Caroline and Melanie went forward together to help Eric remove the heavy Steadicam equipment from his body, and Eric called all the main creators and Spice Girls five members who participated in the MV production, and a group of people surrounded the studio In front of the workbench in the corner, while watching the video replay of the first rehearsal just now, discussing various details that need to be improved.
Since it was the first rehearsal, there were quite a few areas for improvement. A group of people discussed for about half an hour before dispersing and making improvements according to the results of the discussion.
Eric waited for the crowd to disperse, and stayed alone in front of the workbench, operating the computer in front of him to watch the playback of the screen, and from time to time wrote down some thoughts on camera movement during long-shot shooting in the notebook in front of him.
Caroline put a cup of warm coffee by Eric's hand and sat quietly beside Eric without saying a word, watching him carefully study the camera and take notes carefully, with a little satisfaction on his face.
Not far away, Melanie saw Caroline sitting next to Eric, and couldn't help sighing. After thinking about it, she walked up to Simon Fuller, who was directing the staff to adjust the set, and called him Going to the side, he asked in a low voice, "Simon, what was the girl's name just now?"
Simon Fuller is also a genius, he thought it was Eric who asked Melanie to ask, and lowered his voice: "I just asked, her name is Victoria Adams, May, does Williams want Invite her to dinner, and I can arrange it now."
Melanie resisted the urge to roll her eyes, why do these men look like this.
Shaking her head quickly, Melanie said, "It's not like that, Simon, what do you think of Carly?"
Caroline has always treated everyone around her sincerely and politely. Coupled with her status as a noble daughter, although she has not communicated much these days, Simon Fuller is also full of affection for Caroline, and her tone can't help but A little more respect, said: "Miss Wilson is a wonderful girl."
Melanie gestured towards Eric and Caroline, and said, "Hey, Simon, you can definitely tell that Carly likes Mr. Williams very much. So, do me a favor and let that, Well, will Victoria Adams disappear?"
Simon Fuller followed Melanie's gaze, and he could easily feel Caroline's affection for Eric.
However, Melanie's words also made him realize that this is obviously Eric, the female assistant, thinking of her best friend on her own initiative.
After hesitating for a while, Simon Fuller persuaded: "May, if you really think about Miss Wilson, I think it's better for you not to do this, it's too obvious. I'm afraid Mr. Williams won't like people around Make a claim, and you should also have confidence in Mr. Williams, he is a very professional person."
Finally, Melanie couldn't help but rolled her eyes, and said to herself, that's what he looked like when he was unprofessional.
Simon Fuller refused to help, and Melanie knew that going to other people would probably lead to this kind of result, so she had to give up the idea of driving Victoria Adams away.
However, she still couldn't help secretly looking at Victoria Adams in the crowd of actors. She really couldn't see what attracted Eric to this girl. Her skin wasn't white enough, her face wasn't sweet enough, she wasn't tall enough, um, she wasn't tall enough either. Short, it doesn't meet my boss's aesthetic standards at all. However, after thinking about it carefully, Melanie suddenly realized that she really didn't understand Eric's aesthetic standards.
Eric naturally wouldn't know the tricks Melanie wanted to do in private. Of course, even if he knew, he would just laugh it off. Melanie wanted to protect Caroline, and Eric even more so. For Victoria Adams, who will never become Victoria Beckham again, Eric has no special feelings. Since the other party so coincidentally appeared in the cast of the "Wannabe" MV, Eric gradually turned a blind eye.
After the staff in the studio adjusted the set and actors according to the results of the discussion just now, the rehearsal continued.
For the next week, everyone spent time in this repeated practice, starting at nine o'clock every day until five o'clock in the afternoon.
Although on the third day, many people felt that the rehearsal effect was already very good, enough for on-site shooting.
However, Eric did not stop, and naturally no one would raise any objections. After all, Eric Williams is less than 30 years old and has created achievements that are difficult for everyone present, but he still carries a set of Steadicam photography system weighing nearly 30 pounds every day. Repeat practice more than ten times, just the amount of exercise is more than anyone present.
In this case, everyone involved in the filming should put themselves in their shoes, if they had hundreds of billions of dollars in net worth, would they still be willing to do this kind of tiring and boring work? sitting. Therefore, everyone has nothing but admiration for repeated practice, but no complaints.
In order to accumulate more experience in shooting long shots, Eric often changes the shooting method when he confirms that the MV rehearsal is about the same, sometimes letting the MV actors leave, and the five girls perform alone; The characters in the MV improvised a drama; during the period, Eric also deliberately took out a plot in "Birdman" for the actors to perform, and practiced the mirroring techniques in "Birdman" in his memory.
