation, Zhang Jingyi and her team walked slowly forward. They first wore safety helmets to take a close look at the walls and towers of "The Great Wall" built with scaffolding, wood, plastic and foam. Then, wearing safety fall protection vests, they walked up the stairs to the plank road above the studio and saw the integrated equipment for snowmaking, rainmaking, air blowing and lighting worth millions.
In addition, next to Photo Studio No. 1 is a set workshop, which contains various wood, plastic, and foam processing equipment. The entire environment is well organized and arranged very reasonably.
However, most of the young students on the scene did not care much about these things that represented the strength of the film industry. Except for some boys and foreign students, most people were more interested in another place in the studio.
(End of this chapter)
