Hollywood Director 1992.

Chapter 155 Crew
"All groups, get ready!"

"Shot 3, 2 shots, 1 times, start!"

Poughkeepsie County, New York.

In the afternoon, the weather was clear. On the set of "Final Destination", in a villa area, the crew members were busy.

Link also sat behind the monitor, staring carefully at the footage transmitted from the camera.

After a few days of rain in southern New York, the weather began to get hot. Link, wearing a baseball cap, vest and long T-shirt, sat in the tent for a while and sweated all over.

"John, retake this shot. Don't let the shot land too low. Use a bird's-eye view to film the situation at Todd's house. This perspective can be understood as the 'Grim Reaper's perspective' to add some psychological pressure to the audience."

Link walked over to the chief cameraman John Toll and gestured to him how to shoot, how to design the movie shots, and how to split them.

John Toll took the initiative to apply for a job when Guess What Pictures was recruiting a cameraman.

After looking at his photo and information, Link quickly recognized him.

John Toll is not well-known now and has only been the photographer of two documentaries, but he will become one of the authorities in this field in the future.

His representative works include "Brave Heart", "Legends of the Fall", "The Thin Red Line", "Almost Famous", "Cloud Atlas", "Vanilla Sky", etc. He has won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography and been nominated many times.

When Link was a director, he also studied his works. When he saw John Toll applying for the job, he signed him without hesitation.

In addition to John Toll, a very promising photographer, the crew now also includes assistant director Sofia Coppola, assistant director Paul Thomas Anderson, sound engineer Andy Nelson, sound editor Per Hallberg, prop master Eric Dawson, etc., all of whom are potential stocks in the film industry.

With these people assisting him, he can also save a lot of time and energy during shooting.

"Director Lin, I understand."

John Toll nodded and told several assistants to reposition the camera.

After the camera crew was ready, the "Final Destination" crew continued filming.

"Final Destination" is a thriller film. The original film was released in 2000. It had an investment of nearly 1.86 million and earned million US dollars at the global box office.

The box office revenue is not as good as "Paranormal Activity" and "The Blair Witch Project", but it is very famous and has a large number of fans all over the world. The subsequent sequels also performed well at the box office, exceeding 7 million US dollars. It is a movie with the potential to be a big hit.

This is also one of the reasons why Link regards "Final Destination" as the fourth work.

Another reason is that the protagonist of this movie is a young man, and the plot and character relationship design are relatively simple, which is in line with his age and perspective, and is also suitable for novice directors to practice.

The first part of "Final Destination" tells the story of a class of Abraham High School teachers and classmates preparing to fly to Paris, France for a trip. Before boarding the plane, high school student Alex Brown always had a bad feeling, and many things around him seemed to suggest that this trip would not be smooth.

After arriving at the airport, Alex met church members handing out flyers, telling him that "Death is not the end." While going through security, he saw the flight board constantly flipping, indicating that the flight was delayed, as if foreshadowing that something bad was going to happen.

After boarding the plane, Alex leaned back in his seat and had a nightmare.

In the dream, the plane suddenly shook violently after taking off. In less than a few tens of seconds, the fuselage of the plane broke apart, and many people on the left side fell out of the plane through the gap. Then the plane exploded.

Alex woke up from a nightmare and found that the plane had not taken off yet. He quickly went to the front seat to check the situation and was surprised to find that it was the same as in his dream.

Alex yelled that the plane would explode and asked everyone to get off the plane.

But no one believed him, and he had a fierce conflict with his bad-tempered classmate Carter.

In the end, Alex, his teacher Valerie Liudon, his good friend Todd Wagner, his classmate Carter, Carter's girlfriend Jenny, and his big classmate Bill Sidem were kicked off the plane.

The heroine Carlisle has the ability to sense danger. After hearing the protagonist screaming, she took the initiative to get off the plane.

After the protagonist and his group of seven returned to the terminal hall, the plane slowly took off and soon exploded in front of everyone's gaze, turning into a ball of fire in the night sky.

None of the 127 people on board the flight survived, including 39 teachers and students of the school.

The male protagonist was investigated and monitored by the FBI because of his abnormal behavior before the plane explosion.

The seven survivors returned home, and just as they were secretly rejoicing that they had escaped, death came.

