I’m a Director, I’m Not Bad

Chapter 398: 396. Big Problem!

Chapter 398 396. Big problem!

The crew started filming.

Although it was a temporary crew, fortunately, the tasks were assigned clearly enough.

What to do, who's job Lu Yang has arranged very well.

Today is the first day of filming for "Deal", and the task is not too heavy. But coming up is the highlight.

It is not only necessary to perform the romance in the nightclub, but also a scene in which the accompanying girl hides in the bathroom with a letter from the child and cries bitterly.

If the shooting goes well, it may not even be used for a whole morning even with the scheduling of the camera.

But if the shooting doesn’t go well...it’s possible to get stuck for a day.

Then when Wang Junkai arrives in the evening, Xu Xin wants to check on the child's condition, and if possible, shoot a few night scenes.

Shooting in a nightclub is a bit of an advantage.

That is, there is no need to distinguish between day and night.

The fully enclosed environment around makes the light source quite stable.

And Xu Xin is no longer the kid who could only direct and act on his own at this moment. At this moment, the busy work of the crew was coming to an end, so he found a girl who played the role of model beauty to be the light to find the light, while he sat in front of the monitor and communicated with the lighting engineer little by little.

Waiting for the light to find almost, a few group performers dressed as big brothers in the society, and those who thought it was just a simple small film at first, but when Xu Xin arrived, all the group performers who wished to be more colorful than flowers came to the scene. They all got ready to take their seats.

For these group performances, Xu Xin no longer has the heart to stop because of Zhao Liying's "Good Director" in "Golden Armor".

At that time, he was a first-time brother.

Also have patience.

Seeing these group performers who are struggling and wanting a chance to make their mark, they always give some care within their ability.

But although he has only made two movies in the past two years, but... for some reason, he is now a little numb to the "director, look at me" eyes of these extras.

It cannot be said to be numb.

I can only say...they are really not pretty.

Maybe he is tall enough, maybe his temperament is good enough, but there is always a flaw in it.

For example, the facial features are not suitable for movies, or the eyes are not smart enough, etc.

When seeing these people, one or two Xu Xin might talk to each other, but when there are too many people, he has no choice but to shut up.

Not everyone can make a living in the entertainment industry, this is an inevitable truth.

But in the face of the dreams these people harbor, he doesn't want to be that dream-killing mentor either.

So, neglect became a matter of course.

I can't encourage them, because they are not suitable.

…

"Director Xu, we are almost ready."

Hearing Lu Yang's words, Xu Xin nodded:

"Let a few group performers take their positions first, and make some adjustments. Lao Fang, get ready. Yi Fei, get ready to play."

Orderly orders issued.

The entire crew began to enter the predetermined track.

No need for drama.

That's the assistant director's job.

The assistant director is responsible for telling the group performers what to do in a while, and they just do it. If Xu Xin thinks something is wrong, they will make adjustments at that time.

Then after everyone was seated and the table was full of wine bottles, Fang Xiu turned his head and glanced at Xu Xin.

At this moment, Lao Xu is sitting in front of the monitor, sticking the earphone to his ear with one hand, not looking at this side, but staring at the screen in front of him.

The crew is also waiting for the director's order.

For a while, the scene was a little quiet.

Fang Xiu couldn't help but took a deep breath.

A little nervous for no reason.

Three years ago... when I was filming "Not Drunk" with Lao Xu, it was a help.

It's okay to say "condescension".

After all, several of them are going to be seniors.

As a senior, it must be a little humane to help a freshman.

And this favor was soon returned by Lao Xu with a formal employment contract at the Olympics.

Fang Xiu was actually grateful to Xu Xin.

After all...CCTV is really not a place where anyone can enter if they say they can.

Joined CCTV, and after his job stabilized, he became a favorite at home all of a sudden.

A formal job in a state-owned enterprise in Yanjing put his parents' house in danger of being broken by a matchmaker.

After repeated choices, the family arranged a blind date for him.

My parents are both retired employees of the education department, with rich and stable pensions. And my own side is also within the establishment of CCTV. As long as I don't make mistakes, it can be said that the whole family is an extremely strong iron triangle.

I didn’t want to go back to my hometown after finishing my postgraduate studies. The originally unstable photography job should be regarded as a shortcoming of the family. But after joining CCTV with the help of Lao Xu, the establishment of a stable working environment and prospects has completed the last link of stability.

As for his girlfriend's house, he is also in his hometown... Although he can't say he is in the prime of his life, he is also a well-known businessman.

An income of 400,000 to 500,000 yuan a year, not to mention rich and powerful, but he is still a rich man.

There are three children in total, two daughters and a boy.

