Playground, filming location Wei Yang, who had just finished filming his own solo scene, was still wearing a military training uniform, and immediately entered the state of executive producer.

"Spread out the formation, and those holding props should align themselves."

"Follow the commands and try not to move. Let's rehearse first."

"Brother Fu (assistant director), please watch from below."

“…”

A small-budget film crew has few people and a lot of work to do. The division of responsibilities is not careful, and it is common for the stagehands to become extras, the assistant director to serve as the stagehand, and the producer to do the work of the assistant director.

At this moment, when shooting a group scene, they have to hold up signs in formation, and rehearsal is required before the official shooting begins. If the director does not supervise it personally, Wei Yang and the assistant director will have to direct it.

"Girls, stand together. Xiao Zhao, who is short, should move to the front. Sister Rong, please squeeze to the side..."

Wei Yang stood on the podium, shouting with a loud speaker under the scorching sun until his mouth was dry. He experienced the bitterness of a military training instructor.

"Director Liu, what do you think?"

After rehearsing several times and taking shape, Liu Junjie came out from the shadows to take a look.

"Okay, it's just a beginner's exercise in the play, so it'll be fine as long as the posture is right."

The director nodded and the formal filming began. This plot was about a bet between the male protagonist and the dean of studies. The former used mathematical theory to direct the students who were originally in chaos to complete the queue and list cards. He acted a little cool and also paved the way for the male protagonist's talent in science.

After this scene was finished, Wei Yang couldn't help but smile bitterly: "The second male lead has no human rights. I'm the one lining up, but Brother Peng is the one who's doing the acting."

Several people on the stage laughed. Fan Ming, who played the role of the dean, asked, "I think the script is well written. Yu Huai used mathematical formulas to direct the performance. Why didn't you use them just now?"

"I can't."

Wei Yang complained: "I am a liberal arts student, and I asked my high school classmates about many of the science content here."

This is not surprising. Screenwriters do not need to know too much to write scripts. They can just ask experts frequently. As long as there are no common sense errors or omissions, everyone will turn a blind eye.

You can't write a crime film and the screenwriter has to commit a crime himself to get the feel of it...

Liu Junjie suddenly thought of something: "There are still many classroom scenes to be played. What should I do then?"

"Brother Wang from our logistics team graduated from a 211 university. He can handle any problem that is not too difficult. If it doesn't work, we can get help from outside. I have two friends from Jiaotong University."

When Wei Yang's school team was competing, there was one match against Jiaotong University. At that time, he deliberately made friends with two girls from Jiaotong University and asked them for help when he encountered something he didn't understand while writing the script.

Although the girls were a little skeptical about their lives when a handsome guy asked them for their phone numbers and asked them math and physics questions every day, they were still willing to help every time.

Wei Yang thought that if he invited them this time, he would take the opportunity to treat them to a meal to express his gratitude. If the crew could reimburse him, the level would be even higher.

"Okay, that's about it, let's have dinner."

Liu Junjie reviewed the finished product and felt that there was no need to shoot anymore, so the crew took a break and had a meal.

The others breathed a sigh of relief, took their lunch boxes and found a place to eat. Wei Yang still had to supervise the placement of the food and remind people not to litter.

"It's not easy to earn 1,800 yuan."

Wei Yang complained, then took a box lunch and went to the rest area in the shade.

The place is not big, and there are not many seats where you can sit directly. They are all occupied by several crew leaders or veterans. Except for a few important characters such as the male and female protagonists, many supporting actors can only stand or go to the shaded area farther away.

Most of them are new actors, and few of them are famous. The veterans in the crew don’t tolerate them at all.

But when he saw Wei Yang coming, the photographer kicked his apprentice and asked him to give up his seat: "Didn't you see your brother Yang coming? You have no tact."

“I can just eat while standing.”

"Sit down, sit down, don't worry about him. He was very tired just now. He has rested enough."

The photographer pulled Wei Yang to sit down, and pushed his lunch box: "Try it, this is the authentic Harbin red sausage mailed from my hometown."

"Thanks, Brother Lu."

"You're welcome."

Wei Yang opened his lunch box. Unlike the other performers and staff who had one meat and one vegetable meal costing 10 yuan, his lunch box contained two meat dishes and two vegetable dishes + a large chicken drumstick + a drink, costing 35 yuan, but the actual meal might be more.

Logistics is a lucrative business, and there are many tricks that can be used, but the prerequisite is that you have to understand the rules.

It is not impossible to buy an ordinary lunch box with a price tag of 10 yuan for 8 yuan or even 6 yuan, provided that you do not arouse public anger.

But some people cannot afford a penny less for their 35-yuan lunch boxes, and the logistics department will even secretly raise the price to 50 yuan.

Wei Yang is the screenwriter and second male lead of the crew. It doesn’t matter to the staff behind the scenes. The most they do is not to offend him.

But it is a completely different matter when he becomes the executive producer, holds direct power, and is trusted by the two crew bosses, Liu and Sun.

This 1800 yuan is not easy to earn, but it allows Wei Yang to live comfortably in the crew...

Wei Yang chatted and laughed with several persons in charge of photography, recording, and makeup. Some of them were preparing for the preliminary work and left first, leaving a few empty seats. Wei Yang waved to Li Jiahang and others not far away.

"Jiahang, Xinzi, Yixiao, Zhaoji, come this way."

After Li Jiahang and his companions came and sat down, Wei Yang introduced them to the photographer who didn't know much about the situation.

"These are my college classmates, and we have a very good relationship."

Translated, this means I am protecting these people, so please give them some face in the future.

