The community's sewer was repaired quickly.

Qin Tiantian no longer had any reason to stay here.

To be honest, although he slept quite comfortably at Lu Ban's house, there was no live broadcast equipment after all, so he could only use his mobile phone to broadcast the radio live, which was too slow for Qin Tiantian, a virtual anchor.

She felt that how could she, such a dedicated anchor, be touched like this?

So, the next day after the sewer was repaired, Qin Tiantian returned to his home.

Not even a change of clothes was left behind.

Lu Ban continued to work and completed the second half of the film.

This time he only asked Hammer to make the ending song. Apart from that, Lu Ban did not prepare any background music.

After confirming it several times and modifying the details until I was satisfied, it was already the beginning of November, the deadline for submitting the film master.

Lu Ban sent the copied film to the jury of the Yannan College Student Film Festival.

Then comes the waiting.

On the other hand, the organizing committee of the Yannan College Student Film Festival is also headed by an industry insider, Jia Wenbin, a professor at Yannan University of Communication, who is responsible for reviewing films.

He is a professor of photography and had worked as a cinematographer on several famous films. He had unique insights into the use of light and shadow. However, he later failed in his transformation into a director. After making two films with only decent pictures but poor reputation, he retreated behind the scenes and taught at the university.

Of course, he also served as a judge at this film festival.

I received the film master tape from Lu Ban in the evening.

"Is this the last one, um, Lu Ban, The Wailing?"

After simply confirming the title of the film, Jia Wenbin made a copy and prepared to take it home to watch.

After saying goodbye to his colleagues and students, he drove home, had dinner with his wife and children, and went to the study alone.

He converted the study into a small home theater, which has good sound insulation, lighting and sound reception. The movie-watching experience is no less than that of an ordinary small cinema.

After telling his wife not to disturb him, Jia Wenbin put the CD into the player and played Lu Ban's movie on the high-resolution projection screen.

"This director seems to specialize in horror movies. His previous online movies received good responses. This one looks like a horror movie as well."

Muttering to himself, Jia Wenbin saw the beginning of the film.

"Wow, a pseudo-documentary, quite an idea."

Yes, "The Cry" produced by Lu Ban adopts the production form of a pseudo-documentary.

A documentary is a film that records real events and allows the audience to see real experiences, while a pseudo-documentary is a film that "pretends" to record real events, but actually allows the audience to see a fictional story.

Speaking of the earliest pseudo-documentary, it should be "The Blair Witch Project" from last century. This movie tells the story of three film students who went to a mountain village to shoot a documentary, but they mysteriously disappeared. It was not until a year later that someone found their camera and tapes, and thus understood the ins and outs of the matter through what they filmed.

Much of the film's content is made up of real footage "shot" by the three people, which looks very real and immersive, and even made the audience at the time believe that these things really happened, causing a certain degree of panic.

Since then, pseudo-documentaries have been widely used in the filming of horror movies, and many branches have been derived from them, including serious documentaries that record supernatural events, and types similar to "The Blair Witch Project" that are shot from the first person perspective using a handheld camera.

Lu Ban's is a type of handheld camera.

The story begins with Lu Ban speaking to the camera and explaining the simple background. Then, the tape plays and the story enters the second level.

"It's not just handheld, it also uses surveillance camera processing, which is very interesting."

Jia Wenbin noticed that when presenting the plot of the tape, Lu Ban adopted another type of pseudo-documentary mode, shooting the subject through "lenses" such as surveillance cameras and mobile phone cameras, which also had a sense of presence. Moreover, the lenses that peeped at the actors in various corners gave people a feeling of uneasiness, as if they were also being spied on by something.

As he watched, Jia Wenbin began to feel subtle emotions in his heart.

The first tape contained the troubles encountered by the workers during construction, which basically explained the background of the film. Only when the head of the demolition team disappeared into the room at the end of the corridor did Jia Wenbin feel a tingling sensation on his scalp.

After reading it, Jia Wenbin always felt that someone was watching him.

Turning around, Jia Wenbin could only see the walls. There was no one else in the huge study room.

He continued watching the movie.

“The smell of disinfectant?”

Jia Wenbin smelled the smell of hospital disinfectant in the room again. He sniffed and the smell seemed to have disappeared again.

"Is it through the psychological suggestion of the scene that people have an illusion?"

He analyzed.

Some directors are very good at using scenes, special effects, pictures, etc. to give the audience psychological hints. A typical example is that certain violent scenes will show blood and flesh flying everywhere, making people empathize.

The hospital scenes in this movie are very realistic, just like a real hospital, and combined with the creation of the atmosphere, it is easy to make people think of the air of a hospital.

"It's actually quite boring to see through the filming techniques. I can't even enjoy the movie properly."

Jia Wenbin made a self-deprecating remark that people like him have an occupational disease and like to find faults and analyze movies when watching them, which makes it difficult for them to be fully immersed in the film.

After all, he is a professional photographer and has seen all kinds of storms.

However, what Jia Wenbin didn't expect was that after watching the plot of the second tape, his previous thoughts disappeared completely.

When he saw the old man waving at him, a sense of shudder rose from his spine. Although his reason told him that this was because the old man's makeup looked like a dead person, and the previous foreshadowing made the audience think that the old man might no longer be alive and now it was a corpse or a ghost greeting him, but fear is fear.

Even people like Jia Wenbin, who can understand the director's ideas through the language of the camera, would feel even more terrified.

Because this means that Lu Ban did not use any fancy techniques, but simply used the pictures to make Jia Wenbin feel as if he was there, and feel the thrill of that cold hospital corridor.

When ordinary people see a magician perform, they will think it is so amazing that they cannot understand it. But if a magician still cannot understand it when watching a magician perform, then it would be a bit uncomfortable.

Now Jia Wenbin can see Lu Ban's use of the camera, the focus of the actors' performances, and feel the atmosphere created by light and shadow. However, he will put himself into the bodies of the doctors, nurses, and workers in the tapes, and feel the fear, helplessness, and terror they felt at the time.

After forcing himself to finish watching the contents of the tape, Jia Wenbin's eyes were bloodshot and his hands were tightly gripping the sofa to relieve the tension.

He saw in the film that after the preliminary investigation was completed, Lu Ban personally entered the abandoned hospital.