There is no other director on the "Crime" crew, not even an assistant director. This is obvious.
In fact, in addition to being a producer, screenwriter, and actor, Xia Yu also assumes the role of one of the directors!
It’s more advantageous just to compete for awards!
After all, Xia Yu is a complete newcomer in the field of directing. Even though she has already taken the first stage of thirty directing courses... But in the real world, she has not yet studied directing!
And she doesn't have any demand for the "Best Director" award yet.
Starting from "Painting the Ground as a Prison", in every movie Xia Yu shoots, reading is the most important and key step... Xia Yu has long been used to it, so from the beginning, he devoted himself wholeheartedly to it!
In fact, whether it is her or Cheng Zhiqing, half a year has passed. The lines and scripts, not only their own, but also others', have long been memorized. When they reach the bottom, they need to master.
What I am exploring is no longer just the character, but thinking about how to use other characters or the environment to go further and add color to the character!
The script reading is for them or other people to create a more suitable space for thinking. If you have doubts or feel inappropriate, you can brainstorm!
On the first day of the reading, Xia Yu took off his identity as an "actor" and used his identity as a screenwriter to talk to the actors. What the screenwriter thought about in the script, with the actors, and even with the director
, it would be outrageous to say that the stories, characters, and pictures expressed are completely different, but they are different to a large extent!
During the round-up reading, when the actors explain the script one by one.
Xia Yu began to analyze the script and story, adding opportunities for the actors to think at different levels and angles.
The characters are not one-on-one, but following the thick script, the plot advances step by step...
What is each character like at different times? Why does the character's emotions in the plot progress and why do they decline... At the beginning, except for Dai Chengbi who "blindly" believed in Xia Yu, even Cheng Zhiqing was not
High expectations!
Even if Xia Yu came up with a script analysis that was much thicker than the script, at most it was just emotion - Xia Yu was indeed very attentive and worked very hard to do a good job as a screenwriter. Of course, looking at the script so far,
It’s also quite excellent!
Cheng Zhiqing has not read the original script, so it is inevitable that he will "judge a gentleman's heart with a villain's heart." Even if they are very familiar with each other, he can roughly guess that Xia Yu is probably planning to further develop under the aura of "actor".
It’s just a level of “screenwriting” gold!
But at the end of the first day, he was a little surprised, because Xia Yu's analysis and the role inspiration he brought to the actors really surprised him - some angles were refreshing to him.
As the screenwriter, Xia Yu spent seven days sorting out this part, completely and without reservation for all the actors, and the staff all conducted a "screenwriter's interpretation of the script"!
There are eight actors, among whom Xia Yu focuses on taking care of Jiang Li and her daughter. The reason is naturally Jiang Tong.
The mother and daughter live in the theater all year round, and more perspectives are focused on the interpretation of the drama. Just like Jiang Tong's understanding of the two characters "Tongtong, Binbin" is not film-like enough!
The other one, Jiang Tong, has a heavier role, and it is a difficult performance in which one person plays two roles...
As for the staff, they are mainly the styling team and the clothing department——
After seven days, finally... when it was over, everyone basically looked at Xia Yu, not just as an actor. In these seven days, she had 99% reshaped everyone's impression of her, "Screenwriter Xia!
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The most surprising thing here is actually the team members who joined Zhuanghe Studio... They naturally think highly of Xia Yu and recognize her acting skills, but when it comes to screenwriting, there are several gold medal screenwriters in the studio——
The remaining ten percent is Dai Chengbi's complete trust in her——
When Cheng Zhiqing asked about this, he was also vague, but one sentence remained unchanged, "As long as Xia Yu wants it, there is nothing she can't do. I just need to believe in her, that's enough!"
In these seven days, Jiang Tong's understanding of the character has also grown rapidly...
At the end of seven days, on the night when the entire script was analyzed, her eyes were full of obsession and surprise——
"Mom, sister Xia Yu, you are really amazing!"
"Have you forgotten what Director Xia told you?"
"...Well, Xia Yu, aunt!"
Jiang Li touched his daughter's head.
The "Screenwriter Reading" was originally scheduled for ten days. Xia Yu followed teacher Zhao Jinhong for two trips, and he studied related majors for a whole year. In the end, without any overtime arrangements, it ended three days early.
This has to be said to be good news!
The "Screenwriter's Reading" is over, and the "Director's Storyboard Reading" comes online immediately. This aspect is much more complicated than the screenwriting!
More details have gone from character, story, refinement, and reality to rough rehearsal and performance of the lines - another studio that was rented earlier was finally used. Instead of explaining it in general, I started to get started directly. Fortunately,
The methods of Dai Chengbi and Mr. Zhuang are still a little different. They did not randomly grab actors to perform random plots, but performed them step by step, scene by scene!
Of course, Xia Yu, Cheng Zhiqing, and Jiang Tong have more roles in the scenes - and the rest of the actors have finally seen these two. In the film and television circles, they are known as the "new generation of women."
Actor's ceiling" and "golden supporting actor's ceiling" are the collision of acting skills!
However, in the process, they also saw an incredible scene - Xia Yu was often led away by Cheng Zhiqing during performances, and the rhythm was largely controlled by Cheng Zhiqing!
Xia Yu felt this scene, and Dai Chengbi felt it clearly - but whether it was Dai Chengbi, the actors present, or the familiar staff, they all held the same view: "Xia Yu did not try his best!"
Of course Xia Yu didn't use all his strength. After all, this was just a round-up and rough arrangement... But if Xia Yu used seven points of his strength, then Cheng Zhiqing only used five points - and at this moment, Xia Yu gave Cheng Zhiqing the feeling
Very clear!
Obviously during the "Cure" period, Xia Yu's acting skills can be said to be superb.
Don't talk about him, don't talk about Yu Junhao. In the group scene where the four of them collided in Bai Xiaofei's hometown, Xia Yu not only sat through it with ease, but even gave Cheng Zhiqing a slight illusion many times, "I was taken away by Xia Yu."
In a moment!”
After rehearsing on the first day, Cheng Zhiqing went directly to Xia Yu and said...