Chapter 8: Brother, I will stare at you! (《》)

After spending a day, I finally renovated the walls of several places to shoot in the hall and bedroom. Fortunately, with the help of Alba, he would not be able to complete it alone. Now the walls have become snow-white, enough to meet the requirements of the movie.

After seeing off the Alba siblings, Wang Yang finished the rest of the cleaning work, took a hot shower, and hurriedly finished the takeaway and a large pizza.

After eating, Wang Yang came to the computer desk and began to write the script. When the filming of the later "Spiritual - Ghost Records" was not produced, all the lines were created on the spot. This is because the focus of this type of horror film is not on the lines, but on the scary atmosphere created by the camera, which makes the audience "scared yourself"; and the DV movies are very life-oriented, so don't expect any profound and interesting lines, just use daily words, so there is nothing to write about the script. Just write the story process clearly and let the actors know what the situation is.

He focused on writing storyboard scripts, which are the so-called "director scripts". Just like cells form human bodies, and shots form movies, one shot after another is designed by the director, and Wang Yang is now doing these design work. However, since he is the only one in the entire crew, this storyboard script can be written very simply, and he can understand it himself.

One of the great benefits of drawing storytelling scripts is intuitive. For example, when shooting some complex lenses, such as special stunt lenses and lenses that need to be processed later through digital technology, if there is no storytelling script, you have to explain it clearly to actors, photographers, etc., and hundreds of staff. It is so hard and troublesome, and the director himself may collapse in the end. Why don’t you understand what I mean?

No one is a worm in your stomach. No language can be as clear as the picture. If you draw the lens in your heart, others will know at a glance that the benefits of the storyboard script will be reflected at this time.

But when studying at the University of Southern California, Wang Yang also knew the disadvantages of storyboard scripts. It was very simple. The way of drawing storyboards restricted the director's creation. With storyboard scripts, the director only mechanically turned the content drawn on paper into a shot. However, when the story and actors come into contact with reality, there will be many interesting and unpredictable collisions and pictures. At this time, the storyboard scripts become stumbling blocks.

"A long time ago, when I understood this, I tore my storyboard script. From then on, I tried to avoid drawing storyboard scripts." This was what the teacher who taught the shots said. Wang Yang remembered it very clearly. The teacher said with an intoxicated look on the face of the teacher: "Life itself is richer than everything. When you connect your thoughts with reality on the spot, it is a very wonderful feeling."

Then, the teacher joked again, which made the classroom burst into laughter: "Of course, you can also fall in love with the storyboard script, because you just need to wait for the photographer to assemble the machine and the actors are in place, and then you put the storyboard scripts in a group, and you don't even have to watch the monitor! What? Do you ask the actor to stand a little to the left or to the right? Leave this problem to the assistant director to solve! I'm back home!"

Thinking of those classroom life, Wang Yang shook his head and smiled. Although he did not have much shooting experience, he agreed with the teacher. Storyboard scripts cannot become a constraint. Just frame the shooting position and visual effects, and then tell everyone your shooting intentions during actual shooting, and give the actors enough space to play. Grasping this flexibility is what a good director should do the most.

So Wang Yang's storyboard script is very basic and flowing. Only those horror shots that will not change after thinking about it will be drawn on paper, such as the "dark interior, the TV screen reflects strange ghosts" shot, but it is just painted ugly... Well, Wang Yang's art teacher gave him the comment "The composition is beyond imagination, but the painting talent is insufficient, and it is suitable for learning abstract painting."

Fortunately, he only needs to understand this storyboard script by himself.

It was written until late at night that Wang Yang fell asleep. The next day, he continued to build the scene. The task was to rent these props from the furniture and appliance rental company. Only Joshua was with him. He was sent by Jessica to help, driving a blue truck and preparing to move furniture. Jessica was going to audition today, competing for a small role in a comedy movie, and had no time to help.

According to the background of the story, a couple moved into a new home, and the furniture in the house did not need to be brand new, but it was 80% new. As for sofas with several big holes, it was definitely not suitable. Basically, the decorations of the entire apartment must be changed, and whether it is sofas, cabinets, bedroom beds, high-end TVs, refrigerators, etc., if you want to buy these things, there is no cheap one, even if you spend all the 9,500 US dollars, you can't buy them all.

Thanks to the person who invented the "leasing", and even more to the person who was the first to open a furniture and appliance rental company. With this rental service, Wang Yang only needs to spend a little money to get those furniture and appliances for one month. This month is enough for him to finish filming "Spiritual - Ghost Records". The original filming time only took one week.

