Huayu started as a substitute director

Chapter 338 The principal is very meticulous
Fang Hong did act very well indeed. After all, he has acted in plays and trained actors in plays.

Any director who can train actors will not have bad acting skills, because they know how to act.

For example, Lao Mouzi, Red Pants, and even Chen Sicheng’s acting skills are very good.

"You're still disgusted with me, but I'm still looking for you." Liu Tianxian turned his head away arrogantly and didn't look at him.

Fang Hong stood beside her, seeing her arrogant look, he "hit" her above the back of the head three times, but didn't hit her, which seemed like he wanted to hit her but didn't dare to.

He glared at Liu Tianxian with an indignant expression.

Since Liu Tianxian was sitting and had her head turned with the back of her head facing it, no one could see.

But other people could see it and couldn't help but laugh. They thought these two were quite funny.

It was also the first time they saw the principal like this, but he was only like this with Liu Tianxian. When facing other people, he was still very serious.

Liu Tianxian saw that the people around him were laughing strangely, and seemed to realize something. She turned her head to look at Fang Hong, and saw that he looked harmless and serious, so she patted his leg anyway.

Fang Hong was puzzled: "Why did you hit me?"

"I'll hit you." Liu Tianxian held his head high, looking like, "What can you do to me?"

Fang Hong was speechless and didn't bother with the woman.

"Alright, alright, it's time to film. Tianxian, just act like the principal was just now." Xue Xiaolu laughed.

These two are really a funny couple.

However, time is limited and we cannot delay too long. If it gets dark, it will be difficult to take pictures. We can only wait until tomorrow, so we still have to meet the deadline.

Seeing the state of the two people, Bai Yu lowered his head silently. He didn't want to watch it anymore. It made him feel disheartened.

"Okay, Mr. Xue."

Liu Tianxian also became serious and was no longer joking.

Soon they started shooting again, this time shooting Liu Tianxian's face in the sun. The previous shot was not taken close to her face, so Fang Hong suggested shooting her face close to her face.

This is the only way to convey emotions and allow the audience to empathize and feel. Besides, there is no movie without some face-palming; this is not a TV series.

"Click! Pass!"

After the shoot, Xue Xiaolu was very satisfied. It really was different with someone guiding him. He passed the test in one try.

Liu Tianxian does have a talent for acting, but she had no one to guide her before, so she just figured things out on her own, but she couldn't figure anything out and it was easy for her to go astray.

It’s like when a college student first enters the working society, if he has someone to guide him into the industry, then it will be much easier for him, he will take fewer detours at work, and his salary will definitely be much higher than that of his peers.

That means you win right from the start.

For example, those big directors' star girls, Mou girls, Zhou Dongyu, Ni Ni and others all started out very quickly. After all, they have been trained by big directors, so they are still very different.

In recent years, Liu Tianxian has been guided by various directors and has made some progress.

After all, when Fang Hong was filming, there were always two assistant directors around him, either guiding him from one or the other.

As for acting, as long as there is someone to guide you, you can go on the right track.

As for how Bai Yu should act, he let him do it freely, Fang Hong didn't have the time to teach him.

Liu Tianxian was also very happy. With this man around, she suddenly became more confident and her professional level improved rapidly.

After this scene was finished, we filmed a few more scenes until dinner time in the evening.

The crew members were squatting, sitting, or standing in groups of three or five, eating with their lunch boxes in various postures. Liu Tianxian didn't make any special arrangements and squatted with Fang Hong to eat their lunch boxes.

The food on the crew is pretty good now, with chicken legs, meatballs, vegetables and eggs. It's not like before when the standards were lowered to save costs.

Liu Tianxian put the chicken leg from her bowl into his bowl: "The chicken leg is for you to eat."

"You don't want to eat." Fang Hong looked at her.

"I'm filming, what should I do if I gain weight? When the audience watches the movie, they will see that I'm thin in the front, but won't say anything at the back, 'Hey, how did this person get fat?'" Liu Tianxian said interestingly.

It usually takes two or three months to shoot a movie. Some female stars gain and lose weight in TV dramas because they eat and drink well on the set but don’t manage their body well.

"That's true." Fang Hong looked at the chicken leg in the bowl.

"So I can't eat so much while filming. Wait until I finish filming this movie."

Liu Tianxian said, seeing him staring at the bowl, as if reminiscing, she couldn't help but nudge him with her elbow: "What are you doing?"

"It reminded me of the first time we were on the crew. I asked you for food but you refused. Now that I can eat the food you gave me, I feel so touched." Fang Hong sobbed as he spoke, making it seem like that was really the case.

"Stop it."

Liu Tianxian hit him: "Haven't I given you enough to eat? You are only now touched. Your reaction time is too long!"

