Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 741 Turn on the Camera During Rehearsal

On the first day of shooting, Ronald found some relatively simple shots and began to find a state for himself and the entire crew.He first filmed the scene where the two protagonists connect with simple dance steps, which is not technically difficult, which is conducive to enhancing everyone's confidence in the director and in themselves.

In the morning, Ronald used a dance rehearsal classroom in Mountain Lake Villa as the setting for the classroom where Johnny taught Baby to dance in the movie.

While the lighting was being set, Ronald put Patrick Thwaites and Jennifer Gray in their dance clothes and began rehearsing in the next room.

The weather was very hot, and the air conditioner could not be used, so the crew had to put a lot of ice cubes in the room to cool down, and then used a large electric fan to start blowing in places where the camera could not shoot.

The indoor lighting is relatively simple, with several large windows that let in direct sunlight.The lighting team used some curtains and screens to weaken and reflect the light, making the whole atmosphere ambiguous and warm.

Ronald is now more and more fond of using this kind of natural light to shoot. Not long after sunrise in the morning, the oblique sunlight gives people a feeling of comfort.

"You have to keep your hands up and your shoulders don't collapse."

As a family dancer whose mother opened a dance studio, Switz is very good at teaching girls to learn dance.

But Jennifer Switz is not a good student, she has nothing more than good coordination.I often remember this essential point and forget that one, and I am also ticklish. When I do some intimate actions with Switz, I often laugh out loud when I am tickled by his gentle movements.

"You have to pay attention to the distance from me and keep a sense of distance. Don't be too far away, and don't be too close. Follow my feeling."

"Hee hee hee..." Jennifer Gray laughed again.

"Ah..." Switz grabbed his hair and screamed. He had never seen such a sensitive girl.Gray is over 25 years old, nine years older than the Baby in the script, how come he still looks like a little girl,

"Are you ready?" Ronald just walked in, the lighting was already done, and he was waiting for the two protagonists to pass by.

"Okay, director."

Gray stopped laughing and stuck out his tongue at Patrick Switz while Ronald turned his back.

"You guys don't stick this kind of tape on the wall. Our contract with Shanhu Villa states that any damage to the equipment will be compensated according to the price. This kind of tape is suitable for sticking on wood. The wallpaper here is easy to put on the wall. It was damaged when the tape was removed..."

The speaker was Eddie Cohen, managing director of Ronald Daydream Pictures.Before that, he was handling chores for the crew in Los Angeles. He just got the crew list, bought everyone's life insurance in Los Angeles, and rushed to Virginia on the evening red-eye flight.

He arrived at the scene this morning. Regardless of his fatigue, he immediately helped manage the trivial matters of the crew, and in fact became an on-site production manager.

"Thank you, Eddie." Ronald thanked his old friend, and then clapped his hands twice, "Everyone listen to Eddie's command, don't damage the wallpaper."

"You guys use these kinds of tapes. I just bought them from Home Depot in Hollywood. This kind of wallpaper, this kind of sticking on wooden furniture, this kind of..."

Eddie took rolls of tape from the box and threw them to the assistants.

They tore off the original tape quickly and carefully so as not to leave marks, and replaced it with the variety that Eddie had brought.

Many props of the crew are actually fake, and they are temporarily fixed with adhesive tape, so that they can be easily replaced afterwards.

Another 10 minutes passed by the time they were done retreating.Ronald let Switz and Gray stand on the positioning tape that had been pasted on the ground, and then began to tell them about the first scene of the day while the camera crew was measuring the focal length.

"Johnny is here to teach the baby to dance mambo. The baby's level is average, so there is something dissatisfied when Johnny teaches. Then the youngest son of the resort owner came over and saw the two of them hugging each other and doing this kind of spicy dance. Johnny hurriedly separated from the customer, this is not allowed, if the boss’s son sees it, he may lose his job.”

Seeing that the focal length has been measured, Ronald asked the two leading actors to rehearse and walk once.

"Love, love is strange
A lot of people think of it as a game

once you get it

You never want to give up, no no"

The famous song "Love is Strange" by the black group "Mickey and Sylvia" began to be played repeatedly on the sound system at the scene.

Switz raised his hand and shook it around, and pressed Gray's palm head-on, and the two began to mambo.This first shot happened to be the song they danced to when they were auditioning.

