Before going to the crew of "The Adventures of Young Aaron", Norris of the Film and Television Entertainment Department, who is Sammy's immediate boss, is currently very much admired by his department boss, and he specifically talked to him.
"Do you want to be a director?"
"what?"
"We think you have a talent for that."
"… Thank you for the compliment?"
Anyway, that's roughly the process.
Sammy doesn't really have much energy most of the time, except in relation to his dream of 'slaying the dragon'.
But it's totally understandable.
Think about it, if your family is happy, your parents have prepared a small but absolutely sufficient fund for education and entrepreneurship for you early on. You have no shortage of money to spend since you were young, and you have eight older brothers to protect you. In addition to being ridiculed by people for weird ideas (or dare not laugh in person anyway), you have hardly encountered any setbacks and hardships in your life, so you will also lack motivation in your work.
So, even if the immediate boss praised his talent and showed high expectations of him.
He still didn't think too much about how amazing he would be in the future.
All I can say is, go with the flow, step by step, and…
A little curiosity about new things.
director
Command the entire crew? Take pictures of what you like!
Sounds like a great job.
Based on this naive idea.
Sammy enthusiastically thought that this transfer of work might be able to open the door to a new world and find new fun.
However, he is not blindly optimistic.
It is usually not easy for a newcomer to start a job. For example, when he was still in the company's internship period, he drew a mouse for three months in a boring way, and he was often picked by people: 'Why do you look at the mouse you drew? Always wake up half dead? ''Why did you draw the mouse's fangs so long and drag them all over the floor? ''What is this? Does the mouse have wings? '
Anyway, no matter what you do, you will be criticized.
If you draw a mouse as real, you will be said 'too real and cause discomfort'; if you draw a mouse a little more abstract, you will be said 'I asked you to draw a mouse, not a space monster'.
No job goes smoothly from the start.
Sammy, who has some work experience, is fully prepared for this.
He made preparations for the initial chores in advance, whether it was running errands, sending letters, taking out the garbage, and doing chores, all of them were no problem! As a hard-working and conscientious employee, he has the confidence to quickly integrate into the group and quickly devote himself to interesting, exciting and challenging work.
However, even if his imagination is amazing enough.
But the bizarre degree of some things in the real world is always beyond imagination.
When he reported to the crew of "The Adventures of Young Aaron" on time, the first task he received was to pick up someone.
The task issuer is Miss Corinna.
Sister Corinna is a woman of a little age and a little stout body.
She has long held the position of production coordinator (arranging personnel and equipment) in the crew and is well respected by the crew members.
Because this job sounds simple at first glance, but it is actually extremely tedious and requires a lot of patience and responsibility.
The entire crew, from the actors to the crew members, from the equipment to the transportation, from the extras to making sure that these actors all signed the performance agreement in time, she had to take care of everything. And still... Every day, it is necessary to ensure that the equipment, materials, and personnel are all in the right place at the right time, on time and on time, and if something goes wrong, the shooting will not be able to go smoothly.
Therefore, when Sammy first came to report, she saw her running around and busy on the set at first sight, and when she saw herself as an 'idler', her eyes shone like seeing a savior.
"You're new here, aren't you? Don't have a job at hand right now?"
"Yes, yes, I'm here to join the job, so, may I ask, where do I go through the onboarding procedure?"
"Can you drive?"
"Uh, yes. But I haven't been hired yet, please, do the job..."
"Then do you obey the speed limit and road signs?"
"As long as it's traffic rules, I abide by them. Well, I haven't joined the job yet..."
"Great! You go to this bar and pick up Director Jones. Quick, hurry up, we'll start shooting in half an hour."
"Ah? Who? Director? My job..."
"It's too late, go!"
"All right."
Sammy's mind was extremely confused for a moment.
In half an hour, start shooting immediately, go to the bar to pick up the director
Every scene can be understood.
But after each plot is combined, why is there a feeling of speechlessness
The filming is about to start, and the director is still in the bar
Okay, maybe a necessary entertainment
certainly not!
Director Jones is a super alcoholic and addicted to alcohol.
When Sammy, who has not yet joined the job, successfully found the director according to the instructions of Sister Corinna, he was drunk on the bar. Beer was spilled on his unshaven beard, and he drank it all. He was so drunk, he didn't know about personnel, and he owed a lot of money for drinks.
Director like this
For a newcomer to the cast, the sight in front of him is a bit of a shattered dream.
Sammy was silent for a few seconds, then neatly helped him check out first, then helped him put on his coat, then poured some water in, hoping that he would wake up a little, then dragged him into the car with difficulty, and finally, quickly Drive back the same way.
"It's about to start shooting, it's about to start shooting..."
