On the day of the Spring Festival, everyone in the crew had a day off, and on the second day of the first lunar month, filming resumed. Liu Man's last scene was scheduled to start filming that night, and the filming location was in that small western-style building.
In the script, this scene happened after Ji Ning spent money to buy this second-hand villa with decoration and complete furniture, and the family of five moved into the new home.
Ji Ning's bedroom is at the end of the corridor on the second floor. It has a separate bathroom and a cloakroom. It is the largest room among all the rooms in the villa. Ji An's bedroom is next door to hers, only separated by a wall, while Gu Qing is the furthest away from her, on the other side of the corridor.
The three of them lived in peace at first, until early this morning, when Gu Qing asked Ji Ning to come out to talk, a dispute arose in the garden of the villa, and he couldn't help hugging her. At that time, Ji An was in her bedroom on the second floor, and she didn't Sleeping, seeing everything clearly, her jealous rage driving her out of her mind.
When Ji Ning returned to the room, Ji An quietly followed her and strangled her to death with a plastic rope.
Liu Man used the rest time yesterday to think carefully about how to shoot this play.
After it was completely dark, Liu Man's work began.
Four cameras were set up in an open space in the small garden, and two cameras were set up on the second floor of the villa. At that time, the scene of Ji Ning and Gu Qing talking in the garden will be filmed from all directions.
Liu Man changed into a beige pajamas, and the stylist tied up her hair, making it fluffy on purpose when she got out of bed.
First shot, from the bed in her bedroom:
Liu Man was lying on the bed covered with a thin quilt, and the clock on the wall had been adjusted from the correct 7:00 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. by the prop master.
"Everyone on your position," Ye Zi'an gave the order, "action."
There was a sudden knock on the bedroom door.
Ji Ning sat up from the bed with sleepy eyes. She rubbed her eyes and glanced at the clock on the wall.
"Ning Ning, can you come out for a while?"
Lu Qing's deliberately low voice came from outside the door,
Hearing this, Ji Ning picked up the thin coat beside the bed, put it on his body, and opened the door.
Lu Qing stood at the door, also wearing pajamas, but his hair was not messed up at all, obviously he didn't go to bed at all.
"What are you asking me for so late? I'll talk about it tomorrow at school," Ji Ning whispered, afraid of being overheard. After he finished speaking, he wanted to close the door, but Gu Qing held him with his elbow, and he grabbed it with his other hand. Ji Ning's wrist dragged her out of the bedroom, and Ji Ning exclaimed.
"OK, Liu Man leaves the scene, and Yang Huayue will enter the next scene," Ye Zi'an ordered, without delay or waste of time.
Yang Huayue, who also changed into pajamas, immediately walked into Ji An's bedroom.
The photographer pointed the camera at the door of Ji An's bedroom.
"start."
After Ye Zi'an finished speaking, the door was opened a crack from the inside, and one eye was cold and gloomy looking outside. The photographer gave the eyes a close-up of up to 7 seconds.
Yang Huayue's eyes were specially painted with dark eyeshadow by the makeup artist, a bit like dark circles. When the light is dim, they look terrible. Her eyeballs slowly turned from left to right, as if seeing Lu Qing and Ji Ning from their own eyes. Just like walking through the door.
The lens of the eye ends.
Next, we first took the shot of Ji An overlooking the garden from the window, Gu Qing and Ji Ning, and then the director, cameraman and other staff quickly moved to the garden on the first floor.
"Hua Yue, don't stand in the middle of the window, go a little to the left, close to the left frame, and hide half of your body behind the curtain," Ye Zi'an said to Yang Huayue with a loudspeaker.
Liu Man was wearing a down jacket and was sitting in the garden waiting. She was also looking at the second floor. She felt that Yang Huayue's appearance this time was really scary. She was wearing a long white pajama dress, and her long hair was uncombed and hung down to her chest. Just standing upright by the window, like a female ghost in white.
So in the script, ten years later, the heroine Yan Xialan was frightened by Ji An like this once.
"Director Ye, can I stand here?" Yang Huayue shouted to Ye Zi'an.
Ye Zi made an OK gesture.
filming begins,
In the dim night, I saw a white figure on the second window on the right side of the second floor. The camera was sent into the air, and kept approaching this window. The outline of the figure became clearer and clearer. It turned out that his face was as pale as his clothes. Ji An, her big eyes were fixed on a certain position in the garden, her facial expression became more and more distorted, ferocious, and full of hatred.
She suddenly seemed to think of something, turned around and walked into the room, her figure disappeared behind the window.
"It's okay," Ye Zi'an looked at the camera playback, "I'll let the post-production adjust the color tone, the light is still too bright."
The assistant quickly said, "Okay."
"Qiao Xin, Liu Man, it's time for you to play."
When Liu Man heard the order, she immediately took off her down jacket, and the stylist stepped forward to tidy up the wrinkles on her pajamas. The scene she and Qiao Xin were about to shoot was a bit special.
In the script, the two had a two-minute conversation, but Ye Zi'an said that in the end the editor only cut the first 3 seconds and the last 12 seconds, a total of 15 seconds, and the voices of the two would be erased. Because this scene is actually the picture in Ji An's eyes, and it is also one of the clues in the second half of the movie. It is a mime, only the movement of the distant camera has no sound, and no sound is needed.
However, Ye Zi'an still asked Liu Man and Qiao Xin to act out the entire dialogue and speak out the lines verbatim. He said that this is not a waste of effort, it will make the plot more coherent and the two of them will be more involved in the play.
Ye Zi'an had planned the positions of the two of them in advance, and drew a mark on the ground. Liu Man stood on his own mark, facing Qiao Xin.
This is the first and only face-to-face scene between her and the leading actor Qiao Xin.
"Have you memorized your lines?" Qiao Xin asked her suddenly.
Liu Man didn't expect that Qiao Xin would take the initiative to talk to her. She didn't forget how Qiao Xin deliberately made things difficult for her and forced her to drink at the reunion dinner the day before yesterday.
She had no grievances with him, and it was really ungrateful for a big man to target himself.
But seeing that her part-time job was coming to an end, Liu Man didn't want to make any mistakes at this juncture, so she replied to Qiao Xin, "I know everything by heart."
Qiao Xin had something to say, but for some reason, his eyes glanced at Liu Man's chest. The off-white pajamas Liu Man was wearing were a bit see-through, and he could vaguely see the underwear. Of course, the director and the audience were in the camera I can't even see it, but Qiao Xin is standing directly opposite Liu Man, and she can see it clearly. Liu Man is beautiful, and she is a girl with a clean and pure temperament. She wears such pajamas, which gives Qiao Xin the feeling of abstinence. Very seductive.
Even though Qiao Xin has filmed scenes with many beauties, it is undeniable that Liu Man is attractive to him at this moment. This has nothing to do with liking, it is purely a man's physical feeling.