Since signing the contract, Will Smith has been growing hair and beard during the preparation stage of the movie, and has been on a regular diet, losing more than 20 pounds. This is naturally to play the role of Chris Gardner's character, a thin, vicissitudes and miserable middle-aged man. After dressing up by the makeup artist, part of his hair was slightly white and his face looked dark and old-fashioned. This temperament is his new appearance and looks pretty good.

With Wang Yang's "action", Will Smith, carrying a brown cloth bag and a medical scanner, walked out of the nursery. The Chinese uncle at the door was sweeping the floor. Will said, "Please borrow it." After he took two steps, he saw two English words on the graffiti wall.

On the street above, two dark film cameras were filming at the same time. One was shooting distance from the medium shot, and the other was close-up shot, which changed the lens in the post-editing editing. Wang Yang stood behind the camera of the close-up shot and observed the performance through the viewfinder; the one next to the medium shot is controlled by Vale Fest.

"Sorry, when will I find someone to clean up here?" Will Smith's face looked a little worried, and pointed at the "damn" on the wall. The Chinese uncle looked at him, continued to sweep the ground, and said in Cantonese: "I don't know how to speak English pot, I don't talk about the slaughter with you." Will Smith frowned, tilted his neck and listened for a while, and waved his hand helplessly. These were all those who had been rehearsing and walking before. No problem, he lit up the "happyness" y and said seriously: "There is also this y, I have said several times. It is happiness, not y in happiness, it is i."

"cut!" Wang Yang shouted, stopped the camera's operation, his head turned out to look forward, and said, "Will, your performance should be more restrained, especially the voice, more calm, but there is a little helplessness, and a sense of firmness... This is not just your son's business, but you said to yourself. There is no reason for happiness, only me. You have to rely on yourself to pursue happiness. I will get happiness and will also make my son happy..."

Looking at Wang Yang who was still explaining next to him, then looked at Will Smith who was listening carefully in the distance. Gordon Xin, who was standing outside, couldn't help but sigh that with a first-class Hollywood superstar like Will, he actually wanted to listen to the guidance of a 19-year-old director. This is definitely the first time this situation. Looking around the world, you can apply for the Guinness Record! Although Director Young has this power, how many big stars in Hollywood are like Will? Will they really regard the 19-year-old director as a director?

"Okay, Yang, I understand." Will Smith nodded after hearing Wang Yang's words. He had no disdain or perfunctory thoughts. He chose to take on this role and chose to believe in Wang Yang's directorial ability. He would also work hard to perform the effect the director wanted.

"Then come again." Wang Yang's eyes moved back to the viewfinder and signaled to Vale Fist. Both of them activated the camera. After the scene was finished, he was about to shout "action", but he found that Terry Smith had walked to him at some point.

Wearing a pair of strap worker pants and a little explosive head, Terry stood beside the camera, watching all this curiously. These two big guys, father's performance, uncle Yang's explanation, and so many uncles and aunts around him. Is this a movie?

"Little handsome guy, why are you here?" Wang Yang smiled in a daze, so busy that he forgot this. He glanced at Will, turned off the camera, took Terry's hand and walked into the nursery: "Come on, come in with me." Terry should be sitting in the nursery playing with toys. Although he won't take this shot for the time being, this will help Will Smith's investment.

After Terry was placed, Wang Yang returned to the front of the camera, started shooting again, shouting: "action!"

Will Smith walked out of the nursery and soon ended the scene in this set of shots. He lit the letter y on the wall and glanced at his son through the window, as if he suddenly felt that feeling. Looking at the Chinese uncle, he knew that the other party couldn't understand, but he still said firmly: "There is also this y... it's not y in happiness, it's i!"

"I'm talking about it by Zuobi, I'm speaking English..." The Chinese uncle waved his hand impatiently. Will Smith pursed his lips helplessly, looked at his son in the window for a while, then turned around and walked towards the street entrance. He looked at his watch in the middle, and several extras next to him also walked.

