Salt Lake City, Utah, as it approaches December, and the weather here is getting colder.

At this time, it was a sunny morning, and the class bell had already rang at East High School in Salt Lake City, and classes were going on as usual in the classroom, but many students were obviously absent-minded today.

The white male teacher who was teaching couldn't help but secretly shake his head when he saw the students like this, he walked to the window and looked outside, and said, "Oh my God, it's very lively outside, does anyone want to go down and have a look?" The students in the classroom suddenly coaxed and raised their hands in unison. The white male teacher laughed, walked back to the podium, and said, "Don't dream, guys, give me a good lesson." ”

"Oh, I know!" said the students, expressing their disappointment. The white male teacher shrugged his shoulders, picked up the chalk and continued to write the formula on the blackboard, complaining a little in his heart, why did the principal approve the filming of "Youth Musical" here, didn't he know that it would cause a lot of trouble to the school?

The school building area of Salt Lake City East High School is a "concave" architectural pattern, with buildings on three sides and an open road and lawn in the middle.

At this time, these lawn clearings are full of youth-clad teenagers, chatting in twos and threes, waiting for the start of filming. They were all extras in "Youth Musical", and the crew contacted the agency that specialized in providing extras, and then got a reply and hired these local acting school students in Salt Lake City.

These people will play the role of ordinary students on campus, fulfilling the "crowd" needs of all the scenes in the movie.

And now, "Youth Musical" is about to officially start filming the first set of shots. The New Year's break is over, and the school is reopening, and this set of shots shows the male protagonist "Troy Burton" stepping off the school bus and then being surrounded by good friends, teammates and beautiful cheerleaders into the school. The first shot of this group of shots is a frontal shot of Eastern High School, where the students are happily talking or walking into the school, a sunny scene. In the later stage, this shot is also ready to be accompanied by light and enthusiastic music, so that the youthful atmosphere of the high school campus will come out.

On the way to the school gate, the camera equipment has been placed, the camera crew is doing the final adjustments, Valey Pfister talks to the gaffer Steve Taylor, determining the lighting and exposure, and the fat Harry George is listening with his ears pricked up, he has completed the task of laying the guide rails, so there is time to follow behind Valey Pfister ass and learn the skills and experience of photography.

The crew members all did their jobs, and after temporarily finishing their work, they rested and stood away from the camera lens, Tom Welling, Marcus Mance and other leading actors also stood together and chatted, Rachel sat on the grass and read the script silently, Zachary twisted her body and practiced her dance steps, and Jessica sweetly curled the corners of her mouth and looked at Wang Yang in the distance, who was talking to the next actor about his requirements.

"When it's time to shoot, you're skateboarding by, just like you did when you were in the show, jumping on this railing. Wang Yang patted the iron railing next to him, looked at a few skateboarders specially invited, and said, "I need a perfect jumping move." The skateboarders nodded, and one of the white men laughed, "Don't worry, it's too easy for us." ”

Wang Yang patted him on the shoulder with a smile, walked to the extras who would be close to the camera, and said to the young men and women: "You are all smiling, high-five, hugging, like you haven't seen you for a long time, understand?"

“ok。 Several young men answered. At this time, Jill Thaddeus, the field director, came over and said, "The director, the extras are all in place, and the school bus is ready." Wang Yang nodded to him and walked back to the camera, where Varay Pfister had already finished communicating with the gaffer, checked the camera, and said to Wang Yang, "No problem." ”

It's all ready. Wang Yang looked at the main school building in front of him, in order to shoot this scene, the clock on the main building was temporarily out of order, he took a deep breath, turned his head to look at Varay Pfister standing behind the camera, and said, "Then, it's time to start." Valey Pfister smiled at him and said encouragingly, "Young, don't be nervous. ”

Wang Yang also showed a smile and sighed: "Valé, I can't control myself, this is not "Ghost Shadow", this is not DV, I have been looking forward to this for too long, the movie is crazy." Valey Pfister nodded and smiled, "I can understand that the first time I picked up the camera to shoot, my hands were shaking. ”

In the original TV movie, this shot was only filmed in the front of the teaching building, and then switched to the next picture, the scope of the shooting was very small, the lens only moved from the ground to the vertical level, and there was no shadow at all in the teaching buildings on both sides of the eastern high school, that is because the TV screen is small, if the picture is far away, it is not beautiful; but the big screen is different, if it is only fixed on the front of the teaching building, it will be gone, it will bring a very depressing viewing feeling, so the shot is now redesigned, after a frontal shot, the lens will quickly rewind backwards, turning the middle shot into a long shot。

In order to capture this effect, the camera rails were laid far away from the side of the road.

