Chapter 775 Losses in the film and television industry
The set is in a single-family villa, and the scene is sponsored by the developer of the community built by Shenzhen CITIC Real Estate.
After the family arrived here by car, they were warmly welcomed by a group of developers. In response to the sponsorship agreement, Chu Xuan, Liu Yifei and Zhou Jielun took a group photo with them at the gate of the community for publicity. Then they said goodbye.
A group of people went to the villa set.
The villa is not big, with the two floors adding up to less than 300 square meters. It is a safe home for the heroine in the play.
There are only about twenty or thirty people working on the crew. There are not many scenes in this scene. According to the plan, it should be filmed this afternoon. The scene is not big, so there are not too many people required. The large crew is in the follow-up shooting plan.
Prepare for other scenarios in advance so that there is no delay.
Actors are a bit deserted. After sending away Zhang Luyi and Ouyang Nabi in the first two days, Zhang Ruoyun, Li Xin, Song Qian, Zhu Yilong and a group of special guests were sent away in the past two days.
Yang Mi and other actors whose roles were at the back of the list went about their own business after witnessing the launch on the day of filming, waiting for the call from the crew.
Nowadays, only the newcomer Gu Lina, who has no business, hangs out with the crew every day, and there are three acting actors, Zhang Songwen, Wen Zhengrong, and Qin Hao, who work with the crew every day to get a feel for their roles in order to better interpret their roles.
There is also Huang Bo. He returned to Beijing a few days ago to handle the preparatory work for the movie "Bullfighting". He came back from Beijing yesterday and will start filming the heroine's scenes today. As the heroine's assistant, he will naturally follow Liu Yifei in the scenes.
The heroine's role is on the schedule.
"Director, producer, have you eaten?"
"Hello teachers, I haven't eaten yet, what kind of food is it?"
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei said hello to the actors and directors, and then went to the villa dining table with Liu Xiaoli and Zhou Jielun to join the cooking team.
"It's quite wonderful to act with auntie." Huang Bo said while eating his food.
Liu Xiaoli said gently: "I can't act, so don't blame me if I disrupt your rhythm."
"Hey, auntie, don't say that. Let's communicate together." Huang Bo looked at Chu Xuan with a smile: "Besides, it's not my turn to blame. It also depends on our director's face."
He said everything in his words: If your mother-in-law makes a mistake while acting, do you dare to scold her?
Liu Yifei was very happy to see how Chu Xuan would answer.
"You guys eat, then put on your make-up after eating." Chu Xuan walked towards the director team with his lunch box as if he were running away, not talking to them about such a topic that was destined to be boring.
Watching Chu Xuan run away, everyone present felt it was interesting.
Chu Xuan came to the chair in front of the monitor and sat down, reading a literary script while eating. He didn't read the storyboard. He mainly directed the scene for his mother according to the language of the shots. She must not understand it, so she could only follow the literary script.
I need to describe the plot clearly and think about how to direct the play for my mother.
But facing his mother, who had never acted before, and it was his mother, he finished the meal without clearing his mind on what to do.
Let mom act based on her feelings first. If there are any problems, we'll talk about it later.
Just like that, after a meal, the mother and daughter and Huang Bo finished their makeup, and Chu Xuan announced without saying anything that he was ready to start filming.
On the nanny car outside the community, Liu Xiaoli, Liu Yifei and Huang Bo got on the car.
"Should I just sit here?" Liu Xiaoli was full of novelty. Even though she was used to riding in a nanny car, this was her first time filming in a nanny car, which made her feel very fresh.
"Auntie, sit here, they will sit across from you." Assistant Director Lu Chuan directed.
"Okay." Liu Xiaoli happily sat down on the sofa, with Liu Yifei and Huang Bo sitting opposite her.
"Auntie, your camera for this scene is from a fixed position facing the opposite direction, so don't move your face from left to right, just face the camera directly," said Lu Chuan.
