It took Angela 3 days to finish shooting this part of the room, which has been delayed for a long time. The shooting cycle of an ordinary MTV basically does not exceed 5 days, and it is spent on this half of the room. It only took 3 days, and it is conceivable how slow her shooting progress was.
But the gains of these 4 days are undoubtedly huge. As she once said, no matter how rich theoretical knowledge is, it is not as good as a practice. Although the shooting progress is very slow, but in terms of content, every shot is obtained by Matthew or Matthew. It was praised by professionals like Allen, which undoubtedly greatly increased Angela's confidence, and the troubles caused by the continuous request for leave and the need to continue to ask for leave in the future were also washed away a lot.
"I need you all to stand right here, right, right here, looking at the camera with a curious expression, then smiling and happy..." At a fork in the road at a 120-degree intersection, assistant director Matthew spoke for a few extras There are a lot of staff nearby who are busy.
This is Disney's own studio. After the Touchstone Film Company was established, it was specially divided from the theme park for filming. It is much smaller than the famous Universal Studios, but for Angela, it is necessary to shoot. There's only so much of the exterior scene, that's enough.
"I think I made it clear enough, what's the problem?" Matthew asked at this time.
"Yes sir, I have a problem," a 16-year-old brown-haired young man in the middle immediately raised his hand and said jokingly, "I want to know, can I get Miss Angela's autograph after it's over!"
This remark immediately attracted a lot of echoes. These young men and women were recruited from a theme park not far away. After arriving here, I heard that idols were filming MTV, and they had been noisy more than once and wanted to meet.
After Matthew saw who was speaking, he smiled bitterly with a headache. The boy named Jim Ford was a classmate from Angela's school film club. She arranged for them to come and visit today. The other people's whereabouts were related to their major. The person who learned to edit went to ask for advice, but this editor who learned to edit came over to be an extra, and he spoke without restraint, which made people very headache.
Fortunately, at this time, a voice came from behind him: "What happened?"
"Wow, it's Angela!" a black girl called immediately, and all of the 10 or so young men started to riot, but one of them, Jim, immediately shouted, "Hey guys, don't get excited, don't forget we are What are you doing! Be professional! Miss Angela will meet our requirements!"
Followed him to look at the girl who came over, winked his eyes and smiled: "Really? Miss Angela?"
"Please be quiet for a while, we are about to shoot. After the shooting is over, shall we talk about other things?" Angela said with a dry cough. She was wearing a baseball cap and dressed in ordinary clothes, which made her look like a sister next door. She pretended not to see Jim though. However, the meaning of the words was obvious, making the young people whisper for a while. And Matthew quickly took over the topic: "Okay, we'll start right away, please get ready."
By the time the girl and Matthew returned to the perimeter, the departments were already in place. For the first time in these days, Angela sat in the director's chair and made a gesture to the assistant director. He nodded and shouted, "Act 4 of Game 12, the first test shot."
The music plays, and the camera shoots from a slightly condescending angle around the corner, facing the extras. It took about two minutes to shoot, and then the girl was heard shouting: "Cut!"
The filming stopped immediately, and Angela didn't speak. She went straight to the camera and motioned to the staff to bring Alan down. Then I went behind the monitor and looked at it. The picture looked good, but there was always someone with a stiff smile, especially a Latina girl, it was obvious.
The girl thought for a while, and didn't plan to say anything for the time being. She just waved to the young extras: "Don't be nervous, relax, let's come again!"
She returned to her position and motioned for Matthew to start again. Then she called a total of two stoppages, and each time she called a stoppage, she waited half a minute longer than the previous one. And after calling to stop, she has to use the camera's monitor to watch it again. Her experience is not enough for her to see all the problems from the scene, but it is different on the monitor, and it is easier for her to see the shortcomings when facing the shot. Angela couldn't understand this, and in the end she could only attribute this problem to the fact that she had watched too many movies in her previous life and was particularly sensitive to the pictures taken.
"I didn't think so, your directing skills are very good." Louis, who had been observing near her, suddenly whispered, with envy hidden in his tone.