Simultaneously with the filming of the "Wannabe" MV, Simon Fuller began promoting the release of the Spice Girls' first single.
Since the Spice Girls recruited members with great fanfare in July, this girl group, which is said to be built by Eric Williams himself, has attracted everyone's attention.
Recently, although the British local media have speculated about the reason why Eric came to London, most of the topics are inseparable from the Spice Girls, which has further increased the attention of the media and the public to this group.
Therefore, Simon Fuller intends to strike while the iron is hot and release the first single as soon as possible after the filming of the "Wannabe" MV is completed.
When Eric completed a week of rehearsals in the studio of Pinewood Studios and moved to London for live shooting, the British branch of Firefly Records, which had been established for several months, officially announced the first single of the Spice Girls. The release time of the song record, October 27.
Due to the repeated rehearsals in the studio, the live shooting was extremely smooth. It took only two days for the MV to be shot.
At this time, the news that Eric himself served as the "Wannabe" MV photographer was finally dug up by the British tabloids, and it quickly caused a sensation.
Several months have passed, and "Casino Royale" has not yet been released in the UK, and the cumulative box office in the UK has reached more than 93 million US dollars. "Casino Royale" has gone through the second stage of large-scale release after September, and its global cumulative box office has exceeded 900 million US dollars, and it is steadily moving towards the 1 billion box office goal. In this case, Eric personally took the camera to shoot the music MV, which naturally made many movie fans and music fans look forward to it.
However, after completing the filming of "Wannabe" on October 11, Eric handed everything over to Simon Fuller, and he was not in a hurry to return to Los Angeles, but stayed in Pinewood, outside London. The studio continues preparations for "Gravity."
Because of the one-shot shooting method, the post-production work of the "Wannabe" MV was completely completed in only one week. Then, on October 20, the week before the release of the "Wannabe" single album, the MV of this song was officially released. Landed on major British TV stations.
Perhaps because the expectations were too high beforehand, "Wannabe" didn't seem to be able to surprise the media and music critics.
In the 1990s, the mainstream music genre in the UK was still pop rock. Whether it was a single singer or a singing group, most people would be more or less influenced by the pop rock style. But the "Wannabe" by the Spice Girls is a pop dance song that completely deviates from the mainstream music genre, and has nothing to do with pop rock at all.
Moreover, most music critics feel that compared to Eric's previous amazing songs, "Wannabe" seems to be very lacking in connotation, more like a mediocre saliva song.
Some media directly fired at the MV of "Wannabe", not only thinking that Eric's "one shot to the end" shooting technique was just a gimmick, without any highlights, but also very harshly commented on the five girls of the Spice Girls in the MV. Dressed like five slutty little whores.
When everyone felt that Eric Williams might miss this time, on October 27, the single "Wannabe" was released. In just four days, the sales of this single disc exceeded 100,000. Zhang, and subsequently, the sales volume of the album in the first week eventually reached 160,000 copies. Not only did it easily reach the top of the UK singles chart, it even put aside a gap of more than 90,000 copies for the second single on the chart. The critics shut up and began to study what happened.
Almost naturally, the first thing most people thought of was that Eric might have cheated by buying the list, but after some digging, no one found any substantial evidence.
At the same time, across the UK, whether it is a commercial street in a big city or a remote suburban town, many people unconsciously feel that they can hear the singing of "Wannabe" everywhere. I can hear the phrase 'zigazig-ha' popping out of some young people's mouths. This is a very unpredictable interjection in "Wannabe", but it somehow makes many people feel very cool. In a short period of time, the Spice Girls have become the sex idols in the minds of British young people, and at the same time, they have also become the objects of crazy pursuit by the British paparazzi.
Winners have it all, and that's true in any field.
As "Wannabe" showed the powerful power of the brainwashing divine comedy and swept across the UK, the media that had been very displeased with this song and the Spice Girls gradually changed their direction, and began to praise the Spice Girls for "perfecting dance pop and feminism" combined together, and infused with a strong female independent style'.
When Eric saw this sentence in the "Popular Top Songs" magazine, he really wanted to find a prawn and tie it with an egg and mail it to the editorial department of this magazine.
The success of the Spice Girls does not actually have any profound reasons, and they are indeed, as some media commented, completely a product of assembly line work.
However, perhaps many legendary musicians have won the followers and admiration of countless fans with their lyrics and music styles rich in humanistic connotations, but for most ordinary people, music is only a kind of entertainment after all. The Spice Girls precisely grasped the spirit of "Entertainment First". With their bright and lively image, simple and melodious melody, and easy and funny lyrics, they quickly won the welcome of the majority of young people.