"Understood." Liu Xiaoli nodded slightly and glanced at the camera fixed on the wall of the car above her daughter. This was the position where she was photographed.
She is confident in this aspect: Although I have never filmed, I have watched two bastards filming for several years. The camera, lighting, and positioning are all basic skills. I have watched them for so many years.
How can I not understand this?
"Auntie, have you read the script?" Lu Chuan asked.
"I've seen it. This is a scene where my daughter returns home after being suppressed." Liu Xiaoli was prepared.
As early as last year when she got the character script, she took the time to read the script for her character and spent time thinking about it.
It was just that during the Chinese New Year, I was distracted by my daughter and son-in-law's marriage, and after I came to Shenzhen, I was distracted by the wedding room. I took the time to review the script in the past two days to know clearly what the plot I wanted to shoot today was.
Lu Chuan pursed his lips, wanting to say something but not knowing how to say it. Seeing how confident the Queen Mother was, he stopped talking and took pictures of the specific situation before talking about it.
"The recorder's call!" came Chu Xuan's voice.
In the script, An Anxin refuses to sign a contract with Starlight Media, and police officer Yang Ming accuses Starlight Media of bad behavior online because his sister Yang Feifei is unspoken. These two things happen at the same time.
Starlight Media conspired to create public opinion through bad marketing of Anxin. While suppressing the small public opinion that Yang Ming accused, it also suppressed Anxin who refused to sign the contract. At the same time, it also helped its own artist Song Huiru to solve a powerful problem in the micro-film competition.
The opponent can be said to kill three birds with one stone.
The scene that started filming was that Anxin was maliciously marketed and was disqualified by the competition organizing committee due to negative news. After learning of this result, her mother Liu Xiuxiu and her assistant Zeng Shuai went to the organizing committee to ask for an explanation, but to no avail
Later, I took the car home with An Xin.
Viewing scene: The nanny car drives from outside the community all the way to the entrance of the villa.
Character scene: Liu Xiuxiu and Zeng Shuai’s expressions of the result in the car.
"Why do you use a stand-in for more than half the time? Why do you bribe the organizing committee to advance all the way? It's not illegal to spread rumors, right? Just open your mouth and do it?" The nanny car started to enter the community. Huang Bo acted indignant at the right time and said his lines.
At the same time, it also opens the opening scene of this scene.
After Huang Bo finished speaking, he waited for the next performance anchor point.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The next performance anchor is on the aunt, who will give him a line, and then he will derive the subsequent interpretation.
But I waited and waited, but I didn't wait for the signal from my aunt.
"stop!"
"Liu Xiuxiu, why do you keep laughing when your daughter is suppressed? Also, where are your lines?"
Liu Xiaoli didn't react for a moment. She didn't know who Liu Xiuxiu was, but Liu Yifei, Huang Bo and Lu Chuan who were looking at the overall situation from behind the car started laughing.
"Mom, I knew something was wrong when I saw you smiling." Liu Yifei was so happy that she slapped the sofa a few times and said, "Your daughter, I have been suppressed to death, why are you laughing?"
"Ah, yes, I am Liu Xiuxiu." Liu Xiaoli came back to her senses, covered her face and looked embarrassed to see others, amused by herself: "No, I always thought it was filming and it was fun, so I didn't react.
Sorry, sorry, do it again."
She was still in the interesting atmosphere of filming for the first time, and she unconsciously raised the corner of her mouth. From the perspective of the onlookers, Huang Bo's performance came too fast, and she couldn't react at all.
Chu Xuan and the teachers couldn't help laughing in front of the monitor.
"I can't find a sense of faith." Tang Ji said, and all the teachers nodded.
Chu Xuan picked up the walkie-talkie: "Play the board."
Liu Xiaoli mentioned her status and silently recited several times that she was Liu Xiuxiu. The name she got was very reminiscent of her era. It was the simple and popular naming method in the 1960s and 1970s that gave her this
Some sense of character.
