The shooting is proceeding in an orderly manner.
"All departments prepare!"
"The actors are in place!"
"The fifth scene, one shot, once!"
"Start!"
"You little brat, don't interrupt! This is my work! I can do whatever I like! You've been talking back to me since we were rehearsing..."
Shen Teng continued to show his anger.
Due to the previous experience, although I was NGed twice this time, it was not because of my expression, but because the slap in Huo Jianxi's face was not natural enough.
In this regard, in order to alleviate the embarrassment of his zombie's poor walking ability, Huo Jianxi also asked Shen Teng to hit him with confidence and to hit him louder.
Shen Teng always responded to requests for beatings, and the beatings became even louder.
Of course, when you slap your face, you actually slap it across the face. Although the sound is loud, it doesn’t hurt.
It’s not like the actors of later generations who needed a substitute at every turn.
Seeing that Shen Teng was getting more and more out of control, he began to push Huo Jianxi away. Maybe the situation would get worse.
It wasn't until Yang Meiqing, the director's wife played by Ma Li, came out to separate the two that Shen Teng calmed down a little, but he was still angry.
Zhao Liying had not yet recovered from being yelled at by the director, squatting in the corner and shivering.
When Shen Teng left the set because he was angry, Ma Li was a little embarrassed and said: "Did he take the wrong medicine today?"
The extra actor who played the role of photographer couldn't answer, so he could only change the topic.
Start transition.
His eyes followed Huo Jianyan, who was comforting Zhao Liying, all the way up.
Huo Jianxi wanted to express that it was the director who was ill, not Zhao Liying's problem.
However, Zhao Liying knew that her acting skills were insufficient, so she persuaded Huo Jianxi to eat her seriously when he turned into a zombie and pounced on her.
Then there are hints that are inappropriate for children, indicating that they are in a male-female relationship.
In fact, this is a common technique used in horror films, to first introduce a warm existence and then break it.
The relationship between lovers is broken here.
However, the use of lighting in the original version was really poor, the atmosphere was not in place, and the location selection was extremely problematic, completely failing to give the audience a sense of a turning point in the zombie outbreak.
Karasawa paid special attention to this point. The shooting scene at this time was undoubtedly a dilapidated ruin.
Ruins are actually closed spaces, and most horror movies are completed in closed spaces.
What he needs to do is to exaggerate, lay out the atmosphere, and compress the positive emotions of the characters in the closed space.
For example, Karasawa will let some mice run around in the ruins, trip over some things, make some noise, and even create the reflection of some bugs.
Thus adding the prefix hint that the storm is coming.
After a few people took a break, Ma Li, a makeup artist, said with emotion: "But to be honest, NG42 is really an exaggeration!"
Zhao Liying thought Ma Li was saying that she didn't perform well and could only apologize.
Ma Li quickly explained: "I'm not blaming you, that guy is crazy!"
Huo Jianxi also joined in: "And the prop is a real axe, it's too dangerous!"
Here we enter a state of natural chatting, without any obvious traces of performance.
In order to get the best effect, Karasawa simply stopped filming for half an hour, let the actors really start chatting, and then re-shoot after finding the feeling.
"Scene 8, two shots, five shots!"
"Start!"
After the chat scene, the director's assistant, played by extras, came up and informed the three of them that Shen Teng requested that all the plasma be taken to the roof.
As for the blood plasma, Tangze didn't save anything. Anyway, it has been reviewed and applied exactly like the original version, trying to be as exaggerated as possible without distortion.
As long as you know in the end that it's all an act, no one in the show will take it too seriously.
During the subsequent chat between the three of them, Huo Jianxi mentioned that the atmosphere here was a bit scary, and then Ma Li naturally told a rumor.
The ruins in the original version didn't feel scary at all, so the male protagonist's language to introduce the rumors seemed a bit stiff.
As for the content of the rumor, Tangze changed the human experiment in his childhood into a place where wizards and Taoist priests have practiced and set up altars since ancient times.
Until modern times, I heard that some people still practiced resurrecting the dead here, but it was later banned by the country.
The three of them started chatting, but suddenly there was a sound of pushing the door, but the door did not open.
Coupled with the rendering of some terrifying atmosphere, the three of them were shocked.
Huo Jianxi said: "Is it the wind? What a coincidence!"
If this was the original version, the audience would probably just follow the three and think it was the wind, rather than something scary.
This is caused by the lack of horror atmosphere.
