"It's a field of golden wheat, the wheat is swaying in the wind, and the sky is so blue that there is not a single impurity. On the horizon, there is a beautiful olive tree, with its lush foliage full of life, it is very large, but it does not feel oppressive at all.

In front of you is a small straight road leading to an olive tree, the earth is fragrant, and there is a small clearing around the big tree, and in front of you some little girls and women are partying, seven or eight, and their soft laughter is heard. Susie, your eyes are focused on a little girl, who is small and wears an old cotton dress, and she is spinning happily, and the skirt dances in a small circle.

In that moment, your heart softened and you almost cried. Hallie wants to take you over, but you suddenly feel, no! ”

In front of the green screen in the studio, Liz and Kelsey were listening intently to Ye Wei's directing, and he personally demonstrated the scheduling of the scene.

This is an adaptation of the scene at the end of chapter 14 in the original book, where Fernie, the counselor, gives Susie a map and tells her to go to the Wheat Tree, where some of the girls and women who were also killed by Mr. Harvey and died due to tragic encounters gather to do peer support and other activities.

In the original book, Susie "couldn't help crying" and told everyone what was on her mind, "Every time I said it, the sadness in my heart was reduced a little bit".

But in Ye Wei's adaptation, the scene releases almost complete sadness and depression, and she scolds Harley and retreats to her own confinement paradise.

"I won't go over!" Ye Wei shook his head and retreated, looking at the camera in front of him as an olive tree, treating Maurer and the others as victims, and said sadly: "You are deceiving yourself, maybe you are very happy, but the world is sad every day!

After saying that, he turned and ran, and then quickly walked to Hallie's stage and acted, looked sideways, looked down, and shouted, "Susie, Susie!"

A burly man with a height of 187cm uses a thin girlish voice and feminine demeanor to play two girls, which looks very funny.

But the two girl actors are no longer strange, and the unscrupulous Master Jiya has already laughed enough, in fact, there is nothing funny, this is the director.

Especially the green screen scenes, there are a lot of such scenes on TLB sets every day these days. Before Ye Wei explained each shot, no one knew what it was all about, there were two kinds of explanations, one was to draw pictures, and the other was to demonstrate in person, and he used them all.

Still, sometimes even when he says dry saliva, Liz and the others still look confused.

Now that's it, Ye Wei played it again, showing the positioning, the rhythm of reading and even the demeanor of the movements, and the two still have a lot of incomprehension.

Liz looked at the sketch concept map in her hand, it was not drawn by Ye Wei, it was the handwriting of the concept artist, the olive tree took up a third of the frame, and it didn't feel like the perspective of the "horizon" he said. The painting may be an empty shot, or an original drawing for a special effects company, and it is not what Susie saw.

She had no choice but to ask, "Director, I want to know how big that tree is from my point of view?" ”

Ye Wei took the original painting in Liz's hand and looked at it, its perspective was indeed not the perspective of Susie he wanted, and the future camera picture would not be like this. "The tree is on the horizon, so while it's huge, it doesn'......t seem big to you," he said.

"How big?" Liz's doubts were still unabated, and Kelsey was also a little puzzled, their perspectives in this scene were the same, and distance affected their imagination.

"Gia, give me pen and paper. Ye Wei looked at them and realized that words could no longer make them understand, so it was better to draw a picture to show it directly.

Gia, who was next to her, took up her duties as an assistant and handed him a pencil and a small drawing board with drawing paper fixed to it.

Kelsey's pretty face was excited, she was obsessed with watching VIY draw, and he was able to draw what he imagined in a few minutes, which was really amazing.

In this regard, Liz is also deeply admired, if "Heathcram" singing is just not bad, his painting is really quite amazing.

Ye Wei took the sketch pen and drawing board, and began to draw on the drawing paper with full attention.

In less than three minutes, a sketch of the scene from the perspective of Susie and Hallie was drawn on paper, framed in the rule of thirds (tic-tac-toe composition), with the olive tree on the lower line in the middle grid, and the sky occupying more than half of the upper three squares and the middle three, which had a very wide and open feeling, and it was also very distant.

"That's what you see. Ye Wei took the painting and handed it to Liz and the others, and then drew a flat plan of the scene on a blank sheet of paper, drawing the space, distance, and the perspective of the characters clearly, using the camera position and movement route as a dotted line, and drawing the movement route of Susie marked S and Hallie marked H as a solid line.

The three of them looked at him as if he was drawing those arrows, dotted lines, and solid lines casually, and they were still emotional when they were used to seeing them, and he even marked the lens relationship and performance beat of the post-editing. Movie geniuses don't just talk about it, it's really not easy to be a director.