The close-up camera has completed the task. Vale Fist, who controls the medium-scene camera, slowly raised the angle of the camera until he captured the sign above the street. When Wang Yang saw Vale giving a thumbs up, he couldn't help but feel a little excited and shouted: "cut! It's past!"

For a moment, the applause in the streets was thunderous, and everyone in the crew laughed and clapped their hands. Harry George whistled, and Terry also raised his hands in the room and jumped out. Will Smith, who walked back, laughed and picked him up, looked at Wang Yang, and said with a smile: "Hey, man, it feels really good to act in a biopic!" Wang Yang took the film box of the film camera, nodded and smiled: "I feel good too!"

During vacation, you can have a happy life every day, playing, dating, reading quietly, watching football games excitedly, freehand and happy; and once you get into work and filming movies, Wang Yang feels that he has a feeling of motivation, keep moving forward, completing one shot after another, these are the things he likes to do the most and makes him feel extremely happy.

"Next shot!" Wang Yang clapped his hands and shouted loudly.

Next, the crew filmed several sets of scenes of Chris Gardner and Mrs. Zhu talking at the door of the nursery, as well as some scenes of Chris walking on the road with his son. The scene of "outside the nursery" was almost completed, and the rest of Chris became a formal agent through an internship and ran over ecstatically. A set of scenes of hugging his son in the house will be left to the final stage of shooting.

Because Will Smith couldn't perform well in the rehearsal, probably because she hadn't experienced that emotion. Wang Yang was not in a hurry. He actually wanted to shoot in order of scripts, so that the actors' mastery and understanding of the psychological changes of the characters would achieve the best results. Of course, when shooting in reality, they still had to adopt a certain way of shooting in a divided scene, but Chris's dream came true, embracing his son and crying was received, and he received special treatment. He completed a series of shooting first, allowing Will Smith to experience Chris's changes in his heart, and then completed this shot.

It was already afternoon, and the crew continued to shoot the scene "Inside the Nursery". Varre Fist directed the photography assistants to place the camera. Looking at Harry George, who was holding the camera and gasping for breath, Wang Yang, who was sitting on the stairs, smiled and said, "Hey, fat man, why haven't you lost weight yet?" Harry George put the camera on the tripod with his hands firmly, and gasped and replied, "I've lost 50 pounds!"

Looking at the chubby face and fat double chin, Wang Yang touched the huge golden retriever at his feet. The well-trained golden retriever was rented from a special pet photography agency, specifically to complete these sets of shots. He said in surprise: "Wow, I can't see at all. I think you have to lose another 200 pounds." Varre Fist also smiled and joked: "I think I have to lose 300 pounds." Harry George's fat face was full of disapproval, and he compared the camera and said: "300 pounds? Man, then I'm a mummy."

Everyone was smiling slightly. When Wang Yang was about to say something, the director of the venue, Jill Saidis, walked in from outside quickly. Seeing him frowning and looking helpless, Wang Yang knew that there must be something wrong, so he stood up and asked, "Jil, what's wrong?" Jill Saidis shrugged and said helplessly: "The owner of the shop on the street wants us to lift the blockade of this street."

"Didn't you agree with the owners of this street?" Wang Yang couldn't help frowning. Because the set must be kept mysterious and cannot let reporters sneak in and shoot casually; the second is that passers-by cannot affect the shooting, so when shooting outdoor scenes, roads often need to be closed. Now this street is in a closed state, which will naturally affect the business of shops on both sides, but the crew will pay a certain amount of money to compensate for their losses, which is also a good idea.

Jill Saidis nodded and explained: "Yes, it was agreed at the beginning, but now he feels that the road closure has been too long and his losses are too great." Wang Yang immediately understood and said: "It should be no problem, I'll go and have a look."

After walking out of the nursery, Wang Yang followed Jill and came to the front of the shop at the intersection. He saw a middle-aged Chinese uncle with impatient face and shouted at a record: "How long will it take to shoot? I still have to do business!" As he said, he said in Cantonese again, "What are you doing! Show off your scenes! You'll be a ghost all day long, and you won't let people do business!"

