It took a day of work to renovate the walls of the hall and bedroom, but fortunately with the help of the Alba siblings, he would not have been able to do it alone. Now the walls are snow-white, enough to meet the requirements of the movie.

After seeing off the Alba siblings, Wang Yang finished the rest of the packing work, took a hot shower, and hurriedly finished the takeout he ordered, a large pizza.

After eating, Wang Yang came to the computer desk and began to write the script, when the later "Smart-Ghost Shadow" was filmed, there was no script, and all the lines were created on the spot, this is because the focus of this kind of horror film is not on the lines, but on the scary atmosphere created by the camera, so that the audience should "scare themselves"; And DV movies are very colorful, don't expect any deep and interesting lines, just use everyday words, so the script has nothing to write, just write the story flow clearly and let the actors know what the situation is.

He focused on writing storyboards, also known as "director's scripts". Just like cells make up the human body, and shots make up movies, one shot after another is designed by the director, and Wang Yang is doing these design work now. However, since he is the only one in the entire crew, this storyboard script can be written very simply, and he can understand it himself.

One of the great things about storyboard scripts is that they're intuitive. For example, when shooting some complex shots, such as stunt shots and shots that need to be processed by digital technology in post-production, if there is no storyboard script, you have to explain it to dozens or hundreds of staff members such as actors and cameramen, which is so hard and troublesome, and the director himself may collapse in the end, why don't you understand what I mean?

No one is a roundworm in your stomach, all language is not as clear and understandable as the picture, you draw the camera picture in your heart, others will know it at a glance, and the benefits of the storyboard script will be shown at this time.

But when he was studying at USC, Wang Yang also knew the disadvantages of storyboard scripts, which is very simple, this way of drawing storyboards restricts the director's creation, with storyboards, the director just mechanically turns the content drawn on paper into shots, but when the story and actors come into contact with reality, there will be a lot of interesting and unpredictable collisions and pictures, and then the storyboard script becomes a stumbling block.

"A long time ago, when I understood this, I tore up my storyboard, and from then on, I tried to avoid storyboarding. These are the words of the teacher who taught the camera, Wang Yang remembers it very clearly, the teacher said with a look of intoxication: "Life itself is richer than everything, when you connect your thoughts with reality on the spot, it is a very wonderful feeling." ”

Then, the teacher made another joke, which caused the classroom to laugh: "Of course, you can also fall in love with the storyboard, because you just have to wait for the cameraman to assemble the machine and the actors to be in place, and then you put the storyboard in place, and you don't even have to look at the monitor! What? You ask the actor if he wants to stand a little to the left or to the right? Leave that to the assistant director! I'm home!"

Thinking of those classroom life, Wang Yang shook his head and smiled, although he didn't have much shooting experience, he agreed with the teacher very much, and the storyboard script could not be a constraint. Just frame the camera position and visual effects, and then tell everyone your shooting intentions when you actually shoot, and give the actors enough room to play. Grasping this flexibility is the most important thing a good director should do.

Therefore, Wang Yang's storyboard script is very basic and very streamlined, and only those horror scenes that he has thought about and will not change are drawn on paper, such as the "dark interior, the TV screen reflects a strange ghost" shot, but it is very ugly...... Well, Wang Yang's art teacher commented on him, "The composition is beyond imagination, but the talent for painting is insufficient, and it is suitable for learning abstract painting." ”

But fortunately, now this storyboard script only needs to be understood by himself.

It was not until it was nearly late at night that Wang Yang fell asleep. The next day, continuing the construction of the scene, the task is to rent these props from the furniture and appliance rental company, accompanied only Joshua, who was sent by Jessica to help, driving a blue pickup truck, ready to move the furniture, and Jessica is going to audition today to compete for a small role in a comedy film, and has no time to help.

According to the background of the story, when a couple moves into a new home, the furniture in the house does not need to be brand new or eighty percent new, and a sofa like a few big holes is definitely not suitable. Basically, the furnishings of the entire apartment have to be changed, and whether it is a sofa, a cabinet, a bed in the bedroom, a high-end TV, a refrigerator, etc., if you want to buy any of these things, none of them are cheap, even if you spend the $9,500 you can't buy them all.

Thanks to the person who invented "leasing", and even more thanks to the first person to open a furniture and household appliance leasing company, with this rental service, Wang Yang only needs to spend a small amount of money to get those furniture and electrical appliances for a month, which is enough for him to finish filming "Smart - Ghost Shadow", and the original version of the shooting time only took one week.

