Filming
Living in Lan Yan's house, I feel a little safer with someone to accompany me. Most importantly, this is a high-end community with security personnel patrolling.
Because her phone number was leaked, Lan Yan was afraid that her phone might have been placed into the positioning system without her noticing, so she simply bought her a new phone.
"You've recovered and been discharged from the hospital. You've been invited to many events. Regardless of whether you become famous or not, you've already been envied by others. I'll give you a car and a personal assistant."
"Isn't that too ostentatious?"
"You go to the market to buy groceries by yourself, and you drive around in your car. Is that considered unassuming?"
The life assistant assigned by Lan Yan was hired from a security company and was originally intended for Yu An. Later, Yu An went abroad, so he specially replaced her with a beautiful bodyguard.
After announcing the news of his discharge from the hospital, he received many business invitations, mostly from variety shows and talk shows. These were the types of commercial traffic that could be stimulated in a short period of time, but he received very few script invitations.
I have only three scripts in hand, and after choosing among them, I still choose this one. The quality and the team are considered to be top-notch. If I am still worried, I will ask Lan Yan if this work is suitable for me to choose now.
"This is the best resource you can access right now," Lan Yan said without looking up from where he was working on his laptop. "If you miss this, you won't have such a good opportunity again."
That’s right, no matter whether there are dates or not, just try your best to hit them.
Besides, with his current status, how bad can he get?
He took the initiative to contact Mu Yan and asked him to join the crew. Mu Yan was also very straightforward and verbally admitted on the phone that he would offer a high salary. The contract for the performance had already been sent to his agent.
"This drama is a platform mission drama. Our shooting cycle plus the production cycle is a total of 48 days. We must be released on the platform on the fourth of next month. I hope you can be prepared."
After I agreed, I received the scripts for the first twenty shows in my mailbox that same day. You can imagine how oppressive I felt.
Lan Yan personally drove her to the set, and only after identifying herself to the security guard could Li Li enter the set smoothly.
"If you have any problems, just tell Ajie and she will help you."
Ajie is the bodyguard behind you who is strong and powerful. According to her resume in the company, she used to practice wrestling, but later switched to wrestling because of an injury.
"Sister Li, if you have any problems, just come to me." Ajie has a very straightforward personality. If he has something to say, he will just talk about it and will never look for anyone else.
I went into the crew and found Mu Yan. His face was greasy and his hair was messily clipped with a shark clip. He told the makeup artist beside him to hurry up and do Li Lai's makeup and hair.
She thought she would have to try out the costume first to see if she would fit in, but Mu Yan nodded at her and said, "You can wear this costume first. A costume designer will come to tailor it for you tonight."
This is really a tight timeline and a heavy task.
Xiao Yase, played by Li Lai, is a "freak" in the play. She has known her life experience since she was a child and is not loved by the mistress of the Xiao family. In order to take revenge on the family, she wants to drag her third brother, who is very kind to her, into the water.
The third brother is also played by Jing Shengxi.
He has already started filming. Seeing the woman he loves become his sister-in-law, he cried bitterly in front of the camera.
The first scene is that he wants to comfort the "heartbroken" Jing Shengxi and take the opportunity to sow discord between his third brother and his "father".
Holding a handkerchief in his hand, he gently patted Jing Shengxi's shoulder and handed him the handkerchief: "Third brother, father said that today is the day of eldest brother's wedding and we can't cry."
Jing Shengxi paused in her tears, turned around and looked at him. When she opened her mouth to speak, Li Li continued according to the script: "Father also said that this is a marriage between people of equal social status. Third brother, you should be happy."
He deliberately lowered his voice to make it sound a bit sarcastic.
The first scene was passed in one take. The executive director instructed the stage crew to arrange the set according to the script. In order to avoid suspicion, Li Li took the initiative to keep a distance from Jing Shengxi.
"Li Li, you're here too.
"Lu Jia skipped and danced in front of Li Li. Seeing her in a bright red wedding dress, he knew that she was the heroine of the play and also Xiao Yue's sister-in-law.
"Why are you here on this set?"
At that time, she told herself that she had freed up four months of her schedule to shoot a major drama for the platform and had no time to take on other work.
"Don't mention it," Lu Jia said disdainfully. "The investors ran away, the project was shelved indefinitely, and the platform reassigned us to other productions."
He then grabbed Jing Shengxi who was standing nearby and said, "I never thought the three of us would be in the same crew again. This is a celebration. Let's go eat skewers tonight. It's my treat."
Li Li actually likes to be with Lu Jia, but when she is with Jing Shengxi, she doesn’t think so anymore.
I always feel that if the two of them continue to interact, they might end up repeating the same thing.
"You still have time to eat," Jing Shengxi said, turning her head to let the makeup artist touch up her makeup. "Time is tight and the task is heavy. I still have to memorize my lines tonight."
"That won't affect our meal time. How about Li Li and I eat while you memorize your lines?"
Lu Jia was merciless when he was talking to Jing Shengxi. As soon as he opened his mouth, Lu Jia would start to talk back. Jing Shengxi was so angry that he stopped talking. He just looked at Li Li and said, "She is my sister. We are closer than you."
