Verse 450: Old Mother
(There are too many things in the New Year.,Delayed update.,I'm sorry.,And this year has finally passed.,I'll work hard in the next few days to have more chapters)
"Props in place!"
"The lights are in place!"
"Photography in place!" ......
On the set, there were constant announcements from various departments in place, and Duane was sitting in front of the monitor, and Wei Rongchen was next to him, which was the most correct position in front of the monitor. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Now the director is standing, holding a loudspeaker in his hand, not speaking, listening to the counts of the various departments on the set.
After a well-reasoned sea blowing and sincere live performance, Wei Rongchen's confidence in himself has increased a lot, and even his face is ruddy and radiant. In this state, he also began to take charge of the filming on the set, as Duane had hoped, which is exactly what Duane wanted to see.
And after two simple scheduling rehearsals arranged by Wei Rongchen just now, the official filming will start soon.
The next scene is very simple, it is a clip of the actor Wang Jinshu walking to the bookstore, there is no close-up, from the technical point of view of the actors, it is very simple, there is no difficulty, as long as the actors are not too pretentious, according to the previous scheduling rehearsal to move, do not make some low-level mistakes, basically can be passed at one time.
But it was such a simple shot, but the atmosphere at the scene was very dignified, as if facing a great enemy.
Duane noticed that Wei Rongchen's hand holding the speaker next to him trembled slightly, and his legs stood straight, together and motionless, as if he had been punished, looking very awkward—from his stiff standing posture that did not relax at all, it could be seen that he was obviously nervous.
Duane also noticed that the conditions on the set weren't much better.
As the most central focus position on the set, the actor Wang Jinshu held the prop teacup in his hand, half raised it in the air and didn't dare to move, his whole person was frozen there like a sculpture, but his eyes were blinking, his expression was serious, he didn't smile, he looked ahead nervously, his ears were pricked up, and he was waiting to listen to the command.
In addition, the camera crew, lighting engineers and other on-site staff also had very serious expressions, there were no hippie smiling faces, everyone except for the people who reported the number of people all closed their mouths tightly, did not make a sound, and the scene was quiet and terrible.
Duane could even hear his own breathing.
After hearing a series of reports at the scene and everyone was ready, Du An clearly heard Wei Rongchen, who was standing next to him, take a deep breath, and then shouted the password.
“ACTION!”
The sound of the command made Duane's eyebrows furrow.
According to Du An's understanding of Wei Rongchen's resume, he thought that the director's password would be an ordinary password sound like "start", or a vernacular one similar to the one he "walked" when he first made the movie, but he didn't expect it to be English.
But to be honest, this foreign password really doesn't match Wei Rongchen's image.
Under the director's order, the scene began to operate, the actor Wang Jinshu began to move, the photographer put the camera and aimed it at Wang Jinshu, it can be seen from the monitor that the lens is slowly turning the angle with the actor, and from time to time there are group performances in and out of the frame according to the previous scheduling, and there is nothing wrong with it.
Originally, there was nothing to say about this kind of scene, there was no difficulty at all, but Wei Rongchen, the director, was very nervous: after the start of filming, he sat down, and at the moment he was sitting on a chair staring at the monitor in front of him, his eyes did not blink, and his expression was very solemn and serious, as if a difficult performance was being staged in the monitor in front of him.
That's too nervous, isn't it?
Seeing this, Duane was a little speechless.
There are really a lot of problems for newcomers.
Under his previous sea blowing and sincere performance, Wei Rongchen finally began to have confidence in himself, but he didn't expect such a problem to arise now - from Wei Rongchen's current performance, he can almost pack a ticket, this simple scene is absolutely impossible to pass, and it is not impossible to even shoot a dozen.
And that's exactly what happened.
After Wang Jinshu opened the door of the bookstore and entered, this scene passed, and Wei Rongchen did not announce that he was going to prepare for the next scene after this scene was over, but sat in front of the monitor and reversed the clip he had just taken, frowned, watched it over and over again, but did not announce the start of preparing for the next scene, and Du An sat next to him, his eyes did not focus on the monitor, watching casually at the scene, observing the state of these staff at the scene, and finally Wei Rongchen's voice pulled his eyes back.
"Producer Du,"
After hearing Wei Rongchen's salutation, Du An turned his head and saw Wei Rongchen looking at him, frowning, pointing to the monitor with one hand, and asked, "What do you think...... Is this okay? Is there a problem?"
Duane nodded casually and said, "It's good, no problem." ”
He had already guessed what Wei Rongchen's next response would be, and Wei Rongchen did as he guessed, frowning and expressing his doubts, "But I think there seems to be a problem......
He rewound this one, and then pointed to Wang Jinshu, who was walking on it, and said to Du An: "Look, is his pace too fast? This seems to give people the feeling of being in a hurry, and this group performance, he just glanced at the camera, and the female group actor also has a problem, her expression is too stiff, and her movements are too, very unnatural......
Du ane silently listened to Wei Rongchen pick the bones from the eggs little by little, and from time to time echoed the last "um", "yes", "it makes sense" or something - no way, he just blew Wei Rongchen before, and said how talented Wei Rongchen was, how much he admired him, and now he must give affirmation when he hears other people's opinions, otherwise the self-confidence he just built up will be gone.
And with Duan's endorsement, Wei Rongchen finally came to a conclusion.
"There are really a lot of problems......
When Wei Rongchen said this, his brows furrowed even tighter.
In the end, he made a decision.
"Let's do it all over again. He said, looking at Duane, "Producer Du, what do you think?"
Duane affirmed, "Hmm. ”
Then Wei Rongchen began to arrange the work on the scene, and he went off the stage to start talking to the actors about the problems he had just noticed, while Du An continued to sit alone, motionless, sitting quietly with half-squinted eyes like the Buddha Maitreya.
