I make a thriller, it's God chasing and feeding

Chapter 239 [Boot]

It's like sitting down with a friend and asking casually what other part-time jobs and leisure activities they do in their spare time.

Lu Zhengyi and others did not ask Wang Xiaoxu about the details of the game. Those matters had nothing to do with the crew.

That is Wang Xiaoxu's own life.

November [-],
Liancheng,

Outside a residential building in an old neighborhood, in an open space, the crew of "Alien Space" officially started filming.

No extra media reporters were invited to visit, and the news of the production was temporarily concealed. Now that The Grudge is still in theaters, Lu Zhengyi does not want his new film to be too ostentatious.

"Incense."

In the distance, Wei Kang was holding a camera and standing near the altar table.

In the camera, under the leadership of Zhang Yu, a group of people from the crew were holding sacrificial incense and worshiping the faceless stone statue, and then stepped forward one by one to put the sacrificial incense on it.

Among them, several actors just glanced at the stone statue casually and didn't pay much attention when they approached.

First, Zhou Ziyun, who played the leading role of Luo Zhan, was the first among the actors to step forward and put the incense in his hand on the incense burner.

Then came Cai Siqi, who played the heroine Zhang Xin. It was her first time to participate in the opening ceremony. When she was finished, Xiao Wei helped remind her what to do.

Then there is Huang Yunli as the second female lead. She plays Luo Zhan’s ex-girlfriend Xueer in the play.

She lined up behind Cai Siqi and put on the sacrificial incense with a smile on her face.

In front of the camera, there was nothing wrong with her, but as soon as she turned around, her expression became much calmer.

Although during the audition, Cai Siqi took the script for the second female lead, but when she was actually selected, the second female lead was given to Huang Yunli.

This situation is rare in the entertainment industry.

This circle places great emphasis on seniority. Unless you are a very good friend, you will lower yourself to a role in a movie and choose a role that does not match you, and you are willing to be overshadowed by actors with lower seniority than you. Bit.

Otherwise, it's the kind of temporary guest appearance, seeking connections and retaining personal favors.

Now Huang Yunli has been in the industry for several years, and the supporting actress she got was at least a person with a character line, but she was suppressed by a perpetual role player who didn't even have a name on the profile.

Moreover, this long-standing actor did not come from a major, but was a wild kid who had not even graduated from high school.

It’s not that she despises academic qualifications, but Huang Yunli feels that if she is convinced, her life in this circle in order to make a fortune in the past few years will be like a joke.

But she didn't dare to just put her face down and leave.

Before coming, she knew that Lu Zhengyi's crew was very special, but she didn't expect it to be so special and completely disregarded the rules.

"Brother Yao seems to believe this."

But soon, after Huang Yunli stood next to her, she saw Lu Zhengyi's assistant Wang Yao also burning incense with a pious and respectful look on his face, and hurriedly stepped forward.

Team leader Wang glanced at her and said, "If you believe it, you have it. If you don't believe it, you don't have it."

As he spoke, he straightened his collar and stood a little further away obediently to avoid blocking others from offering incense.

"Yes, yes, my mother also believes in this." Huang Yunli followed his words, "When I was a child, I had a high fever, so my mother took me to ask my mother-in-law for a talisman. After burning it, the talisman became ashes. Just drink it with boiled water, and the fever will go away that night."

When chatting with someone, you must start with a topic that the person likes.

"Oh?"

Sure enough, Team Leader Wang, who had not planned to talk more, suddenly became interested, "So effective? But what kind of god is A Niang?"

"Aniang is the collective name for the immortal empresses in our area."

Huang Yunli explained, "I'm from Chaocheng. I remember that Director Lu's previous film about the wandering god culture in Chaocheng."

"Wandering gods are very common in the southern region, but some areas have gradually stopped practicing them. But our place, like Taicheng and Fucheng, especially believe in these."

"Look, this is the amulet my mother begged for me from the Qinglong Ancient Temple when I came out of the garden, which was my adult ceremony."

As she spoke, she took off the red rope hanging around her neck.

At the front of the red rope is a small square red cloth bag.

"I'll see."

Team leader Wang quickly wiped his hands on both sides of his pants, took the amulet with both hands politely, and looked at it carefully.

……

"He's someone who knows how to run a business."

