Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Demi Gaines' apartment is in West Hollywood, and it's a high-end apartment.

The next morning, Ronald drove an orange Volkswagen Hare to the gate of her apartment. The gatekeeper saw that he was driving a cheap car, so he stopped him and asked a lot of questions. Fortunately, Ronald is white and his English accent doesn't sound like he comes from a low-class community. The gatekeeper agreed to call Demi and let him in after confirmation.

After parking the car, Ronald looked around and found that the conditions were much better than his own apartment. Not only was there a gatekeeper, but there was an open-air swimming pool inside the gate, and next to it was a party venue, which still had the atmosphere of last night's carnival. Deep in the yard, there were faint laughter of men and women, and the sound of diving. It was estimated that there was a private swimming pool inside.

When they arrived at Demi's apartment, she and her boyfriend were already waiting at the door. "Hi, Ronald, welcome."

Ronald held a tripod in one hand, carried a camera and flash on his back, and freed up one hand to shake hands with them.

Demi has shoulder-length black hair, a very straight nose, thick and black eyebrows, and very bright eyes, but one of them is a little inconvenient to turn. Her cheeks are flat from the cheekbones down to the jaw, slightly concave, and the slightly square jaw shows that she has a strong character, which is the most suitable face for a movie star.

Her boyfriend is Freddy Moore, the lead singer of the rock band "The Kats". Deliberate misspelling of names is the fashion now.

Freddy wears a pair of big black-framed glasses and looks nothing like a rock star. Instead, he looks like a high school nerd. The kind who was bullied by the football team in high school, but was able to get into a good university and find a good job after graduation.

"Are we going to shoot here?"

Demi and her boyfriend obviously made preparations in advance, tidying up a bedroom, leaving three walls and a large open space for Ronald to shoot.

"Yes, Demi takes this photo shoot very seriously. She said that the photos you take can bring people to life. So we made some preparations." Freddy put his arm around Demi's shoulders and smiled shyly.

"Do you have a bedroom floor lamp or table lamp? The kind next to the bed will do. We need a supplementary light."

After setting up the tripod in a few seconds, Ronald loaded a new roll of film and mounted the camera on the tripod. Then he took out a wire and connected it to the camera's shutter.

"What is this?" Demi asked curiously.

"Wire-controlled shutter."

Freddy brought the floor lamp, and Ronald placed it at a certain angle and carefully adjusted it to make sure that the light on Demi's face cooperated to form a combined force.

Ronald put the position in place and asked Demi to stay still in the reserved shooting position. The light was carefully designed to illuminate Demi's face, giving her the beauty of an ancient Greek sculpture.

"The audition photo is for the casting director to find your characteristics and match them with the role in the script. So you can't use too exaggerated light, it must match your own characteristics." Ronald explained while observing Demi.

"You need to wear a solid-color top, not black or white, so as not to steal the limelight from me."

"Okay," Demi changed into a light green T-shirt next door.

"This light-colored dress is fine, it sets off your hair color." America rarely sees this kind of pure black hair color, which reminds Ronald of China.

After adjusting the angle of the light, Ronald took out the light meter and placed it at Demi's eyes. After measuring the data, he adjusted the aperture of the camera.

Carefully focusing, let the focus be on Demi's eyes, Ronald said:

"Now try not to move too much forward and backward, so as not to lose focus and lose your eyes." Ronald raised his head and showed his head from behind the camera with the shutter cable.

"It's a bit presumptuous to ask this, because I want to focus your eyes, your eyeballs seem...?"

"Yes, I had strabismus in one eye when I was a child, and I have had two operations. The doctor said that it will get better as I get older." Demi explained generously.

"Okay, I will use the pupil of the other eye to focus, and it will not affect the final film." Ronald liked this frank girl very much.

"Now give me an idea, Demi." Ronald stood next to the camera with the remote shutter in his hand and talked to Demi. He paid attention to observing Demi's expression.

"What?" Demi didn't understand.

"Think of something in your mind, you don't have to tell me what it is, but think of one thing."

"No, this one is not good, change one... this one is good." Ronald pressed the shutter with his hand.

"Another idea, well, I like this idea."

