Chapter 894: Professional
Dinner was not good, and Chen Hao did not eat with Sun Honglei. He had a fitness meal, corn, chicken breast, boiled broccoli and some other vegetables. The meat without salt could only be enhanced with a little black pepper. He had to eat a lot. You can imagine how cruel dinner would be. After dinner, he had to eat some kiwis. Just thinking about it made my mouth sour.
Chen Hao insisted on painting the upper body at once. With similar advanced pigments, he avoided the obstacles he might encounter during filming, and he did not have to worry about the "tattoo" being exposed. After more than three hours of painting, the pressure was not too great. When necessary, he used a special makeup remover similar to that used by girls, and took a bath, and the pigment would be rubbed off, without any damage to the body. In the middle, Sun Honglei went to eat, and he sat there and ate some steak.
At eight o'clock in the evening, Chen Hao completed this special tattoo and shaved his head. He did not shave it very short, and still retained a bit of the state of a high IQ person. He looked at the time and went to the hotel gym to see Sun Honglei who was doing strength training.
His training purpose is not to lose weight, but to add muscle. The short-term effect is to make the body firm and look stronger when wearing clothes. Therefore, the daily training is not calculated by the number of times, but to squeeze the limit strength as much as possible.
A professional fitness coach follows the coaching training every day. When he enters the gym, he hears the coach constantly shouting slogans to Sun Honglei in Chinese with a little accent. There is no difference between domestic and foreign coaches in this regard. They will use the method of reaching the limit: "One more, one more, the last one, work harder, okay, do you have any strength, can you have one more, one more to complete this group..."
Sun Honglei is not a person who pays much attention to his figure. Many of his plays can see some fat on his body. This systematic training made him suffer a lot. It is not really his perseverance that makes him stick to it. It is really the quality of a professional actor. Let him tell himself that if you want to play this role, you can only suffer. This feeling reminds him of the year when he applied for the drama academy. At that time, he lost weight crazily and created a miracle of his own in the shortest time. Today, he is no longer young and continues his miracle.
In China, he still felt that he was not young anymore and did not need to work so hard. When he went abroad, he found that Western male stars only started at the age of 50, and they were in the right age of maturity. They could still become the leading male in film and television dramas at the age of 70, which made him full of motivation.
"Ah!!!!!!!" With a ferocious expression and painful screams, his training shirt was soaked, but Sun Honglei still insisted, and tried to achieve results in every movement. The private coach hired at a high price must ensure that he can see the results in the shortest time. Every day, he not only accompanies him in training, but also accompanies him in eating. To a certain extent, he forces Sun Honglei to eat fitness meals. As long as the lines are out, it doesn't matter if he is a little fatter in the later stage, as long as the feeling of being strong is there.
Chen Hao chose not to practice tonight, but just to move around and run. He didn't want to stimulate Sun Honglei who was working hard.
At 8:30, today's training ended. It is basically not recommended to exercise after 9 o'clock. If you practice at that time, the effect will be very poor.
Sun Honglei, who was soaked all over, rested for 20 minutes. During this period, he drank professional muscle-building protein powder. To achieve quick success, he had to give up some quality. First, he had to shape his body, walk slowly, and slowly sweat away. He was too tired to talk to Chen Hao anymore. He said hello and went back to the room to take a shower and rest.
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The next morning, after breakfast, Chen Hao and Sun Honglei took a car to the prison where the filming took place. Today, they will officially start filming here.
This time, the filming of "Prison Break" is slightly different from the past. American dramas are produced one episode at a time. This time, because Chen Hao was invited, the investment itself reached a certain amount. The content of the first few episodes was filmed in a conventional way as much as possible. First, focus on filming things in the prison, and then film the scenes outside the prison. It is very easy to shoot. Michael's robbery in prison, the room he planned, Lincoln Bruce's past, and Lincoln's son's scenes can all be filmed in between. Although the crew has an eight-hour working time and cannot force people to work overtime, they can prepare two groups, which can meet the filming of the series to a certain extent.
It starts with a large group drama.
There is one advantage of filming in the United States. Any actor who appears in the camera must be an actor registered with the Actors Guild and must be an actor who has signed a formal contract with the crew. Their professionalism is one aspect, and they will have more time to cooperate with the crew in filming. Even if they sign a contract for 30 days at a time and only have a few days in the middle, they will stay in the crew. They will cooperate with you anytime and anywhere during working hours if you need them.
The filming of group scenes is relatively easier to control, and there will be no stupid scenes where the group actors have no acting skills and make a poor show.
Michael went to jail.
