"Stop! Rachel, I need your expression to be crazier and more hideous! And ......" Wang Yang held the DV camera, looked at Rachel with a serious face, and said, "Neurotic, crazy, cramps, anything! Imagine that you are taken by an evil spirit, it teases you in the mirror, it laughs at you, it says, 'Oh stupid human', that's pretty much it." ”

In the apartment's bathroom, Rachel stood in front of the mirror in the washbasin in a blue checkered pajamas, while Wang Yang was at the bathroom door, and Zachary Levi was standing behind him.

Yes, they are currently working on the film "Ghost Shadow", which is already the third day of filming, and the filming process is nearly halfway completed.

When a movie is filmed, it is not shot from beginning to end in the order of the script, but is shot in the order of the scenes, and the scenes of the same scene are shot first, and then the next scene is replaced. This saves time, money, and effort, and if you shoot in the order of the script, one moment in Los Angeles and one moment in New York, wouldn't you have to fly around? After shooting the same scene, the sequence of shots is left to the post-editing.

Of course, with the help of the script, the actors also know what they are playing and know the causes and consequences of the plot.

However, all the scenes in Wang Yang's movie are in this apartment, that is, his home, so naturally there is no so-called "different scenes". In order to make Rachel and Zachary Levy play more emotionally, Wang Yang simply followed the script and filmed it before and after.

This way of filming is already surprising, but in order to save costs, there is even more surprising, the costumes of the two protagonists are not provided, whether Rachel or Zachary Levi, they are wearing their own ordinary clothes, like the blue checkered pajamas that Rachel is wearing now, which are also brought by themselves.

The story of the scene they are shooting now in the movie is that the heroine "Meier" played by Rachel suddenly got up in the middle of the night, came to the mirror in the bathroom and stood in front of the mirror, and after more than an hour, the male protagonist "Kevin" played by Zachary Levy woke up and found that his girlfriend Meier was not in bed, so he walked out of the bedroom with a DV machine, and then came to the bathroom. When he walked into the bathroom, the DV happened to capture Meier looking at the mirror with a hideous face.

Meier's "hideous face", Rachel has tried it in various ways, whether it is an exaggerated, neurotic performance, or a subtle eye performance, Wang Yang is not satisfied.

"I want to show ...... Uh, maybe I should come and perform in person?" Wang Yang said a lot, and suddenly wanted to go out in person. Rachel nodded and said, "Okay, after watching your performance, maybe I'll understand what you mean." So Wang Yang handed the DV camera to Zachary Levy next to him, then walked to the mirror, coughed, closed his eyes and brewed emotions.

I'm got the devil on me right now, and I'm going crazy...... Wang Yang tried hard to convince himself in his heart, slowly opened his eyes, and then squeezed his eyebrows to crush a face, which looked like Jim Kelly's performance. When he saw his appearance in the mirror, he couldn't help but scold, his face returned to its original state, and he shook his head and said, "It's not like this, it's not like this." He shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly, "Okay, I can't perform, I'm still suitable for holding a DV camera." ”

Rachel and Zachary couldn't help but laugh a few times, and Rachel laughed and quipped, "Of course, you were born a director." ”

Wang Yang himself laughed, but said with a sense of gain: "Although my acting skills are terrible, I seem to understand something just now." He clasped his hands on his chest and looked up and down at Rachel in his pajamas, he was not admiring Rachel's figure, but he realized that he had some wrong thinking, he frowned and said, "Rachel, you can perform this scene casually." ”

"Okay. Rachel replied, and her face changed suddenly, grinning like a madman and rolling her eyes like a demented child.

"I know!" Wang Yang's eyes suddenly lit up, and he snapped his fingers and said: "We all pay too much attention to the performance on the surface, and the way of thinking shouldn't be like this!" Rachel stopped performing and said incomprehensibly: "What do you mean?" Wang Yang explained while sorting out his thoughts: "The Meier of this shot may need to be hideous and crazy, but in the end. What we need is a weird sense of horror! So it's all about making people feel weird, isn't it?"

Wang Yang clapped his hands, looked at Rachel, and instructed the latest guidance: "From now on, there is no hideousness, no madness, they are not the point, we have to be weird! Think about it, what kind of performance is weird?"

Rachel nodded as if she didn't understand, and she said seriously, "Well, I want to think about it." ”

This is the obstacle in the filming, although Rachel is a college student in the theater performance department, and Zachary has also performed on stage since childhood, but they are still very immature and inexperienced, and young performances often lead to half the effort, and more problems are in Wang Yang himself.