"Look here. Ye Wei used the tip of his pen to point to the two camera changes in the plane scene map, and said to the two: "When Susie and Hallie just arrived at the wheat field and looked at the big tree, and when Susie turned around and ran away, although they will use panoramic lenses, the distance between them and the camera is close to the same, but the camera position will be different. ”

Seeing the two of them listening, he continued: "At first, it was frontal, the wheat fields were on both sides of the frame, and they were in the middle, and the appearance was very fair and peaceful. But in the end, the camera moves to the left side of the wheat field, and the whole world seems to be tilted, and the perception becomes sharp, and when Susie runs back, the viewer is not looking at her back, but at her side, which is not completely isolated from the characters, and the audience can feel her complex feelings, feel that it is a circuit leading to loneliness, which will cause her to leave with the maximum loss power.

So when you perform, you have to follow this change in perception. When Susie erupted, she was not only sad, but also sharp, and when Hallie called Susie, the loneliness and depression caused by Susie's departure were infectious, and she was also leaning, and even the most calm people in heaven would still have melancholy. Got it?"

Liz and Kelsey looked at each other, shook their heads, and said in unison, "I don't understand." ”

"What don't you understand?" Ye Wei looked at them stunned, and he had already said clearly enough.

"I knew you were good. Liz muttered, while saying in her heart: this is why the film is the director's, and why the actor is about the director's tool. How much does the actor decide on the composition and scheduling of each shot, the role behind them?

After acting for three days, she is still very unaccustomed to playing herself, but he asked for it so much, so she tried hard, and was scolded by him more than ten times a day.

"yes. Kelsey nodded in agreement, so handsome! After mainly acting on the stage in the past few days, she has a clearer understanding of the difference between movies and TV series, how can she hear such words on the set of "Basketball Brothers"?

Jiya is quite funny, isn't this guy talking to them too much about these camera languages? Even Master Jiya can't fully understand it!

"Let's put it this way. "Ye Wei in another way," Susie made the joyful atmosphere of a party very stiff, no one provoked her, but she was in a bad mood, and suddenly she couldn't get used to other people's good moods, and yelled at the words that ruined the fun, making everyone want to leave a little. ”

This time the two nodded understandingly, and Liz remembered something and said, "There are really such annoying people." ”

"OK! You digest and digest, start shooting in two minutes!" Ye Wei handed the brush and sketchpad back to Ji Ya and walked back to the camera.

Gia took away the concept map and other items in the hands of the two of them, and walked back.

......

"Hello, I'm Heathcram and the song I'm going to sing to you today is I-Was-Born-To-Love-You. ”

When people open the new video on the IA-Songs channel, they see that in the video window, Heathram continues to wear Guy Fawkes's smiling mask, black hair, black clothes, black shoes and black gloves, and holds a log-colored guitar. This is already 99. 9% Ye Wei's 18th cover video.

The background of the video in the last week has changed, different hotel room balconies.

Combined with the days when the TLB crew left Philadelphia to Toronto, there is no doubt that this is Ye Wei. The New York Times commented that "Ye Wei once had a lame disguise", and the Los Angeles Times praised him for his singing skills and "live performances will not be out of tune", many netizens deeply sympathize, VIY is much better than some singers who rely on tuners and reveal their stuff once they sing and live.

Ye Wei has not responded to these voices, and the blog is updated every day, but it seems that there is no such thing.

Heathram has become a YouTube cover celebrity, with millions of views per video, and a legion of "fans" coming to hear what he has covered every night. The last day of June was I-Was-Born-To-Love-You, the song from Queen's solo album "Mr. Bad Guys" by Freddie Morery.

The bad boy is crazy about a girl, and the mask is clearly on it.

"I was born to love you, with every beat of my heart. Yes, I was born to take care of you and accompany me every day of my life. ”

In the video, Heathram sings this famous song with a clear and soulful voice while playing the guitar:

"You are my only one, I am your man. You're my heaven, you're my fanatic. Even if I have everything, I will end for your love, so give me a chance and let me be romantic with you. I'm stuck in a dream and my dream is coming true.

How unbelievable it was that this happened to me, an amazing feeling that permeated the body and mind!

I was born to love you, with every beat of my heart......"

......

On the afternoon of June 30, "Lovely Bones" completed the filming of all the green screen scenes for 5 days, and it was completed as scheduled.

The crew flew back to Los Angeles at 20:45 in the evening, of course, the two actors could stay in Toronto, they were free. Liz can eat as much as she wants, but her work isn't all over yet, and she'll have a lot of work to do in a few days as Susie's narration runs through the film.

Kelsey goes back to Columbia City, and Liz goes back to LA together.

Ye Wei is not very satisfied with TLB's shooting results. But it's really hard to say about making a movie, sometimes it feels like it's going well, like "Soul Surfer", and it doesn't feel so good in the end, and sometimes it doesn't go well but it ends up being good. I don't know until the finished film is done and released.

