Chapter 270: Filming passionate scenes with close-ups of fingers
The electrician was called.
The pottery turntable needs to be turned down at a slower speed to prevent mud from splashing and ruining close-ups.
The person who went up to audition the scenes was Ronald, who had participated in the training with Demi Moore. He was the only person present who knew how to knead clay.
"Pfft..."
Decreasing the rotation speed of pottery has obviously increased the technical challenge. With a little more force on the hand, the entire pottery collapsed and turned into a weird and ugly thing.
"Hey, I can't, hasn't Dai Yang come yet?"
Ronald picked up a wet cloth and wiped his arm, but the good thing was that the mud didn't splash on his face.
"I'm here, what do you need to solve? Why did you slow down the rotation speed?" Dai Yang was quickly invited. As soon as she entered the studio, she knew that the rotation speed of the ceramic turntable had been slowed down.
Ronald spread his hands, pointed to the cloth coat he put on, and then pointed to his face, saying to Dai Yang: "I need close-ups and close-ups. My face and neck must be very clean, but my body must be very clean."
, the arms and upper body are stained with mud, the dirtier the better..."
"Oh...that looks very sexy..." Dai Yang understood Ronald's intention. Deliberately getting the body dirty is also a way to show sexiness on the screen. In the old-fashioned B-level
In the film, many veteran directors use it.
But after all, this technique is a bit... so it is rarely used in big productions. In the movie Ghost, getting your body dirty is a natural arrangement that fits the plot... Who made the heroine a potter?
"What exactly do you need?" Dai Yang approached, picked up the kettle and added some water to the clay to help shape it better.
"I need an object that Demi Moore can shape with her elementary pottery skills. Try to get her arms and chest as dirty as possible, but keep her face and neck clean..."
"Your three requirements are contradictory..." Dai Yang shook his head. Easy-to-use utensils are often made of softer clay and used at a faster speed, which makes it easier for novices to control the shaping. But adding more water, fast speed, and mud
Throwing it out will stain your neck again...
"That's why I came to you..." Ronald asked Dai Yang. In addition to paying a high consulting fee, he also promised to give her a movie role.
"Let me think about it...your shots don't need to be consistent all the time, right?"
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Early the next morning, when Demi Moore came to the studio, she had already discovered Dai Yang who had been working here late last night.
"Dai? Why are you here?"
"I'll be your substitute..." Dai Yang said, pointing to the tall pile of clay on the pottery turntable.
"Ah?" Demi Moore turned around and started looking for Ronald. Didn't she agree that she would star in the whole show?
"Demi, you're here?" Ronald was directing the camera crew to set up the camera. He heard Demi Moore's concern that using hand substitutes would give a bad impression to the critics, "It's not the kind of hand substitutes you understand."
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"Can we start?" Ronald asked the lighting team if the light was ready. After receiving a positive answer, he motioned Dai Yang to come over... "Start..."
Demi Moore changed into a new white dress. She had dozens of the same costume to meet the needs of being splashed with mud during filming.
She noticed that the camera was not turned on and the camera assistant was still measuring the focus, while Dai Yang had already started shaping the pottery amidst the music playing on the spot.
"Is it a vase?" Demi Moore quickly discovered that Dai Yang made a tall vase with a slender body that expanded in the upper third. It was a special vase.
shape.
"Okay..." Dai Yang worked out the shape and wiped the mud with a towel.
"Go and try it. Put your hand into the vase and don't knock it over..." Ronald motioned Demi to step forward.
"Oh..." Demi Moore carefully put her hand in and gently touched the blank of the vase.
“Oops…
Demi exerted a little more force, and the shape of the vase was changed. Her fingers turned the rapidly rotating vase from a smooth and elegant curved surface into a rough, asymmetrical, and slightly skewed one.
But after all, she had more time to practice than Ronald, so she immediately changed her intensity to avoid the vase from falling over.
"Very good, right?" Ronald looked at Dai Yang.
"It's really good..." Dai Yang saw that Demi didn't break the vase, and felt that she was quite good.
Anyway, what the audience saw was not the final appearance of the vase. In fact, they couldn’t tell whether Molly, played by Demi Moore, modified the work in a better-looking direction or in the opposite direction...
