The Best Director

"Stop! Rachel, I need your expression to be crazier and more ferocious! And..." Wang Yang held up the DV camera, looked at Rachel with a serious face, and said, "Crazy, insane, cramping, everything. OK! Imagine you get possessed by a demon, and it teases and laughs at you in the mirror, and it says 'oh stupid human,' and that's about it."

In the bathroom of the apartment, Rachel was wearing a blue plaid pajamas, standing in front of the mirror of the washbasin; while Wang Yang was at the door of the bathroom, and Zachary Levi was standing behind him.

Yes, they are currently filming the movie "Spiritual-Ghost Records". This is already the third day of shooting, and the filming process is nearly half completed.

When a movie is shot, it is not shot from beginning to end in the order of the script, but shot in sequence by scenes. The same scene is shot first, and then the next scene is changed. This saves time, money and labor. If you shoot according to the sequence of the script, you will be in Los Angeles for a while, and New York for a while, wouldn’t you have to fly around? After shooting the same scene, the serial work of the shots is left to post-editing.

Of course, with the help of the script, the actors also know what they are acting and the cause and effect 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 so-called "different scene". In order to make Rachel and Zachary Levi's performances more emotional, Wang Yang simply followed the script and filmed backwards and forwards.

This shooting method is considered surprising, but in order to save costs, there is something even more surprising. The costumes of the two protagonists are not provided. Both Rachel and Zachary Levi are wearing their own ordinary clothes, like now The blue check pajamas that Rachel was wearing also brought her own.

The scene they are shooting now, the story in the movie is that the heroine "Mel" played by Rachel suddenly got up in the middle of the night and stood in front of the mirror in the bathroom. After more than an hour, Zachary-Lie The male protagonist "Kevin" played by Wei woke up and found that his girlfriend Mel was not on the bed, so he walked out of the bedroom with the DV player, and then went to the bathroom. When he walked into the bathroom, the DV happened to capture the scene where Mei Er looked at the mirror with a hideous face.

Rachel has already tried various performances of Meier's "scareful face", and Wang Yang is not satisfied whether it is an exaggerated, neurotic performance or a subtle eye performance.

"The performance I want is...uh, maybe I should perform it myself?" Wang Yang said a lot, and suddenly wanted to do it himself. Rachel nodded and said: "Okay, after watching your performance, maybe I can understand what you mean." So Wang Yang handed the DV camera to Zachary Levi next to him, then walked to the mirror, coughed With a cry, he closed his eyes and brewed his emotions.

I'm being possessed by a devil now, I'm going crazy... Wang Yang tried hard to convince himself in his heart, slowly opened his eyes, and then wrinkled his face to smash it into pieces, it looked like Kim Kelly's performance. When he saw himself in the mirror, he couldn't help cursing, his face returned to its original state, and he shook his head and said, "It's not like this, it's not like this." He shrugged and said helplessly: "Well, I can't act, I can't act. Still suitable for holding a DV camera."

Both Rachel and Zachary couldn't help laughing a few times, and Rachel joked with a smile: "Of course, you are born to be a director."

Wang Yang himself laughed, but he said as if he had gained something: "Although my acting skills are terrible, I seem to understand something just now." He folded his hands on his chest and looked up and down Rachel in pajamas. He was not admiring Rachel's figure, but he realized that his thinking was wrong, he frowned and said: "Rachel, come and act out this scene casually."

"Okay." Rachel replied, her face suddenly changed, she grinned like a madman, and rolled up her dead fish eyes like a fool.

"I see!" Wang Yang's eyes lit up suddenly,

He snapped his fingers and said: "We all pay too much attention to the superficial performance, and the way of thinking should not be like this!" Rachel stopped the interpretation, and said incomprehensibly, "What do you mean?" Thinking, while explaining: "The Meier in this shot may need to be ferocious and crazy, but in the end, what we need is a weird feeling of horror! So the most important thing is to make people feel weird, isn't it?"

Wang Yang clapped his hands, looked at Rachel, and ordered the latest guidance: "From now on, there will be no ferocity, no madness, they are not the point, we want to be weird! Think about it, what kind of performance is weird?"

Rachel nodded half-understanding, and she said seriously: "Well, let me think about it."

This is the obstacle in the shooting. Although Rachel is a college student in the drama department, and Zachary has also performed on stage since childhood, they are still very immature and inexperienced. Young performances often lead to half the effort; and more The problem lies with Wang Yang himself.

