Each of these clips was not long, about one or two minutes. Jiang Se watched all the 'NG' scenes and finally put them on the one she passed. After watching, Huo Zhiming asked:
"Did you see anything wrong?"
After hearing this, Mo Anqi lost her temper:
"I think everything is fine. I don't find anything wrong."
They all walk in the same way, the micro-expressions are great, the pictures are beautiful, and there's nothing noticeably different.
Huo Zhiming sneered twice:
“You are so ignorant!”
After he finished speaking, he looked at Jiang Se again:
"Did you see anything wrong?"
Jiang Se frowned and asked the photographer to show her the last part of the video again. In the camera, she walked slowly with her hands in the pockets of her windbreaker. She seemed out of place on this street, like a stranger who suddenly broke into the picture, yet seemed extremely leisurely.
At the end, she was still facing the camera, smiling and blinking. When Jiang Se watched it himself, he could see through the screen that the graceful blink was fully recorded by the camera.
The photographer was quite close at the time and could clearly capture even the slight fatigue in her eyes.
After a brief thought, she could roughly guess the reason why Huo Zhiming asked her to shoot this scene over and over again.
"Do you understand?"
Huo Zhiming was still asking her, and seemed very persistent about the answer.
"It's because of fatigue."
This scene in "Criminal Suspect" is intended to create an atmosphere, allowing the audience to put themselves into Shen Xunran's shoes and associate Su Yi with the label of "murderer", but there is no actual evidence of this woman's murder.
How to associate? It depends on the performance skills of the actors.
The body with a slit throat found in the hotel and the woman who appeared at a strange time and walked calmly through the block were in themselves very suspicious things.
The woman looked relaxed and smiling. She seemed to be excited after having killed someone, and also felt relieved and satisfied after having taken revenge. However, beneath her bright and beautiful appearance, she could hardly hide her fatigue.
After all, to kill someone, she had to plan carefully, and she might not have slept all night, and she might have spent a lot of energy on the killing...
These small details strung together will have a huge impact on the audience, and will be far more convincing than spending half a day telling the story with extra lines.
Jiang Se had to get up early last night, so in order to have enough rest for filming, he went to bed early without even having dinner. Although this made him "excited" when playing the role of Su Yi, he lacked the real tiredness.
Huo Zhiming made up for this by asking her to walk repeatedly, allowing her to have both.
Physical fatigue cannot be faked. Body language and instinct cannot be performed naturally even by actors with superb acting skills. Only truth is the best thing to impress the audience.
Jiang Se's ability to say this has made Huo Zhiming look at her differently. He turned his head and looked at Jiang Se with satisfaction in his eyes:
"It's good that you noticed this." He praised: "But it's not just this." His tone has become much gentler, and he asked the staff to rewind the previous 'NG' film for Jiang Se to see:
"Watch your step here."
He pointed at the screen, and Jiang Se looked in the direction where his finger pointed. She was walking steadily in high heels, but her steps were enchanting and seductive.
This clip was quickly played, and Huo Zhiming asked someone to play the last clip that Jiang Se passed:
"Look at this paragraph again and watch your step."
With Huo Zhiming's guidance, Jiang Se looked down at his feet. When he saw a clip, Huo Zhiming asked someone to slow it down several times:
"Did you see that?"
Mo Anqi, Chen Shan and others shook their heads, but Jiang Se understood what Huo Zhiming meant:
"I see."
In the last clip she passed, at the moment when Huo Zhiming deliberately slowed down the filming, she saw her raised foot and subconsciously avoided a stone brick protrusion on the street under her feet.
"You really put a lot of effort into the setting of this street and hotel." Huo Zhiming was happy to see that she had indeed discovered the difference:
"A smart woman who really planned to kill someone and was familiar with the terrain in advance cannot convince the audience with just one sentence, but is reflected in the details."
Instead of spending a lot of time and effort to convince the audience how cautious this "Su Yi" is and how many times he was familiar with the terrain of the hotel before "killing people", it would be better to prove it with actual actions.
