Chapter 9: Shooting MV "Is he jealous?"...
Jiang Yilan has been the one who dyes his hair most frequently in the team since his debut. There is almost no time when his hair is completely black. If his black hair grows too much during periods of inactivity, he will get it fixed or simply change his hair color. For the styling of the new single, Li Wei himself suggested trying all black. He sought the company's opinion and the stylist agreed, saying that she wanted to dye his hair black last time, but Jiang Yilan himself was not happy about it.
After the hair was dyed and trimmed short, the stylist praised it in front of the mirror for three minutes, beckoning everyone left and right to come and look.
The black hair made his eyebrows and eyes more delicate, without the boldness of his previous bright hair color. He sat in front of the mirror, looking quiet and gentle.
Li Xi brushed her bangs, feeling uncomfortable. "Should I trim my bangs a little shorter?"
"No, no, no!" The stylist grabbed his wrist and said excitedly, "I want this eye-catching feeling, do you understand? There is a kind of fragile beauty!"
"Yeah……"
"Yeah! You must not cut it! At least wait until we finish shooting this concept photo and then I will retouch it for you. Just bear with it for now and don't complain about the pricking!"
On the day of shooting the concept photos, Jiang Yilan wore a white shirt with a court style and was photographed in a garden landscape built indoors. He leaned against the marble table, his legs wrapped in black pants were straight and slender. The photographer took many full-body photos and pointed the camera at his face.
"Look more innocent... that's good."
"Tilt your head a little, yeah, it's beautiful."
"Kneel down among the flowers. Yes, kneel straight and look up at me."
After the individual photos were taken, the five of them took a group photo in front of the flower wall. Jiang Yilan stood in the middle. The photographer suggested: "Hold a flower in your hand."
The assistant picked a white rose for him. Li Xi held up the half-opened flower, lowered his eyes slightly, and wanted to smell it. The photographer pressed the shutter.
After taking a few groups of photos, everyone gathered together to look at the photos. The photo of Jiang Yilan holding the flowers and smelling them had a very good atmosphere and everyone praised it. But the others were not in good condition and cannot be used as the main film, so they can be kept as behind-the-scenes photos and posted on Weibo.
After the photos are taken, the shooting of the MV should also be put on the agenda. This MV tells the story of five good friends who have been close since childhood. As they grow up and get busy with their own lives, they gradually become strangers, and then get together again one day to relive their childhood friendship.
Jiang Yilan’s role in the MV is an actor. Several important contrasting shots show him winning the Best Actor award, looking glamorous and high-spirited, but privately he has serious psychological problems, suffering from insomnia and unable to sleep all night, smashing the trophy on the table, and walking out into the rain on a deserted street in the middle of the night.
The character that connects here is Tang Ruining, who plays a young boss who starts a business with difficulty. He works hard all the way to the peak of his career, but a negligence nearly causes him to go bankrupt. His career suffers a great blow. He gets drunk outside and encounters heavy rain. He runs into his childhood friend, a popular actor who just won an award, on the street late at night.
He leaned against the dirty wall with his eyes closed, drowsy, when the rain above his head suddenly stopped. Tang Ruining opened his eyes, and the rain on his eyelids flowed into his eyes. There was someone in front of him blocking most of the light from the street lamps, and an umbrella was above his head to block the rain for him. My brain was fuzzy and my vision was out of focus. Before I could see the man's face clearly, a familiar voice rang out, with a little smile: "You are quite good at choosing a place to sleep. There is a 24-hour convenience store behind you. I bought you an umbrella."
The two looked at each other. The heavy rain around them seemed to have drawn a barrier around them. There were only the two of them here.
A few seconds later, Tang Ruining smiled. He wiped the water off his face and said in a hoarse voice, "Can you sign my umbrella for me, big star? I'll sell it for money."
"Of course." Jiang Yilan reached out and pulled the man up, and the two of them smiled and hugged each other, as if they had never been strangers before.
"Cut!" the director called for a stop. "This is good. Very good. Just add a few close-ups of the face."
When the word "cut" was shouted, the two separated quickly. As Li Xi was holding an umbrella with one hand, he could only put his other hand around Tang Ruining's waist, while Tang Ruining hugged him tightly with both hands.
When taking the first shot, Tang Ruining felt a little uncomfortable and didn't know how to hold her. When Jiang Yilan pulled him up from the ground, he leaned forward, and he braked in time to avoid crashing into his arms, so his movements looked a bit funny, and Jiang Yilan didn't know how to catch him.
The director explained it to them, and then joked, "Don't you know how to hug each other? Hug more often!"
The second time, Tang Ruining opened his arms and hugged Jiang Yilan as the director instructed. Jiang Yilan put his arms around his waist and took a small step back. The two hugged each other tightly.
"Ka!" The director scratched his head, a little speechless, "Don't hug each other like a couple. You are good brothers who haven't seen each other for many years, not a newlywed couple who have been apart for a short time. Why are you hugging each other so clingy?"
Jiang Yilan smelled very fresh. Tang Ruining remembered that the perfume he used before was a bit pungent, which he didn't like, but now when he got closer, he could smell the light scent of herbs and citrus, which was very comfortable.
But this smell seemed familiar, and he couldn't remember who he had smelled it on before.
While he was distracted, Jiang Yilan said to him, "Let's practice how to hug more naturally."
The face was very close, the hair was soaked by the rain, the bangs were stuck to the forehead, water was dripping down from the ends of the hair, and the eyes were slightly red from the irritation of the rain and the bangs.
Tang Ruining nodded, his eyes following the water drops sliding down Jiang Yilan's nose, and asked again: "What?"
"Let's practice it ourselves." Jiang Yilan repeated. He still held the umbrella and tilted the handle to shake off the water.
