Chapter 45: Expressionist or Experientialist?

"cut!" Wang Yang frowned tightly and shouted: "Jessica, don't just smile, okay, have some feelings, come-on! Come again!"

The rooftop garden of the Eastern High School, standing here, you can see the Vasaqu Mountains in the distance. The endless mountain scenery is combined with the blue sky, and the scenery is very beautiful. This is the secret base of "Troy Burton". In this scene, he brought the heroine "Gabriela" to here, and then the two talked and told some of their hearts. In the movie, this scene is very romantic and beautiful.

However, during the filming, there was no such a good atmosphere. The entire crew was crowded here, including the crew, the venue and others, which could be said to be a "big surprise". But is this a reason Jessica's performance is not good?

Jessica and Tom Willing sat on the chair and performed this set of scenes, but before they finished speaking, they heard a "cut" again!

Everyone in the crew stopped, and Vale Fist also changed the camera to the side. Looking at Jessica in front of him, Wang Yang spread his hands and walked up, saying helplessly: "It's exactly the same as before! I'm not just about smiling, Jessica, give me some warmth and heart-warming feeling! Do you understand?"

"Yang, I'm sorry." Jessica was even more anxious when she heard Wang Yang's scolding and frowned and felt even more anxious. She had tried several performance methods, but neither smiling nor smiling toothlessly could pass this shot.

Wang Yang suppressed his dissatisfaction, gave her an encouragement smile, and said, "It's nothing, just act better this time!" As he said, he clapped everyone, retreated to the back of the camera, and said, "Do it again."

Varre Fister straightened the camera, the lighting clerk was holding a soft light board and the recording engineer also held a long microphone to look at Jessica and Tom Willing; the recorder held the clerk and shouted loudly: "The garden scene on the rooftop, the fifth set of shots, the twenty-second time, start!"

Yes, this set of shots has been taken twenty times and still needs to be reshooted. In this scene, the other sets of shots were shot smoothly; but the remaining sets of shots, that is, the scene where the male and female protagonists sit on a chair and talk. Tom Willing's performance is OK, but Jessica seems to be out of shape. Wang Yang talks about the opera, analyzes, and even demands that she can't act well.

More than half a month has passed since the start of "Singing and Dance Youth", and more than half of the non-singing and dance parts are filmed, and it is almost completed. The shooting work in the past half month has been very smooth, faster than expected. First, the performance of the starring actors is not bad; second, the complete storyboard script was prepared early, and there was no situation of "how to shoot next?", and Vale Fister was very enthusiastic. He helped Wang Yang correct many wrong lens designs and solved many photography problems.

Wang Yang naturally gained a lot of very valuable experiences and learned a lot from Valephist, such as mastering the camera, when should it be fast, when should it be slow, etc.; there are also a lot of practical director experiences that cannot be understood by reading books, how to make the actors move, how to express their needs, and handling the chores of the entire crew, maintaining the operation of the crew, everything has to come in person. He has made rapid progress and understands the difficulties of producers and directors.

This is different from "The Ghost Record", where you hold a DVD at home every day and work with Rachel and Zachary; now there are dozens of employees in the crew, and if you plan to cast more actors, it seems that everyone in the crew needs to ask about the work. The setter said that the filming classroom is a bit old and needs to be repainted, so just paint it; the crew asked him what shots to shoot tomorrow and prepare in advance; the starring actors such as Tom Willing asked him about the script; the venue even asked him whether to buy three hamburgers for Harry...

But these are all in normal work, and some things are very annoying.

The setter and the props quarreled. The setter complained that the props had not completed the task, but the props said that he never knew the "task"; the art director and the makeup artist almost started fighting, and they all insisted that their clothing design was "youthful and sunny", and Wang Yang wanted to mediate, choose, and comfort him. There was also a choreography drunk at a bar outside at night, argued with others, and went to the police station. Wang Yang was so angry that he scolded "fuck", but he still had to endure his anger to solve the problem, and then kicked the guy out of the crew.

Although that guy is a little chore, if this matter is exposed by the media, the image of "Singing and Dance" will be greatly affected. Under the chain reaction, even Vale Fest has filmed many pornographic films, which will ruin the early publicity effect.