"Patrick, are you here? You and Demi try it out together, and then we will shoot it..."
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Ronald was very satisfied. Anyway, the focus of the audience's interest was still on the love affair between the two protagonists. As for how a pottery artist should be made and whether Demi Moore is a professional artist, I am afraid that very few viewers understand, so they can simply ignore it.
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"Action!"
The camera began to focus exclusively on Demi Moore repairing a vase, and then Patrick Schwytz, shirtless, walked into the frame from the darkness behind.
This is a scene explaining the relationship between two people. Previously, the two seemed to be not very interested in Sam and Molly living together, and they had some conflicts.
Molly said "I love you" to Sam, but did not get the expected "I love you too" reply. She heard Sam say the reason was because Sam had encountered misfortune when he was a child, and when encountering such good things, he always
I don't want to care too much, for fear of happiness slipping away.
But as a woman, she always felt uncomfortable. Unable to sleep late at night, she simply went to the basement to make pottery.
At this time, Sam woke up without seeing Molly and came down to find her. The two staged a lingering scene. This was also an action in line with Sam's philosophy - the key is not what to say, but what to do.
This is the key reason why there is always a crack in the intimate relationship between the two lovers. At this point, the audience understands that they love each other so much, but they also have common troubles for lovers.
Patrick Schweitz said from behind, "What are you doing?"
"I can't sleep..." Demi tilted her head back slightly, indicating that she noticed her boyfriend coming.
"I fell asleep without realizing it..." Patrick Schwytz came forward and sat behind Demi Moore. "What time is it now?"
"Two o'clock in the morning..."
Because of the small disharmony between the two, Molly didn't want to talk too much to Sam. But Sam came up and quietly put his hand on Molly's waist.
The flirting between the lovers made Molly feel itchy. When her hands shook, large lines appeared on the porcelain, which needed to be corrected.
Demi Moore played the role of a girl who can't stand being harassed and her body reacts involuntarily very well.
She glanced at Patrick Schwytz, dipped her hands in water, and began to correct the shape of the vase.
Patrick Schwytz felt very relaxed, and Demi Moore's relaxation also improved his acting skills. He slowly touched the back of her hand from behind, stroking the skin on the back of her hand softly and vaguely.
, feel the connection between the two with your heart.
"Pfft..."
The vase was already a little unstable due to Demi Moore, so it suddenly broke in the middle, and the large-diameter part fell off.
Ronald was a little annoyed. Originally, the front and back of the shot were very smooth, and the performances of the two actors were also very good...
He glanced at Dai Yang beside him, wanting her to make a new vase for Demi Moore, but found that Dai Yang's eyes were still staring ahead.
"Huh?" Ronald looked back and saw that neither Demi Moore nor Patrick Schwitz had stopped performing because of this accident. They were both very good actors and they continued to act as their emotions flowed.
"Hahaha, I hope this is not a masterpiece..." Patrick Schweitz laughed, made a quick face to the camera, and then put his chin on Demi's shoulder.
"At least not yet..." Demi Moore also smiled, then took the broken vase blank off the turntable, put it aside, and picked up a pile from the raw material basin next to it.
Put the clay on the turntable, then scoop some water from the basin and put it on top.
"Can I help?" Seeing that Ronald didn't stop, Patrick Schweitz continued to act.
"Of course, put your hands here, wet them with some water, and then let them pass between your fingers and feel them with your fingers..."
Performance is like this. When one actor reacts, he can convey the emotion of the improvisation to the other. When the other actor feels the emotion and has a new reaction, he can gradually continue the performance.
The two of them kept rubbing the clay with their hands until there was a lot of mud on their hands and arms, and on Demi Moore's white clothes. Finally, Demi Moore couldn't bear to be disturbed and simply put down the clay.
He turned around and kissed Schwyz.
"Cut!"
"Very good. This section is very good. Don't change clothes. Let's continue with the close-ups of hand movements."
Ronald was very excited. This kind of performance was much smoother than what was set in advance, and could better convey the intimate love between lovers to the audience. Especially Demi Moore, who was very interested in her boyfriend at the beginning.
