Chapter 257 Dedicated Meng Ziyi

"Hello, producer Meng."

"Otherwise it should be Teacher Ziyi." Meng Bai gave a thumbs up, "You can just call me 'Little Meng', there's no need to add the title at the end."

"Hehe..."

Meng Ziyi smiled sweetly with some embarrassment: "I'm just afraid that if I call you 'little uncle' in the crew, others will misunderstand that I'm bringing money into the crew."

"You think no one else knows now?"

"Ah?" Meng Ziyi looked at him blankly, "They all know?"

"Otherwise you're living happily." Meng Bai sighed lightly, "Just call me whatever you want."

"Oh."

Meng Ziyi responded gloomily, but immediately regained his cheerful mood.

He took a step forward and stood in front of him, without saying a word, slightly tilted his body, pretending to shake his head casually.

Meng Bai glanced at her and silently took two steps to the side.

Meng Ziyi moved sideways and continued to stand in front of him, and even raised his hand to lift his hair.

Seeing that she would have to stay here if he didn't say something, Meng Bai finally said, "Hey, you cut your hair short."

Sure enough, Meng Ziyi's eyes lit up instantly when she heard it: "Yes, the director said it would be better to change to short hair, and I cut it before I joined the group."

The girl said it happily, with an expression of "hurry up and praise me" written on her face.

"Wow, our little Meng is so dedicated!" Meng Bai cooperated without emotion.

Meng Ziyi didn't care about his perfunctory, as if she was satisfied as long as she heard this.

"Does it look good, little uncle?"

Meng Bai took a look and said, "It's pretty good."

This is not a lie.

Although this girl is young, she looks bright and charming.

Now with short hair, let down her bangs, matched with simple jeans and white shirts, she really has the fresh temperament of a college graduate.

Oh, she is also a college student.

Looking at Meng Ziyi who was happy because of the praise, Meng Bai secretly said "little girl" in his heart, and planned to walk around her on the set.

After walking a few steps, he heard footsteps behind him. He turned around and found that the girl was following him closely.

"Don't you need to prepare?"

"The director just said that the venue is not ready, so let's take a break first."

"Then just take a break, why are you following me?"

Meng Ziyi blinked: "Sister Tongtong asked me to help her keep an eye on you on the set to see if you are hooking up with other girls."

"You two have a good relationship and have even developed remote monitoring."

Meng Bai glanced at her: "So are you on my side or your sister Tongtong's side?"

"Of course I'm on my uncle's side!"

Meng Ziyi said without hesitation, and winked at Meng Bai, making a heart shape with her thumb and index finger.

"..." Meng Bai looked at her speechlessly, "Good girl, don't be awkward all the time."

"Awkward? Shouldn't it feel cute?"

As she said that, she winked again.

Meng Bai took a deep breath, grabbed her shoulders and turned her around: "Now, except for the staff, you are the only girl on the set, so take care of yourself."

Meng Ziyi: (⊙_⊙)?——

Meng Bai's classmate is quite reliable. It took less than an hour to send a truckload of wooden boards.

It was almost noon now. If we delayed any longer, we might not be able to shoot today.

The crew didn't distinguish between directors, photographers, props, and stagehands. Twenty or thirty people worked together to spread wooden boards across the entire camera area.

After paving, they had to re-set up the machines. After

nearly two hours of hard work, the problem of the venue was finally solved.

Wang Wei asked everyone to hurry up and eat and take a break. It was not until two o'clock in the afternoon that the first test shoot finally began.

Meng Bai stood behind the director's screen. The picture here was consistent with the monitor picture that the director watched.

In front of the camera, three policemen were rummaging through garbage bags, which contained bloody and foul-smelling pieces of meat.

As the camera moved back, a black police SUV drove into the picture. The car stopped in front of the camera, the passenger door was opened, and Meng Ziyi jumped out of the car swiftly.

Meng Bai was here mainly to see how the girl performed. If she acted badly, at least Wang Wei wouldn't scold her too badly.

After all, she was his own child, so he had some sense of responsibility.

But after watching for a while, he felt that he was a little too worried. Meng Ziyi's performance was not bad, and her lines, tone, expression and movements were all acceptable.

Yes, if her acting was really bad, Wang Wei would have mentioned it to him long ago.

It must be said that the crew's preparations in advance for a few days were not in vain.

During the entire long shot, no one made low-level mistakes such as freezing, forgetting lines or laughing, and it went on quite smoothly.

8 minutes of shooting, 8 minutes of review, plus the time to restore the scene, it took about half an hour to shoot one take.

The daytime in September was still relatively long, and they could probably shoot seven or eight takes before dark.

Watching the playback with Wang Wei and the others, although Meng Bai had never studied directing, he had learned a lot about it after a few years.

"Isn't the light a little wrong?" Meng Bai asked. "The time in the plot should be morning, but it seems a little too bright now."

Wang Wei nodded, "Indeed. But the last few shots will definitely be used. It will be evening, and the light intensity is about the same as in the morning. We can adjust the color later in post-production."

There is a saying in the film and television industry, "Don't throw things that can be solved in the early stage to the later stage."

However, for filming, the morning time is too short and difficult to control, so most of the time it is still necessary to troublesomely adjust in the later stage.

After discussing for a while, Meng Bai's mobile phone suddenly rang. Looking at the screen, it was Chen Zhixi's call.

"Hello, Sister Xi, what's the matter?"

After working together for a year, the relationship between the two is now familiar, and the attitude is much more casual than when they first met.

Chen Zhixi was the same. There was no small talk, and he asked directly: "Are you in Beijing North?"

"No, I'm outside, and a new project is starting."

"Well, can you come back the day after tomorrow night? "Detective Chinatown" has achieved great results, let's have a celebration party together."

"The day after tomorrow night, right? Okay, I just happen to go back to Beijing North. Uh..."

Meng Bai paused.

"What's wrong?" Chen Zhixi asked.

"Nothing, I'll go directly there when the time comes."

After hanging up the phone, Meng Bai touched his chin. From Chen Zhixi's tone, it seemed that he didn't know about Wang Baoqiang yet.

After thinking for a while, he walked a distance away and called Chen Sicheng again.

"Brother, didn't you tell Sister Xi about Brother Baoqiang?"

"I was just about to tell her these two days." Chen Sicheng said.

Strictly speaking, this kind of thing is actually Wang Baoqiang's own private matter, and there is no need to tell outsiders.

But who makes him a star, and the leading actor, the film producer must be prepared.

After all, although the movie has been taken off the shelves, it will be sold to streaming platforms later and make another wave of money.

Such a big scandal will have an impact on subsequent profits.

So when to break it, how to break it, and how to deal with public opinion after the breakout are all things that need to be considered.

But no matter what, if this matter is dragged until the movie is taken off the shelves, then Wang Baoqiang basically has no weaknesses.

Unless he is caught by his wife and agent.

"Don't worry about that. Baoqiang and I have talked about it. Unless the other side spreads rumors, they don't have any advantage." Chen Sicheng said in an affirmative tone.

Meng Bai was half-believing and half-doubting. The entertainment industry is full of good and bad people, and people like him can be considered pure

and innocent. Those who look honest may not really be honest.

But since Chen Sicheng dared to say so, he should be more or less sure.

Regardless of whether Wang Baoqiang is really fine, at least the other party has no evidence.

"Okay." Meng Bai said, "Let's talk about the details at the celebration banquet the day after tomorrow."

"Okay, there's another thing I want to tell you."

"Wow, senior brother, you're not going to tell me who's in trouble again, are you?"

"Don't worry, this time it's a serious work matter, and it's a good thing."

(End of this chapter)