"...It's not illegal to spread rumors, right? Just open your mouth and do it?" Huang Bo entered the state.
Liu Xiaoli said calmly: "Then what can be done? Their brilliant era controls the media resources, and it is up to them to say what they want to say. We little people can only passively bear these rights and wrongs, and we have no qualifications to ask for fairness and justice."
She is very proud in her heart: I have memorized such a large number of lines, which is really excellent!
However, looking at her daughter and Huang Bo opposite, who seemed to be laughing, her eyes were full of doubts. Is this line funny? There was no problem with her performance. Could it be that there was a dramatic turn here, so her daughter and Huang Bo showed their faces.
Smile?
"Auntie, this is Starlight Media, not Brilliant Times." Lu Chuan's voice came from the back of the car, and his tone was full of fun.
"Mom, my brilliant era is a conscientious enterprise. Even if you talk about it, don't talk about it on your own company. I'd rather think about it if you talk about Huayi Brothers." Chu Xuan said into the intercom.
As soon as he finished speaking, the whole crew burst into laughter. Some were holding their stomachs, some were holding on to the wall, and some were slapping the table. There was an atmosphere of endless joy.
When Liu Xiaoli realized what she was doing, she covered her face and couldn't laugh or cry. She asked why her daughter and Huang Bo suddenly started laughing. Her lines weren't funny, and her performance was fine. It turned out that it was her own words that let the lines pass by, and she was really dizzy.
"It's just because it's our own company, so I say I'm used to it," she explained.
"Come again, come again, I feel it." She quickly asked to take another photo in an attempt to break the awkward atmosphere.
After taking a short break, Liu Yifei and Huang Bo calmed down their joyful emotions and started filming again.
"Then what can we do? Starlight Media...are not even qualified to ask for fairness and justice." Liu Xiaoli was right this time.
Huang Bo answered and was very angry: "It's just because the girl refused to sign the contract with them and maliciously targeted her if she didn't sign the contract. The media also followed suit and no other company spoke for us. Starlight Media has the final say in the entire entertainment industry, right?
It’s really disgusting that such a big company doesn’t do good things but does dirty things!”
Liu Xiaoli sighed, said no more, and fell silent.
Liu Yifei, the person involved in the plot, remained silent. This scene used Huang Bo's anger and Liu Xiaoli's mitigation to present the dramatic conflict in the incident. It also initially highlighted Huang Bo's hatred of evil and Liu Xiaoli's calm and indifferent temperament.
The scene ended when the nanny car stopped at the door of the villa.
"stop."
"Liu Xiuxiu, come here."
Liu Xiuxiu...Liu Xiaoli raised her eyebrows, "Good boy, I'm going to treat you like this, right?"
She got off the car and walked into the villa to the director's team. Chu Xuan immediately changed his face: "Mom, sit down and let's discuss it."
I guess you're a wise guy...Liu Xiaoli smiled slightly and sat down next to her.
The teachers watched this scene with relish and it was full of fun.
"Mom's performance in this scene was very good, but I think it would have been better if it was more emotional?" Chu Xuan expressed his opinion.
Could you be more emotional?...Liu Xiaoli frowned slightly in thought, trying to understand what her son-in-law meant.
"No need." Tang Jili said: "Xiao Li just seemed to be taking things indifferently, and the heroine An Xin also has a quiet and elegant personality. This is the same origin. I think Xiao Li's performance just now was just right."
Huang Lei nodded: "It's good to keep this character like this. Don't be too emotional. Let the audience get the feeling that the mother and daughter are carved from the same mold. The effect is the best."
Ning Hao echoed: "Yes, just be calm and care about it. Liu Xiuxiu should be like this. No matter An Xin succeeds or fails, don't be too emotional. Let the audience see the inner strength and power of this mother, and combine this strength and
The daughter who is strong and brings peace of mind is the core of what this character wants to express."
