This is a Columbia studio in Los Angeles.

Lu Lingxi rushed over a month in advance, and with the assistance of Du Yihua, he got a small studio from this large studio, which will become the filming location for several indoor scenes in the next movie "Autumn Fairy Tale".

In fact, Minghu Culture also has several studios of its own in China, and it is completely possible to complete such modifications for shooting, in that case, no matter how you calculate, the cost will be greatly saved.

But that's not how it works.

Coming here, although the cost of eating horses and horses is a little larger, and renting a studio in Colombia is definitely a big expense, but the crew starts the first shooting from here, which is very helpful for the entire crew, especially the actors, to understand and integrate into the cultural atmosphere of the United States.

This is definitely different from filming an indoor scene in China and then running over and directly starting to shoot a scene on the streets of the United States.

Besides, money spent on Colombia is not actually spent on outsiders.

Anyway, the fat water does not flow into the fields of outsiders, Lu Lingxi proposed that the indoor drama also wanted to be filmed here, Li Qian just hesitated, and then nodded in agreement.

Anyway, as long as his total budget doesn't overrun, it's fine.

And at this moment, in this studio, an old building has been temporarily built - it is the place where the bow ruler and Li Qi live in the script. Of course, in this set, there is no overhead urban light rail railway, but the light and shadow changes generated when the light rail passes through will be simulated during the shooting, and a certain sound will be played to match the shooting.

Li Qi's emotional stage in the movie, gas poisoning and other scenes will be filmed here.

Lu Lingxi, who directed a movie for the first time in his life, is not stage frightened.

As the actor and actress of the Berlin Film Festival, whether it is Li Qian or Qin Jingjing, they have been thinking about this drama and their roles since a month or two ago, and of course they will not have stage fright.

But the first shot of "Autumn Fairy Tale" is NG thirteen times.

There is only one reason, the thinking of the two actors is not on the same line.

In fact, the play is very simple, on a rainy night, Li Qi couldn't sleep when she was a nanny for a Chinese family, and called Li Qi to sing to her, so Li Qi took her mobile phone and gently hummed a song to coax the little girl to sleep - the sound insulation of this building is too poor, and the bow ruler who lives downstairs only one staircase under her heard her singing, so she poked her head out and looked up.

This lens, Lu Lingxi wants to shoot it in a one-shot way, of course, the position of the camera has been laid out in advance, and it is Fu Xuelong who carries the camera, this must be no problem.

Li Qian was dressed in a sloppy style, with a scruffy beard, sitting in the downstairs room, holding a copy of "Three Hundred Sentences in Practical English" in his hand, his feet on the table, and the beaded curtain at the door was raised, behaving very freely.

But here's the problem, from the first time, Li Qian behaved very relaxedly, not acting like he was acting at all, but Qin Jingjing felt a little unable to get into the feeling of coaxing a little girl.

It is said that this is not a real rivalry, but in fact, it has to be classified as a rival play, one of the two of them is tense, and the other is unusually relaxed - when the camera turned to Li Qian, I saw him squinting his eyes and looking up at the corridor with a slight smile on his face on the monitor, and the extremely uncomfortable feeling in Lu Lingxi's heart came up.

The reason why I chose such a scene to start is precisely because it is not a too difficult shot, but at the beginning, there will definitely be a run-in period.

The first time he walked by, Lu Lingxi shouted, walked into the venue in person, and told the two of them about the play.

She asked Li Qian to put a little more outside, to maintain this "loose" state, but not too loose, and asked Qin Jingjing to be "loose" a little, not to be so tight.

A good actor, of course, will begin to have his own unique understanding of the characters and roles in the play after getting the script and reading the script, but he will also adjust his performance direction and weight in a timely and appropriate manner according to the requirements of the director at the shooting site, according to the situation of the entire crew, including the state of other actors.

So, thirteen times, Qin Jingjing was "looser" more than once, and Li Qian was "tighter" every time.

Gradually, even Li Qian felt that her voice had become much more relaxed when she was humming.

In the middle, Lu Lingxi deliberately stopped filming, went to the two of them to make specific requests, and directed the performance, but the two people, after the actor was matched, still went all the way NG, until the tenth shooting, Lu Lingxi felt that she had found the right feeling, but she still said, "Very good! But, again!"

Finally, a simple shot, filmed for a full hour, she was satisfied.

Then, she ran over excitedly and said to Qin Jingjing first: "Just this feeling, remember! This is a love drama, and there is nothing too vigorous, there is no life and death, there is no heaven and earth cracking, in the future, you will follow the path just now to find a play and find a feeling! Don't give me so much force, loosen up! Be natural!"

