coronation of stars

Chapter 21 Formal entry into the group (4)
"I was scolded again from head to toe by Director Xu again today." The chief makeup artist of the production crew rubbed his red nose from the cold, and shrunk himself into a ball in depression, "Actually, when I first received this job, I refused. Yes, but I couldn’t resist my friends persuading me that working with a big crew with a famous director would help my career development, I believed in their evil—how could I believe in their evil?!” She slapped the thigh of the person next to her in frustration , the prop master gasped after being photographed by her, and the two began to fight each other, the lighting engineer sighed helplessly beside them, and tried to persuade them very negatively.

"Don't hit me, don't hit me anymore, save some energy to get scolded by Director Xu later."

The word Xu Dao was like a refreshing northwest wind in the first month. The make-up artist and the prop artist all shivered and became sluggish again.The make-up artist was immersed in her own world and was so sad that she couldn't extricate herself. The prop artist was hooked by her and began to sigh.

"You have been praised anyway. When the makeup photo was released, I looked it up online. Everyone was quite satisfied. The screen was full of compliments on the conscience of the makeup artist. Only Director Xu was not satisfied. It's not like me. I'm still so busy. I haven't heard a good word..." The prop master looked up at the sky with vicissitudes of life, feeling that he was about to be overwhelmed with sorrow, "This drama should obviously be a script of ancient times, and it's fine to install a specific dynasty in order to cope with censorship. Well, the screenwriter is quite conscientious, the story of the rivers and lakes, the official history that can be blurred is almost blurred, and Director Xu... asked me to map all the props to that dynasty..."

The prop master choked up for a moment, feeling sore in his heart: "It's okay to ask for such a court drama, but what are you doing with a martial arts movie to join in this kind of excitement?! Is this what you want to keep improving?! Isn't the dynasty just used to determine Hairstyles, clothing and historical events?! How can there be any historical data that will record what was popular in the rivers and lakes of this dynasty? Is this a test of my historical accumulation or my brain power? Express delivery, is it the same for those who study philosophy to sell Amway?!"

"Oh, you both have your own difficulties." The lighting engineer answered the conversation blankly, "So it's because your makeup and props are not very photogenic after lighting, so I was kicked out together to reflect wrong?"

The lighting engineer who squatted with them was obviously another innocent person who was affected by misfortune.The make-up artist and the prop artist laughed dryly, shrinking their necks guiltily and stopped talking. The three of them quietly felt the coldness from the inside out given by the heaven, earth and people in the cold end of February.Someone beside them sighed and sighed faintly.

"Life is so hard..."

Yes, yes, the three of them nodded bitterly in agreement.

... Hey, this voice.

The three of them turned their heads to look at Qiao Yan, who was squatting next to them. As the absolute heroine of this play, she obviously didn't get any special treatment at all, from the military coat to keep out the cold to the miserable woman squatting against the corner. The postures are like withdrawing from them.In the past two days, everyone has also gotten used to the picture of the heroine in the corner, which is not even a scene of the crew. The three of them greeted Qiao Yan clearly and gave her sympathetic eyes.

"You haven't passed that scene yet? I feel that the acting is good enough, but you know Director Xu's temper, so don't be discouraged."

"Comrades, don't worry, I can hold on." Once wearing a heavy military overcoat, it is not convenient to move around. Qiao Yan raised his hand with difficulty and patted his chest awkwardly, "I still want to fight for today." , take a break and shoot again.”

She already had a deep understanding of Xu Zhen's high demands and violent temper on the set in just a few days, but in fact Xu Zhen scolded others a lot in the first few days, and when facing her, Xu Zhen's attitude The attitude is really calm.

After all, she won this role through solid auditions, and the martial arts scene even got the rare "good" evaluation from Xu Zhen.Generally speaking, Xu Zhen is quite appreciative of her acting skills. When filming the first scene of Yu Jinshan’s house in Lingnan Yu’s house to expose the tiles, the number of NG times was basically within the normal range. They were all surprised.

Xu Zhen is satisfied with her, and even the life with her crew is much easier. When she first joined the crew, Yang Shuo and Shen Jiasheng both showed obvious temptations and bad intentions towards her. If it is carried out, neither of them will take any further actions.She is indeed gentle and good-tempered, and she gets along very well with the crew these days. Everything is so ideal. When she first joined the crew, she didn't even dare to think so optimistically.

Of course, good times are always temporary. When she seized the time to pass several daily scenes of Yu Jinshan in the early stage, she finally inevitably got stuck in one scene.Although she has excellent acting skills, after all, the heroine has too many roles. She is talented enough to work hard, but after all, she has basically acted in the role before, and she has no access to some acting skills and experience, so naturally it is impossible for her to learn without a teacher.She had expected that she would be stuck in the scene early on, but she didn't even expect that the scene would be stuck for so long.

This is already the third day she has been stuck in this scene. Now she is squatting in the corner in the cold wind and thinking that no one is to blame, and she also feels embarrassed. This is already a matter that seriously affects the progress of the shooting. If the play is over, otherwise, not only will the crew lose the time to plan carefully, but more importantly, they will lose Xu Zhen and the rest of the crew's trust in her and her acting skills.

Just like a top student with good grades all the time, it might not be a big deal if he failed a test once in a while. Teachers and parents will think that it was just an accidental miss, and the grades will definitely improve next time.But if the student fails the test several times in a row, everyone will start to doubt the student's level, and will start looking for various reasons, eager to make a summary of her failure.Even if she passes the exam again later, the seeds of doubt and distrust have already been planted, and everyone will point out her failures during that period from time to time, and the impression of ups and downs left behind is difficult to change back.

