Early the next morning The lease of the amusement park was quickly finalized after Ping Qingshan stepped in. The implementation of the scene made the subsequent work very easy. Rich, connected, and famous. It would naturally not be as hard for Ping Qingshan to make a movie now as it was in Battle Royale. Time flies by. Late May. Hira Kiyosugi brought almost the original crew of "Battle Royale" to hold the opening ceremony of "Happy Death Day" in Sapporo. It’s still the same weird worship camera operation. Moreover, this time the ceremony of worshiping the camera has become even more cumbersome and complicated.
For example, the cloth covering the camera has turned into exquisite silk. For example, the worship of one camera changed to a group of cameras, and even a local witch was invited to perform a blessing dance. Ping Qingshan still felt strange and asked Nakamura Shukami about it after the ceremony. "Didn't I say that everything should be done as quickly as possible? Why is this launching ceremony becoming more and more exaggerated?" Then he got a strange answer. "Well, Supervisor, we have done it very economically and quickly." Ping Qingshan glanced at the row of cameras covered with red silk on the open grassland, and then looked at the shrine maiden dancing in front of the cameras. Although he didn't say anything, the meaning was very clear. You call this thriftiness? "This is what happened... Seeing Ping Qingshan's expressionless face, Nakamura Shujo gently wiped the sweat from his forehead and began to explain. Ever since Ping Qingshan's "Battle Royale" broke the 10 billion box office, some people began to summarize Ping Qingshan's success experience. This is a normal thing. In China, there are also many people who have no talent at all but can make money by writing things like the biography of Ma Yun or the 18 experiences of Alibaba's success. This kind of thing happens even more often in Japan. In the entire Japanese entertainment industry, there have been two peaks in the study of Hira Kiyoshige's success. One was after the box office of "Battle Royale" exceeded 10 billion, and Hira Kiyoshige was dubbed the title of Mr. 10 Billion. "Movie House", the most authoritative magazine on Japanese films, even serialized it in 4 issues. The founder of "Movie House", Yukio Chiba, personally broke down and analyzed all the storyboards, scripts, actor performances, and lighting arrangements in "Battle Royale". He even compared the DVD director's cut of "Battle Royale" with the released version, and analyzed Ping Qingshan's editing ideas.
As soon as these issues of "Movie House" were released, they sold the highest sales since the establishment of "Movie House". Almost everyone working in the film industry in Japan has a copy of this book. It is said that even in the film academy in China, some people translated it and used it as a teaching material for analysis. "So.. does this have anything to do with what happened today?" "Well, it's like this. At the end of the series, Mr. Yukio also wrote some interviews with the crew members, which involved some things about the opening ceremony..." Filming a movie is a complicated thing. Yukio Chiba has written a lot, but it is not easy to learn and practice those things. So it was serialized for several issues. What Japanese filmmakers discussed was not the filming techniques of "Battle Royale", but rather some crew members interviewed by Chiba Yukio for sales. Later, some of the content written as gossip or interesting and new things became popular in the circle. This article includes the article "It is said that the movie opening ceremony should be done like this!" In this article, members of the Battle Royale crew vowed that even though the crew was very poor at the time, they still held the opening ceremony according to high standards. There are even urban legends that Ping Qingshan was extremely pious during the ceremony, and the first shot after the ceremony produced a great picture. "After that, the movies that started shooting this year paid special attention to the opening ceremony. Some of them lasted from morning to night. We still did some subtraction based on theirs..." After hearing this, Ping Qingshan was completely speechless. The whole environment was like this, and it was no wonder that Nakamura was so upset. He could only rub his face and follow the progress of the ceremony to the front of the camera. He brought a large group of crew members to pay homage respectfully. The opening ceremony lasted for a whole morning. Later, in the afternoon, Ping Qingshan took Ishihara Satomi and Sakurajima Mai to the press conference. Because I can’t reveal any plot. Therefore, this meeting is more about taking photos to facilitate the launch of publicity. Finished these. I also took the actors to familiarize themselves with the venue. The first day ends here. By the next morning. The entire filming process was suddenly accelerated. Compared to the slow and meticulous work of "Battle Royale", Ping Qingshan set himself a very tight shooting schedule this time, with only one month in total. Although compared to those low-budget American dramas that only take a week to shoot and then go on air, a month of shooting time is still relatively ample.
