Chapter 394: Step by Step

In the bathroom, hot water poured out from the spray head, sprinkling on Luo Quan's smooth waist.

In the bathtub, Luo Quan lay horizontally, with a bath towel draped over her body. Except for the key parts, everything else was exposed to the air.

Soon, Luo Quan woke up from a coma, rubbed her head painfully, and then observed the surroundings.

The lens gradually pulled away, and Luo Quan also stood up from the bathtub, grabbing the bath towel tightly in front of her chest with both hands.

"Cut!"

The assistant director shouted, and the quiet set immediately became noisy.

The photography team adjusted the camera position to prepare for the next shot, and the makeup artist and assistant rushed up, one to touch up Luo Quan's makeup, and the other to put a jacket on Luo Quan.

At this time, Luo Quan let go of one hand, the bath towel on her body opened a corner, revealing the white tube top and bottoming pants inside.

Think about it, a person who doesn't even shoot kiss scenes, how could she be completely naked in front of everyone.

Although the heroine of the original work was naked when shooting this part, it did indeed let the audience feast their eyes.

However, Luo Quan couldn't be so unrestrained, so she used a blindfold.

That is, the bath towel covers the chest and buttocks, exposing the waist and two long legs, giving people the illusion that she is not wearing clothes.

It's a bit opportunistic, but the effect is actually quite good. In short, several male employees on the set were staring at it, swallowing their saliva one by one.

Today is the first day of shooting "Resident Evil", and this is also the first scene.

Mainly because the interior scene of the laboratory is still being built, Luo Quan can only find a ready-made Western-style house to shoot the beginning and end of the movie first.

The assistant director... or rather, the photographer, walked up and asked about the camera movement requirements for the next step.

This movie is the only director Luo Quan, and all camera movements and angles are carried out according to her requirements. Although the assistant director has a title, he is actually only responsible for photography and has no power to make modifications.

The opening scene is not difficult. Basically, Luo Quan wakes up in the bathroom, walks in the house full of doubts, and then puts on the red split-fork suspender dress.

After Luo Quan put on the dress, the photography gave her a close-up of her whole body according to the requirements. He didn't know that he had filmed a classic heroine image that would be famous in film history at this time.

After filming each shot, the assistant director would shout cut and let the set employees make adjustments.

A coherent movie is edited from hundreds or thousands of shots. That kind of long shot that goes to the end is a huge test for actors and directors.

Although long shots highlight the skills of movie creators, they are not needed in this movie.

Filming step by step all morning, Luo Quan also had a personal experience of the difference between Eastern and Western film shooting.

Filming in China, if there are any requirements for any place, the director shouts, and half of the set surrounds, working together to solve the problem in three or two strokes.

In Hollywood, the director puts forward requirements to the corresponding employees, who design them in combination with the venue, and then only let the involved departments cooperate, strictly following the designed shooting.

Although it is slow, it is organized, and it will not cause such a waste of manpower, nor will it worry about mistakes in the rush.

It is unclear whether the shooting methods of China and Hollywood are better or worse, but the industrialization and procedural nature of the latter are obviously higher than those in China.

The shooting continued until noon, and it was lunch time.

Generally, for the convenience of the set, the food provided is fast food like burgers and fried chicken. Occasionally, those with sufficient funds can have steak.

However, Luo Quan obviously couldn't let her employees eat this kind of junk food without nutrition.

This time, she contacted a Chinese restaurant in Los Angeles Chinatown and asked them to prepare boxed lunches and hot soup for the crew at the restaurant.

Of course, the menu of this Chinese restaurant has been completely localized. Luo Quan has never heard of the so-called famous Chinese food on the menu. For example, the signature dish of this restaurant—General Tso's Chicken.

It is said that this is the most famous Chinese food in the United States, second only to Mapo Tofu, but Luo Quan tasted it once, and it has nothing to do with the Hunan cuisine General Tso's Chicken in China. It is basically just a name.

However, the employees like this dish quite a bit, and they are eating it with relish with a rice spoon.

Fortunately, the taste of Mapo Tofu is quite authentic, and Luo Quan is a little happier.

The half-hour meal time ended, and the crew did not start work immediately. According to regulations, American employees have the right to enjoy leisure time after meals.

