The quadrennial Zhejiang Provincial Games opened in Huzhou on the 17th, and the flying fish-shaped Huzhou Olympic Sports Center Swimming Pool, including Sun Yang, world champions will be here to cut through thorns and compete for gold and silver. The swimming-themed youth inspirational movie "Out of the Swim" staged at the same time as the swimming competition of this Zhejiang Provincial Games was also filmed here. Born in 1990, a group of young actors, including Zhou Yixuan, a young idol singer from Shengzhou, Zhejiang Province, and a member of the Sino-Korean group UNIQ, challenged their swimming skills here to shoot movies.
The youth inspirational movie "Out of the Swim", directed by Dong Wei, who has directed phenomenal EXPLOSIVE IP such as "Immortal Doctor Divine Kitchen" and "Catch the Demon Immortal", Zhou Yixuan, captain of Lehua's idol boy band UNIQ, Thai idol Zheng Mingxin newwiee, young actors Zhong Yixian and Liu Jiale formed Pool F4, forming the film's high-value starring group.
The film tells the story of the swimming team's small fresh meat rich handsome Xia Bing (played by Zhou Yixuan), who fell in love with the small town girl Xiao Xi (played by Sha Yanling), helpless Xiao Xi stubbornly thought that he was a stupid boy who did not do his job, and confessed that the scene became the "car accident" scene of the female man's back falling suitor. In order to cut off Xia Bing's thoughts, she put forward the difficult swimming results as a communication requirement, and a youth bet began...
Idol group UNIQ captain Zhou Yixuan is here to challenge his swimming skills. However, the swimming pool is a professional competition pool, with a length and width of 25 meters, 50 meters and 2.2 meters, which belongs to the deep pool. Unlike athletes, Zhou Yixuan's shooting here must pass a certified assessment of deep-water professional pools to ensure the personal safety of swimmers. Zhou Yixuan is responsible for the assessment and issuance of deep water qualification certificates by the Swimming Pool of the Olympic Sports Center. The assessment criteria are divided into two items, one is to swim 300 meters without the help of external forces, and the swimming posture is not limited; the other is to tread water for 30 seconds.
In order to ensure the safety of the actors, the crew prepared a stand-in for Zhou Yixuan, wearing swimming goggles, wearing the same swim trunks, in the underwater shot, the stand-in and he can do it with fake reality. But Zhou Yixuan refused the arrangement of the stand-in, he said that his personality is the same as the character in the play, like the challenge, if the use of the stand-in, it will affect his adhesion with the characters in the play, can not complete the real inner emotions and expressions in the play, he believes that there is no vivid role without experience, so insist on participating in the qualification assessment, the whole process of shooting.
Sun Le, an agent at Zhou Yixuan's brokerage company Lehua, revealed that after receiving the role in the play, Zhou Yixuan, who only had a sporadic swimming foundation, began to squeeze out time, hired professional coaches, and conducted a one-and-a-half-month freestyle training, with more than three hours of training time per day. From the swimming style to the racing, the coaches have given strict requirements, not just teaching the flower rack skills. The 45-day assault training, the effect is beyond imagination, only one time to pass the assessment, "with a certificate to take up the post." The picture shows idol group UNIQ members Liu Jiale, Zhou Yixuan, Zheng Mingxin and Zhong Yixian taking a group photo together.
In the two-day shooting of the competition pool scene, sometimes in order to cooperate with the recording of each camera position, more than ten hours of shooting, Zhou Yixuan needs to complete the amount equivalent to more than a dozen 100-meter freestyle competitions per day, and in order to create a real competition atmosphere, the crew arranged 7 professional swimmers to shoot together and simulate the competition.
Such a size is also a considerable challenge for professional players. After completing the shooting, Zhou Yixuan lamented that the plot of the film was too abusive, and the pool was almost tired and scattered. But judging from the opening scene of the film, Zhou Yixuan's performance is not inferior to the contestants next to him, so that the crew jokes that he can directly register for the freestyle competition at the Zhejiang Provincial Games.
After completing the shooting, the young handsome zhou Yixuan admitted that the role seems to be tailored for himself, the two have many similarities, in the face of external doubts and misunderstandings, do not choose to justify and will not escape, but use efforts to prove, leave everything to time. Source: Zhou Ge Perspective" reporter Zhou Jianshi Photography Zhang Zhenrong