She was a little cold, then felt itchy, helpless that he ruined her work, and finally joined hands with him to make pottery. The emotional change was very natural.
"How do you want us to play it?" Demi Moore and Patrick Schwytz also felt the incomparable chemistry just now. It was as if the two characters of Sam and Molly suddenly became two actors.
At this moment, they were not acting, but a real thing that happened to Molly and Sam.
As an actor, having this feeling is very precious. Demi Moore seems to have realized that the god of luck is on her side today, and she needs to take as many shots as possible before this feeling that she doesn't know where it came from slips away again.
"I really like the lingering feeling you had just now, like two people dancing with their bodies... Next, you should also remember this feeling and dance again with your hands..."
Then he quickly adjusted the camera, aimed at the two people's fingers, and took another close-up shot.
At first Demi Moore's fingers were on top of the clay, gently shaping it, and then Patrick C's fingers joined in.
The two people's fingers were wrapped in thick mud. Their fingers were intertwined and they wiped the mud off each other. New mud was constantly attached to them. Although there was a dirty feeling, it was extraordinarily dirty.
gentle.
The muse, the god of inspiration, is shy, and the staff on set held their breath to prevent her from being scared away as God was attached to the set at this moment.
Although there were only two people's fingers intertwining in the close-up, Ronald's mouth began to feel dry. He kept licking his lips and did not dare to make a sound to ruin this precious shot.
"Well..." Demi Moore couldn't bear the heat. She hummed lowly and spread her fingers uncontrollably.
"Hmm..." Patrick Schwytz was provoked by this low hum. He involuntarily stretched out his fingers and inserted them between Demi Moore's open fingers. The bodies of both of them were shaken.
For a moment, then the fingers intersect, hold them together tightly, and then separate...
Patrick's fingers were finally pushed away by Demi, but his hand continued to stroke gently on the back of Demi's hand.
In the end, Demi couldn't stand it anymore and took the initiative to step forward and hold his arm. This time, their fingers met in the air again. Demi Moore turned around and asked Schwytz for a kiss. At the same time, they
His fingers are still rubbing...
"Cut!"
This time, Ronald didn't stop until Demi Moore was embarrassed and didn't know how to continue.
The set was quiet, except for Ronald's call to stop and the low-frequency noise of the camera's motor, there was no sound at all.
After calling the stop, the staff did not turn off the machine immediately. After a second, everyone swallowed in unison and gathered together to make a loud sound.
Then the camera operator started to shut down the camera normally, and the recording staff holding the on-site microphone pole took back the microphone and relaxed his arms.
"Another overhead shot..."
Looking down from above, Ronald took another close-up shot of the two people's fingers intertwined on the clay. Ronald felt that he might have broken a record and was the first director in Hollywood to use his fingers to shoot passionate scenes.
Demi Moore and Patrick Schwytz's chemistry in front of the camera is incredible. Ronald doesn't know how long this state can last, and there will be an intimate scene between the two in the bedroom.
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He decided to strike while the iron was hot and temporarily adjusted the shooting plan. Taking advantage of the brief moment when the muse came to visit in the past few days, he filmed all the passionate scenes the two of them needed.
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The next scene is a scene where Molly and Sam feel a strong attraction to each other. The filming moved to the master bedroom set.
After a brief chemical reaction, the two had some minor conflicts. A large part of the passionate scene was a close-up shot of the two people kissing.
This again involves the question of who of the two leaves the better half of their face to the camera.
For most actors, one side of their face is prettier than the other. In most close-up shots, they will try to let the camera focus on their better side.
But there is a problem, that is, the good sides of the two people may have conflicts. At this time, it depends on the placement order and the director's decision.
"Half for each person, exchange places with a hug between you..."
Ronald encountered this situation and made a quick decision.
Both stars have an audience. There must be an audience who came specifically to see Patrick Schwytz topless, imagining themselves as if Sam was holding his own female audience.
There must also be male viewers who come for Demi Moore and bring themselves into the person who embraces her.
As far as this scene is concerned, the two actors are evenly matched.
In this case, Ronald will give the two fans the same close-up time.