After the dinner, Kang Hui drove Chen Minhao back to the hotel.
On the way back, Kang Huixi said with a smile: "I didn't expect Director Xu An to be very approachable. She has no airs at all. I thought she would be very arrogant as the first female director in China. I didn't expect her to be so kind and easy to talk to." .”
Chen Minhao thought to himself: Sister Kang, if you praise her so much, at least half of it is because she praises you. Without expressing what was in his heart, Chen Minhao said with a smile: "Indeed, I feel that she has a lot of experience and deep thinking, but she is not ostentatious."
"By the way, I've been busy during the day, so I haven't asked you yet, how did you say that Sen Xianxi came to participate in the show?"
In order to avoid cheating in front of Xingxi in the future, Chen Minhao explained the process of talking about Xingxi to Kang Hui in detail.
Kang Hui's face darkened when he heard that he had taken the blame. Then he sighed and said, "Hey, I shouldn't have asked you this question. It ruined my good mood for the day."
Chen Minhao said apologetically: "I'm sorry, in that 'gentlemen's friendship' atmosphere, it was really difficult for me to make requests, so I could only make requests through your mouth."
Kang Hui smiled with relief and said, "It's okay. Taking the blame for artists is also one of the manager's responsibilities. But in the future, you will need to follow up more on Xingxi's side. I think he should be there for a while." Within a short period of time, I will look very unhappy."
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Time is running out. Although director Xu An's final script has not yet been completely perfected, Kang Hui has already started selecting shooting scenes based on the outline of the script.
September is the peak season for film and television shooting, and the "family venues" in BJ's various film and television bases are in short supply, not to mention the current situation where there are no reservations and people want to use them the next day.
Despite this, Kang Hui still contacted a crew that was filming a family melodrama through his own connections. They had an indoor filming location that was temporarily unused.
Director Xu An took a look and rejected it directly: "No, this room is too big. As a bedroom, it is more than 30 square meters. It is not suitable for the tone of my music video shooting."
Without saying a word, Kang Hui stepped on his 8cm high heels and went to look for the next shooting location.
After Director Xu An looked at it, he shook his head again: "No, everything in this room is too new. It doesn't feel like an old man lives at all. Could you please ask if these sofas, coffee tables and chandeliers can be made more simple?"
Kang Hui immediately asked the crew who provided the room if they could change the furniture in the short term. After receiving a negative answer, Kang Hui went to find a new venue without stopping. This time, the price, decoration style, and furniture were all up to standard. Xu An The director nodded reluctantly.
It was supposed to be a moment of universal celebration, but the crew who provided the venue said: "This venue can only be used for 2 days."
Xu An once again used her right to veto. The reason was that although there were not many shots for this scene and it could be done in about a day and a half, she did not like to rush to shoot, which would affect the quality of her shooting.
Kang Hui asked Chen Minhao with a sad face: "I said yesterday that she was easy to talk to. I completely retract that sentence now. Today, I have tried all the crews in Kyoto that I can talk to. I can only go to those outside Kyoto tomorrow." It’s a film and television base.”
Chen Minhao thought for a while and said: "Actually, we can try not to find a film and television base, but just shoot in ordinary people's homes."
Kang Hui said hesitantly: "It shouldn't be possible. Actually, it's not that Xu An is hard to talk to. I think she is the kind of person who pursues art too much, which makes her eyes unable to tolerate sand. But having said that, if she muddles through the filming process , she wouldn’t be able to achieve what she has achieved today.
I have never heard of a well-known director shooting high-quality footage in ordinary people's homes. The studios in film and television bases are 6 meters tall, but ordinary houses are only three meters tall. This makes lighting in ordinary houses very difficult. , and it is also difficult for the camera to find a suitable position. After all, it was not built specifically for filming. "
Chen Minhao thought for a while and said, "Let's try it. She has already denied it three times anyway, so she is not afraid of one more time."
Chen Minhao's last words were like a sharp sword that stabbed Kang Hui's heart. Kang Hui treated a dead horse like a living horse and spent money to find a room where a seventy-year-old man lived.
Unexpectedly, director Xu An actually nodded.
Kang Hui asked Chen Minhao in surprise: "How did you know that you can shoot in ordinary people's homes?"
Chen Minhao said with a smile: "I crammed in Director Xu's two movies last night. I feel that she actually cares about the quality of the filming."
Kang Hui asked puzzledly: "This shooting quality has nothing to do with shooting in ordinary residents' homes."
Chen Minhao felt that Kang Hui might really have no artistic talent, but he didn't know how to explain his mysterious and mysterious feeling to Kang Hui, so he said perfunctorily: "Just treat me as a blind cat and a dead mouse."
Kang Hui felt that his intelligence had been insulted.
The next day, Chen Minhao saw the "son" that Director Xu An had selected for himself in the rented house, named Zhang Qi. He is only 6 years old this year. He is fair and clean. His mother leads him to sit on a small bench.
Many crew members said with a smile: "This kid is so handsome. I think Teacher Chen was so cute when he was a child. No wonder Director Xu An chose him to play Teacher Chen's son."
If Chen's mother were at the filming scene, she would definitely refute: "My son was much cuter than him when he was a child."
Director Xu An's point of view is still not to have too much dialogue in the MV, so Chen Minhao's personal monologue will be the main one, and all the filmed content will serve this monologue.
"I became a father. Being a father requires more patience and understanding than I thought. Now I realize the hard work of a father, but I will work harder. Because I am a father."
The material shot mainly shows Chen Minhao taking care of the child: washing his feet, putting on socks for him, combing his hair...
The crew filmed a series of life-oriented content for two full days. Chen Minhao knew that so much material was shot in two days, but only a dozen seconds might be used in the end.
Fortunately, this child has a good temperament, and he didn't cry or make a fuss during the two whole days of filming.
At the same time, it is fortunate that this is a child. If a middle-aged man was photographed combing his hair with such intensity, his hair would probably fall out.
During the filming process, many people came to visit the class. Joya, the brand public relations director of Burberry, came to visit the class and proposed the idea of sponsoring clothing for this shooting.
Chen Minhao refused directly. If he accepted the sponsorship, the scenery would be too beautiful for him to dare to look at: wearing luxury goods and going to a small shop in the vegetable market to buy cigarettes. Is he going to be the king of the vegetable market
The plot of buying cigarettes in a small shop is also very simple. It is a father buying cigarettes, and when he turns around, he finds that the child he brought out is missing.
Director Xu An conducted an on-the-spot investigation on where to film in the wet market. Director Xu An visited no less than 30 wet markets, and she finally chose to shoot in a small shop in the Chengdong Wet Market.
Regarding the choice of the owner of the cigarette shop, Director Xu An’s initial idea was to hire amateurs to shoot, but I don’t know whether it was because Chen Minhao was too handsome or for some other reason. The couple in this shop were equally interested. The problem is, I laugh as soon as the camera starts. Director Xu An could only find someone else temporarily.
Xu An saw Wang Aiying who came to visit the Xingxi class and asked her, "Do you want to come and give it a try?"
Wang Aiying smiled sheepishly and said, "I have never been an actor, so I am worried that it will delay things."
But Chen Minhao saw that Wang Aiying actually wanted to give it a try, but was a little embarrassed. Chen Minhao planned to add a little more firewood, so that even if it was not suitable in the end, she could still enjoy the addiction of being an actress.
Then, he soon learned what "I thought it was a bronze, but it turned out to be a king"!
(End of chapter)