In the scene just now, whether it was Tan Zhuo or Chen Chong, they had already pulled their aura to the fullest.

The weak have weak persistence, and the strong have strong oppression.

The collision of eyes and aura between the two people is very exciting.

This also drove the state of the other actors.

And then, the little girl was dragged away by the female police officer Lawen by the arm, and the clip of the interrogation alone, because there was no scene of Su Chen, so Su Chen sat in front of the monitor in this scene and guided the whole process.

The effect he wants is high pressure.

The high degree of pressure will make the audience who watch the movie in the cinema feel a strong sense of discomfort.

Chen Chong's fierce aura must be unfolded in this scene.

However, the expressiveness of the actor is one thing, and the director's lens language and design are another.

Su Chen sat in front of the monitor.

"In the office inside, except for the little girl and Teacher Chen Chong, as well as the photographer and sound engineer, no one else is allowed to enter."

Because a child's sense of conviction is very strong.

Among the essential elements of an actor, one of the most important points is a sense of faith.

When adults learn acting, they all say that they should cultivate a sense of faith, but this is actually wrong.

Everyone has a sense of belief when they are young, but as they grow up, there are more and more things they don't believe in, and their thoughts become more and more complicated, so they don't have as strong a sense of belief as a child.

This is also the reason why in some TV series or movies, the audience will say that these adult actors are not as good as children.

Because you tell the child that the person standing across from him in a sack is Ultraman.

Children just will believe that this is the real Ultraman.

If you tell the child that in this scene, you are my daughter and I am your father, then the child will really think that you are the father.

So in order to let the children have the most realistic reactions.

The more staff there are in the internal office interrogation, the more realistic the child's interrogation will be.

The more realistic all her reactions and movements will be.

Of course, before this, Su Chen communicated with the little actor for a long time, and after apologizing to her, he would shoot like this.

"Come, Teacher Chen Chong."

"In this scene, our camera is a little scattered and broken."

"Camera, this scene should reflect the oppression of the female policeman Lavin, I want to shoot with a tripod, the camera should be stable, and the two angles of depression and elevation will give me a contrast."

After arranging everything, Su Chen sat in the director's chair.

Xiao Yang next to him looked at Su Chen, he was also learning Su Chen's directing method.

This kind of knowing which shot brings that kind of effect is the awesome thing about a good director.

This is the second time that Su Chen has been a director.

But he didn't have any rustiness, nor did he have any lack of confidence, everything was steady and steady, which made Xiao Yang very envious.

Unlike him, I start to panic at every turn, which angle will the next shot be taken from? After filming, for post-production, is it good to edit?

How to bring the audience some other perceptions besides the actors' performances through the lens?

….

Xiao Yang had a little envy in his eyes.

I really hope that one day, I can be as freehand as Su Chen, and even watching him make a movie next to me seems to be art.

Xiao Yang sighed silently in his heart.

I know that I am still far behind, whether it is the overall control or the handling of details, I need to polish it for another two or three years.

……

Here, Su Chen shouted to turn on the machine.

The camera is fully supported on a tripod.

Chen Chong carried the little girl An An and strode through the blinds in the aisle.

She gritted her teeth, and the green tendons on her neck burst out.

An An cried and was dragged by Chen Chong in his hands.

The rays of light coming out of the shutters shone on Chen Chong's face, making her particularly terrifying.

Bang!

The door to the internal office was slammed shut.

Chen Chong threw the little girl An An to the center of the office, and then she strode up to An An and squatted down.

An An was already scared to tears.

Chen Chong also feels very sorry for the little girl, but as an actor, she has to seize the opportunity to act with the little actor, because the state of the adult can be adjusted, but the state value of the little actor can be captured.

"I know your dad won't let you say it."

"But you listen to them."

There was a scream outside.

Chen Chong's eyelids fluttered slightly, and she bit every word very hard: "If this continues, they will be beaten to death."

"You're going to be an orphan."

"I'll never see them again."

"Only you can save Mom and Dad now, you tell me!"

Chen Chong grabbed the little girl An An's arm, and she glared at her, revealing her white teeth.

"What the hell did you see that night?"

Anger, the passage of patience, the intersection of the son's disappearance, and the hatred for this family.

