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Chapter 22 While Filming Is In Progress

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Zoe was holding a DV camera in her hand, just like last time, while wandering around and taking certain shots.

"Director, make a painful expression." Zoe "still" joked with Ike.

"Be careful!" Ike shouted, knowing that the last time Zoe slipped at this moment.

Zoe subconsciously stopped and looked down. "It's okay, director. Don't avoid the scene just now. I'm asking you to have a painful expression, come! Show your acting skills." She was still joking with the director.

Everything was fine, Ike breathed a long sigh, shook his head and said, "My Ms. Zoe, let's save some cassettes."

Everyone became familiar with the environment and equipment, and the official shooting began. For this film, Ike boldly allowed the actors to perform freely, and the dialogue between characters could be expressed casually within the control range of the plot, without having to follow the script completely.

Ike stood aside and watched the performance of several people. The cameraman held a DV on the side. Ike held a pen and a stack of cards in his hand, constantly supplementing the dialogue behind based on the actor's performance. When the camera no longer aims at the actor, he will go over and stuff the card match into the person's hands, so in this way, there will be a lot of dialogues than the script. The purpose of Ike's doing this is to prepare to have more room for choice in the later cut.

"cut!" This was the first time Ike shouted to stop. "Oh, Zoe, how can you appear in the camera at this time?"

Several people stopped, Zoe stuck out her tongue in embarrassment. She might have known the reason.

"You have to know that now is equivalent to you following the shooting with a DVD." Ike walked over and said to her, "Do you understand? If you appear in the camera, this is a big mistake. This is too weird." Although this movie does not require too high professionalism of the camera, the minimum logic must be in line with it.

Zoe smiled, then quickly ran aside. Ike shook his head and shouted, "Let's go ahead!"

In addition to the cameraman, Ike and several actors took turns to pick up the DV. Many of the cameras were tracked and shot, which looked like several college students were entertaining themselves, so they were shaking more, but this was exactly what Ike needed.

"Wow, there is a stream there." Zoe ran over excitedly while shouting.

"Be careful," Williams shouted, and then he went over to support Zoe. She was a little girl after all, and everyone took good care of her.

This is what Lanard also wanted to go over, but was stopped by Ike. He made a "shhhh" gesture, then took the dv from the cameraman and shot this set of shots that did not exist in the script.

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In this movie, there is also a scene of a hut in the forest, which is when several college students are killed by a "witch" in this hut.

The crew has contacted the caregiver of this forest, Uncle Ram. He has a small house in the forest and occasionally stays here for one night. In the end, this set of cameras Ike decided to shoot in Ram's hut. Of course, the hut needs to be redecorated. The crew and Ram discussed to ensure that they will return to their original appearance after use, and paid him $500. Time! It only takes one night.

In addition, Ike also asked Uncle Ram to play a guest appearance in the film, and the students asked him to talk about some strange events in the forest. There were about 5 respondents in this film, all of whom were nearby residents, of different ages, occupations, and genders. The purpose of this is very simple, to increase the authenticity of this pseudo-documentary and make the audience look like this really happened. Ike would not tell the respondent that this was a movie, but just said that he was really a college student and was conducting a social survey before graduation.

As for the graves of the seven children that appeared in the movie, Ike also found some stones and piled them up temporarily.

Ike also took a DVD to shoot a lot of forest styles, and he recorded many details. He is a professional director, and he knows that no matter how amateur it is, it is also a movie. As a movie, the taboo is a set of cameras that are fixed from beginning to end.

This kind of shooting will make the movie have no storyline. Therefore, no matter what kind of movie, it requires the switching of the camera, which is what people often call "montage". If he is a skilled director, he will perfectly integrate these cameras into the film during post-production, so that the camera can fully express the story he wants to tell.

In fact, when Ike was in school, the teacher talked about the difference between director and videographer.

The most important leader in making a movie is undoubtedly the director. The director does not just shout start and stop on the set; the director does not just sit on a canvas chair and get furious. If the story conveys the writer's ideas in the whole film, then when the story is transformed into an image, it is entirely the director's self-expression and understanding of the story.

Ike still remembers when he was in school, the teacher thought that an example was the classic work of the Coen brothers "Ice Storm".

At the beginning of the film, the film shows a picture of a car running in the snowy Falgo. One of the films shows a large panorama, surrounded by snow, and the car is running on the road, and the car is pitifully small, as if it has been flooded by snow. This is the result of the communication between the director and the photographer Roger Digens. The director tells the photography the meaning of his own "a sense of oppression and tension before the criminal tyrant" and the photography will set the camera according to the script, storyboard and the director's ideas, etc., simply put, it is another artistic processing.

This is why, if the same script is filmed by directors of different styles, different story effects will appear. Let’s talk about “Infernal Affairs”, the story is basically the same, but the Hong Kong version and the Hollywood version give people a completely different feeling. This is not a question of who is good and who is bad, but the audience’s values ​​are different under different cultural backgrounds and different appreciation points. It is not that the Eastern people like it, but Western people may not like it as well. But one thing is that it is the ever-changing resonance of human nature.

Today's shooting went smoothly. Ike poured all the effort he had learned in school into this movie. This was the first time in his life that he had the opportunity to pick up the "Hand Microphone" and appear on the crew as a director. At this moment, it is worth it to exchange his half of his life. You must know that not everyone who comes from the film academy has this opportunity.

It was getting late, and the darker in the forest was faster. There was no night show today, so Ike urged the crew to finish the work and return to the hotel before the sun sets.

To be frank, there are no "ghosts", and the huge forest in the dark night will still make people feel scared. Therefore, everyone cleans up very quickly.

After a while, the crowd carried the machine and walked out of the forest, talking and laughing. Ike held Zoe and walked side by side. He liked this innocent little girl very much. However, this feeling was more like a brother-sister relationship than a couple.

"Ah." Zoe suddenly screamed and threw herself into Ike's arms.

With this shout, everyone was stunned, and Ike was even more shocked. Why wasn't Nnd always shocked?

"Snake, there is a snake." Zoe said tremblingly in Ike's arms.

Ike looked in a blink of an eye and was indeed a small flower snake wrapped around a short branch not far away. Ike was not afraid of the snake, but what he was curious about was why the snake in Los Angeles was out in less than March. It seemed that the temperature here was quite high.

"Don't be afraid." Ike hugged Zoe in his arms and said to her softly, "It's just a little snake."

"No, I've been afraid of this thing since I was a child." Zoe said, shaking her head in front of Bron.

"It's okay. I'll hug you." After that, Ike hugged Zoe and almost half hugged her and led her over the short tree.

"Sister Zoe, don't scare you," Ike comforted her, "This is its home, but we actually disturbed it."

Walking past the short tree, Ike let go of Zoe, and the little girl's cheeks were covered with a hint of blush. She had never been hugged by a boy so tightly. She looked up at Ike and smiled and said, "Aren't you afraid of snakes?"

Ike smiled. "I'm not afraid of snakes, but I was shocked by your scream just now."
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