But in normal movies, this amount of time is already relatively rare. However, Ping Qingshan's timing was not random. First of all, the filming of "Happy Death Day" was very well prepared, the scene construction was basically completed, and the crew members were all veterans. In addition, the two leading actors, whether it is Satomi Ishihara or Mai Sakurajima, their acting skills are on a completely different level from the group of newcomers in "Battle Royale". The shooting efficiency will be much higher. However... Like all accidents, it happens as expected. As the shooting officially began. Ping Qingshan felt something was not right. He didn't notice anything unusual at first, and the filming went smoothly. Satomi Ishihara showed that it was no fluke that she won the Rookie of the Year award at HORI. Her every frown and smile was filled with the charm unique to women, which was very pleasing to the eye. However, this kind of charm only lasted for about a few shots. With a CUT sound. Stopped abruptly. "Take a break for now, all the main creators come over here." It is normal for the director to shout CUT, but it is not normal for everyone to take a break and the main creators to have a meeting after the director shouts CUT. In addition, Ping Qingshan's fame and prestige are now growing. Although I called for a break. But most of the crew still stayed at their workstations so that they could start shooting immediately after the director returned. The actors were relatively relaxed. "Happy Death Day" is a purely female-centered drama. The male protagonist has very weak influence in the plot, and the second female lead played by Mai Sakurajima also has very few plots. And in order to maintain a good budget, Hira Kiyoshi didn't invite any famous actors except Ishihara Satomi. He just planned to find some members of Sakura Girls to play some passers-by in the film later. Added some easter eggs. There aren’t many of these scenes. Therefore, after hearing the director's CUT, the other actors did not show much reaction, but Ishihara Satomi was very nervous. She is well aware that this movie is a female-centric one. Almost all the resources of the entire movie were put on her, which made her very happy during this period. Especially with the start of the promotion, as the absolute heroine, her exposure will also occupy the mainstream of the entertainment circle for some time to come. You have to know that the publicity and promotion of a movie like "Happy Death Day" costs at least tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of yen.
And as the only female protagonist. The exposure that Satomi Ishihara can get may be an opportunity that many actresses may not have once in their lifetime. Therefore, no matter how hard Ping Qingshan tried to calm her down. During this period of time, whenever she thought about this matter, she felt a little elated. but. With a CUT sound. Only then did Ishihara Satomi realize that behind huge resources comes huge pressure. She sat on a chair on the set. A pair of beautiful eyes stared at the office where Ping Qingshan was. I was actually a little nervous. Fortunately, the creative exchange meeting did not last too long. After a while, Ping Qingshan came out. Afterwards, they looked for props and chatted for a while with makeup, and then called Ishihara Satomi over. "Your current performance is a bit too much. Simply put, it was filmed too beautifully. The final effect feels like an advertisement. The texture is wrong." After the Sapporo night, during the period when the crew was preparing for filming, Taira Kiyoshige and Ishihara Satomi rarely interacted with each other. Most of the time, Taira Kiyoshige was with Sakurajima Mai and Kasumigaoka Utaha. Ping Qingshan can clearly distinguish between domestic flowers and wild flowers. But after all, he had a verbal relationship with Ishihara Satomi, so he was quite patient with her and kept telling her stories. Then a makeup artist was called in to change Ishihara Satomi's makeup a little, making her look more haggard. In settings. The heroine in Ping Qingshan's version of "Happy Death Day" is just an actor in the amusement park. It's pretty, but not that pretty. Coupled with the daily drinking, the overall spirit and energy are exhausted. After telling the story once and changing the makeup, the studio started to get active again and a second scene came up. The plot of this one is very simple. The heroine woke up in a strange man's bedroom and thought she was picked up by a corpse, but the heroine herself was a person who promiscuous. Therefore, she didn't care at all, warned the male protagonist not to say anything, then asked for a hangover pill and walked out. There are only two shots in the middle. One shot is when the heroine wakes up and opens her mobile phone, there is a birthday celebration text message sent by the operator. Another shot is a phone call from the heroine's father, which is hung up by the heroine. This shot is not complicated.
But I took several more shots, but there were some problems with each one. After a few of them, Ping Qingshan's brows became more and more furrowed. Ishihara Satomi is really beautiful in the camera, but she is too beautiful, and it is difficult to convince the audience that this is a woman who has been emotionally traumatized, has family discord, and is an alcoholic. Although among these few. Occasionally, there are one or two times when Ishihara Satomi can have a burst of acting skills and perform that feeling.