Wang Yang went to a large furniture and electrical appliance rental company called "Entrepreneur", which focuses on serving young entrepreneurs and reducing their burden on office equipment, and also for individual families, that is, Wang Yang needs furniture such as couples' double beds.

As soon as he arrived at the destination, Wang Yang picked them up with great interest, including single pieces of furniture and household appliances, as well as complete sets, all of which were marked with signs that read "$" to indicate the monthly rental price.

Joshua followed him, touching the couch and chair idlely, and even lying down on a big bed and pretending to sleep.

He didn't talk much along the way, but Wang Yang knew that he was just brewing, and sure enough, when Wang Yang was picking up the sofa, he sat in the corner of a sofa, put his hands on the back of the sofa, and spoke: "Brother, it's just the two of us now, maybe there are some things that need to be clarified." ”

"What's the matter?" Wang Yang turned his head to look at him questioningly, and continued to choose among the sofa piles, considering which sofa could give the audience more subconscious pressure in the dark night.

"I don't know what you're playing, but if you try to hurt my family, you'll definitely regret coming to this world. Joshua spoke harshly, but the immaturity of his voice betrayed him.

Wang Yang couldn't help laughing, turned to look at Joshua, and asked, "Why do you think that? Please, why should I hurt Jessica? How can I hurt Jessica?"

"Oh, I don't know!" Joshua snorted, "but women are always vulnerable to all kinds of injuries. Well, there are many women who have been hurt by me. ”

"Wow, really? I didn't think you were so attractive? Haha, then you mean, I'm very attractive?" Wang Yang asked with a smile, and interestingly, he didn't feel angry at all about Joshua's words.

Joshua changed his sitting posture, touched his chin with one hand, looked Wang Yang up and down, and commented in an expert tone: "Oh, you're not thin, and you don't have any major flaws, but it's still far from the word charm, and it can be said that it can't be touched at all!" He gave Wang Yang a sympathetic expression, and shrugged his shoulders: "But you know, women are born with a sense of curiosity, and they always yearn for something they don't understand, such as a Chinese with a different skin color and hair color than themselves." ”

In fact, Joshua has never seen her sister Jessica treat a man so passionately, she has always been lukewarm and vigilant towards other men, she said that men spend 90% of their time thinking about women's bodies, which makes her disgusting.

Joshua knows why, Jessica was ugly as a child, always teased and bullied by boys her age, and as she became beautiful, boys of the same age came to do nothing, and this experience made Jessica see through it a little. But he couldn't figure out what was so different about this Jan that made Jessica's attitude towards boys change 180 degrees?

"Joshua, you're thinking too much, Jessica and I are just good friends. Wang Yang shook his head with a smile, and asked tentatively: "I only reunited with her for two days, and I don't even know if she has a boyfriend?"

"What, you want to know?" Joshua raised an eyebrow and laughed, "Then I'll tell you, of course there is! Jessica is not a child anymore, and she is so hot!Oh, the people who pursue her can line up from Los Angeles to China, her boyfriend, well, Jack, Jack is really good, he is very handsome, funny, and super athletic, he is the core of the varsity basketball team, and he plays the swingman, like Michael Jordan. ”

He exclaimed, "You know what? Jessica likes the kind of guy who can play basketball! He laughed again: "Anyway, I'll tell you, man, you're out." ”

"Oh yes?" Wang Yang couldn't tell the truth from what he said, although he tended to be fake, but Jessica was indeed not 8 years old, she was 17 years old, and she was so beautiful, it was normal to have a boyfriend.

Looking at Joshua's gloating expression, Wang Yang said curiously: "Brother, why are you so hostile to me? ”

"Oh, I'm hostile? What can you expect to be treated?" Joshua said dismissively, "To a student who was expelled from USC, and because of racism against blacks? Man, my dad was Mexican, and so was I." ”

Oh, that's why! Wang Yang asked, "Jessica told you?"

"No, I saw it myself, you have a notice of dismissal in that cardboard box. Oh, I'm sorry, I don't ask for it. Joshua crossed his legs and said "sorry" on his lips, but there was no apology on his face.

Wang Yang shrugged his shoulders and explained: "I am not racist, I was wronged. Then, calmly, he told the cause and effect.

"Oh, that's how you explained it to Jessica, right?" Joshua laughed and shook his finger, "I've seen a lot of people like you, it's okay to deceive an ignorant girl, want to deceive me? USC is a prestigious school, how could it just wronged you? And if you were expelled all of a sudden, it could be seen that you should have a bad record, so the school didn't give you a chance. I'm guessing you're not just racist, you're probably smoking marijuana?"

