Chapter 13: Shoot

"Stop! Rachel, I need your expression to be crazier and more stubborn! And ..." Wang Yang carried the DV camera and looked at Rachel seriously, saying: "Nervous, heartbroken, cramped, everything Okay! Imagine that you were taken up by an evil spirit, who teased you and laughed at you in the mirror. It said, 'Oh stupid human being,' that's almost it. "
In the bathroom in the apartment, Rachel was wearing a blue checkered pajamas and stood in front of the mirror in the wash basin; while Wang Yang was at the door of the bathroom, Zachary-Levi was standing behind him.
Yes, they are in the process of shooting the movie "Smart and Ghost Recording", which is already the third day of filming, and the filming process has been completed by nearly half.
When shooting a movie, it is not shot from the beginning to the end in the order of the script, but is taken sequentially in scenes. The scene of the same scene is shot first, and then the next scene is changed. Doing so saves time, money, and effort. If you follow the order of the script, will you be flying in Los Angeles and New York for a while? After shooting the same scene, then the serial work of the lens is left for later editing.
Of course, with the help of the script, the actor also knows what he is playing and knows the causes and consequences of the plot.
However, all the scenes in Wang Yang's movie are in this apartment, that is, his home, so naturally there is no such thing as "different scenes". In order to make Rachel and Zachary-Levi perform more emotionally, Wang Yang simply followed the script and shot it back and forth.
This shooting method is already surprising, but in order to save costs, there are even more surprising. The costumes of the two protagonists will not be provided. Whether Rachel or Zachary-Levi, they are wearing their own ordinary clothes, like now The blue pajamas that Rachel wore also came with her.
The scene they are shooting now, the story in the film is that the heroine "Meir" played by Rachel suddenly wakes up in the middle of the night and comes to stand in front of the mirror in the bathroom. After more than an hour, Zachary-Lee The actor "Kevin" played by Victoria woke up and found that his girlfriend Meier was not in bed, so she took the DV machine out of the bedroom and then came to the bathroom. When he walked into the bathroom, DV just happened to film Mei's ugly face in the mirror.
Meier's "face full of grimace", Rachel has already tried it in various performance methods, whether it is exaggerated, neuropathic performance, or subtle eye expression performance, Wang Yang is not satisfied.
"The performance I want is ... um, maybe I should perform it in person?" Wang Yang said a big pass, and suddenly wanted to go out in person. Rachel nodded and said, "Okay, after watching your performance, I might understand what you mean." So Wang Yang handed the DV camera to Zachary Levi next to him, then walked to the mirror and coughed. There was a sound, closed his eyes and brewing emotions.
I am now demon upper body, I want to go crazy ... Wang Yang tried to persuade himself in his heart, slowly opened his eyes, and then crushed a face with his eyebrows, it looks like Kim-Kelly's performance. When he saw what he looked like in the mirror, he could not help but scolded, his face regained its original shape, and shook his head: "Not like this, not like this." He shrugged and said helplessly: "Well, I can't perform, I Still suitable for holding a DV camera. "
Rachel and Zachary couldn't help but laugh a few times. Rachel quipped with a smile: "Of course, you are born to be a director."
Wang Yang laughed himself, but if he got what he said, "Although my acting is terrible, but I just seem to understand something." He held his chest with both hands and looked up and down Rachel in pajamas, he was not admiring Rachel's figure, but he realized that he had some thinking errors, he frowned: "Rachel, you come to perform this shot casually."
"Okay." Rachel answered, and her face suddenly changed, grinning like a madman, and turning her dead fish eyes like a dementia.
"I know!" Wang Yang suddenly blinked his eyes and said with a snap: "We all pay too much attention to the performance on the surface, the idea should not be like this!" Rachel stopped the interpretation and could not understand the authenticity: " What do you mean? "Wang Yang explained his thoughts while explaining:" The beauty of this lens may need to be gritty and mad, but in the end. What we need is a weird feeling of terror! So people Feeling weird is the most important thing, is n’t it? "
Wang Yang clapped his hands, looked at Rachel, and commanded the latest instruction: "From now on, there is no uglyness, no madness, they are not the focus, we have to be weird! Think about what kind of performance is weird?"
Rachel nodded, seemingly incomprehensible, she said seriously: "Well, I think about it."
This is the obstacle in filming. Although Rachel is a college student in the drama performance department and Zachary also performed on stage, they are still very immature and inexperienced. Green performances often lead to less success; and more The problem is with Wang Yang himself.