My girlfriend's father is quite open-minded, and the three children serve a bowl of water very flat.

And most coincidentally, the girlfriend also didn't want to go home.

She is a preschool teacher, and she is currently studying as a graduate student at Yanjing Normal University. No need to worry about finding a job after graduation.

After graduation next year, the two will get married.

As for the wedding room... Although the housing prices in Yanjing have risen very high, Old Xu is very generous. He was given a few commercial housing complexes with pretty good locations, and let him choose at will, and the price was not too much to say.

Fang Xiu found out that the so-called "strong real estate" that can often be seen on some houses under construction in Yanjing is the property of the old Xu family...

Um.

This name sounds like Lao Xu's style.

It's really a mess.

My parents have little savings, and my girlfriend's family didn't say anything about exorbitant bride price.

It's quite easy to come out with seven or eight hundred thousand in cash.

He and his girlfriend probably visited a few neighborhoods, and found that with the money, at least they could buy a three-bedroom apartment with an area of 110 square meters.

But Old Xu didn’t let…

According to his idea, if you want to buy, you can buy two or squeeze to buy three small apartments of 60 to 70 square meters. The two of them will live first without children, and the remaining two apartments will be used for investment. In the future, the price will rise, once it is sold, it will be replaced with a bigger one.

The couple discussed this opinion, and they thought it was a good idea... The house was a halved price for the sake of face, and it would be deceiving for no reason.

And the house prices have indeed risen quite a lot in the past two years.

The investment prospects are bright.

When the girlfriend's father heard the news, he originally wanted to buy two more sets...but was rejected by Fang Xiu.

The friendship of friends belongs to qingyi.

People don’t need to care about it, but it’s inappropriate for me to push too hard.

And the future father-in-law is also enlightened.

It seems that the second son-in-law is promising, and for the sake of the grandson of the eldest daughter's family and the grandson of the younger son after marriage, he asked himself to help ask, and simply settled a child in Yanjing.

Let children have a good place to go to school.

Everything, Fang Xiu felt extremely perfect.

There is economic pressure, but not much.

Although he and his girlfriend are on a blind date, no matter the appearance or the kind of tacit understanding that they like each other, they are all the way I think about the person I like.

My parents are in good health, and I am the only child, so having the support of a pension will not put any burden on me at all. As for the girlfriend, although the brother-in-law is still young, the degree of filial piety of the two daughters, and the kind of relationship without any intrigue, make the family live in harmony and beauty.

Oh yes, the girlfriend and the girlfriend’s sister also got Jay Chou’s autograph that I’ve been thinking about...

Looking at it, his life that may not be wonderful, but happy enough is about to begin.

But at this moment, looking back at Lao Xu sitting at the desk of the monitor, Fang Xiu had a doubt for no reason.

The days of Old Xu...

How was your life?

Such a beautiful celebrity wife.

Such a rich and prominent family...

Not to mention your own achievements.

And at this moment, in this familiar environment, familiar scene... and even the familiar atmosphere, Fang Xiu really has a sense of unreality that everything is right and everyone is wrong.

Especially when seeing Lao Xu in a daze...

Unconsciously, he shouted:

"Old Xu."

"…ah?"

Xu Xin, looking at the monitor, raised his head:

"What's the matter, Lao Fang."

"..."

Fang Xiu was stunned.

Sanity began to return.

After suppressing the divergent thinking in his mind, he said:

"Start?"

"Do you remember the route?"

"remember."

"Okay... what about the others, if they are all ready, give me an OK gesture in the camera."

Hearing what the director said, the male and female group performers in the KTV box quickly put on an OK pose.

And Zhang Jiao, who was sitting on the farthest side, took a deep breath.

He clenched the wine bottle in his hand.

"Okay, let's play the board and get ready to start. Yifei, remember to be more intimate with your movements. Don't be shy, big brother. We are both old players. Be natural and don't be so stiff."

Hearing what he said, Liu Yifei thought for a while, and simply wrapped his arms around the middle-aged big brother's arm.

The big brother froze immediately.

"It's okay, you relax."

Hearing Liu Yifei's words, the corner of Big Brother's mouth twitched...

His eyes became even weirder.

And Xu Xin also saw that everyone seemed unable to let go, so he said:

"Let's take a test shot first. If you want to drink wine, you can drink it. If you want to drink, you can really drink it. Have fun, everyone."

After finishing speaking, he nodded to the reporter.

The scene record went directly to the camera held by Fang Xiu:

""Deal", Act IV, Scene 1...ACTION!"

"Snapped!"

The board fell, and in the KTV box without music, everyone began to dance to the "music".

