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58 - Hard-earned normal shots

In his past life across the Pacific Ocean, Wayne heard about the production process of some movies and TV series, and he was still a movie projectionist.

A TV series of 30 or 50 levels and online dramas can be finished in three or two months, and a domestic movie of 90 minutes can only take more than a month.

But after he started learning to make movies, he realized that this set was simply impossible in Hollywood. The shooting time on the crew here is very precious.

Judging from the speed of shooting and production, he is already a quick gunner. He can shoot the camera in three months and finish the post-production in two or three months. This is why the film he chose is small investment and has a skill.

Even the famous fast gunner Spielberg cannot guarantee a movie a year.

It is normal to shoot a popular American drama for a few years or more, but it is normal to burn it for a normal commercial film project for a year or two in a year or two in a normal period.

So he was very pleased that the crew encountered the director's scandal as soon as the crew started filming. The filming was able to catch up with the plan smoothly.

In fact, there is a reason why filming and production in North America is slow. First of all, there are various unions that cannot be avoided.

The crew hired all the actors and behind the scenes, and they have their own unions. The North American labor protection law will not allow you to play two shifts and three shifts, and even overtime filming will not happen.

If you do not work overtime to crew members in accordance with the Labor Protection Law, you don’t need to have too many workers. As long as one person reports to the union, the entire crew will be suspended for inspection.

Compared to stopping the crew from checking, the waste of time and capital costs is greater than overtime shooting and extending working hours, so there is no good way to speed up here.

At this time, it shows how important Wayne's shooting plan was. As long as he shoots according to the plan, it is the most efficient. After each scene is filmed, the props and sets of the next scene are ready.

"Hey, Will, Nami, be sure to pay attention to your emotions. This is the beginning of the whole drama, showing your passionate state."

Will Smith and Naomi were having a relaxing conversation. They needed to play a couple and chat with everyone in advance to help reduce the sense of strangeness.

"No problem." "Okay."

As the board began, Will Smith opened the door, smiled and hugged Naomi, and the two kissed like close lovers, entering the house.

"cut, after that, prepare for the next one."

This kind of scene is not complicated, but it is the prelude to the entire movie. The smooth shooting continued until a bed scene between the male and female protagonists, and it suddenly got stuck.

"Damn it, you are lovers, lovers in love, let go and show your professional attitude."

Wayne stood in front of the bed anxiously, looking at Will and Naomi. They made mistakes in the novice actors. Under the crowd, both of them were stiff and unable to let go.

"Sorry, Wayne, let's try again."

Naomi herself was also a little annoyed. As soon as she thought of being watched by a large circle of people and being intimate with a strange man, her mind was blank.

"Luke, tell them to rest for ten minutes. Nami, Will, don't think too much. You guys performed well before, it was just a bed scene."

Will and Naomi were both at a loss when they sat on the bed. The scene had been filmed for more than ten consecutive times, but the cameras for more than ten seconds did not meet the director's requirements.

Wayne did not blame them particularly. Every novice actor would feel ashamed when encountering such a play, especially when everyone was watching.

Now it is important to find a way to get them into the role. The footage of more than ten seconds is finally edited into the film, which may only take a few seconds, but it is very important.

Will looked at Wayne and said hesitantly: "Director Greenberg, can you clear the scene and keep only the necessary staff, I think it will be much better."

"You two communicate for a while and prepare emotions. If you can't enter the role, I will consider it."

He hugged his arm and touched his chin with his left hand, saying that cleaning up the scene is also a way, but such a simple bed scene is indeed not necessary.

Logically speaking, Hollywood actresses or female celebrities are not shy and show off. If they can't even take off their entire crew in front of the crew, then don't live when the film is broadcast.

This situation will only happen to novice actors. Two completely strangers suddenly asked them to take off their clothes and make out in front of everyone, their bodies are numb, etc., just normal reactions.

As long as you shoot a scene like this and pass the mental barrier, you will usually have no obstacles to filming such scenes in the future.

"How are they both?" Luke watched him sit on the prop sofa and sat next to him. "They just lack practice, don't worry, they'll get used to it soon."

"I'm not worried about this. Actors are all emotional creatures. As long as they get emotional, these are not problems." Wayne lowered his head, holding a stack of photos in his hand, flipping them one by one, and suddenly he stopped.