At the entrance of the corridor of a residential building some distance away from the open space, Lu Zhengyi was sitting on the stone stairs, taking in everything that happened during the power-on ceremony.

After paying homage, Zhou Ziyun walked silently to the corner, Cai Siqi stood at a loss in the crowd, and Huang Yunli eagerly followed Wang Yao to talk...

Lu Zhengyi did not attend the opening ceremony because of the Nuo noodles hanging on his waist.

As a 'good soul', Wang Xiaoxu is no different from a living person.

But as an 'evil spirit', if the snow girl in the Nuo mask came close to the stone statue while everyone was worshiping, she might be knocked out of the mask by the stone statue.

Of course, it could also be the other way around, with the stone statue being suppressed by the snow girl.

But no matter what the situation was, Lu Zhengyi tried his best to avoid chaos and avoided the stone statue with Nuo Mian.

After all, although this stone statue has the ability to exorcise evil spirits, it is more like a program that only knows how to execute a set process.

"She seems to look down on Cai Siqi." Zhang Yu came over, heard his words, and reminded him aloud, "Her temper may cause trouble. I'd better think again about whether to be included in the group."

"It's common for actors to have conflicts in the crew over the issue of casting, and to compete overtly or covertly."

"Although in our crew, with the qualifications of the two of them, no matter what, they can't make trouble openly, but if something is done secretly, we can't keep an eye on it all the time, otherwise we should find an honest person. .”

If there are such a mess of people in this team, it will be easy to go astray.

"That's not the case. After working together on two dramas, I can still see what kind of person she is." Lu Zhengyi waved his hand, "Besides, no one is perfect, there are all kinds of small flaws. That’s the person.”

Zhang Yu hesitated, "Okay, then you decide."

Lu Zhengyi smiled and said nothing more.

To be honest, when Zhang Yu said these words, he felt there was a bit of a double standard.

Although Lao Zhang has changed now, he will not be a peaceful person in the future.

Lao Zhang is lustful, Bai Wei is straight-tempered, Zhang Yuming is impulsive...

There is no such perfect person in their team.

The best one is probably Chang Zhengwei. He doesn't have any major character flaws, but he is very persistent in winning awards and really hopes to win the Best Actor.

Didn't each one of them grow up slowly and finally have the look that makes people feel reliable now?

Lu Zhengyi felt that Huang Yunli was quite good, at least she had a clear goal - greed for money.

Huang Yunli has been very obsessed with "making big money" since the filming of the first episode, and she seems to be very motivated.

That's fine.

She wanted money, and Lu Zhengyi felt that it would be easy to recruit her when the time came.

"Okay, okay, ready to shoot." Seeing the red cloth on the camera being removed, Lu Zhengyi clapped his hands, "Everyone is moving, ready to start shooting."

He stepped towards the crew.

"The dressing room is on the second floor. Sister Wei, you take the actors upstairs to put on makeup first."

"Brother Jie, check the scene you arranged before again."

"Brother Kang, please check the camera position again."

Then, Bai Wei, who was in the crowd, neatly distributed the headsets to the team leaders, and at the same time called on the rest of the crew to move the props, cameras, and actors to put on makeup.

This skillful command made Zhang Yu, who was standing next to Lu Zhengyi, feel a little dazed again.

In the past, he had done all this work.

But suddenly, Bai Wei, who was directing, seemed to have thought of something. He quickly came over to Zhang Yu and asked respectfully, "Master, do you think there is no problem with my arrangement?"

Zhang Yu was stunned for a moment, then smiled and patted his shoulder, "No problem. As an assistant director, it's best to check all aspects from the camera position to props and makeup before shooting to avoid mistakes during shooting. That’s when the error occurred.”

"Although, it is very common for filming to be NG now. It is not like the old film era, where every NG cost a lot of money."

"But the actor's feeling is very important. If the actor's performance is fine, but stops due to problems with the shooting position, props, etc., resulting in this section being unusable, it is a great pity for the director. So you did a good job with that.”

At this point, he paused for a moment and said, "Awei, I know you were just a field recorder before, and you only regarded this as a job at most."

"But if you call me master now and plan to make progress and step onto a bigger stage, then you need to start cultivating your passion for shooting, read a lot of films, observe and understand the director's shooting techniques, and understand how to shoot. Highlight the plot..."

