Chapter 117
A performance without physical objects and a strong sense of belief
Three days before the start of filming, the game crew shot posters and made final makeup adjustments.
The adjustments here refer to fine-tuning of clothing sizes, individual hairstyles, and accessories. As for the specific clothing style, it has been decided a month ago and there will not be much change.
The styling team originally wanted to arrange beautiful skirts for characters such as Shi Zhen and Qi Xingyue, so that the costumes could become a highlight of the show, but this idea was rejected by Ling Sui before it was implemented.
Are you kidding me? Do you know how dangerous the Doomsday Game is? When designing costumes for male characters, you know to protect the vital parts from head to toe. For female characters, you just need to wear all kinds of skirts. How can they fight like that?
Not to mention that a melee magic swordsman can't wear a formal suit to fight monsters, even a turret mage has to put on a tight mage robe to guard against enemy raids, right?
In the original work, there was basically no description of the costumes of the protagonists, at most a sentence "xx-colored combat uniform", which gave the styling team a lot of room to play.
Ling Suisui could accept that they designed all kinds of complicated and gorgeous combinations for the sake of visual effects, but the costumes were to serve the logic of the plot. If they couldn’t even achieve the basic point of “facilitating combat”, then everything would be in vain.
Ling Suisui objected, and Ai Tianming, who listened to her very much, certainly also objected. Since the client said so, the styling team had to change their thinking and convert most of the skirts into pants and robes. Even though the skirt style was partially retained, the amount of skin exposed was greatly reduced, and the design was improved to be more suitable for combat.
On the day when the crew shot the promotional posters, Ling Suisui and other leading actors tried on many sets of clothes and also picked up their weapons.
In fact, their staffs and bows are not light, but because they are relatively easy to use and only need to be raised in close-up shots, there is no need for advance training.
Fu Ningyun was very interested in the sword in Ling Suisui's hand. She wanted to lift it up and swing it, but as soon as she picked it up, she found that the weight was beyond her imagination.
Ling Suisui explained: "I have two magic swords. This one is for close-ups and fixed points, and the other is a combat prop."
"This thing is solid and heavier than a bottle of water. This is how I hold it when I take poster photos."
She demonstrated—standing still with one hand on the hilt, the tip of the sword resting firmly on the ground.
Look at Ling Sui's expression again. She is looking straight ahead with eyes full of firm belief. At this moment, she is a warrior holding a giant sword. This heavy weapon exudes a strong sense of oppression in her hand, making people unconsciously believe that she will be invincible and unstoppable.
Fu Ningyun adjusted his breathing before he recovered from the shock.
"Are you into the role now?" she said, "If I were a small monster, I wouldn't even have to fight. I was scared to death by you just now."
Ling Suisui smiled, the one just now did not meet her standard of acting. She just recalled her training experience a few days ago and conceived a few brave monster-killing moves in her mind.
After everyone entered the studio for the official filming, Fu Ningyun realized that the change in Ling Suisui's eyes just now was just an unconscious expression.
When she was carefully adjusting her state, the fighting spirit in her eyes seemed to be burning with a raging fire. The moment Fu Ningyun looked at her, the static picture automatically deduced into Ling Suisui raising his sword, waving his arms and shouting, with countless people responding behind him, and having a grand decisive battle with the monster.
Her heart was trembling violently and she was stunned for a moment.
At this moment, Fu Ningyun truly understood that sentence.
The best performance lies not in the actor's expression but in the audience's imagination.
Ling Sui's grasp of details in this regard has left his peers far behind, and he can be compared with the "predecessors" in the hearts of many people.
Fu Ningyun thought, Ling Suisui first played Qin Xian, and then went on to play three urban life-themed roles, leaving the audience with the impression of being gentle and amiable. But in "Game is Online", Shi Zhen's character style took a big turn, which must have fascinated everyone!
In fact, Ling Suisui thought so too.
Shi Zhen is a character that can bring a sense of freshness to the audience. In order to maximize the effect of this surprise, many scenes of "The Game Is Online" were shot in a completely closed environment.
Not to mention the studio scenes, compared to the Hengdian where multiple crews gather together, eight out of ten passers-by are photographers by proxy. The filming location of "City of Doom" is in an industrial park, which is easier to prevent sneak shots.
Moreover, the main actors are not particularly famous, at least their photos cannot be sold at sky-high prices now.
As for the exterior scenes of some copies... there's nothing we can do about it, just defend as much as we can.
The producers can only try their best to ensure strict inspection of the staff. Photos that are taken at super close distances and even the details of the costumes can be seen will not appear in their crew.
The poster shooting went very smoothly and all the actors cooperated very well. Even Er Hongwen, who the staff were initially worried about, changed his previous lazy working attitude and became very active.
Not only did he change into many sets of clothes, he also took the initiative to suggest "having a few more alternatives" and "changing a few more poses". This behavior of increasing his own workload made his assistant a little confused.
Being a good actor on the set or something… doesn’t seem to fit in with the boss’s usual personality!
After shooting the posters, the actors officially moved into the hotel arranged by the crew. Two days before the filming starts, they can move freely and make plans to have dinner and have fun together, so as to promote their feelings for each other and develop a tacit understanding.
