You've passed the college entrance examination, but can't you make it in the entertainment

Chapter 153 What is love?

Geng Xinyao's little accident disrupted the crew's filming plan.

Because the artist's mood has not completely calmed down, director Kong Chao temporarily decided to move the dinner time forward to give Geng Xinyao more time to rest.

Leyan is still the most active in Ganfang.

Fetching food, reporting to Li Yiran, and eating, the whole set of actions was done in one go.

He just picked up the chopsticks and sat down across the table.

Geng Xinyao put a bottle of mineral water in front of Leyan:

"You don't have an assistant following you?"

It has been a few days since filming started, and Leyan has been living alone, which is not common on the crew.

If the agent doesn't follow you, there should be an assistant by your side, right?

Le Yan said thank you first:

"We're recruiting."

Ni Zhen has more than just one artist under his command, Leyan, he also has other tasks to be busy with.

Especially when it comes to staying on the set for several months, it's even more impossible for him to be there every day.

Le Yan's job didn't require an assistant before, but Ni Zhen has been recruiting assistants for him since he went to the audition.

Ji Xueli and Zhang Yan both reminded him that he must find a male assistant for Le Yan, and they both had to nod, which made the recruitment more difficult, so he has not been able to recruit a suitable one until now.

Ni Zhen wanted to be promoted to the group and accompany Le Yan first, but Le Yan refused.

Le Yan said that he is such a big man, he can eat and drink without anyone taking care of him, and he is also very busy with promotions. He has to hold a computer to edit pictures and write copy every day. He doesn't even have a fixed seat on the set, so don't come here and suffer.

Geng Xinyao said very considerately:

"We are all from the same school. If you need any help on the set, you can come to me."

Geng Xinyuan had heard that Le Yan had money behind him and thought that he, like those vases, would be domineering on the set and everyone would revolve around him.

But after observing it for the past few days, Le Yan is very humble and has no airs. He eats lunch from the crew every day and doesn't get any special treatment. He has never even seen an assistant around him.

You must know that even if you are a supporting character, you will always be with at least someone else.

The shooting location changes every day. Eating, drinking, and even going to the bathroom are all unknown. Someone needs to specifically contact the crew to confirm these tedious details.

Maybe there is another hidden secret or rumor about the capital matter?

Moreover, Geng Xinyao gradually recognized Le Yan's acting skills. Judging from the performance of 'Hu Xingman' in today's two filming sessions, she began to feel sorry for 'Lin Xi'.

In fact, Hu Xingman is also very good.

Le Yan thanked him repeatedly. He wanted to call him senior, but then he remembered that Geng Xinyao wouldn't let him call him sister, so he finally said:

"Thank you, classmate."

Geng Xinyao said a few words and then left. She had a lot of English lines for the next scene, so she had to go back and consolidate them during the meal time.

Leyan also finished his meal quickly, but instead of taking advantage of this time to rest, he walked towards the director's team.

He still has one big thing to do.

When Kong Chao saw Le Yan coming, he greeted him warmly and asked him how it was during the past two days of filming, whether he needed help from the crew, etc. Unexpectedly, Le Yan said hesitantly:

"Director, there is something I want to change in the next scene."

Kong Chao was surprised at first, and then asked seriously:

"What do you want to change?"

The next scene is about the students performing for foreign guests. Lin Xi went on stage to perform an English poem recitation, and then took photos with the foreign guests to say goodbye.

The whole scene revolves around Lin Xi, and Hu Xingman is just a background character. What do you want to change here?

Le Yan said with some guilt:

"Director, do you remember when we met before filming started and we said we wanted to think more about the character Hu Xingman's changing mood?"

"Remember." Kong Chao nodded.

The screenwriter had already revised one version, but Kong Chao felt it was still not good enough, so he called him back and asked him to continue revising it.

Leyan said shyly:

"I have a little idea, would you like to hear it?"

Kong Chao thought that Leyan came to him to ask for ideas, but he didn't expect that he came to give them ideas?

Thinking of Le Yan's several performances in the audition, Kong Chao said excitedly:

"Okay, you say."

Le Yan organized his thoughts and spoke slowly:

"I want to amplify Hu Xingman's 'love' for Lin Xi."

