Entertaining Children

   Chapter 405

  Among the three scenes filmed today, this last scene is the only one where there is a dialogue between characters, and it is also the most shot of the three scenes.

A close-up shot of Cheng Xi pulling down his shoulder strap, a close-up shot of Cheng Xi taking off his shoes, a close-up shot of Cheng Xi’s foot injuries, a close-up shot of Cheng Xi's turning back to question, and a close-up shot of Xiao Yao sitting in front of the piano talking to him, Xiao Yao saw Cheng A close-up of Xi’s stunned expression when she was undressing, a close-up of Xiao Yao’s expression of smirking when she saw Cheng Xi’s mouth curled up while dancing, a close-up of a still life with a guide cane, a long mid-range shot of Cheng Xi’s dance moves, the last one from Xiao Yao The rear panoramic shot of Xiao Yao playing the piano and Cheng Xi dancing in the same frame also involves a zoomed image where the focus is changed and the two take turns as the blurred background.

Although due to the running-in of the first two scenes, the various departments of the crew and even the director Xiao Yao had a tacit understanding, and the shooting speed was faster than the previous two scenes, but all the shots in this scene were filmed. , The shooting time on this day was all exhausted, and the shooting could not be completed earlier than planned.

After the shooting on the first day, Xiao Yao invited the makeup artist Pei Minyi to dinner with her at Fang's request. During the dinner, the three also asked Pei Minyi to join Xiao Yao’s private team. Talk in detail. What Pei Minyi said about free work will definitely not be agreed. The conditions and treatments in all aspects are implemented in accordance with the relatively generous standards in the industry. As for Pei Minyi's requirement to learn special effects makeup from Xiao Yao, Xiao Yao has nothing to do. Embarrassed, promised to communicate with her when I was free. Pei Minyi was very satisfied with the conditions in all aspects, and was able to learn something from Xiao Yao, so she naturally agreed, so the three of them finalized the matter.

  The shooting continued on the next day, and there were still three scenes on this day. One is a scene where the protagonist participates in a piano competition, and the other is a scene where the protagonist walks on the road pretending to be blind and molested a pregnant woman. The other is a scene where the protagonist lies decadently in a daze on his own bed after the piano competition is over, and he is curled up on the bed in the room. The scene where his girlfriend packs up and leaves him. In this scene, the protagonist's girlfriend's role only has a distant shot of packing things up, not to mention that the front face is not shown, and the drooping hair covers the side face, and you can't see the appearance of this character at all. With such a "faceless" character, Xiao Yao simply used the idle assistant Fang, letting her play a cameo in it, and let her become addicted to filming.

  The same three scenes, but the shooting difficulty on the second day was much greater than that on the first day. In the three scenes, two Xiao Yao are not wearing sunglasses. One is nervous and the other is decadent. They must be expressed through eyes and expressions, and the performance is relatively difficult. The other is an outdoor scene, or on the road, the scheduling is more difficult, and the shooting is also more difficult. So the filming of the next day, the crew worked overtime until the end of the evening.

  The original plan for the third day was to film the scene of the cafe. After the first two days of training, both Xiao Yao and the entire crew have become quite proficient. Needless to say, Lin Shaohua, the actor's performance, wears sunglasses most of the time, and only the action of removing the sunglasses twice reveals the whole scene. Face, the difficulty of acting is a bit smaller than the previous day. So on the third day, the crew completed the filming earlier than originally planned. In half a day, the shots that Xiao Yao expected to take a whole day were shot. In the afternoon, Xiao Yao pulled the crew to the residential building and filmed the scene where the protagonist knocked on the door of the final murder scene and asked to enter the house.

  Working overtime on the second day of filming, and filming on the third day ahead of schedule. From this, it can be seen that Xiao Yao, who was the director for the first time, did a good job in the process of filming. However, there are still some deviations in the preliminary planning and the estimation of the progress of my shooting speed. Fortunately, this is not a big problem. At noon on the third day, Tian Fangzhen, who played the old woman, and Hu Xuena, who came to play the role of the old lady, and Hu Xuena, who played the door to see the situation, were both at home. Xiao Chengru and Xiao Yao notified both. People didn't say anything, and came ahead cheerfully.

  On the third day, after all the scenes outside the house of the last customer, that is, the customer where the murder occurred, were filmed, the next two days will be the scene after the most important protagonist of the entire short film enters the murder scene.

This scene is the highlight of the whole short film. It is not only the most action and dialogue, but also the most difficult to perform. It is also the scene with the longest time. So the part of this scene Xiao Yao not only planned two full days to shoot, but also Xiao Yao also spent more time and energy on the early stage scene arrangement and prop preparation than all the previous scenes combined.

  In this scene, Xiao Yao also fully demonstrated his talent in the use of light and shadow. Through the brightness settings of several lights in the scene and the adjustment of light in various directions, the picture in the lens has a sense of horror. When the close-up of the blood-covered corpse of the old man on the sofa appeared in the camera, it was very shocking. Of course, Xiao Yao has shown a special effect makeup technique. When he turned his grandfather Xiao Chengru into a corpse with two iron nails in his temple, the people in the crew were once again amazed by Xiao Yao's special effects makeup skills.

  In this scene, Xiao Chengru starred in the corpse, so naturally he could no longer control the live performance behind the monitor. So when the scene was filming, even the nominal executive director was gone. Xiao Yao didn't invite anyone else, and directly commanded the start from the position where he was performing. During the shooting process, the director did not call to stop, so every shot was shot from beginning to end, good or bad. After the whole shot was completed, the photographer carrying the camera called "card". Xiao Yao returned from the actor's position to the back of the monitor to watch the replay. Fortunately, Xiao Yao used the high-definition digital video camera to shoot this short film, so it is very convenient to watch the replay live.

