After just a five-minute break, Lance sent Ian and Gawain off before returning to filming.

However, after starting work again, Kate seemed to be tied up, because she was too focused on the rhythm of the performance, but there were frequent low-level mistakes with wrong lines, and the entire filming progress was delayed by Yan.

Lance knows that Kate is not the kind of actor who can surprise the audience by relying on her acting skills, and "killing people with a knife" needs a beautiful scenery like Kate to attract attention, so some interests must be sacrificed. Lance believes that Kate's ability at the audition is enough to sustain the entire production.

Lance's love is a little uncontrollable, because this is the first day of filming, and the filming schedule will not be able to keep up with the plan, but Lance also realizes that he is not only a director now, but also an actor, if he puts on the authority of the director and severely reprimands Kate, when he plays against Kate next, it will only make things more difficult - the director is the leader, the actor is a colleague, and different positions are bound to lead the fluctuation of prestige, Lance can only choose the same, and considering "borrowing a knife to kill" For the delicate requirements for acting skills, he can only choose to become an actor.

Closing his eyes and taking a deep breath, Lance turned from the driver's seat and looked at Kate, who was sitting in the back. Kate flipped through the script in a bit of a panic at this time, biting her lower lip tightly, her pupils shaking uneasily. Lance let out a long breath, "Kate, look up and look at me. Kate was a little hesitant, not sure, "Remember when you auditioned?" I need you to show that strong domineering posture that no one can underestimate you. ”

Kate looked up slowly, and then saw Lance's calm eyes, "Let's do some script exercises, okay?" ”

For any basic acting course, lines are the basic basics, and Lance had taken such a course countless times when he was an acting teacher, so he was no stranger to it at this time, "Very good." Let's put aside the pressure of the performance and simply read the lines. ”

Looking inside the cab cockpit, Lance was guiding Kate step by step through the performance, and Tom was caught up in his own thoughts. Terrance, who was standing nearby, rolled his eyes. With a speechless expression, "Tom, don't sue me, you want him to direct your performance with this idiotic method." I can sue you, he just wants to sue you. Keep all the initiative firmly in your hands. ”

Tom didn't speak immediately, just looked at Lance and Kate quietly.

After three simple line exercises, Lance's line tone changed silently, he didn't mix too many facial changes and detailed movements, just relied on the pause of the lines and the change of breathing to control the rhythm, "I will go to the 105 East Highway and turn to the 1100 Highway, which will be faster." ”

"What?" Kate blurted out.

Lance exhaled lightly, then quickly changed breaths, "I said. The speed of speech was obviously a byte slower, "go one hundred five to one hundred and zero", his eyes flashed slightly, as if he was looking at every detail of Kate's expression change, but this moment was even shorter than a blink, "This will be faster." ”

Kate subconsciously held her breath, and her gaze stopped between Lance's eyebrows, and there was a pause for half a second, as if she was thinking about how ridiculous Lance's words were just now, and the words blurted out before her brain could start working. "110 will turn into a parking lot near the University of Southern California."

Lance groaned, the sound between breaths slowing the tempo, "But once you're in Rabia, it's time to get north of Santa Monica." His eyebrows jumped slightly, and a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, even if he didn't need to listen to the words that followed, he could guess the meaning of his expression, "You'll be completely choked." ”

Kate couldn't help but put down her hands and leaned back slightly. It seemed to be a subconscious pout, "Highway 10 goes north into 110," her breathing rhythm slowed, but the pace of her speech did not decrease but increased, "You'll meet those who go back to Pasadena, they drive at ...... speed" The slightly dragged tail note brought out a hint of mockery and banter, "It's really slow." ”

"Good!" Lance suddenly spoke, changing the pace of his speech, "Do you feel the breathing adjustment and the rhythm of the lines just spoke?" It's like that, as if you're playing a game of chess with me, with every move meaningful, every word trying to attack, and the slowed pace only accentuates the tension of the confrontation. ”

Kate was caught off guard and was stunned, and after a while, she realized that she was facing the back of Lance's head, and then Kate noticed that even the back could feel the subtle difference. Usually Lance's spine is always straight, and his hanger-like physique and perfect proportions make people can't help but look sideways, even in the back; But now Lance's shoulders were very relaxed, even a little sloppy, leaning tiredly on the back of the driver's seat, the dark blue frock jacket spotless, but still making the shoulder line look a little stiff, as if he was carrying unimaginable weight.