All these emotions add up, so that Chen Chong's first half of the sentence is still restrained, but the second half of the sentence is almost shouted!

Her breath was out of order, and her sanity was on the verge of collapse.

Xiao An'an was crying so much that she didn't know what to do at all.

Su Chen sat in front of the monitor, staring at the picture, signaling the camera to be raised and steady.

Immediately afterwards, on Xiao An'an's face, as the female police officer Laven slowly stood up, on Xiao An'an's face, a shadow of Laven slowly rose from low to high.

Until the shadow covered the little girl's eyes.

After Xiao Yang saw this shot, he had goosebumps on the back of his neck.

Is this the language of the lens?

If Xiao Yang is asked to shoot this shot, then he must be a simple positive and negative fight, the girl says a word, the policewoman says a word, if it is better, give the two people a long shot, plus one or two close-ups.

But Su Chen's skill of telling stories with the camera and oppressing the audience requires talent.

"This guy is fortunate to be an actor, if he is a director, I don't know how many directors will not have anything to eat!"

Xiao Yang was next to Su Chen and began to substitute for himself.

If it were me, how would I take the next shot?

The next shot is a shot of a female police officer screaming loudly in anger to give the audience enough fear.

Xiao Yang designed the picture in his mind, and immediately decided that if it was him, he would directly give a close-up of a female police officer's eyes, and finally cut the little girl's panic reaction to overdo this picture.

….

Works best.

However, in the next second, I heard Su Chen shouting cards.

"Cameraman, use the track to advance from behind An An, and finally push to An An's position, the track stops, pushes the focal length, and pushes the camera to a close-up of Mr. Chen Chong's face!"

Xiao Yang raised his eyebrows.

Immediately, you can see this scene from the monitor, what effect does Su Chen's shooting show with ***.

The color of the picture inside the lens is blue.

In this shade, the texture of the light will be strong.

A beam of light mimicked the effect of an office ceiling light, coming down directly above Chen Chong's head.

This kind of light highlights Chen Chong's cheekbones, and uses light and shadow to reflect the actor's facial features, which strengthens the ruthlessness in Chen Chong's face.

The camera slowly pans over the little girl's head.

Chen Chong's breathing gradually became short.

When the camera gradually pushed to the close-up of Chen Chong's face little by little, Chen Chong's emotions had already brewed to the peak.

She shouted at the little girl fiercely, "Say it!!!!!

resemble

Young's heart was pounding.

When he looked at Su Chen again, he was simply on the ground.

What is the genius of audiovisual language, this is fucking called the genius of audiovisual language!

……

If the movie "When a Man Falls in Love" is the main reflection of the actors' acting skills, then the most important thing about the movie "Manslaughter" is the director's way of telling the story.

Su Chen is the leading actor, and it is enough for him to support this drama throughout the whole process.

However, if you really want to talk about acting skills, it is far less than "New World", and it is more about telling stories as a director.

Screens, shots, transitions, and hiding corpses, turning into sheep, and finally reversing.

In short, Su Chen is very enjoyable in this play, not only acting, but also wanting to tell a hearty and clever story.

Because Su Chen is getting more and more excited.

gradually found their own rhythm, and the actors also entered the role more and more with the development of time.

Soon, the movie that was originally planned to be completed in two and a half months was finally completed after only two months of shooting.

And at this time.

The number of domestic extreme challenge episodes has also been broadcast to the ninth episode.

In three weeks, the first season is over.

After Su Chen finished the work, he was not in a hurry to leave.

Because during the filming period, Li Xiaoqin was already familiar with Su Chen, and he didn't have the nervous feeling when he first met.

"Brother Su Chen, I still have to go back and discuss it with my family."

After finishing the work, Su Chen was going to rest in place for two days before returning to China.

So Li Xiaoqin, Su Chen, and Xiao Yang and other main creators have worked hard during this time, and they also rested with him for two days and booked tickets to return to China together.

The small village is quiet at night.

Without the crew's lively filming scenes, it becomes more and more peaceful.

"It's okay, this matter is your own consideration, although you and the previous brokerage company, the agent must have a relationship, but in business, it is still a benefit."

Su Chen wore slippers and sat on the steps at the entrance of the hotel, reaching out and patting on his arm to prevent being eaten by mosquitoes.