"Good guys, are you united?" Chu Xuan turned to look at the teachers. He raised a point, but the teachers denied it one after another. This was no one else.
"Why are we joining forces? Your mother-in-law is acting as she is, so she acted just right based on her feelings. We are stating the facts," Tang Jili said.
Everyone looked at Chu Xuan with interest to see how Chu Xuan would respond.
"Director, what do you say?" Liu Xiaoli joked.
Chu Xuan thought for a while, but still obeyed the teachers' opinions: "Mom, you can do whatever you want, just act according to your feelings."
He felt that my mother's role was more emotional and fuller, but this was contrary to the elegant and indifferent appearance of my mother in reality. Just as the teachers said that my mother was acting in her true colors, this was also inconsistent with Liu Yifei's performance in the play.
The style remains the same.
Then let's do it, maybe performing the real self in this way will be more convincing and iconic.
With her son-in-law's affirmation, Liu Xiaoli felt confident. She no longer had complicated thoughts about unpredictable performance methods. Her son-in-law's three-act theory no longer served as a standard for self-evaluation, and she just acted naturally according to the situation.
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Just like that, an afternoon of filming also gave her a lot of new and different experiences, and she also learned what a sense of faith is.
At first, she just thought she was acting, so she felt at a loss as to what to perform. But as long as she could convince herself to get involved in the characters and corresponding situations, she would forget about the camera and herself, and thus forget that she was acting.
Different situations have different emotions, as well as different characters' self-perceptions, which made her deeply understand the difficulty of being a high-level and good actor.
The role she plays fits her reality, and she gradually develops a sense of belief and a sense of character. As for other actors, how strong a sense of belief must they have to switch back and forth between emotions and sense of character that are not in line with their reality.
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Actors need to have a very strong heart, I don’t believe this statement.
"My daughter and son-in-law are so outstanding." Deeply aware of the difficulties of being an actor, Liu Xiaoli praised her daughter and son-in-law at a higher level than before.
"Start!" At dinner time in the evening, the filming of the last scene of the day started.
In the villa restaurant, Liu Xiaoli and Liu Yifei were sitting opposite each other. There were several dishes on the dining table, and the mother and daughter were eating.
An An was disqualified from participating in the competition and was brutally attacked online. She remained silent after returning home.
Her mother, Liu Xiuxiu, saw that she looked sad and comforted her.
Liu Xiaoli stretched out her hand to hold the dish, and Yun Danfeng said lightly: "Being an actor is your own choice. If you don't have a strong heart to bear all this, how can you continue to pursue your dream?"
She stopped suddenly. There was another line of dialogue behind her, but she didn't continue. Her eyes flickered and she didn't know what she was thinking.
Seeing that her mother was stuck, Liu Yifei raised her head and looked at her curiously.
"stop."
"Mom? What's going on?"
Liu Xiaoli placed her chopsticks, stood up and walked to the director's team: "I want to change this line, it doesn't taste right."
Change the lines?...Chu Xuan and the teachers were stunned. Then the teachers took the attitude of watching a play and left this issue to our director. If the mother-in-law wants to change the lines, will you, the son-in-law, agree?
"This line... doesn't taste right?" Chu Xuan couldn't figure it out, but maybe his mother had her own understanding and ideas, so he asked: "What should I change it to?"
"Take it again and see how it goes." Liu Xiaoli said.
"Okay, Mom, go get ready." Chu Xuan nodded.
The teachers looked at this scene and didn't say anything. The lines designed by professional screenwriters focus on the emotional coherence of the previous and the following. If you, an unprofessional person, deny it, this is Liu Xiaoli, the queen mother of the crew, there is nothing you can say.
Liu Yifei watched all this at the dining table and found it very interesting. Her mother was addicted to acting and had her own ideas. She didn't know what kind of lines her mother would change, so she was looking forward to it.
