Chapter 42 Four o'clock in the morning in the imperial capital
Yan Qing spent a relatively ordinary thirty-first birthday in the office of his own studio Miao Miao. In his previous life, he had never been in the mood to celebrate birthdays. In addition, he had to seize the time to finalize the three paragraphs.
Shooting plan for film excerpts.
With the crazy pulling of films some time ago and the make-up lessons on the experience of "Towards a Simple Drama", as well as the directing experience of the previous appearance video, plus the support provided by Liu Mingren, Yi Li, and Miao Miao, there is a lot of help.
Next, Yan Qing used her birthday on Thursday to finalize the two-day specific filming plan for the temporary crew.
By Friday morning, at around four o'clock in the morning, when the sky in the imperial capital was still dark, the entire "Talent Co., Ltd." program team had already assembled in the small courtyard in front of the "office building" on time.
Yan Qing had confirmed via video last night that except for the artificial snow scene, which would be constructed by a professional location team after he finished shooting all the exterior shots before the blizzard today, the remaining scenes have been completed.
In fact, the situation in the small courtyard at this time was a little funny. Liu Mingren was coordinating four cameramen carrying cameras to take pictures of several cameramen in the outer circle.
The picture that appeared on the monitor in Liu Mingren's hand was: Yan Qing, holding a director's microphone and a storyboard, with makeup on his face, was summoning a temporary crew of three cameramen to prepare for the start of the show with the help of temporary coordinator Miao Miao.
meeting.
This matryoshka-like sense of comedy will become more and more serious after the official filming begins, but thanks to the good professionalism of the temporary crew members and other program crew members, everyone quickly devoted themselves to the intense work.
The filming progress was very fast. The time and place set in the script was the beginning of spring in southern Henan Province. At the end of winter in the Central Plains, the sky at six o'clock looked like it was becoming gray and brightening.
Yan Qing had to seize this fleeting, gray time in the day to shoot the scene where the male protagonist gets up, opens the curtains and looks out the window.
As the director's loudspeaker said "Meeting over, transition", the temporary crew began to gather in the Yan Qing lounge on the second floor of the small building. The lighting engineer, props engineer, and sound engineer dispatched by Pearl TV were already ready in the bedroom.
field.
Miao Miao, who has worked with several crews and is considered to be experienced, began to carefully check the preparation situation as soon as she entered the bedroom, and then reported to Yan Qing, who had changed into pajamas, and the temporary deputy director of the crew holding a monitor next to Yan Qing.
Mo Ran.
After Yan Qing confirmed that everything was ready, he handed the director's microphone and the shot script manual to Mo Ran without any further words. He put on a blindfold and climbed to the bed, covered himself with a quilt and lay down.
Mo Ran waited until Yan Qing was in place, then picked up the director's microphone and announced:
"Cameras No. 1, 2, and 3 are in place, lighting engineers are in place, props are in place, recording microphone operators are in place, actors are in place, recorders are in place, all departments have completed their final inspections, No. 1
, Cameras No. 2 and 3 are turned on, the recording microphone is turned on, the first action of the second scene of "Pause Today" is the first action!"
The clapperboard in the keeper's hand was then snapped down, making a crisp slapping sound.
Camera No. 1, which is aimed at the electronic clock radio on the bedside table in the bedroom, Camera No. 2 in the courtyard of the "office building", and Camera No. 3, which is arranged on a rail above a standard double bed in a white hotel, start taking pictures at the same time:
As the electronic clock radio on the bedside table jumped from 5:59 to 6:00, the radio began to play the song "Talent Co., Ltd." and the opening words of the radio station accompanying this song:
"Fuxiang People's Broadcasting Station, hello listeners, today is Monday, February 4, 2008, the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month. Today is also a special and good day, the beginning of spring.
As we all know, Fuxiang is one of the earliest ancient cities in my country to have recorded the Spring Beginning of Spring Ox-Welcoming Ceremony. Today, the annual Beginning of Spring Folk Culture Festival will officially open at 7 a.m. in the Farm Hall of Zhuxian Town, Fuxiang District..."
Weng Huaijing, who wore some retro-style professional light makeup on his face, stood upright outside the bedroom door of Yan Qing's rest suite. Surrounded by the temporary crew, he was watching with Zhou Peipei, who looked like a curious baby and was wearing a lake blue modified cheongsam.
In Yan Qing's opening one-man show, she watched Yan Qing skillfully show off her extremely realistic acting skills, and easily interpreted such a scene:
A middle-aged man who obviously has some bed habits. After experiencing the torture of not getting used to the bed in a strange hotel all night, he looked impatient and exhausted. He was disturbed by the sound of the electronic clock radio on the bedside.
Awake.
The man pulled off his blindfold, stretched out his hand to rub his eyes with some eye mucus hanging from the corners, then picked up a pillow next to him and folded it on top of his own pillow. He got up with some effort and half-leaned on the bed screen.
The man first looked around, as if remembering where he was at the moment, then turned to look at the time on the electronic clock screen on the bedside table, then lifted up the quilt and walked to the window unhurriedly, yawning.
