coronation of stars

Chapter 13
This is Qiao Yan's second visit to a director's home.

Gu Feisheng's home is in a secluded place on the outskirts of the city. The small courtyard of a single family is quiet and gentle, forming a small paradise in the world, gently accepting guests into it.Sitting in the middle of the town, Gu Feisheng looked like a floating individual who had been honed over the years. Even if his identities were different, he would feel comfortable talking with him.

When visiting him, it is suitable for two people to sit opposite each other, each with a cup of tea, and stay in the fragrant mist until the sun goes down, doing nothing and feeling that the time is wasted.I don't know what it will be like when this elder who is about to be dismissed and returned to the field walks into the studio, but Qiao Yan has already made all the preparations for it, and the rest is up to fate. process worry.

But Xu Zhen is completely different.

When Mrs. Xu heard the doorbell and opened the door, they were startled by the sudden quarrel that erupted from the room.Mrs. Xu had anticipated this, she patted the back of Qiao Yan's hand reassuringly, shook her head helplessly, and led them to the living room.

"Are you scared? Old Xu is arguing with the other main creators of the crew. He is very stubborn, and he refuses to give in. He is not happy with the script written by the screenwriter, and he is not satisfied with the design of the storyboard. The martial arts director He also has to take care of his actions. Just now he scolded the two investors away... The quarrel was even more fierce just now. Now that the investors have left, these old guys have calmed down a lot. After the finger pointing people left Only then can I speak well, and I don’t know what kind of chou Yinmao has come out of my mouth.”

Leading Qiao Yan and Shu Li to sit on the sofa, Mrs. Xu poured a glass of warm water for each of them, then walked over and knocked on the door of Xu Zhen's room, reminding him solemnly: "Old Xu, the actor has come, you Let's rest for a while, don't call people over and leave them alone in the living room."

There was no response from inside, but the quarrel gradually stopped.After a while, the door of the room opened, and several middle-aged people came out in a file. Xu Zhen walked at the end, still holding the script in his hand, and the corners had been rolled up.

He had lowered his head and closed the door casually, but when he turned around, he suddenly raised his eyes and looked at Qiao Yan with sharp eyes like a knife.Qiao Yan had originally turned her gaze to Xu Zhen following the movement here, but now that he looked at him sternly, she was naturally startled, but she didn't look away immediately, but stood up facing the gaze , lowered his head and bowed slightly.

"Hi Director Xu, we meet again."

"Yeah." Xu Zhen responded briefly, and sat down on the sofa opposite her, looking at her eyes still had no warmth, "You seem to be more afraid of me than when we met last time, what's going on?"

"In the past, newborn calves were not afraid of tigers, and they had to stand on tiptoes and raise their heads when doing everything. They were afraid that others would see that they had a guilty conscience, so they tried their best to cover up the disguise, because they were afraid of the kind of mixed pride and inferiority complex. Emotions are discovered." After all, Qiao Yan is used to being steady, after experiencing the initial nervousness, now she can express her true views fluently and concisely in front of Xu Zhen.

"But now I have experienced some things, I have recognized my own weight, and I am willing to bow my head and face my inner intuitive feelings calmly. On the contrary, I feel quite rewarding. Just like facing Director Xu now, I am here with you I have been denied before, and I know that I may not have much hope this time, so I am naturally a little afraid of you."

"However, since I chose to come here today, I still want to try my best to fight for it."

Xu Zhen nodded: "It's okay."

I don't know if he means that Qiao Yan's performance today is passable, or that the fight for this role is not as hopeless as Qiao Yan imagined. go down.

"If I'm sitting here talking to you right now, it's a scene that's being filmed, where do you think the camera lens is on the set, where should your face be facing, and why?"

"The camera is on my left, and the distance is probably behind the sofa. There is not enough sunlight coming in from the window. The camera is placed there so that the natural light can clear the field of vision without being too bright to affect the clarity of the picture. Face orientation If so..." Qiao Yan moved her position, adjusted the distance from Xu Zhen, and turned her face to one side.

"Facing the window, what is left for the camera is the side profile, because it is a scene of two people, if the face is turned a little bit, it is only suitable for close-up, and the distant view will steal the scene. The chin should be raised slightly to make the face slightly raised. , the focus of the lens is on the arc of the lower jaw, because my side face looks good from this angle, so this kind of shooting is the most suitable for me.”

"En." Xu Zhen responded, noncommittal, sized Qiao Yan up and asked the next question, "What kind of appearance is most suitable for you? If the makeup photo looks inappropriate, how can you remedy it?"

"I have never tried red lipstick and heavy make-up. I don't know if I can manage the image of a powerful woman or concubine. Thick bangs are not suitable for me. My forehead is smooth and full, and my eyes are crooked when I smile. Compare photogenic."

"If it's a fashion show, it's best to wear a ponytail with thin bangs or a bun with all the hair pulled up. The appearance with shawl and long hair is not particularly suitable. If it blocks the eyes, the aura will be weaker, which will reduce the sense of presence. If it is For costume dramas, the kind of long bangs that can be pulled behind the ears to reveal the eyes is the most suitable, and the same eyebrows are the most inappropriate."

