From collapsed house idol to entertainment superstar

"Hi! Brother Zhi!"

"Sister Tong!"

"Hello Brother Zhi!"

"boss!"

"Hello, Sister Tong!"

As soon as Ding Zhi and Miss Zou arrived on the set, greetings started to ring out one after another.

"Okay, let's go do our own thing! If I delay the matter at hand, your director will come to me to settle the score."

Seeing the crew members surrounding him gather around him, Ding Zhi waved his hand to let the people who had gathered spontaneously disperse.

In fact, most of the photographers, lighting, art, and even stage managers on set are old acquaintances of Ding Zhi. Several of them have been following Li Wenfeng since "Peeping", and later when they moved around Jiangcheng in southern Guangdong in "The Hidden Corner",

He also became very familiar with Ding Zhi.

These crew members are actually the ones who are used to seeing strange phenomena in the industry.

Actors and artists bring money into the group, celebrities compete for celebrity positions, screenwriters are brought into the group to compete for scenes, and so on.

Playing a big name is already considered a piece of cake, and it's not uncommon for people to join a group with money and have sex with directors.

In the past, big names like Ding Zhi might have maintained their image of being friendly to the people, harmless, and doting fans in front of the outside world, but only those who have actually been in contact with the staff know how difficult it is.

Serve.

There are some that are ridiculous and even blatantly act like husband and wife on the set. Some even don't bother to avoid suspicion. It is not unheard of to see you and me in the scene holding hands and entering the RV after the scene.

Anyway, it’s better if it’s not exposed. If it’s exposed, it’ll be true and false to publicize the drama. Then when it’s done, we’ll put on our pants, pat our butts and go back to our homes to find our own mothers.

The reason for facing the media is to get together less and stay away more, work is the most important thing, and it’s easy to get together and stay away easily.

What?

What do you think about some people who have partners or are even married?

What else can be done, be more secretive and wipe your butt clean, who knows.

Of course, gossip is unavoidable. Those who have wiped their butts clean will be fine. Those who cannot wipe their butts clean are the ones we see in a certain category or even on the hot search list.

So after these crew members are used to seeing weird celebrities and entertainers, and since their debut, they have always been clean on the set and have not acted like big names. They treated them the same way when they were not famous before filming "Peeping", and now they are on the set.

It seems that they have already achieved success and fame, so it is better to treat them like Ding Zhi. Not to mention rare, it is also rare.

Not to mention Ding Zhi's own "friendly" personality charm, getting along with them is just gay.

"I didn't expect you to be quite popular!"

After Miss Zou and Ding Zhi took a few steps, they looked sideways at Ding Zhi and said with interest.

"Basic operations, basic operations."

The two of them had not seen each other for more than half a month. Although the words they spoke were not necessarily intimate, the communication between their eyes seemed to be almost silky when they looked at each other.

"Cough cough cough!"

After a while, a coughing sound suddenly came from next to me.

"Hey! Boss! Boss—"

The word "mother" that Li Wenfeng was about to say after "boss" dragged out the final sound.

"——'s friend Yutong."

It's a bit mean-spirited.

"Speak nicely!"

Ding Zhi hit Li Wenfeng.

Li Wenfeng and Zou Yutong are old acquaintances, having known each other since the time of "Peeping". At that time, the relationship between Zou Yutong and Ding Zhi was actually a little bit obvious in the crew.

On the contrary, after we were really together, because of the deliberate disguise, it was a bit difficult to confirm to outsiders.

And when Li Wenfeng gradually became Ding Zhi's "second general under the command of humiliation", in fact many things were no longer secrets, after all, he was his own.

"Okay, thank you Brother Zhi and Yutong for coming to help me! I can't thank you enough! Anyway, I have signed a contract of sale for Brother Zhi!"

Yes, Zou Yutong, who had just returned to Beijing not long ago, also came as Li Wenfeng's "off-site support".

In the "Battle for Actors" in "Let's Shoot Director", according to the arranged "script", Li Wenfeng grabbed an actor, so he arranged for Ding Zhi to appear with a gimmick.

Ding Zhi, on the other hand, invited Miss Zou to come and participate in the show with the "buy one, get one free" offer.

This is also a choice that benefits both sides.

In fact, "Let's Start Filming, Director" is an innovative variety show that Chen Ke has invested a lot of money in. Let's not say whether it can be a hit or not, at least it has enough style to make people look good.

