Acting depends on immortality, cultivating immortality depends on popularity

There was a large circle of men, women and children in the room, of course the person in the main seat, Cheng Xuan, knew him. It was Director Feng who was sitting there with a few of his capable men.

At this time, everyone held a printed and bound script in their hands, and sat around the big table with relatively serious expressions, listening to the director's lecture to everyone.

This is a necessary process that most movies will go through before shooting. The main purpose of course is to let the participating actors get familiar with the plot, understand the director's intentions for shooting, and get to know their colleagues.

However, under the influence of the current situation of increasingly serious commercialization, such formal pre-shooting routine meetings are becoming less and less common in many pure commercial and pure IP works.

It should be said that fortunately, Director Feng can only be regarded as a second- and third-rate director in the domestic director circle, but because he really has such a place in horror movies, and most of the invited actors are unknown actors, everyone is very happy. Those who abide by the rules should report on time when they should report, and do what they are asked to do.

Moreover, in such horror movies made by second- and third-rate directors, it is rare to see any actors who are funded and have someone behind them, so everyone gets along without so many twists and turns.

Oh no, of course there are still a lot of twists and turns. After Chengxuan came to the meeting place today, relying on his excellent hearing and a little bit of small magic skills, he has already roughly understood the future In the situation of colleagues, there are many people and things who secretly disagree, dislike each other, and even have long-standing quarrels.

Fortunately, because Chengxuan basically had no conflict of interest with anyone else, no one would regard such a little Douding as a competitor or a thorn in his side, so at least for the time being he was safe.

As for the wait until the end, when the actors are trying their best to hope that the director can keep their shots as much as possible, will someone hit him with ideas?Then it will be time to see what the director and editors mean - although Cheng Xuan has never been in the entertainment industry before, he has seen many people, so he can guess one or two.A child actor like him is now the only one in this film. As long as his performance is not too bad, the director should not give priority to cutting his part of the shot when considering the length of time.

Every director has their own unique shooting techniques and narrative methods during the shooting process.Director Feng is the same.

When Cheng Xuan was reading scripts at home, he had watched all of Director Feng's works, and felt that the films he made were closer to the oriental horror movies that Cheng Xuan had seen in his first life.

There are not too many monsters and ghosts running rampant in the film, but as long as these things appear, they are usually in the most appropriate places, giving the viewers the deepest horror impression.What is left is the horrifying atmosphere created by the fear and speculation among the people caught in this horrible scene in the film.

To put it bluntly: there are monsters and ghosts, but it is these people themselves who really make the characters in the story film fall into desperation.These demons and ghosts only appear when the characters are either panicking and putting themselves in danger like headless chickens, or when they maliciously speculate and attack each other maliciously.

After watching the whole movie like this, people will not only feel the horror and horror, but also have a sense of disgust for the evil in human nature, and the resulting very depressive feeling.

To be honest, it was impossible for such horror works to be released in China in Chengxuan's first life. However, in this world, these horror movies made by director Feng are still relatively light. Those blood splashed all over the wall , Grilled intestines, gutted and brainless movies are screened in China every year, but children like Chengxuan are not allowed to enter the theater to watch it.

In the script seminar, in addition to the director explaining the purpose of his shooting and explaining the script to everyone, each leading actor is also required to share his general understanding of his role and his views on the entire script.Of course, talk more and talk less, and whether you talk or not depends on your personal habits. Some people can't express it clearly in words, but they can play that role well, and it's completely okay.

But generally, in this kind of scripting workshop, everyone prepares a little in advance and speaks a few words at the meeting.In this way, the director can have a good impression and get acquainted with other people as soon as possible.

But after everyone had spoken for a while, their eyes fell on the only little Douding present—this kid is only five years old this year, right?It's already great to be able to understand 123 in the script, and I hope to let him talk about his feelings about his role-everyone should go home early to wash and sleep.

Director Feng and most of the staff who have been in contact with Cheng Xuan like this child very much, so although Cheng Xuan doesn't need to say anything at this time, Director Feng still teases him with a smile: "Xuan Xuan is right about the film we are going to shoot soon. Do you have any ideas for this movie? Do you know what kind of role you plan to play?"

