Chapter 417: Stunning Acting, Madman-style Performance

The director scolded the prop team until they were silent.

Jin Li's situation just now was really dangerous; they were all a bit shocked watching from the side.

The support platform made of tables and chairs shook for a long time, and it was about to fall to the other side. At the critical moment, Jin Li suddenly sat down in the opposite direction, trying hard to lie flat on the table, and barely stabilized.

When the director scolded Jin Li, other staff members hurriedly ran to Jin Li's side to stabilize the tables and chairs, letting Jin Li come down slowly.

Jin Li walked to Director Chu, and Director Chu then eased his expression and said to her:

"Your impromptu performance just now was very good, the immediate reaction was realistic and natural, I will keep this scene."

Jin Li nodded.

Director Chu added: "But next time, still be careful and pay attention. The prop team can't calculate everything, so you still have to rely on your actors to be vigilant."

Jin Li felt it was just an accident.

If it weren't for her being too scared of zombies, making her body reaction of retreating backward too fierce, the tables and chairs pieced together wouldn't have shaken.

But she was immersed in the performance, striving to perform the realistic reaction of the scene, and it was very difficult to control her impromptu performance.

So this accident, no one could predict in advance.

But Jin Li wisely didn't refute. Director Chu scolding the prop team was also because he was worried about her safety.

She nodded again.

Director Chu: "Rest for ten minutes, continue to shoot the next scene."

Jin Li looked at the scene of the next scene. From the plot, it wasn't difficult for her.

But in terms of emotions, the most difficult part of the next performance was how to grasp that degree.

It is necessary to make people feel the second female lead's spoiled and overbearing nature, while not letting them see that the apocalypse has already arrived, yet also making them feel that the second female lead is miserable.

Could the second female lead not be miserable?

Before the doomsday, the daughter of the richest man, cards could be swiped at will, things could be bought at will.

But after the doomsday, everything was reshuffled, and everything Ruan Ruan possessed was almost gone.

The doomsday arrived, money was just a pile of waste paper, and it wasn't as useful as supplies.

In the next scene, she would encounter zombies. Jin Li looked around and didn't see the relevant actors and props. She didn't know if the crew was using props to replace zombies, through later special effects synthesis, or adopting real-person performance.

Using special effects synthesis, the cost would be relatively large, but the zombies synthesized by special effects could satisfy the director's requirements to act.

If using real people to perform, it was a test of acting skills.

Jin Li conceived her behavior, expressions, and movements in her mind during the shooting, and then continued to take out "Five Three" to brush questions.

She had to let herself enter a focused state as soon as possible. In front of Director Chu, she still wanted to show the best side of her acting skills.

She was brushing questions with her head down and didn't see Xu Ting and Bai Jiang come to the shooting room where she was.

Director Chu saw them and didn't give a good face.

He walked to the other side, relatively far from Jin Li, and then opened his mouth to ask: "You aren't shooting in Field A, why did you run over?"

Xu Ting didn't dare to speak, only looking at Bai Jiang with her eyes.

Bai Jiang was so angry he vomited blood in his heart. Clearly, when shooting in Field A, it was Xu Ting who took the initiative to tell him she wanted to find Director Chu to go back to sit in.

She felt it wouldn't work to let the assistant director shoot such an important scene.

Bai Jiang also felt it wouldn't work, so he agreed to come over with Xu Ting.

As a result, they came over, and Xu Ting didn't speak again.

Director Chu also looked at Bai Jiang. Bai Jiang had to bite the bullet and say: "The shooting in Field A tonight is too important, there are very intense fighting scenes, and emotional explosion scenes for both of us."

The doomsday arrived, the school was impacted, the male and female leads mixed in the front line, were the first people to have a conflict with zombies, and each lost partners who were relatively important before the doomsday.

This was considered a turning point in the personalities of the male and female leads, and also made the male and female leads realize the cruelty of the doomsday, faster than others to enter the doomsday state, consciously collecting supplies.

For this kind of big scene, Bai Jiang was also inclined to let Director Chu shoot it.

Bai Jiang: "So we both want Director Chu to shoot."

Director Chu said with a blank face: "It was me who let the assistant director go over to shoot. The assistant director has also independently presided over movies and served as the main director. Do you not trust the assistant director's ability?"

Bai Jiang hurriedly denied, "No, we also trust the assistant director very much, but the scene is really too important, so we still have some doubts."

Director Chu looked at the two of them deeply and said in a deep voice: "I don't shoot you for my reasons. You have cooperated with me several times and understand my style very well, which makes me not as easy to shape you as before."

