Ronald climbed onto the swing arm again. He wanted to see that the lighting atmosphere was in line with his preset ideas.
A wooden bridge leads to a platform extending out of the Mountain Lake Villa, where you can see the lake from the mountain.
Ronald had seen it in the viewfinder in advance. The lighting arrangement was designed in advance. The red, yellow, and green paper lanterns emitted a misty light on a drizzly night, as if each lamp
They are all covered with a halo.
The rocker arm rises from the ground, and then a distant view opens.
The lights in other places around the place were deliberately turned off and were all dark. Only the viewing platform opposite the wooden bridge was brightly lit, making people want to go there and join the lively dance party there.
"cut!"
The technique of using lighting invented by Francis Coppola in his blockbuster film "A New Love" is indeed very good and can easily create an intoxicating atmosphere.
Another street-level film that followed, "Streets of Anger," also used this kind of red and warm-colored lighting throughout the film to create an atmosphere on the actors' faces. The lighting was also set on the wet ground to allow the ground to reflect colorful light.
It is a very useful technique for creating an atmosphere.
Although these directors were not successful at the box office, they helped subsequent directors explore a new audio-visual language.
No wonder Coppola is always called the director's director. Other directors in the industry can always get more inspiration from his films than ordinary audiences.
"Move the camera to the viewing platform." Ronald ordered the camera crew.
Jennifer Gray and Patrick Thwaites are going to dance together soon, and I hope that what I have prepared can ease their feelings.
"Should I clear the place?" Ronald arrived at the viewing platform and asked the dressed-up assistant choreographer Miranda Garrison.
Today is the scene where she seduces Johnny, played by Sweets. All the dancers came to watch their choreographer's performance.
"No need, let them see my strength."
Miranda wore a black backless evening gown with an expensive white fur shawl around her shoulders.
Ronald smiled, reached out and took Miranda's hand, letting her step into the center of the viewing platform.
"Oh oh..." the extras started to cheer.
Patrick Swayze also smiled and took Miranda's hand.
Both of them are professional dancers. Ronald signaled the camera to turn on and began recording the film while they were rehearsing.
Miranda reached out to reach Sweets' neck, and the shawl slipped off. She simply took off the shawl with her other hand and threw it to the ground next to her.
I felt really bad when I saw the props. They were borrowed by the crew from the store. If they hit the ground or get wet, they would have to lose money.
Ronald grabbed him and glared at him. Miranda's impromptu performance was very good. She was a middle-aged housewife who wanted to eat the dance teacher with a very good figure when she saw him. She acted very well.
How can a little shawl be a bad thing? If it is interrupted, what if it is not in this state when the official filming begins?
Experienced actors can often produce the fullest and most realistic emotional reactions in the first shot. Later, as they gain experience, they will become clichéd.
"Hi, Max? Are my dance lessons starting to pay off?" Vivian, the noble lady played by Miranda, asked the hotel owner Max with a smile.
"Very good, first-class!" Of course Max knew what Vivian was doing, but as long as she could continue to stay in the resort hotel, he would usually turn a blind eye to such things. Besides, this
Vivian's husband should pay for the expenses.
Vivian turned around calmly and traced Johnny's face with a finger.
"cut!"
"Bravo!" Ronald was the first to applaud, leading the cast to applaud Miranda's lovely acting skills.
"Really? When we actually shoot, I'm afraid the performance will be even worse." Miranda quickly picked up the fur shawl and patted the dust on her hands.
"It doesn't matter, I've recorded everything." Ronald made a questioning gesture towards the photographer, and he made an OK gesture and then gave a thumbs up to show appreciation.
The camera rewinds again to film the boss Max greeting Dr. Hausmann and his family. Max hopes that his youngest son will pursue the doctor's youngest daughter, Osman, so he takes great care of them.
His son was admitted to Cornell, and the baby was going to Mount Holyoke College for Women in Massachusetts. It happened to be a good traditional school for marriage.
"Doctor, aren't you going to dance?"
The camera focuses on the Hausmann family, except Lisa who is out for a tryst.
"We're waiting for a waltz."
The doctor's wife answered on her husband's behalf. The waltz is a more orthodox social dance. Compared with today's music, it does not have as strong a meaning of male and female flirting.
"Vivian Pressman. She is what we often call a woman who lives in Kellerman during the week. Her husband is a car dealer and often comes here on the weekends."
The boss Max explains to the doctor the origin of this romantic woman.
Baby was held by Dr. Hausman's shoulders, as if he didn't want her to hear the dirty side of society.