Kate was stunned, and then reacted, Lance was not because the filming of this scene took longer than expected, but because Lance was taking on the role of Max, and even the back was a play.

"Let's shoot!" Percy's voice came, and after the shooting was taken again, Kate's watch was obviously much better, but it still didn't meet Lance's requirements. After re-shooting, without waiting for Lance to get out of the car to check the monitor, Tom turned back to Terrance and said, "Maybe it's too early to jump to conclusions." ”

With that, Tom turned away, stood aside, picked up the script and began to re-read it, leaving Terrance alone in the same place, his face darkened and uncertain as he thought about something.

After a while, Lance's voice rang out over the crew, "Perfect! Everyone in the crew cheered. This road scene has finally come to an end.

Kate stood still, unable to hide her excitement, not only because the scene was finally filmed, but also because she realized that she could do better, and that she had produced the best performance of her career under Lance's direction - not even realizing that she had such potential.

With the support of confidence, the filming went smoothly, and all the scenes between Lance and Kate were completed in less than three hours. It's unimaginable that the previous 60-second scene was tossed for nearly two hours without being filmed. But then the more than five-minute scene took less than three hours, and the progress finally caught up with expectations.

Then, there is a scene where Tom appears, and it is also Tom's only scene today.

But the scene is very simple. There are no lines, just a scene where Tom and Anne are staggered, and the most important thing is the work of the lighting team and the camera crew. After three different tweaking attempts, Lance and Hayden found the best solution, which took less than half an hour. All the shooting was done.

The first day of work was officially over.

Everyone was already leaving work, but Lance and Hayden were still busy, "I thought we could make a bold attempt to put the camera in the car and see the road in front of us and the cars around us." ”

Hayden was now in the groove, and as soon as Lance said it, he reacted, "You mean first perspective?" Then dim all the light around you, and start to enter the state of directional light at this point? ”

Generally speaking. The traditional method of shooting night scenes is to shoot the interior of the car from outside the car, and then shoot the spectacular scene of the vehicle streamer from a high-altitude perspective, especially in the work of road racing such as "Speed and Excitement", shooting the details of the tires, rear end, front of the car, and the change in the distance between the vehicles, and creating the effect that the director sought with the change of rhythm of editing.

But Lance's idea is different, and from the moment Vincent gets into Max's car, the world begins to shrink, condensed into this narrow world little by little. Previously, Lance and Hayden had agreed to use a small angle of incidence to create a bizarre visual effect. However, this small angle of incidence is not surreal, but a light that is basically parallel to human vision, which can create a sense of isolation and alienation similar to that of parallel universes.

"Yes, but not as soon as you come up. Rather, there is a slow process of transformation. It's like, before that, between Max and the other passengers, that sense of loneliness existed, but more of it was just the emptiness and loneliness that anyone feels in a big city, nothing special; But as the night progresses, there is also the encounter between Vincent and Max. The loneliness began to shrink, the light on the outside gradually condensed into the carriage, and the outside world fell into darkness. ”

Lance's explanation was immediately met with Hayden's nod of approval, "I'm going to have a meeting with the lighting team." The film's challenges with lighting and cinematography are almost harsh, and they are no less stringent than those faced by the actors, and Hayden laughs and says, "Newton is going crazy." Then he walked over to the lighting group.

Newton-Sigel, the gaffer introduced by Hayden, a very young but talented gaffer, was just an ordinary member of the lighting team during the "day after tomorrow" shoot, but this time he was promoted to the head of the lighting team - a difficult debut film, and the unbridled innovation and challenges almost tortured him to death.

After sorting out his thoughts, Lance walked towards the car parked across the street, opened the passenger door and sat in, looked back, and then saw Gawain lying in the back seat and already asleep, and couldn't help laughing, "If you're bored, why don't you go back first?" ”

Theo sat in the driver's seat and didn't speak, just turned his head and lifted a plastic bag from the back seat, put it in Lance's arms, then started the engine, expertly turned on the turn signal, and drove onto the road.

Opening the plastic bag, Lance found that it was all snacks and drinks, and he had eaten two corners of pizza tonight, and now his stomach was vaguely starting to be hungry again. So he took out a chocolate pie, let out a long breath, and the whole person relaxed into the back of the chair, nibbled on it one bite at a time, looking at the receding night scene outside the window, and the tranquility in the car made him feel a sense of peace of mind. (To be continued.) )

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