Therefore, no matter how tight the task of the set is, it will not be delayed at all when it is time to rest.

Speaking of which, Luo Quan planned to finish the whole play in a month this time. The Rrri brand movie machine rented from the rental company was also rented for a month at a price of 550 US dollars per day.

Plus other props, tens of thousands of money are flowing away every day.

If employees in China were so lazy, everyone from the director to the producer would be angry and spray people.

However, this is the United States. All employees work strictly according to the eight-hour work system. If they exceed working hours, they have the right to directly refuse to work overtime.

Even if they are forced to work overtime, they will ask for high overtime pay.

This can almost be said to be unimaginable in China or the entire East Asia.

Of course, not all Americans are so lazy. Asian Americans are quite hardworking.

A group of makeup artists in Luo Quan's crew were Asian. They called Luo Quan over to ask about work as soon as they finished eating.

"Director, do you see how this makeup effect is?" In the simple dressing room, the Asian makeup artist brother turned the head of the silicone doll model over.

The face of this doll was hideous and terrifying. The pale face was full of red and black wounds, and the mouth was full of rusty yellow teeth, as if it hadn't been brushed for decades.

Fortunately, Luo Quan often watches zombie movies. If it were an ordinary person seeing this head, it is estimated that the overnight meal would have to be vomited out.

"Very good, the skin can be made more gray and defeated, it will be ok." Luo Quan highly recognized the makeup artist's craftsmanship.

The image of zombies in this world has not evolved. In the past, they were all made like vampires, and walking was no different from ordinary people, which was completely different from the zombies in Luo Quan's impression.

However, this also gave her a chance to show her skills. When she replicated one of the most classic monsters in film history on the big screen, I don't know how many people would be scared.

Luo Quan thought evilly in her heart.

The makeup artist brother saw Luo Quan showing a satisfied smile and asked curiously: "By the way, director, how did you think of this image? I have also worked in detective crews before and have applied makeup to many actors who played corpses. Many of them were murder cases, but I don't think your makeup is as tragic as yours."

Saying that, the makeup artist brother also pretended to be afraid and hugged his shoulders tightly: "If I met this thing at night, I am afraid I would be scared to death on the spot."

Luo Quan explained: "Actually, this is an image I dreamed of in a dream. Resurrected dead people are definitely more terrifying than simple dead people."

The makeup artist brother's eyelids jumped: "Then you must have had a nightmare."

Luo Quan laughed: "This is just makeup. When it really appears, I swear, you will all be scared to scream."

Several makeup artists also laughed awkwardly, and they were muttering in their hearts: Such a beautiful director, why would she like this kind of thing?

No one can answer this question.

After the break, the crew continued to work.

The plot also progressed to the first small climax.

Luo Quan, wearing a dress, came to a room, thinking about what kind of situation she was in.

Suddenly, a huge noise from a helicopter came from outside, and then several special effects actors hanging on ropes broke through the window.

The lens stopped.

Frank and others changed into blue prop clothes with S. T. A. R. S printed on them, and took over the position of the stunt actors.

Here, it is the first modification Luo Quan made to this movie.

In the original movie, the special agent team that rushed into the room was the Umbrella Corporation's own.

And Luo Quan changed it to the S. T. A. R. S Alpha special agent team in the game.

Although this STARS also has the funding of the Umbrella Corporation, it was established by the US Federal Special Security Department and belongs to the police, but the activity funds are provided by the Umbrella Corporation.

And Luo Quan also made huge modifications to the members of the team.

In the original movie, the ending of the entire special agent team was total annihilation, and this time Luo Quan added characters from the game, namely Wesker, Chris, and Jill.

The original black captain was demoted to deputy captain, and Wesker became the captain of the entire team.

Jill, played by Cecilia, replaced the actress who was full of temper and cool in the original movie, and Chris was not replaced by anyone, but was added directly by Luo Quan.

Everyone's styling is also consistent with the game. Wesker wears sunglasses, his temperament is cold, and his voice is full of magnetism.

Jill is wearing a blue T-shirt and black trousers.

Chris is wearing a bulletproof vest, looking burly and full of power.

After the STARS team broke through the window, the assistant director gave the three of them a close-up respectively.

Now, except for the protagonist, three important characters have all officially appeared...

Two days, the scenes of the Western-style house have all been completed.