After the filming of the movie starts, Link plans to shoot the individual scenes of several leading actors first, which will mainly take place indoors, and then shoot the group scenes later.

On the one hand, this can save costs and control costs within the budget.

On the other hand, when filming individual scenes, he has the opportunity to individually instruct several new actors, allowing them to perform better in group scenes. After practicing well in the front, the filming will be faster in the back.

According to this shooting plan, the first scene to be filmed is the story of the third male lead Todd.

The character is played by Joaquin Phoenix.

Todd Wagner is 17 years old this year, a relatively normal adolescent boy with golden brown hair, freckles on his face, ordinary looks and figure. He likes beautiful women but is not favored by girls. He is lively and has a close relationship with the male protagonist.

Before the plane exploded, his brother George saw that the actor was in an abnormal mood and asked Todd to go down and take care of him. As a result, Todd survived, but his brother died in the plane crash.

After Todd returned home, he looked in the mirror in the bathroom and trimmed his nose hair. At this time, the grim reaper came. He was also the first person in the cast to be taken away by the grim reaper.

"Shot 4, 1 shots, 1 times, start!"

Filming begins.

Joaquin Phoenix walked into the camera. He was wearing a plaid shirt and walked into the bathroom barefoot. He stood in front of the mirror and looked at himself. Suddenly, a cool breeze blew in from the window and the curtains fluttered in the wind.

Todd walked over to the window and closed it.

"cut!"

"Todd, when the wind blows in, turn slowly. There's no need to make a scary expression. Todd is an ordinary person with an insensitive personality. He can't sense the existence of the god of death, and he won't be scared by a little cold wind. When performing, don't use too much force. Just follow the normal plot. I'll remind you where you need to use force."

Link stood to the right of the camera, pointing at Joaquin Phoenix in the front.

After the filming started, all the actors in the crew were called by their character names. This was his rule to enhance the actors' sense of immersion in the characters.

"Director, I understand."

Joaquin Phoenix continued to perform while several special effects team staff members were enjoying the cool breeze outside the window.

The blowing shots were practiced in advance, including how much wind to use and when to blow the wind. The staff practiced more than ten times, so there would be no problems during the shooting.

Todd stood in front of the mirror and looked at his face. A gust of wind blew in. It took Todd a few seconds to react. He looked back at the window and walked over to close it.

"cut!"

Link returned to the director's area and checked the footage captured by the monitor.

"How about it?"

Sophia came over and asked.

She is mainly responsible for scheduling in the crew, and sometimes she will take over Link's role to shoot some outdoor scenes, which is equivalent to the co-director of the crew.

"not good enough."

Link called Joaquin over and said, "Don't frown when you look in the mirror. When you look in the mirror, you are admiring yourself and feeling more relaxed. If you frown, you appear to be conflicted in your emotional processing, which is unnecessary."

"Director, here's what I'm thinking. Todd's brother just passed away. I think he should show some sadness."

Joaquin asked.

"No, at the memorial service held at school earlier, Todd said that he had gotten over his psychological issues and invited Alex to drive to New York to watch the Yankees game. In addition, Todd's brother was very good and always bullied Todd. At home, his parents often compared him with his brother, making him look useless. Todd lived in his brother's shadow. Now that the shadow is gone, he won't be too sad."

"Do you understand?"

Sophia slammed the table and said, "You didn't concentrate on studying the role, and you tried to make excuses when I explained the play to you. If I were the director, I would hit you directly."

Joaquin took a step back in fear. In the crew, Link wouldn't hit or swear at anyone, but Sofia, the eldest lady, would, and her swearing was very unpleasant.

Link smiled and said, "Joaquin, the atmosphere at the beginning of this scene needs to be a little more relaxed, so that the audience can relax when watching it. After the various strange phenomena appear in the bathroom, the audience's emotions will gradually be aroused, and their hearts will be hanging. If the emotions at the beginning are sad, the audience will be in a bad mood, and the emotional arousal effect will be poor when watching it.

So you need to act more relaxed during this part. The more relaxed you are, the more sudden and unpredictable the accident will seem, just like the fires, car accidents, plane crashes, etc. in our daily lives. Many people did not expect to die before they died. "

"I see. I will definitely perform well this time."

Joaquin smiled and nodded, then returned to the set to wait.

(End of this chapter)