"Hey, director, I'll leave it to you..." The reporter immediately showed a relieved expression when he saw Wang Yang, and walked up to continue guarding the street entrance.

"Uncle, my name is Wang Yang, I am the director of this movie." Wang Yang looked at the uncle friendly, stretched out his hand, and continued to say in Chinese: "I'm sorry, it's been blocked for a whole day, but it will be finished soon. I know that compensation may not be enough, but I hope you can forgive me and support the movies of the younger generation." The uncle looked at Wang Yang up and down, shook hands with him, and his tone slowly calmed down: "I know who you are, and it's not that I don't support..."

Wang Yang immediately smiled and held the uncle's hand thankfully, and snatched in Cantonese words in a not-so-skilled Cantonese language: "Thank you, thank you! Uncle, you have to drink tea, thank you." The uncle's words were intercepted. Seeing Wang Yang so enthusiastic, he curled his lips and waved his hand and said: "Forget it, do you do business one and half a day less. Young man, do you know that your movie is better, do you know?"

"Well, I can!" Wang Yang nodded with a smile, pointed to the nursery, and said, "Uncle, then I'll go back and continue shooting. I'll finish shooting early so that you can do business." The uncle nodded and walked back to his shop. Jill Saidis smiled and gave Wang Yang a thumbs up. Such a difficult guy was actually solved by a few words. He couldn't help but praise: "Director, you really have it!" Wang Yang shrugged and smiled: "Nothing, this is my territory."

The two walked back to the nursery, and Jill Saidis asked curiously again: "Director, did you use two languages ​​just now? I noticed that your tone is different." Wang Yang nodded while walking, "Well, Chinese, some Cantonese." Jill Saidis smiled in surprise and said: "Director, you can't tell that you are still a language genius." Wang Yang smiled and spread his hands and said: "You know, I grew up in a restaurant, and there are all guests in the restaurant."

Back in the nursery, the photography equipment was ready, and the children who played the classmates were laughing at each other, and Terry Smith was also among them. The golden retriever shook his tail and turned around. When he saw Wang Yang coming in, he surrounded him excitedly. Wang Yang touched his head and said an instruction, "Sit!" The golden retriever sat down obediently. He couldn't help but sigh in secret that he was very well-trained and not as crazy as Danny.

"Yang, I heard that some merchants are dissatisfied with the road closure? Is it solved?" Will Smith walked up and asked. Wang Yang smiled and nodded, "It's all solved." He clapped his hands and shouted, "Everyone is here to take a look!" He walked back to the back of the camera and watched Vale Fest perform the final debugging. The room was not very big, so only a camera needed to shoot at a close-up distance, which is the location of the stairs.

This is the original shooting technique. The lenses in the nursery are all in the same position, but there are some medium-scene changes, horizontal movement and panning. But Wang Yang hopes that there will be more lens changes and editing materials, so another camera will be carried by Harry George and shot on the stairs.

Harry George carried the camera on his shoulders, stood on the stairs, taking deep breaths, his eyes lit up, and murmured, "Oh my god, oh my god..." Wang Yang leaned against the wall at the entrance of the stairs with his hands, looked up at the fat man, and smiled, "Harry, don't you have the strength? Do you want to change to someone else?" Harry yelled hurriedly, "No! I'm just a little nervous, man, this is my first time in my handheld, my god!" He looked happy and said, "I never thought of today."

Wang Yang smiled and didn't say anything. Vale Fist, who was adjusting the machine, raised his head and gave Wang Yang a "okay" gesture. He turned his head and reminded Harry: "Don't take us all in, the angle should be higher!" Harry replied excitedly: "Received! I will take the best shot!"

"Then let's start!" Wang Yang clapped his hands, and all the idle staff in the room walked out, leaving the extras, the golden retriever, and several photographers at the entrance of the stairs. Wang Yang personally picked up the record board, shouted the serial number of the scene, knocked it out with a "da" sound, and shouted: "action!"

