Blake plays a young and beautiful female college student Linda in the film, this role is of little significance, the only role is to add a touch of spring and the variety of roles, but Blake is still very happy about Mark's invitation, and when her parents do not object, she readily agrees, and she is full of enthusiasm She also took over the business of scene notes, assistants, and logistics purchases.

Claire muttered: "It's only a thousand dollars in wages, and you're going to die hard, and you're treating yourself as the cheapest laborer, not even sweeping the floor." ”

"Is this a comparison between filmmaking, art, and other jobs?" Mark gave me so many tasks, is it a trust and appreciation of my ability, can this be measured by money? Should I wear a little more makeup and wear that red dress? This makes me look older, more like a college student. ”

Claire said, "Honey, you should tell the difference between a college girl and a dancer. ”

Mark is filming for the first time today, several sets of shots at the entrance of the University of Southern California, (the part of the nonsense at the door), is shot by Hank, Tom has the heart to see if Mark has any material, whether he will make jokes, took a half-day off, and checked on the set (at home), although he claims that this producer is playing tickets, but as soon as this title is hung on his body, he can't help but tremble, and my old Ray (Lively) is also mixed with the producer, this addiction comes, and the job of earning 10,000 US dollars a month is not so important.

Although Mark is a rookie, he is not stage frightened, because he has done a lot of preparation, everything seems to be orderly, and he has clear requirements for the filming requirements to the cameraman, his views on the camera, the actor's position, movements, expressions, and emotions.

Tom nodded secretly, this Mark has no systematic training and no work experience, but he has an extremely keen sense of the camera,

He has done a good job of handling the position changes of the actors' performance activities, fully conveying the ideological content, storyline, character of the characters, the environmental atmosphere, and the rhythm of the script to the audience through his own artistic conception and scene scheduling methods.

Scene scheduling is a special means of expression to create a movie image on the screen, referring to the unified processing of actor scheduling and camera scheduling, which is quoted into the creation of film art, its content and nature are different from those on the stage, and it also involves camera scheduling or lens scheduling, without any foundation Mark can do all this, Tom felt very amazing, he said to Claire: "This son has a very high artistic talent, and he is a natural person who eats this steak!"

Claire was surprised, "Taller than you?"

Tom blushed and stopped talking, but in fact he was in tears, and he was lamenting that he had lived on a dog at a young age.

If Mark knew, he would have said, what is a face schedule? I will shoot the original version, I will shoot it? I don't know how Ruby made it, but I know what kind of shots I need.

Ruby has been trained systematically and professionally, and the camera is very slippery, and the form of camera scheduling movement is pushing, pulling, shaking, following, moving, rising, and descending. Generally speaking, a number of connected shots, shot with the same form of movement, will give people a smooth feeling, and shooting at an angle of suddenly looking up and down will give people a strong sense of opposition, even Mark feels that this seems to be more interesting, so that people will not feel bored and bored, and have the idea of watching it.

Since the film changed from silent to sound, the method of continuous shooting using scene scheduling has largely replaced montage slitting, but it has not completely ruled out montage methods. Scene scheduling and montage can go hand in hand. With the help of montage, the speed and rhythm of the movement of the actors and the camera can be contrasted to reveal a deeper meaning. Only when these two means of expression are integrated can the artistic expression of film language have a stronger effect on people.

These days, Mark has been reading the world's best-selling books such as "Cinema Lens Design" and "Guiding the Actors" and "The Intuition of a Film Director", and has searched for a large number of in-depth interviews with Hollywood industry insiders such as directors, art designers, cinematographers, and prop masters related to scene scheduling, and has a targeted understanding of the entire planning process of conceiving a scene scheduling plan.

And studied and transcribed a large number of classic cases, these cases not only closely around the behavior of the characters and the dramatic elements of the story, but also have real operability, fully consider the various situations that may occur in the on-site shooting, when analyzing the case, study the classic scheduling style of the studio era, understand the new scheduling techniques in the current live shooting, analyze the background and pros and cons of their use, and better cultivate a sense of judging what is the best plan in any specific situation。

Because of the golden finger in his brain, he can search for information on the Internet at any time, and when he brags about theory, he is the Tao, a set of sets, Ruby is not as good as him, but if he really puts himself on the camera, he will be blind, and perfectly interprets what it means to say that the world is invincible, and when he is powerless.

