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After Fan Zhe finished reading the report email sent by Ye Jiayi, he felt elated for a while, and when he came to his senses, he still had to work.

He is not in Shenghai now, but in a village in Suzhou Province.

With him is the entire crew of "Hell Apartment".

When "Sword of Amber" achieved great results and was smashing the rankings on the Internet, it was time to start shooting this first film, which was also adapted from a novel and invested and produced by 'Dimension Entertainment' itself.

After the crew was set up, they quickly found a shooting location.

And the first scene is also about the opening chapter of "Hell Apartment", which is a story that happened in a very remote village.

According to the entire schedule, there are quite a few scenes involved in "Hell Apartment".

The original novel of this work is a bit inclined to the kind of scene drama. Under one scene, some stories happen, and after the end, go to the next scene.

In this way, the difficulty of shooting will be reduced.

But from a movie point of view, the single scene story of "Hell Apartment" is too thin to support the duration of a movie.

Therefore, when Fan Zhe communicated with the screenwriters, he adopted several different stories from the original book and told them in one movie.

After watching the first part of the original work, Fan Zhe and the others decided to use the first six volumes.

There are about six stories here, and there is also a so-called 'devil level blood character' mixed in.

Generally speaking, the aggregation of such multiple stories is not very suitable for movies, but "Hell Apartment" still has its special features.

The main reason is that although the story of "Hell Apartment" is different every time, there is an existence of "apartment" as a link. And in the apartment itself, some things will happen, so that all the stories are continuous and can be connected.

Still, it's a bit out of place if the story seems too spread out.

Therefore, Fan Zhe and the others made certain deletions and revisions to the first six volumes of the original work when writing the script.

For example, increase or decrease the proportion of one of the stories, or even completely delete the "don't swear" story.

The shooting related sub-shots have already been designed, and Fan Zhe will start filming according to his own ideas.

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The first day of filming was relatively smooth.

The story of the first act tells the story of the protagonist and others accepting the bloody task of "Hell Apartment" and coming to Youshui Village. The content of the task is very simple - live here for a month.

Therefore, the protagonist Li Yin, together with several other people who accepted the task, came to Youshui Village and endured the test here.

On the first day of filming, the plot moved forward very quickly.

The filming of this movie is not difficult, at least in Youshui Village, there will not be many places that require actors to explode emotionally, the main purpose is to highlight the weirdness and horror of this small mountain village.

In terms of setting up the shooting scene, the difficulty is also very low. Basically, it is enough to shoot with the appearance of the mountain village itself.

As for the supernatural scenes that will appear, they are basically realized by post-compositing with special effects technology.

The same is true for the terrifying white-clothed female ghost who will kill many people in this village.

This also puts forward certain requirements for the actors. Many intangible performances must be good enough.

Fan Zhe, as a novice director who was born as an artist, has nothing to say in terms of screen design and conception; however, the work of directors is not just to design screens, their most important job is to integrate the design The picture is really realized.

How to achieve it is the biggest problem.

There's a lot of work involved here.

The training of the actors in performance, the control of the shooting scene, the control of the lens... These things are all that Fan Zhe has only learned before, but lacks experience.

However, he also has his own advantages.

He doesn't need to think about whether he can achieve the effect he wants after taking a picture - he has dimensions, there are only things that can't be imagined, and there is nothing he can't do.

At the same time, there are many, many pictures that he has already counted in his mind. And not only in my mind, but also turned into sub-shots, drawn out in a serious manner.

Naturally, there is no need to say much about his painting skills. What's even more rare is that there is an entire art team behind him to help.

After getting the shot script, several photographers in the crew joked with a smile: "You don't have to think about how to design the shot, just shoot according to the picture given by the boss and you're done!"

In terms of the work that other traditional directors need to do, Fan Zhe still has some shortcomings. He is not experienced and has no practical operations. These are all problems.

However, he has two pretty good assistants at his side to help.

Both Zhao Lin and Wang Zhicheng belong to the kind of people who are conscientious, experienced, mature, and have no ambitions. During the actual shooting, Fan Zhe relied heavily on and trusted these two. They really did help a lot.

For example, Wang Zhicheng is good at overall planning of the entire crew. Under his arrangement, the photography team, lighting team, and audio team perform their duties in an orderly manner; while another Zhao Lin is better at adjusting the state of the actors. I will often communicate with the actors to express the director's shooting intentions, so that the performance of the actors can better match the needs of the director Fan Zhe.

Fan Zhe was very fortunate that he was not blindly arrogant before and brought these two 'old treasures' with him. Otherwise, he would have to solve the unexpected things that often occur in the crew, which would be very troublesome.

The first day of shooting officially started, relatively smooth. In the plan, the shooting content arranged for this day was basically completed according to the plan.

This is a good thing. Originally, Fan Zhe was prepared for some situations that would cause delays in shooting.

At the beginning, the plan given by the production team predicted that the whole team would stay in this mountain village for about three weeks to complete all the shooting tasks of this scene. Now it seems that if every day after that can be so smooth, it will probably take less than three weeks, and it will be done in more than two weeks.

At that time, the crew will switch scenes and return to Shenghai to complete the shooting of two scenes in an apartment building, a mansion and a shopping mall rented by Shenghai.

The content of this part should not be very long, and it will be over after about ten days of shooting.

After that, there is a small town, a suburb, and an isolated island to complete the other three scenes. The isolated island and small town may take a little longer, and the story of hide-and-seek with ghosts in the suburbs should not take long to end.

In the whole, the planned shooting time is about two months.

Many post-production special effects are already being drawn, and it will take no more than a month to load them into the 'dimension' system for lens composition.

Adding it all up, it is estimated that "Hell Apartment" will take a total of three months to complete the production.

Maybe it will be released by the end of this year.

It is Fan Zhe's wish to finish his first movie smoothly.

It seems that it is not too far away from realizing this wish now.