Chapter Seventy-Three: The Tuner
In addition to the footage of the basketball players on the court, there are also panoramic shots of the audience cheering, sighing and scolding in the audience, as well as close-ups of the roles played by Xu Fei and Ye Xing in the audience. The plot of the pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info arena and the audience is presented at the same time, interspersed, and the shooting is filmed separately.
The basketball game part was more difficult and was shot in the front, and the camera in the audience waited for the basketball game part to be filmed together. After the game footage was completed, Qiao Xun and Guo Qi were about to leave and go back first. After Xiao Yao finished shooting the basketball game, he politely declined Guo Qi's invitation to find a place to sit and chat, and returned to Sun Zhihao's side to learn how he directed the shooting of so many extras.
After the all-day filming was over, Xiao Yao also invited Zhao Rui, Lin Qisan and a few of them to have dinner outside, which was the end of the day in the crew.
After ending the trip to the Tanbanga cameo performance of the crew of "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky", Xiao Yao's long-prepared short film is finally about to start shooting.
The idea of making a short film was already in Xiao Yao's New Year, but he didn't decide what to shoot until he pretended to be blind on the subway on the day he played a flash mob with Sun Tingting. That day, after he pretended to be blind and was given up his seat on the subway, he rarely saw some pictures that surprised him very much, which also reminded him of a very good French short film in his previous life. I happened to be preparing to make a short film in the summer vacation, so I just made this short film from my previous life.
The name of this short film is "The Tuner", which belongs to the thriller and suspense category. The general plot tells the story of a genius pianist who has been learning piano since he was a child, and his performance in the most important piano competition in his life is abnormal, and his dream of becoming a pianist is completely ruined, and his life has fallen into a trough. Later, the protagonist, who suffered a major setback in his life, became a piano tuner with more than ten years of piano learning.
As a pure technician like a tuner, the protagonist's life is not satisfactory, but he is very clever and comes up with an idea to disguise himself as a blind man. In the eyes of ordinary people, he will be more sensitive in hearing after losing his vision, and many customers have begun to appoint him, a blind tuner, to come to the door to tune the piano. This hand, in addition to bringing about an increase in performance and income, he will also enjoy more care because of the sympathy of others in the process of tuning the piano at the customer's home.
The most important thing is that because others think that he is blind and basically defenseless against him, he will expose many sides in front of him that will not be revealed in front of people, and the protagonist can fully satisfy his desire to snoop and peek into the lives and privacy of many people. This made him feel a sense of transcendence. He was so immersed in this feeling that he couldn't help himself, and he never tired of playing the role of a blind tuner.
But what he didn't expect was that it was precisely because of playing a blind tuner that he also fell into a huge crisis. One day, the protagonist came to a house to tune the music as promised. After knocking on the door, the hostess of the house shirked for various reasons and did not want him to enter. At this time, he didn't want to run in vain, and he began to take advantage of the blind man, and on the grounds that he was unable to move, he insisted that the hostess opened the door and let him in.
The light in the room was dim, and the blind man wearing sunglasses accidentally stepped on a puddle of liquid and slipped, and his body was also covered with a viscous liquid. Locking the door, the hostess follows up and picks up the protagonist, explaining to him that the house is being renovated and that he stepped on the paint that he accidentally knocked over. The protagonist's eyes see an old man sitting on the sofa in the living room covered in blood, and the liquid on his body is clearly blood.
The surprised protagonist realizes that he has entered the scene of a murder. The old woman who opened the door for him was probably the assailant, but instead of running away or fighting the old woman, he continued to pretend to be his blind tuner, hoping to use his acting skills to fool the old woman and make the old woman think that he had not seen anything and let himself go, so that he could get out safely.
The old woman asks the protagonist to take off her soiled clothes, saying that she is taking her husband's clothes and changing them for him. Since the protagonist has always pretended to be blind, he can't refuse the old woman's request. Quickly stripped herself off to a pair of shorts, during which the old woman carefully watched the protagonist's reaction across from him, and took off his sunglasses under the pretext that his sunglasses were dirty, and carefully observed the protagonist's eyes, which were wearing gray contact lenses in order to disguise himself as blind.
After some observation, the old woman takes the protagonist's clothes and leaves, while the protagonist composures himself and goes about his tuning and audition, praying that the old woman will not rummage through her clothes pockets and see her schedule notebook, which the blind man does not use.