The shooting plan has long been discussed by Wang Yang with Valley Pfister. Valey Pfister held the camera's control handle, waiting for the director's order, and Wang Yang looked around again, everyone was looking at him, the extras, the crew colleagues, good friends...... Harry George opened his mouth wide and said something silent, clearly "Man, go!", Michael Pitt crossed his hands around his chest and smiled and cocked a thumbs up, Jessica smiled happily, and Rachel stood aside and smiled faintly at him.

Wang Yang walked to the back of the camera, his heart was beating fast and fast, he did it, he was about to become a real film director! Clenching his fists, Wang Yang shouted loudly: "Start shooting!"

The scene reporter holds the slate board and shouts the serial number and scene number of the shot in front of the camera, which is to facilitate the editing work in post. After the scene note was finished, he knocked down the scene board, Wang Yang shouted again: "action!" With his voice, the extras suddenly moved around and entered the state of performance.

Wang Yang's eyes were on the viewfinder, only to see Valey Pfister point the camera at the school building carving on the ground, and then control the camera to slowly move to the right and raise it, and then saw the lively school, several students stepped on skateboards, one of them jumped on the iron railing and made a slide, and the students in the distance were talking with laughter, the two girls high-fived, and hugged each other and said something, and the yellow school bus behind was also slowly driving.

"OK, OK, it's good......" Wang Yang read in his heart, turned sideways, Vary-First quickly pushed the camera back, Wang Yang followed alongside, his eyes watched the performance of the extras, until he retreated to the end of the guide track, and shouted excitedly: "cut!" Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Wang Yang grinned and nodded: "Very good, it's over!"

The crowd immediately cheered, clapped enthusiastically, and whistled. Wang Yang also clapped his hands with a smile, raised a thumbs up, and shouted, "Prepare for the next shot." ”

The next shot is of Troy Burton stepping out of the school bus and walking into the school with his friends. The shooting position of this lens has to be changed to the front of the yellow school bus, which requires all the camera equipment and recording equipment to be moved there, and the lighting needs to be readjusted, which will take a while.

"Hey, man, leave it to me. Harry George, a handyman of photography, walked over, his fat eyes shining as he stared at the pitch-black film camera, and he carefully lifted it, but his fat body had great strength, and he moved the camera to the front with steady steps.

The other field staff also carried other camera equipment, Michael Pitt packed up the rails, looked at Harry George's back, and shouted, "Be careful, fat man!"

"Michael, don't worry about that, for Harry, the camera is like his wife, and he can't afford to drop it. Wang Yang looked at Harry, who was in high spirits in the distance, said with a smile, and clapped his hands again: "Everyone move quickly, e-on, e-on!" He stood next to him and watched for a while, then walked to the grass next to him, looked at the clear blue sky, and quietly exhaled, he had just finished his first shot on film, it was very smooth, no different from shooting 16mm at school before, it was not as difficult as imagined.

It's an amazing feeling to see the camera capture the image you want. Wang Yang smiled slightly, reminiscing about the indescribable taste, and suddenly heard a gentle voice behind him: "Hey, Yang, do you want to drink water?"

Wang Yang looked back and saw Jessica holding a bottle of mineral water in her hand, her face was full of sweet smiles, and there was a unique look in her eyes during the love period, which made her look even more charming. Wang Yang pretended to frown and shouted into the distance: "Michael, where have you been? Shouldn't this be his job? How can there be a beautiful female field attendant? I can't afford this salary!" Jessica laughed and said playfully: "No salary, this is a girlfriend's job, not a female field worker." ”

"Thank you, girlfriend. Wang Yang smiled and took the mineral water in her hand, twisted the lid, suddenly sighed, and muttered in a low voice: "I thought it was opened, but it turned out to be brand new, it's so disappointing." Jessica rolled her eyes and smiled, "Okay, then I'll give you Harry's bottle of water next time." Wang Yang pretended to be frightened, shook his head again and again, and said, "No, no, no, it's still brand new." ”

Rachel, who was standing in the distance, glanced over there, and saw Wang Yang and Jessica laughing and talking happily and sweetly, she felt empty and a little uncomfortable in her heart, shook her head and smiled reluctantly, and walked to the farther lawn with the drama.

"Yang, today's work is over, shall we go to the cinema?" Jessica looked at Wang Yang expectantly, and said: "I heard that the recently released "Bug Squad" is very good, and I haven't seen "Enemy of the People" yet." ”

Wang Yang thought about it, then shook his head apologetically and said: "Jessica, I'm sorry, I have to discuss tomorrow's shooting plan with Vare in the evening, and there are still some company matters waiting for me to deal with...... Jessica hurriedly waved her hand and said: "Oh, it's okay! Yang, I'm just talking casually." She smiled and said, "I'm going to study the script well, I've got a lot of plays tomorrow, aren't I?"