"To make up for it..." Qiao Yan hesitated for a moment, "Style is still very important, and sometimes acting skills or clothing alone can't make up for it. At this time, I think what I should do is...to please or change to a makeup artist."

"Okay, not bad." Xu Zhen nodded, and for the first time said the word that symbolized reward.Qiao Yan smiled back, and slowly let go of the heart that had been held in mid-air.But Xu Zhen rolled up the script in his right hand again, patted the palm of his left hand, and looked up at her, "Have you got the script, which part are you preparing?"

Qiao Yan's heart skipped a beat again.

She quickly turned her head and looked at Shu Li, seeing the same astonishment and astonishment in the other's eyes.Before Shu Li could speak, Qiao Yan shook her head slightly at her, then looked at Xu Zhen to gather herself, and answered with a bow.

"...I never got it. Director Xu never gave the script to my agent."

"Then you won't take the initiative to find me to ask for it?" Xu Zhen asked her without any emotion, without raising his eyebrows.

"Have any other actors received the script from Director Xu?"

"No." Shu Li breathed a sigh of relief at Xu Zhen's answer, but Xu Zhen gave them a meaningful look, then turned and pointed to the screenwriter sitting on the sofa.

"But at least half of the cast got their scripts from him."

"Qiao Yan." Xu Zhen called Qiao Yan's name for the first time, raised his arm and glanced at his watch.

"Don't say I'm unreasonable. There are still a dozen scripts in the screenwriter's bag. I specially prepared them for the actors who didn't ask Lao He for the script. I guarantee that it will be exactly the same as the scripts that other actors got half a month ago. You Find a way to get a copy now, and the audition will start in half an hour at the latest, during this time you can use it to familiarize yourself with the script, of course, if you feel that you are familiar with it, the audition can start earlier at any time.”

Qiao Yan raised her head, looked at Director He in a daze, closed her eyes forcefully and opened them again, took a deep breath, and stood up.

"Thank you, Director Xu, for taking care of me..." Qiao Yan thanked her in a low voice, and bowed slightly to Xu Zhen politely.

"Start auditioning now."

As soon as these words came out, even Xu Zhen was a little stunned.

"You don't want the script anymore?" Xu Zhen frowned, "Now is not the time to be willful, Qiao Yan, I won't give you another chance to try again, I don't feel satisfied enough, you will leave my house immediately in the next minute."

Qiao Yan smiled.

"It's not that I don't want the script, but I think the script in Director He's bag should be useless." She leaned over and looked at Director He, who had already taken out a copy in her hand, because she didn't hand it to her when she took it back. No, it seemed very dazed for a while.Qiao Yan couldn't help laughing, and made an apologetic gesture to Director He with palms together, turned to look at Xu Zhen's right hand, with crooked eyebrows and a rare sly smile.

"I want the book in Director Xu's hand, but Director Xu probably won't give it to me, right? The book in your hand looks like you've flipped through it a lot, and you can vaguely see the dense and messy writing in it, and now you're taking it again. In hand, it must be a revised version of the script."

"When I walked in just now, I heard from your wife that you were still in conflict with the editor because of the script. I'm afraid this is not the final draft. I don't know how different Director Xu's first draft of the script is from the revised one. I can't even finish reading the script, not to mention the plot, it's the same if you know it early or know it later, how can half an hour be enough for things that really need to be pondered?"

"Besides...Since Director Xu didn't take the initiative to give the script at the beginning, whether he got it from the editor half a month in advance or got it here today, I'm afraid it's useless for the audition. You can get it in advance Knowing the script is a skill, I don't deny that..."

"However, Director Xu taught me the four words of tact and tact, and I never dare to forget them."

Xu Zhen asked her the question today, and Qiao Yan actually knew the reason in his heart.

Three years ago, she planned to embark on the road of showbiz, but because she heard about the darkness of the entertainment company, she was a little afraid to go forward. Later, she decided to go it alone. The director of the film crew who auditioned for the first time was Xu Zhen.

At that time, she had just finished her freshman year, and she came out to test the waters during the summer vacation. She was naive and full of ambition. The audition was for a role that the crew hadn't found in advance. There were two or three lines, and she was quickly killed and received a lunch box. .At that time, she thought she looked good and behaved well, and she was very confident, and when she arrived, she acted according to her own understanding.

And Xu Zhen didn't even open his mouth to speak, just waved his hand, and she was sent out of the crew together with the other losers.

It was a long time later when she knew the three words of camera sense. At that time, when she recalled her first audition, she felt terrible.She was wearing a baggy T-shirt and jeans, and she was standing in a backlighting position, her entire face was probably too dark to see her facial features, her movements were also stiff, her eyes were completely empty, and she didn't know where she was looking.

It's no wonder that this kind of performance was selected. She failed an audition, but she kept Xu Zhen in her heart ever since, and participated in another audition for Xu Zhen's crew a year ago.