"While you want the audience to believe that you are 'Su Yi', you must first make me more convinced of this." Jiang Se walked this street as many times as she reshot it. The shots could not form an instinctive memory in her body, but walking back and forth would certainly do it, so she subconsciously avoided the stone brick that was enough to make her footsteps pause for a moment. Only such natural movements could satisfy Huo Zhiming.
From this point, we can also see the spirit of striving for perfection in Huo Zhiming's character. He is so meticulous and careful that Jiang Se couldn't help but look up at him. The old man seemed as excited as a child because of this satisfactory shooting.
He reshot the scene so many times, and many people in the crew were freezing in the cold morning of Wangzhou because of his persistence. They did it again and again, and dissatisfaction could be seen on the faces of many staff members.
However, Huo Zhiming refused to explain why he kept starting over, which led to many people misunderstanding him due to communication issues. In the end, his bad temper became more famous than his works.
"Director Huo, you should have said it earlier. Isn't it too late?"
When the staff member who was standing nearby heard this, he put his hands to his lips, blew a breath, and said half-jokingly and half-complainingly.
The staff member who spoke had previously felt that Huo Zhiming had a bad temper and was deliberately making things difficult for people. He was well-known in the circle for his bad temper with staff members and movie stars. It was just that during the filming, because even the highest-ranking stars like Jiang Se did not object, they let him torment them instead, and everyone had their grievances but were unable to speak up, so they took this opportunity to express their dissatisfaction.
Facing this accusation, Huo Zhiming snorted, "What do you know?"
Still scolding an ignorant child, he put his hands into the sleeves of his down jacket:
"Some things, when said too deliberately, lose a little bit of truth." He sighed, and the breath he exhaled turned into white mist and disappeared in the morning fog:
"People nowadays are very particular about efficiency. Some things are too refined, with more craftsmanship and less spirit. I just want the audience to see a more real story, rather than a deliberately sung drama."
When he spoke, his expression was lonely for a moment, and his whole body seemed shrouded in a heavy atmosphere of desolation, which seemed somewhat out of place in this fast-paced era. There were many things in his eyes that flashed by.
Jiang Se was stunned for a moment, and before she could speak, the old man who seemed to make her feel sympathetic a moment ago, turned stern again the next moment, and became the familiar and unapproachable look in everyone's eyes:
"Alright, alright, you won't understand even if I say all this. We're done shooting, let's go. We have other movies to shoot in the morning, so go get ready!"
He turned into the rigid and serious old man again. The staff who had gathered around him scattered like birds and beasts. He also stood up and glanced down at Jiang Se.
Jiang Se's expression was thoughtful, as if his previous words touched her. Huo Zhiming pursed his lips, revealing a smile, which he quickly hid and said with a sullen face:
"Why don't you go back to the hotel? Let me tell you, if a big star thinks the set is too cold, I won't let anyone turn on the electric heater to keep you warm. The film budget is very tight, and you and Tao Cen's pay is not cheap!" He muttered that it would be better not to spend the extra money, which made Chen Shan so angry that he stomped his feet and complained in a low voice that the old man was too stingy.
When the filming of "Criminal Suspect" started, everyone got to know Huo Zhiming's character. Some people were inevitably dissatisfied behind his back, but Jiang Se showed her extraordinary professionalism on the first day of the filming of "Criminal Suspect". Faced with Huo Zhiming's weird temper, she carried out Huo Zhiming's orders meticulously.
Another person who was equally surprising was Tao Cen.
The weather in Wangzhou is very cold, but as long as Tao Cen has a role to play, she will always arrive at the set early, no matter it is windy or rainy. In terms of professionalism, she is on par with Jiang Se. During the breaks in the theater, the staff always see the two of them studying the script.
Putting aside the rumors of overt fighting between the two at other events, judging from their performance on the set, their current achievements are the result of their hard work bit by bit.
The strong tension in several scenes between the two even infected the staff on the scene. The tense atmosphere made people dare not breathe. The confrontation between the police and the suspect was filmed to Huo Zhiming's great satisfaction because of the "rumors of discord" between Tao Cen and Jiang Se.