These messy things happen almost every day, which can make people exhausted. Although Wang Yang is young and strong, and even though he is full of enthusiasm for everything about making movies, he sometimes feels very tired these days.

Wang Yang is now beginning to understand why the teacher who teaches photography says that directors are all "powder barrels" and "terrorists". Never provoke them, otherwise you will definitely be scolded very badly. He thought that if a producer suddenly appears next to him and says, "Buddha, don't shoot like that!", "The budget is not enough!", etc., he will definitely get angry and scold the producer.

Fortunately, it is approaching Christmas at the end of the month, and Eastern High School has already started to have a holiday, and the shooting is much more convenient. Wang Yang doesn’t have to deal with the girls’ "enterprise" harassment every day, saving a lot of energy.

During the filming process, directing the actors to perform is naturally the one that Wang Yanghua thinks the most, which is the director's job. Several starring actors in "Singing and Dance" are all inexperienced newcomers. Their performances are very immature, just like Tom Willing, who always acts too restrained and has no expression on his face. Wang Yang reminds this scene that he will laugh before he will laugh; the most worry-free thing is Rachel, who performed very well, and her shots are basically passed in one go. If they can't pass, it's because others messed up, and she saved Wang Yang a lot of film.

Jessica's performance can be said to be very bad, even Tom Willing is not as good as her. The problem is not because of her positioning, the sense of camera and lines. In these aspects, she does better than others; but her facial expression often has big problems. Wang Yang has to talk about the opera slowly to her and shoot it repeatedly many times before she can meet the requirements. It can be said that most of the shooting process was slowed down by her, otherwise it could be faster.

However, she failed to shoot this scene 21 times. The heroine "Gabriela" here must have that kind of warm and affectionate feeling; Jessica just reads the lines with a smile, which is far from the desired effect. This is her old problem, not that she is not serious enough, on the contrary, she acts very hard, but she gives people the feeling that "she is acting", not investing in emotions, and wandering away from the story, her efforts are just a thankless task.

"Singing with you is that feeling..." Jessica smiled at Tom Willing, her voice was unnatural because she was very nervous and afraid to hear the early "cut" again.

But it still appeared.

"cut!cut!cut!" Seeing Jessica's behavior worse and worse, Wang Yang couldn't help but shout three times. The pressure accumulated over the past few days made his anger suddenly rise, but he immediately reacted, covered his forehead and let out a breath, shook his head and said, "Everyone, let's take a rest first."

Following his words, Varre Fist put the camera off his shoulder, Harry George next to him carefully took it and put the camera back on the tripod; the lighting maker Steve Taylor also put down the soft light board in his hand, Tom Willing stood up from the chair, said "relax" to Jessica, and walked to the side to look at the mountain view in the distance.

Jessica sat on the chair with her eyebrows frowned, her fists tightly clenched, and she sighed secretly: "I'm really like an idiot!" She was afraid of reshoots, especially the problem was her. She had already performed very hard and tried all the performance methods, but it still couldn't.

In the past half month, Jessica has encountered such a situation almost every day, filming repeatedly, listening to Wang Yang's guidance, but the more patient Wang Yang is, the more anxious she is. Now she is 22 consecutive times, constantly breaking her personal new records, and she feels a little breathless.

However, it was also the highest record since filming. Wang Yang was helpless. He had done his best to explain the elements of this set of shots to Jessica. He had expressed his thoughts. If this was the original TV movie, Jessica's performance had actually met the requirements. When she was put on her, the audience might only pay attention to her appearance and would not think about whether her performance was vivid. But this set is not good for him. The movie needs to be taken seriously. If everything is "almost enough" attitude, it would definitely be a bad movie.

His heroine in the movie must never be just a beautiful vase. What he wants is an excellent actor, a "Gabriela"!

"Jessica." Wang Yang frowned and walked over, sat on the bench, looked at Jessica next to him, and asked in confusion: "What's wrong with you? You performed well before, what's wrong now?"

Jessica glanced at him and apologized: "Yang, I'm sorry, I..." She hesitated for a while before gritting her teeth, shook her head slightly, "Yang, I don't know what to do."

