“Beep, beep…”
The access control system is old-fashioned. If the owner of the house opposite does not turn on the key after it is connected, visitors outside the door will not be able to turn on the key.
Ye Jingran put a cigarette into his mouth in the autumn wind, but did not light it. He lowered his head and searched his body for a while, apparently looking for a door card.
The four directors on the scene were all professionals and were watching very attentively.
When the close-up is on Ye Jingran's fingers when he holds the cigarette, you can see a circle of marks on his ring finger, which is obviously the mark of a wedding ring. Now he has taken it off. Combined with his decadent state after get off work when he first appeared and the dust accumulated on his coat, it can be imagined that the protagonist has recently had a divorce.
Ye Jingran's performance was natural, but from the beginning till now, not a single moment of camera language was wasted, and they all silently explained the background of this man.
At this moment, the continuous beeping sound of the access control suddenly stopped.
With a "click" sound.
The access control call ended, and the door opened.
Ye Jingran was stunned and couldn't help but open his mouth, looking at the door with a green dot in astonishment. The cigarette stuck to his lips, looking a little funny, but he didn't care. He hurriedly opened the door and strode towards the elevator.
After pressing the button for the eighth floor, as the elevator was rising, Ye Jingran looked down at his clothes, brushed off the dust, and then tidied his hair against the metal wall of the elevator.
Finally, through the blurry metal reflection, he saw the cigarette in his mouth, took out a lighter from his pocket, and when he was about to light it, he was suddenly stunned. Then he took it out and put it into his coat pocket together with the lighter.
During this performance, Ye Jingran didn't say a word the entire time, but through body language, he made the audience understand the situation.
From his habits and reactions at the access control, we can tell that he might be separated from his wife or girlfriend, so he habitually pressed the access control when he returned home, and at the same time reacted and looked for the door card himself.
He might be thinking about getting back together, so he hurried out to confirm after the door opened. At the same time, he couldn't help but pay attention to his image in the elevator. The action of putting away the cigarette showed that he regretted his past behavior.
In just two minutes, from getting off the bus to about to enter the door, the image of a man who lives alone away from his partner, regrets and wants to save the relationship is created.
"As expected of an award-winning actor, this monologue is so natural."
'Was it his girlfriend or wife who opened the door?'
"Is it a complex plot? Where's the science fiction?"
The brief and smooth foreshadowing aroused the audience's curiosity, and the real-time attention rate has reached 89 at this time.
Ye Jingran walked to the door of 802 nervously. Standing in front of the door, he felt a little nervous and hesitant. He pursed his lips to make himself look calm, then raised his hand and knocked on the door.
“Knock, knock…”
The door didn't open, but there were some quiet footsteps coming from inside.
Ye Jingran frowned slightly. Unable to wait any longer, he took out the key from his clothes and opened the door directly.
Just as he unlocked the door and pushed it open, he heard the 'ding-dong' sound of wind chimes colliding from inside.
The perspective follows Ye Jingran as he enters the room. The lighted living room is empty.
"Xiaoyu?"
Ye Jingran called out tentatively, with some hesitation in his nervousness.
The view followed Ye Jingran's footsteps to his home, and his messy living room was revealed to everyone, and it was obvious that it had not been properly tidied up recently.
"Xiaoyu??"
Ye Jingran walked towards the bedroom where the wind chime sound came from.
I opened the bedroom door and there was no light on inside, but I could see the situation inside the room clearly through the light from the living room.
This is a bedroom with a double bed and a baby crib next to it. There is a wind chime hanging above the bed, but now there is no sound, only a slight shaking.
Obviously, this is the source of the sound just now.
But the room looked empty and there didn't seem to be anyone inside.
It was obvious that it was not the wife that Ye Jingran thought at first who had returned.
This tense and unexpected turn of events completely captured the attention of the audience watching the live broadcast. The real-time attention level in the upper right corner has increased from 85 to 95.
"Thief? Is there someone behind the door? Is there a ghost?"
"I'm a little scared. I've said long ago that Director Wei has a talent for making horror films, and I was right."
"So it's basically confirmed that it's Director Wei?"
“Ding Dong!”
At this moment, the access control videophone at the door suddenly rang.
Ye Jingran instinctively turned around and walked to the door to see who was coming.
But just as he walked to the door and looked at the black and white image in the videophone, in the close-up, his pupils suddenly dilated, his body trembled backward, his face turned pale, and he looked at the image in disbelief.
The short film has no soundtrack, but at this moment, there is a sudden sound of a water organ, creating a thrilling sense of turn.
"What what! Is there really a ghost?"
'Bullet Barrage Protection'
The camera shifted to the videophone following Ye Jingran's perspective.
In the black and white image with some snow on the phone, you can see another Ye Jingran, with an unlit cigarette in his mouth, his hands constantly groping on his clothes, as if he was looking for a door card.