Mark also found that the production cost of "This Man is from Earth" rumored on the Internet was inaccurate at 10,000 US dollars, unless these actors did not charge money and brought their own dry food, so Mark was more inclined to say that its cost was 200,000 US dollars, whether it was David Lee or Tony Todd were formal actors, even if they were small roles, but the formal salary was by no means 1,000 or hundreds of dollars to impress.

Mark has a definite shooting time, a week, if the filming is not finished, he must pay extra overtime, if there is no third-party funding to intervene, he will stop working, and wait to earn money before filming, so he does not dare to slack off, strictly follow Tom's plan, basically get by, there is no meticulous pursuit of the fit of acting, and there is no exploration of the inner emotions of the actors.

It's just a group of people sitting together bragging about it, basically pushing the story between questions and answers, which doesn't require actors to play or fight for acting skills or anything.

They started filming at 9 o'clock in the morning, rested here after lunch at noon, continued filming in the afternoon, and immediately drove to the editing studio in the evening to cut the scenes that were filmed that day, which usually took two or three hours, and now Mark requisitioned Donald's Volvo SUV, and he handed it over to Hank and Ruby without a driver's license.

The next day, Donald and his so-called girlfriend Meghan came to visit the class, in Blake's words, the two of them didn't seem to be suitable, Donald was still dressed in a suit, suave like an English gentleman, while Meghan was Converse sneakers, jeans were full of holes, white T-shirts, a big ear tube around her neck, she walked staggeringly, chewing gum and twisting, a punk girl.

Donald hugged Mark and said, "Congratulations, Director Mark Wang!"

Mark said stinkily: "I must add producer and screenwriter to my title. ”

Donald bumped his fist with him, looked at the set, and said, "The Lively family has invested a lot of money for you, and Wow Black is getting sweeter and sweeter." ”

Meghan disagreed: "This is your set? There are no props, except for two broken lights, man, your crew is really shabby, you don't have enough money to speak, 180,000 is a matter of one sentence, you make such a shabby and stingy, Sophie will be sad if she knows." ”

Donald said: "What do you know? Mark is a semi-professional, and the charm of "Black the Witch" and "Twelve Angry Men" lies in the small cost, if tens of millions of dollars are produced, even if it is a big sale, the charm will be greatly reduced. ”

Mark said: "Yes, I call it as much as I want."

Movies, honey, you have no extra money to spend, you can invest in my next movie, Saw Horror, and I can guarantee you at least double the return. ”

As a producer, the one who can bring in funds is the most bullish one and has the most rights, so as a producer, fooling people to invest is the basic skill, what is it to fool a little girl? There are many people who dare to fool drug dealers and gangsters.

Megan said: "I don't like your movie, a group of people hiding in the house and bragging, no funny, no love, no fights, no shootouts, it's not cool at all, who would watch a movie like this?"

Donald slapped his forehead and said, "You're so afraid that people will say you're dumb?"

Megan said: "I'm just telling the truth. ”

Mark said, "Are you sure you want to invest in films?"

Mark went online to find out that the two siblings, David and Meghan, will be celebrities in Hollywood in the future, these two have a super rich dad, who doesn't read books, waving checks and running to Hollywood to invest in movies, mixed with the nickname of a Hollywood independent film savior (other celebrities are stupid and rich fools), and under the praise of that group of producers and film companies, they kept investing money and were miserable by those people.

But the amazing and inspirational thing is that after paying the astronomical tuition, the Sky Dance Pictures they founded actually broke into a name, obtained the investment rights of several big-selling series, and became a pivotal filmmaker, Mark was thinking, anyway, you are paying the tuition, and I need to inject funds, this is the best, at least I won't cheat you.

Megan said proudly: "Of course, I have applied for the USC Film School, but these people are illiterate, and one day they will regret missing a day to become a student." ”

Donald said, "Are you sure the pie you had this morning is cheesey and not garlic?"

Megan said: "Don, please believe me, I'm an investment master?"

Donald sarcastically said, "What is your successful investment project?"

Meghan said: "I'm about to invest in Mark's second film. ”

Donald said, "Yes, you are. ”