"Jessica......" Wang Yang couldn't help but grab her hand and said with a smile: "If there is anything you don't understand, remember to ask me." Jessica shook his hand and smiled sweetly, "yes, I know." Wang Yang looked around and smiled mysteriously: "On the weekend, I'll let the crew rest for a day, and then we'll have a good day, okay?" Jessica felt that he valued herself, her heart was full of happiness, she nodded and said "Okay", and said with a smile: "But, is that lazy?"

Wang Yang was about to say something, but suddenly noticed a familiar gaze looking at him, he subconsciously looked over, only to see Rachel's back. He was silent for a moment before turning back to Jessica and smiling, "Now is laziness." So, Mary, I went to work. With that, he let go of her hand, handed her the bottle of mineral water, and ran to the front camera crew.

Jessica stood in place and took a deep breath, enjoying the air of love, she turned to look at Wang Yang, watching him direct everyone's movements, and then seemed to be for demonstration, he was patting a basketball and doing a turning motion, his steps were very light and handsome, she smiled sweetly: "Cool." ”

"Watch my movements. Wang Yang slapped the basketball and said to Marcus Mance, who played Troy Burton's good brother "Chad Denver", then shook his body from side to side, made a few turning movements, stopped, threw the basketball to Marcus Mance, and commanded: "You do it again, remember, in a playful posture, because it is the cheerleaders who will defend you!"

Dressed as a stylist, Marcus Mance combed an explosive head with his hair fluffy like a mushroom cloud, he caught the basketball and nodded, "I'll try." With that, he dribbled and rehearsed.

Wang Yang called a beautiful cheerleader to come over, she asked to defend Marcus Mance, this cheerleader was also hired from the acting school, and they were not extras, because although they didn't have any lines, they would appear in many shots and have a fixed image, and Troy Burton's teammates were the same.

After coaching Marcus Mance, Wang Yang called Tom Welling to come over, his face was made up pink and pink, his nose was more three-dimensional, and his eyebrows were full of heroism, looking very sunny. Wang Yang patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Tom, you know, you are the man of the year in this school, you are the hero here, you are admired by everyone, so when you get out of the car and are surrounded by everyone, your expression must be accustomed to it, and you must have the demeanor of a captain, but not arrogant, understand?"

Tom Welling nodded again and again, listening carefully to Wang Yang's request.

After talking for a while, seeing that the photography equipment was ready, Wang Yang clapped his hands, looked at the cheerleading beauties, as well as teammates and classmates and other role actors, and said with a smile: "Guys, let's all be in place!" The cheerleading beauties took off their sweatpants outside, leaving only a pair of red shorts, revealing snow-white long legs, and the weather is cold now, so they will only dress very refreshingly when shooting.

Wang Yang walked to the back and said to Vary-Pfister, who was holding the camera: "Vare, I'll leave it to you." Varay Pfister slung the camera over his shoulder and smiled, "No problem." This lens needs to be shot by hand, so Wang Yang didn't look at the viewfinder, and when he saw that the actors were all in place, he said, "Let's start." After shouting the serial number of the scene, as soon as he knocked on the scene board, Wang Yang shouted again: "action!"

At the sound of the order, everyone entered the show, Marcus Mance slapped a basketball, a blonde beauty in a red cheerleading uniform defended behind him, Marcus Mance playfully feints, dribbled and turned, and the other students also interacted with each other, at this time the door of the yellow school bus behind opened and several young students quickly stepped off, and then Tom Welling also walked down.

Just when the actors were about to cheer up and surround Tom Welling, Wang Yang suddenly frowned and shouted: "Stop!" Everyone suddenly looked over, Wang Yang looked at Tom Welling, recalled the scene just now, and thought: "Tom, you get out of the car in the same posture as everyone else, you don't have that special feeling of being a man......"

Wang Yang thought for a while, under the gaze of everyone, he walked up and down several times, standing at the door of the bus and looking at the people outside, he suddenly walked up and down a ladder, jumped off the bus, and smiled at Tom Welling: "Try what I just did, take a step and jump down!"

"Okay. Tom Welling nodded, and he and a couple of young men walked back into the car, and Marcus Mance and the others were back in place. The scene note rang the board again, and Wang Yang shouted, "action!"

After Marcus Mance's performance, the yellow school bus opened the door, and after several students got off the bus, Tom Welling followed a step behind and jumped down, the boys and girls immediately cheered and surrounded them, Tom Welling greeted his classmates with a smile, Marcus Mance held the basketball in one hand and put his arm around Tom Welling's shoulder with the other, and said with a smile: "Hi Man, how are you doing lately?" Tom Welling smiled and said, "Hi, Chad ......"