He said casually: "No matter whether the brokerage company is big or small, the one that can give you good development is a good company."

….

Li Xiaoqin nodded.

For Su Chen, before he had close contact, he felt that he was like a male god, a high-minded existence.

And after coming into contact with this play, I not only feel that he is a male god, but even has a sense of mastery of chicken soup for the soul.

But in this matter, Su Chen can swear that he really didn't mean to pup Li Xiaoqin.

Neither her.

It's just a casual chat, Su Chen is just in the process of being an actor, and he looks at the problem more thoroughly.

In addition, whether Li Xiaoqin came to his brokerage company or not was not so important to Su Chen.

Of course, it's better to come, if you don't come, with Su Chen's current resources, you can smash it with an amateur, so he calmly does it for Li Xiaoqin's good.

When he spoke, he naturally carried a sense of indifference.

This sense of indifference of "successful people" is very lethal to the little girls.

If Su Chen wants to make a girl popular by any means.

Now you only need to bind with this girl, fry p, spread scandals, and this girl will become famous immediately.

It's just that after this wave of popularity, whether she can retain her popularity depends on the girl's own ability.

"Brother Su Chen, if I have an idea after I go back, I will call you then?"

Li Xiaoqin's skin looks very white at night, and the humidity of the air here makes it even more moist.

Su Chen has been black by two shades during this time.

But Li Xiaoqin is not black, she is the kind of body fat that turns red as soon as she gets sunburned.

Again basking in the sun for two hours, the whole person is like

It's like a crayfish thrown in a pot, and it's red.

……

Two days later.

Su Chen landed from the hot Bangkok and entered November, with a strong wind blowing in Beiping.

When I got in the car, my snot flowed down vigorously.

"It's cold, it's too cold."

Su Chen didn't bring any clothes when he went, and when he came back, he still wore short-sleeved shorts, only wearing a long-sleeved sun-protective suit, and when he got off the plane, he looked stupid.

Finally returned to the room, Su Chen found a hoodie and put it on his body, only then did he feel alive again.

Huang Bo has not filmed during this time.

is crazy to use the popularity of "Extreme Challenge" to cash in the circle, he attended a commercial performance, and the current price is 200,000.

Two days ago, he officiated at a wedding for a big guy, and the appearance price was 300,000.

It can be said that he made more money than acting, earning two million in two months, and his small life was relatively easy.

Hearing that Su Chen came back today, he waited at home.

"I said, I'm tired."

Huang Bo leaned against Su Chen and squeezed his eyes at him: "I have an idea recently, if you are okay, I can communicate with you."

Su Chen looked at him who had gained weight recently, and said with a smile, "What a feeling."

"That's it......

Huang Bo narrowed his eyes, looked into the distance, and said in his mouth: "Even if I found out, I don't know what's wrong, I've been here recently, how can I be a nobleman."

"When I was poor in the past, I had to take precautions everywhere, go out to act, and prevent the assistant director from pumping money too hard, and prevent the role from being robbed, and prevent the director from scolding."

"But lately, I've been here to deliver money."

….

"Two days ago, I will officiate at the wedding, go up to two or three sentences, watch the bride race peony, look at Sina, like Pan An, and then my grandmother will have no words."

"Stay in place, fortunately, my brain is fast, just talk nonsense to deal with a few words, I think about ruining someone's wedding, and I'm embarrassed to ask for this money."

"After the result, I was about to run away, but I was stopped by my parents, who not only paid all the fees, but also gave an extra 66,000 red envelopes."

Huang Bo turned sideways: "Sixty-six thousand red envelopes."

"It's not a lot of money now, but if it were me five years ago, I could have knelt down and snorted the family eight times."

Huang Bo shook his head and sighed, "Really, if this were the same as before, I would tell you that after my wedding was officiated, I would be beaten."

Su Chen said with a smile: "Very few people can circle their feelings when they circle money, Brother Bo, you have been making money recently, and after you have eaten enough, have you begun to understand life?"

Huang Bo laughed: "Chenzi, don't be iron-clad either."

"Your current worth, if you go out to pick up commercial performances and make money, if you are ready to make money, it will not be much more ruthless than me, and money has no enmity with you."

Su Chen shook his head: "Forget about commercial performances, I'm not as open as you, I can sing, and I can dance on horseback, I can't do business, but I can still accept endorsements."