Fang Xiu began to move according to the set route.

After several years of training, the camera in his hand is as stable as a smoothly running machine, and every shot that Xu Xin wants is included in the monitor.

One second, two seconds, three seconds...

Xu Xin squinted and looked at everything on the monitor.

In fact, strictly speaking, there are not many places in "Trade" that need to use cameras to show metaphors.

Really, it has a kernel or something...it doesn't.

It just tells a story.

A story about a hostess and a child who find warmth in each other's hearts.

Even, after cutting out all unnecessary flimsy plots, its story becomes a fairly single-threaded "one shot to the end".

Nothing worth digging.

The hostess and the little boy are neighbors in the same building. One day, the boy finds the hostess, hoping to make a deal.

The child gave the hostess five hundred dollars to pretend to be his mother for a day.

She wants to wear the clothes left by the child's mother before and send the child to school.

Accompany your child to a parent-teacher meeting.

Then at the parent meeting, I also met a client who came to drink and entertain last night.

As a result, at school, the hostess did not respect the transaction. During the parent-teacher meeting, a client called her and wanted to book a table tonight, so she immediately walked out of the classroom and started communicating with the client.

The little boy's deskmate said to the little boy on the playground: Your mother is a bartender.

The two children fought.

As a result, I was called to the teacher's office, one was the hostess, and the other was the client calling for the escort.

Both of them have no honor on their face.

In the end, this matter was left alone.

On the way back, the child confessed to the hostess, telling her: "Actually, my mother is not busy, she just won't come back."

After the two parted, the hostess saw in her bag a little boy's impression of her written in the homework "My Mom" assigned by the teacher.

It turns out that children have long regarded her as their mother, because her smile is like the sun in winter.

Every time the little boy pays attention to her silently, watching her cooking noodles by herself, watching her smoking a cigarette, and only hearing the sound of her high-heeled shoes stepping on her every day when she goes to bed, can she sleep with peace of mind.

In the end, the hostess collapsed and cried in the noisy nightclub toilet.

is such a simple story.

After the script was changed, there was no force to give two people too much bond.

Didn't call the names of whether the fate of the two of them has changed.

It can be said that all the plots of this story are for the last 2 minutes.

It's just a very ordinary story.

Because of the "ordinary" story, Xu Xin adopted the simplest shooting techniques.

When shooting the hostess, a lot of hand-held lenses were used to express her ups and downs through the slight shaking. When shooting children, it is a fixed frame shot in the medium and close range.

At the same time, everyone's clothing has also been thoughtful.

Although the school uniform of the little boy is simple, the scene selection is always full of various colors and shabbiness.

Although the clothes of the hostess are bright, there will always be sequins falling off or flawed styles on her clothes.

This time, he put all the side descriptions about the protagonist in the most inconspicuous position of the lens.

Nor is it intended to create any atmosphere.

Didn't even intend to make the shots overly showy.

After filming a script, call it a day.

As the opening short film of the film festival, he didn't intend to make so many bells and whistles. Because these things are too difficult for many new directors to control.

There are so many complicated skills, if they can't master them, they will become the dogs that are not painted as tigers.

Not suitable for newbies.

So, what he showed is a very simple shooting technique.

Let everyone see that even if you don’t need to rely on any spiritual core, you can still produce a good work as long as your basic skills are solid enough and you know how to tell a story clearly and well.

Looking at Liu Yifei in the camera, Xu Xin nodded slightly.

Well, it's okay...

At least on his own side, through makeup, dressing up, and that kind of naive drunkenness, he temporarily forgot the fixed routine of "sister fairy".

From this aspect, it can be considered a success.

…

"Hoo..."

Standing at the door of the bathroom, Zhang Jiao took a deep breath.

After going through the lines she was about to say a few times in her mind, she began to relax according to the method taught by the teacher.

"Liu Yifei is the girl who accompanied the wine Liu Yifei was the girl who accompanied the wine

The "rule of three times" began to flow in my heart.

Just like self-suggestion and hypnosis, let her temporarily throw off all the baggage.

Sister Mi said, don’t distinguish between experience school and method school at the initial stage. It is enough to be able to interpret a role successfully, be qualified, and meet the requirements of the director.

This is the first stage.

The second stage is to start to explore the method that suits you.

The third stage is the time to really study acting skills.

And all the prerequisites for the second and third stages are that you can successfully complete the content of the first stage, and have a stable source of income to ensure that you will not starve to death...

Although these words are quite realistic, Zhang Jiao, who has come all the way from group acting, naturally knows that this is one of the valuable experiences of Sister Mi.

And she herself didn't dare to expect too much.

Something like crushing sister Mi or killing Liu Yifei...