"Pay attention to your arms and don't collapse your shoulders." Switz was still reminding Jennifer Gray.

"Understood..." Gray enjoyed the artistic conception brought by this song, she didn't want Switz to just say these unsightly words.

"Pay attention to the distance, don't get too close to me, follow my guidance, my rhythm."

Gray danced less and less attentively, and her heart melted in Switz's masculine single-lidded eyes.

"Don't look at your footsteps, look at my eyes, look here." Switz is still teaching
"Got it." Gray shook his hand angrily. He is not a professional dancer like him, so why is he so strict and incomprehensible.

"Hey..." Switz sighed, why are you dancing so stupidly?He fell to the ground exaggeratedly, looked up at Gray, and smiled helplessly.

Jennifer Gray was amused by him, and then began to practice the dance steps by herself, one da da, two da da.Twist your hips and turn your head.

The music played reached the middle section, and the two singers did not sing for a section, and used dialogue to say the coquettish dialogue between men and women.

Switz became interested. He lip-synced and spoke the dialogue instead of singer Mickey.

"Sylvia?"

"Mickey" Jennifer came to her senses and lip-synced with Switz. It seems that the other party is still very interesting.

"Why did you call your lover over?" Switz lay on the ground and continued to lip-sync.

"Come Here, Lover Boy" Gray waved to the lover on the ground.

"What if he doesn't answer you?"

"Oh, lover." Gray changed a provocative posture, and Sylvia in the record also began to seduce with a gentle tone.

"What if he still ignores you?"

"Then I have to say..." Jennifer Gray looked at Switz on the ground, and her eyes were as sweet as honey.

"Oh, lover, sweet lover", Gray also knelt down on the ground, getting closer and closer to Switz, and the two began to get closer, lip-syncing, getting closer and closer.

"Hahaha……"

Playing around in this way diluted a lot of Switz's dissatisfaction with Gray's dancing.The two looked at each other and laughed, and the atmosphere of antagonism finally eased into mutual appreciation.

This chemistry was exactly what Ronald needed most.

"Have you turned it on?" Ronald stared blankly. The two hadn't danced together for a long time after the audition. It was Ronald who deliberately wanted to keep Gray's beginner's state.

But rightly so, Jennifer Gray's admiration for Switz has not diminished in the slightest, on the contrary, it has become more intense because of this short-term separation.

This improvisation, like a real couple's flirtation, sparks.The chemistry between the two is overwhelming

"No..." Director of Photography Jeff Zu shook his head. It was originally a simple rehearsal. Not only did it not turn on the machine, but there was also no stand for the recording rod.

"Oh, Shxt," Ronald felt the benefits of the habit of not rehearsing that Jonathan Demme told himself.

Afraid of missing rehearsals, the actors will give their best performances. Demi has always been rehearsing on the phone, even if it is a waste of film.

This is because of today's scene.

"Try your impromptu show again, and this time we'll turn it on."

Ronald hastened to strike while the iron was hot, and wanted to reproduce the performance just now when the feeling of the two of them had not disappeared and the God of Movies suddenly favored him.

"Action!"

Ronald moved his head away from the front of the monitor on the camera, and ordered the two leading actors.

For this crew, Ronald also used a new toy, a small monitor on the camera, for the director to see the composition effect of the shooting.

The clarity of that thing was extremely poor, and Ronald had to look up at the live actors to observe the details.

"Cut, let's do it again. The feeling you just rehearsed."

After all, it was a deliberate performance this time, with a natural feeling, which is by no means comparable to the impromptu performance last time.

I reshot several pieces, but none of them were as good as the rehearsed one.

"Nice, that's where we got it, lunch time"

Ronald patted himself on the head regretfully. In order to save money, he delayed the wonderful shots, which was really not worth the candle.

The production cost of the movie is limited, and I didn't prepare enough film. I didn't intend to waste it, but objectively, I shot more shots and didn't get good results.

"I want to add a sum of money. I plan to shoot every time I rehearse. This movie is very particular about the tacit understanding between dances. Maybe the best one is when both parties still have a special sense of freshness." Appeared in rehearsal. The actors are all familiar, I don't want to give up this good opportunity to shoot a particularly tacit shot."