Then Ma Li began to show her character characteristics, mastered self-defense skills, and her fighting power was off the charts.
It looks awkward here, but if you look at it later you will know that it is actually imposed to drag out the drama, so there is no need to change it. The more embarrassing the better.
There are several scenes like this later, and as long as they are embarrassing, they are all just to drag out the drama.
Then the sound recordist played by extras appeared and walked outside, leading to the scene where the photographer had turned into a zombie.
"Ka! Transition, transition!"
"Take a break!"
……
"Start!"
In terms of plot, starting with the cameraman vomiting in the face of the director's assistant, causing him to cut off his hand, the first half hour completely goes to the horror movie routine, with a zombie chase scene that lasts for more than 20 minutes.
Because even zombies appeared, when the audience thought this movie was really a horror movie, Shen Teng, who played the director, appeared again and shouted at the audience's perspective:
"Don't stop the camera, let's continue filming!"
It seems to make this horror movie a little more eerie.
In some movies, breaking the fourth wall can appear profound, but here it will destroy the scary atmosphere that the audience has just felt.
If the audience went for a horror movie, they would probably think it was a bad movie and leave because the fear was gone.
Not only to make the audience feel scared, but also to make the audience realize that the truth is a little unusual in fear and arouse their curiosity, this requires Karasawa to master the psychology of photography.
It would be best if the rendering of the atmosphere can continue for a long time.
Of course, in order to prevent the audience from completely treating the movie as a horror film, Karasawa has to throw in a few harmless gangster scenes from time to time.
For example, when the lens is stained with blood, the real photographer will wipe the blood off.
Back to the plot.
Shen Teng said clearly that he chose this terrible place just to make a good movie.
Everyone thinks Shen Teng is crazy and has gone crazy for filming.
As the recording engineer turned into a zombie, Ma Li chopped off the head of the recording engineer who turned into a zombie, and Huo Jianxiu knocked out Shen Teng. The chase completely went in an uncontrollable direction.
And Ma Li's decisiveness in cutting off the sound engineer's head also demonstrated her fighting ability and her other character, which is easy to get too deep into the drama.
So from now on, Ma Li had to show a completely out-of-control madness, which was both domineering and impulsive.
"Click!"
Tang Ze shouted stop.
Ma Li is actually performing well these days, perhaps because she knows the limitations of her looks. Not only does she work hard on her performances, she also spends a lot of time practicing in private.
But obviously Ma Li has never experienced madness, so Tang Ze temporarily stopped filming here to let Ma Li find her feelings.
"Why do you think Yang Meiqing became crazy here?" Tang Ze asked.
Ma Li thought for a while and answered: "Is it because of her personality that it is easy to get into drama? After she killed a zombie, she forgot that she was acting, went crazy, and wanted to kill the next zombie?"
Tang Ze nodded and shook his head: "That's it, but I think you don't understand it thoroughly enough."
"Yang Meiqing's characteristic is that she easily gets too involved in dramas. What is drama? It means that in real life, the parts we have never experienced are called drama."
"We have definitely never experienced being chased by zombies or beheading zombies, so when zombies appear, she will have a precursor to the drama."
Seeing that Ma Li was still a little confused, Tang Ze said: "To put it simply, it is to insert yourself into the illusion, and it is a sudden substitution."
"For example, if the real world suddenly turns into a zombie world, even if it is not Yang Meiqing, just replace it with someone else, such as you, what do you think you will do?"
Ma Li subconsciously said: "I think I will definitely go crazy on the spot..."
"Oh!" Ma Li said in a daze: "I understand, I can't act like Yang Meiqing's madness, because I have never acted before and I can't act well. But I can make myself crazy!"
"Ahem!" Tang Ze coughed, "That's the idea, but don't get too deep into the drama. Just imagine that state."
After watching Tang Ze lecturing Ma Li, and then thinking about his feelings after watching Swordsman in the past few days, Huo Jianxi roughly understood what he should do.
He is too bound by rules and regulations, so how to break them?
Put yourself into Linghu Chong and imagine how he would live in such a martial arts world!
To be honest, he felt that Tang Ze really knew how to play, especially in terms of character positioning.
After watching Swordsman, Huo Jianxiang mistakenly thought several times that he should be someone like Linghu Chong.
Instead of Huo Jianxin, who is constrained by the real world.
In other words, he should be Huo Jianxiang in "The Swordsman".
Because if Linghu Chong came to the real world, he might not be so free and unrestrained anymore.