Ms. Zou was also a hit in "The Eraser in My Brain", but for now, although her film and television resources and variety show resources have improved, they are still not of high quality, and she doesn't know if she was cheated by Ding Zhi

Despite the influence, I didn’t really like variety shows, but instead became the new favorite in the fashion circle.

In addition to giving support to Li Wenfeng, I brought Zou Yutong over to see if I could make some faces and maintain the current popularity of the May window.

"How do you feel? During the recording of the show."

Ding Zhi looked around and saw that in addition to the crew, there were also some "professionals" holding equipment and preparing to enter the scene.

Obviously, it was from the "Let's Shoot, Director" program team.

By this time, Li Wenfeng had already recorded the complete first episode.

In that issue, in addition to the "competition for actors" mentioned before, how to "attract investment" before the green light meeting was also formalized and simplified.

Now that we have entered the filming stage, the program team will naturally follow up.

What happened later was that Li Wenfeng used cameras and monitors to film Ding Zhi, while the program crew filmed Li Wenfeng filming Ding Zhi.

It is indeed a series of matryoshka dolls.

"It's okay, just..."

Speaking of this, Li Wenfeng couldn't help but smile bitterly, "I just think it's hard to make money from this announcement for your celebrities. After all, it's still comfortable to film."

Obviously, as a typical director, he is actually somewhat uncomfortable with such a variety show, not to mention the "competition". "Pulling venture capital" is very interesting for the audience, but for

Social terrorists are the stuff of nightmares.

Although Li Wenfeng is not a sociopath, there is still a big gap between him and Ding Zhi, who is a social nerd and can turn a variety show into a "dad-like" figure like his own.

In addition, this is the first time to record a variety show. The character who has always stood behind the monitor and observed is now placed in front of the camera. In the future, he will be scrutinized by the audience in front of the screen. It feels even worse when you think about it.

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"Okay, if you work for the club, grandpa will see it and won't treat you badly."

Ding Zhi looked at the constipated Li Wenfeng, patted his younger brother on the shoulder with a look of relief, and said something sincere.

Li Wenfeng looked at Miss Zou blankly.

"????"

Miss Zou shrugged and said that she would just get used to it.

Sometimes when Ding Zhi gets excited, he tends to say nonsense.

Not long after they reminisced about old times, someone from the program team came.

"Teacher Ding! Teacher Zou!"

Ding Zhi and Zou Yutong looked over together, and Li Wenfeng also introduced him in time.

"This is Xiang Liwen, the assistant director of the "Let's Shoot" program team. He is mainly responsible for the main recording and communication matters during our filming."

"Hello, guide."

"Thank you very much for the two teachers' appearance. If you need anything from us, just ask, and our program team will try our best to meet your needs."

Xiang Liwen seemed a little attentive.

However, it is not difficult to understand. In fact, the short film Ding Zhi and Zou Yutong are shooting now has no so-called remuneration, only the advertising fee of the program team.

After all, the total investment is only 800,000 yuan. Let’s take it seriously. Not to mention Ding Zhi’s current salary, which is worth tens of millions. Zou Yutong, who is about to be promoted to the second tier with “The Eraser in My Brain”, is actually somewhat unaffordable.

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Of course, what we are talking about here is the market price for official movie shooting.

On the surface, the two of them actually participated as friends of Li Wenfeng's "friendly rescue".

And apart from Ding Zhi's hot new front-line status, Xiang Liwen, who knew the relationship between Chen Ke and Ding Zhi, actually couldn't help but look at Ding Zhi in a different light.

After talking to Liwendi, Ding and Zou, they mainly chatted with Ding Zhi for a while, and also communicated a few words with Li Wenfeng.

"The Tuner" has officially started filming.

In fact, there is not much time left for Li Wenfeng and Ding Zhi now.

The program team gave Li Wenfeng the right to use 800,000 yuan, and also gave him a 20-day shooting and editing time limit.

Therefore, in addition to limited capital costs, time cost requirements are also relatively tight.

Correspondingly, the entire story structure of the script "The Tuner" is also very simple.

To put it bluntly, he is a pianist. Because of his psychological problems, he failed in a crucial competition and then became a piano tuner in a piano store.

And this tuner suddenly had a whim, taking advantage of people's psychology, pretending to be a "blind tuner", either out of curiosity, or because of his "trust" in blind people. Customers who came to the piano shop to find him for tuning suddenly became confused.

