Chapter Seventy-Eight
Of the three scenes filmed today, this last one is the only one with character dialogue, and it is also the most shot of the three scenes. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Close-up shot of Cheng Xi pulling down the shoulder straps, close-up shot of Cheng Xi taking off his shoes, close-up shot of Cheng Xi's foot scars, close-up shot of Cheng Xi turning back to ask questions, close-up shot of Xiao Yao sitting in front of the piano and replying, close-up of Xiao Yao's stunned expression when he saw Cheng Xi undressing, close-up of Xiao Yao's expression curling at the corners of his mouth when he danced, close-up of the still life of the guide cane, a medium-shot long shot of Cheng Xi's dance moves, and the last panoramic shot of Xiao Yao playing the piano and Cheng Xi dancing in the same frame taken from behind Xiao Yao also involves a zoom picture of changing the focus and taking turns as the blurred background。
Although due to the run-in of the first two scenes, there was already a tacit understanding between various departments of the crew and even director Xiao Yao, and the shooting speed was a little faster than the previous two scenes, but after filming all the shots in this scene, all the shooting time of this day was exhausted, and the shooting could not be completed ahead of schedule.
After the first day of filming, Xiao Yao invited the makeup artist Pei Minyi to have a meal with her at Fang Zhen's request, and during the dinner, the three of them also had a detailed discussion about inviting Pei Minyi to join Xiao Yao's private team. Pei Minyi said that the free work party will still not agree, all aspects of the conditions and treatment are implemented in accordance with the more generous standards in the industry, as for Pei Minyi's request to learn special effects makeup from Xiao Yao, Xiao Yao has nothing to do, and promised to communicate with her when he is free. Pei Minyi was very satisfied with all the conditions, and she could learn some skills from Xiao Yao, so she naturally agreed, so the three of them finalized this matter.
Filming continued the next day, and the day was still a three-scene scene. One is the scene where the protagonist participates in the piano competition and plays abnormally, the other is the scene where the protagonist walks on the road and pretends to be blind and flirts with a pregnant woman, and the other is the scene where the protagonist lies in a daze on the bed at home after the piano competition, and he curls up on the bed and his girlfriend in the room packs up his things and leaves him. In this scene, the character of the protagonist's girlfriend only has a long-range shot of cleaning up things, not to mention that the face is not exposed, and the drooping hair covers the side of the face, so you can't see the character's appearance at all. With such a "faceless" role, Xiao Yao simply used the idle assistant Fang Yi, and let her make a cameo in it, and she was addicted to filming.
It's the same three scenes, but the second day is much more difficult to shoot than the first day. Two of the three scenes, Xiao Yao, do not wear sunglasses, one is nervous, the other is decadent, and they all have to be expressed through their eyes and expressions, and the performance is relatively difficult. The other is an outdoor scene, which is still on the road, and it is more difficult to schedule and shoot. So for the next day's shooting, the crew worked overtime until the end of the evening.
The third day was originally planned to shoot a scene in a café. After the first two days of exercise, both Xiao Yao and the entire crew have become a lot more proficient, Lin Shaohua's performance as an actor Needless to say, Xiao Yao also wore sunglasses most of the time, and only took off the sunglasses twice to reveal his whole face, and the difficulty of the performance was a little less difficult than the day before. So on the third day, the crew completed the filming ahead of schedule, and in half a day, Xiao Yao finished filming the footage that Xiao Yao expected to take a whole day. In the afternoon, Xiao Yao pulled the crew into the residential building and filmed the scene where the protagonist knocked on the door outside the door at the final murder scene and asked to enter the house.
The filming on the second day was overtime, and the shooting on the third day was advanced, which can also be seen that Xiao Yao, who was a director for the first time, handled the filming process quite well. However, there is still a certain deviation in the early planning and estimation of the speed of his own shooting. Fortunately, this is not a big problem, Tian Fangzhen, who played the old woman, who came to film in advance, and Hu Xuena, who made a cameo appearance to open the door to see the situation, were also at home, Xiao Chengru and Xiao Yao were notified, and the two didn't say anything, and they came in advance.
On the third day, after filming all the scenes outside the house of the last client, the client where the murder occurred, the next two days are the scenes after the most important protagonist of the whole short film enters the scene of the murder.
This scene is the highlight of the whole short film, not only the most action and dialogue, the most difficult performance, but also the longest scene, so Xiao Yao not only planned to shoot for two full days in this scene, but also spent more time and energy than all the previous scenes combined.
In this scene, Xiao Yao also fully demonstrated his talent in the use of light and shadow, through the brightness settings of several lights in the scene, and the light adjustment in various directions, the picture in the lens has a terrifying and terrifying feeling. When there is a close-up of the bloody corpse of the old man on the sofa in the camera, it can be very scary. Of course, Xiao Yao naturally showed off his skills in special effects makeup. When he turned his grandfather Xiao Chengru into a corpse with two iron nails stuck in his temples, the people in the crew were once again amazed by Xiao Yao's special effects makeup skills.
In this scene, Xiao Chengru plays the corpse, and naturally can no longer control the live performance behind the monitor. So when the scene was filming, even the titular executive director was gone. Xiao Yao didn't invite anyone else, and directly commanded the shouting at the position of his performance. There is no director to stop in the middle of the shooting, so every shot is shot from beginning to end, whether good or bad, and after the whole shooting is completed, the photographer with the camera shouts "card". Xiao Yao then returned from the actor's position to the back of the monitor to watch the playback. Fortunately, Xiao Yao used a high-definition digital camera to shoot in this short film, and it was very convenient to watch the playback on the spot.