Jennifer Gray had a look of helplessness on her face, as if she was saying, why wasn't I the one teasing Johnny?
"cut!"
Ronald stopped. This scene was actually performed very well, and Gray's mood was exactly in line with the baby's feelings in this scene. She was also envious of Sweets' wife.
The so-called wrong in and out, this kind of mentality is very suitable at least before the filming of the baby and Johnny's official relationship.
"log……"
Ronald called the recorder, and she began to record the position of each shot. Immediately, the lighting team had to change the lighting, and the set team also had to change some props.
In order to save money, "Dirty Dancing" uses jump shooting. On this viewing platform, there are many scenes that will be shot at the same time.
"Baby!" Sweets called Gray in an affectionate manner.
"Johnny, I..."
Jennifer Gray and Patrick Swayze slowly hugged each other and then started dancing the mambo to the music.
"cut!"
This was the seventh time Ronald had taken this shot. The two of them were stiff and stood there without speaking, as if there was no communication at all.
During the audition, the feeling of being so harmonious that just dancing without talking could make people blush and their heart beats is gone.
"We're here today."
Ronald's attempt to use physical contact to get the two leading actors back into shape also failed shamefully.
When you feel something, just looking at each other and wanting to connect with your fingers is a thrill that makes people tremble.
When there is no feeling, even if you kiss passionately, there will be no waves in your eyes.
"Ronald, here are all the theme song demos for application."
Back in the hotel room, Ronald could not stop and continued to select the theme song with the screenwriter Eleanor.
Music director Danny Goldberg is not doing his job well. Although he has a lot of experience working in large studios, when he encounters a stingy crew like Ronald, many of his working methods cannot be carried out here.
People can't handle anything.
For example, he handled the collection of theme songs very poorly. Originally, at a major studio, you only needed to make a request and make a few calls to friends at major record companies to provide good candidate songs.
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But Ronald had no money, only fame. The big record companies were unwilling to give their trump songs to Ronald's small production at a low price.
In the end, he went to find independent songwriters and producers that he was unfamiliar with. It was already halfway through filming and he still hadn't found a suitable song.
Ronald, who was already impatient, directly called Jimmy Lehner, the music broker who had secured the rights to the old songs. Through him, he sent a message to all interested independent producers.
Finally, after urgent solicitation, Reiner rushed to the Mountain Lake Villa with more than fifty demo tapes.
It was already late at night, and Ronald, dragging his exhausted body, was still listening to the play with screenwriter Eleanor.
Maybe the price offered was too cheap, or maybe director Goldberg’s idea made sense. Good songs would not be missed by big record companies and fall into the hands of independent producers.
I have listened to more than forty videos and still am not satisfied.
"None of these will work. What we want is a song that has the basic structure of the music of the 1950s, but also has some new pop elements. It also needs to be in time with the last dance."
Eleanor complained endlessly.
"The quality is indeed a bit worse." Ronald also scratched his head.
"It really didn't work out. We had to play a mambo-rhythmic dance song while filming the final dance scene, and then collect new songs and record them on the post-production studio."
"But then, the actors lacked the resonance of the scene and the appropriate theme song. And Jennifer and Patrick lacked chemistry."
"Forehead……"
Ronald was annoyed when he heard this. He turned on the last tape and put it in the recorder.
"Now I've found the time of my life
No, I've never felt like this before
Yes, I swear, it's true
I owe it all to you
Because I spent the best time in my life with you."
"Huh?" Ronald and Eleanor sat up at the same time. Although the song was not fast at first, the melody and lyrics fit the atmosphere of the scene very well.
Then in the second section, the rhythm speeds up to the normal rhythm of mambo, which can be used to make fuss about editing, with cross-editing of close-ups of faces and close-ups of dances.
"Who sang this? The voice is so magnetic?" Ronald was overjoyed and made sure to let the two singers in the demo sing this song.
"It's Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes," Jimmy Lehner replied.
Seeing that Ronald didn't quite understand, he added, "Bill Medley is the one with the long hair in the 'Righteous Brothers' group."
Ronald knew this group. Their most famous song, "You've Lost That Loving Feeling," was the song that the Lone Ranger sang acapella with a microphone in the bar in "Top Gun" to chat up Charlie.
It was also the song that Charlie ordered on the jukebox after the two reunited in the bar.
Bill Medley is the powerful baritone at the beginning.
"Ah, it's him. I've decided on this one, and you can help me get their recording done."
Ronald immediately made up his mind.
"I'm going to do it right away and get a studio version sent to you."
"Don't send it here, we're going to North Carolina right away."