"As long as the brand is good, endorsements are okay."

"As for what kind of wedding officiant or something, forget it, I don't want to ruin someone's wedding scene without that set of wedding celebrant vocabulary."

Su Chen said with a smile.

Huang Bo thought about it, and he was right.

Su Chen's path is professionalism and acting skills, and he goes all the way to the end, which is suitable for digging deep and studying deeply on the road of actors.

Variety shows are actually using influence to make money.

Receiving commercial performances or something, the significance is not very great.

Moreover, Huang Bo forgot one very important thing, that is, Su Chen did not rely on these, and the money he earned was already ten times that of him in a year.

Su Chen looked at Huang Bo and said with a smile: "Let's vacate the schedule next year, and I'll go to Shanghai in two days."

"We guess we're going to shoot 'Extreme Challenge' sooner."

"I said that next year's sponsorship fees are already full, this year

Give everyone a salary increase."

As soon as Huang Bo heard this, he immediately became energetic!

"And this good thing?"

Su Chen nodded: "How can you not have it? Isn't this year everyone's worth high, if you still only have that amount of money next year, you settle accounts in private, forget it, or take on commercial performances to make money, then my extreme man gang is gone?"

Huang Boxi smiled: "How else can you say that you can make money, this pattern of *** deserves you to make money."

At the end, he asked another question.

"How do you say that, what is the salary increase?"

Su Chen pondered for a moment: "It depends on the cost of sponsorship, so this matter will not be known until I understand the situation from Shanghai."

Huang Bo immediately got up and got dressed.

Su Chen was stunned: "What are you doing?"

Huang Bo coughed: "I'm going to take you to the airport, aren't you going to Shanghai?" Why are you staying in Beiping, hurry up."

When Su Chen heard this, he almost gave Huang Bo a military body fist and kicked and fell!

….

……

After waking up the next day.

Su Chen put on his hat and ran five kilometers around the community before returning to his room.

Two days before and after returning to Beiping.

There are four pieces of good news.

The first is that "No Man's Land" is finally set for December this year.

Although this movie was filmed at the time, Su Chen had already suggested to Ning Hao that everything that should be avoided should be avoided, but when it was the turn of the actual release, it was still difficult.

This is the ninth version that has been revised in a row before it can pass the review.

Being able to release it can be regarded as a relationship and spending a lot of money.

Su Chen, a movie shot a year and a half ago, is also the first movie in his life in which he is the protagonist in the real sense is about to be released.

In addition, the second good news is that the first season of "Extreme Challenge" has not yet aired, and the sponsorship for the second season has been fully filled.

Moreover, it is also sponsored by Tmall.

That's a lot of money.

Small business sponsorship is sponsorship with profits, and bosses feel sorry for money.

But this kind of sponsorship of large enterprises is already using the money of shareholders to make money, the boss is not distressed, the shareholders are not distressed, and Su Chen is making a lot of money.

The brand is out, the popularity is high, the stock continues to grow, and the shareholders are happy.

As a joke, this is also the first step taken by Su Chen to participate in the capital market.

Zhao Qingren didn't say the specific amount, she was deliberately selling Guanzi, so that Su Chen had to go to Shanghai, and it was indispensable to feed Zhao Qingren some rations.

She just said on the phone that the scale of the funds is not small.

Next year's extreme challenge can be a battle for prosperity.

In addition, the third good news is that the editing of "Scorching Sun" has been completed and the review has ended, but the film schedule is also scheduled until the end of the year.

It is estimated that it will be killed with "No Man's Land" for a round.

Let's see who is strong and who is weak, but it is foreseeable that whether it is Ning Hao's victory or Cao Baoping's victory, at the end of this year, Su Chen is afraid to become the biggest winner.

There is also good news.

That is, the last message.

This year's Golden Horse also issued an invitation to Su Chen's "New World" to win the award.

Not beat around the bush.

Golden Horse went once, and after winning the Best Supporting Actor, this time he is going again, which is not new.

After Su Chen came back from running, he went into the editing room.

He had to pull out a rough cut of "Manslaughter" before going to Shanghai.

After returning from Shanghai, I continued to finish the editing of "Manslaughter".