When the filming started again, Liu Xiaoli no longer picked up the food, but looked at her daughter who was lowering her head to eat to hide her sadness. She put her chopsticks on the bowl, rested her elbows on the table, and crossed her hands in front of her chin.
"It's bad but it can't be made better. It's enough for you to know that it's good."
"Since I have chosen to be an actor as my dream, I should regard all the disturbances from the outside world as nothing."
"A woman's independence makes the world wider, and self-improvement makes the sea and the sky broader. Compared with the progress in your external abilities, mother hopes to see you become stronger inside. Only when you become strong inside can you find your true happiness."
Liu Yifei paused, raised her head and said, "Mom, I'm fine."
Liu Xiaoli spread her hands, picked up the chopsticks and gave her daughter a handful of vegetables: "Come on, mom will always support you."
Liu Yifei burst into laughter: "Mom, I love you."
"I love you too." Liu Xiaoli took back her chopsticks and smiled at her daughter.
The mother and daughter looked at each other, and the atmosphere changed from gloomy to warm.
Until Chu Xuan shouted "stop", Liu Yifei got up and came to her mother, giving her a loving hug.
"I almost cried, you know."
"That means you still remember what your mother said to you back then."
"Of course you remember it, you will never forget it in your lifetime, okay?"
Liu Yifei never expected that the lines her mother changed were words she had said to her in real life. They were said when she was criticized for "Dragon". After so many years, her mother repeated the words almost word for word.
Carving it out, this touched her greatly and moved her very much.
In front of the monitor, Chu Xuan looked at the warm scene of mother and daughter in the camera and raised the corner of his mouth.
When he first listened to the first words, he didn't know his mother's intention of changing the words, but when he heard "women are independent, the world is wider", he completely understood what his mother meant. This was the teaching he once gave Liu Yifei.
The corresponding situations inside and outside the play fit perfectly, which is really wonderful.
"Liu Yi can be laid off. The lines he changed this time are up to standard, more tender, and in line with the character and style of Liu Xiuxiu." Tang Jili commented that this change of lines was an unexpected surprise. Liu Xiaoli still has some literary skills.
, I really didn’t expect it.
"Liu Yi can be laid off..." Huang Lei was amused, but he also agreed with Tang Jili's evaluation of the changed lyrics. This line is indeed much better than the one in the script. It has golden lines and emotional value, and has stronger motherly love.
The positive communication is enough to make Liu Xiuxiu, the mother, more impressive in the hearts of the audience, thereby improving the overall quality of the drama.
"That's it, it's pretty good." Ning Hao said.
Chu Xuan nodded. He never expected that his mother would give him a surprise. He played back the sound source and asked the screenwriter teacher to change the lines in the script. He gave a thumbs up to his mother who was walking from the set.
Seeing her son-in-law like this, Liu Xiaoli came over with expectation: "How is it?"
"Very good." Tang Jili nodded in approval: "Xiao Li, you have your own understanding of the characters, which is also a manifestation of your acting talent. With your dancing background, why didn't you think of trying the career of an actor before?
The industry environment in our era was pretty good. If you were an actor back then, you wouldn't be a veteran actress now."
Hearing these words of praise, Liu Xiaoli waved her hands gently: "Hey, how could we have so many ideas back then? The main idea of our generation was to stay rooted in one's profession and survive."
Tang Jili nodded slightly, agreed with Liu Xiaoli's statement, and said no more.
"It's a pity. If my mother had been an actress back then, she would have been mainland China's Brigitte Lin if she had followed the martial arts route, and she would have been mainland China's Maggie Cheung if she had followed the literary route. This would be a loss to the film and television industry."
"Hahaha……"
Everyone laughed when they heard Chu Xuan, the son-in-law, complimenting his mother-in-law.
Liu Xiaoli felt quite embarrassed when she was praised, so she immediately tugged on Chu Xuan's ears, but her happiness was beyond words. It was quite useful for her to receive the praise from her son-in-law in front of everyone.