The Director's Road of Airflow

The script of "Snowman" is very simple and clear. It is a heroine, Chen Muyun, who is a child star, who is not popular, and suffered cold violence on campus in high school. She met the male protagonist Jiang Tianze who grew up in a single-parent family, devoted herself to painting, and wanted to enter Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts , the story of two people redeeming each other.

School violence, single-parent families, common topics discussed in realistic movies.

The script didn't have much depth, there was nothing new in the plot setting, and the plot twists were a bit blunt. Before the official start of filming, Lu Ming changed the script twice. Finally, the script was finalized and the filming officially started.The investor originally wanted to send a screenwriter, but Lu Ming refused.

After chatting with the editor comrade twice, Lu Ming realized that their brain circuits are very different. Working in the same crew will only torture each other.He can do the lines and plot adjustments of such a feature film by himself.

The cost of this movie is not high, the investment is only 2000 million, and the box office can pay back if the box office exceeds 6000 million. At present, the box office of many feature films easily exceeds [-] million, this does not seem to be a difficult goal to achieve.

Before the filming started, Lu Ming was full of confidence. He planned to finish filming the film in three months, start post-production in August, and release it in time for the New Year's Eve.

On the first day of joining the group, Lu Ming encountered some difficulties.When he learned that the investors were plugged in, Lu Ming expected that the acting skills of the leading actors and actresses might not be very good, but he felt that acting skills could be taught.It really made the two of them try to act in two scenes before Lu Ming realized that their acting skills could be so poor.

Lin Feifei is the niece of the CEO of Guangying Entertainment. She doesn't have any acting experience and no mass base, so she was able to airborne the No. 123 female lead directly because the backstage is strong enough.The little princess's acting skills can be summed up in four words - "wink eyebrows".However, He Qiran, the newcomer that Haoyue Films came in to promote, followed the route of "[-] Wooden People".

The two of them appear in the same shot, one jumps up and down, with exaggerated facial expressions and body movements, and the other is always expressionless, no difference between sadness and joy.In this way, when two people get together to act in a play, Lu Ming is the first to be hit violently, followed by the audience who walked into the theater after the movie was released.

The weather in Kunming in May is gradually getting hotter. Lu Ming has been shooting all morning, but none of the shots can be used, and people are somewhat irritable.He stopped the shooting, and sat alone for a while at noon to calm down.

This is Lu Ming's first film after returning to China. He has been in the crew for a week. When the crew was setting makeup and reading, Lu Ming has always maintained this relatively serious image. He will only be 9 years old after his birthday in September this year. The crew In addition to the two starring actors, one is 26 and the other is 17, he is the youngest.If he is not serious, he may not be able to hold the scene.

Lu Ming kept telling himself to be calm and tolerant. At that time, his acting skills were in a mess. It might not be because the actor had a problem with his attitude, but it might just be that he hadn't gotten the hang of it. He had to spend more time teaching him. This was the first day of filming. , everything will be fine, don't panic, hold on.

Lu Ming is also used to seeing big scenes. In the past two years, he participated in various party activities. It is common for people on the stage to sing out of tune and dance out of tune. Use your voice, manage your expressions well, so that others can't make mistakes.

He has seen a lot of poor acting skills. When he first made a movie, his acting skills were stiff AI style, but Lu Ming has never seen such a scene.

How could someone recite lines in front of the camera with such peace of mind and without emotion?No matter how poor the acting skills of ordinary people are, they will always struggle a little bit. Trying to perform well, but limited by their ability, it is understandable that they cannot perform the effect they want.But He Qiran is different, his acting skills are very poor, he has no intention of improving, and he will not feel sorry for constantly reshooting the same scene.

The first day of filming ended when Lu Ming was on the verge of breaking out. He returned to the hotel with a sullen expression, and immediately called Sun Sifan who was about to come to Kunming.

"Sun Sifan, when did you book your flight ticket? Get it back, and you'd better not come."

"What's wrong? I found a more suitable candidate, and I don't need to be special?"

"Not really. It's just that I deeply feel that this movie may become a stain on my career, and its impact is no less than that of "Space Walk". Ask them to sing the theme song, I'll think about it again. It's quite common to have a bad movie, and the bad movie doesn't affect their reputation as singers."

"What's the matter? So sad? Didn't it just start filming on the first day? Our mainland director just said such frustrating words? Didn't we promise to create a new style of film?"

Lu Ming leaned on the sofa, leaned back, and let out a long sigh, "It doesn't matter if you don't say anything, you'll know when you see it, it won't move, it really won't move."

Looking at young actors with poor acting skills from the director's point of view is an experience Lu Ming has never had before. The films he completed during his master's degree are all carefully selected newcomers who are not well-known but have fresh and natural acting skills. Such a wooden actor has worked together.

Lu Ming thought about it, and dug out the backup of his mobile phone memo. He wanted to see what he thought when he was filming when his acting skills were so poor when he was 17 or 8 years old.

Lu Ming read the cell phone diary for more than ten days in a row, and summed up his main thoughts at the time of filming: Every second of standing in front of the camera is very difficult, I don’t know how to behave naturally, and I hope I can act well, But the eyes, nose, and mouth don't listen to the brain, and his facial expressions have a mind of their own, and no matter how many times they practice in front of the mirror, they are still the same grandiose.