Wang Yang went to a large furniture and appliance rental company called "Entrepreneurs". This company focused on serving young people who started their own businesses and reducing their burden on office utensils. It also targeted personal families, that is, the couple's double beds and other furniture that Wang Yang needed.

As soon as he arrived at his destination, Wang Yang excitedly selected furniture and appliances, and there were single pieces and a whole set of furniture and appliances, with signs with "$" written on it, indicating the monthly rental price.

And Joshua followed him, touching the sofa, touching the chair, and even laying directly on a large bed and pretending to fall asleep.

He didn't say much along the way, but Wang Yang knew that he was just brewing. Sure enough, when Wang Yang was carrying the sofa, he sat in a corner of a sofa, holding his back with his hands, and spoke: "Brother, now there are only two of us, maybe some things need to be explained clearly."

"What's the matter?" Wang Yang turned his head and looked at him questionably, then continued to choose among the sofas, thinking about which sofa could give the audience subconscious pressure in the darkness.

"I don't know what tricks you are playing, but if you try to hurt my family, you will definitely regret coming to this world." Joshua spoke harshly, but unfortunately his voice betrayed him.

Wang Yang couldn't help laughing, turned around and looked at Joshua, spread his hands and asked, "Why do you think so? Please, why do I hurt Jessica? How do I hurt Jessica?"

"Oh, I don't know that!" Joshua snorted and said in a profound way: "But women are always susceptible to all kinds of harm. Well, there are many women I have hurt."

"Wow, really? I didn't expect you to be so charming? Haha, then what do you mean is, I'm very charming?" Wang Yang asked with a smile. What's interesting is that he was not angry at all about Joshua's words.

Joshua changed his sitting position, touched his chin with one hand, looked at Wang Yang up and down, and commented in an expert tone: "Oh, you? You are not thin and have no major defects, but they are far from the word charm, and it can be said that they have nothing to do with it!" He gave Wang Yang a sympathetic expression and shrugged, "But you know, women are born with a curiosity. They always yearn for something they don't understand, such as a Chinese with different skin color and different hair color."

In fact, Joshua has never seen his sister Jessica treat a man so enthusiastically. Her attitude towards other men has always been lukewarm and very vigilant. She said that men spend 90% of the time thinking about women's bodies, which makes her very disgusting.

Joshua knew the reason. Jessica was ugly when she was a child and was always ridiculed and bullied by boys of the same age. As she became beautiful, boys of the same age came to show their attention for nothing. This experience made Jessica see through it. But he couldn't figure out what uniqueness was like this Yang, which made Jessica's attitude towards boys change by 180 degrees?

"Joshua, you're thinking too much. Jessica and I are just good friends." Wang Yang smiled and shook his head, and asked tentatively: "I have only met her for two days. I don't even know if she has a boyfriend?"

"Why, do you want to know?" Joshua raised his brow and laughed, "Then let me tell you, of course there is! Jessica is not a child, and she is so hot! Oh, the people who pursue her can rank from Los Angeles to China. Her boyfriend, um, Jack, Jack is really excellent. He is handsome, funny, and has super athletic ability. He is the core of the school basketball team, playing against the striker and guard, like Michael Jordan."

He sighed loudly: "Do you know? Jessica likes boys who can play basketball very much! So their relationship is so good." He smiled again: "Anyway, I'll tell you, man, you're out."

"Oh, is that?" Wang Yang couldn't tell the truth about this. Although he tended to be fake, Jessica was not 8 years old. She was 17 years old and so beautiful, so it was normal to have a boyfriend.

Looking at Joshua's gloating expression, Wang Yang said curiously: "Brother, why are you full of hostility towards me? Please, be like a man, just say anything."

"Oh, I'm hostile? How can you expect to be treated?" Joshua said disdainfully: "Treat a student who was fired from Southern California? And the reason is to be racist against black people? Man, my dad is a Mexican, so do I."

Oh, it turns out that it is because of this! Wang Yang asked, "Did Jessica tell you?"

"No, I saw it myself. There is a notice of expulsion in your cardboard box. Oh, sorry, I took it myself without asking." Joshua raised his legs and said "sorry" on his mouth, but there was no apology on his face.

Wang Yang shrugged and explained: "I have no racial discrimination, I was wronged." Then, he calmly told the whole story.

"Oh, I guess that's how you explained to Jessica, right?" Joshua laughed and shook his fingers and said, "I have seen many people like you. It's okay to cheat ignorant girls. Want to cheat me? Come less. USC is a prestigious university, how could you just wrongly accuse you? And you were fired at once. It can be seen that you should have a lot of bad deeds, so the school did not give you a chance. I guess you are not just racist, but probably also smoke marijuana?"