"Put into your feelings!" Wang Yang said without hesitation. In fact, whether it is now or in the future, this is Jessica's biggest weakness in performance. Her movies in his mind are all good, and her charm is always the same as a beautiful vase. There are also several very bad comedies. Her performance is very exaggerated. It can be said that she is not suitable to make fun of body language at all. She does not have the sense of humor in this regard.

But compared with other reasons, emotional investment is her biggest problem. Wang Yang organized it and said to her: "Think about the content of this scene in the script, you have to feel the current mood of "Gabriela"." He shrugged and analyzed: "She is very happy, a little embarrassed, a little moved. Her words are expressing her heart, a bit like confessing, do you understand?"

Jessica nodded silently, and when Wang Yang finished speaking, she suddenly said directly: "I understand these, but I can't act it."

"You can!" Wang Yang said unquestionably, patted the back of her hand, and encouraged: "come-on, don't say no to yourself, I know you can, you performed well during the audition, didn't you?" Jessica looked at him, looking at him but stopped, and said softly: "Yang, I can't."

When Wang Yang heard her always say that she was not good, he suddenly became a little angry and spread his hands and said, "What's wrong with you? You told me that you can't act now, tell me that you can't act!? Please, Jessica, do you want me to finish this scene for you?!" His voice was a little loud, and it immediately attracted the attention of others, but they immediately withdrew their gazes and walked away a little.

Jessica's cheeks turned red and a little embarrassed. Wang Yang realized that the tone was too loud just now, and held her hand and apologized sincerely: "I'm sorry. Jessica, I'm just a little angry, not because you didn't act well, but because you didn't have confidence." He pinched Jessica's hand and smiled: "You can't be without confidence at any time. Do you know, have confidence!"

"I should say sorry, I'm not professional enough." Jessica smiled at him and said that she didn't blame him. She looked around and saw that no one was paying attention to this side. She leaned closer to Wang Yang's ears and pressed her voice and said, "Yang, I know I need to devote my feelings, but when performing, I looked into Tom's eyes..." She looked at Wang Yang's face and stopped hiding her thoughts, and said, "That's light green, not your black. There was a voice in my heart that reminded me that 'he is Tom'...Yang, during the audition, I looked at you, so I could act."

So that's it? Wang Yang was a little ridiculous and moved, and wanted to kiss her. He knew that this sweet girl was sometimes very strong and respectful, but she now spoke her voice without reservation. Isn't this trust in him? He thought about it and tried to untie her heart and said, "Jessica, this is a performance, don't think about so many messy things! If I shout action, you become Gabriela; if I shout cut, you become Jessica again... No." He suddenly asked, "Are you a performance or an experientialist?"

Jessica shook her head and said, "I haven't thought about this." She thought about her performance and preached, "When performing, I will think about how this character should be like now, and then try to tell myself that I am her and let myself perform her."

That is the Experimental School. Wang Yang looked at her and thought of her future movies. Obviously, her Experimental School failed. He suggested: "If you can't get rid of the voice in your heart, the Expression School is more suitable for you. The psychology of that character has nothing to do with you. You are just imitating it! Jessica, don't have any psychological burden on this. It's not just the Experimental School is called acting, but acting. You should know this."

Jessica nodded thoughtfully, and Young made a point. On the one hand, she wanted to integrate into the role, but on the other hand, she was very sober, which caused a great psychological burden. Should she act like a performance school?

Wang Yang patted her on the shoulder and smiled and said, "Also, when you perform, you don't have to really look at Tom's eyes. Your eyes can pass through his shoulders and look far away. It will be much better to perform in front of the mountain view behind." He shrugged and smiled, "Anyway, your eyes are in the same direction in front of the camera."

Seeing Vale Fist coming here, Wang Yang stood up. Vale looked at him and Jessica and said, "Yang, I have an idea. You can sit on the chair and play against Jessica." Jessica and Wang Yang were both stunned. Wang Yang laughed and said, "What, I'll do it?" Vale smiled and nodded, saying, "Anyway, all we need is her close-up shot, and this can't be taken by anyone she is talking to."

This is a good method. When editing later, just connect Tom's part of the shot. Wang Yang said with a puzzled look: "But why should I do it?" Vale Fest smiled and spread his hands, saying: "Everyone knows." Wang Yang looked at Jessica and laughed and said: "Oh, so everyone knows?" Although their relationship was not deliberately concealed, it was not promoted everywhere.

