The crew is progressing very quickly. Almost all the outdoor scenes in schools, shopping malls, and Stacey's home have been filmed. The remaining scattered scenes were filmed in Universal's studios.

For example, in Spicoli's house, the script only contains a dialogue in which he is sleeping in bed and is woken up by his younger brother. For such a scene, there is no need to find a real location, and it is cheaper and more efficient to set up the scene in a studio.

The studio is a large building without any pillars under the roof, just like a factory building. In the corner near the side, there is a simple wooden house, which was renovated into a bedroom set. This is a set used by Universal's carpenters for other movies.

, remodeled bedroom.

A simple wooden bed with Playboy magazine posters plastered all over the bedside.

"Are we going to pay for these?" Ronald asked, pointing to the largest poster. That was a poster of the late model and actress Dorothy Stratten.

"Yes, theoretically you have to pay for this clear portrait." Producer Lin Sen replied, "But Hugh Hefner, the founder of Playboy magazine, would like to see his centerfold girl in the movie."

The influence of his magazine. So we will reach a symbolic price agreement with him."

Ronald stared at Stratten's body, which was full of youthful vitality. She was smiling sweetly at him on the poster.

"Let's just commemorate this model who had a close relationship with me." Ronald continued to inspect the set with producer Lin Sen.

"I heard that your family will come to the studio to visit today?"

"Yes, my aunt and cousin, they have never seen filming a movie before. I made a reservation for today. The shooting schedule is not that tight."

"I heard that Sean doesn't like outsiders being present when filming?"

"It doesn't matter, I will hide them where he can't see them."

After watching the scene, Ronald expressed satisfaction, and art director Dan came to prepare several indoor scenes a week in advance.

Spicoli's bedroom is small, which is in line with his not-so-rich family background. There are a lot of surfing-related equipment and magazines in the room, which is also in line with his interests.

"It's time to start lighting," Ronald said to the director of photography, Matthew.

The lighting in the studio generally uses the traditional Hollywood method. When the camera shoots from an angle, it needs to light once.

Taking advantage of the long lighting time, Ronald went out to wait for his family to arrive.

This was the first time for Aunt Karen and Donna to come to Los Angeles. I couldn't pick them up at the airport, and I didn't have time to take them to the tourist attractions in Los Angeles.

Fortunately, Aunt Karen and Donna understood him very well and knew that this was Ronald's first directing job that was crucial to him. They found someone to take him around for a day, and then came to the studio today to watch Ronald work.

"Hi, Auntie, Donna." Ronald saw his family getting out of the taxi from a distance.

After giving them a warm hug, Ronald took them around the studio and took a look at the scenes they were about to shoot.

"Is this where you direct movies?" Donna asked.

“Yes, this is Universal’s studio, where the movie ‘Airport’ was filmed. The bigger studio next door was used to film ‘King Kong’.

The actors will perform in this fake house and be captured by the camera. The long pole with the furry head is used for recording. What the actors say will be recorded, and then combined together in post-production, it will be you on the screen.

As seen above.”

"There are people who are responsible for actors performing, photographers shooting, and recording. So what do you do as a director? Do you just watch from the side?" Donna is a bully in elementary school. She doesn't quite understand why there are people who perform their own duties, so why does a director need to be there?

"Director, which T-shirt will Spicoli wear when he arrives? The white long-sleeved one or the green short-sleeved one?" The costumer saw Ronald entering the studio and hurriedly came up to ask him.

"Wear the white long-sleeved one on the inside and the green short-sleeved one on the outside. Surfers often wear it this way." Ronald pointed out to the costume designer what Spicoli was wearing in his dream.

"I don't do anything but make decisions." Ronald answered Donna's question.

"It will take another two hours to set up the lighting. I will take you around. There are other crews filming here. When we go there, please don't make any noise and affect other people's filming."

Ronald took Aunt Karen and Donna out of the studio and walked to a larger studio next to it.

"The crew of Dolly Parton is filming here. She...she plays a southern bar owner."

It was difficult to explain the play in front of Donna, so Ronald explained it differently.

"And I will always love you

I will Always Love You

you

My dear, you."

Just entering the greenhouse, Dolly Parton's iconic country music came. This is the song "I Will Always Love You" she released in 1974. This time she used it again in this film.

Interlude in "The Best Chicken Room in Texas".

Dolly Parton was wearing an old-fashioned Southern dress and was rehearsing. Her singing voice was playing on the radio and she was lip-synching while performing.

