"This is not a movie reading, this is simply a joint graduation exam of UCLA and USC!"
"I'm crazy. Why do I think that the crew of Twilight Girl is such a gangster? I'm really blinded by fame and fortune!"
"I thought I stood out among hundreds of competitors and could at least gain some popularity after the movie was released and be able to get out of the industry. Now I really doubt whether I can walk out of this crew alive."
Of course.
Faced with such a collapsed speech, the "peer" next to him who also collapsed would ask:
"Now there is an opportunity in front of you. While the film is still in the review stage, you can terminate the contract without having to pay a high termination fee - are you willing to leave?"
The person who was asked was stunned for a moment, then shook his head crazily, smiled bitterly, and said very aggrievedly:
"I guess I'm crazy?"
"Not only do I not want to, I am even afraid that one day I will fail the assessment, or my score will be too bad, and I will be kicked out of the crew. The humiliation is only secondary... I think I am indeed crazy, I hope I can stay until at last!"
This is not only a conversation between these two people, but also the voices of other actors who heard this conversation...
"It's not you who are crazy, it's us who are all crazy, a bunch of lunatics!"
"Are we going to slowly enjoy this madman's round-the-clock game?"
"I think we will... we will gradually become a group of people with Stockholm syndrome!"
"Hiss! I think you may be right. In two days, I seemed to have fallen in love with her?"
"Oh man, you're poisoned!"
"Ohno, I think so, but I am willing to..."
Sitting in a corner of the conference room, hearing the actors outside discussing this, Sophia and Zhuang Ling couldn't help but give Xia Yu a thumbs up.
Even Zhuang Ling was amazed: "I confirm again that you are a new director, because veteran directors, such as Mr. Zhuang, will never be able to pull off these tricks. They will think it is a waste of time. But there is no doubt that, This method can greatly mobilize the enthusiasm of actors and reconcile the relationship between actors and directors. I think they are not as good as you."
Zhuang Ling thought thoughtfully: "When you thought of this, weren't you afraid of screwing it up?"
Xia Yu leaned on the chair, recalling the details of today's reading, shaking his head, and said with two minds: "What are you afraid of? I'm just a new director. I don't think I need to set such harsh rules on my head. Bind yourself, don’t you?”
She pursed her lips and smiled: "That's true."
*
Film shooting has very strict requirements on time. The average crew is already racing against time during the preparation stage. After all, for the average crew, time represents money, and they do not have much money to collide with time!
In the past, Xia Yu's crew basically focused on this principle of "time and money".
But Xia Yu was different this time.
As a director and a new director, she doesn't have much pressure from "fame" and is afraid of making mistakes.
She is more stressed about how to shoot this film to the most satisfactory level, and she is willing to put in the hard work.
As for money?
The box office of "Twilight 3" will gradually arrive. As mentioned before, the box office share, after the second part, will gradually become fair and advantageous for the bankrupt sisters. This is what Europe and the United States have for film producers. A policy that supports...
This means that the bankrupt sisters can once again have a huge box office income and donate it to the "Zhuang Ling Charitable Foundation".
Money? It seems that this is what she lacks the most right now...
The filming time for the film has been set long ago.
Three months.
One month was used for reading by the crew. Based on various analyzes of the script, actors, and shooting locations, Zhuang Ling believed that "Aversia Hatcher" would take less than a month to read.
, a maximum of fifteen days is already the upper limit.
Because of the content and type, it basically revolves around this small town and these main characters.
The timeline was still stretched by Xia Yu.
Every extra day of reading is a significant expense.
But she really doesn't care about money.
She only cares about the results of this shooting and the effectiveness of the director's plan for this new career.
Zhuang Ling reluctantly acquiesced.
Before I replaced her, I would definitely not do it. Now think about it, even Carlos Zivkovic’s bastard trash movie "The Aesthetics of Death" cost her 200 million US dollars, the total investment of "Afsia Hatcher"
It’s only 25 million... It’s still Xia Yu, how can you disagree?
'Now it looks pretty good, right?'
The original script reading time was: one week.
As a result, within three days, the first stage of the study was successfully completed.
All the actors have memorized their lines in their minds once, and are basically able to answer questions immediately.
Xia Yu smiled:
"Games and game rules, rules and reward and punishment mechanisms... a good tool!"
March 4th.
The reading game has entered the rough arrangement stage.
Simple explanation:
Rough performance rehearsal stage.
The rules of the game remain unchanged, but the excitement is still the same. They have experienced the suppression of the tyrant Ashley on the set, but when it comes to efficiency, it is still the Xia Yu crew. Not only the efficiency and completion, but also the quality are impressive.
The actors will also read the second stage, which is called, "Devil's Test Version 2.0"!
The original rehearsal time was changed from 7:30 in the morning to 7:00, and from 6:00 in the afternoon to 8:00 in the afternoon.
No one objected.
Every day I repeat being "on tenterhooks" and "eager to try", that is, I am worried about being beaten, but I am also eager to be beaten.
My mood was extremely complicated.
Rehearsals lasted all day, and during lunch and afternoon we discussed the plot, character expressions, and how to add character characteristics based on the original script. Character biographies also became an indispensable part.
After working exhaustingly all day long, only six hours of sleep are relaxing every day. This is probably the hardest time most of them have worked in their lives. From rules forcing others to be disciplined, to gradually becoming self-disciplined and forming a habit.
, it only took fifteen days.
Reborn? Not really, not really, but it is definitely very different from what it was fifteen days ago.
Not only in terms of acting skills, but also in attitude towards performance, this is a spiritual practice.
This is not something Rainy is bragging about, but something the actors actually felt.
Especially the main actors... Even though they are accustomed to all kinds of special vegetable juices and Shiquan Dabu Decoction, their efforts to complete the task with all their strength have been engraved in their habits, mentality, and minds.
In these fifteen days, in addition to witnessing the bottomless, seemingly limitless performance of the "Big Demon King", they also witnessed the continuous transformation of her body shape. For fifteen days, they were mentally tortured, and Xia Yu must have been