This is about the relationship between the two people in the play, but it sounds so wrong.
"Heh...are you childish?"
Lu Jia was so angry that she couldn't speak for a long time. Her assistant came running over and said that it was her turn and she had to hurry up and shoot.
Before leaving, he did not forget to tell Li Li that he would buy some spicy hot pot and come to see her in the evening.
Just as Mu Yan said, the filming intensity of this crew was very tight. Princess Li Lai had already been filming until 10 o'clock in the evening on the first day. She was so thirsty from reciting the lines, but she didn't dare drink too much water in order to look good on camera. She had to hold a piece of ice in her mouth and spit it out quickly when performing.
After a scene ended, the lighting team immediately came forward to set up the lights. Li Lai moved his swollen feet and felt a little overwhelmed.
The actress who was acting with her quietly told her that if she really couldn't hold on, she should just stand against the wall for a while.
"You can't handle it on your first day on set. I've been filming for eight days now, with no more than four hours of rest each day. I've never seen a crew that pushes the schedule so hard."
The actress gave Li Li a coffee candy and told her to eat it if she really couldn't hold on any longer, otherwise she would not be able to sleep and it would affect the progress of the filming.
Li Lai was very grateful and insisted on filming for another two hours. Only when he was too sleepy to open his eyes did Mu Yan announce that he would call it a day.
knock off?
What about the subsequent scenes?
Mu Yan said that the screenwriter was revising it all night, and the new scenes might be available later. When that time comes, Li Li will have to work hard to memorize them.
"So what did the director think of my performance?"
This is Li Lai's habit. After finishing a day's shooting, he always asks the director how his performance was, whether it fits the character, and what needs to be improved.
Mu Yan thought seriously for a long time, and Li Li even suspected that she had fallen asleep with her eyes open.
She then said, "It's not quite up to par. Maybe you didn't have enough time to prepare on the first day. Overall, it's pretty good."
It was still a little bit lacking, which means I only got a passing score of 60 points.
I can't say that I can give a 100% answer, but a passing score is not an option.
Lu Jia was taken away by her agent for a business interview again, so Li Lai had to enjoy the sticky spicy hot pot alone.
Opening the latest script, Li Li tried to extract the emotions about "Xiao Yase" from the text.
Maybe it was because she didn't have enough time to understand the script. When Li Li was interpreting the character, she always felt that something was missing and she couldn't act out Xiao Yase's "weirdness".
In her understanding, since Xiao Yase already knew her own life experience, she only had hatred towards this family.
Originally, there was very little description of "Xiao Yase". She appeared as an arrogant and domineering woman. She was usually fierce and shameless. When she made a mistake and was punished by her family, she clamored to expose the family scandal. She was a brainless fool.
After this adaptation, the script's description of Xiao Yase is very flat.
He is no longer the arrogant and domineering person he was before, but just an ordinary person.
But Li Li always felt something was weird.
If the role of Xiao Yase had been weakened, Mu Yan would not have specifically asked her to play the role and said that only he could play it.
This is not because Li Li is being modest. She believes that there must be something important about her playing this role.
This problem has always troubled her.
Filming at 4am.
When filming for the first time, Li Lai went to the monitor to watch the footage he had shot.
This is a scene where a newlywed couple pays their respects to the Xiao couple. All the main characters appear and perform the corresponding reactions according to each person's settings.
Ignoring the performances of others, Li Li just stared at himself.
Wearing a modified costume, she stood beside Jing Shengxi in a dignified manner, like a lady from a noble family.
When her "sister-in-law" greeted her, she politely returned the greeting four times, and there was nothing wrong with it. However, she felt that she was detached from the character in the play and could not fit in.
Sitting on a portable chair studying the characters, Ajie came running over excitedly with a cup of coffee: "Sister Li, there's coffee outside sent by a big star. I'll get you a cup."
Li Li took it without question and continued to study the role in the script. He was so engrossed in studying the script that he didn't notice that he had crushed the coffee cup in his hand.
I spilled coffee all over my hands and was busy wiping them with a tissue when I noticed the pattern on the coffee cup.
The food-grade paper cups were printed with the commercial endorsements of Hu Xuechun and Jing Shengxi. They had previously filmed an advertisement together as a group of three, but now only the two of them were printed.
The coffee was sweetened, and the sticky feeling forced Li Li to wash her hands. Seeing Jing Shengxi and Lu Jia coming over after work, the two were talking and laughing, and Li Li's first reaction was to hide.
Why hide?
Li Li questioned herself, she had done nothing wrong, why should she hide.
Is it... inferiority complex?
The jealousy caused by her strong inferiority complex made her hate the people around her.
She could already imagine a little girl in ill-fitting clothes hiding behind a door under the eaves in a foggy mansion, watching the people around her walk around, looking at the world with hatred.
She was an innocent child, brought into this world by the bullying of those in power and the feudalism of the old society.
She knew her own life experience and also knew the house, so she felt inferior.
Jealousy arises from inferiority complex.
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