Chapter 3642: Film Project (Part 6)

The trio also met on the train, but the character settings were a bit different. The white boy was a typical slum kid from the United States, knowing nothing about magic, and came to school only because his gambler father didn't want to pay his community school tuition, while the magic school tuition was free, so he came.

The boy from Hong Kong came from a typical high-knowledge elite family, participated in a subordinate project of the solar system development plan, and also knew a mage. When this mage visited their home, he discovered his child had magical talent. Because he felt the magic industry was a blue ocean, he wanted to train his child to be a mage, which was why he came to the magic school.

And the girl from Africa had a family tradition; before she even went to school, she could use some simple weather witchcraft, such as being able to summon a small rain cloud and freeze the water in a water glass. She inherited the tradition of her Kenyan ancestors making deals with the African pantheon, and could be said to be the one among the three who understood and was best at magic.

The scene where the trio met unfolded around the contradiction of them discussing whether magic existed or not. The white boy felt that all magic was nonsense, just a trick to deceive people; the Asian boy said he had seen mages take action; and the African girl directly performed weather magic for them, stunning them both.

These three actors were little mages, and their background settings were actually not much different from those in the movie. The white boy's actor came from Queens, New York, with average family conditions; the Asian boy came from Hong Kong, but his family ran a restaurant; the African girl did come from Kenya, but she was actually closer to the Chinese weather witch than to Storm—this involved some complex connections between primitive witchcraft.

The little mages performed quite well; not only was the previous dialogue vivid and lively, but the little girl's weather magic later directly shocked everyone present.

She directly conjured a dark cloud, not only soaking the white boy's hair but also hitting the Asian boy's eyeglass frame with a tiny bolt of lightning, almost striking his nose.

The director and screenwriter were actually seeing a real mage perform magic up close for the first time. Although they had some concepts before, they didn't know to what extent it could be done. Seeing the little mages take action, they gasped again and again.

"Great, I mean, simply great!" Ke Lisi rushed out from behind the table and said to the screenwriter with some excitement, "I have inspiration! I think we should create an accident related to the weather later, for example, the wheat fields in a certain place are too dry, and then the mages lead the little mages to solve the problem together..."

Everyone in the creative group discussed fiercely for a long time together and let several little mages perform magic separately. Except for the African little girl who already had a contracted deity, the other two were holding wands infused with energy and used a few fixed spells, such as repair spells and cleaning spells.

And Ke Lisi also wanted to compile spells without a teacher, letting them shout out the spells while casting magic, claiming that this could mobilize the audience's emotions to the greatest extent.

Then there were the school scenes of the supporting roles, first the opening sorting ceremony. Strange went up to give a speech, and this part was mainly to film the appearance of each professor. However, after seeing the magic of magic initially, Ke Lisi felt that the appearance methods he thought of before were a bit uncreative, so he let the professors improvise.

Strange actually also felt that if he walked in step by step according to the script, it would be a bit silly. Mages never take the usual path; they either open a portal or fly down. If you walk on the ground before learning magic and still walk on the ground after learning magic, then didn't I learn this magic in vain?

Strange opened a portal directly in mid-air, the red cloak flew out first, and then he suddenly appeared in mid-air, reached out to grab the red cloak, turned around, and landed gracefully, draping the cloak over himself.

"How is it?" Strange asked.

Ke Lisi was stunned watching from the side, but he quickly reacted and said, "No, I mean this is a bit too much like a superhero, you understand?"

"Can't it be like a superhero?"

"No, no, no." Ke Lisi shook his head like a rattle. "That superhero set is too straightforward, and people already have a preconceived impression of Iron Man and Captain America. If you still come like this, they will think mages are about the same as superheroes..."

"Actually, it's about the same originally."

"No, since we want to promote mages, we must make mages a brand new symbol. And the reason mages are different from superheroes is because they are mysterious enough. We must fully express the mystery of mages and leave enough room for the audience to imagine. So your actions and language cannot be too straightforward; they must have a mysterious aura..."

Ke Lisi gave another long speech there, making the orthodox mages next to him scratch their heads. Fortunately, Wei En understood, so he gave Strange a gesture to let him step back first.

Then he beckoned to a cameraman next to him and said, "You stand behind me and follow me to shoot."

He walked to the door of the room, closed the door first, and said, "Assume this is the door to the sorting auditorium."

After speaking, his figure suddenly disappeared, and a burst of gray mist spread out. The door was pushed open with a "bang," and the thick gray mist gathered together and flew forward quickly, then gradually solidified during the flight. After Wei En's figure appeared, he walked a few steps along the trajectory of the flight, and the mist disappeared completely. He turned around.