In fact, according to Du An's idea, the one just now can pass, and many of the problems Wei Rongchen said are not problems: Please, this is a cutscene, because of the relationship between the cameras, the audience's attention will be focused on the protagonist, who will notice what the eyes of the group performance that flashed just now are like? As for the steps of the leading actor Wang Jinshu, it is even less of a problem. Regardless of whether he walks fast or slowly, there is a saying: if he walks fast, it means that he is now in a hurry to go to his store to have a look, and if he walks slowly, it means that his personality is not that impatient, and it is okay to look at it with his character setting in the script.
The reason why there are so many "problems" is actually all because of Wei Rongchen himself.
The production cost of the film "Xiaoshan" is 8 million, which is not much, and this is because Du An's own participation in the investment and almost free of charge as a producer.
If it is for Du An, the production cost is simply pitiful, but for Wei Rongchen and them, a film with a production cost of 8 million is an absolute big production!
Facing such a big production for the first time, Wei Rongchen must have thought a lot, and Du An's could even guess what he would think: Will his work make the 8 million recover the cost? Will he be able to successfully open a way in the film industry with this movie? If he fails to make this movie, will he never have the opportunity to really enter the film industry again? If he doesn't shoot well, will he only stay in the theater for the rest of his life, and there will be no such opportunity again? If this movie is successful, will it start to develop?......
There are so many things to think about, it is reasonable for Wei Rongchen to think so much about such a simple scene, and Du ane also understands, after all, he had a similar experience at the beginning - when filming "Fengyue", he was in such a situation, taking a step back and having nothing, and further expanding the sky. At that time, Du An's filming must have been false to say that he was not nervous at all, but compared with Wei Rongchen, his psychological quality was much better, at least he didn't show it at all, and he didn't let his nervousness interfere with his reason and professional knowledge.
“ACTION!”
“CUT!”
“ACTION!”
“CUT!”
……
Just like Wei Rongchen's resume, this man with only a high school education has a very poor cultural foundation, which makes his English sound strange in particular - Duane can hear the characteristics of at least three dialects of India, Japan and Northeast from his pronunciation, which is very strange, but it is also a characteristic.
In Wei Rongchen's plastic English password, such a simple scene is repeated again and again, and after half a day's work, thirteen have been filmed, and none of them can make Wei Rongchen completely satisfied.
This guy was already nervous to the point of being a little sickly, and Duane looked at it coldly, thinking to himself.
It stands to reason that as a producer, when he saw that the clips that he could pass were tossed over and over again by the director, wasting the money and time of the producers of the investors, he wanted to open his mouth to stop it, saying "That's good" to let Wei Rongchen stop tossing it anymore.
But he couldn't.
If he works like a normal producer, with Wei Rongchen's psychological state and the huge disparity in status between them, he will easily beat Wei Rongchen down and make this movie his own, which is not what Duane wants to see.
What he needs is that the main style of this movie is presented according to the angle he wants, and the specific operation still has to be handled by Wei Rongchen, the director, if Wei Rongchen is beaten down like this, and even the small details of a certain scene have to be decided by him, then how can this drama be filmed? What is the use of Wei Rongchen as a director?
So even if Duane is very sore now, he can only watch from the sidelines.
"What the hell should I do......"
After filming again, Wei Rongchen stared at the monitor twice and muttered to himself, looking a little desperate.
Obviously, he was not satisfied with this one.
Duane sat next to him, as if he could feel the real pressure on him. He looked at Wei Rongchen like this, and even thought that he would not have an emotional breakdown in the next moment - obviously this shooting was an excellent opportunity for this man, and it could even be said that one step was heaven and one step of hell, so the pressure he put on himself was extraordinarily great.
Under such a stressful situation, if Wei Rongchen's psychological quality is not up to par, he may really drive himself crazy. However, this man who has lived for more than thirty years is obviously not the kind of weak little hairy head, although it looks like he is about to collapse, but after some muttering, he still takes a deep breath and stands up, it seems that he is preparing to let the scene come again.
Duane's eyesight and observation skills have always been very good, which allows him to clearly see the current situation on the set, allows him to see that the expressions of the group actors are already very irritable, and allows him to see that the actor Wang Jinshu is now sitting on the ground with his head buried in his knees after NG over and over again, so that he can see that several people in the camera crew are now numb and impatient after the initial excitement......
"Producer Du,"
Wei Rongchen was about to shout to the scene, but suddenly closed his mouth, thought about it and then spoke to Du An beside him.
"How do you think this one should be filmed?"
Duane withdrew his gaze from the faces of the people on the set and looked at Wei Rongchen, who was standing beside him—this man in his thirties now had a sad face, his eyes full of worry and confusion, and it was obvious that he really had nothing to do about it.
Duane is very painful: if Wei Rongchen is a director whose psychological quality is as strong as his, then he feels that his work is still very easy to do, and he can directly hit each other hard, and let the other party grow in the collision, but Wei Rongchen's psychological quality is obviously not good, which is difficult.
He can't do it if he doesn't help, that will make the work completely impossible, but it's too tough and can't do it, in terms of the content of the producer's work, it is easy to cross the line and put Wei Rongchen, the director, directly in the air, and he really needs to grasp the proportions in this.
"Maybe it has something to do with your mindset?"
Duane pondered for a moment and spoke.
"I also know a little bit about your kind of stage movies, because of the space, your movies often need actors to support them, but this kind of screen movie is different, we have a lot of space. I thought, shouldn't we just focus on the actors, but look elsewhere?"
Du An's looked at Wei Rongchen and felt like an old mother in a kindergarten now.