The air was extremely quiet; the only sound that could be heard was Ye Jingran's heavy breathing. There was no need to add any sound effects; the silence and the sound of his breathing alone were enough to make the scalps of all the viewers tingle.
The fact attention in the upper right corner instantly soared to 99.
'What's this? ! '
'Why is there another Ye Jingran!'
'Is there a misalignment between space and time?'
Ye Jingran looked down at his hands, his lips trembling and his head covered in sweat, but his right hand seemed to reach for the button involuntarily and completely out of his control.
"clatter!"
Ye Jingran couldn't help but press the unlock button on the access control panel.
Then, he saw with his own eyes that Ye Jingran on the other end of the video call had a look of surprise on his face, and he quickly opened the door and walked in.
Ye Jingran on this side fell into anxiety. He walked back and forth in the house. He walked to the door several times, wanting to go out, but stopped in fear.
Before he could hesitate for a moment, the elevator door opened, followed by the sound of a man's leather shoes walking on the floor.
Soon, there was a knock on the door.
Ye Jingran walked to the door of the house and saw himself hesitating through the peephole.
This is the first-person perspective. The human figure has slightly deformed in the cat's eye, but both the expression and movement are the same as Ye Jingran who was just seen at the beginning.
'Someone tell me why this is happening!'
'Are two identical people about to meet?'
'Space folding, or parallel time and space?'
Real-time attention: 100
Not only were the audience watching the live broadcast completely absorbed by the tense plot, but even the judges and four new directors were staring at the big screen nervously, waiting for the development of the plot.
This is the advantage of being a screenwriter and director. If the director does not have strong screenwriting skills, he will not be able to write such a tense plot in such a short time.
Ye Jingran outside behaved exactly like he did two minutes ago. After knocking on the door and getting no response, he hesitated for a moment, then took out the key and tried to open the door.
Ye Jingran in the house was frightened. He subconsciously avoided this scene, turned around and ran back into the house, trying to hide.
Anxious, he rushed into the bedroom whose door had just been opened.
He brought a gust of wind with him, and this gust of wind set the wind chimes beside the crib.
“Ding Dong…”
As the sound of the door opening came from the entrance hall, the wind chimes in the bedroom also rang.
Ye Jingran, sweating profusely, looked around the room, then rushed to the bed in two steps, lifted the quilt, squatted and hid under the bed.
The camera focused on Ye Jingran under the bed. Ye Jingran was sweating profusely and trying hard to hold his breathing. Then the camera switched to the first-person perspective. In the dim environment, only a little light could be seen coming through the sheets under his feet.
There were footsteps coming in from outside.
"Xiaoyu? Xiaoyu?"
Ye Jingran, who was under the bed, heard his own voice and shouted twice.
Then there were footsteps entering the bedroom.
Ye Jingran, who was under the bed, covered his mouth and nose tightly, not wanting to make any sound. However, the audience watching the short film from a holographic perspective could clearly hear the breathing of another 'new Ye Jingran' right above their heads.
'Will we be discovered?'
"So science fiction is here. This is a time-space paradox. The same person meets at two different time points..."
'Was it the gamma-ray burst in the opening credits?'
The audience was put into the shoes of Ye Jingran under the bed, afraid of being discovered but also wondering what would happen when the same person met at two different time points.
Just when I looked through the bottom of the bed and saw another pair of Ye Jingran's leather shoes approaching the bed.
The doorbell suddenly rang from the entrance outside the door. The leather shoes that were originally walking to the bed stopped and walked outside.
"Oh my god! No way, there is another level of reincarnation?"
'what happened? ? '
Ye Jingran, who was under the bed, opened his eyes wide and moved them restlessly. The audience listened with him to the sound coming from near the living room.
Ye Jingran opened the door and walked around the living room anxiously. Then, the sound of the front door opening was heard. Panicked, Ye Jingran quickly ran back into the house.
“Ding Dong!”
The wind chime hanging above the crib in the bedroom was rung again.
The camera perspective then directly changed to Ye Jingran's first-person perspective under the bed, and his eyes fell on the sheets covering him.
The tense and heavy breathing was hard to suppress, and the audience seemed to have become Ye Jingran, waiting to meet another self.
The owner of the leather shoes walked in in a panic and immediately lifted the covering sheet.
Real-time attention: 100
It was pitch black before my eyes.
The scene changes and returns to the bus at the opening.
Ye Jingran, who was lying on the back seat of the bus, suddenly woke up from his report and wiped his face.
He got out of the car in a daze and walked to the door of his house. In a trance, he habitually and subconsciously pressed the doorbell.
“Beep, beep…”
Ye Jingran shook his head and smiled, then reached out to retrieve his access card.
Just then…
"clatter!"
The short film ends.
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