He repeated the words of Sister Corinna to himself, but he couldn't help but tap the steering wheel and complain: "You're so drunk, and you're going to start filming right away?"
Unexpectedly,...
I'm so drunk, I can really start shooting!
Director Jones regained his senses when he got out of the car.
With an almost dizzy posture, he staggered into the set with instinct, during which he turned a blank eye to everyone, and then climbed up to the high director's chair skillfully, Sitting there condescendingly, staring at a pair of alcoholic eyes full of red blood, looking at everything in the studio in a daze.
Sammy followed closely behind him, not knowing what to do, or because he was so drunk that he would fall to the ground.
He refused to accept the absurd fact that 'on the first day he came to study on the set, the director fell on the ground because of drunkenness'.
Nothing to say after that.
The other members of the crew are very reliable, perform their duties and function normally.
But because there was no assignment on the first day, Sammy was arranged to study behind the director.
Filming officially started.
Up until this stage, everything was understandably normal.
Sammy, who had never seen a live performance by a live actor before, quickly forgot the unreliability of the director and watched it with interest for a while.
But after a while, he looked away, feeling that the performances of these actors were a little too exaggerated.
"Is it necessary to scream so loudly when you're scared? Or is it more dramatic?"
He thought silently in his heart, but because he had no relevant experience, he was not sure whether his thoughts were right or wrong. So he turned his head to look at Director Jones, looking for an opportunity to humbly ask for advice.
However…
When Sammy turned his head, he found something very stunned—Director Jones fell asleep on the high director's chair.
sleep over
While filming, the director fell asleep!
What the fuck!
Sammy was shocked.
He looked around in a panic, desperately wanting to find someone to ask what was going on.
But everyone on the crew seemed to ignore it.
They were doing their work very calmly, not even raising their heads, as if the director was not falling asleep on top of it, but closed his eyes and meditated.
The kind-hearted eldest sister Corinna noticed Sammy's excessive behavior.
She walked over calmly, lowered her voice and said, "Don't make a fuss and affect the normal shooting."
normal shooting
You call this normal shooting
Sammy's eyes widened, not knowing what to say.
Sister Corinna took another look at the filming process at this time, and reminded kindly: "This part is almost over, aren't you the new assistant director? Go and poke him and wake him up."
Poke, poke wake up
By the way, I'm not hired yet!
and many more!
Is the assistant director doing this
Everything develops so ridiculously, like a comedy.
But Sammy's head was dead at this time, and he couldn't think of a better way.
He had to listen to the eldest sister and began to poke Director Jones from behind.
Director Jones was quickly awakened.
He opened his eyes slowly and looked around suspiciously, as if trying to figure out what was happening in front of him: "Who are you? What's wrong?"
Sammy whispered to him: "Uh, I'm your new assistant, I haven't been hired yet, well, the filming of Act XX is almost over."
Director Jones yawned sleepily: "Okay, I get it, you ask them to do it again."
Sammy: "… "
Okay, you are the director and you have the final say.
In the black line, he conveyed the director's order with a blank face: "The director asks everyone to do it again."
At this time, he naively thought: 'I may have been too drunk to wake up just now, so the second time should be normal shooting, right? The director who was woken up should also try his best to stay awake and finish his work seriously, right
no!
When the second shot started, the big-hearted director fell asleep again!
Sammy: "...what's going on!"
As the filming continued, he looked helplessly at Sister Corinna.
Corinna whispered, "Keep poking him later, hard, hard!"
Sammy is desperate: 'Am I here to learn or to practice poke fun? '
But riding a tiger is difficult.
At the end of the second round of shooting, he had to repeat the behavior just now.
Director Jones was awakened again.
This man's wine is not bad, he didn't go crazy, and he didn't ask any dissatisfaction and anger: "What's the matter?"
Sammy was relatively less panicked this time: "Act XX is almost over, I'm your new assistant, I haven't joined the job yet..."
Director Jones was very calm: "Oh, let them do it again."
Then he fell asleep again.
Sammy: "… "
The members of this crew didn't unite to kill the director, it's really a puzzling thing!
On the third time, Sammy was so angry that his face puffed up after he stabbed the unreliable director again.
Without waiting for Director Jones to ask what was wrong, he said angrily: "The filming of Act XX is over."
This time, Director Jones dragged out a long 'oh', and finally changed his rhetoric and asked, "How many times?"
Sammy replied bluntly, "Three times."
Then, the amazing director said, "Yes, let's pass this one!"
Sammy: "...It's over!!?"
They did it all day long.
Sammy went to get off work as if sleepwalking.
When he walked into the house, he thought depressedly: "What have I done all day? I haven't even joined the job!"