Chapter 73

May 27, 2002, the updated "Whiplash" crew started filming low-key in the Central Conservatory of Music studio.

No opening press conference, no ribbon-cutting, no stars visiting the set.

After experiencing so many disturbances, whether it was the employees of the Qingying Factory who were waiting to be fed, or young actors with little experience like Zhou Jielun and Liu Yifei, they all tried their best to prove themselves.

And Boss Lu, even if he was more than 60 years old after adding up two lifetimes, his past dreams could finally be realized in this life, and he was still surging with excitement!

The actors are in place.

Besides Liu Yifei, Zhou Jielun, and Feng Yuanzheng, two other drummers and band members were replaced by Huang Bo and others instead of Chen Guanxi and Yu Wenle.

Yu Wenle's contract was finally bought out by Liu Zeyu at three times the price.

Liu Zeyu is stupid and has a lot of money, spending money to buy face.

Boss Lu didn't care; he didn't lack this one small role.

Huang Bo was recommended by Jin Zhiwen, who had performed in the Sanlitun bar together. He had a foundation in music and dance, and his acting skills were up to standard.

Huang Bo had collaborated with Guan Hu on a "Get on the Car, Go" before, and then returned to his hometown in Qingdao to open a factory.

Later, he still couldn't give up his film dream, returned to Beiping from Qingdao, and took the vocational class of the Beijing Film Academy's dubbing department this year. His spare time was to work part-time as a resident singer in Sanlitun bars.

The scene began to prepare in an orderly manner.

Generally speaking, the film shooting process of the academic school is roughly divided into positioning, lighting, preview, fine-tuning, and formal shooting.

Just like now, Seeing Lu Kuan is looking for the rhythm of the first scene with the novice Zhou Jielun, explaining while letting the field staff stick tape on the ground.

Next is to arrange and debug the real-time lighting. If the requirements are relatively high and the crew budget is sufficient, the light stand-ins for the big names will come out at this time to replace them for this step, ensuring that the lighting can meet the director's various requirements in the camera.

When Seeing Lu Kuan is explaining the play to the lighting, the recording assistant will use this time to install wireless microphones for actors with lines, and the art staff will also cooperate with the palm machine to clean up debris according to the previously delineated photography plan, leaving space.

After these two steps are completed, the position of the machine and lighting on the scene is fixed, and the next is the simple rehearsal of the actors.

For example, now Zhou Jielun and Feng Yuanzheng are holding the script and matching lines with makeup. The first scene today is to shoot their rival play.

Seeing Lu Kuan listened for a while and patiently guided the novice rookie.

"Jielun, two requirements: first, the articulation should be clearer."

Zhou Jielun is not born with unclear articulation, but a style he deliberately maintains.

In "Curse of the Golden Flower" in later years, his Chrysanthemum Terrace was sung very clearly. Reporters asked why, and Zhou Jielun said directly that this was the requirement of director Zhang Yimou.

Because the audience of the movie is very wide, not all of them are his fans, so personal style must give way to the director's requirements.

"Second, the tone and tone should have ups and downs, following the emotional changes. For example, the two 'sorry's in this sentence."

"The correct line is that the first 'sorry' must be much more urgent than the second, because the male lead Xu Huan doesn't want to deduct points in the teacher's heart because of the mistake of the first meeting, right?"

Being able to achieve such attainments in music, Zhou Jielun's language breathing conditions are unquestionable, but he hasn't peeked at the way of acting yet. Overall, the lines are passable.

"Okay, Director."

Everything is ready, the first shot of the first scene begins to shoot.

This is the first meeting between Zhuang Zhong, played by Feng Yuanzheng, and Xu Huan, played by Zhou Jielun.

"What is your name?"

"My name is Xu Huan, teacher."

"I ask you why you stopped playing? You are just like a monkey on a spring, playing blindly!"

Feng Yuanzheng's voice suddenly increased, very oppressive and penetrating.

Seeing Lu Kuan nodded silently behind the monitor. Fortunately, there is a powerful actor to hold the field, otherwise, the quality of the film with only traffic stars would be worrying.

"Sorry, sorry, I thought it was just looking at the basic skills."

The timidity in Zhou Jielun's sentence was actually expressed quite well.

Just like Seeing Lu Kuan's previous consideration, Zhou Jielun and the protagonist's life experience have many similarities. To some extent, he is playing himself.

Xu Huan's character lost his mother early, and Zhou Jielun lacked fatherly love, which led to the seeds of introversion and isolation buried in his personality, until he achieved major achievements in the Chinese music scene after he became an adult, he gradually opened up and became lively.

"Cut, passed!"

The crew members sent applause one after another. It was a very smooth start. The performance of Zhou Jielun, the novice, was better than imagined.

This is also thanks to the jazz drums and basic acting courses arranged by Seeing Lu Kuan for more than half a month.

The second scene is slightly more advanced shooting content, of course, only for Zhou Jielun.

The plot is that after Feng Yuanzheng recruited Zhou Jielun into the band, he began to carry out cruel mental torture on him during the first rehearsal, in order to temper him.

Feng Yuanzheng listened to the band's performance and suddenly called to stop, touching his chin and saying to Zhou Jielun:

"Your rhythm is wrong. Tell me, did you rush the beat or drag the beat?"

Zhou Jielun shook his head blankly: "I... don't know."

Feng Yuanzheng was furious and rushed over, giving Zhou Jielun a big fright.

"Start counting the beats!"

Zhou Jielun shrank his body, his voice trembling slightly: "Five, six, seven..."

"Go to hell! Count four beats, look at me and count!"

Feng Yuanzheng cursed, his expression ferocious. Liu Yifei, who was waiting on the side, felt that she was shaking when she saw Feng Yuanzheng.

Zhou Jielun turned his head slightly according to his requirements, his lips trembling, and fear was written on his face.

"Good, give a close-up!"

A perfect medium close-up!

"Cut, passed!"

An extremely smooth start, and soon it was lunch time.

"Director Lu, you are really good at explaining the play. I haven't seen the teachers invited by the company in the TV series I filmed before explain as well as you."

Zhou Jielun was convinced by his professional quality in just one morning.

Feng Yuanzheng also agreed: "The director's level of explaining the play is not low, at least much better than the several TV drama crews I have experienced."

Liu Yifei looked at everyone patting Seeing Lu Kuan's horse on the side with envy. In fact, she also agreed, but she couldn't say it.

The little girl now wants to habitually confront him when she opens her mouth.

The previous Xie Tingfeng, Chen Guanxi, and others had a preconceived bad impression of Seeing Lu Kuan, thinking that he took advantage of their scandals and poor market conditions to lower the price.

They felt that with his qualifications, he was not enough to explain the play to two young leaders who had debuted for several years and had just acted in "Infernal Affairs." That's why they felt Seeing Lu Kuan was a fascist and a tyrant in the crew.

Seeing Lu Kuan didn't feel that he had anything out of the ordinary. On the set, he was naturally a dictator.

Hitchcock has a controversial personal motto: Actors are animals.

He never hesitated to show his iron-fisted style when explaining the play and guiding actors to rehearse, being excessive and strict.

Of course, according to himself, this is inheriting the style of the silent film era, and it is also to use the bad environment to stimulate the actors' true feelings, so as to match the real character images in the play.

Anyway, even if it is really like this, from the professional rules, actors have no reason to comment on this.

(End of chapter)