Tao Cen has been famous for a long time, so it is natural for her to interpret the role of Shen Xunran. She has a good grasp of expressions and tone, and she performs with no pressure at all.
With her status, if someone else played the role of "Su Yi", she might be completely suppressed by Tao Cen and dare not act freely. The film "Criminal Suspect", which Huo Zhiming has put a lot of effort into, might become famous because of Tao Cen and attract investors, but at the same time, the film will lose its unique charm due to the lack of support roles and eventually become Tao Cen's personal performance show.
Success and failure are all due to Tao Cen.
But Jiang Se's joining broke this situation.
Jiang Se and Tao Cen are now equally famous and have the same status, and before that, a competitive situation had formed between the two. This meant that when Jiang Se faced Tao Cen, he would not be overwhelmed by her fame, nor would his performance be affected by her momentum.
On the contrary, because of this special competitive relationship between the two, after being substituted into the movie, it just happened to correspond to the identities of the police and the suspect. The equally matched performance often made the on-site staff instinctively clench their palms and sweat from nervousness when shooting a scene where the two appeared at the same time.
The scenes in Wangzhou were all finished in early April, and the crew had to rush to the next location for filming.
The film "Criminal Suspect" has been shot for the most part and may be completed earlier than the originally expected June.
So far in the filming, the two female leads have performed amazingly, the script has not been distorted, the director is serious and responsible, and the two main actors have given their all. It is conceivable that if the results continue like this, "Criminal Suspect" may become another memorable milestone in the lives of Tao Cen and Jiang Se.
Song Yi was in the hotel asking Tao Cen's assistants to pack up Tao Cen's personal belongings. After the filming of Wangzhou was finished, the crew would move on. He looked a little excited:
"We are heading to Linjiang City next. The weather there is warm, so we don't need to bring many winter clothes. Xiao Min will pack them and send them back to the capital."
During the time in Wangzhou, Song Yi felt that he had suffered a lot, and he didn't know how Tao Cen managed to endure it.
Apart from the fact that the weather is no better than that in the imperial capital, the most important thing is that it rains a lot in Wangzhou in spring. After a whole day, I feel very depressed.
In addition, the hotel was newly opened, very small, and many facilities were not perfect. Song Yi complained: "The room is packed with luggage, and people can't even turn around when they come in."
The most important thing is that the security here is not very responsible. After Tao Cen and Jiang Se moved in, they attracted the attention of a large number of fans. Since the two of them moved in, many fans and reporters have come here, which has brought a booming business to the hotel and also boosted the economy of some surrounding restaurants selling meals and snacks.
Many smart businesses next door have started producing Tao Cen and Jiang Se's brand names. Fans often go to buy them, and the demand exceeds supply, occasionally harassing the stars in the hotel.
Although Song Yi and his assistant have been trying their best to protect Tao Cen, they are inevitably harassed by fans from time to time, which makes Song Yi miserable and makes him more resentful of Huo Zhiming.
In the past two months, the number of private photos of Tao Cen taken was almost more than the total number of photos taken in the two years since he took over Tao Cen's affairs. All these incidents made Song Yi unable to tolerate this place any longer.
He was about to leave this place with a festive look on his face, while Tao Cen, on the contrary, was holding the manuscript with a calm expression, not showing any joy at all.
While several assistants were discussing enthusiastically, she frowned. Song Yi said a few words and noticed that Tao Cen had been holding the script in his hand for more than ten minutes, but was still on the previous page.
The smile on his face froze, and after sending several assistants away, he asked:
"Sister Tao, are you in a bad mood?"
"Do you think I look like I'm in a good mood?"
Tao Cen threw the script in his hand, crossed his legs and asked.
Song Yi was a little puzzled.
The filming of "Criminal Suspect" has been halfway completed. Jiang Se plays the supporting actress to Tao Cen. The film may become a box office legend after its release. Most of the scenes are on Tao Cen. She is the well-deserved heroine. Even Huo Zhiming, who is so picky, has no extra dissatisfaction with her performance. On the contrary, Jiang Se is often criticized by Huo Zhiming on the set. (To be continued)