And in the footage captured by the camera, the lens followed a thick gray mist and pushed open the door of the auditorium. The mist gradually condensed into a human shape and finally froze on Wei En's gray eyes.

Ke Lisi let out a cheer, then clapped his hands and said, "That's what I mean! It needs to be cool, but mysterious; it needs to be different from all common sense, but it must have traces to follow."

After thinking for a while, Strange said, "How about letting the cloak sit on the chair, then fly to the front of the stage, and I appear from the cloak..."

Several professors came up to discuss and design their own appearance methods, and finally finalized the appearance methods with their own characteristics.

For example, Strange used the cloak, the white-bearded old man Gu Yi appeared from the hat, Wang Da appeared from the Scarlet Power, and Xu Shangqi flew with a sword. And the Hippo Goddess, because her appearance was already fantastic enough, she had the most plain and unadorned appearance—walking out directly.

In addition, there were several other professors, but they were all mages from Kamar-Taj. Because they had been practicing in seclusion for many years, they were a bit unaccustomed to this feeling of being exposed to the camera. The director instructed them several times before they barely passed.

After filming the appearance, it was filming the personal scenes. Strange filmed the bridge of teaching several little mages in his office and demonstrating the magic of magic to them; other professors basically filmed classes, first giving a theory, and then taking action to demonstrate.

Among them, Wang Da's demonstration effect was the best; she used the Scarlet Power to conjure a butterfly. At first, it looked like it was made of energy, fluttering around the classroom, but when it flew back, it turned into a real butterfly, but soon disappeared into the Scarlet Power again.

Actually, this wasn't a difficult task for a mage, and even many magicians could do it. But Ke Lisi himself didn't want to promote how strong magic was, but to emphasize how interesting magic was.

Take Wang Da as an example; actually, letting her go to the universe to blow up a planet was a small matter. But the movie couldn't be filmed like that—the real universe was very empty, and most real planets were also very desolate. People would look very small in such a huge environment, and apart from that moment of energy explosion, nothing could be seen clearly. For adults, it could be considered boring, let alone teenagers and children.

Therefore, it was the seemingly not-so-strong little trick of conjuring a butterfly that was more interesting. At least it could let people who didn't deal with magic at all intuitively see what magic could do, which would make them think: since it can conjure a butterfly, can it conjure other things? It would make them curious: what is the principle of this? Why is it completely different from the scientific knowledge we learn on weekdays?

Only when people have such questions will they have the desire to continue watching and the desire to discuss. If you really blow up a planet, not many people will discuss astrophysics. To put it bluntly, laymen watch the fun, and they only want to watch the fun.

Soon, it was Wei En's turn to perform. Originally, he thought no one would act with him, but the director also fully considered that it might be difficult for their group of non-professional actors to perform without objects, so he still let the little mages cooperate with the performance.

The little girl from Africa lay on the bed with a frustrated face, and the remaining two boys chattered around her. At this time, Wei En walked in and said, "Alright, children, your partner is fine. Now can you tell me how she got hurt?"

Several children looked at him together, and as a result, they all got stuck, stunned there without speaking. Wei En stood on the spot and waited for a long time, but didn't see them reciting their lines, so he had to turn his head to look at the director.

"Oh, Tuoliya just fell by herself." The white boy opened his mouth and said, "We just wanted to... come and get some... ointment..."

Wei En stared at the director for a long time, and the director didn't shout "cut." He had to step forward and say his lines: "I'm afraid there isn't a single step in the school that would make you fall like this. If you don't tell me the truth, I can't prescribe medicine for you..."

Who knew that just as he stepped forward, the two people in front of the bed took a step back together, and even the little girl lying on the bed shrank back.

Wei En immediately realized that it might be that the pressure brought by his eyes was too strong, and he subconsciously reached out to touch his eyes.

"Cut!" the director shouted.

Wei En breathed a sigh of relief and said, "How about I still wear glasses, don't really scare the children..."

Who knew that Director Ke Lisi said excitedly to the three little leads, "The performance just now was very good, you must perform that subconscious sense of fear, only then can the plot of you misunderstanding him later become more reasonable..."

Wait. Wei En thought with some doubt, misunderstand me? There's no such plot in the script! The scene you said you added wouldn't be this, right?

Good guy, I am Snape myself!

?? Went to re-read The Sorcerer's Stone again, good.

? Happy Dragon Boat Festival everyone!!

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