Li Mingxu and Fu Ningyun both loved to organize parties. Ling Suisui only participated in lunch and dinner gatherings. He spent the rest of the time practicing swordplay in the idle factory building.
She not only practiced during the day, but also continued to practice in the system's internal space at night.
Even though the action director said "it's OK", she wanted the comment to be "excellent" so that the audience would think it was very good.
Ling Sui once again became the crew's queen of curling. Her level of hard work made the others feel embarrassed to hang around. Even though they spent half of their time chatting and taking pictures after arriving at the training ground, at least the other half was actually practicing.
Although they don't have any melee scenes, Zhu Yue can practice bow drawing, and several mages and healers can practice dodging, or get together to discuss the script. There are many things that can be prepared, it all depends on whether they have the intention.
While reading the script, Fu Ningyun suggested adding a few scenes in which the mages, when cornered, would directly use their staffs to beat the monsters. This suggestion received unanimous praise from several screenwriters, who said that this detail was both realistic and interesting.
Li Mingxu was very envious of her for being praised by the screenwriter, but Fu Ningyun thought to herself, this was nothing.
Even though the big devil sitting in the corner is silent now, she has already studied the script thoroughly, and she would not leave any suggestions until now. What they see is the finished script after adjustments.
Because it was a closed-door shoot, the opening ceremony of "Game is Online" was very simple. The crew did not invite any media, nor did they allow any fans to come to the scene to cheer. Everyone simply bowed, the creators said a few words, and then the ceremony ended.
Ling Sui's first scene is in the supermarket copy.
Because the battle scenes will involve a large amount of merchandise falling and shelves collapsing, this copy could not have been filmed in a real supermarket. The crew built a real set in the factory, and these props became everyone's daily necessities after the filming was completed.
Don’t think that so many products will cost a lot of money. In fact, this copy has a lot of opportunities for reasonable advertising.
The potato chips and milk drink brands endorsed by Ling Suisui must have followed her in advertising. Ai Tianming also sought sponsorship everywhere, and finally he even mobilized all of his own businesses and his friends' businesses to make a huge sum of money.
According to the script, the supermarket is the second copy of the doomsday game. At this point, everyone has just experienced the shock of "monsters that have not been killed will come back to kill people in reality", but they have to suddenly face the formal copy whose difficulty increases sharply after leaving the novice period.
They also want to kill more monsters and prevent them from killing the residents of S City, but the prerequisite is that they themselves can survive!
If you die in the doomsday game, you will also die in reality. After watching the people around him being killed by monsters, the player who obtained the pass card hesitated for a while, but decided to leave the dungeon because saving his life was the most important thing.
At this time, Shi Zhen had not yet become the top-ranked boss in the Doomsday game. The sword in her hand was still the item given in the novice copy, and the only teammate around her was the mage Qi Xingyue.
Qi Xingyue, played by Fu Ningyun, will become a high-level player in the future, but now she is still a rookie who can't even throw a spell bullet accurately.
Ling Suisui and Fu Ningyun hid behind the shelves, both looking a little nervous.
Fu Ningyun made a gesture of handing something over, and then remained motionless. The staff quickly stuffed the "pass card" into her hand. The two actors, as if the pause button was pressed, looked at her hand.
Fu Ningyun: "Just now those goblins dropped two pass cards, let's run quickly."
She stuffed the prop into Ling Suisui's hand, and when she saw that he didn't take it, she urged him in a low and anxious voice.
"What are you thinking about? Hurry up and leave! The boss of this dungeon is a Goblin Priest. It can strengthen the monsters. The longer you stay, the more dangerous it will be!"
The cameraman took a close-up of the struggle in Ling Suisui's eyes. At the same time, the staff knocked over the shelves near them. Ling Suisui immediately grabbed Fu Ningyun and moved them.
The director explained the scene to them. This part was not about facing the enemy head-on, but about Shi Zhen and Qi Xingyue moving around the shelves, blocking the goblin's sight, until it swaggered away and overturned another shelf.
Well... the above is the finished product picture envisioned by the director. During the actual shooting, it was actually Ling Suisui fighting wits and courage with the air.
But even with this kind of non-property performance, Ling Sui's expressions were very accurate. She stared at the opposite side intently, trying to calm her breathing. Her tense state was so intense that the assistant director could feel her nervousness even through the screen.
He even looked up in the direction Ling Suisui was staring at - if he didn't know that this was a movie filming, it would have been a bit creepy to see someone staring at the air like that.
It was not until the director gave a signal and the camera switched angles that Ling Sui acted as if he had breathed a sigh of relief, yet still looked a little frightened.
Fu Ningyun urged again: "Shi Zhen, hurry up and take the props and go!"
At this time, a scream should be heard in the distance. Ling Sui looked up into the air again, the confusion in his eyes turning into determination.
"Xingyue, you go first, I want to stay."
"Are you crazy?"
Fu Ningyun couldn't help but scream. She originally wanted to accuse Shi Zhen of having a mental problem and staying to die, but when she met Ling Suisui's resolute gaze, she was momentarily shocked by the sense of conviction and forgot what to say next.
It's over, she thought.
I didn’t catch the role of Ling Sui on the first day of filming. How can I continue to act in the future?
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