Moreover, Su Chen was going to buy a house in Beiping, and before he went, he had already decided that this year, he would take Su's father and Su's mother to Beiping for the New Year.

In this way, Su Chen will not go back to his hometown halfway through the editing, and then halfway through the Chinese New Year

, just come back and continue to stare at the clip.

thought of Su's father.

Su Chen called Xiao Yang.

"What's wrong, Brother Chen."

"There's something I need you to help me deal with."

"You say."

Xiao Yang was sneaky over there, and when he heard it, he knew that he wouldn't do good things.

Su Chen sorted out his thoughts: "Help me find the most awesome healthy diet team in China, as well as a fitness team, and then send me an offer."

Xiao Yang asked curiously.

….

"What's wrong, Brother Chen, are you going to shoot Rocky? Or do you want to shoot the Chinese master? What are you going to do?"

Su Chen said, "If you want to look for it, you can look for it, and ask so many why you are doing it."

Su Chen felt that Su's father's body still needed to be regulated, although he was controlling his diet, Su Chen was still not at ease.

After all, the diet of the Chinese people, even if you control it yourself, if you are greedy, it is useless.

Moreover, Su Chen found these two teams to serve himself.

As an actor, he doesn't want to take up too much of his time when it comes to body management and diet.

And you can also brush the attribute points of the upper class.

In the past, when I was poor, of course, I had to come by myself, but now I have money, and I have to focus on more important things.

……

Two days later, Su Chen followed the intermediary and bought a 300-square-meter building in the second ring road of Beiping.

A total of fifteen million won.

It's not a new real estate, it's a second-hand house, and it's really difficult to find a new real estate from the second ring road in Beiping.

Su Chen still has to decorate this house well, so that Su's father and Su's mother can live when they come to Beiping to play.

When you need to sell, it's easy to sell.

It's okay not to buy a house, as soon as he buys a house, Su Chen realizes that even if he can be said to be making money every day.

Compared with ordinary people, it is worth more than 100 million.

But in fact, in Beiping City, he is still a poor boy who has just started.

Everyone is thirty or fifty million, spending money to buy a courtyard to play.

And his current ability is only to buy a house.

That's the gap.

Su Chen gritted his teeth, of course, he could buy a courtyard house, but it was too strenuous, and it was not necessary for the time being.

He doesn't have any feelings for the courtyard, and he is not the old Beiping, so for the building of the courtyard, he has an interest in playing with his hands, but he is not interested in rubbing hard.

Su Chen calculated his current property.

Su's father's car and Su's mother's villa are not counted, although they will be his in the future, but they are only his own.

This year, I bought two houses in Shanghai, and I am still a neighbor of Li Duoyu, with a total of more than 25 million.

With the addition of Beiping, a total of 40 million real estate.

plus the 80 million in Su Chen's studio account, and the more than 20 million he currently has on hand.

It's not that I don't know, so it's counted.

Su Chen couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "I'm really good at making money."

When these words were spoken, Su Chen sighed to himself: "Hey? Why am I talking so locomotive now......

……

In a blink of an eye, I hadn't seen Zhao Qingren for three months.

Before going to Shanghai to board the plane, Su Chen felt guilty, he thought that he had been together for so long, and he had not bought a gift for Zhao Qingren.

This boyfriend is so incompetent.

So before leaving, Su Chen pondered for a long time, what gift to give to Zhao Qingren.

There is no shortage of money like this.

If it is something that can be bought with money, then it will also seem that Su Chen is not so attentive.

Even if he was a human being in two lives, encountering such a thing as buying a gift for a woman still made Su Chen feel a headache.

I pondered for a long time.

In the end, Su Chen was in the end

The store spent two hundred dollars and bought four boxes of sets, so let's go and see them.

….

He smiled wryly.

There is nothing I can give you.

Only one true heart, I hope you don't mind!

……

At night.

Zhao Qingren and Su Chen met at the hotel.

Taking advantage of Su Chen's bath, Zhao Qingren opened his bag and looked at the quadruple set inside and fell into deep thought.

"I mind."

Zhao Qingren faced Su Chen, whose hair was still wet, and spoke after listening to his mental journey.

"I mind."

"It's not polka dots, it's not a spiral, it's just water? It's a fart."

Su Chen pointed to the bag, his usual domineering was gone.

"Uh......"