We filmed Michael's tattoo scene early in the morning. It was all ready-made, and the filming was completed in just over ten minutes. Chen Hao also gave everyone a very good visual stimulation at the beginning of the series. Because the tattoo effect is very good, it can be completely mistaken for the real thing. Chen Hao's figure has the capital to show it. So at the end of the tattoo scene arranged at the beginning of the script, when Michael put on his clothes, he showed his entire back to the audience, and the tattoo artist's praise was a picture of the front of the body, which not only showed the charm of the full tattoo, but also showed the visual appreciation of the good figure. At the same time, it was unclear what was in front, which also left a suspense for Michael to say in front of Lincoln that I brought the architectural blueprint with me. When it was shown there, the picture was stronger.
From the beginning of imprisonment, the extras began to perform. There were nearly a hundred extras. Some had lines, some had front faces, and some appeared repeatedly. For example, when they were first examined in prison, most people showed their backs to the camera, turned around and put on clothes, and they could also play some inmates like passers-by in prison.
I met the prison guard Barrick who played a very important role, and my cellmate Sucre. The whole shooting was very smooth.
The shooting environment is free and spacious enough. The crew can arrange it as they want, and no one will come to make trouble. Although there are fans of Chen Hao outside, in this prison, all the people are actors and crew members.
The supporting roles and a considerable number of extras can follow the whole play. Their professionalism is really eye-catching. With the script, the director only needs to tell what I want in this scene, and everyone can act very professionally. After Michael was imprisoned, the first, second and third floors of the prison opposite, which were shot from his prison perspective, everyone was doing their own things. No one stood or sat stiffly, and they all put themselves into the current identity.
The script is detailed. The director only needs to arrange the shooting step by step according to the order of shooting. The scenes of Michael robbing, throwing away all the preparations in the room where he planned to escape, and being tried can be shot intensively according to Director Sanford’s intention.
At this time, no one would say that the use of the filming location is limited and that the filming must be completed within a month. When Chen Hao came, some tricks seemed ridiculous. Those who should laugh would keep laughing, and those who didn't laugh would no longer mention it. It was meaningless. After all, tricks and tricks are not presentable. Once Chen Hao entered the role state, he had no time to care about such things.
Some non-male protagonists' scenes in the play were filmed a lot before. The first three or four episodes of the content that were not in prison were basically filmed. Any crew knows the reason for concentrating time on the protagonist. They all filmed the supporting roles in the front, the protagonist in the middle, and finally some supporting roles and reshoots.
Chen Hao also analyzed and considered some of the questionable parts in the script. He didn't want a high-IQ TV series to be criticized for not being close to reality in the end. In the first episode, the protagonist enters the infirmary and spends time alone with the doctor. The heroine Sarah is set as a strong and opinionated female doctor. She has her own theory about prisoners. For some prisoners who she thinks are not aggressive, she will force the guards to watch through the glass window outside the door instead of standing next to them.
For example, in the first episode, how to explain the unreasonableness of the plot about Sucre and his girlfriend's "Happy House" and cover up the possible loopholes were all proposed by Chen Hao as the male lead for the crew to solve. The scenes cannot be increased, which will appear lengthy, and the explanation cannot be omitted, otherwise the scenes of the male lead passing things with a fake couple cannot be completed.
After Chen Hao got the script at the beginning, when the professional lawyer team discussed whether there were loopholes in the contract, he signed a confidentiality agreement with one of the lawyers, asked him to watch the script and promised to keep it confidential, and then analyzed the American laws in the script that Chen Hao, as a Chinese, did not understand, and where it was reasonable and where it was unreasonable. If it was unreasonable, could a reasonable explanation be found, such as prisoners can make and receive phone calls at will, as long as there is a state law that allows this, then it can be done in this TV series.
After finding some places that were too dramatic and lost their professional accuracy, Chen Hao marked them all and asked the crew to solve them. This was also one of the conditions for him to sign the contract in the end. It seemed a bit harsh and unreasonable, but it was the effort made by a real professional actor for his own future and the future of the entire series.
There were not many scenes in the prison in the first episode, and various backgrounds and plots had to be interspersed, so it only took one day. Excluding the scenes of Michael talking to the warden twice and the scenes with the female doctor Sarah, the remaining scenes in the prison were almost all shot. Several major characters have all appeared on the stage. Chen Hao also contacted John, the boss who controlled the factory to arrange the work, and was also beaten.
The smooth shooting made everyone very excited, and then everyone could go to the side to enjoy ice beer in advance.
As the male lead, Chen Hao also showed the quality of a professional actor through this scene. He won everyone's respect with his character before his acting skills.
"I want the props to be real, not made of foam. And you, come on, you don't have to use all your strength, but you have to fight for real, otherwise the effect will be fake."
The scene where Michael was knocked down by John's men and beaten severely has a close-up shot and a long shot from the prison guard's perspective. Everyone knows that Chen Hao did not bring a stuntman. The actor who played the thug really didn't know what to do when faced with such a request?