Click, click, click, the automatic film winder cooperated with the shutter to quickly replace the exposed film with a new one.

"When I was a print model, the photographers were different from me." Demi said, "They only asked me to pose in various ways."

"The director mainly looks at your temperament. I try my best to restore your original characteristics. You are a very heroic girl."

Click, click, Ronald was shooting, and suddenly there was a scream of a girl outside the window, and then someone fell into the water with a splash, "Ah... Hahahaha." Another burst of female laughter came, as if someone was playing diving.

Ronald's hands trembled, frowned, and paused shooting.

Demi walked to the window, opened the curtains, and shouted to the private swimming pool below:

"Hi, Natasha, are you back from the country of hair?"

"Hi, Demi, aren't you going to play in the water?" A voice came faintly.

"I'm taking audition photos. Can you jump in a while? The photographer needs to keep quiet."

"Okay, I'll come up to you later..."

Stand in a good position again, meter and focus. Ronald signaled that it was okay to start over.

"Give me a loving thought."

This set of audition photos was taken for a romantic comedy, which requires playful and adoring eyes. Ronald asked his boyfriend Freddie to stand opposite Demi and cooperate.

Click, click, click. Finished quickly

"I will send it to the Kodak printing store later. If you are willing to pay an extra $5 to Kodak, you can expedite it. I have selected the photos and enlarged them. It can be done in about an hour."

Demi discussed it with her boyfriend and chose to rush it, and then the two of them went to the Kodak printing store with Ronald.

Kodak has uniform quality printing shops all over America. No matter which store you go to with your film, the quality of the printing is the same. This is also a reflection of the technology and management strength of this Fortune 500 giant that stands out from the rest.

There were not many customers in the morning, so the three of them waited for 10 minutes before seeing the machine spit out 36 photos.

Demi lay on the counter and looked at her photos carefully. His boyfriend hugged her lovingly, "Your photos are very beautiful, my dear, I love you."

Demi turned around and kissed her boyfriend, selected 2 photos, and asked Ronald:

"I'll just choose these two, do you think that's okay? Ronald."

At a glance, Ronald saw that they were the most beautiful of the two.

He pointed at the other two and said, "I usually rely on the customer's opinion, but if you were my sister, I would suggest you choose these two."

"Why?"

One of these two pictures is a serious drama face without a smile, and the other is a smiling face suitable for romantic scenes. Ronald pointed to the photo and asked Demi's boyfriend, "What do you think Demi is thinking about these two expressions?"

"This one seems to be full of love, um, no, it seems a little jealous? I can't tell this one, maybe it's happy, but it also seems a little sad."

Ronald spread his hands and said: "Demi, your face is very suitable for filming. Whether you light it from the left or the right, you can get beautiful close-ups. But let me tell you, your greatest talent is your expression."

"With this face, the audience can see more than one expression and inner emotions. I can't explain why. I only know that the director likes this face very much." Ronald concluded.

"Then choose these two, thank you, Ronald." Demi said and came up to hug him.

Ronald patted Demi politely and said to the Kodak staff: "Please enlarge this one, and this one, 6 inches by 8 inches, five copies each. Leave a white border."

After a while, the photo was placed, and Ronald asked again, "Do you have typing equipment here? Please type her name at the bottom of the photo."

Ronald then asked Demi: "What stage name are you going to use?"

"I don't know, can't I use my original name?"

"Of course, but most actors will have a stage name." Ronald said, "The stage name should be loud and clear, such as Sean Connery who plays James Bond 007, and Roger Moore. Four syllables, long and short sounds combined, easy to read.”

Demi's eyes lit up, and she turned around and hugged her boyfriend Freddie Moore, "Freddie, you will always love me, right?"

"certainly."

"Then when will you marry me?"

"Darling, as I told you, I still need some time to make it clear to Lucy. After I am done with her, we will get married."

"Then I don't care, I want to marry you."

"Okay, I will divorce Lucy, believe me, sweetheart."

Demi turned to the stunned Ronald and said:

"I'm going to marry Freddy soon. I'm going to take his last name and I'm going to use Demi Moore as my stage name."