Seeing Qin Jingjing nodding, she turned around to look at Li Qian again, and said: "The actor, you acted well, and you have a good grasp of the emotions of the characters and the tightness of the whole story, but I know that you are not very experienced in acting, so you just remember one thing, next, you have to be responsible for supporting Jingjing a little, if she enters a little harder, you can pull her back, understand?"

Li Qian is an old director and the screenwriter of this play, and there is another classic version in his mind as a specimen to stand there for reference, of course he understands.

So he nodded and said, "No problem, I see." ”

In fact, Lu Lingxi's meaning is: Hey, help, Jingjing is too tight, since you know what kind of rhythm and tonality this play should be, take it with a little when acting, help her loosen!

This is, of course, a matter of course.

However, it soon became clear to him that it didn't seem to be easy.

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Although this is the first film directed by Lu Lingxi, as a director, she can be regarded as a veteran driver. Li Qian's acting experience is not too much, but considering that he has acted a lot in his previous life, and he has directed so many plays in his life, in fact, he has always retained the feeling of acting, and he is also an old driver.

It is said that Qin Jingjing is also an "old" actor, after all, she is three years older than Li Qian, and she will turn over the New Year to 2005, she will be 30 years old, and it will be eight years since she graduated.

She couldn't handle the "looser" degree that Lu Lingxi requested.

She would often exert too much force, but as soon as Lu Lingxi or Li Qian said it, she was restrained again, and it seemed too gentle - it only took a day for her to understand that she was weightless.

On the first day of filming, the crew shot a total of more than a dozen shots, and none of them were too dense and important shots, the efficiency was not high, but it didn't matter, the important thing was that Lu Lingxi was very dissatisfied with Qin Jingjing's performance - in some of the simplest life scenes, her performances were all tense, although Lu Lingxi or Li Qian said a little, she could make adjustments immediately, and after a few trials, she could finally find the kind of feeling that Lu Lingxi wanted, but this is obviously not the level that a Berlin actress should have!

And Qin Jingjing was obviously not satisfied with this.

When it was announced that today's filming was over, she took the initiative to ask Lu Lingxi to take a car back to the hotel where the crew was located, and in the car, she couldn't wait to ask: "Sister Lu, I have to adjust and adjust, I can't grasp the feeling that you want to go, and when acting, I obviously feel that I am not on the same line with Li Qian." ”

Lu Lingxi nodded, admiring her attitude, and asked, "Then how do you want to adjust?"

Qin Jingjing asked her, "What do you think is my problem?"

Lu Lingxi thought for a long time and said, "I think the most important thing is that you have too little experience with boys. ”

This is really what Qin Jingjing said was speechless.

She was beautiful since she was a child, so her father told her, "Be careful! All the boys who take the initiative to approach you, don't bother with them, they all have bad intentions and want to soak you!"

Later, when she grew up, she would deliberately keep a distance from her male classmates and even male teachers until she entered the Suncheon Film Academy.

In the past few years, she has a good relationship with Liao Min and Lu Lingxi, but in addition, she is so popular, and she still has few friends in and out of the circle.

Therefore, if you take a play, whether it is ancient costumes or modern, she sorted out the characters and conflicts of this play, and she knew it in her heart, and substituted it into the environment and atmosphere of the play, click, the whole character was excavated, it was simply from head to toe, every gesture was full of play, and the performance was really good!

Even, the more dramatic, the more age-sensitive, and the more intense the conflict, the more stable, in place, and more exciting her play will be.

But the drama of life?

I'm sorry, she's a fool in life.

But in "Autumn Fairy Tale", it is full of the kind of bland feeling that only life has.

Qin Jingjing put her excellent acting skills into the life feeling she simulated, no matter how she put it - a sense of history, a sense of the times, and a sense of characters, which are often things that exist in books and imagination, her excellent acting skills and ability to understand and grasp the characters make everyone look at the characters she plays, and they think it's really good, it's really right, this character, this era, it should be like that. But life is different, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, everyone experiences it every day, but there is no assumption.

Because whether you are acting in the taste of life or not, the vast majority of the audience can see it at a glance.

For the vast majority of actors, even if they are actors with low standards, they are extremely familiar, they only need to find the right way under the guidance of the director, and they will soon be able to enter.

But this point seems to be a bit difficult for Qin Jingjing.

She doesn't seem to understand how two people should get along in a normal life.

This was a problem that neither of them had thought of before filming began.

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Liao Liao has a big villa in Los Angeles, so Li Qian is filming here, of course he will live in that villa. It's just that dozens of people came to the crew at once, so they must find a hotel near the set and book some rooms to arrange accommodation.

Liao Liao is now busy preparing for her second North American tour, and after Li Qian came over, she also came back for two days, and soon left again, to check the arrangements of the venue, to communicate with the team in charge of stage design, lighting design, etc., there is simply nothing to do.

Therefore, Li Qian actually lived in the big villa alone.

