Rice is still the way Zheng Tan saw at the cat show. He still doesn't have much expression, and he seems indifferent to the people and things around him. Only when he looks at him does his eyes widen and his pupils dilate a little, which makes him look at him. A little less sharp than usual.
As for Xiaomi, this is the first time Zheng Tan has seen it since it was taken away. The pattern in his impression and the mole that is the same as his father's are two features that Zheng Tan will not admit wrong.
Different from Dami, Xiaomi saw Zheng Tan for the first time since he left, and looked at Zheng Tan with a little doubt, Zheng Tan wondered if this guy still remembered him.
Xiaomi's eyes moved with Zheng Tan, probably because he felt that the space was too small, it squeezed the rice next to him, and he didn't care if the rice was slapped on his forehead.
The two cats were crowded in the car window, and it was not easy for Zheng Tan to get in. It was the driver in front who greeted Zheng Tan and jumped in from the front window.
The driver Zheng Tan had never met, but when I heard him talking with Charlie, I knew that this was the person Fang Shaokang said was helping to take care of him in the capital. Since they all said hello in advance, Charlie was relieved. After watching the car leave, Charlie reported Zheng Tan's whereabouts to the people in Chuhua City, which was told by the boss Xiao Guo and Professor Jiao.
Over there, Zheng Tan, who jumped into the car, was sitting in the passenger seat. In the back seat were Fang Mengmeng and two cats, and an unknown person who was sent by Fang Mengmeng's mother to help take care of the children and cats. .
Zheng Tan noticed that Xiaomi was wearing a noose, and the other end of the rope was in the hands of the woman Zheng Tan did not know. Xiaomi's cat tag is hung on a buckle of the rope sleeve, which is quite delicate, and the rope sleeve also passes through Xiaomi's foreleg under the armpit, so that the cat's neck will not bear all the force when the rope is held. However, most of the people who use this kind of rope are more active. Not so with rice.
As Zheng Tan guessed, this guy Xiaomi has ADHD tendency, which is completely different from Rice's quiet and steady feeling. After Zheng Tan got into the car, Xiaomi was very curious at first. From time to time, he leaned in and sniffed. He didn't know whether he remembered it or felt that Zheng Tan was not a threat. , until Fang Mengmeng forcibly pressed it on the seat.
Even if he was lying on his stomach, Xiaomi was not idle, rubbing around to play here and there, and his tail swung back and forth. I don't know who this character looks like. Peanut Candy wasn't like that back then, right
Another thing that makes Zheng Tan unhappy is the difference in body size.
From Zheng Tan's point of view, Peanut Candy is a generation lower than him, and Dami and Xiaomi are a generation younger. Standing next to these two juniors, Zheng Tan has to look up to them.
After arriving at Fang Mengmeng's house, Zheng Tan realized that he still underestimated Xiaomi.
Zheng Tan was lying on the sofa and watched Xiaomi fiddle with a tennis ball all over the room. From time to time, he would provoke Zheng Tan on the sofa and Rice on the cat climbing frame, and then he was slapped by them.
I don't know if I'll get into trouble when I shoot. But those were the things that Yang Yi and the film crew were worried about, and Zheng Tan stopped thinking about it.
Fang Mengmeng took a lot of photos of Zheng Tan and Dami Xiaomi with the camera. Rice is used to it, and Xiaomi doesn't seem to care about the camera. Moles are especially noticeable.
Zheng Tan didn't stay at Fang Mengmeng's house much, and Yang Yi drove over to pick him up the next day. The filming team didn't have much free time, and many areas still needed to be adjusted. Yang Yi gave Zheng Tan a lot of help. Great hope.
Many people say that documentaries are the eldest son of film and the poor brother of feature films. As Zheng Tan knows, not every documentary can be recognized by the public, and most of them are shelved. When the title is mentioned, many people have never heard of it, and even if they have heard of it, they are not interested in watching it.
Many people are also not optimistic about this film that Yang Yi spent so much effort on. Why not make a documentary? It's better to shoot some celebrity commercials for that little money.
Yang Yi didn't care about this at all.
Zheng Tan is not a Beijing cat. Since we are going to tell stories about cats in the capital, these stories will definitely not be the real Zheng Tan. Authenticity is the essential attribute of documentaries. It records objective things so that the audience can have a more realistic feeling. Therefore, Yang Yi will not gossip or let Zheng Tan play those fake stories.
What Zheng Tan wants to play is the real thing in the past. In other words, Zheng Tan wants to play another cat that is no longer in the world, and he also needs to change his mentality when changing locations.
Compared with 20 or 30 years ago, the current capital has changed a lot. The scenes and things in Yang Yi’s memory cannot be reproduced faithfully. Therefore, this also involves a method of virtualizing through scientific and technological means. It does not mean that it is fictional, the story is still true, and the virtual scenes and things by technological means also have historical basis for real existence. Therefore, there are some clips in this documentary that need to use a combination of virtual and real shooting methods to reproduce the real content of the story.
People have the ability to reproduce the past. Those past events are scenes that exist in Yang Yi's memory. Yang Yi said that to achieve ideological resonance, Zheng Tan felt a little pressure.
