Back to 1942 Filming Process

The filming of "Untitled Remembering 1942 Project" spanned 7 locations and lasted 135 days   . From the beginning of the scene selection, the production director Hu Xiaofeng felt the difficulty of this play: the number and span of the film’s location is very large, the location is from Shanxi, Chongqing to the Northeast Diaobing Mountain, and the filming time in Shanxi is the longest. ; And Xiaogang Feng's requirements for another location, Chongqing, are also extremely high. All details must be restored to the original historical appearance. All shops and signs must be original and cannot be fabricated. To this end, the crew remade 100,000 historical photos, and the knickknacks and more than 1,000 plaques in the shops on both sides of the street were all designed based on historical pictures. The third main location is in the northeast, and if you choose to film in the northeast, the cold becomes a big problem. However, thousands of actors still insisted on completing the filming work under the conditions of minus several degrees, ten degrees, or even minus twenty degrees   . A lot of effort was put into making this film. Actors such as Zhang Guoli, Zhang Hanyu, Feng Yuanzheng, Xu Fan, and Mo Zhang insisted on taking part in the shooting of dangerous scenes. When shooting the explosion scene, hot gravel hit Xu Fan and Feng Yuanzheng's faces and necks every time; Mo Zhang jumped the train in the freezing cold of minus 20 degrees Celsius; Oscar winner Adrian Boo Roddy even stepped on the explosion point at zero distance next to the railway track. Not only the actors, but also the creators behind the film did their best to shoot the film. The director of photography, Lu Le, needed to hang a rope to choose the best shooting position on the icy cliff. For this reason, director Xiaogang Feng constantly emphasized safety as the first principle to ensure that the crew successfully completed the shooting.  . When shooting the bombing scene of the Chongqing bombing, because we wanted to blow up a street, there were about 24 bombing points arranged on the street. They have made very careful plans for safety precautions, etc., and used some methods that have not been used before, such as using small shooting equipment like 5D2, and then made a special camera safety protection box, and then put it in Above the blasting point, the shot will have a visual impact. In order to bring the audience an immersive feeling, the crew also deliberately adopted different shooting methods from previous movies in terms of war scenes, in order to present the audience with panoramic war scenes   .