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He opened the two thick curtains in front of the window and looked out the window. After looking for a while, he turned back with a dull expression, rubbed his face vigorously with both hands, and walked into the bathroom.
There was a "click" from the director's microphone over there at Mo Ran, and Yan Qing quickly walked back to the room, put on a blindfold, climbed onto the bed, covered herself with a quilt and lay down again.
"After being away from the big screen for more than five years, his acting skills have become more and more solid, and he feels like he has returned to his original nature."
Weng Huaijing thought of some past events, and his heart softened unconsciously, but his expression remained cold.
Yan Qing took six shots of a similar scene in a row, and Weng Huaijing kept watching Yan Qing's performance with his arms folded.
Some of these scenes include: [After the man opened his eyes, he immediately reached out to touch the electronic clock radio and the pencil next to the bedside table, and then showed an expression of disbelief and shock.]
There is also this kind of scene: [The man wakes up and immediately turns his head to look at the electronic clock radio that is broadcasting, with a look of bitterness and despair.]
There is also: [The scene where a man wakes up, listens to the broadcast with his ears open, immediately clenches his fists, looks excited and can’t wait to throw off the quilt, jumps out of bed and cheers.]
There is also that scene: [The scene of a man with a look of indifference on his face, waking up from a coma and unwilling to move.]
Another shot is: [The man woke up, immediately looked at the pillow next to him, reached out and touched the unused pillow affectionately, then jumped up from the bed, quickly looked out the window, and
The scene of someone going to wash up and tidy up full of energy.]
Weng Huaijing, who was familiar with the script, knew that these scenes would be edited into a segment in post-production, and he was responsible for explaining clearly to the audience the video of the changes in the mentality of Suo Leixing, the urban news location host played by Yan Qing, after he found himself trapped in a time loop.
After all the last five shots were taken, Yan Qing took the monitor from the temporary assistant director Mo Ran and played back the shots taken by each camera. After he read it and nodded to confirm, Mo Ran took the
Pick up the director's microphone and announce:
"After all the shots of the second scene of "Today's Pause" have been shot, except for those assigned to other special tasks, the crew members collectively moved to the filming location No. 9."
The so-called scenic spot No. 9 is outside the small courtyard and in front of a small hotel in the jacquard lattice alley.
The props team temporarily installed a luminous sign in front of the small hotel, which read "Zhuxian Town State-owned Guest House". There was also a news interview vehicle parked on the roadside at the entrance with the logo of "Zhengcheng TV Commercial Urban Channel".
It was almost seven o'clock in the imperial capital at this time. It was Friday, the first day of the eighth lunar month, and the sky was already bright in the mid-autumn period in the imperial capital.
Weng Huaijing, who was wearing a somewhat old-fashioned but still well-fitting professional suit and skirt, followed Yan Qing, who had already changed into a suit and tie and removed her tired makeup, and sat in the back row of the press car.
Zhou Peipei, who could only watch alone, had some admiration and envy in her eyes at this time. Unlike Weng Huaijing, who focused on the actors' performances, Zhou Peipei had been paying attention to Miao Miao, who was the temporary crew coordinator, and watched her familiar arrangements.
Follow the work of other crew members.
"Sister Miao Miao knows how to do everything. She is so amazing. She has been on many production crews with Teacher Yan Qing at first glance, and I am extremely nervous even when I act..."
This is the first time that Zhou Peipei and Weng Huaijing have joined the crew. This crew is not a serious movie crew. Seeing Miao Miao handling the coordination work with ease, she also remembered that Shao Qing had cruelly revealed Miao Miao's secrets to her.
The news is that his actual age is younger than hers.
Zhou Peipei, who has ambitious goals, couldn't help but realize that she still had a lot to learn, and secretly encouraged herself:
"Sister Miao Miao was also brought up little by little by teacher Yan Qing... With the guidance of top managers like Sister Qing, and the guidance of Oscar-level actors like Sister Jing'er, Peipei also has to work hard to become stronger.
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Thinking of Shao Qing, Zhou Peipei suddenly realized that Shao Qing had been missing since the pre-play preparation meeting in the courtyard.
"As expected of Sister Qing, I've seen a lot of big scenes. It's just like this dragon that never sees its end. As a little assistant, I don't have to worry about Sister Qing's affairs. She must have her reasons for disappearing."
Brainstorming expert Zhou Peipei also has other experiences to ponder. For example, she discovered that today's shooting sequence was strictly in accordance with the shooting script in the coordination manual in Miao Miao's hand.
It was not shot step by step according to the plot as she subjectively imagined, nor was it shot scene by scene according to scene changes as taught by the professional teacher at Zhou Peipei's school.
At least she knew about the hotel scene that was set up in the bedroom of Yan Qing's rest suite, and that there were still many scenes between her sister Jing'er and teacher Yan Qing that had not been filmed.
Thinking of the few paragraphs in the script she had read, Zhou Peipei couldn't help but be excited and looking forward to it.
She secretly thought: "The two of them have been together before. If they appear as a couple in this drama, what kind of sparks will they create..."