After tuning the tone, the protagonist is calm on the outside and nervous on the piano to audition, and at the same time, he secretly wonders in his heart that the old woman who went to get him clothes has not come back for a long time, and at this time, the old woman has quietly stood behind him with a nail gun in her hand, and aimed the muzzle at the back of his head...
chose such a short film, on the one hand, Xiao Yao himself has also studied piano since he was a child, knows enough about piano, and has also participated in piano competitions, on the other hand, it is the experience of pretending to be blind on the subway that made him have a personal feeling of people's voyeurism. Of course, the most important thing is that this short film is very cleverly conceived and the plot is extremely tense. In the previous life, it was an excellent short film with a high reputation at home and abroad, and won awards.
The total duration of this short film is only about thirteen minutes, and Xiao Yao does not plan to make any changes in the plot, but only makes some changes with Chinese characteristics in the scene layout and some details. After all, the original version of his previous life was a French film, and it was impossible for him to make this film exactly the same in Yanjing. Of course, he didn't plan to make this film exactly like the original. After all, in this world, this short film is his work.
In this short film, Xiao Yao chose to write, direct and act by himself. The script is modified from the original version of the previous life, the pianist of the protagonist, Xiao Yao also plans to play it himself, and in the selection of other actors, Xiao Yao began to fully use his own resources. A thirteen-minute short film, in addition to the well-deserved protagonist of the pianist, the other characters who appear in the film are not too much, but in fact, they are not less.
Among them, the tuner and the owner of the piano store have a short conversation in the coffee shop, so the role of this boss is not small, Xiao Yao directly found Lin Qisan's father Lin Shaohua to play this role. And the male protagonist in the murder scene in the final stage, that is, the corpse sitting on the sofa covered in blood, Xiao Yao directly found his grandfather Xiao Chengru to play, and the heaviest supporting role, the old woman who committed the murder, Xiao Yao found Tian Fangzhen, an old drama bone who presented Xiao Yao with Xiao Chengru with the Feitian Award and Xiao Chengru, through Xiao Chengru's relationship, to star.
In addition, it is the role of the protagonist in the process of playing the blind with several customers who snoop on their privacy. One of the young dancers who danced at home wearing only underwear, Xiao Yao approached Cheng Xi. Xiao Yao's new design of a fitness trainer who has a transvestite and wears women's clothes at home, Xiao Yao found Huang Shi, who had worked with him in "Lingyunzhi". is also a newly designed female star who is glamorous outside, but in fact the house is as chaotic as a kennel pigsty, Xiao Yao found Su Chengying to play. And the waiter who flashed in the coffee shop, Xiao Yao invited Chen Wanting, the photographer of the parkour team, and the old woman who was deliberately teased by Xiao Yao at the traffic light on the road was changed by Xiao Yao to a pregnant woman with a big belly, and Xiao Yao's mother Ye Jiaying personally went out.
In addition to the actor played by Xiao Yao himself, there are not too many other roles in this short film, if it goes well, everyone's shooting time will not exceed one day, so although some of these people have jobs, it is not too much of a problem to spare a day for Xiao Yao in the entire August schedule.
Such a cast can be said to concentrate excellent actors of all ages, which can definitely be called luxurious. And with such a luxurious lineup, the performance salary alone adds up to a terrifying number. Fortunately, Xiao Yao's short film cannot be released in theaters, and he does not plan to charge for on-demand on the Internet after filming, it can be regarded as an experimental independent short film and will not be commercially profitable. These people are all close to Xiao Yao or close to Xiao Yao's relatives, Xiao Yao is completely invited to act through his personal relationship, and the filming time is no more than a day, so they are all free to star with zero pay, so it does not involve their worth.
In terms of actors, it was done through good connections, and in terms of crew and staff, Xiao Yao, who had much worse network resources, had to take out money and sincerity to invite them one by one. On the one hand, Xiao Yao has to pick out his favorite candidate, and on the other hand, people have to look up to Xiao Yao, a rookie director who has only shot a few MVs and is too young, in addition to taking care of those people's schedules, which is why Xiao Yao has planned to shoot short films in the summer vacation since the Chinese New Year, and it will not officially start until August. Fortunately, after several months of preparation and communication, Xiao Yao still completed the construction of this crew.
In addition to the personnel, there are also scenes and props. There are not many scenes involved in the short film, just a theater, a coffee shop, several apartments, a pedestrian crossing at a traffic light intersection with voice prompts, and there are no special requirements for these scenes and the props involved, which are not difficult to find. Xiao Yao didn't put much thought into this part, it was nothing more than spending money to rent it.
Although the actors involved in the short film are very famous, Xiao Yao's first independent short film shot in the form of self-written, directed and acted is also eye-catching. But Xiao Yao did not disclose the news of his short film to the media. After all aspects of the work were ready and the personnel were in place, Xiao Yao's crew quietly started up.