Entertaining Children

Among the three scenes filmed today, this last scene is the only one where character dialogue appears, and it is also the most shot of the three scenes.

Close-up shots of Cheng Xi pulling down his shoulder straps, close-up shots of Cheng Xi taking off his shoes, close-up shots of Cheng Xi's scars on his feet, close-up shots of Cheng Xi turning around to ask questions, close-up shots of Xiao Yao sitting in front of the piano and talking back, Xiao Yao saw Cheng Xi A close-up of Xi's stunned expression when she took off her clothes, a close-up of Xiao Yao's smiling expression when he saw Cheng Xi dancing, a still-life close-up of a guide stick, a medium shot of Cheng Xi's dance moves, and the last one from Xiao Yao The panoramic shot of Xiao Yao playing the piano and Cheng Xi dancing in the same frame shot in the rear also involves changing the focus and making the two of them take turns as a blurred background.

Although due to the running-in of the first two scenes, there has been a little tacit understanding between various departments of the crew and even the director Xiao Yao, and the shooting speed is faster than the previous two scenes, but all the shots in this scene have been shot. , The shooting time of this day was all exhausted, and the shooting was not completed earlier than planned.

After the first day of filming ended, Xiao Yao invited the makeup artist Pei Minyi to have a meal with her at Fang Yiran's request. During the dinner, the three of them also invited Pei Minyi to join Xiao Yao's private team. Let's talk about it. Fang still will definitely not agree to the free work that Pei Minyi said. All conditions and remuneration are implemented in accordance with relatively favorable standards in the industry. As for Pei Minyi's request to learn special effects makeup from Xiao Yao, Xiao Yao has nothing to do with it. Embarrassed, I promised to communicate with her when I was free. Pei Minyi was very satisfied with the conditions in all aspects, and she could learn some skills from Xiao Yao, so she agreed wholeheartedly, so the three of them finalized the matter.

The shooting continued on the second day, and this day is still a three-scene scene. One is the scene where the protagonist plays abnormally in the piano competition, the other is the scene where the protagonist walks on the road pretending to be blind and molesting a pregnant woman, and the other is the scene where the protagonist lies decadently on his bed at home after the piano competition, and he curls up on the bed, the room The scene where the girlfriend packs up her things and leaves him. In this scene, the role of the protagonist’s girlfriend is only a long-range shot of packing things. Not to mention that the front face is not shown, the side face is covered by the drooping hair, and the character’s appearance cannot be seen at all. For such a "faceless" character, Xiao Yao simply used the idle assistant Fang, and asked her to make a guest appearance in it, and got addicted to filming.

There are also three scenes, but the difficulty of shooting the second day is much more difficult than the first day. Two of Xiao Yao in the three scenes are not wearing sunglasses. One is nervous and the other is decadent. They have to be expressed through their eyes and expressions, and the performance is relatively difficult. The other one was an outdoor scene, which was still on the road. It was more difficult to schedule and arrange, and it was also more difficult to shoot. So on the second day of filming, the crew worked overtime until the end of the night.

The original plan on the third day was to shoot the scene of the cafe. After the previous two days of training, both Xiao Yao and the entire crew have become more proficient. Needless to say, the performance of Lin Shaohua, the best actor, Xiao Yao also wears sunglasses most of the time, and only takes off the sunglasses twice to reveal the whole picture. Face, the difficulty of acting is also a little less than the day before. So on the third day, the crew finished shooting earlier than originally planned, and within half a day they shot all the shots that Xiao Yao expected to take a whole day.

In the afternoon, Xiao Yao pulled the crew into the residential building again, and filmed the scene where the protagonist knocked on the door outside the final murder scene and asked to enter the house.

The second day of filming was overtime, and the third day of filming was advanced. It can also be seen from this that although Xiao Yao, who is the director for the first time, handled the filming process fairly well. However, there are still certain deviations in the planning and arrangement in the early stage and the estimation of the progress of the shooting speed. Fortunately, this is not a big problem. At noon on the third day, Tian Fangzhen, who played the old lady who came to film in advance, and Hu Xuena, who played the neighbor who opened the door to see the situation, were both unemployed at home. The person didn't say anything, and came ahead cheerfully.

On the third day, after shooting all the scenes outside the house of the last client, that is, the client where the murder occurred, the next two days will be the scene after the most important protagonist of the whole short film enters the murder scene.

This scene is the highlight of the whole short film. It not only has the most actions and dialogues, but also has the most difficult performance, and it is also the scene with the longest time. Therefore, Xiao Yao not only planned to shoot this scene for two full days, but In the early scene layout and prop preparation, Xiao Yao spent more time and energy than all the previous scenes combined.

In this scene, Xiao Yao also fully demonstrated his talent in the use of light and shadow. Through the brightness setting of several lights in the scene and the adjustment of light in various directions, the picture in the lens has a sense of horror and horror. When the close-up of the bloody corpse of the old man on the sofa appeared in the shot, it was very shocking. Of course, Xiao Yao showed off his skills in special effects makeup. When he turned his grandfather Xiao Chengru into a corpse with two iron nails stuck in his temples, the crew was once again amazed by Xiao Yao's special effects makeup skills.

In this scene, Xiao Chengru played the role of the corpse, so naturally he could no longer control the live performance from behind the monitor. So when the scene was filming, even the titular executive director was gone. Xiao Yao didn't invite anyone else, and directly directed and shouted from his performance position. During the filming process, the director did not call to stop, so every shot was shot from beginning to end, regardless of whether it was good or bad. Xiao Yao went back from the actor's position to watch the replay behind the monitor. Fortunately, Xiao Yao used a high-definition digital camera to shoot this short film, so it is very convenient to watch the replay on the spot.