After all, it is also his first time to shoot a film, he is equally immature and inexperienced; fortunately, this is just a pseudo-documentary type DV film, which has very low requirements for photography, lens positions, transitions, etc. can be amateur, or even The swaying here and there makes you dizzy, because the actor's photography level is limited to an ordinary person, so in terms of photography, Wang Yang did not encounter any problems.

The problem is that the shot script he designed before is actually shooting now. There are many things that he did not think of at the beginning, and many things that he took for granted. This requires a solution; there is another problem, which is the inspiration Suddenly, sometimes inspired by Rachel's performance, Wang Yang would tirelessly revise the shot script, and go back and reshoot after shooting, which also slowed down the process.

Just like the current situation, Wang Yang took it for granted that the heroine Meier should have a grim expression at first, but after spending half a day, he was not satisfied no matter how he shot it; now he suddenly changed to a weird direction.

"I think I'm beginning to understand a little bit." Rachel thought for a while, and said to Wang Yang: "Let's try it once."

"Okay, take your seats!" Wang Yang took back the DV from Zachary, stepped back to the door to adjust the camera, and then read: "3, 2, 1, start." As soon as the voice fell, he pressed the button 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 the cost savings.

After Zachary yelled, Rachel, who was facing the mirror, began to perform. The corners of her mouth slowly turned up, and the dimples on one side were exposed. It was originally a sweet expression, but her eyes were staring forward. , the eyeballs rolled up, gradually losing sight of her light blue pupils.

"Stop!" Wang Yang yelled and frowned, "It seems to work, but it doesn't seem to work. I always feel that something is missing, and I can't grasp what it is..." He scratched his head and said : "Forget it, let's rest for a while."

Both Rachel and Zachary-Levi nodded. Sometimes when encountering such a problem, you can't just push through it blindly. Take a break and think again, maybe you can figure it out.

After leaving the bathroom, Zachary Levi went to the balcony to blow some air. Wang Yang sat down on the red sofa, held the DV player, frowned and watched the clip just shot in the DV, thinking about what was missing. .

"Here you are." Putting on a coat, Rachel took out two bottles of Coke from the refrigerator and handed one to Wang Yang. She comforted her and said, "Yang, don't push yourself too hard. If you don't think about it, don't wait for a while." Come to think of it, we've only been filming for three days, and there's still more than a week left, right?" She joked, "Don't let my four thousand dollars go too fast."

Wang Yang glanced at her and said with a smile: "Don't worry, your four thousand dollars is definitely not easy to earn. I'm a black-hearted director."

"Director, take a rest." Rachel suddenly reached out and took the DV camera in Wang Yang's hand, then turned it off and put it on the tea table in front of the sofa, and suggested with a smile: "How about I tell you A joke, let you relax?"

"Wow, good!" Wang Yang opened the Coke, took a sip and said with a smile: "I am a very low-spirited person. Don't make your jokes too funny, or I might die laughing."

Rachel rolled her eyes with a smile, and said, "Don't worry, mine are all bad jokes. Well, listen..."

Just when she was about to start speaking, Wang Yang's cell phone rang suddenly, interrupting the good atmosphere. Wang Yang quickly said "I'm sorry" and took out his cell phone. The caller showed Jessica Alba , he connected with a smile and said, "Hello, Jessica?"

Jessica was there the morning before yesterday when the film started shooting the first sequence, but she only stayed for a short time that day and left; then she didn’t come yesterday, and today it’s almost 5pm.

"Hi, Jan! How was today's shooting? I didn't bother you, did I?" Jessica's nice voice came from the phone. Wang Yang looked at Rachel next to him, and said with a smile: "I didn't bother you, we are just resting now, and the shooting is okay."

Then I heard Jessica smile and say: "Yang, I'm going to your place now, I made a pizza, you haven't ordered takeaway yet, have you?" Wang Yang said "Wow" and said: "Pizza? It's just right , We haven't ordered takeaway yet."

"Then wait a little longer, there is still about half an hour away." Jessica smiled and closed the line.

Shaking the phone, Wang Yang said to Rachel: "It's Jessica, she made a pizza. I'm coming here now, and I'll be here in half an hour." He licked his lips, as if he was very hungry, and said: "Wow, pizza, just in time for our dinner."

Rachel also smiled and said "wow".