For a young actor like Cheng Xuan, to be honest, Director Feng didn't have much hope that he would memorize all the lines he should have memorized under the supervision of his guardian after returning home.Director Feng originally only planned to choose a young actor with a suitable appearance, relatively courageous, and relatively clever, and when he needed to film the part of the plot he played in, he would teach and shoot slowly. just fine.

Anyway, the children's lines are not difficult. Cheng Xuan himself can speak clearly. As long as he can recite the lines obediently without taking the camera out of the camera during filming, maybe he doesn't even need to dub later.

Cheng Xuanming knew the meaning of Director Feng's words, and now everyone is teasing children when they look at him, but as the only child present with an adult's mind, he is still determined to show his ability a little bit, so as not to look back During filming, when everyone found out that his ability to memorize lines is relatively strong, they would make a fuss instead.

So he blinked and blinked, with a cute expression on his face, and said to Director Feng seriously, "I want to play a kid. This kid is usually very good, but sometimes it's scary!"

Director Feng raised his eyebrows: "Then how are you going to scare people then?"

Some important plots and the facial expressions and movements of the characters in the script are also described in detail, so Cheng Xuan extracted a plot that he had practiced at home and prepared to start acting.

His originally wide eyes and serious face suddenly became expressionless: "Uncle, there is a handprint on your leg." As he spoke, he raised his fleshy right hand and pointed at Director Feng. Opening in the direction of the hand, the voice is still flat and slow, without any ups and downs at all, and the sight of the eyes is straight, without any vitality, "It's like such a big hand."

All the people present shivered in unison, as if a chill came in from the soles of their feet, along the spine all the way up to the scalp, and a few people even subconsciously moved their legs, and moved a little on their seats uneasily .

Fortunately, Chengxuan's little hand was retracted at this time, and the originally dull and straight eyes returned to their former expressions, with an excited face, a little bit of complacency and a little pride, and looked at Director Feng with anticipation : "Uncle director, is this scary?"

Even Director Feng and the assistant directors and screenwriters around him were shocked by Cheng Xuan's performance just now, and only now came back to their senses, staring at this little Douding who didn't expect anything from him.Director Feng nodded again and again, "Yes, that's right! Xuanxuan, how did you know to act like this?"

"Father said that's what's written in the script. I'm not allowed to laugh or make funny faces." Cheng Xuan's serious words made Director Feng nod happily again and again, secretly sighing in his heart: he The casting this time was really right!This kid is not only courageous, but also really spiritual. If he is trained well, he might become a star of tomorrow!At that time, as the first director who discovered such a good seedling, I can also play a win-win role!

When the others saw that the child was not distracted or fell asleep during the meeting just now, and was honestly listening to the adults, their belief values ​​flew to Cheng Xuan.Now that he had just purposely froze for a moment, many of the staff present had their faith values ​​floating again, especially Director Feng and the skinny screenwriter Li who was wearing glasses next to him was the worst.

On the contrary, few of the actors who also acted as him shined brightly.

Cheng Xuan, who noticed this, silently reviewed himself in his heart - not everyone likes to see other people being smart, even if that person is a child.And the scene he just pretended to act in was a scene in a horror movie where a child is possessed once... Only people other than the staff can have a ghost if they have faith values!Those who are less courageous may be frightened by Cheng Xuan's performance just now!

Now that he is still young and has just entered the industry, he has very little room to choose to shoot works, so let's just forget about it. When he gets older, he must pay attention to this point when he chooses to take on a film!

But having said that, since he is so timid, why does he have to come to participate in horror movies?Even if you are short of money and job opportunities, you don't need to work so hard!

The 26th is the crew's seminar, and the 28th is the day for the makeup photo shoot.In fact, for horror movies, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to shoot some makeup photos or not.But today's market is like this. It seems very unprofessional if someone doesn't take a makeup photo before the filming starts.

Moreover, a work is also a qualification for these participating actors. If you can have a makeup photo, whether it is a single person or a group of people, at least you can get it when you go to other crews to apply for jobs in the future. The resume of the shot-even if the resume is from a horror movie.

So early in the morning on the 28th, Cheng Xuan was carried away sleepily by the puppet to the location where the makeup photo was taken.The bright-eyed make-up artist pressed him on the chair, and used various brushes to apply it back and forth on his small face several times before he decided on the makeup, changed his clothes, and took him out to meet the director.