With this shooting method, problems during the shooting process cannot be found immediately, and Xiao Yao has to run back to watch after the whole shot is finished. Once there is a little dissatisfaction, Xiao Yao asks to start over the whole shot, and shoot it with one shot. A dozen times is commonplace, so the shooting speed of this last scene is also very slow. As for those problematic materials, Xiao Yao did not simply delete them, but saved them all. For him, these are also experiences that he can learn in the future.

Fortunately, Xiao Chengru and Tian Fangzhen have no objection to Xiao Yao's method of "blind filming" without a director.

Both of them are elderly people who are already very patient. Tian Fangzhen seldom shoots movies now, this kind of repeated shooting not only didn't make her lose her temper, but made her a little excited. The murderer is still quite a challenging role, no matter how many times she is filmed, she will be regarded as a rare and good opportunity to enjoy the drama. As for Xiao Chengru, who played the dead body, although it was uncomfortable to sit still with artificial blood on his face, he naturally stood up for the grandson's film without any complaints.

The crew and three actors filmed in that dim room for two full days. It is estimated that in the short film, there will be a scene of five or six minutes in length. The crew shot almost two hours of material before Xiao Yao completed the filming of this scene with satisfaction.

In the viewfinder frame of the camera, the photographer operates the camera and moves the lens slowly, starting from the piano, once to Xiao Yao who is playing the piano with his upper body on, then a nail gun behind him, and then Tian Fangzhen, holding the nail gun, finally freezes on the mirror where the two figures are reflected on the wall. After holding the freeze for two seconds, the photographer finally shouted "Cut!"

Xiao Yao, who was only wearing a pair of shorts, ran to the monitor naked and began to replay the last scene. Since the scene of Xiao Yao taking off his clothes was filmed in the afternoon of the fourth day, people in the crew have seen this scene countless times in a day and a half. They have been amazed at Xiao Yao's good figure since the beginning It's not surprising.

"Very good, it's over!" Xiao Yao shouted happily, waved his fist and said, "It's over, all the shooting is over."

This shot is the last frame in the short film, and it is also the last shot in the last scene in the shooting plan. The passing of this shot means that the shooting of the entire short film has been completed.

Seeing Xiao Yao's happy look, the crew also applauded happily, and some crew members who were a little excited even cheered. In fact, the shooting in the first few days was okay, mainly because of the shooting in this scene in the last two days. The scene was dimly lit, and Xiao Chengru, the "corpse", was sitting all the time. The atmosphere on the scene was actually quite depressing. At the end, the crew finally relaxed.

"Bayi, put on your clothes quickly, and be careful not to catch a cold." Xiao Chengru, who played the corpse, stood up from the sofa. He was not in a hurry to clean up the blood stains on his body and the iron nails stuck to his temples. Xiao Yao, who was in shorts and punched excitedly, instructed.

"It's okay, I'm not cold at all in this season." Xiao Yao said with a smile. But having said that, under Xiao Chengru's gaze, Xiao Yao still took one side of his clothes and quickly put them on. The weather at the end of August is indeed quite high, but the air conditioner is actually turned on in the room where the movie was filmed because of the large number of people, and the specially created dark and frightening atmosphere makes people feel better than outside Hot weather is much cooler. Xiao Yao was in good health so he wasn't afraid, but he didn't want Xiao Chengru to worry either.

Not counting the pre-preparation time, it took five days to complete the shooting of a ten-minute short film. This speed is neither slow nor fast. Although there will be a series of work such as dubbing, soundtrack, editing and so on in the later stage, after all, the finalization also represents a phased end. After today, the crew will be disbanded immediately, so Xiao Yao took turns to hug and thank him after getting dressed I talked to all the staff in the crew.

"Everyone has worked hard these past few days!" After thanking the staff in the crew, Xiao Yao stood in the middle of the venue and raised his hands and said loudly, "I am a new director, and this is my first short feature film. The finale is inseparable from the joint efforts of all of you, so tonight I will treat everyone to a finale banquet, which is my thanks to everyone!"

"Wow, the director is so generous!" The crew applauded and applauded.

After the filming of a film is finished, it is actually quite common for the crew to organize a wrap-up banquet to celebrate. But for a short film, it only took five days to shoot in total, so it was a bit unexpected for the film crew to have a wrap-up banquet after the finale. So when Xiao Yao announced the news, it was a surprise to the crew.

The wrap-up banquet is not only for the crew members, the actors who participated in the filming are also included in Xiao Yao's invitation and thanks. Therefore, after announcing the news of the finale banquet, when Xiao Yao ordered the crew to clean up the scene, he also sent messages to the actors who participated in the short film shooting a few days ago.

The location of the banquet was decided by Fang Yiran on the spur of the moment, not too far from the filming scene of the crew. After the crew packed up the equipment, they killed it directly. Although it was Xiao Yao's temporary notice after Xiao Yao's whim, everyone also showed face and arrived one after another within the time Xiao Yao notified.

Xiao Chengru, Tian Fangzhen, Ye Jiaying, Lin Shaohua, Huang Shi, Su Chengying, Cheng Xi, Xiao Yao, Chen Wanting, such a luxurious star cast looks very scary. When the hotel owner and service staff saw so many stars gathered in their hotel, they were really surprised.

The hotel that Fang Yiran was looking for was a hotel with experience in hosting film crew wrap-up banquets. The staff in the hotel knew from their appearance that this was a film crew holding a wrap-up banquet. When they saw stars entering the same box one after another Afterwards, the people in the hotel also began to wonder which production crew was so good that they were able to organize such a luxurious star lineup. Why was there no news at all in the media?