Orange County, a middle-class community.

Coming to the community theater, Paul stood at the door, looked at his watch, and was a little anxious: "Mario, that guy, real ink, why hasn't he come yet?"

Anxious in his heart, he couldn't stand on his feet, and he kept walking back and forth.

Two days ago, he was approached through the head of the community theater and invited him to a movie viewing to do a little special acting work for only three days and pay as much as $2,000.

And he and Mario were screened and all selected.

Although he works part-time at this middle-class community theater, he is not from here, and whether it is him or Mario, $2,000 is not a small number, which is worth more than a month's normal income.

Moreover, the other party and the director of the community theater jointly promised that this work would not be illegal.

Finally, chubby Mario arrives at the theater door.

"Why are you here?" Paul complained, "We're going to sign the contract today, it's not good to be late." ”

Mario opened the Coke in his hand, took a big sip, and said, "It's too late." ”

Paul pulled him up and left, "Hurry up, this is a big $2,000 business! That's about enough for your sister to live on next quarter." ”

This extra income is quite important to them.

The two went to the office of the head of the community theater and met the middle-aged man with an ordinary appearance.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Robert. ”

"Good afternoon. Robert took out a few documents and handed them to the two of them, and said, "This is the contract, you can take a look at it first." ”

Paul and Mario took it and looked at it.

The head of the community theater said, "I can act as an intermediary and witness to the contract, and if we don't feel at ease, we will go to a law firm later." ”

Paul hurriedly said, "Don't bother. ”

"Uh-huh!" Mario nodded.

The conditions were negotiated before, and there was a trustworthy person to guarantee it, and the two signed the contract after reading it, although there was a confidentiality clause, but there was a $2,000 reward to get, just keep your mouth shut.

After signing the contract, the head of the community theater voluntarily left the office.

Robert opened his briefcase, handed the regular copies in duplicate to Paul and Mario, and said, "This is the project you are responsible for performing, you should familiarize yourself with it first." ”

The two of them took it and immediately watched it, and after only reading a few paragraphs, they were relieved.

I was still a little worried before, what if the other party asked for something excessive? Paul was the first to watch it, and immediately said with a smile: "Mr. Robert, don't worry, these are on me." ”

Robert reminded, "Remember to come to me two days in advance to intensify the exercises. ”

"Aren't they all agreed?" Paul swore assuringly, "We will keep the contract." ”

The $2,000 extra money income is not met once a year.

Mario also finished reading it at this time, shaking the fat on his face, and said: "This is not very difficult, I can drink more Coke at that time to increase the realism." ”

Paul quickly chimed in: "Yes, yes, let's just drink more Coke." ”

Robert smiled and nodded, the two were veteran actors in the community theater and were also clever.

After getting Paul and Mario out, Robert left the community theater and rushed to the next place, Ronan made a lot of sense, it's always good to be more prepared, and waiting passively is not at all better than actively fighting for it.

Well, in addition to the film, try to create favorable conditions.

Ronan also kept in touch with distributors at various companies, attending a Lionsgate screening.

Like most Hollywood films, the audience for this movie is mainly made up of industry insiders and some movie fans, and the opinions of both will be taken seriously by the studio.

After participating in the decent film viewing party, Ronan further improved his plan, although Hollywood has made a lot of messy tricks in this era, but it is still worse than the future group of demons dancing.

Time is evolving, and so is Hollywood.

Before the crew moved back to Warner Studios from the San Fernando Valley for filming, Ronan went to the location set again when the crew returned, and another crew had already moved into the villa and was preparing for filming, and brought a group of actresses with heavy makeup.

These actresses are all experts in acting in love scenes, but unfortunately it was too early, and Ronan couldn't find a face he knew at all.

People like Marlena Morgan and Tony Black, who he admires more, may not debut in a few years.

Stormy Daniels, who bites Twitter and doesn't let go, doesn't seem to be in the valley either.

With these messy ideas in mind, Ronan sent out applications to several independent film festivals, including the St. Denis Film Festival, after the crew returned to Los Angeles.

In case you can't find a distributor, you can also take the road of film festival screening.

After James Wong and Ronan agreed on the way to shoot the background action scenes, the crew further accelerated the filming speed, and it was already in the final stages in early June.

I have to say that James Huang has accumulated a wealth of experience in his film career for more than ten years, and he is really good at shooting horror genre films.

Ronan didn't interfere much in the shooting, but when the crew was shooting the last shot, he came to the crew.

Bang - Bang -

Shots rang out, the masked bandits fell to the ground, and two Arabs with guns ran in through the door, accompanied by blacks, saving the protagonist's family.

The male protagonist pulls down the masks of the bandits with trembling hands, and what is presented in front of him is the white neighbor with whom they seem to have a good relationship on weekdays.

The camera pans over the faces of these vicious whites, then on to blacks and two Arab actors.

These three were instantly righteous and awe-inspiring.

After all, there is a contrast before it hurts, and James Huang's lens language is clear and clear, and it is not pretentious.

"Ka!" James Wong shouted to stop filming and exclaimed, "This one has passed!"

Then he raised his voice again: "I announce that the filming phase of "Human Eradication Project" ...... That's it!"

Ronan stood a short distance behind James Wong, just watching the crew let out a burst of cheers and didn't say anything.

Most of the crew members were happy, not only because the high-intensity work was over, but also because it meant that a part of the salary would soon be paid.

There are two main models of pay in Hollywood, one is to pay weekly, that is, weekly salary, and the other is to pay in two or three times.

Ronan took the latter.

At this moment, he didn't make a sense of presence, and his mind was full of thinking about the next step of post-production.

Compared with shooting, he will be deeply involved in the whole process of post-production.

Post-production can turn the ordinary and even vulgar shots shot by the director into magic.

After the filming ended, others were still busy celebrating, after all, for many people, this is very likely to be the first theatrical movie in their lives.

But Mrs. Seyfried had already pulled Amanda Seyfried out of the crowd.

She took out a special tissue, carefully wiped the makeup and blood stains on her daughter's face, and said in a low voice: "Amanda, have you forgotten what I said?

Amanda scratched her head and said, "I see, Mom." ”

Mrs. Seyfried slipped her into a handbag, "Go!" and admonished, "Don't forget to ask for his personal contact information." ”

Since it is decided to move towards the actor side, any producer is very important.

Amanda answered, picking up her handbag and walking towards a quiet corner.

As Ronan prepares to leave the set, he finds Amanda Seyfried approaching her, carrying her handbag as usual.

"Amanda, do you have another cake to eat?" he asked with a smile.

A cute girl who often gives small snacks can easily make a good impression.

"Well, here you go. Amanda handed it to Ronan and said deliberately: "This time is different, except for baking, I did all the other processes by myself." ”

Ronan opened the handbag and took out one, the cake was average in appearance, very much like a novice's work, nodded and said, "Very special gift." ”

Amanda put her hands behind her back, shook her body slightly, and said, "Taste?"

Ronan took a bite and cocked his thumb: "Yes, it's better than the previous ones." ”

Amanda smiled with satisfaction: "I see that you don't like sweets very much, so this time you deliberately put less sugar." ”

"Can you see this?" Ronan knew that this girl was very careful, and deliberately praised from the side: "It's a pity, after the filming is over, it will be difficult to eat such an appetizing little cake in the future." ”

Amanda stretched out her hand: "Give me your contact information, and I'll give it to you when I'm ready." ”

Ronan laughed again, pulled out a personal business card, and placed it on Amanda's small hand, Amanda put it away, waved at him, and turned away.

After all the shots were taken, the crew moved to post-production the next day.