Much of his dissatisfaction stemmed from Liz, who had become more creative this week. I was really angry with her! is obviously so talented, but inexplicably suppressed, thinking too much is better than not wanting to be a model.

Although the movie is not the reality show of the Olsen sisters, and the performance is not to be yourself, it does not mean that the actors have no self.

Liz's overall performance is only in the upper middle, still behind Saoirse and Mody, the first two are beautiful jade, natural, individual, and full of creativity.

To be honest, the biggest aspect of TLB's success or failure depends on the success or failure of the story adaptation, and not the performance of one or two actors can be influenced - as long as the acting is not too bad to watch. Liz is not bad, but she still has a long way to go in terms of releasing herself.

As of now, there is only one female lead actor left in the three films of this year, Jennifer Lawrence, who is about to turn 16 years old.

This girl is a smart person with a high IQ, in order to concentrate on developing her acting career and acting in "Winter Bones", she has graduated from high school early this year, with an average score of 3. 9/4。 She would be classified as a gifted student in any high school in the United States.

At the time of the draft, she was an amazing acting talent, but what would happen on the set, everything was unknown.

Ye Wei hopes that she will use her cleverness to bring some surprises at that time.

Seriously, "Winter's Bones" is a completely independent project, with a budget of only 3 million, which is wholly owned by him, and the distributor Weinstein Pictures will not invest much in publicity in the early stage.

Of the three heroines, Jennifer Lawrence has the lowest status.

But now Ye Wei has the greatest expectations for her, and he has no choice. Just like he is Master Yoda, he has accepted three Jedi Knight apprentices, the eldest Liz and the third Emma are useless, Emma is because the basic acting skills are not good enough, and Liz is mistaken because she is smart.

There's also a second Jenny.

He felt that it was still to be expected. Liz and Emma are both daughters from well-off families, especially Liz, who has a bank at home, and her two sisters are worth hundreds of millions, and Emma has a good aunt. They belong to the kind of people who don't worry about food, clothing, and opportunities at any time.

This opportunity is not life or death for them, and there will be no feeling like that. Compared with their acting careers, self-worth, fame and fortune, they seem to value "I cooperated with Ye Wei" and "I acted in Ye Wei's movies", and their spirit is very soft.

Jennifer is different, Ye Wei saw her original shadow from this Kentucky farm girl, she attached great importance to this opportunity, and her eyes were red and clutched.

So even if he didn't care much about her in the past six months, and spent the least time and thought with her, she still did a lot, so he had to praise it.

Next, he has to pay more attention to her, there are still three months before the filming of "Winter Bones" starts, and he wants to have a tenacious girl actor like "Rui".

In these three months, I still have to complete the post-production of TLB, and only if I am satisfied with it, I can travel in August, and I hope to go with Lily.

......

A Boeing plane bound for Los Angeles will arrive at Los Angeles Airport at 23:23 local time after a 6-hour journey + 3-hour time difference.

As online personnel, Ye Wei and Liz both sat in first class, comfortable seats next to each other, and the two were talking softly.

"Can't you really tell me?" Ye Wei asked.

Liz rolled her eyes, she had really seen his wordy side in the past few days. I heard him laugh again and said: "If you don't say it, I know, she must say that I have nothing to do with him, your scandal is none of my business, whatever." Liz looked at him, "You know, and you ask?"

"Make sure you don't speak ill of me. Ye Wei breathed a sigh of relief.

"I've had a lot of good things to say about you!" Liz growled, turning her head away from him to see the flight attendant walking by.

I'm really curious, she's not a gossip person, but things happen around her, and people always have a time to gossip...... Thinking of the songs of "Heathcram", if it was her, there was really no guarantee that she would be able to resist until the 18th day, maybe he would be moved by him on the 8th day... Day 10.

Maybe Lily really didn't care about him, or she wasn't afraid? Boys are rejected again and again, which will be good, maybe after which time, forget it. If you want to be such an excellent and proud person as Ye Wei, you must have a list of beauties who want to date him.

If Lily cared about him, she couldn't possibly not be nervous. Liz asked herself if she couldn't do it.

"Lychee. ”

"Huh?" Liz turned to look at him. Ye Wei was silent for a long time, and suddenly asked, "What do you think of me?" Liz was stunned, noticing his unusual depression, she said softly: "You ask this, it's hard for me to answer, look at what." ”

Ye Wei's face was silent, not knowing what he was thinking.

"I think you're ......," Liz said without a voice, and after a while, she said, "Very well." ”

Almost perfect, she didn't know why it wasn't perfect, probably because she didn't know what perfection was.

She asked, "Do you want to find confidence from me?"