This kind of shooting, the problems in the shooting process can not be found immediately, Xiao Yao has to run back to see after the whole shooting, once there is a little dissatisfaction, Xiao Yao asks the whole thing to start over, it is common to shoot a shot more than a dozen times, so this last scene, the shooting speed is also very slow. And those problematic materials, Xiao Yao did not simply delete them, but saved them all. For him, these are also experiences that he can learn from in the future.
Fortunately, Xiao Chengru and Tian Fangzhen have no opinion on Xiao Yao's way of not having a director and similar to "blind shooting".
Both of them are elderly people, and their patience is very good. Tian Fangzhen rarely filmed now, and this kind of repeated filming not only did not make her have any temper, but made her a little interested. This murderer is still a very challenging role, no matter how many times she shoots, she is also a rare opportunity to enjoy the drama. As for Xiao Chengru, who played the dead corpse, although it was not very comfortable to sit still with artificial blood on his face, but the eldest grandson's film, he naturally supported it to the end without complaints.
The crew and the three actors spent two days filming in that dimly lit room. It is expected that the final scene in the short film will be five or six minutes long, and the crew filmed almost two hours of material, and Xiao Yao was satisfied with the filming of this scene.
In the frame of the camera, the photographer operates the camera and moves the lens slowly, starting from the piano, once to Xiao Yao who is playing the piano shirtless, then a nail gun held behind him, then Tian Fangzhen holding a nail gun, and finally freeze on the mirror where the two figures are reflected on the wall, and after holding the freeze frame for two seconds, the photographer finally shouted the last "card!"
Xiao Yao, who was wearing only a pair of shorts, ran naked to the monitor and began to play back the last shot. Since the shooting of Xiao Yao taking off his clothes on the afternoon of the fourth day, the people in the crew have seen this scene countless times in a day and a half, and they have long been amazed at Xiao Yao's good figure from the beginning to the current one.
"Very good, it's over!" Xiao Yao shouted happily, waved his fist and said, "It's over, all the filming is over." ”
This shot is the last scene in the short film, and it is also the last shot in the last scene in the shooting plan.
Seeing Xiao Yao's happy appearance, the people in the crew also applauded happily, and some of the crew members who were a little excited also let out a burst of cheers. In fact, the filming in the first few days was okay, mainly in the last two days of filming in this scene, the scene was dimly lit, and Xiao Chengru's "corpse" had been sitting, the atmosphere at the scene was actually quite depressing, and now the director said that the filming was all over, and the crew finally relaxed.
"Bayi, put on your clothes quickly, beware of catching a cold. Xiao Chengru, who played the corpse, stood up from the sofa, and did not rush to clean up the blood stains on his body and the iron nails stuck to his temples, but looked at Xiao Yao, who was only wearing shorts, and excitedly waved his fist.
"It's okay, I'm not cold at all this season. Xiao Yao said with a smile. But having said that, under Xiao Chengru's gaze, Xiao Yao still took the clothes and pants on the side and quickly put them on. Now the weather at the end of August, the temperature is indeed quite high, but because there are many people in this room for filming, the air conditioning is actually turned on, and the dim and terrifying atmosphere specially created gives people a feeling that it is actually much cooler than the hot weather outside. Xiao Yao was not too scared in good health, but he didn't want Xiao Chengru to worry.
Not counting the time for preliminary preparation, it took five days to complete the shooting of a ten-minute short film, which is not slow, nor is it very fast. Although there is a series of work such as dubbing, soundtrack, and editing in the later stage, the completion also represents the end of a phase after all, and after today, the crew will be disbanded immediately, so Xiao Yao also took turns to hug and thank the staff in the crew after getting dressed.
"Everyone has worked hard these days!" After thanking the staff in the crew, Xiao Yao stood in the middle of the venue and raised his hands and said loudly, "I am a rookie director, this is my first short film, and today's successful completion is inseparable from the joint efforts of everyone, so tonight I have a treat and give you a finale banquet, which is my gratitude to everyone!"
"Wow, the director is so generous!" the crew applauded.
After the filming of a film, it is actually quite common for the crew to organize a finale banquet to celebrate. But a short film was filmed for a total of five days, and it was a bit unexpected for these crew members to have a finale banquet after the finale. Therefore, when Xiao Yao announced the news, it was a surprise for the crew.
The finale banquet is not only for the crew members, but also for the actors who participated in the filming are also among Xiao Yao's invitations and thanks. Therefore, after announcing the news of the finale banquet, Xiao Yao instructed the crew to clean up the scene, and also sent messages to the actors who participated in the filming of the short film a few days ago.
The venue of the banquet was set by Fang still temporarily, and it was not too far from the scene where the crew was filming. After the crew packed up the equipment, they killed it directly. Although it was a temporary notice after Xiao Yao's whim, everyone was also very face-saving, and they all arrived one after another within the time notified by Xiao Yao.
Xiao Chengru, Tian Fangzhen, Ye Jiaying, Lin Shaohua, Huang Shi, Su Chengying, Cheng Xi, Xiao Yao, Chen Wanting, such a luxurious star cast looks very scary. When the hotel owner and service staff saw so many celebrities temporarily gathered at their hotel, they were really surprised.
The hotel Fang is still looking for is a hotel with experience in hosting the crew's finale banquet, and the staff in the hotel know that this is a crew holding a finale banquet when they look at them, and when they see that one after another stars enter the same box, the people in the hotel also began to wonder which crew is so good that they can organize such a luxurious star lineup, why is there no rumor in the media at all?