Entertaining Children

  Chapter 400 Tuner

In the afternoon shooting of the game, in addition to the basketball players on the court, there are panoramic shots of the audience cheering, sighing and screaming in the audience, as well as the roles played by Xu Fei and Ye Xing in the auditorium. Close-up shot on. The plots on the stadium and the audience are presented at the same time and interspersed with each other, but they were shot separately in filming.

  The shots of the basketball game part are more difficult. I put them in the front to shoot, and the shots in the auditorium are shot together after the basketball game part is finished. After the game shots are completed, Qiao Xun and Guo Qi are about to leave first. After Xiao Yao finished the shots of the basketball game, he declined Guo Qi's invitation to find a place to sit and chat, and returned to Sun Zhihao to learn how he directed shots with so many extras.

  After the whole day of filming was over, Xiao Yao also invited Zhao Rui, Lin Qisan and others to have dinner outside. This was the end of the day in the crew.

  After the guest performance tour of Tan Banga in the crew of "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky", the short film Xiao Yao has prepared for a long time is finally about to start shooting.

  The idea of ​​making a short film was already in existence during the Chinese New Year period by Xiao Yao, but the specific filming was not decided until he was on the subway on the day of the flash-mob with Sun Tingting. After pretending to be blind on the subway that day, he was surrendered, and he saw some scenes that surprised him very rarely, which also reminded him of a great French short film in his previous life. I happened to be ready to shoot a short film during the summer vacation, so I just shot this short film from my previous life.

  The name of this short film is "Tuner", which belongs to the category of horror and suspense. The general plot tells the story of a genius pianist who learned piano from an early age. He played abnormally in one of the most important piano competitions in his life. He completely ruined his dream of becoming a pianist, and his life fell into a trough. Later, the protagonist who suffered a major setback in his life became a piano tuner by virtue of his more than ten years of piano learning music literacy.

  As a purely technical person like a tuner, the protagonist's life is not as good as he wants, but he is a little clever, but he came up with an idea to pretend to be blind. In the eyes of ordinary people, he will be more acute in hearing when he has lost his vision. Many customers have begun to designate him, a blind tuner, to tune the piano. In addition to the improvement in performance and income, he will also enjoy more care for the sympathy of others in the process of tuning the piano in the customer's home.

The most important thing is that because others think that he is blind, he is basically undefended, and will expose a lot of aspects that will not be revealed in front of him, so the protagonist can fully satisfy his desire for prying, and see many things. Human life and privacy. This made him feel a sense of detachment. He was so immersed in this feeling that he couldn't extricate himself, and he couldn't get tired of playing the blind tuner.

   What he didn't expect was that it was precisely because of playing the blind tuner that he was plunged into a huge crisis. One day, the protagonist came to a house to tune in according to an appointment. After knocking on the door, the hostess in the house shied away for various reasons and did not want him to enter the door. At this time, he didn't want to make a trip in vain, he began to take advantage of the blind, and on the grounds of his inconvenience, he asked the mistress to open the door and let him in.

  The light in the room was dim. The blind man wearing sunglasses accidentally stepped on a pool of liquid and slipped, and his body was also covered with viscous liquid. Locked the door, the hostess followed up and helped the protagonist, explaining to him that the house was under renovation, and what he stepped on was the paint that he accidentally knocked over. The protagonist's peripheral vision saw an old man sitting on the sofa in the living room covered with blood on the sofa in the house, and the liquid on his body was obviously blood.

  The surprised protagonist realizes that he has entered the scene of a murder. The old woman who opened the door for him was probably the assailant, but instead of running away or fighting with the old woman, he continued to pretend to be his blind tuner, hoping to use his acting skills to fool the old woman. People think that they haven't seen anything, so they let themselves go and get away safely.

  The old woman asked the protagonist to take off the dirty clothes on her body, saying that she took her husband’s clothes to change him. Since the protagonist has been pretending to be blind, he cannot refuse the request of the old woman. Soon she took off herself with only a pair of shorts. During this time, the old woman had been carefully observing his reaction opposite the protagonist. She also made an excuse that his sunglasses were dirty, so she took off his sunglasses and observed carefully. The protagonist puts on gray contact lens eyes in order to pretend to be blind.

After some observations, the old woman took the protagonist’s clothes and left, while the protagonist was composing herself to do the work of tuning and auditioning. At the same time, she prayed that the old woman would not turn her clothes pocket and see her own. A calendar notebook that the blind cannot use at all.

After tuning the sound, the protagonist calmly played the piano audition in his heart, and at the same time secretly said in his heart that the old woman who went to get him clothes has not come back, but at this time, the old woman already holds a handful. The nail gun stood behind him quietly and pointed the muzzle at the back of his head...

