1977 Vlog: Tự nhận là ‘đoàn phim nghèo nhất VN’, mỗi clip tốn 200 nghìn và phải trèo tường vào nhà hoang lấy bối cảnh

According to Soha, since August 2019, 1977 Vlog has become a name that attracts special attention to the Vietnamese online community. The 1977 “branded” clips bear the mark of feature films with storylines based on famous works such as Chi Pheo, Lao Hac, A Phu and his wife, Ms. Dau…

Not only do they delight with the color of old movies, with their slow, deep voice, the clips of 1977 Vlog also make the audience love them by quickly and humorously “catching trends” of “hot” phrases and events online. society.

Even though it just appeared, the clips of 1977 Vlog all reached millions of views in just a short time. Despite its success, the production method and cost per clip are extremely modest. Viet Anh and Trung Anh – the two main writers of 1977 Vlog said that for each clip, the group only spent about… 200 thousand VND to rent costumes and props.

They don’t have to pay for salaries, staging… all other expenses because: “We did it all ourselves, we just need to convince our friends and relatives to help us a little and we’re done.”

Viet Anh and Trung Anh are twin brothers. Both of them have a special passion for movies, so they decided to build a Vlog in the style of Vietnamese feature films.

Determined to have the clip in black and white and set in 1945, Viet Anh and Trung Anh took advantage of their own bedroom to film the clip.

It is not difficult to recognize the bookshelves in the bedrooms of Trung Anh and Viet Anh, which have appeared in many scenes in clips of 1977 Vlog.

“On the day of filming A Phu and his wife, we had to take advantage of the family’s worship room, fill it with tree branches and then hang a blanket covering the wall to act as a backdrop,” Trung Anh revealed.

All clips of 1977 Vlog were filmed with an old tablet and two brothers, Trung Anh – Viet Anh, wrote the script, edited the clips, and voiced them using this desktop computer.

“The film has almost no effects at all, it’s just clips cut together and then dubbed. All stages of clip editing and dubbing are done by the two brothers,” Viet Anh said. good.

“Producing the clips of 1977 Vlog does not require much in terms of costumes, there are even clips where we only need to rent one set of clothes, so our production costs are quite “easy”. Each clip only requires almost nothing. I only spent about 200,000 VND on costumes.”

Costumes were rented by Trung Anh and Viet Anh from a performance costume rental shop near their home. Those are quite familiar items to Vietnamese people.

As for the filming scene, in addition to taking advantage of the space in the family’s own house, Trung Anh and Viet Anh often go around the area where they live to find suitable scenes.

People in the neighborhood are quite familiar with the sight of two brothers, Viet Anh and Trung Anh, taking each other around every corner of the neighborhood, chatting loudly as they walk.

Seeing the two brothers, the neighbors in the area were curious and asked: “Where is the filming going today?”, “Is a new clip coming out soon?”…

A road about 1km from Trung Anh and Viet Anh’s house, quite deserted and wild, is often used by 1977 Vlog as the backdrop for clips.

“There are no tall buildings here, nor are there any shops, so we just need to shoot in black and white, no need to set up any scenes.”

“There is only one section of road, but sometimes it turns into the teacher’s yard, sometimes it turns into the old crane’s garden, sometimes it turns into Vu Dai village road…”

“There were many days when we had to film at night. We climbed the fence into that deserted garden and just “worked”. After filming the scene where Chi Pheo and Thi No came back from the banana garden, the two brothers were bitten by mosquitoes and had swelling all over their bodies,” Viet said. He revealed.

That is with an outdoor setting, and the indoor setting of 1977 Vlog is also quite unique.

The group found a rundown house that had been abandoned for many years right in the neighborhood. This is where the 1977 Vlog filmed scenes in Ms. Dau’s house.

Because the gate of the house was locked, the group often had to climb over the wall to get in and film.

Inside this special “context” is dilapidated and seriously degraded. That’s why when they saw the group keep “jumping in and out” of this house, many neighbors reminded the two brothers Trung Anh – Viet Anh to be careful.

The filming method of 1977 Vlog is also quite “manual”: When it comes to whoever acts, the other person holds the tablet to record. If the scene requires the appearance of both, the group will ask relatives and friends to “film” for them.

1977 Vlog practice test in the setting of Ms. Dau’s house.

Trung Anh and Viet Anh self-identify as “the poorest film crew in Vietnam” because from equipment to the number of actors, backgrounds… are all very sketchy and simple.

Viet Anh revealed that every time a clip is produced, the whole group is “exhausted” because each person has to take on many different jobs.

“The most difficult thing is that every time we dub, the two brothers close the door in the room and use software on the tablet to record. When one person speaks, the other cannot move for fear of mixing up the sound. They don’t even dare to turn on the fan. “.