Kong Chao frowned and asked:

"What do you mean?"

Le Yan recalled his recent insights and said with a smile:

"Loving someone is not just about wanting to see her and be with her, but also wanting to give her the best of everything."

After receiving Deng Xuefeng's email, Le Yan, in addition to thinking about how to create the "charm" of the character Hu Xingman, was also thinking about the reasons for the character's change in mood.

Deng Xuefeng said that the reasons for the huge changes in the mood of the characters can be found from family, love and friendship at a small scale, and from social background, class conflicts and collision of civilizations at a larger scale.

Combined with Hu Xingman, an ordinary student, we can only look at it from the perspective of family, love and friendship.

Family love and friendship are not reflected in the script at all. It would take too much ink to start from these two points, so we still have to dig deeper into love.

Deng Xuefeng also said in the email that if you feel that a single line of foreshadowing is not strong enough, you can design multiple contradictions to advance together, but they must eventually converge to one point.

In other words, multiple love-related threads should be drawn out to promote the change of Hu Xingman's character's mood.

After figuring this out, another question stumped Leyan.

What exactly is love?

As a person who has never been in love in two lifetimes, how can he think about issues related to love?

Leyan spent a long time just researching 'What is love', until that day Li Yiran gave him a car

He felt that this question seemed to have an answer.

There is a person who will think your home is too empty and will buy you some furniture.

There is a person who thinks you have too few clothes and keeps buying them for you.

There is a person who is afraid that you have no money, so he gives you gold jewelry in a roundabout way.

There is a person who spends a lot of money to help you remove trending searches when you are attacked by public opinion.

There is a person who, even for no reason, is trying to give you a gift.

There is someone who wants to give you the best in the world.

Li Yiran must just love him, right?

After figuring this out, Le Yan firmly said "I miss you".

When you love someone, you want the other person to respond, right?

He couldn't give Li Yiran anything material, he could only make Li Yiran's spiritual world richer, so after that day he started bombarding with sweet words. This was his way of giving back love.

Le Yan may not understand what other people's love is like, but he knows how Li Yiran loves him.

With this valuable experience, he felt that he could try to solve this problem.

When Kong Chao heard what Le Yan said, he thought about it and asked:

"How to do it exactly?"

"In addition to wanting to be with Linxi, he also wants Linxi to eat well, use well, and live well."

Kong Chao shook his head:

"This is difficult to achieve because Hu Xingman's family conditions are not good."

His parents were divorced and he was brought up by his grandmother. This is why Hu Xingman has such a rebellious character.

Le Yan suddenly clapped his hands:

"That's right, Hu Xingman can't give it, but Guan Ning can!"

The male's family is in good condition and rich. Everything is perfect.

Kong Chao frowned when he heard this:

"I don't understand what you mean. What does Guan Ning Neng have to do with Hu Xingman?"

Le Yan showed an awkward smile:

"This involves another issue. Director, your request to me is that the whole process should focus on 'a smile hidden in a knife', right?"

Leyan spent a lot of time designing a "small personality" for Hu Xingman's character and enhancing the actor's charm. The ultimate goal is to make the audience like this character from the beginning, thereby fulfilling Kong Chao's request for him.

Kong Chao sat upright, his mind working rapidly.

Le Yan asked in a probing tone:

"When Hu Xingman realizes that Guan Ning can give Lin Xi something he cannot give, what will he do?"

Kong Chao had already guessed what Le Yan was going to say. He squinted his eyes and said:

"You mean Hu Xingman will give in?"

Le Yan shook his head fiercely:

"It's not about giving in, it's about sacrificing. Hu Xingman never gave up the idea of ​​being with Lin Xi from the beginning to the end, but he liked Lin Xi too much and felt that Lin Xi deserved all the good things in the world. When he found that he couldn't be satisfied , will sacrifice himself to temporarily fulfill Lin Xi."

"Every time Hu Xingman endures pain and sacrifices, it is a knife to the audience, but the more times he sacrifices, the more uncomfortable, struggling, and unwilling Hu Xingman becomes. He wants to reverse this situation, he wants to stand out, and he wants to personally give Lin Xi's beauty, this intertwined emotional stacking, and the original reason in the script for wanting to be admitted to the same city as Lin Xi, together pushed Hu Xingman to change his mentality and work hard."

