"I'm the director, what I say goes," Director Liu said coldly. "You think this addition is superfluous, but it's the perfect opportunity to advance the relationship between the male and female leads! Otherwise, how would Pei Kai appear to save you? How would he fall for you? How would the romance develop?"
Shi Xi was helpless.
The novel is a good novel, but the script adaptation is too fantastical.
"How about this, let's change the forest to the Misty Forest, where we can't use spiritual power," Sweet Rain suggested.
"But Pei Kai used his spiritual power to heal me later," Shi Xi raised another objection.
"Why are you so talkative? Then just delete the scene where the female lead can fly on a sword," Director Liu said bluntly.
"But later Liu Anning's sword was stolen, so she could no longer fly on her sword."
"This won't work, that won't work," Director Liu frowned impatiently. "Just film it according to my script!"
"How about this, let the fellow disciple who bullied the female lead give her the Spirit-Dissipating Medicine. That way, the female lead won't be able to fly on her sword," Tianyu suggested. "It's a minor change and won't affect the plot."
Shi Xi nodded: "Okay."
Director Liu waved his hand impatiently and said, "That's enough, hurry up and shoot! We need to shoot thirty scenes today. If you keep nitpicking like this for half an hour for each episode, we won't have enough time to shoot in a day!"
"Thirty scenes? How come there are so many?" Shi Xi asked in surprise.
"Time is already short, so of course we have to film as quickly as possible." Director Liu shooed everyone out and said, "Attention all departments, we need to get filming going!"
Shi Xi said to Tian Yu, "You make some minor revisions to the script first, and we'll revise it as we film."
The script has many plot holes, mostly seemingly insignificant but mindless plot points that don't stand up to scrutiny.
If these issues aren't changed, they will become major flaws in the show and easily attract criticism.
Continue filming.
As Shi Xi got into character, a small insect flew in front of her during the middle of filming a scene, momentarily distracting her.
But Director Liu didn't say to pause, so she had no choice but to continue.
Shi Xi pretended to fix her hair, chased away the bugs, and continued reciting her lines.
I thought Director Liu would suggest reshooting.
But to my surprise, Director Liu said "cut".
Shi Xi: ?
How did this pass?
Can't you see the little bugs?
Director Liu picked up the megaphone and shouted, "Get ready, it's time to rehearse the next scene!"
Shi Xi walked over to Director Liu and asked, "Shall we shoot another take?"
There was a small bug flying in front of me just now, and I'm not feeling well.
Director Liu waved his hand, letting the others continue touching up their makeup, and encouraged them, "Great shot! You're in excellent form! Keep it up! Let's shoot the next scene, okay!"
Although he expressed agreement, Director Liu's tone was very perfunctory.
It's like a working person getting off work.
Shi Xi thought about it and realized that her condition had indeed been okay, so she continued filming.
However, after filming several takes, Shi Xi discovered that as long as the lines were correct, Director Liu would not call "cut."
Almost every scene was completed in one or two takes.
With such a high filming efficiency, shooting thirty or forty scenes a day is normal.
But this exhausted Sweet Rain.
While filming, they made changes, and Sweet Rain revised almost all the plot holes.
Fortunately, they had gone through the script before they came, otherwise they really wouldn't have been able to change it.
Lunch break.
When Tianyu reached Shixi's side, she complained, "This Director Liu is such a hassle, and Xiao Gai is so slow too!"
"Has he not acted in many movies or TV shows?" Shi Xi couldn't help but ask while eating her boxed lunch.
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