Normally, she would often bring meals to this man, and they would eat together when they had nothing to do. They had done this hundreds of times.

Playing this now, it's obvious that you are free!
"Oh, I just spoke out of inspiration." Fang Hong said, stuffed the chicken leg in the bowl into his mouth, and started to eat it with relish.

"Slow down, no one is competing with you for it." Liu Tianxian said.

After dinner, we took a short rest, and when it got dark, we continued filming.

Just keep shooting like this from morning to night.

There is no such thing as a working hour system. We can only stop working after completing the day's shooting tasks. Even if we complete them, we have to continue polishing them or shoot for the next day.

Of course most of them could not be completed because they shot very slowly.

As usual, Fang Hong sat next to Xue Xiaolu and watched the filming on the monitor.

What we are shooting now is the scene of chatting in the subway. This scene was set up in the studio, with only one subway car.

It is a real-life studio, not a real subway.

We can't afford to rent a real subway. We also need permission from relevant departments and coordinate road closures, so the cost is not feasible.

There are many such studios in Beijing, which can meet the shooting needs of movies, TV, MVs, etc.

The scenery outside the window can be turned into a black cloth through post-processing. It doesn’t require much effort. It is night time and the subway is dark.

And the male and female protagonists just sat on the bench and didn't move!
The content of their conversation was still about whether they would break up or cheat on each other, and everything seemed normal.

"Teacher Xue, is there anything particular about the layout of this scene?" Fang Hong asked.

"No, it's just explained through dialogue here. The two people's love affair continues, and soon the heroine will go to find a job, so this hidden worry will be buried." Xue Xiaolu explained.

This shoot was simple and ordinary.

Fang Hong supported his chin with one hand, staring at the monitor screen and the two people's performance.

Xue Xiaolu looked at him and asked, "What's wrong? Do you think there is a problem?"

"It's not a big problem."

Fang Hong first approved of the content of her filming, and then said: "It's just that the language of the camera is not meaningful enough, it's too superficial. This section will be a turning point, when the two of them start to enter society one after another, and the camera can hint some information to the audience."

"what do you mean?"

Xue Xiaolu seemed to understand a little bit, but he didn't grasp it.

Fang Hong signaled to stop filming, stood up and walked to the filming area. Xue Xiaolu shouted "cut" and followed Fang Hong to the filming area. Inside the subway car, there were still some extras. The staff and props and photography equipment did not move, and they were all watching whether the two had any adjustments.

Liu Tianxian and Bai Yu were sitting on a bench together. Seeing that the two looked serious, Liu Tianxian stood up and asked, "What's wrong? Is there something wrong with the performance?"

"No, it's just that the composition of the picture needs to be adjusted. Don't move for now." Fang Hong gestured.

Bai Yu nodded, and Liu Tianxian said "Oh"!
Fang Hong said to Xue Xiaolu: "Teacher Xue, look, the two of them are sitting here, if we move these two steel pipe handrails a bit."

After he said that, he grabbed one of the steel handrails, which are the handrails on the left and right sides of the aisle in the subway car when people are standing.

"Principal, let me do it, don't move." A prop master quickly signaled to the principal not to move.

Such random movements might mess up their scene or move some key parts, which would be quite dangerous.

Several staff members also came forward to help.

Fang Hong didn't move. He walked to a position close to Liu Tianxian and the others and gestured, "Move one here."

Following instructions, the staff moved a steel pipe handrail to the designated location.

The others just watched the operations on site and seemed quite quiet.

After that, Fang Hong stepped back a few steps, moved a little further away, estimated the position of the two people, pointed at the ground in front of him and said: "Put a handrail here."

The staff placed a steel pipe handrail in front of him.

Xue Xiaolu also walked over and looked at the two protagonists, the man and the woman, sitting on the bench from this perspective.

The others were all confused and didn't know what the two were going to do.
"How is it? What did Teacher Xue see?" Fang Hong asked.

Xue Xiaolu didn't say anything, but moved slightly and stood next to Fang Hong. From his perspective, he looked at the two leading actors from the side.

At this moment, her eyes are the camera.

From her perspective, the two steel pipe handrails, one far and one near, just framed the male and female protagonists together on the left and right.

"The composition of the picture frames the two people in the same space, reinforcing the feeling that they will not break up." Xue Xiaolu looked at Fang Hong and said uncertainly.

I don't know if this is what he meant.

"Yes, you are looking at who is reflected in the glass." Fang Hong pointed at the glass behind Bai Yu.

That's the glass of the subway car. When there's light in the car, it can reflect shadows.

From the perspective of the two people, we can see that only Bai Yu's back can be seen in the reflection of the glass. Liu Tianxian cannot be seen because she has gone to another level of the picture space.