"Actually, you can't say that, gentleman, you listen to my explanation."

Zhao Qingren looked at Su Chen angrily and funny: "I don't listen! Do you hate me for not being nourishing enough?"

Su Chen didn't expect a woman to be able to lead the topic to this aspect, this woman wanted to find fault with men, and she could do anything.

"I just wanted to give you a gift."

"But after thinking about it, you said that I would transfer money directly to you, something is not right."

"You say, buy a car? Buying a house? Sending a designer bag? I think it's too cheesy."

Su Chen sat down from the edge of the bed and said with a smile: "I meditated hard, I owe you too much company, I can only make up for it in this way, as for this style, it is really taken casually on the shelf, I didn't pick it."

Zhao Qingren snorted.

She said, "You can't see my dad."

Su Chen was about to continue to explain to her: "And this thread is not all useful......

"Dad? Your dad?"

Su Chen was stunned for a moment.

Zhao Qingren said "um": "He said that he has admired your name for a long time, and he used to only hear about you in the cinema, but this time, he wants to see you with his own eyes."

Su Chen wasn't afraid, but he was completely unprepared.

"Your dad is in Shanghai?"

"Yes."

"When he knew that all the money I made was your ghost's idea, he decided to meet you seriously and flew here from Australia."

Zhao Qingren's face turned a little red when he said this.

"I originally said to delay it a little later, but I didn't expect it, my dad said......

Su Chen put his arms around Zhao Qingren and said softly, "What are you talking about?"

Zhao Qingren said, "My dad said he wanted to meet his sponsors...... Because he feels that his current happy life is all made by you."

Su Chen hurriedly denied it: "Then the old man misunderstood, I didn't have the idea of making money for his old man at all, I just ......

"It's just that his old man was born to be the protagonist's life, and he was lucky to give birth to such a good girl as you."

Zhao Qingren pinched Su Chen, and it was rare to see some little women's style.

"Then what to do, you can't see it."

Su Chen coughed: "See, the old man wants to see me, how can I refuse, sooner or later."

He also said half-jokingly, "Didn't the old man tell you before, after playing with me for a few years, you will change to a more handsome one."

Zhao Qingren glared at Su Chen angrily.

"That's before, that's exactly what he said before."

Su Chen said strangely, "What's different now?"

….

Zhao Qingren nodded seriously: "When my dad met two days ago, he told me that Su Chen, this kid has some skills."

She imitated her father's rough voice, "I have to meet and get to the bottom of this kid to see if he is sincere with you."

After Su Chen heard this, he looked serious and nodded slowly.

"Understood, it seems to be Uncle He

Uncle's meal, it's a bit fierce and auspicious."

Zhao Qingren looked at Su Chen and burst out laughing.

"Anyway, sooner or later, I'll have to take this knife, cut it down early, and get rid of it sooner."

Su Chen also agreed with this statement: "Huh? Did you have any skills when you met my parents?"

Zhao Qingren said with a straight face: "Don't say it, there really is, I made preparations."

"Oh? Tell me about it."

"That's playing stupid!"

"Get out!"

"Huh?"

"Get here!"

Su Chen lifted the quilt.

Zhao Qingren hurriedly struggled: "Don't, my dad hasn't agreed yet."

Su Chen smiled and said, "Get on the bus first and buy a ticket!" If your dad doesn't agree in the end and forces us to break up, at least I won't lose!"

……

The next day, Su Chen was wearing a suit.

Stand in front of an elevator in the underground parking lot of an upscale hotel.

Dressed so formally, it was not chosen by himself, it was chosen by Zhao Qingren.

"My dad, old Shanghai, pays more attention to details, you know."

She helped Su Chen button a button in front of him and helped him fix his hair: "There is another note, that is, my father, an old fox, will definitely dig a hole for you, you can't be too righteous, you must respect women."

Hearing this, Su Chen was not convinced.

"No, uncle's flowery appearance, he wants me to respect women?"

Zhao Qingren nodded seriously, in fact, she was a little more nervous than Su Chen today.

"Although my dad often changes people, he always emphasizes the aspect of respecting women."

Old Man Zhao was described by Zhao Qingren like this, and in Su Chen's heart, he suddenly became even more magnificent.

Su Chen sighed: "The old man's life is a winner."

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