"You've only been here for a few hours, and you understand everything?" Angela turned around and asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Of course, they have done every order you gave. Obviously, in the previous filming, you have obtained their approval. If you want to gain the approval of the professionals here, you can't do it without any ability." Louis shook his head. Said, the envy in his tone became more and more obvious, "Remember? You told us that you have never been in charge of the guide tube before this. If this is the case, you are really a genius, Angela!"
"Thank you for your compliment, Louis." Listening to the other party's words, the girl felt a little embarrassed in her heart. In her opinion, she still did not do well enough. After all, as a director, first of all, you should be calm, not watching When those young people didn't perform well, the idea of helping them in the past came up. This was not something she should think about.
"Don't worry, I believe you will have such an opportunity soon." Angela heard the envy in the other person's tone, and she said in a kind of comforting tone, knowing that she only joined the film club because of that. In addition to preparing for college, there are other plans. However, the other party obviously took this as a simple comfort, smiled and said nothing.
The filming continued, and the progress was still not ideal. After all, if there was something wrong with the performance during the previous filming, when she switched roles, she would naturally make adjustments, but now these young people are extras, not like She is so experienced that only three-fifths of the shots needed to be shot have been completed so far, so Angela had the idea of helping them act before. But in this way, there is an advantage that the girl can better analyze the shot and find out the problem.
"Let's take a break first, and then shoot in ten minutes." After Matthew shouted this sentence, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and it was indeed a laborious task to continue to shoot repeatedly.
Angela, on the other hand, found Garn Hall, the art director in charge, early, and she needed to talk to him about some issues.
"You mean this scene is a little floating, is that so?" Garn asked with some doubts, "Or, are you trying to increase the heaviness of this scene?"
"No no no, Mr. Garn, remember what we discussed before?" Angela shook her head, "I asked for the tone of this scene to be light and smooth at the same time, and now it is more than light and less smooth, please pay attention, yes Smooth, not heavy."
"Okay, I think you mean that you need to add some weight, but not too much." Garn nodded, and after thinking about it, he added: "Or we can add another person to the crowd. Or two old people, after all, this is an encouraging song, suitable for any age group."
"Yes, I think so too, but the question is how to add it in?" The girl spread her hands, "If at the beginning, not only do you have to reshoot, but the whole scene is undoubtedly too smooth, but if you add it in the middle, then which time point would you compare it to? It's suitable, and in what way is it inserted?"
Garen nodded, lowered his head and thought, for a while the two of them were speechless, and then another voice rang out: "Can- can you listen to my opinion?"
Angela and Garn both turned their heads, and Rex Yang, who had been following Garen, looked at them calmly.
"Rex? Well, tell me, I'm listening." The girl nodded.
"You know, sometimes when we go to certain parties, we can't wait to share something happy with the people around us, no matter who's around..."
Before he could finish speaking, Angela had already understood: "I think I know what you mean, they can pull a passing old man into the camera at some point, so that the tone of the scene can be balanced, but Would it be a little sudden?"
"It can be dealt with like this." Garn nodded, "I remember that there will be such a scene next, when the faces of the onlookers suddenly appeared on the TV set at the corner of the street. At this time, let someone call a The old lady pulls in so it won't happen suddenly!"
"Okay, then do this!" Angela squeezed her fist and waved happily, then patted the Chinese youth and said in Chinese, "Thank you for your reminder."
The other party immediately opened his eyes and said in Chinese, "You can speak Chinese?!"
"Yes, it will be a little bit." Angela quickly changed into English. After all, the other party is a second-generation immigrant. There is no need to show his Chinese like a rich man, wave his hand, and go to Matthew without waiting for him to speak. went.
After solving this problem, the shooting was back on track again. After finally finding an old lady from the film and television city, I finally finished shooting all the exterior shots before leaving get off work.
Although there are still many scenes to be filmed, for Angela, it is no longer a problem. The filming in the past few days has made her step by step towards the established goal. With a basic understanding of the ability, plus the conditions they promised before, maybe, it won't be long before they can start preparing for that