Looking at Jessica who was pursing her lips and smiling a little shy, Wang Yang couldn't help but roll his eyes. Now this expression was very good! He nodded and said, "Okay, let's play together first and see the effect." After that, he sat down in the chair and smiled, "Let's start, Gabriela."

It can play with Wang Yang, which brings great freshness to Jessica. She looked excited and started performing with a smile. She said with a line: "I still remember when we were in kindergarten, once we met a new friend, ten seconds later, we could become talkative, because you don't need to hide yourself..." Her eyes were bright and her voice smiled playfully, "It feels like singing with you, that's it..."

Wang Yang smiled and said, "Okay, I just know that I never thought about singing, really, until you show up." Jessica let herself feel Gabriela's mood, lowered her head a little shyly, and smiled, "Do you really want to participate in the second round of auditions?" Wang Yang shrugged casually, "Hey, call me to audition for the weird boy."

Jessica smiled sweetly and said, "Yang, you are so cool." She remembered the scene when Yang was surrounded by girls, and also the way he looked like a child when he played with Danny; and when he was filming a movie, he was extremely serious and focused. She couldn't help but say the next line from the bottom of her heart: "But it's not because you are a storm, you are just cool. Thank you for bringing me to your secret base." She thought about the beauty of elementary school and the happiness and warmth of her face, and said, "It seems like she was back in kindergarten."

"Wow, perfect performance..." Wang Yang murmured. When Jessica heard this, she was immediately full of energy. Seeing Vale smiling and giving a thumbs up, Wang Yang shook his head and said, "Okay, there's no way, just use this method. But Jessica, you want to say Troy, not Yang." He clapped his hands vigorously and shouted, "Everyone is here!"

Soon, everything was ready again. Wang Yang did not stand behind the camera and continued to sit on the chair. The recorder shouted "Twenty-third time, action!" Jessica repeated her mood just now, looking at Wang Yang beside her, and her true colors started to perform.

After she finished the performance, Wang Yang couldn't wait to shout, "cut, perfect!" Vale Fist smiled and said, "It's taken." Jessica felt relieved all over, and Wang Yang also breathed a sigh of relief. The scene of this scene was finally finished. He stood up and smiled and said, "It's over, everyone should finish work!"

Everyone cheered and began to pack up the photography equipment. Wang Yang directed for a while, then walked back to Jessica behind and smiled, "Jessica, this time it was solved, but it can't always be like this. You need to overcome this problem." Jessica nodded and said, "Yang, I will try my best to learn the performance method of the performance school." Wang Yang said ok, and leaned into her ear and quietly said, "Let's not talk about these things, wait until we go to the restaurant for dinner later, and then go to a movie!" Jessica's eyes lit up and she said in surprise: "Really?"

"Of course!" Wang Yang nodded with a smile. He and Jessica have never dated again since they had a day off a long time ago. He is not a rookie. He knows that falling in love is like planting flowers. It requires watering and sunshine so that the flowers will not wither. Especially recently, he and Jessica have a lot of pressure on their work. It is time to release them.

Jessica smiled happily and expectantly, "Then which movie we should watch?" Wang Yang hugged her and smiled, "You make an idea."

After having dinner at a Western restaurant, the two went to the cinema to watch the recently released "Electronic Love Letter" and had a sweet date.

After the date, the two returned to a hotel near the Eastern High School, where the crew lived. Wang Yang took a shower and did not sleep. He sat at his desk, looking at a storyboard script and shooting plan on hand. The remaining non-singing and dancing scenes in "Singing and Dance Youth" will probably take two days to solve. Those are scenes outside the campus, such as Troy Burton's home, Gabriela's home, etc. The crew has rented the scenes for shooting.

Then, the next step is to take pictures of the singing and dancing part. The singing and dancing part has several scenes, school corridors, basketball halls, canteens, auditoriums, etc. Wang Yang is preparing to complete the scenes of the Eastern High School canteens, corridors, etc. First, it will be Christmas, everyone will have a holiday, and then continue to take pictures of the basketball halls, auditoriums and other parts after the festival.
Chapter completed!