With this method of shooting, problems in the shooting process cannot be discovered immediately. It is all about Xiao Yao running back to see after the whole shot is finished. Once there is a little dissatisfaction, Xiao Yao will ask the whole shot to be taken again. More than a dozen times are commonplace, so the shooting speed of this last scene is also very slow. And for those problematic materials, Xiao Yao did not simply delete them, but kept them all. For him, these are all experiences he can learn in the future.

  Fortunately, Xiao Chengru and Tian Fangzhen have no opinion on Xiao Yao’s approach, which has no director and is similar to “blind shooting”.

   Both of them are elderly people, so they are very patient. Tian Fangzhen seldom shoots nowadays. This kind of repeated shooting not only didn't make her temperamental, but made her a little excited. This murderer is still a very challenging character, no matter how many times she shoots, she also regards it as a rare opportunity to enjoy the movie. As for Xiao Chengru, who played the dead body, even though he was uncomfortable sitting still with artificial blood on his face, his grandson's film naturally supported him to the end without complaint.

  The crew and three actors filmed in that dimly lit room for two days. It is estimated that the final scene in the short film will be five or six minutes in length. The crew took almost two hours of material, and Xiao Yao was satisfied with the filming of this scene.

In the viewfinder of the camera, the photographer operates the camera to move the lens slowly, starting from the piano, once to Xiao Yao who is naked and playing the piano, then a nail gun held behind him, and then holding the nails. Tian Fangzhen, the gunner, finally fixed the frame on the mirror on the wall where the two figures were shown. After holding the frame for two seconds, the photographer finally shouted out the last "card!"

   Xiao Yao, who was wearing only a pair of shorts, ran to the monitor naked and began to play back the last shot. Since the footage of Xiao Yao taking off his clothes was taken in the afternoon of the fourth day, the people in the crew have seen this scene countless times in a day and a half, and they have been amazed at Xiao Yao’s good figure from the beginning to now. It's not surprising.

   "Very good, it's over!" Xiao Yao yelled happily, waved his fist and said, "It's over, all the shooting is over."

  This shot is the last frame in the short film and the last shot in the last scene in the shooting plan. The passing of this shot means that the shooting of the entire short film has been completed.

  Looking at Xiao Yao's happy look, the people in the crew applauded happily, and some of the crew members even cheered when they were a little excited. In fact, the shooting in the previous few days was okay, mainly the last two days of shooting in this scene. The light on the scene was dim and the "corpse" of Xiao Chengru was sitting all the time. The atmosphere on the scene was actually quite depressing. Now the director says to shoot everything. At the end, the crew finally relaxed.

"August Yi, put on your clothes quickly and beware of colds." Xiao Chengru, who played the corpse, stood up from the sofa, not in a hurry to clean up the blood stains on his body and the iron nails stuck on his temples. Xiao Yao, who was thrilled with shorts, exclaimed.

   "It's okay, this season, I am not cold at all." Xiao Yao said with a smile. But to say so, under the gaze of Xiao Chengru, Xiao Yao took one side of the clothes and quickly put them on. At the end of August, the temperature is indeed quite high, but because of the large number of people in this room, the air-conditioning is actually turned on. In addition, the dark and terrifying atmosphere created specially makes people feel better than outside. Hot weather is much cooler. Xiao Yao is not very afraid of his health, but he doesn't want Xiao Chengru to worry.

  Not counting the preparation time, it takes five days to complete the shooting of a short film of more than ten minutes. This speed is not slow, and it is not very fast. Although there will be a series of dubbing, scoring, editing and other work in the later period, the finalization also represents a phased end. After today, the crew will soon be disbanded, so after Xiao Yao puts on his clothes, he also takes turns to embrace and thank you I talked about the staff in the crew.

"Everyone has worked hard these days!" After thanking the staff in the crew, Xiao Yao stood in the middle of the venue and raised his hands and said loudly, "I am a new director. This is my first short story. It will go well today. The finale is inseparable from the joint efforts of all of you, so tonight, I have a treat to give you a finale banquet, which is my gratitude to everyone!"

   "Wow, the director is so generous!" The crew applauded.

  After the filming of a movie, it is actually quite common for the crew to organize a final banquet to celebrate. But a short film took five days in total, and it was a bit unexpected for the crew of these crews to hold a banquet after it was finished. Therefore, when Xiao Yao announced the news, it was a surprise to the crew.

  The finale banquet is not only for the crew of the crew, but also the actors who participated in the filming are invited and thanked by Xiao Yao. Therefore, after the announcement of the finale banquet, when Xiao Yao ordered the crew to clean up the scene, he also sent news to the actors who participated in the short filming a few days ago.

  The location of the banquet was decided temporarily by Fang, and it was not too far away from the filming scene of the crew. After packing up the equipment, the crew immediately killed it. Although it was a temporary notice after Xiao Yao's whim, everyone was very generous and arrived one after another within the time Xiao Yao notified.

  Xiao Chengru, Tian Fangzhen, Ye Jiaying, Lin Shaohua, Huang Shi, Su Chengying, Cheng Xi, Xiao Yao, Chen Wanting, such a luxurious star cast looks very scary. The owner and service staff of the hotel were really surprised when they saw so many stars temporarily gathering in their hotel.

The hotel Fang is still looking for is a hotel with experience in hosting the crew’s finale banquet. The staff in the hotel knows that this is a crew holding a finale banquet by looking at them. When they see the stars enter the same box one after another. Later, the people in the hotel also began to wonder which crew was so awesome that could organize such a luxurious star lineup. Why was there no news in the media?

  (End of this chapter)