"The school did not give me a chance because of my skin color, they are racially discriminatory." Wang Yang was too lazy to say it, and said again, "I have never done it, believe it or not." After that, he continued to choose the sofa.

Joshua stood up and hummed, "Brother, I'm staring at you anyway! Don't think about playing tricks."

"Look at me and see if I can find a glass tube (a tool for smoking marijuana)." Wang Yang said casually, and finally chose a dark red sofa. He took off the sign on the sofa and called the waiter and said, "I want to rent this, that, that..."

After nearly an hour of selection, Wang Yang signed a short-term lease contract with the "Entrepreneur" company. Because the things he picked were very new and the lease period was short, the rent was relatively expensive, with a deposit of 3,000 and a rental fee of 1,000, and so the 4,000 US dollars were thrown out.

If the deposit is not included, the cost of making the movie has risen to US$1,500, while his working capital is only US$5,500.

"Okay, we signed a short-term contract, but we have to move these big guys back home by ourselves, let's start!" Wang Yang rolled up his sleeves, patted the sofa, and signaled to Joshua to lift the sofa.

Joshua looked at the huge red sofa in front of him, frowned, and said with pain: "God cursed him! It turns out that I am not only a driver, but also a coolie today!"

After several round trips, I finally moved all the rented furniture and appliances back to the apartment smoothly. As for the original old furniture and appliances, Wang Yang stuffed them into a small room. Anyway, the more messy the room becomes, the better the effect of appearing on the camera.

"Oh Lord, Lord... I'm so tired, I'm so tired..." Joshua, who had been busy all day, lay on the sofa, gasping with his eyes closed, exhausted, and did not want to move.

Wang Yang also felt very tired, but he was not as exaggerated as Joshua. He said, "You are like this, it is very dangerous to drive back by yourself. Do you want me to take you back? I'll take the subway back."

"no, no, no!" When Joshua heard this, he immediately started to bounce. He widened his eyes and said, "I know what you want to do, but there is no way!" He rushed into the bathroom, poured cold water on his face, howled a few times, and then left and said, "I'm leaving, don't follow me!"

With a slam, Wang Yang rolled his eyes. Why don’t I know what I want to do?

After taking a shower and having dinner, Wang Yang took the home DVD machine he rented from the photography equipment store today and walked around the house and filmed everywhere. The deposit for this DVD machine was 1,000 yuan, and the cost was 300 yuan per month, which means that the cost of the movie reached 1,800 US dollars and the working capital was 4,200 yuan.

This house really makes you feel like a new home! Wang Yang shook it around with the DVD movie, exploring the unique panning shot of the DVD movie, the first person, which can shake you to the point of being dizzy!

Now that the scenes required for the movie have been completed, the script is basically done, and it seems that only two actors are missing, so you can start the filming!

How important are actors to movies? There is no doubt that if a movie is successful, in addition to scripts, directors, etc., it depends largely on actors, especially drama-related films. Because only good actors can understand what directors want to express, and with first-class acting skills, they can express it well and tell the audience; while a poor actor will only mess up everything.

Although "The Legend of the Ghost" is a horror film and a DVD movie, it seems that actors only need to open their mouths and scream. But that is not true. First of all, there is no place for characters to scream in this movie, but playing with psychology. This requires the performance of the actors, so there are certain requirements for actors, not just to just pull someone over on the streets of Los Angeles.

Find two good actors, this is what the highest cost of this movie needs to be spent.

Of course, the highest salary he can pay, plus those deposits, is only about 8,000 US dollars... Good actor? It's a long time since Christmas, that old guy Santa is still on vacation.

In any case, Wang Yang will go to Hollywood to find actors tomorrow.

Just as he was thinking about it, the phone rang. Wang Yang held the DVD in one hand and took out the phone in the other. When he saw that it was Jessica's, he answered the channel: "Hi, Jessica."

"Hi, Young! Are you okay today? Joshua can help, right?" Jessica's voice was still so nice, reminding people of her sweet smile.

"Oh, he's good, he's good." Wang Yang smiled and sat down on the sofa. He said, "I don't know what the audition result was today. He asked, "How is the audition result?"

Jessica said in a loss and said, "There is no chance. The producer said I'm good, but the director said I can't, so I continue to have no job."

"I feel sorry." Wang Yang said comfortingly: "But, Jessica, remember there are still many opportunities." That character is just one or two lines, no more than three times, and one of the many female classmates who have the heroine in campus comedy films. The director is quite picky.
Chapter completed!