There became an endless stream of calls, doubling the performance of this tuner.

The real story happened after the tuner pretended to be blind and became complacent.

The entire scene is expected to be edited within 15 minutes, and the scenes and characters are not complicated.

The main scenes are in the piano concert hall, the street, the cafe, and the most important scene of the plot, the guest's home.

The characters are even more simple, with the piano tuner played by Ding Zhi, the piano shop owner Zhang Songwen who was also invited to make a few minutes of cameo appearance, the "heroine" Zou Yutong, and several guest actors whose scenes may last only one or two minutes.

Including Zhang Songwen, this was actually taken care of by Ding Zhi's "own family".

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Cafe.

Zhang Songwen deserves to be a teacher-level figure. Even for a cameo role that lasted only a few minutes, he was fully prepared.

Wearing a suit and leather shoes, he looks like a boss, but with a somewhat deliberately maintained elegant attitude. Starting from the details, he has given sufficient external hints to his "piano shop owner" style.

And his unique attitude of being extremely serious about the drama, whether you say he is a hype person or he has a true temperament, as far as Ding Zhi knows, he does this in every drama.

Or to put it another way, it’s all about the heart but not the deeds. Even if he is really concocting his character, as long as he is so concave in every play and even every detail, what’s the difference between it and the real thing?

And Zhang Songwen is also rare. When Ding Zhi is in the opposite role, he feels that he has met his rival actor.

"I want to know what made your work double in this month?"

Ding Zhi, who is also wearing a suit and leather shoes and a pair of sunglasses, looks like a truly blind man. He always maintains a posture of "looking ahead" and eats desserts calmly with his fork in his hand. During this period, he is chewing food and also eating.

Or when he was holding a bowl and drinking soup, he never moved his head too much.

In fact, this detail is very subtle, but it can give the person in front of the camera a sense of déjà vu - this is a blind person.

Because whether a blind person is eating or serving soup, he or she will not have the subconscious "aiming" reaction of looking at the edge of the plate or bowl like a person with normal vision.

"Your client is very happy with my work. Is that any wonder?"

Ding Zhi took another mouthful of dessert elegantly and replied calmly.

"Is it possible that someone complained?"

"No."

"Is it possible that you want to fire me because I make so much money?"

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This scene is not actually an emotional scene with "exploding acting skills", but the process of Zhang Songwen going from questioning to being convinced by Ding Zhi.

In fact, he simply introduced the reason why Ding Zhi disguised himself as a blind tuner to the audience through their mouths.

It is to take advantage of the concept that blind people generally have sensitive hearing. While making himself popular, he can receive more "care" in all aspects. In addition to the surprise of tips, more importantly, he can act unscrupulously.

He found it particularly interesting to "peep" at the customers' privacy that was naturally revealed to him.

——After all, who would take extra precautions against a blind person who cannot see with both eyes?

But this scene actually has deeper requirements for acting skills.

To have an interesting "chat" is actually not a very simple matter.

One scene in particular relies entirely on the front and back of the camera, and this is especially true when talking to two people to advance the plot. In addition to testing the line skills of the two opposite actors, the more powerful test lies in the details.

Especially Ding Zhi as the protagonist.

The character he plays has two "films" in it.

Ding Zhi is going to play a character with superb acting skills, and after training, he can fully disguise himself as a blind person.

But in front of Zhang Songwen, the owner of the piano shop, he actually doesn't need to pretend, because the other party knows him well.

So the sound engineer in this scene is using the posture of a blind person to "show off" his acting skills in front of Zhang Songwen.

This fine line between being "blind" and "revealing flaws" is difficult to grasp.

However, Ding Zhi now demonstrated this state with ease.

Especially at the end, when he gently pressed the sunglasses on the bridge of his nose and showed off his off-white contact lenses in front of Zhang Songwen, which allowed him to perfectly disguise himself as a blind man, the camera advanced to give him a big close-up.

Obviously his entire eyeball was completely covered by gray-white contact lenses, and he looked no different from a truly blind person.

But it was clear that there was a joking, yet triumphant flavor in those "eyes" that were so gray that they were almost terrifying.

Ding Zhi's emotions seemed to be able to penetrate the gray-white "membrane" and be conveyed directly to the camera!

This is an "eye skill" that cannot be blocked even by a thick "membrane"!