"Great! This implies that the hero and heroine have another meaning in the future, and they may break up." Xue Xiaolu clapped his hands, roughly understanding what Fang Hong wanted to express.

This is a lens metaphor.

The two people in the same space said that their relationship will continue and they are determined to be together.

There is only one person in the reflected space, which implies that everything in the future is unknown and a breakup is possible, which can be interpreted at will.

A simple picture composition metaphorically expresses the current state of the male and female protagonists, as well as their future worries.

This is helpful for a deeper interpretation of the movie, as it contains a lot of information and is very profound!
"Yes, it gives the audience room for imagination, allowing them to interpret and imagine their future lives," Fang Hong explained.

The charm of art films lies in "metaphor", and every time you watch it, you will get different surprises and feelings.

This is also the reason why art films are difficult to make. Metaphor, composition, ideas, and plot are all indispensable. Otherwise, it would not be so difficult to create a masterpiece.

If it were really that easy to shoot, all those directors would have become gods.

Xue Xiaolu looked at it again from his perspective: "Xiao Fang, your observation is too detailed. Many people can't think of such fine details."

"I am also a bystander and can see things more clearly." Fang Hong said modestly.

The others were confused and didn't understand why the two were discussing so enthusiastically, thinking that they could turn a picture composition into art.

Is the film they shot really so profound?
In fact, many people cannot tell what the film they have shot is like, because they shoot a little here and a little there, so who knows what it is about?
You have to wait until it is released and watch the entire film to know, oh, this is what the movie I made is like.

Sometimes even the actors don’t know what they are acting. They just follow the director’s instructions and do whatever the director says.

But when I think about it, the principal is still very professional, he just doesn't express himself, always makes commercial films, and hides his talent.

Liu Tianxian and Bai Yu didn’t quite understand it either, but they knew a little bit that it wasn’t a problem with their acting, but a problem with the composition of the picture.

However, seeing that Fang Hong was talented, Liu Tianxian was still quite happy.

"No matter what, you are very meticulous." Xue Xiaolu praised and walked towards his director's seat, signaling the staff to set up the scene and start filming again.

With a "pu", the photographer couldn't help laughing out loud, he was really thinking the wrong thing.

Just now when Xue Xiaolu said that the principal was meticulous, some people had bad thoughts. Now when he said it again, I couldn't help it.

The principal is very petty? Hahahaha.

"What are you laughing at? Teacher Xue was talking about paying attention to details. This is an advantage. You should all learn from me." Fang Hong patted the photographer on the chest and said seriously.

I feel like I don’t want to admit that I’m thin. I’m obviously very thick. They are all LSPs. I’m just imagining things!
The photographer nodded quickly, indicating that he was not thinking about anything and was holding it in with his lips pursed.

The others who had reached that point also pursed their lips, trying their best not to laugh. After all, he was the principal, so they had to give him some face.

Of course, they all knew that Xue Xiaolu was praising the principal, they could all hear it, but they couldn't help but think of something else.

If they were ordinary friends, some of them would probably die of laughter.

"Is there something wrong with what Teacher Xue said? Why are they laughing so strangely?" Liu Tianxian asked Bai Yu who was standing next to her, and he also noticed it.

Bai Yu looked at her deeply. He didn't expect that the Fairy Sister was so simple. However, he didn't explain. He just shook his head to indicate that he didn't know.

Seeing that he didn't say anything, Liu Tianxian didn't ask and decided to ask Fang Hong later.

"Everyone, be serious and get ready to start filming again." Xue Xiaolu didn't realize that what he just said was ambiguous, and he didn't think too much about it, and asked the staff to work well.

The on-site staff quickly got into the mood, and Fang Hong sat next to Xue Xiaolu again to watch her filming.

The acting of the two leading actors in this scene was flawless, without too much emotional fluctuation, but the composition and the lighting of the scene need to be changed.

Turn up the light so the shadow will be more obvious, and adjust the camera angle as well.

This scene was filmed very quickly.

After the filming was over, the crew packed up their equipment. Xue Xiaolu asked Fang Hong, "Xiao Fang, how many days will you stay on the set?"

"I'll be going back later." Fang Hong didn't plan to stay any longer as he had a lot of things to do.

"Can you stay for a few days and help me re-check the shooting materials to see which ones have problems so that I can make timely adjustments." Xue Xiaolu invited.

"Well!" Fang Hong was a little embarrassed.

Checking the shooting materials is extremely tiring. It's not like he hasn't done this before, all night long.

At this time, Liu Tianxian walked up to the two of them.

"You can also teach Tianxian how to act. With your guidance, she will act well and it can also speed up the progress. How great." Xue Xiaolu said nicely.

Liu Tianxian didn't say anything and let the man decide.

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