He put the umbrella back in place, and Tang Ruining took a few steps back, "Then I, hug you?"
"Well, come on." Jiang Yilan spread out his free hand, preparing to hug.
Tang Ruining walked forward and hugged him, then remembered what the director said about the hug between brothers, so he patted his back.
After two claps, he heard Jiang Yilan chuckle in his ear. Tang Ruining didn't know what was wrong, so he let him go, a little confused: "What's wrong?"
"It was a bit hard." Jiang Yilan said with a smile on his face.
"……Feel sorry."
The last time, Tang Ruining was pulled up by the hand and thrown into an equally wet embrace. The noisy sound of rain seemed to be paused suddenly. The breathing of another person beside his ear was clearer than the sound of rain hitting the umbrella. Jiang Yilan hugged him and patted his back gently, with a gentle smile in his voice: "Long time no see."
The sound of rain came back again, crackling into Tang Ruining's ears.
After taking this shot, both of them quickly changed their clothes and dried their hair to avoid catching a cold. Fortunately, the scene was set indoors so it wasn’t too cold. Today's filming has temporarily ended, and the next day's filming will be about the reunion of the five people. There are mainly two scenes. One is that the five people are driving and chatting in the car; the other is that the five people are holding Yuan Zhiyan's birthday party in a villa, celebrating and having fun together.
You don't have to actually drive, just sit there and pretend to drive. The director asked Rong Xiao to sit in the driving seat and Jiang Yilan to sit in the passenger seat, and told them to chat casually and happily, and took a few shots of them laughing happily and looking ahead at the road in silence, each of them thinking about something.
Yuan Zhiyan, who was sitting in the middle of the back seat, started the conversation first: "Brothers, what are we going to eat tonight?"
Rong Xiao looked at him in the central rearview mirror and said with a smile: "You are still eating. Didn't you say you wanted to lose weight?"
"I've been trying to lose weight for so many days, I really can't lose any more!" As if he had suffered a great injustice, Yuan Zhiyan turned to Jiang Yilan in front of him, "Brother, now only you know how difficult it is for me."
"He sent me a WeChat message at twelve o'clock last night asking me if I could cook him a bowl of noodles." Jiang Yilan immediately responded with a complaint.
Several people laughed, trying to make their expressions as big as possible.
"You're not." Wu Xingye said in surprise, "It's so late, and you want to eat and you still ask others to get up to cook."
Jiang Yilan said: "I didn't get up, I fell asleep."
Yuan Zhiyan leaned his head forward and leaned on the back of Jiang Yilan's chair. "He cooks delicious food. You don't understand, the tomato and egg noodles cooked by Brother Lanlan are the best tomato and egg noodles I have ever eaten."
"Then let's cook tomato and egg noodles tonight." Li Xi said, "How about you guys, do you also like this? I'll cook it for you too."
Wu Xingye: "It's too troublesome. You've always been the one cooking lately."
"It's okay. Didn't you guys wash the dishes too?" Li Xi turned around and asked Tang Ruining, who had been silent the whole time, "Ruining, what do you want to eat? You don't seem to like tomatoes, right?"
The person who was suddenly called raised his head and said, "...Not bad."
In fact, the director had already taken the shot of them talking and laughing, and turned off the camera to wait for them to finish talking.
"Have you finished talking? Now take some deep shots. Just look out the window and don't talk."
Tang Ruining sat diagonally opposite Jiang Yilan, and could see half of Jiang Yilan's profile by turning his head.
The car was very quiet. Jiang Yilan lowered his eyes and didn't look out the window. No one knew what he was thinking. The light from outside shone in, and his eyelashes trembled several times.
Next we will shoot the party part, and the plan is to finish as much as possible today. Several people changed into casual clothes and painted some colorful paintings on their faces. The birthday boy was painted like a calico cat, wearing a birthday crown and the most colorful clothes. When he blew out the cake candles, his face was covered with cream, and he stuffed the cream into his mouth very cherishingly.
It wasn’t very tasty. It was just a cheap cake bought casually as a prop. But Yuan Zhiyan wasn’t picky. He had really been controlling his diet these past few days, especially his sugar intake. Now he was feeling very hungry.
Then they were going to shoot a scene of them dancing amidst the fireworks and streamers. Yuan Zhiyan was so excited that he hugged Jiang Yilan and danced. His crown flew off. Tang Ruining caught his paper crown behind him.
"Hey, you're behind me, brother." Yuan Zhiyan was panting, turned around, took his crown, and smiled: "Thank you, brother!"
"Brother Lan, please help me put it on." Yuan Zhiyan turned back and gave the crown to Jiang Yilan. Jiang Yilan helped him put it on steadily and praised him, saying, "It looks great, like a puppy."
Yuan Zhiyan smiled foolishly. His current hairstyle was curly brown hair, and he really looked like a puppy.
A voice suddenly came from behind: "You have so many brothers."
Yuan Zhiyan turned around and saw only Tang Ruining's leaving back with a ribbon hanging on his shoulder.
When the work was over, Yuan Zhiyan was so tired that he slumped in a chair beside him. A few minutes later, he suddenly sat up in shock and grabbed Jiang Yilan, who was drinking water beside him and almost choked to death because of him, and said in horror: "Fuck, is Brother Ruining angry? Is he jealous?"
Li Wei quickly put down the cup, fearing that he would knock it over. She couldn't follow his train of thought at all, "...Ah?"
"That's for sure. I always stick to you and call you 'brother' now, and I don't stick to him anymore." The more he thought about it, the more certain he became. Yuan Zhiyan slammed the handle of the chair.
"Oh, Brother Ruining is really something!" Yuan Zhiyan said to himself, and smiled sweetly, "Brother really loves me."
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