This is like accommodation. Communicating with acquaintances, you know he has a habit of bringing others back to live, and you have also told him about this habit, but it is very difficult for acquaintances to change this habit.

Your dissatisfaction, to acquaintances, is not important, because acquaintances know you will endure it.

But if the person renting together is a stranger, make an appointment of three chapters when contacting, saying you can't tolerate certain habits, if you can't do it, don't rent.

Then strangers will have some scruples.

Chu Chenliang believed that Xu Ting and Bai Jiang were currently in this state. The relationship was too familiar, but it was not easy to say, and it was not easy to change after saying it.

So he put the assistant director over to shoot them, but clearly, they couldn't understand his intention.

Chu Chenliang said with dissatisfaction: "Today's shooting, neither of you entered the state. Either Bai Jiang was distracted, or Xu Ting was absent-minded.

Since you have no intention to shoot, then come and see how Jin Li shoots. I don't want to compare you with Jin Li. Every actor's style is different.

But I speak according to facts. Jin Li is just better than you. Even an ordinary person can see it. With your current state, if you perform in the same frame as Jin Li, it will be difficult not to be compared."

Xu Ting curled her lips, a flash of dissatisfaction in her eyes.

Jin Li is just an actor of the younger generation, and she hasn't filmed many scenes, how could she be more outstanding than her?

Bai Jiang didn't do it as obviously as Xu Ting, but he also didn't believe these words of Director Chu.

He felt this was Director Chu wanting to belittle them through Jin Li, so that they would have a competitive heart.

Chu Chenliang looked at their expressions and didn't say much. After shooting, they would know.

The ten-minute rest time passed in a flash.

Jin Li was called to prepare. She immediately put down "Five Three," her face was calm, and her pupils were calm.

When she focused on doing questions, the more active her thinking, the more indifferent her expression, putting all her energy into thinking.

Until she walked to the predetermined shooting location, and with the help of staff, climbed back to the top of the tables and chairs pieced together, Jin Li raised her head again, and the expression on her face had changed.

It was as if she had switched to another person, and the expression was indescribably vivid and agile.

Jin Li hugged her arms in fear and screamed loudly.

"Bang, bang, bang!" Hearing the sound, the zombies excitedly collided with the window, and the crisp shattering sound came, and the window was smashed.

Hands abruptly stretched in from outside the window, and Ruan Ruan, played by Jin Li, was startled again and screamed.

She wanted to jump off the tables and chairs, but found her legs were soft and she couldn't stand up at all, so she could only crawl bit by bit with her hands, moving her body to the edge.

Seeing this scene, the expressions of Bai Jiang and Xu Ting were a bit silent.

The performance of this scene was very simple, but not simple, because Jin Li used imaginative performance throughout.

"Broken window," "hands stretched in," etc., were all special effects to be added later. There were none on the scene.

Director Chu used a big loudspeaker to shout the scene words, and Jin Li's expression instantly switched to the corresponding scene, and the reaction was as if it really happened.

Just by relying on imagination to reach this point, Jin Li was already a qualified and mature actor.

"Cut!"

Director Chu shouted cut, but didn't let Jin Li come down, but let Jin Li stay in place and not move, waving his hand to let the group performers come over.

For this scene, Director Chu arranged two zombies with very realistic styling.

These two group performers were invited by the crew at a high price, which could be said to be "old drama bones among extras," and their acting skills were recognized by Director Chu.

But this scene wasn't just two zombies, but a pile of zombies rushed into the classroom, running wildly toward Ruan Ruan.

Then how should other zombies be arranged?

Unimportant zombies, Director Chu decided to use special effects for all of them.

For other teams, special effects are very difficult to produce, but his team had already helped him produce several special effects films, and zombies, this kind of simple special effects, were instead made very easily.

Because he required other zombie passersby to just hang their heads and move forward slowly.

And those two old drama bones among extras were specifically arranged by Director Chu for scenes, with magnified expression details, so they adopted real-person appearance.

Two zombie extras ran over, and the dense blood, brains, wounds, and insects made Bai Jiang and Xu Ting subconsciously retreat a few steps, disgusted by the dirt.

But in fact, the extras weren't dirty at all; they were all treated with syrup.

Getting closer, one could only smell a sweet fragrance.

The extras were in place, and the "walking staff" helping with later special effects synthesis were also in place.

The discussion on the field suddenly became louder. Jin Li was thinking about the solution to a math problem in her mind. Hearing the sound, she raised her head and couldn't help but be stunned.

Director Chu was actually using black penguin dolls to replace the zombies expressed by special effects!

"Dolls, I feel the difficulty is relatively large, will Jin Li laugh?"