At that time, she had just signed with Kaixing. Although she still had some confidence in the company, she still didn’t understand anything. She saw what the artists of the same company did and followed them. He was willing to run up and down for the crew, without treating himself as an outsider at all.

At that time, her acting skills were already well-recognized by various crews. Although she had no background, she was definitely the first choice of many directors for those who needed some acting skills.She came to the audition this time is still a bit of a trick, I thought this time it was a sure thing.

But Xu Zhen still didn't hire her.

But this time, after Qiao Yan's audition, he said something to her, which Qiao Yan kept in his heart all year, which made her become the current Qiao Yan to a great extent.

Xu Zhen said: "You are still young, you need to be mellow and well-rounded. If you forget how upright you are before you become popular, you will never be popular again."

"Actually, I don't quite understand where the smoothness lies, but..." Qiao Yan stood in front of Xu Zhen again a year later, this time she smiled nervously and honestly, her voice soft but firm.

"Director Xu, start auditioning."

Xu Zhen's new film is called "Chivalrous Girl".

From the name, it is clear that it is a TV series with female characters as the leading role. "Qian Jin" naturally refers to the heroine of the whole drama, and "Chivalry" also points out that the background of the story is the grassy rivers and lakes.

The heroine, Yu Jinshan, was born in a well-known family in Jianghu. She is the youngest daughter of the head of the Yu family in Lingnan. She has only two older brothers. Her parents are loving, and her brothers and friends are respectful. Innocent, ignorant of world affairs, doesn't like the piano, chess, calligraphy and paintings made by ordinary daughters, and her homework can only be considered passable.

All day long, she just likes to run around behind her brothers, wield knives and guns, fight and kill, recruit cats and dogs to house and expose tiles, and never regards herself as a girl. Since then, fewer people have been able to get close, and they have become more and more unscrupulous.

The Yu family is in the business of an escort agency. Seeing that Brocade Fan has reached the age of [-], she has grown into a graceful and beautiful girl who is famous far and wide. In the past two years, more and more people came to her door to say goodbye every year, but without exception, all of them were killed by the brocade fan girl. typed out.

Gradually, although the girl from the Yu family was as beautiful as a flower, she was fierce and arrogant, and the saying that she acted domineeringly and domineeringly relying on the family's favor spread.The Yu family was used to doting on their daughter, and even though they were anxious, they were not willing to force their daughter, so they had to beat around the bush and chanted their sorrows and melancholy on the brocade fan several times a day.

Jin Shan has a quick temper, and she doesn't like this kind of hesitant manner the most. When she can't get angry for a while, she let out a word, saying that there will be a martial arts contest to recruit relatives, and whoever can win all the challengers will be able to marry her.

As soon as these words came out, many unmarried young masters flocked to Lingnan.Three months later, the Yu family really took part in the martial arts contest for recruiting relatives. It was held for ten days. Watching on the spot, when the ten masters who stayed in the ring every day were finally determined, Patriarch Yu took a closer look and almost lost his breath in shock.

Among them is a master who is a brocade fan disguised as a man!

Dressed up in brocade fan, wearing a veiled bamboo hat, she is tall and slender, but now she does not know what to put on her feet, and she looks like an ordinary man.She sneaked in with the intention of disrupting Huang's marriage recruitment. If her martial arts skills are not enough, she will ask her second brother to play on her behalf.

The second elder brother of the Yu family, Xiaoyao, was naughty and indulged his younger sister to mess around, but he actually agreed to such absurd request from her.Patriarch Yu was frightened and angry, and waited anxiously for the result of the ten people's battle the next day. Yu Jinshan's camouflage skills were not worth mentioning in the Jianghu. It will become the laughing stock of the whole world.

However, in the final competition on the second day, Jin Shan didn't ask her second brother for help. She went to the ring by herself, survived two rounds, and then lost to someone.

She couldn't beat it, but she was willing to lose.

Originally, she pretended to sneak in because she really wanted to sabotage this martial arts competition to recruit relatives, and she was also unconvinced after seeing that the eldest brother is stable and prudent, and the second brother is handsome, what kind of young heroes can she admire.But she never thought that in this short period of ten days, love came unexpectedly and vigorously, and she was really moved by someone.

The first scene Xu Zhen asked her to try was the one where she lost the game.

It's a fight.

It’s not the kind of martial arts scene that flies around in the air like Diao Weiya, just pinch the shape and freeze the action gracefully. This shooting method is used in many places in "Chivalrous Girl", and it is of course unavoidable as a martial arts film. These.

But Xu Zhen is a director who is very pursuing the quality of the series, not necessarily spending money or acting skills, but the calm and steady tone in the play. It takes up half of the martial arts shots, and the other half of the martial arts shots Xu Zhen chooses close-up real shots where doubles are not allowed.

The scene where Yu Jinshan loses the match in the arena of martial arts competition to recruit relatives is the first close-up real martial arts scene in the whole drama that the audience will see on the TV screen in the future, so the importance can be imagined.

(End of this chapter)