Chapter Eighty-Five: Act IV
On the day of the Spring Festival, everyone in the crew had a day off, and on the second day of the first lunar month, the filming of the film restarted. Liu Yan's last scene was scheduled to start filming that night, and the filming location was in that small western-style building.
In the script, this scene takes place after Ji Ning spent money to buy this second-hand villa with decoration and full furniture, and the family of five moved into a new home.
Ji Ning's bedroom, at the end of the corridor on the second floor, has a separate bathroom and cloakroom, and is the largest of all the rooms in the villa. Ji An's bedroom was next to her, only separated by a wall, and Gu Qing was the farthest away from her, on the other side of the corridor.
The three of them were safe at first, until the early morning of this day, Gu Qing asked Ji Ning to come out to talk, and there was a dispute in the garden of the villa, and couldn't help hugging her, at that time Ji An was in her bedroom on the second floor, she didn't sleep, she saw everything clearly, and the anger of jealousy made her lose her mind.
When Ji Ning returned to the room, Ji An quietly followed up and strangled her with a plastic rope.
Liu Yan took advantage of the break yesterday to think about how to shoot this drama.
After it was completely dark, Liu Yan's work began.
Four cameras have been set up in a vacant lot in the small garden, and two cameras have been set up on the second floor of the villa, which will shoot the scene of Ji Ning and Gu Qing talking in the garden from all directions.
Liu Yan changed into a beige pajamas, and the stylist tied up her hair, deliberately making it look fluffy when she had just gotten out of bed.
The first shot, starting with the bed in her bedroom:
Liu Yan was lying on the bed covered with a thin quilt, and the clock on the wall had been adjusted by the prop master from the correct seven in the evening to half past one in the morning.
"All in place," Ye Zi'an ordered, "action." β
There was a sudden knock on the bedroom door,
Ji Ning sat up from the bed sleepily, she rubbed her eyes and glanced at the clock on the wall,
"Ning Ning, can you come out for a while?"
Gu Qing's deliberately suppressed voice came from outside the door,
Hearing this, Ji Ning picked up the thin coat beside the bed, draped it on his body, and opened the door.
Gu Qing stood at the door, also wearing pajamas, but his hair was not messed up at all, and he obviously didn't go to bed at all.
"What are you looking for me to do so late, I'll talk about it tomorrow at school," Ji Ning whispered, afraid of being heard, and wanted to close the door after speaking, but Gu Qing held it against his elbow, and he grabbed Ji Ning's wrist with his other hand and dragged her out of the bedroom, Ji Ning exclaimed.
"OK, Liu Yan leaves, the next shot, Yang Huayue is on the field," Ye Zi'an ordered, without dragging mud and water at all, without wasting time.
Yang Huayue, who also changed into pajamas, immediately walked into Ji An's bedroom.
The photographer pointed the camera at the door of Ji An's bedroom.
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After Ye Zi'an finished speaking, the door was opened from the inside, and one eye was cold, looking out gloomily. The photographer gives the eyes a close-up that lasts for 7 seconds.
Yang Huayue's eyes were deliberately painted with dark eyeshadow by the makeup artist, a bit like dark circles, when the light was dim, it looked terrifying, and her eyes slowly turned from the left to the right, as if she saw Gu Qing and Ji Ning walking past her door.
The end of the shot of the eyes.
Next, first shoot the shot of Ji An overlooking the garden from the window, Gu Qing and Ji Ning, and the director, photographer and other staff quickly moved to the garden on the first floor.
"Hua Yue, don't stand in the middle of the window, go to the left a little bit, close to the left frame, half of your body is hidden behind the curtain," Ye Zi'an said to Yang Huayue with a loudspeaker.
Liu Yan sat in the garden waiting in a down jacket, she was also looking at the second floor, she felt that Yang Huayue's appearance this time was really scary, she was wearing a white pajama and long skirt, her long hair was messy and uncombed, and it was scattered to her chest, just standing by the window, very much like a female ghost in white.
So in the script, ten years later, the heroine Yan Xialan was scared by such Ji An once.
"Director Ye, is it okay for me to stand in this position?" Yang Huayue shouted to Ye Zi'an.
Ye Zi Ann made an OK gesture.
Shooting begins,
In the hazy night, I saw a white figure on the second window on the right side of the second floor, the camera was sent to mid-air, constantly approaching this window, and the outline of the figure became clearer and clearer, it turned out to be Ji An, whose face was as white as clothes, her big eyes stared at a certain location in the garden, and her facial expression became more and more distorted, hideous, and full of hatred.
Suddenly, as if she had thought of something, she turned and walked into the room, her figure disappearing behind the window.
"It's okay," Ye Zi'an looked at the camera playback, "When the time comes, let the tone be adjusted in the later stage, the lights are still too bright." β
The assistant hurriedly said, "Okay." β
"Qiao Xin, Liu Yan, it's time for you to play. β
When Liu Yan heard the order, she immediately took off her down jacket, and the stylist stepped forward to tidy up the wrinkles on her pajamas for her, and the shot she and Qiao Xin were about to shoot was a bit special.
There was a two-minute conversation between the two in the script, but Ye Zi'an said that in the end, the editor only cut the first 3 seconds and the last 12 seconds, a total of 15 seconds of clips, and the voices of the two would be erased. Because this scene is actually the picture in Ji An's eyes, or one of the clues in the second half of the movie, it is a mime, only the action of the long shot has no sound, and there is no need for sound.
However, Ye Zi'an still asked that Liu Yan and Qiao Xin perform the entire dialogue, and the lines were said word for word, he said that this is not useless, which will make the plot more coherent and make the two more involved in the play.
Ye Zi'an had already planned the position of the two people in advance, drew a mark on the ground, and Liu Yan stood on his mark, facing Qiao Xin.
This is her first and only head-to-head scene with the male lead Josin.
"Have you memorized your lines?" asked Josin suddenly.
Liu Yan didn't expect Qiao Xin to take the initiative to talk to her, she didn't forget the reunion dinner the day before yesterday, how Qiao Xin deliberately embarrassed her and forced her to drink.
She has no grievances with him, and a big man is really graceless against him.
But seeing that her part-time job was coming to an end, Liu Yan didn't want to make any mistakes at this juncture, so she replied to Qiao Xin, "It's all familiar." β
Qiao Xin originally had something to say, but a pair of eyes somehow glanced at Liu Yan's chest, Liu Yan's off-white pajamas were a little transparent, and the underwear could be faintly seen, of course, the director and the audience couldn't see it in the camera, but Qiao Xin stood directly opposite Liu Yan and could see it clearly, Liu Yan was beautiful, and she was a girl with a clean and pure temperament, she wore such pajamas, which made Qiao Xin feel like that kind of asceticism, very seductive.
Rao is Qiao Xin has filmed with many beauties, and it is undeniable that Liu Yan has a certain temptation for him at this moment, which has nothing to do with liking, it is purely a man's physiological feeling.