Both the lineup and the atmosphere are very different from Xiao Guo's studio.
In the process of shooting, focus on the control of the light ratio and improve the visual effect of the image. Therefore, this requires a higher technical level of the camera and the photographer. The photographer must adjust the light ratio to ensure the beauty of the image. The content is presented to the public from the most beautiful angle. Advanced shooting equipment and skilled photographers, both of which can show that Yang Yi attaches great importance to this documentary, and the post-production requires high technical processing of the images, and it is necessary to be able to ensure the authenticity of the shooting content. In order to enhance the visual effect, the relevant shooting technicians need to have high technical ability to retouch the image.
Sure enough, shooting pet commercials is very different from this kind of documentary. No wonder Xiao Guo has always been neurotic before, even with Charlie always nagging next to him for fear of causing trouble and going on a business trip.
Yang Yi told Charlie and the other team that Xiao Guo sent to the capital about the next few scenes to be filmed, how to move, where to look, how to call them, and so on. Zheng Tan listened beside him.
The old man who played with Zheng Tan and many people in the filming crew didn't understand Yang Yi's approach. From the beginning, when they knew that Yang Yi was going to make this documentary, they knew that it was quite difficult, and the people were okay. Cats are notoriously difficult to handle, much more difficult to handle than dogs. Just look at the movies about dogs and cats so far and their proportions in the movies. You don’t know how difficult it is for cats to handle you if you haven’t filmed them before. , so they feel that Yang Yi is still too young and thinks things too simply.
Yang Yi also knew what other people would think, but what he learned from Xiao Guo and Professor Jiao, as well as what he saw with his own eyes at the pet center shooting venue, made him have great expectations for this cat. This involves the story of his grandfather. The film itself is of great significance, even if this is not a big-budget film, it is just a documentary that is not favored by many people.
Every time Yang Yi takes pictures of animals, he likes to guess the mood of the animal at that time through the eyes of those animals that are frozen in the photos. Compared with people, animals are more likely to attract people's attention. In fact, many times, one look of animals can kill the stars on TV in seconds. It is not that they perform better than the stars, but that one look of them will give people who see them. What an impact. Those who love pets, sometimes even if their pets have made a mistake, they are prepared to reprimand, and then throw away their armor and armor after facing the pet's coquettish or pitiful eyes. Animal eyes are also emotional.
Although it is a documentary, some still have to be played, especially Zheng Tan's performance is the cat's life of another cat this time.
Before filming, Zheng Tan had to make up.
Yes, makeup.
This was discussed before. Grandpa Yang Yi once raised a cat that was not pure black. The cat had three white feet, one black foot, a little white on the nose, and a lump on the chin. Triangular white, compared to the sheriff, in fact, the proportion of white is not much. Zheng Tan saw the photo that Yang Yi took out.
As for the dyes used for dyeing, they were specially made by Yang Yi. I heard that they are harmless, edible and washable. For this reason, Dad Jiao also took some specially for testing, and only agreed after getting the results.
Before this, Zheng Tan had always thought that dyeing was an easy thing, but it was not until the time of "makeup" that he realized that it was not the case. The makeup artist hired by Yang Yi was too conscientious and meticulous. Of course, the effect was also very good. Zheng Tan is now going out to ensure that many people don't know him. Most people recognize animals at first sight. There are many changes, and the all-black momentum has also been reduced.
Charlie took the mirror and let Zheng Tan look at it. The other Zheng Tans were quite satisfied. At first glance, he could not see that he had put on makeup. The only thing he was depressed about was the white spot under his nose. Zheng Tan now felt that the "mole" of peanut candy and millet He looks pretty good, better than Zheng Tan now. The white stuff under the nose is like snot flowing directly into the mouth.
Make up and start shooting.
There are a lot of questions that you can only find out when you start shooting.
For example, Yang Yi said how to make a coquettish cry and a defensive cry.
"That... charcoal can't bark, no, it can't bark like a cat..." Charlie said helplessly.
Yang Yi: "..." What does "can't call the cat's voice"
Regarding this, Zheng Tan said that this is indeed beyond his ability, the usual cat meowing is enough, not to mention the coquettish voice.
Charlie was afraid that the master would be angry, so he hurried over to explain to Yang Yi.
Yang Yi thought about the advertisements he had seen, and it seemed that he had never seen this cat meow there.
Sighing, Yang Yi said, "Forget it, I'll think of a way to continue when the call comes."
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"Okay, take your socks later... What's wrong?! Don't take socks? Hate stinky socks?! Hey, they're new, they're just purposely made old. If you don't believe me... ok, continue!"
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"Okay, let it sit on the wooden stool and lick its paws later... What? Not licking its paws? How can a cat not lick its paws, and people still suck their fingers... Is there dye? It's okay, that dye can be eaten, and I have eaten it before. ...or it licks that claw that doesn't use dye... ok, go on."
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After one day of filming, Charlie and the team were sweating profusely, and Zheng Tan was no better. Yang Yi was too demanding, and the director didn't think there was anything wrong with it, but Yang Yi was not satisfied. The reshoots are probably intended to highly overlap with the clips in memory.
Zheng Tan took a long breath. Forget it, as a dedication to art.