During lunch, Ronald and Eddie discussed the budget of the shoot.

"Your budget allocation is very tight. If you shoot rehearsals, it will increase about one-fifth of the film cost, and you may need to use the reserve fund."

"I know, when I go to talk to Douglas Jr., he should agree. This is the key to the artistic level. This film is not a fledgling actor, and the supporting cast uses a lot of experienced actors. Their The difficulty is to get rid of stylization, so the first one is generally the best.

The movie Dirty Dancing is not break dancing, and the screenwriter Eleanor strictly follows the story of the three-act play.So the spark of the rivalry is very important, and the dance is the same. It is very important to grasp this improvisational spark. "

"You're the boss, Ronald. I have no problem. I'll call Douglas Jr. later and ask him to talk to you."

On the first day of filming, except for the dance scene, which was the most sparkly rehearsal, I didn’t catch it, and the follow-up shots were slightly poor, everything else went well.

When Ronald was having dinner with the crew, he was talking with Douglas Jr. about adding a part of the reserve fund.

"No problem, isn't this part of the money just in case? It's very suitable to use here."

"Thanks, buddy."

There was nothing wrong with Douglas Jr.

Ronald took a slice of pizza, picked up the Coke and ate it.He continued to hold meetings with the crew to discuss various things.

"This is an episode of the various submissions I have collected, listen to it when you have time..."

The music director, Danny Goldberg, was robbed by the broker Jimmy Reiner because of the purchase of the copyright of old songs, and he felt very crisis.

For the three episodes that needed to be newly created, he worked very hard and dumped the demo tapes of dozens of songs collected on the ground.

"Don't be free, let's listen now, please come over with Eleanor."

Ronald took a tape recorder and put the first volume in it.

Eleanor is the creator of this story, and she is very familiar with the music style at that time, and has feelings for the situation of each episode, so when choosing music, Ronald always calls her.

Those actors, after their meal, wanted to start a routine disco dance, but were attracted by the sound of the recorded songs here, and they all surrounded them.

"Is this an episode the director plans to use in the movie?"

Many actors are asking privately.

Reels of tapes were put in and taken out again.Ronald and Eleanor frowned slowly.

These songs may be due to the fact that I made small productions and did not add my name, so the songs I found were not very satisfactory.

"These are not very satisfactory, you have to keep looking." After listening to Ronald, he said to music director Danny Goldberg.

"I'll fly back to Los Angeles right away and continue recruiting..." Danny is working very hard now, he doesn't want to be fired now.

"Director, I have written a song. Isn't my character going to sing a song at the resort? I think this one is quite suitable."

After a while, Jane Brooke, who played Baby's sister Lisa Housman, came over specifically to find Ronald with a cassette in hand.

"Hula, Hana... Hula, Hana..."

The tape was put into the recorder, and it contained a very strange song, Jane Brooke's voice was always repeating those few syllables.

"What song is this?"

Eddie couldn't hold back, and spewed out a mouthful of Coke.

"A witty song, isn't it very suitable for Lisa Housman's silly big sister character?"

"Hula, Hana, Allah, Hana, Huna, chant..."

Ronald nodded and smiled, "It's really suitable, and you sing very well." He looked at the screenwriter Eleanor and asked for her opinion.

"It's really good, but it's not suitable for the last episode of the ending." Eleanor felt a little regretful.

"Then it's settled?" Jane Brooke was very happy when she successfully recommended herself.

"You sign with music director Danny Goldberg later, and I'll buy it."

"Yeah..." Jane Brooke is completely different from the character Lisa. She is actually a good actress who can sing and write her own words. In this movie, it is a bit condescending for her to play a girl who can only dress up. .

"Congratulations!" Jane Brooke clapped her hands together with several supporting actors, and everyone congratulated her. If the lyrics and music used in the episode of the movie can be used, there will be a long-term residual dividend that can be taken if the movie is a hit.

Patrick Switz was on the sidelines to see it all.He walked to the hotel room, picked up the phone and asked the front desk to dial long distance to Los Angeles.

It was Lisa Niemi, wife of the small ranch at home.

"Lisa, dear. You bring the tape of that song, come to Virginia Mountain Lake House, the movie still lacks a theme song... yes, that one..."

(End of this chapter)