"The school didn't give me a chance because of the color of my skin, and they were racist. Wang Yang was too lazy to say, and said again, "I haven't done it, believe it or not", and continued to choose the sofa after speaking.

Joshua stood up and snorted, "Dude, I'm staring at you anyway! ”

"Just keep an eye on me and see if you can find a glass tube (a tool for smoking marijuana). Wang Yang said casually, and finally chose a dark red sofa, he took down the sign on the sofa, and called the waiter: "I want to rent this, that, that ......."

After nearly an hour of selection, Wang Yang signed a short-term lease contract with the "entrepreneur" company, because the things he picked were all new and the lease period was short, so the rent was relatively expensive, with a deposit of 3,000 and a lease fee of 1,000, so he threw out 4,000 US dollars.

Not counting the deposit, the cost of making the film has risen to $1,500, and he only has $5,500 left in liquidity.

"Okay, we're on a short-term contract, but we're going to move these big guys home by ourselves, let's get started!" Wang Yang rolled up his sleeves, patted the sofa, and motioned to Joshua to lift the sofa.

Joshua looked at the huge red sofa in front of him, frowned, and said with a painful face: "God curse him!

After a few trips back and forth, he finally moved all the rented furniture and electrical appliances back to the apartment smoothly, as for the old furniture and old electrical appliances, Wang Yang stuffed them into a small room, anyway, the more messy and broken the small room, the better the effect.

"Oh lord, Lord...... I'm tired, I'm tired......" Joshua, who had been busy all day, lay on the couch, panting with his eyes closed, exhausted, and didn't want to move.

Wang Yang also felt very tired, but he was not as exaggerated as Joshua, he said: "You are like this, it is very dangerous to drive back by yourself, do you want me to take you back?" ”

"No, no, no!" Joshua immediately bounced up when he heard this, his eyes widened and he said, "I know what you want to do, but no!" He rushed into the bathroom, poured a handful of cold water on his face, and howled a few times, and then walked away: "I'm leaving, don't you come with me!"

The door was slammed shut, Wang Yang rolled his eyes, how come I don't know what I want to do?

After taking a shower and having dinner, Wang Yang took the home DV machine that he rented from the photographic equipment store today, walked around the house, and photographed everywhere. The deposit of this DV machine is 1,000, the lease is a month, and the cost is 300, which means that the cost of the movie is 1800 US dollars, and the working capital is 4200.

Wang Yang shook around with the DV, figuring out the kind of panning camera unique to DV movies, the first person, which can shake you dizzy!

Now that the scenes needed for the movie have been done, and the script is basically done, it seems that there are only two actors left, and the film can be started!

There's no doubt about how important actors are to films. Whether a movie is successful or not, in addition to the script, director, etc., largely depends on the actors, especially the drama films. Because only a good actor can understand what the director wants to express, coupled with first-class acting skills, he can show it well and tell the audience, while a bad actor will only mess everything up.

Even though "Smart - Ghost Shadow" is a horror movie, and it is a DV movie, it seems that the actor only needs to be able to open his mouth and scream. But that's not true, first of all, this movie doesn't need the characters to scream, but to play with psychology, which requires the actors to play, so there are certain requirements for actors, not just pull a person over on the streets of Los Angeles.

Find two good actors, this is where the film needs to be spent and the highest cost.

Of course, the maximum salary he can pay, plus those deposits, is only about $8,000...... It's been a long time since Christmas, and Santa Claus, the old guy, is still on vacation.

In any case, tomorrow Wang Yang will go to Hollywood to find actors.

Just as he was thinking about it, the mobile phone rang, Wang Yang held the DV in one hand, took out the mobile phone in the other, and when he saw that it was Jessica's, he answered the channel: "Hi, Jessica." ”

"Hey Jan, how are you doing today? Can Joshua help?" Jessica's voice was still so nice that it reminded me of her sweet smile.

"Oh, he's good, he's good. Wang Yang smiled and sat down on the sofa, and said, I don't know what the results of Jessica's audition will be today, so he asked, "How was the audition result?"

Jessica said "hmm" in frustration and said, "No play, the producer said I was good, but the director said I couldn't, so I continued to have no job." ”

"I'm sorry. Wang Yang said comfortingly: "But, Jessica, remember that there are still many opportunities." "That character is just one of the many female classmates who only have one or two lines and no more than three appearances, and the heroine in the campus comedy, and the director is quite picky.

"Thank you, I'm fine......" Jessica laughed strongly.