After "Wannabe" became a hit, Eric gave Simon Fuller a few other songs belonging to the Spice Girls in his memory, and he let it go completely.
According to the contract drawn up in advance, when the second-generation Fireflyer player is released in North America and Europe in April next year, the Spice Girls will not only become the European spokesmen for the Fireflyer player, but at the same time, their first album will also be an exception. The strategy of simultaneous release with the entity can greatly promote the popularity and sales of Fireflyer players in Europe.
It is already winter in London in November, and the temperature in the suburbs is even colder.
Rachel Weisz still drove a large-displacement Jaguar King, and came outside the Pinewood Studios. Caroline, who was wearing a white trench coat, was already waiting at the gate. The girl politely said a few words to the guard , the gear lever at the gate was raised.
"Rachel, you, a superstar, are finally willing to come and see me." Pulling the co-pilot into the car, Caroline began to tease Rachel with a smile on her lips.
Rachel started the car and drove into the gate of the studio, quickly reached out with one hand and pinched Caroline's cheek, and said in a hooligan tone, "Little baby, not only did I come Look at you, I plan to take you home tonight."
Caroline shrank her neck, avoiding Rachael's clutches, and laughed out loud.
Rachel quickly parked the car in the parking lot of the studio, gave Caroline a big hug after getting off the car, and said, "By the way, where is Mel?"
"She's inside, let's go," Caroline pointed out of the parking lot.
Rachel held Caroline's arm and walked out, asking, "I heard that Eric has lived here for a month, what is he doing secretly?"
"His new movie, well, I can't tell you too much. But it must be a good movie."
Rachel lowered her head again and seemed to want to kiss Caroline on the cheek. Seeing that the girl dodged shyly, she said, "Yes, Eric Williams' movies are of course very powerful."
The two women chatted casually, and came to the studio that Eric used as a studio together.
The set during the rehearsal of "Wannabe" has been completely removed. However, in the studio at this time, apart from the two orange-red robots that have been modified, there are many more strange equipment, the most conspicuous of which is It should be regarded as the big box with a height of five meters and many LED screens of one square meter.
Rachel saw Eric and several other people standing in the big box at a glance, and asked curiously: "Carly, what is that?"
"Light box," Caroline explained. Seeing that Rachel still didn't understand, she added: "This is used to simulate the space lighting environment. Eric's new movie uses ordinary lighting methods, it is very It is difficult to accurately simulate the space lighting environment without any diffuse reflection, so he intends to adopt this method to directly play simple space scenes on the LED screens around the light box, so that the actors performing in it are exactly the same as in space .”
Caroline was explaining the purpose of the surrounding equipment to Rachel. Eric walked over with Melanie, hugged Rachel, and said in a slightly joking tone: "Rachel, You, a big star, are finally willing to come and see me."
Rachel was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing suddenly, as if she didn't feel very enjoyable, and then turned into a big laugh, as if she wanted to squat on the ground with her stomach covered.
Caroline didn't expect Eric to say exactly the same words as she just did. Thinking about it again, maybe it's because of getting along for a long time. What she said just now was obviously imitating Eric's usual joking tone, and she realized that Rachel might guess At this point, Caroline's face suddenly turned red, and she wanted to find a place to hide.
Eric didn't know what kind of joke Rachel caught. Looking at Caroline's reaction, he probably guessed that this matter should be related to her, so he didn't ask any more questions, but said: "Okay, Rachel, lady Be careful, I will take pictures of your current appearance and sell them to the paparazzi."
Rachel took a deep breath, finally stopped laughing, straightened up, and still couldn't help saying: "Eric, you have led Carly to hell again."
"Okay, I'm guilty," Eric shrugged, pointed to the workbench, and said, "Let's go and sit down. Seriously, why are you free today?"
"I'm here to see Carly and Mel," Rachel said, sitting down at the work table, looking at the pictures of space scenes on the table, and said: "Eric, you are planning to shoot a space movie ?”
"Yeah," Eric nodded: "A space disaster movie."
Rachel glanced at the desktop, noticed a rendered concept drawing, and took it over to take a look. It was made according to the drafts that Caroline and Melanie saw on the plane. realistic simulation of . Feeling the close connection of the two astronauts connected by a few thin lines in the picture, Rachel couldn't help becoming interested, and asked Eric very bluntly: "Eric, does this movie have something suitable for me?" role?" (To be continued.)