In the eyes of everyone in the crew, she is currently positioned as a very capable rookie actor, but every time she gets stuck in this scene again, the word "strength" in other people's impression of her will fade a little. When the words were completely erased, she was just one of the most common new actors among all newcomers. It would be hard for others to say whether she was qualified to play Yu Jinshan or not.

The public may never know about this kind of episode, but the entertainment industry is so small, no one really has a pass that can make mistakes. If she performs well in this drama, Yu Jinshan will be a new starting point for her acting career in the future Height, if the acting is not good, then she is still the [-]th line sister of the small entertainment company, which is a waste of such a good resource.

Qiao Yan has always been aware of these things, and she thinks clearly enough.She knows the risks of this kind of thing, but she doesn't reject or hate it. On the contrary, she feels very at ease when she has the opportunity to use her own ability to determine her own future, and she is willing to fight hard.

The scene where Qiao Yan has been stuck for three days now is a close-up of facial expressions for nearly 2 minutes.

This is a rivalry scene between her and Yang Shuo. It happened after Yu Jinshan lost to Jiang Shao in the martial arts competition.In this episode, the relationship between the two will show obvious progress. Jiang Shao, who came here with malicious intentions, has a real affection for Yu Jin, and Yu Jin fan, who originally admired Jiang Shao in a martial art and was conquered, also expressed his love to men and women. The emotional change is a very important episode in the early stage.

After this episode, Jiang Shao's subtle feelings for Yu Jinshan became clear, that's why he was not as bad as before when he was exposed when he got married. Only then did she make the decision to leave Yu’s house in Lingnan and go to the Central Plains alone after the bad wedding day. The plot connects the past and the future, making the story more reasonable. She and Yang Shuo’s completion of this scene is also really a test. respective performance skills.

The continuous facial close-up of the two together lasted more than 3 minutes. As the first protagonist, Qiao Yan had almost half a minute more close-up scenes than Yang Shuo.Long-term facial close-up performances have extremely high requirements on the acting skills of the actors. Occasionally, when watching a video, there will be a freeze frame of more than ten seconds. Many people will wonder if their computer is stuck, and the facial close-up of more than three minutes is obviously more terrible. , although it is not possible to just stare at the face for more than three minutes, but it is still too reluctant for Qiao Yan.

Does she have the ability to control her facial expressions?have.Xu Zhen actually asked related questions during the audition, and Qiao Yan knew her facial expressions and characteristics well.Almost every actor spends a long time looking in the mirror every day, making various expressions non-stop, to train their expression control ability.Qiao Yan has never been a person with high self-esteem. In the past two years, she has spent about an hour a day doing this kind of training, and it is very effective. Otherwise, she would not be an acting school that even picky Zhang Jian would approve of , I immediately asked her to act as the heroine.

But she was working hard, why did others stop working hard?No matter how talented she is and how hard she works, there will still be a difference between two years of hard work and ten years of hard work, not to mention that she has acted in all roles before, and no crew will give a long-term close-up of a role, facing this kind of lens She just wants to learn from her acting style. Yang Shuo did better than her in this scene. She thinks she can afford to lose, and she dares to admit this fact.

But Yang Shuo didn't seem to feel her bright and upright heart at all. Today, when the two played against each other, he seized the opportunity to make things worse for her in front of Qiao Yan.

Things like facial expressions are actually a kind of acting in the final analysis.After all, Qiao Yan is a very talented actor. Engaging in this line of work can be regarded as God's reward, and she is willing to think about it. After two and a half days, she will naturally sum up her shortcomings and find out the reasons after each NG. This afternoon When shooting again, Xu Zhen actually looked at her with some satisfaction, and his tense face eased, and he didn't call the card all the time, allowing the two of them to complete the scene completely.

Xu Zhen didn't call out midway, and didn't speak in time after the performance. Nine times out of ten, he felt that the scene was not in the most ideal state, but it was almost passable.Qiao Yan breathed a sigh of relief, but at this moment a sudden change occurred. Yang Shuo, who was standing next to her, suddenly stepped forward and said something softly to Xu Zhen. Xu Zhen seemed to be stunned for a moment, and then looked He glanced at her, nodded after pondering for a while.

"It's indeed a little bit worse," Xu Zhen announced calmly, "Qiao Yan, you can take a rest and find out how you feel, can you do another game later?"

The tone was questioning, but it was clear that Qiao Yan had no room to refuse.Qiao Yandang even bent the corners of his lips, and said yes happily, put on a military coat over the single-shirt costume and went outside to stay outside, and took a deep breath when he walked to a place where Xu Zhen could not see, and then He spit it out slowly and heavily.

In front of Xu Zhen, not only could she not express her dissatisfaction with the decision, she even dared not take the risk of expressing such exhaustion.

Yang Shuo poured a cup of hot water from his assistant after the scene. After turning around, he couldn't see Qiao Yan on the set. After a little thought, he found this place.He came over with a thermos, and smiled when he saw four people sitting in a row under the wall, and squatted down next to Qiao Yan in a down-to-earth manner, "What are you all doing here? You have a small meeting to complain about me." ?”

"What are you doing complaining about? We're complaining here." The makeup artist was more lively and took the lead in answering Yang Shuo's question. When he saw a handsome new guy joining in, his face turned a little red, but he sighed even more vigorously, "I'm so hopeless now. Director Xu is the...winter in my life..."

This somewhat embarrassing and figurative metaphor made several other people laugh immediately. On the set, Xu Zhen didn't know if he finally found out that a few staff members ran away and were lazy, and they were furious with loudspeakers in their hands: "People What! Props master! How did you prepare your props? What is this?!"

The prop master trembled from being shouted at once, and even the other two began to rush to the set with concern, throwing the male and female protagonists of the crew outside together for a while.The two of them couldn't react for a while, and squatted in place against the wind for a while, dazed.

In the end, it was Yang Shuo who made the first move.

(End of this chapter)