Everyone understood, and the photographer even smiled and recognized Li Jiahang as a fellow Northeastern native. Next time such a situation happened, even if Wei Yang was not there, they would not have to stand around.

As for the other actors, they could only continue to wait for empty seats.

"I didn't touch this braised pork. You guys try it. I can't finish it myself."

The standard of the crew's lunch boxes is indeed average, with shredded pork with green peppers, tomatoes and eggs. The number of shredded pork and eggs can be counted on one hand.

Every time Li Jiahang returned to his room at night, he would curse the logistics staff for being so cruel, and Wei Yang remembered this.

Anyway, he had no appetite due to the hot weather. He still had a big chicken drumstick, and people kept giving him snacks wherever he went, so he saved one of the meat dishes and shared it with a few people to satisfy their hunger.

After dinner, a few people gathered together to play cards. Wei Yang found it too noisy, so he strolled back to the car to take a nap.

"Call me when you start working."

After giving instructions to Li Jiahang who was dragged to play cards, Wei Yang walked towards the parking lot. Lou Yixiao wanted to follow him, but he was embarrassed to speak because of Zhao Ji next to him.

"On the day I left you, a gray dream slept beside me..."

Wei Yang hummed the popular song "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", feeling a little regretful that he was not a singer in his previous life.

It is much easier to copy songs than to copy scripts. Just make a few hit songs, get some first-line stars, and form a group of some kind, and you'll be the next generation of Chinese pop superstar. You might even win a Grammy.

Read the original text at Liu#9@书/吧!

Thinking of this, Wei Yang couldn't help but shake his head and laugh. He was really exhausted and crazy. He actually imagined the plot of this third-rate trash online novel...

When turning the corner and about to reach the parking lot, Wei Yang suddenly saw Zhao Liying, who was squatting under the shade of a tree flipping through a script with an ice cream in her mouth.

"What are you looking at?"

Wei Yang couldn't help his curiosity and walked up to ask. The latter looked up, startled, and greeted him without even taking out the ice cream in his mouth.

"Woo woo (Brother Yang)."

Wei Yang: “…”

After a few contacts, he sometimes found it really hard to connect this somewhat silly little girl with the glamorous top-tier star.

So much so that every time they met, Zhao Liying's halo as a big star in her previous life kept shattering in his heart!

"I'll study the script. I'll have my scene the day after tomorrow."

Zhao Liying took out the ice cream with a shy look on her face and explained.

Wei Yang looked at the environment. Although they were under the shade of a tree, the air was still very hot. Zhao Liying was eating ice cream with a little sweat on her forehead.

"Why don't you get in my car? It has air conditioning and I can explain it to you if you don't understand."

In terms of understanding of the script, the entire crew definitely respects Wei Yang. Xiao Zhao also has a certain basic trust in Wei Yang and readily follows Wei Yang to the parking lot.

Wei Yang did not lie to her and sacrificed half an hour of his nap time to sort out the role of Zhu Ling for Zhao Liying.

The more we talked, the more excited we became, and a lot of ideas came to us. We were thinking about whether we could add some more drama to make the character more rounded.

For example, can she have some connection with Lu Xinghe? Lu Xinghe has waited for Geng Geng for ten years, and Zhu Ling has secretly loved Lu Xinghe for ten years. After Lu Xinghe was rejected, looking back, she realized that there was someone who had been waiting for her.

There is no need to point it out explicitly, just an open ending and a hint will be enough to give Lu Xinghe a relatively satisfactory ending.

Of course, this has an impact on the character's setting. Which one is better, perfection or desolateness, still needs discussion, and Wei Yang did not tell Zhao Liying.

In addition to sorting out the role, Wei Yang also taught Zhao Liying how to write a character biography so that she could experience the role in a more comprehensive and three-dimensional way.

“Don’t just read the script, think about the character’s habits, daily life, and experiences beyond the script. Once you have fleshed out all these details, you have completely understood the character.”

You've never eaten pork, but you've never seen a pig run.

As an actor, Wei Yang is a newcomer and may not have enough skills, but he knows how to create characters from the perspective of screenwriter + actor, which is his greatest advantage.

Even their acting teacher praised Wei Yang for being good at understanding roles and his acting was full of character details.

Zhao Liying also benefited a lot from Wei Yang's words.

Although she had acted in movies before, she had never received any systematic training and had only figured things out on her own. Now that she had little experience, Wei Yang's guidance was of great help to her.

After they finished talking about the biographies of the characters, it was almost time, so Wei Yang and Zhao Liying simply prepared to go to the scene.

As a result, as soon as the two got off the car, they ran into Director Zheng getting out of a Land Rover with a charming girl in his arms, and the two sides happened to meet each other.

Seeing Wei Yang and Xiao Zhao, the charming girl Shen Tiantian felt a little embarrassed and gently broke away from Director Zheng's hand.

It goes without saying that Shen Tiantian is the actress who plays the second female lead Jiang Niannian in "The Best of Us". She is a model, the new favorite of Director Zheng, and the one with the biggest connection in the crew.

"Director Zheng, Sister Shen."

Wei Yang seemed not to have noticed their actions at all and greeted them calmly.

Director Zheng didn't care about these at all. He just looked at Zhao Liying with interest and winked at Wei Yang.

"Xiao Wei, sure."

Wei Yang was speechless and explained: "Director Zheng, Xiao Zhao didn't quite understand. I was just chatting with her about the script in the car just now."

"Hmmmm."

Director Zheng nodded repeatedly, looking like he had learned something new. "Your sister Shen and I were just discussing the script. It was so hot out here that we were sweating."

Wei Yang: “…”

You better be talking about the script...

(End of this chapter)