Kong Chao did not continue what he said, but asked with a skeptical attitude:

"Would a direct, strong and narcissistic person like Hu Xingman sacrifice himself? Do you think this is logically justified?" Le Yan nodded extremely firmly:

"As long as he loves you enough, he will sacrifice himself."

Kong Chao still couldn’t agree:

"It's hard for you to convince me."

Le Yan was a little anxious at this time. How could he convince the director?

He frowned and said with a complicated expression:

"I have a friend. His girlfriend is very strong, even more powerful than Hu Xingman. She is also very direct and dares to speak out. At the same time, she is very narcissistic. She can look at herself in the mirror for more than half an hour. But she wanted to be with me. My friend sacrificed a lot together, not only money, but also her most important career. The stories are all based on real life!"

Kong Chao blinked in realization:

"Oh oh oh, I understand, I understand."

Leyan stamped his feet excitedly:

"Right! Is that true?!"

Kong Chao looked around, suddenly hooked Le Yan's shoulder and asked in a low voice:

"Can you let 'your friend's' girlfriend sing the theme song of our TV series?"

"Huh??" Le Yan turned his head suddenly.

Kong Chao laughed and patted his back:

"Come on, tell me how you want to change the next scene."

After dinner time, Geng Xinyao's condition was adjusted, and the crew started filming the next scene.

Kong Chao told the actors what they should pay attention to in the following scene:

"This scene is very important to Lin Xi. Before this incident, her self-esteem was frustrated one after another. The success of the poetry recitation made her regain her confidence. So Xinyao, you have to show the change of mood before and after."

Geng Xinyao nodded solemnly. Not only was the change of mood important, but the English poetry recitation was also important.

Although this poem is not long and does not need to be memorized, it really tortures her. If the English pronunciation is not standard, netizens will take it to the Internet to make memes.

After giving instructions to Geng Xinyao, Kong Chao said to Le Yan in a relaxed tone:

"Just play normally."

This kid doesn't need to worry about anything.

Le Yan sat next to the foreign guests, and Geng Xinyao went to the stage to prepare. The shooting of this scene officially started.

Lin Xiyao introduced herself to the audience sweetly, and then she picked up her manuscript folder and recited poems.

The first few sentences were okay, but the more she read, the more nervous she became, and the camera captured her hands starting to tremble.

Kong Chao took off his earphones and shouted "Ka":

"Xinyao, don't be nervous."

Geng Xinyao fanned herself with a clip and tried to adjust her mood:

"Good director."

Geng Xinyao's mood became much calmer after the filming of the second piece started, but she mispronounced a word halfway through the recitation.

Geng Xinyao explained to the director:

"Every time I read it halfway through, I get inexplicably nervous, and I feel so stupid standing on the stage."

The scene was too quiet. I don't know if it was because she didn't read it well. The audience didn't give any expressions or reactions, which made Geng Xinyao feel more and more guilty.

After hearing this, Kong Chao asked the coordinator to find a translator to give these foreigners some performance guidance and at least give them more smiles.

Leyan encouraged her and said:

"There's nothing wrong with your recitation. It's very standard."

With the recognition from the top student, Geng Xinyao felt confident.

After Kong Chao saw the actor coordinator giving him an OK signal, he started filming the third line.

After Lin Xi introduced herself this time, the foreigners in the audience gave her warm applause. Her condition improved significantly after the interaction, and the first half went very smoothly.

But in the second half of the performance, there was no interaction with the audience. Her voice was the only one in the huge venue, and her hand holding the clip began to shake again.

Kong Chao knew that this was impossible, so he took off his earphones and said to the deputy next to him:

"Set some music for her. The venue is really too big, and it will be too spacious for her to read alone."

The deputy stood up and went outside to find a stereo, but after taking just two steps, he heard faint music coming from the venue. Looking back, he saw that Geng Xinyao's hands on the screen had stopped shaking again.

He asked the director in surprise:

"Director, are you still going to get the stereo?"