OK.

step by step…

Start with a small role, that's all.

"Hard work hard work hard..."

"Take it easy, take it easy..."

"Jiaojiao, I'm ready."

In an instant, Xu Xin's words pulled Zhang Jiao back from that self-suggestion.

"Hey, okay."

Zhang Jiao quickly responded, tidied up the clothes on her body that seemed to make her chest look big, and stood obediently at the door.

She has small breasts, she knows it.

So after Brother Xu asked herself to play this role, she even bought a cushion online to make herself look more turbulent.

Even if the women in the night market are crowded, they have to squeeze out their hooks, otherwise they will not make money.

Touching the chest pad, she heard Brother Xu's voice over there:

"Come on, get ready in the toilet, let's eat after this one. Everyone work hard.... Three, two, one... let's go!"

The moment Zhang Jiao heard this, she only felt that her mind was concentrated like never before.

I only heard the sound of Liu Yifei vomiting from inside:

"Ugh~"

She immediately took a deep breath, supported the door frame with one hand, and poked her head into the bathroom from the outside:

"Are you big? ~~ Drink like this every day?"

"Crack."

After the words fell, Xu Xin's voice rang out.

Zhang Jiao's face instantly turned pale...

Did I make a mistake again?

I I I I...

"Liu Yifei is blocking the camera. Don't move the old Fang's camera. Liu Yifei will go to another pool and I'll take a look... well, this one will be fine. Use the pool you're standing in now, and the one where you bent your **** just now will block the camera ..."

Amidst Zhang Jiao's pale face, Xu Xin finished speaking, looked at her who only showed half of her head in the camera, and said:

"Jiaojiao's tone is good, just follow this way... Come on, do it again..."

Hearing that it was not her fault, Zhang Jiao's face instantly warmed up.

He even turned his head in disbelief and glanced at Xu Xin who was sitting on the sofa watching the screen...

Brother Xu praised me! ?

For a while, Zhang Jiao seemed to be back in elementary school, and was praised by the teacher in class.

The sense of... "The teacher praised me, this question doesn't seem to be very difficult" spontaneously aroused her sense of sight, which brought her up immediately.

Soon, when the crew adjusted again and started shooting.

Following the sound of vomiting, Zhang Jiao followed the feeling in her heart of knowing how to handle the role naturally, held the door, and probed.

The lines with a little northeast accent came out of his mouth with that helpless look, and he said it:

"Are you big? Drink like this every day?"

"got used to…"

While arranging her hair, Liu Yifei replied.

Xu Xin, who was sitting in front of the monitor, raised his eyebrows in surprise.

Oh yo?

Zhang Jiao is doing well.

Listening to the innocuous voice of the two chatting as if they had known each other for a long time, and seeing the expressions and movements of each performing their duties on the screen, Xu Xin nodded in satisfaction.

This is the most satisfying scene since he met Zhang Jiao during "Golden Armor".

Natural, generous, without the slightest affectation.

good.

But then again, the scene itself is not difficult.

Although she is in good condition, there is not much room for her to play.

Soon, the conversation between the two of them was over, and the camera shot was finished, and the two of them walked out of the bathroom together.

Because everyone was in the same room, Xu Xin who was sitting on the sofa could tell that Zhang Jiao's flushed face was still in a state of excitement compared to Liu Yifei who was very calm.

That appearance is close to writing "I'm not addicted" on his face.

"Ha~"

Xu Xin suddenly made a funny sound, which attracted everyone's attention.

Then I heard him say:

"Okay, I know you haven't enjoyed it...but you only have so many roles. But the performance is not bad, it is the most satisfying scene since I met you. Remember this state, no matter what role you meet in the future, Let yourself be excited first, so that you can quickly get into the mood. This performance is good... Well, Director Lu, I will add more chicken legs to Jiaojiao at noon later."

Lu Yang was taken aback...

Only then did he realize that what Director Xu was talking about was not Liu Yifei, but Zhang Jiao who played against Liu Yifei.

looked at Zhang Jiao quite unexpectedly.

While appraising the relationship between the two in his heart, he smiled and nodded:

"Well, yes, Director Xu."

"Okay, everyone else has finished work. Let's shoot the remaining two scenes after dinner. Everyone, hurry up... Yifei, you stay."

After signaling everyone to finish work and eat, Xu Xin pointed to his side.

"What's wrong?"

Liu Yifei asked curiously after taking his seat.

Xu Xin pointed to the shooting clip just now on the screen, and handed the earphones to her.

After watching all the scenes he just filmed, Liu Yifei removed the earphones, and couldn't help but ask with some doubts:

"Is there a problem?"