"No, I'm just ......" Ye Wei's eyes looked up, "thinking about how I could be better and satisfy her." ”

Oh my god, these two guys. Liz was very helpless, so helpless that she didn't want to speak, but she couldn't help but say: "Whether you like a person or not, it's not because the other party is good enough, you don't necessarily like it if it's good, you don't necessarily like it if it's not good, it's not necessarily." ”

"I know. Ye Wei said. Liz kindly encouraged: "Then why do you want to compromise? I don't want to grow up in compromise, just be yourself." He smiled: "On the set, I let you be yourself, why don't you do it." She frowned, "The show is different. ”

"I can tell you that I'm not happy with your performance this time. Ye Wei shook his head, "I hope that the next time we work together, you will already be a better actor." ”

"I'm sorry to disappoint you this time. Liz was sincerely sorry, and her mood was a little low, "I will work hard, I remember everything you said, be yourself!"

The corners of Ye Wei's mouth raised a self-deprecating smile, "Actually, now I think that 'being yourself' is an inaccurate statement, because nine adults are stupid, and the remaining adults are stupid." That's all human nature, often the bad aspects, and sometimes selfishness. ”

He shrugged his shoulders and paused, "It's okay to do anything, don't be yourself, if you want to do it, try to be an ideal self." ”

Liz looked at him, "Do you know you're very manly?"

"You tell me?" Ye Wei also looked at her.

"Rejected but not ashamed, failed but not discouraged, but arrogant and not inferior, not crushed, when you spend, you can overspend, love someone and you can love with all your heart, this is the real masculinity. "Liz is sad when she says it, someone else's suitor.

Ye Wei was surprised and said, "Hey, I'm Master Yoda!"

"If she really doesn't want you, I want you. Liz suddenly couldn't suppress the excitement, and her gray eyes flashed with a different look, "I mean dating, serious dating, we can try." ”

"No, it won't. I was born to love her. Ye Wei smiled, "If it weren't for the plane, I would have sung it, a song." ”

"I've heard that. Liz nodded, "In that case, let's take her down!" By the 18th day, maybe the 8th day, he was moved... Day 10.

Maybe Lily really didn't care about him, or she wasn't afraid? Boys are rejected again and again, which will be good, maybe after which time, forget it. If you want to be such an excellent and proud person as Ye Wei, you must have a list of beauties who want to date him.

If Lily cared about him, she couldn't possibly not be nervous. Liz asked herself if she couldn't do it.

"Lychee. ”

"Huh?" Liz turned to look at him. Ye Wei was silent for a long time, and suddenly asked, "What do you think of me?" Liz was stunned, noticing his unusual depression, she said softly: "You ask this, it's hard for me to answer, look at what." ”

Ye Wei's face was silent, not knowing what he was thinking.

"I think you're ......," Liz said without a voice, and after a while, she said, "Very well." ”

Almost perfect, she didn't know why it wasn't perfect, probably because she didn't know what perfection was.

She asked, "Do you want to find confidence from me?"

"No, I'm just ......" Ye Wei's eyes looked up, "thinking about how I could be better and satisfy her." ”

Oh my god, these two guys. Liz was very helpless, so helpless that she didn't want to speak, but she couldn't help but say: "Whether you like a person or not, it's not because the other party is good enough, you don't necessarily like it if it's good, you don't necessarily like it if it's not good, it's not necessarily." ”

"I know. Ye Wei said. Liz kindly encouraged: "Then why do you want to compromise? I don't want to grow up in compromise, just be yourself." He smiled: "On the set, I let you be yourself, why don't you do it." She frowned, "The show is different. ”

"I can tell you that I'm not happy with your performance this time. Ye Wei shook his head, "I hope that the next time we work together, you will already be a better actor." ”

"I'm sorry to disappoint you this time. Liz was sincerely sorry, and her mood was a little low, "I will work hard, I remember everything you said, be yourself!"

The corners of Ye Wei's mouth raised a self-deprecating smile, "Actually, now I think that 'being yourself' is an inaccurate statement, because nine adults are stupid, and the remaining adults are stupid." That's all human nature, often the bad aspects, and sometimes selfishness. ”

He shrugged his shoulders and paused, "It's okay to do anything, don't be yourself, if you want to do it, try to be an ideal self." ”

Liz looked at him, "Do you know you're very manly?"

"You tell me?" Ye Wei also looked at her.

"Rejected but not ashamed, failed but not discouraged, but arrogant and not inferior, not crushed, when you spend, you can overspend, love someone and you can love with all your heart, this is the real masculinity. "Liz is sad when she says it, someone else's suitor.

Ye Wei was surprised and said, "Hey, I'm Master Yoda!"

"If she really doesn't want you, I want you. Liz suddenly couldn't suppress the excitement, and her gray eyes flashed with a different look, "I mean dating, serious dating, we can try." ”

"No, it won't. I was born to love her. Ye Wei smiled, "If it weren't for the plane, I would have sung it, a song." ”

"I've heard that. Liz nodded, "In that case, let's take her down!"