After all, he is also the first time to shoot a movie, the same childish and young, the same inexperience; Fortunately, this is a pseudo documentary type DV movie, the photography requirements are very low, the lens position, conversion, etc. can be amateur, even You are dizzy and stunned, because the actor's level of photography is originally limited to an ordinary person, so Wang Yang did not encounter any problems in photography.
The problem is that the sub-lens script he designed before, when he actually shoots now, there are many things that he didn't think of at the beginning, and many things he took for granted, which requires a solution; there is another problem, which is inspiration Suddenly, sometimes inspired by Rachel's performance, Wang Yang will tirelessly modify the split-screen script, and after filming and turning back, it will slow down the process.
Just like this, Wang Yang initially assumed that the heroine Meier should have a stern expression, but after spending a long time, she was unsatisfied with any shooting; now she suddenly changed to shooting in a strange direction.
"I think I started to understand a little bit." Rachel thought for a while and said to Wang Yang: "Let's try it once."
"Okay, everyone!" Wang Yang took the DV from Zachary's hand, retreated to the door to adjust the lens, and then said: "3, 2, 1, start." As soon as the voice fell, he pressed DV shooting button.
As soon as Wang Yang started talking, Zachary standing behind him shouted in horror: "Oh, baby! What are you doing standing here in the middle of the night?" The authenticity of the documentary and cost savings.
As Zachary shouted, Rachel facing the mirror began to perform, her mouth slowly tilted up, and the dimples on one side were exposed, with a sweet expression, but her eyes were staring at the front The eyes rolled up, and her light blue pupils gradually disappeared.
"Stop!" Wang Yang shouted and frowned, "It seems to work, but it doesn't work. I always feel that something is missing, and what can't be grasped ..." He grabbed his head and said, : "Forget it, let's take a break first."
Rachel and Zachary-Levy both nodded. Sometimes they encountered this kind of difficulty and couldn't just go through it. After a rest, they would think again, maybe they figured it out.
Out of the bathroom, Zachary-Levi walked over to the balcony to blow his hair. Wang Yang sat down on the red sofa, took the DV machine, frowned and watched the footage just shot in the DV, thinking about what was lacking. .
"Here you." Rachel put on a coat and took two bottles of cola from the refrigerator and handed Wang Yang a bottle. She comforted and said: "Yang, don't force yourself too tight. Thinking about it, we only took three days to shoot, and there is more than a week, do n’t we?
She said jokingly:
Do n’t let my four thousand dollars make too fast.

Wang Yang glanced at her and said with a smile: "Relax, your four thousand dollars is definitely not easy to earn, I am a blackhearted director."
"Director, take a break." Rachel suddenly reached out and took the DV camera in Wang Yang's hand, and then shut it down on the coffee table in front of the sofa. UU read the book www.uukanshu.com and proposed with a smile: " Otherwise, let me tell you a joke and let you relax? "
"Wow, okay!" Wang Yang opened the Coke and took a sip of laughter: "I have a low laugh point. Don't make your jokes too funny, otherwise I might laugh."
Rachel rolled her eyes with a smile, and said: "Relax, mine are all cold jokes. Well, listen ..."
Just when she was about to start speaking, Wang Yang ’s mobile phone suddenly rang, interrupting the good atmosphere, and Wang Yang quickly said "sorry", then took out his mobile phone, and the caller showed Jessica Alba , He smiled and said, "Hello, Jessica?"
The day before yesterday, when the movie was turned on to shoot the first set of shots, Jessica had been there, but she only stayed for a short time that day and left; then she hadn't been there yesterday, and it's almost 5pm today.
"Hi, Yang! Is today's shooting okay? I didn't disturb you guys?" Jessica's nice voice came from the phone. Wang Yang looked at Rachel next to him and said with a smile: "Not disturbed, we are just taking a break now, the shooting is okay."
Then I heard Jessica smile and say: "Yang, I'm in the past with you, I made a pizza, haven't you ordered takeaway yet?" Wang Yang said, "Wow", said: "Pizza? Just right." , We have n’t called takeaway yet. "
"Then you will wait for a while, there is about half an hour away." Jessica smiled and closed the line.
Shaking his phone, Wang Yang said to Rachel: "It's Jessica, she made a pizza. It's coming over now, and half an hour to come." He licked his lips, as if he was hungry, saying: "Wow, pizza, just for our dinner."
Rachel also smiled and wowed.