Choosing such a short film, on the one hand, Xiao Yao himself also learned piano from a young age, knew enough about piano, and participated in piano competitions. On the other hand, the experience of pretending to be blind on the subway made him feel this way to people. The desire for voyeurism also had a personal feeling. Of course, the most important thing is that the concept of this short film is very delicate and the plot is also extremely tense. In the previous life, it was an excellent short film with a high reputation both at home and abroad and won an award.

  The total length of this short film is only about 13 minutes. Xiao Yao does not plan to make any changes to the plot, but only make some changes with Chinese characteristics in the setting of the scene and some details. After all, the original version of the previous life was a French film, and he couldn't make this film exactly the same in Yenching. Of course, he did not intend to make this film exactly like the original. After all, in this world, this short film is his work.

  In this short film, Xiao Yao chose to write, direct and perform himself. The script was modified based on the original version of the previous life. Xiao Yao, the pianist who is the protagonist, also planned to perform it himself. In the choice of other actors, Xiao Yao began to fully utilize his resources. In a 13-minute short film, apart from the well-deserved protagonist of the pianist, there are not too many other characters in the film, but it is actually not too little to say less.

  Among them, the tuner and the owner of the piano store had a long conversation in the coffee shop, so this boss has a lot of roles. Xiao Yao directly asked Lin Qisan’s father, Lin Shaohua, to play this role. And the male host in the final murder scene, that is, the corpse covered in blood sitting on the sofa, Xiao Yao directly asked his grandfather Xiao Chengru to play, and the most important supporting role, the murderous old woman People, Xiao Yao, through Xiao Chengru’s relationship, found the old play bone Tian Fangzhen, who had originally awarded Xiao Yao the Feitian Award together with Xiao Chengru, to play.

  In addition, it is the role of the protagonist in the role of several customers who have spied privacy in the process of playing the blind. Xiao Yao approached Cheng Xi in the role of one of the young dancers who only danced in underwear at home. A new fitness trainer designed by Xiao Yao who has a transvestite and wears women's clothing at home. Xiao Yao approached Huang Shi, who had cooperated in "Ling Yun Zhi". It is also a newly designed female star who is glamorous outside, but the house is chaotic like a doghouse pigpen. Xiao Yao asked Su Chengying to act. As for the waiter who flashed by in the coffee shop, Xiao Yao invited Chen Wanting, the photographer of the parkour team, and the old woman who was deliberately molested by Xiao Yao at the traffic lights was changed by Xiao Yao to a The pregnant woman with a big belly was born by Xiao Yao's mother, Ye Jiaying.

Apart from Xiao Yao’s own actor, there are not many other roles in this short film. If it goes well, everyone’s shooting time will not exceed one day, so although some of these people also have jobs. Physically, but it’s not a big problem to set aside a day for Xiao Yao during the entire August schedule.

  Such a cast can be said to be a collection of outstanding actors of all ages, old, middle and young, and it can definitely be called luxurious. And for such a luxurious lineup, the sum of the pay for the performance alone is a terrifying figure. Fortunately, this short film made by Xiao Yao could not be shown in theaters. After the filming, he did not plan to charge for on-demand broadcasting on the Internet. It can be regarded as an experimental independent short film, and there will be no commercial profit. These people are all close to Xiao Yao or close to Xiao Yao’s relatives. Xiao Yao invites friendship to star in all through his personal relationship, and the shooting time does not exceed one day, so all are zero. The pay is free to star in, so their worth is not involved.

  As for the actors, it was done through a good network. As for the crew, Xiao Yao, who had much poorer network resources, had to put money and sincerity to invite them one by one. On the one hand, Xiao Yao has to choose the candidates he likes, and on the other hand, he has to look at Xiao Yao, a young and overly young rookie director who has only filmed a few MVs. In addition, he has to take care of those people. This is the reason why Xiao Yao planned to shoot short films during the summer vacation during the Chinese New Year, and will not officially start until August. Fortunately, after several months of preparation and communication, Xiao Yao still completed the set up of the crew.

  In addition to the personnel, the other is the scene and props. There are not many scenes involved in the short film, just a theater, a coffee shop, a few apartments, a pedestrian crossing at a traffic light intersection with voice prompts and a few limited scenes, and these scenes and the props involved are nothing special. The requirements are not hard to find. Xiao Yao didn't pay much attention to this part, and was nothing more than renting it out with money.

  Although the actors involved in the short film are well-known, Xiao Yao's first independent short film in the form of self-written, directed and self-acted is also enough to attract attention. However, Xiao Yao did not disclose to the media that he had made a short film. After all the work was ready and the personnel were in place, Xiao Yao's crew started quietly.

  (End of this chapter)