"He just arranges this and that in the crew. He is not called a director. He can only be said to be a powerful field worker and handyman. If you want to really hold the position of 'assistant director', you must at least have a certain degree of appreciation. "

And this is not an easy task.

Some people have been working for most of their lives, but they just hit the threshold, and the films they produce are mediocre, and in the end they can only make short plays.

Some people only took half a year or a year to learn it and began to delve into their own shooting style, such as Lu Zhengyi.

Bai Wei remembered Zhang Yu's words carefully.

He knew very well before that his job was more like a handyman. Although he could manage and direct others, he could learn very little.

So he cherished Zhang Yu's teachings.

……

"Ding-dong-"

The woman with disheveled hair appeared in the camera with a bare face and only a light lip color.

"Are you coming to see the house?"

Then, a male voice came from the doorbell.

"Yes."

The woman replied softly, her voice weak and weak.

"Okay, then come in."

Soon, the security door was opened.

The woman lowered her head and entered the corridor timidly.

Next to him, Wei Kang held up a camera to clearly record the scene and transmitted it to the director's monitor.

From the entrance of the corridor to the elevator, and then to pressing the elevator door, the woman looked intently during the entire process. From the camera, she looked very dull.

The heroine Zhang Xin's character background is that of a patient who suffers from mental problems under the pressure of life.

And her disease is that she can see ghosts.

But whether she can see ghosts is a hallucination caused by illness, or she can actually see them, she is a character who can suddenly see ghosts after becoming an adult.

Heck, this setting has been seen in many movies produced by Lu Zhengyi in the past, and it has also been seen in reality.

And like Liu Baoning, or the psychic Xiangzi in The Grudge, they are all special groups who have been able to see ghosts since childhood.

Compared with normal people, they have extremely strong psychological qualities.

Like Liu Baoning, after meeting Liang Meijuan, she could just ignore her and follow other people to communicate as if no one else was around.

When Xiangzi faced Kayako, he was even more tenacious than ordinary people. It wasn't until he realized that he couldn't do anything to him that he began to feel fear.

These are all manifestations of people who are born with the ability to see ghosts.

And the Zhang Xin that Cai Siqi is going to play is a person who has acquired the ability to "see ghosts", so she has to show a certain nagging and panicked look.

In the current shot, this cowering movement and unswerving expression of his gaze are Lu Zhengyi's understanding of a person who can see ghosts the day after tomorrow.

Yes, this is his understanding.

He wrote this understanding in the script for Cai Siqi and asked her to act it out.

"Director Lu, you said my film is going to...how to add special effects?"

However, during the filming, Wang Xiaoxu crept close to the director's monitor and asked Lu Zhengyi in a low voice, "I will watch from the side first. When everyone else is gone, we can finally finish the shooting?"

This was a common filming routine used by the Mei Tanuki crew before going to Japan.

"Idle people waiting?"

Lu Zhengyi gave him a strange look, "Where did our crew come from?"

As soon as he said this, Wang Xiaoxu was stunned.

For a while, he raised his head and looked around the studio. In the distance, Wei Kang was directing the camera crew to move the camera, Xiaowei was following the actors after putting on makeup, Ajie was cleaning up the scene...

Well, except for a few actors who have just joined the group, everyone else is our own people who have already signed contracts. '

It seems that there is really no need to hide it.

"Just like when we were filming The Grudge."

Lu Zhengyi said, "When shooting later, you can directly add the illusion construction, and we will use virtual technology as an excuse to simply fool other people."

"The excuse of virtual technology is obviously made up casually, but it is surprisingly useful and many people are willing to believe it."

"When the filming is over, I will have someone go and communicate with them."

Unknowingly, the size of the crew has expanded to a certain number of people.

This horror film is no better than those historical films and war films with grand scenes. Whether it is shooting or preparation, the funds and manpower required are actually not much.

For the drama "Alien Space" alone, the crew is completely sufficient, and there is no need to recruit additional temporary workers.

In this way, controlling the field will be extremely easy.

It's like there are about 50 people in a group chat, more than [-] of them are actors.

In this case, it is not the more than 50 actors who have the final say on what topics this group should talk about. Even if the remaining few forcefully lead the topic, no one will follow.

(End of this chapter)