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"Director Fang, welcome!"

The female officer pursed her lips and touched Fang Ziheng's slender palm lightly.

The male soldier in camouflage wore sunglasses and gave a military salute, which is cool.

After a brief greeting, the three of them walked and chatted.

Soldiers on duty took the actors and ordinary staff to the filming location and distributed rest rooms.

Fang Ziheng took three military commanders, and each department was responsible for following the two officers to inspect the filming studio and set locations first.

Although the core of "Edge of Tomorrow" is science fiction and future war, the characters in the movie are all soldiers, and the power shown is the combat power of the Chinese military!

Therefore, "Edge of Tomorrow" can also be regarded as a military movie in a sense!

This movie is regarded as the biggest project of this year’s Lunar New Year festival by China Film.

Not only that, but there are also many departments above that are paying attention to the situation of "Edge of Tomorrow".

Fang Ziheng had no idea about all this. He came here today for two purposes.

The first is to have the creative team and crew come over in advance to familiarize themselves with the terrain and environment and receive training from the military.

According to the plot setting, this twelve-member special elite team comes from various teams.

Except for the male lead, the other eleven people are from various special forces of the Chinese military.

Due to heavy sacrifices in the battle with aliens, the special forces team was dispersed and gathered here by the superiors to reorganize into a temporary special operations team.

Since they are special operations personnel, actors must look like elite soldiers, and training is a must.

The second reason is to put special effects first.

At present, three special effects companies, Tiangong Yicai, China Film Digital Special Effects Company, and Beishi Technology, have completed the preliminary modeling.

The next step is to use computers to perform three-dimensional animation to simulate complete aliens, special weapons, high technology, etc.

The entire riverside battlefield and hundreds of battle points in the military base need to be reproduced into three-dimensional images, and then simulated into battle scenes between us and aliens to achieve the 3D conversion effect.

More than a dozen people from the three major special effects companies came, led by Xiao Yang from Tiangong Extraordinaire. They followed behind Fang Ziheng and the others with laptops in their hands.

"Here, I need three explosion craters. Our fighter was damaged. When it came back, it fell and exploded. One person died and the other was seriously injured."

"Here, the aliens forcibly crossed the border and were intercepted by us above the river. They launched a desperate blow and a special energy hit, flattening three small hills and raising dust all over the sky."

Fang Ziheng pointed out two locations, asked the female officer for hot spots, and asked Lin Liang, the head of the set team, to take notes and complete the preparations.

The female soldier's eyes were focused, and she walked around the two places on Fang Ziheng's index, gesturing and saying: "No problem, you ask the set team to communicate with my people, and I will ask the demolition engineers to come and help."

As she said that, she took out the walkie-talkie and said a few words.

After a while, an off-road military vehicle sped over.

Two soldiers in camouflage got out of the car. After saluting, they directly met the set crew.

In this way, Fang Ziheng made various requests while checking. The female officers and male soldiers in camouflage made review judgments on the spot and put forward modifications or suggestions.

The three military commanders, the scenery team, and the two demolition engineers followed the instructions and worked on the on-site drawings to complete the paper scenery.

It took a full three hours for Fang Ziheng to wander around the entire military base.

After roughly finalizing the location of the explosion battle, he recruited assistant director Hao Yi, Cheng Xiaodong, Sang Lin, and Wu Jing.

"In the next half month, you will stay at the base and try to make all the crew members familiar with the shooting environment, especially the explosion point. You must know the location. Safety is the most important thing."

"In addition, the three military commanders must coordinate well with Officer Li and complete the action scene design for the movie while training as actors."

"Don't worry, director, just leave it to us!"

The officer Fang Ziheng was talking about was the cold male soldier in camouflage. He and the female officer were both military and civil.

The female officer is responsible for coordinating the shooting scenes and assisting with various weapons, while officer Li is responsible for training the actors and arranging military performances to assist in the shooting.

evening.

The crew of "Edge of Tomorrow" had a big pot meal together at the base. It tasted very good, much better than the box lunches outside.

Two meat dishes, two vegetable dishes, and one soup, with an egg for each person!

The female officer arranged a medium-sized canteen for the crew, opened fire by herself, and had plenty of food and clothing.

After dinner.

Fang Ziheng had to rush back to the imperial capital overnight, and the film's creative staff sent him to the exit of the base.

Deng Chao, Liu Ye, Zhang Yi, Duan Yihong, Hu Jun, Shao Bing, Luo Jin, Xu Honghao, Ren Kenuo and Gu Zhixin.

Including Fang Ziheng himself and the female lead Liu Qianqian, the special operations elite team has a total of twelve people.

Among them, Xu Honghao and Ren Kenuo were introduced by the Southeast Military Region Art Troupe. After Fang Ziheng passed the audition, he felt that they were very good, and they smelled like righteous soldiers.

In particular, Xu Honghao and Chen Pai in "I Am a Special Forces Soldier 1" are the biggest highlights in the eyes of military drama fans.

The character Chen Pai was not selected into the special forces, and it has become one of the three major regrets in modern military dramas!

After chatting for a while, Fang Ziheng pedaled, rolled down the window and looked at everyone: "Train hard, obey the base's arrangements, don't complain, and learn more from Xu Honghao and Ren Kenuo."

"In a month, I will come to see your training results!"

"Don't worry, director, we will definitely train hard."

As the male protagonist, Liu Ye was the first to express his stance.

The others followed suit and paid Fang Ziheng a military salute as the Romans did, expressing that they would not disappoint his expectations.

"Very well, I wish you good luck with your training."

Fang Ziheng nodded with satisfaction and slowly closed the car window.

What matters is their attitude. After a month of military training, if you don’t have a good attitude, it will be difficult to persevere.

The black off-road vehicle suddenly started and disappeared into the night.

He rushed back to the imperial capital because of the post-production of "Four Famous Catchers".

The summer season is approaching. As Hengyu's first shot at Hollywood blockbusters, "The Four Famous Catchers" must be fully prepared.

In terms of special effects, the production of "Tiangong Yicai" started at the beginning of the year and is almost completed.

Unlike science fiction films like "Edge of Tomorrow," special effects in martial arts are much easier.

Later stages such as editing, soundtrack, and Chinese and English subtitles require Fang Ziheng's personal participation and supervision.

A little bit of running-in, a little bit of fullness, it is very time-consuming.

………

In a blink of an eye, June arrives.

China Film Group, Chairman's Office.

Fang Ziheng was sitting on the guest sofa, looking at the summer movie release form in his hand, and secretly chatting!

In June alone, there are twenty movies released!

June 01: "Super Frog Warrior's First Show"

June 4: "Alien Apartment"

June 04: "Fighting in the Arena"

June 4: "Special Mission of the Agent"

June 04: "Jing Wu Men 2"

June 8: "Rizhao Chongqing"

June 10: "It's not a joke"

June 10: "Kung Fu Dream"

June 11: "Robin Hood"

June 11: "Swinging Engagement"

June 13: "The Decisive Battle of Shama Town"

June 15: "Toy Story 3"

June 17: "The Spy"

June 18: "You Deserve to Be Single"

June 18: "Chanel's Secret Love Story"

June 18: "Ocean Paradise"

June 25: "The Prequel to Ip Man"

June 25: "Dragon Commandos"

June 25: "Post-80s"

June 30: "The King of Guns"

There are large gatherings, giving the feeling of a majestic gathering of heroes.