Even his assistant Qin Nuo, who came over to be the executive producer, stayed in the hotel with the crew.

But on the second day of filming, after the filming in the afternoon, Li Qian was packing up his things and preparing to drive home, but Qin Jingjing pulled Lu Lingxi over, found him, and said, "Can you stay in the hotel? I think I can spend more time with you." ”

Li Qian turned his head to look at Lu Lingxi, Lu Lingxi shrugged his shoulders and said: "Jingjing's state is indeed a little wrong, the two of us have talked about it, and we both feel that she usually lacks the experience of getting along with people on a daily basis. Therefore, if you can stay in the hotel, even if it is chatting, playing chess, or playing cards, it should be helpful for her to find that feeling of 'life'. ”

Li Qian thought for a while and said, "It's okay." ”

Of course, it is more comfortable to live in a big villa, but Liao Liao is not there anyway, and the big villa is empty, which is actually not interesting. And Li Qian himself, in fact, does not have such high requirements for the living environment, and it is normal to live with the crew during filming.

So, after only staying alone in the big villa for a few days, he moved into the hotel where the crew was located. And then soon, the suite he lived in became an "activity room" for several people in the crew.

Lu Lingxi, Qin Jingjing, Qin Nuo, and then pull Li Qian up, and everyone played cards.

It's childish, a sticker note that you lost.

Qin Jingjing's talent in playing cards feels even lower than her emotional intelligence.

On the first night, everyone else's face was clean, and only one of her eyes was still exposed—just because she had to be left to look at the cards. In fact, the little notes were all attached to the arm.

The next night, she was slapped in the face again.

Looking at her aggrieved and anxious, she seemed to feel a little embarrassed, but she couldn't win anything, whether it was Lu Lingxi, Li Qian, or even Qin Nuo, they were obviously poked at the point of laughter, and everyone's laughter came and went throughout the night, which was hearty.

And Li Qian has been in this time and space for more than nine years, almost ten years, and he has never actually participated in public activities such as playing cards and rubbing mahjong among friends, but this time, he actually felt that he was having a good time.

For the first time in more than nine years, he began to decadent.

After the end of the filming in the afternoon, he began to think about the night's card game, after dinner, he was not reserved, Qin Nuo and the others ran into the house, he didn't shirk it, and started immediately.

Such a depraved thing, he actually felt refreshed.

The script was not written, nor was it written, nor was the song written.

All go to the ball, play cards!

Three days later, Qin Jingjing actually began to show some signs of turning defeat into victory.

For the first time in history, at the end of the game, there were as many as five small notes left on Li Qian's face - although Lu Lingxi laughed, Qin Nuo was also very happy, and even Qin Jingjing, whose face was covered with notes as usual, looked very happy when he saw the note on Li Qian's face.

Then, as time went on, as the game began and ended again and again, Li Qian gradually discovered that perhaps ...... Is it very likely that he is the one with the lowest IQ among the four?

Because of just a few days of hard work, the note on his face actually began to be on an equal footing with Qin Jingjing!

Qin Jingjing's card skills have improved rapidly.

And the difference in the speed of her card skills is similar to the relaxed performance state she showed in the filming - this proves that playing cards can really improve her acting skills!

For a moment, Li Qian even considered whether to officially spread and promote a game called "Werewolf Killing" in a group of actors from Minghu Culture or some crews of Minghu Culture in the future to help the actors improve their acting skills.

Of course, he felt that the negative effects of this might be more obvious.

The way of playing cards to improve acting skills is probably only effective for people like Qin Jingjing.

As for the others...... Hmph, one night when he couldn't sleep alone, Li Qian inadvertently calculated, and suddenly realized that he had been playing cards for seven or eight days recently, and he seemed to have written a lot less manuscripts......

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The shots to be shot in the studio in Los Angeles are all indoor scenes, and this studio belongs to Columbia, of course, it is easy to arrange, but the drama "Autumn Fairy Tale" still has a lot of scenes, which need to be filmed on the spot in some cities in the United States.

So, after 11 days of filming in Los Angeles, when Du Yihua called, he had already contacted the local government and police station in New York, and the crew could go over to shoot on the spot, Lu Lingxi immediately decided to rush over immediately, finish filming that section of the street scene first, and then come back to continue filming here.

Of course, Li Qian has no opinion on this.

In fact, he is indeed just a simple actor in the play "Autumn Fairy Tale", and all the filming progress and plans of this drama are under the control of Lu Lingxi, Qin Nuo and Du Yihua.

It's just that the day before he was about to leave for New York, John Days suddenly came to the set and told Li Qian: "James called, knew that you were in Los Angeles, and wanted to meet you." ”

James in John Days's mouth is, of course, his old friend, the highest box office record holder in the world film industry today, the master of commercial cinema and the pioneer of film technology, James Cameron.

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