"Who prepared these photos? Where are the props? Let him prepare them again." After saying that, he threw the photos on the table with a snap.

Luke picked it up and frowned. The photos were full of photos of Naomi and various black people. These were the props you needed to use next, and the photography opportunity gave the photos close-up.

However, most of the black ex-boyfriends inside were expressionless and took photos with Naomi with a serious look on his face. He could see the problem at a glance, and this was definitely not the state of taking photos with his lover.

"Jason, Jason!" Luke shouted at the prop master.

"What happened, Luke." Jason trotted over with a few prop costumes hanging on his body, looking at the photo on Luke's hand. "Is there any problem with the photo?"

"Go to find those Africans and take photos of them again." Wayne pointed at the road before Luke said. "These are the heroine's ex-boyfriends, brains, think about it carefully. You will take a look at the face of your girlfriend with expressionless faces, and neither of them has any contact with their bodies?"

"Sorry, I'll do it right away!" Jason understood as soon as he heard it. There was nothing to say. Some directors never pay attention to these details, and some would pursue them too much.

"Arrange Messe and Naomi to take a photo, I just saw that there wasn't inside." The maid (grandmother) who was laughing and crying in the plot was actually cheated.

"Okay, I'll go and prepare right away!"

The rest time was up, and the staff began to return to their posts in an orderly manner. The photographer also arranged the camera seat and pointed it at the two people on the bed again.

Wayne walked to the bed and asked, "Is there any question? How is the communication?"

Seeing that they nodded and said it was OK, he walked back to the monitor and stared at the screen.

"Scene 10, Act 2, begin!"

Close-ups of the kissing between two people began to appear in the monitor screen, and they slowly began to make love with each other.

"cut! It's very good, and that's very good. Steve, the lights dim, let's do it again."

It was difficult to stop the busy shooting mission at the beginning. Wayne ignored the news from outside media and refused to accept interviews after get off work every day.

Wayne put the troubles in the outside world aside, and even the follow-up of racism with Warner was completely handed over to Jimmy.

He devoted himself to the filming and did not care about anything outside the crew, but he had to ask all the big and small questions in the crew before he could make a decision.

Because of his personality, Wayne will never hand over the task of managing the crew to the deputy director and producer, and most successful directors will not do this.

He has to communicate with the main staff in advance for shooting plans every day, from props to scene arrangement to lighting, and camera position selection, he needs to inquire about everything. Although he will not participate in the specific process, he will definitely be responsible for the final review before he will start shooting.

Also, some scenes in the script are still being designed and polished. After all, this is not a normal real-life movie. There will be many absurd plots in the later stage of the film. He wants to make the plot arrangement as reasonable as possible and not to be complained about by the audience.

For example, in the part where the male protagonist was imprisoned and tied up, he deliberately added some dialogues to let the mother's character tell the audience about his doubts through dialogue.

Some things can be explained through dialogue to reduce the audience's doubts or doubts. To put it bluntly, this is not a normal story. The plot reversal and reversal, and the repeated reversals are only based on absurd brain change, so that the audience can try to feel that this is real and increase the sense of substitution.

Wayne has repeatedly pondered many of the dialogues in the film, and even found several actors together to find loopholes and places that can be improved.

After all, this is a movie that will be thirty years later. Many of the inappropriate dialogues and memes will definitely not appear in the film.

Wayne understands that dialogue is the most obvious display element in the movie. When the dialogue unfolds, the viewer's attention will be all focused on it. The fundamental role of dialogue is to promote the development of the plot and explain the various motivations of the characters in the movie.

There is another huge benefit to bringing actors together. After all, he is very slow to funny points. After the baptism of that information explosion era, he has some of the funny points of this era, which can allow a group of actors to perfect these things he is not good at.

So he was going to play to his strengths and avoid his weaknesses, and avoid these scenes that he was not good at. The film focused on where he was good at and the final murder scene.

For these large-scale bloody scenes, he prepared a lot of tomato sauce, which must be bloody and violent in the end.

The goal of this film is to be an R-level film from the beginning of preparation. Wayne just showed as much as possible at this scale so that the final scene can bring the audience the refreshing feeling of emotional release.

Although the audience of R-rated films is relatively narrow, they will become a selling point. There are many rebellious teenagers in North America who will enter the theaters for the film level.

R-level films have always been the first choice for teenagers in the video tape rental and trading market.
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