Wang Yang clasped his hands around his chest, his eyes unblinking, watching everyone's performance, and Vary-Pfister carried the camera, slowly walked up to draw the camera closer, and then retreated as everyone walked forward.

At this time, everyone hugged Troy Burton, that is, Tom Welling, and walked to the school gate, shouting excitedly: "What team?!" "Wildcats!" "What team!" "Wildcats!"

"cut!" Wang Yang shouted, clapped his hands and smiled: "Not bad." But I think it could be better, one more time. He looked at Vare-Pfister again and said, "Vare, take some close-ups this time." Valey Pfister gestured to indicate that he understood. Wang Yang shouted, "All of them are in place." ”

After filming a morning, less than half of all the shots of the scene "outside the teaching building" were filmed, and the crew prepared to shoot again in the afternoon after lunchtime, and after filming this scene, it was changed to the corridor scene or classroom scene.

The crew teamed up with a McDonald's near Salt Lake City's East High School, which provided daily fast food during filming, including extras, and everyone on the crew got a large hamburger for free. Of course, you can choose to order takeout by yourself, or pay the crew to buy an extra one, for example, Harry George has to eat three, but under Wang Yang's weight loss reminder, Harry only ordered two in the end.

Sitting on a long chair on the side of the grass on the campus with Jessica, Wang Yang looked at the students nearby, the real eastern high school students, not extras, feeling their youthful vitality, Wang Yang remembered his high school life, he took a bite of the burger, and said with a smile: "Jessica, do you think we don't look like students here? Two ordinary high school students?"

Jessica shrugged her shoulders and said, "I look like, but you don't, you look like a college student." Wang Yang suddenly said with a frustrated face: "Please, it's too disappointing, I'm just one year older than you." Jessica laughed and said, "That's an appreciation." She also took a bite of the hamburger in her hand and said softly, "Yang, I actually don't like this place on campus." ”

"This place brings me so many bad memories. As she spoke, Jessica leaned on Wang Yang's shoulder and said softly, "But I like to have your campus, and it's all good memories." She tilted her head to look at Wang Yang's eyes, and smiled with a sigh, "Yang, I feel like I'm back in our elementary school now, when we used to sit on this kind of bench like this and chat together, it's really a beautiful day, it's nostalgic." ”

Wang Yang gently stroked her hair and said, "You don't have to miss the past, because good things are happening and will continue." Jessica smiled happily, "Yes, it's going to continue." Wang Yang suddenly frowned, because there was a group of girls walking in front of him, who seemed to be coming towards them, seeing that they were getting closer and closer, Wang Yang whispered: "Jessica, I think we have to go." Jessica wondered, "What's wrong?"

It was still too late, and when Wang Yang stood up, the blonde, black-haired, and brown girls immediately cheered and rushed over quickly, surrounded him, and talked nonsense. They are all fans of Wang Yang, which is not surprising, "the youngest director", "the youngest multimillionaire", "worth 30 million", coupled with a handsome face and a tall and handsome figure, Wang Yang has become an "idol director".

"Hey, Jan, can you give me an autograph?" a beautiful black-haired white girl held a pen and notebook to hand Wang Yang, and a black pearl expressed her admiration: "Jan, your "Ghost Record" is so good, I was almost scared to death when I watched it in the cinema. Another girl smiled and said, "Yang, can we meet? I like movies very much!" Another scantily clad blonde girl looked at Wang Yang directly, reached out to touch his chest muscles, and said in a sexy voice: "Yang, can I date you?" and several other girls looked at Wang Yang with a smile on their faces, and some were holding cameras ready to take pictures.

"No, thank you, can't date. Wang Yang smiled and avoided the girl's hand, took the black-haired girl's pen and notebook, and wrote a signature on it, it was the first time he was surrounded by people like this and asked for an autograph, and he had not practiced it before, so he deliberately wrote one in an exaggerated style, so as not to be consistent with the signature style of signing the contract, Hebrew Karl reminded him of this.

But the girl was still not satisfied, and smiled again: "Yang, can you sign your Chinese name again?"

"Of course. Wang Yang smiled, picked up the pen and wrote the Chinese name Wang Yang. The girl continued, "Also, please write 'For Amy at East High School in Salt Lake City.'" Wang Yang shrugged his shoulders and said as he wrote, "OK." At this time, the girls all took out the papers one after another, shouting: "Yang, I want it too, I want ......it too, I want it too" Wang Yang said flawlessly: "Don't squeeze, you will get ......"

Jessica stood on the periphery, looking at Wang Yang, who was surrounded by girls, and couldn't help but smile playfully. Seeing Wang Yang looking over for help, Jessica grimaced, walked backwards and left, smiling and making a bow gesture to him.

(To be continued)