"Originally the zombie styling made people look very scared, but seeing them surrounded by a pile of penguin dolls, suddenly felt zombies all became cute."

"Zombies surrounded by a pile of penguin dolls?"

Jin Li just glanced at the dolls and hurriedly closed her eyes, continuing to think about the solution to a math problem in her mind.

For her, there was a bit of difficulty, but not much.

As long as she entered the state of getting twice the result with half the effort, Jin Li felt she could handle it well.

Soon, the penguin dolls were placed in fixed points, and the two real-person zombies were also in their respective places.

Director Chu shouted "Start shooting" again!

Jin Li maintained that terrified expression, and the director said with a big loudspeaker: "The door started to be collided by other zombies."

Jin Li's corners of her mouth couldn't help but twitch; that was twitching from nervousness.

Originally she still wanted to go down, but the movement from the door made her seem like she was scared, and the foot she just stretched out immediately shrank back.

Her ears seemed to hear the roar of zombies. Behind her, zombies outside the window kept stretching out their hands wanting to grab her and eat her.

And not far away, the door was also constantly under attack by zombies.

Her path of life was all cut off, leaving only a dead end.

Director Chu continued to shout with a big loudspeaker: "The door was broken, and the zombies walked in."

Chu Chenliang gave Jin Li a close-up shot. Through the camera screen, one could clearly see—

Jin Li first put her eyes on the door, then from far to near, bit by bit moving the focus of her vision to the real-person zombies waiting in the room.

Bai Jiang frowned, "This visual focus transition is done very naturally, how did she do it?"

Director Chu said flatly: "Because she constructed the scene in her mind, and relied on excellent imagination to do it. She can not only think of it but also let herself be immersed in the imagined scene."

Xu Ting couldn't help but say in her heart: "Madman."

"A madman living in her own imagination!"

Xu Ting knew that this type of actor had a very strong substitution for the role, could rely on imagination to immerse in the role, and could also rely on imagination to add a "finishing touch" to the role.

But this type of actor, also because they are too immersed in the play, is very difficult to walk out of the play.

Just like having schizophrenia, sometimes she can't distinguish between the character's life and her own life.

She had heard that some actors called "geniuses" in the circle have to see a psychologist every time they finish a play, and after at least several months of treatment, they can walk out of the role in the play.

In Xu Ting's eyes, Jin Li's performance method, although very outstanding, is also very dangerous!

Chu Chenliang took the big loudspeaker and shouted: "Zombies move!"

The penguin dolls remained in place without moving, and the two real-person zombie extras moved, their bodies crooked and approaching Jin Li.

Ruan Ruan screamed in fear again, and goosebumps all over her body popped out.

She couldn't retreat backward, shrinking herself into the corner.

Because if she continued to retreat, the hands of the zombies outside the window could grab her back.

But she absolutely couldn't move forward, couldn't leave the high platform built by tables and chairs, because the bottom was already surrounded by zombies.

Ruan Ruan suddenly turned her head to look at a chair on the side. The first time she lifted it, she couldn't lift it; her whole body had no strength.

But she gritted her teeth, let herself lift it, and finally threw the chair at the real-person zombie closest to the bottom on the third time.

According to the description in the script, she was throwing it at the zombie, but the accuracy was off.

So Jin Li seemed to be throwing at the real-person zombie, but actually was throwing at the penguin doll on the side.

The strength wasn't enough, the accuracy was very poor, the chair didn't throw out at all, but rolled down.

Fortunately, the intelligence of these zombies was relatively low-level and wouldn't step on the chair to move forward, otherwise they could step on the chair to grab Ruan Ruan.

Ruan Ruan threw two chairs in a row, and found that she could throw chairs, and the zombies had already arrived below, raising their hands wanting to grab her, but it was still a bit short to grab her.

Behind her were hands, and below were also hands.

Ruan Ruan covered her mouth hard, tears falling one by one, scared to the point of being unable to add more.

Director Chu picked up the big loudspeaker at this time and shouted: "A huge sound rang out outside, attracting all the zombies away."

The next scene mainly shot the picture of zombies leaving in a large range. Ruan Ruan cried with a flushed face, looking at the window without daring to speak.

After the zombies left, she climbed down bit by bit and looked carefully outside the corridor.

"Cut!"

Director Chu shouted, repeatedly looking at the pictures shot by several cameras, and specifically let Xu Ting and Bai Jiang watch.

Every time they watched it again, it was as if they were whipped on Bai Jiang and Xu Ting's bodies once.

Jin Li's performance gave them a loud slap in the face! ===== CHAPTER 418 =====