Very smooth, but it was also beyond Luo Quan's expectations.

After all, the flow of the whole movie is in Luo Quan's mind, how to move the lens, how to hit the light, she has directly emphasized to the relevant employees.

Compared with those crews starting from scratch, the "Resident Evil" crew took too many detours.

In these two days, the scene of the underground laboratory has also been built seven or eight, and it can be accepted and put into shooting in at most two days.

Just in time for the weekend, in order to pursue progress, Luo Quan can only give overtime pay to the employees who built the scene and let them continue to work.

It can only be said that the bottom-level working people in any country are similar. Once they see that the overtime pay is so generous, the employees don't mention the eight-hour work system at all, and they just work hard.

The middle class in the United States has no worries about food and clothing and takes high wages, so of course they have the right to refuse overtime.

But these workers who can only do hard work have several children to raise at home, and the work is snatched to do, so there is really no room for rest.

Of course, although Luo Quan attaches importance to the progress of the project, she is not as exploitative as Zhou Zhou Bapi, working them day and night.

After watching on the set for a while, she returned to the hotel.

But returning to the hotel is not to play, but to continue to promote the movie.

Currently, it seems that no film and television company is willing to provide promotion and theater shares for "Resident Evil". The hot traffic on Twitter seems to be not as useful as she imagined.

However, she is not in a hurry. She has sufficient confidence in this movie. Even if no one comes to her now, after the movie is produced, she will "submit" one by one with the finished film. She doesn't believe she won't be appreciated!

After posting a few more stills of the movie on Twitter, Luo Quan was about to start working, and her phone suddenly rang.

It was Leon calling.

"Hello, what's the matter?" Luo Quan turned on the speakerphone and asked while operating on the computer.

"Sister, are you free these few days?"

Luo Quan laughed: "You asked at the right time. My movie is almost filmed. Now it has entered the post-production stage."

"So that means you are free?"

"Post-production work is all my responsibility alone, and it can be stopped at any time." Luo Quan stopped what she was doing and asked: "So what is the matter?"

"Actually, it's not a big deal. In a few days, it's our aunt's birthday. Many people were invited, including our family."

"Great-aunt, which great-aunt?" Luo Quan really didn't know this. Before grandpa's birthday, he didn't introduce any relatives a generation older than him.

"It's the Queen. In a few days, it's her 90th birthday. Although the connection between our two families is not as close as it used to be, when grandpa had his birthday, Crown Prince Salshi also came to congratulate, so father wants us both to go together."

Reciprocity is the same in any country. Luo Quan still understands this truth.

Moreover, it's only a few days, just treat it as going out to relax, and incidentally visit Buckingham Palace, check in, and take photos.

In this way, her vlog material on Bilibili will be available again.

"Okay, I'll buy a ticket to London." Luo Quan hung up the phone and began to prepare for the trip to London.

The Queen's birthday banquet is held on the evening of the 28th. She sets off tomorrow and should arrive around the early morning of the 27th.

Overall, she is going out for four or five days this time, which will not have much impact on the production of the movie.

Speaking of which, Bilibili also contacted her to shoot the New Year's Festival. The original plan was to finish the performance a week ago, and then broadcast it on the evening of the 31st.

However, because the Huang family collapsed and many stars were forced to retire, many of them participated in Bilibili's New Year's Festival.

With so many stars missing at once, the New Year's Festival can only be re-planned, and the recording time has been postponed to after the New Year.

But it is estimated that it will be around the 3rd or 4th of January. It is estimated that she will receive the notice soon.

Bilibili's requirements must not be shirked. That is her largest fan gathering place in China, almost all of them are iron fans. For emotional and rational reasons, she cannot miss this New Year's Festival.

Looking at it this way, she has no time to produce the movie for the rest of this year.

Fortunately, Aiwei's explosion helped her a lot, allowing her to exchange the remaining production steps of "Resident Evil", otherwise the time would really not be enough.

The task time limit given by the system is three months. Now nearly a month and a half has passed, and the time left for her seems not particularly abundant.

After thinking about it, Luo Quan still took her laptop away.

Time is like water in a sponge. As long as you are willing to squeeze, you can always squeeze it out.

That night, the news of the Queen's 90th birthday banquet was finally announced to the world.