Will Smith, who was walking outside, held a scanner in one hand and opened the glass door with "Zhu Tairicai" with the other hand. Feng Ling hanging on the door suddenly rang out, making a pleasant and crisp "ring" sound.

On the first day of the filming, the crew did not encounter any difficulties. It was around 5 pm, and the crew also announced that it would end today's shooting. In fact, "When Happiness Comes Knocks" has many shots that require shooting at night, but today's workload is enough, and there is no need to rush to work. Will Smith also needs time to calm his mind and think about tomorrow's shooting content.

Since Chinatown is located near the Golden Gate Bridge, and after crossing it, it is Oakland. Almost all the shots in the movie are completed in the scenes of these two places, the crew collapsed in a hotel near Chinatown. However, Wang Yang is not in the hotel now, but at home, Wang's restaurant. Because he received a call from his mother, he stewed old turkey soup at home, he needed to go back and have a soup; there was also Terry Smith who was with him. This little guy is now very slim to Wang Yang. When he heard that Wang Yang was going home, he was excited to go with him. So after Will Smith's consent, Wang Yang brought the little guy with him.

In the room covered with movie posters, Terry Smith's tender face was full of curiosity, and he kept looking left and right, touching here and there. In order to watch the shooting plan quietly for a while, Wang Yang allowed Terry to hunt for treasure by himself. He sat by the bed and looked at the thick plan in his hand seriously. He spent about a week to shoot the big scene of "Chinatown", and then there was a "city street", including bus stops, buses, street chases, etc.

Wang Yang flipped through the plan and suddenly remembered a close-up character with lines, the hippie girl who promised to take care of the scanner for Chris Gardner but stole it... He frowned and thought for a while, then took out his cell phone, found a name "Anne Darren" in the address book, dialed it, and said with a smile: "Hi! Anne, it's me, Wang Yang."

"Hello, director." Annie's voice came from over there, and there were some car sounds. She seemed to be on the street. She said softly again: "Is there anything wrong with me?" Wang Yang looked at the posters on the wall and laughed: "Can't you find you if you're fine? But this time there is something, well, I have a character here, only two lines, "Okay, man, I..." Annie's breathing became very heavy, and she held her mouth again. Wang Yang felt her mood and said softly: "Are you here? In San Francisco."

"I...of course, of course!" Annie's tone was slightly trembling, then she laughed, took a few quick breaths, and said, "Thank you! Director, thank you for giving me the opportunity! I, I don't know what to say, just thank you! Thank you, I will take a long-distance bus to San Francisco tomorrow. Is it time to go?"

It takes less than a day to take a long-distance bus from Los Angeles to San Francisco, and the hippie girl’s camera will take at least a week before it will be shot. It is naturally time to go. Wang Yang smiled and said, “Annie, don’t worry, let’s go four days later, and contact me when you arrive in San Francisco.”

"Thank you, director, thank you..." Annie over there was still thanking her continuously, and she vaguely heard her sniffling sound, saying, "I'm so happy, this is my third character, thank you..."

After the call ended, Wang Yang recalled Annie. Her audition failed. She was confused under the alley lights. She wanted to commit suicide. She persevered. She got the role, and the third one was immediately. Her laughter seemed to echo in her ears. Wang Yang couldn't help but grin. This part was called happiness.

"Hey, Uncle Young, see what I found!" Terry shouted excitedly.

Wang Yang looked at the little guy when he heard this and saw a wooden photo frame in his hand. The locker on the desk behind was open. Terry pointed to the blonde girl in the photo frame in his hand and asked with interest: "Who is this girl? Are you fighting with four boys for her? What's her name?"

"No, not her!" Wang Yang rolled his eyes, got up and took the photo frame in Terry's hand helplessly, threw it back into the locker. He held Terry and came to the wall, pointed to Jessica on the poster of "Singing and Dance" and smiled, "It's this girl, her name is Jessica, isn't she beautiful?" Terry raised his head and looked at it for a few times, but said, "I think the blonde is more beautiful! That kind of hair-colored girl is cool!" He pointed to Rachel in the poster and said, "Just like her!"
Chapter completed!