This movie is a musical, and Dolly Parton has to do a lot of dance moves, which will affect her breathing when singing, so she lip-synced during filming.

After the song was played, Dolly found Ronald and said, "Oh, Ronald, you are welcome."

"This is my Aunt Karen, and this is Donna, a famous lady who needs no introduction."

"Hello, Dolly, oh, it's so nice to see you in person."

"Hi Karen, your Ronald is making me jealous."

"What's up with him?"

"He won me at the Oscars, and I have to force him to pay me back in the future." Dolly Parton came from a difficult background and knew how to communicate with people like Aunt Karen. With just two words, she made a difference between Karen and her.

Donna laughed heartily.

"I've given you free advertising in my movies, Dolly."

Ronald also joked, "I won't bother you anymore, we are going back too."

"Goodbye, dear. I will go to see your movie later."

"Dolly Patton doesn't have the airs of a superstar at all. She is a very nice person," her aunt sighed.

"Yes, I have interacted with her several times, and sometimes she would visit me when she was waiting for lighting.

The group returned to the studio of the "Fast Pace" crew.

"You guys should wait in this corner later so that the actors can't see you. The actors are not used to having people who are not from the crew present when they are performing, and it will hinder them. After the filming is completed and the camera is shut down, I have two weeks of vacation, so I will have time to talk to you.

You guys go around Los Angeles together."

Ronald pointed to the outside of the house, a place invisible from Sean Penn's perspective, and asked Aunt Karen and Donna to sit down with their own chairs.

The first assistant director, Al, knew that he was a relative of Ronald, and told them the key points of watching the filming, and then gave them a plate of snacks.

"Leave us alone, go and do your work." Aunt Karen waved him to go to work.

Ronald gave a few instructions and then went to sit on the director's chair, waiting for each team to come over and ask him various questions for him to make a decision.

"Recording? Camera? Action!"

Ronald gave the order.

The door of the prop house was opened, and a young actor walked in and said to Spicoli, "Get up, Dad said you have to get up, otherwise you will be late again today."

Sean Penn was lying on the prop bed, covered with a quilt. He seemed to be still having a sweet dream, and was unhappy to be woken up. He reached out and picked up something from the table and threw it towards the door.

"Dad, Dad, Jeff is throwing something at me." The little actor dodged the thrown thing, blocked it with the door, and shouted to find his father.

"cut!"

"For this print, the main shot will be here, and the over-the-shoulder shot will be shot below." The camera moved behind the child actor.

There were only a few shots at Spicoli's house, and Ronald couldn't focus on shooting, so he had to take one shot in another direction.

"Are there any strangers here today?" Sean Penn took a few breaths and asked Ronald.

"Yes, my family came to see me. I put them in a direction where you can't see them, so that they won't affect you, Spicoli."

"But I smelled it, the smell of a stranger." Sean Penn muttered.

"We're leaving first, Ronnie. I'll wait for you in the hotel when you come back." Aunt Karen and Donna, like most ordinary viewers watching the movie, soon felt bored. It took two hours to set up the scene and two minutes to shoot.

"I'll ask the crew's driver to take you there."

"No, we have a friend in Los Angeles, and she takes us to see various tourist attractions."

Ronald sent his family away and continued shooting in the studio.

After two days of shooting in the studio, the last shot of the film was completed. Ronald controlled the shooting progress very well, and finally shut down the film two days earlier than planned. It took a total of seven weeks and four days.

The crew moved to Universal's banquet hall to hold a shutdown packing party. The cast and crew also brought their families or friends to have a party together to celebrate the end of filming.

Cameron Crowe brought along his girlfriend Nancy Wilson, who made a cameo appearance as a beautiful woman driving a sports car.

Sean Penn doesn't let anyone call him Spicoli anymore and he's dating co-star Pamela Springsteen.

Heckerling's husband appeared with her ex-boyfriend and they remain friendly friends.

Phoebe Cates's boyfriend also came from New York. He is a modeling agent.

Jennifer Jason Leigh, like her character Stacey, wants to take the initiative to date the supporting actor Eric Stoltz. But Stoltz’s real girlfriend Ally Sheedy also comes

He attended the party and treated him very seriously.

She turned to look at director Ronald, only to see him with his family and about to leave.

"Does Ronald have a girlfriend?" Jennifer asked Phoebe Cates, who has become a good friend and best friend.

"I don't know, why are you interested in him?" Phoebe asked with a smile.
To be continued...