After all, he is also shooting a movie for the first time, the same immature and young, the same inexperienced;Fortunately, this is just a pseudo-documentary type DV movie, the requirements for photography are very low, the lens position, conversion, etc. can be amateur, and even swaying so that you are dizzy, because the actor's photography level is originally limited to an ordinary person, so in terms of photography, Wang Yang did not encounter any problems.

The problem is that there are many things that he didn't think of at the beginning, and many things that he took for granted when he actually shoots the storyboard before, and there is another problem, that is, inspiration suddenly appears, sometimes because of the inspiration of Rachel's performance, Wang Yang will tirelessly revise the storyboard script, shoot it and then go back and reshoot, which also slows down the process.

Just like the current situation, Wang Yang thought at first that the heroine Meier should have a hideous expression, but it took half a day and he was not satisfied with how he filmed, and now he suddenly changed to shoot in a weird direction.

"I think I'm starting to get a little bit of it. Rachel thought for a while and said to Wang Yang, "Let's try it once." ”

"Okay, everyone is ready!" Wang Yang took the DV back from Zachary's hand, retreated to the door position to adjust the camera, and then read: "3, 2, 1, start." As soon as the voice fell, he pressed the DV shooting button.

As soon as Wang Yang said this, Zachary who was standing behind him shouted in horror: "Oh, baby, what are you doing standing here in the middle of the night?" The film's recordings are all made from the live DV itself, which is also to match the authenticity of the pseudo-documentary and save costs.

As Zachary shouted, Rachel, facing the mirror, began to perform, the corners of her mouth slowly curled, and the dimples on one side were exposed, originally a sweet expression, but her eyes were staring ahead, her eyeballs rolled up, and her light blue pupils were gradually lost.

"Stop!" Wang Yang shouted to stop, frowned and said: "It seems to work, but it doesn't seem to work, I always feel that something is missing, and I can't grasp something...... he scratched his head and said: "Forget it, let's rest for a while." ”

Rachel and Zachary Levi both nodded, sometimes when encountering this kind of problem, you can't just rush through it, rest for a while and think about it, maybe you will figure it out.

Out of the bathroom, Zachary Levy walked to the balcony to blow the wind, Wang Yang sat down in the red sofa, held the DV machine, frowned and watched the footage just shot in the DV, thinking about what was missing.

"Here you go. Rachel, who was wearing an overcoat, took out two bottles of Coke from the refrigerator and handed one to Wang Yang, she said comfortingly: "Young, don't push yourself too hard, don't think about it for the time being, we've only been filming for three days, and we still have more than a week to go, aren't we?" she jokingly said: "Don't let my $4,000 make too fast." ”

Wang Yang glanced at her and said with a smile: "Don't worry, your four thousand dollars is definitely not easy to earn, I am a black-hearted director." ”

"Director, take a break. Rachel suddenly reached out and took the DV camera in Wang Yang's hand, then turned it off and put it on the coffee table in front of the sofa, and proposed with a smile: "Why don't I tell you a joke to let you relax?"

"Wow, good!" Wang Yang turned on the Coke, took a sip and said with a smile: "My laughter is very low, your jokes must not be too funny, otherwise I may die of laughter." ”

Rachel rolled her eyes with a smile and said, "Don't worry, mine is all bad jokes." Hmm, listen ......"

Just when she was about to start talking, Wang Yang's mobile phone suddenly rang, interrupting the good atmosphere, Wang Yang hurriedly said "I'm sorry", then took out his mobile phone, the caller showed Jessica Alba, he smiled and connected, and said, "Hello, Jessica?"

Jessica came the morning before yesterday when the film was on for the first shot, but she only stayed for a short time that day and left, and then she didn't come yesterday, and today it's almost 5 p.m.

"Hey, Jan, how was today's shoot, didn't I bother you?" Jessica's nice voice came from her phone. Wang Yang looked at Rachel next to him and said with a smile: "I didn't bother, we are resting now, and the shooting is fine." ”

Then I heard Jessica smile and say, "Yang, I'm there now, I made a pizza from you, and you haven't ordered takeout yet, have you?" Wang Yang said "wow" and said, "Pizza? That's right, we haven't ordered takeout yet." ”

"Then you wait a little longer, it's about half an hour away. Jessica smiled and closed the line.

Shaking his phone, Wang Yang said to Rachel: "It's Jessica, she made a pizza." I'm coming over now, and there's still half an hour to come. He licked his lips as if he was hungry and said, "Wow, pizza, it's time to cook our dinner." ”

Rachel also smiled and said "wow".