Kong Chao also heard the faint sound of music. He frowned and pressed the earphones to his ears to listen to the live broadcast.

When he identified the source of the music, he happily said:

"No, where can I find music with 'love' on the speakers that works?"

This is a happy statement!

What a fucking genius! !

At this time, in the shooting venue, in addition to the sound of Lin Xishi reciting, there was also a clear and sweet harmonica sound.

Accompanied by the sound of the harmonica, Lin Xi's condition on the stage became more and more stable. Not only did he smile, but his voice became much louder.

After reading the last word, she bowed confidently to the audience, and her smile finally blossomed.

Amidst the warm applause of the audience, Hu Xingman stood on the ground with one hand and handsomely climbed onto the stage. He held up flowers and said loudly:

"Linxi, your performance is great!"

According to the logic of the characters in the script, because the foreign guest mistakenly thought that the two were lovers, Lin Xi hated being in the same frame as Lu Xingman that day and had been deliberately avoiding it. In this scene, she was unwilling to accept the bouquet of flowers. .

But at this time, Lin Xi on the stage saw the harmonica held by Hu Xingman in his other hand, and took the flower down with a bright smile:

"Thank you!"

"Ka-" Kong Chao shouted to stop shooting.

Geng Xinyao suddenly realized that the final treatment was different from the original script, and said anxiously:

"I'm sorry, director! Let's start from the moment when Le Yan performs on stage. The first part is pretty good."

Kong Chao's voice came from the intercom:

"No need to make up for it, this one is particularly good! Get ready for the next shot!"

in front of the monitor.

Kong Chao, who was holding the walkie-talkie, was already happy.

Not only is this one passable, it is also better than the original design!

What's the point of this scene?

It is the change of mentality of the character Lin Xi from unconfidence to confidence.

In the first half of the performance, she was so nervous that her hands were shaking, which was a sign of lack of confidence. Then the sound of the harmonica appeared, and Geng Xinyao's condition got better and better, showing her confidence in both facial expressions and body movements.

It can be said that this poem recitation is the entire reflection of the change of mood of the character Lin Xi.

After talking about the scene with Le Yan just now, Kong Chao had a new view and understanding of the character's change of mood.

The character's mood change requires a lot of contradictions and emotional stacking. Just a dry reason is not enough, it has to be extended to many places.

After agreeing with this view, when you look at Lin Xi's mood change scene, you will feel that the previous foreshadowing in the script is also very weak.

Will you feel confident after a poetry recitation?

Still not enough

At this time, another push happened.

That's Leyan's harmonica.

The sound of the harmonica not only helps Linxi perform successful music, it also represents love.

This is Hu Xingman's love for Lin Xi.

Lin Xi was indeed not as good as before, but there was someone who loved her behind her.

So, driven by the apparent performance success and the hidden love, Lin Xi's self-confidence emerged.

In this case, Lin Xi's small change in attitude toward Hu Xingman in the end makes sense, because this help helped her a lot, and she should really thank and accept the bouquet of flowers.

If Le Yan hadn't raised this question, Kong Chao would never have realized the importance of a change in mood.

It can be said that today's discussion with Le Yan is the purpose of Kong Chao's desire to cooperate with a large number of new actors.

As a new director, he also has a lot to learn and improve.

And Leyan just taught him a good lesson.

Kong Chao carefully reviewed the plot just now, and felt that it was more than a little better than the original script design.

perfect!

It's just perfect! !

As for shortcomings, there may be one.

Lin Xi's self-confidence was inspired by Hu Xingman, so the male protagonist suffered a little loss.

But Kong Chao quickly convinced himself.

There are also a lot of emotional entanglements between the male lead and the female lead. It would be fine if this was missing. The balance would definitely still be tilted in favor of the male lead.

At this time, the deputy interrupted Kong Chao's train of thought:

"Director Kong, are we filming the next photo shoot?"

Kong Chao nodded, but the next second he suddenly shouted:

"No, no, no, don't repost it yet! Add a few scenes of Le Yan playing the harmonica! It would be a waste not to record such a handsome look."

　The following chapter will be greatly revised and will be released a little later.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)