At that time, Lu Ming probably didn't expect that eight years later, he would become a director who was tortured by actors' acting skills.The fate of life is really unpredictable.

Not abandoning, not giving up, is Lu Ming's life creed.He made a cup of green tea the next day and took it to the set. When he got angry, he drank the tea to defeat the anger. Otherwise, he was afraid that he would go crazy on the set and frighten the two children, and he would be even more at a loss when acting. is good.

The way to use soldiers is to attack the heart.Lu Ming decided to find a chance to have a good chat with He Qiran, so as to dispel his resistance to acting.

Today's shooting task is to take pictures of the first encounter between the two. The heroine Chen Muyun looks out of place in the lively classroom, sitting alone in the corner of the classroom, embarrassed.The hero Jiang Tianze saw this scene, stared at the heroine for a while, then continued to practice sketching with his head down.

Lu Ming first let Lin Feifei and He Qiran play freely for a while, and soon stopped. Lu Ming unconsciously raised his voice when pointing out the unreasonableness of their performance, "Lin Feifei, now you have to substitute that you are Chen Muyun, You are very uneasy sitting in the corner of the classroom by yourself. You want to blend in with your classmates instead of sitting proudly alone with your back straight and contemptuous, as if you can’t see They sat alone, you know? Although Chen Muyun is a child star and looks very pretty, but this role has a bit of low self-esteem. You can’t act like a arrogant and proud little princess, then you have completely misunderstood the role .”

"And He Qiran, you glanced at Chen Muyun and felt a bit of compassion, but you are not a troublesome person, and you are usually indifferent. You are a child of a single-parent family, your mother's all hope, and the pillar of the family's future. , your future cannot be sloppy, so you tell yourself to devote all your attention to your studies, and you must, must be admitted to Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts. This is your character psychology, so you see Chen Muyun sitting alone , there was such a flash of sympathy, a little bit of entanglement and intolerance, but I suppressed these thoughts again and continued to study. This is the whole process of psychological changes. You can’t look up mechanically as if you have completed a task, and look at Chen Muyun. Oh, okay, wait another three seconds, then lower your head, pick up a pen, and start to draw. It’s like dancing ballet and calling out the beat, stepping on the rhythm to complete the action, then it’s wrong, stepping on the point of dancing doesn’t affect the coherence of the movement, let alone you acting."

Lu Ming thoroughly analyzed every detail of the movement, taught the two of them step by step, and even went into battle to demonstrate.With Lu Ming working extremely hard, at the end of the day, this scene was barely passed.

At the end, he gave He Qiran a close-up of his face. Lu Ming was not satisfied with how he saw it. In terms of the completion of this performance, this scene must be deleted, otherwise the audience will play in a second, but if this scene is deleted, the rendering of emotion will be lost. It was not in place, and half of it was mentioned in one breath, and it suddenly broke, which made people feel even more uncomfortable.

After the filming was over, Lu Ming kept He Qiran, and wanted to chat with him alone, "You haven't taken the art test yet, have you? Have you thought about what school you want to take?"

When He Qiran was not acting, he was still a polite and obedient junior, and he would answer questions well, "Not yet, next year's college entrance examination, I plan to apply for Nortel's acting department."

Lu Ming listened and nodded, "Well, well, it seems that you still plan to take the path of an actor. Then can you tell me why you don't have any sense of mission as an actor in front of the camera? I have also acted , I don’t know if you have seen my few works that were crazily complained by the audience at that time, and my performance in them was also very bad, but I clearly remember that I still had the idea of ​​wanting to play the role well, like Look at Lin Feifei, although her acting skills are exaggerated, she is really trying to listen and correct. I haven’t seen this in you. Don’t blame me for speaking badly. I just want to know why you hate acting. ?”

He Qiran was silent for a long time without opening his mouth. Lu Ming didn't want to force him, so he patted him on the shoulder, "You should think about it yourself and try to adjust your mentality. The filming has just started, and there is still time. If there is anything you don't understand, come here." Ask, as long as you are willing to ask, everyone will definitely be willing to help you. Don’t put too much pressure on yourself, actors who have not received professional training have such a process.”

Lu Ming was afraid that what he had said earlier would hurt the young man's self-confidence, so he began to say a few words of comfort to neutralize him.

Just when Lu Ming was about to go back to the hotel, the moment he turned around, he felt that something was wrong, and when he looked diagonally behind him, there was a person lying on the tree, with a camera lens protruding from the leaves. shoot.

Lu Ming sighed, Nie Yuan, I can only say this is Nie Yuan, he has been troubled by illegitimate children since he debuted at the age of 15, and has developed an intuition that is extremely sensitive to sneak shots, and he does not know this magical ability How did he do it? In short, he can identify long and short shots hidden in every corner more accurately than Hawkeye.

"That friend on the tree, come down. I still need to call the security guards, please come down? You should consciously delete the photos of the crew that were secretly taken in the camera, otherwise the assistant director will come and watch you delete them. It would be so boring. , isn't it? It's also embarrassing."

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