Entertaining Children

? He Ying not only admitted it verbally, but also returned to the usual way of greeting everyone. Although the face is still unbearable to look at directly, but everyone has no doubts.

"Is it really He Ying?"

Before they even had time to say hello to He Ying, they all surrounded him curiously.

"Director Xiao, is this the character image you designed for the coppersmith's wife?" Lin Jingliang turned around and asked Xiao Yao.

"Yes," Xiao Yao nodded with a smile, "What does Teacher Lin think?"

"Very visually striking!" Lin Jingliang laughed, "It's so different from her previous image, we didn't even recognize that it was He Ying just now. But this image is very suitable in the movie. As soon as she appears, she This role has already left a deep impression on the audience, and the audience can know what kind of character this is."

"I admit that the character image you designed for He Ying is more distinctive than the characters designed by me and Minyi in terms of the external character image alone," Lin Jingliang looked at Xiao Yao with strange eyes, and continued, "It's just that, is it necessary for you to arrange for He Ying to appear like this?"

"It wasn't my idea!" Xiao Yao smiled and raised his hands, "When I asked Sister He Ying to play this role, I designed the character's image and made a rendering with a photo editing software. But now she I didn't make this look, I just told her to come to take a makeup photo today, I didn't expect her to come here directly in this image, she should find someone to make it for her according to the photo."

Now that we have arranged the time and place to take the makeup photos in advance, of course we try our best to gather all the actors who need to take the makeup photos and shoot them all at once. In addition to Sun Tingting, who couldn't come back until the teaching support activity was over, He Ying, who was far away in Yanjing and had confirmed her role in advance, and Xiao Yao were also notified. It's just that what Xiao Yao didn't expect was that He Ying would appear directly in front of everyone with such an image.

"Sister He Ying," Xiao Yao looked at He Ying again and said, "I told you that today is a makeup photo shoot, not an audition. Is it necessary for you to show up like this?"

"Aren't I going to give you and everyone a surprise?" He Ying smiled wryly, "You are allowed to play casually, and I am not allowed to make jokes with everyone?"

When preparing for this role, He Ying asked a special effects makeup artist to do the styling several times according to the photo Xiao Yao gave her at the beginning, and saw the effect, and went out with this image. This time when she came to take a makeup photo, He Ying thought of having fun, and brought the special effects makeup artist she had found. She specially put on makeup at the hotel and changed her clothes before coming here, just to shock Xiao Yao. As a result, Xiao Yao didn't react too much, but instead shocked the other actors' jaws.

"Surprise me?" Xiao Yao smiled,

"This image was originally designed by me. I originally wanted to make you look like this. How can you surprise me? Even if you want to save some trouble for the makeup artist and costume artist, what happened to the rough voice at the door just now?" ? And this tobacco stick, are you planning to use this to hit me? You are clearly here to scare people, you see you scare everyone, especially Xiao Guanjing, and shrink behind me!

"Yeah, I really scared me just now!" The little girl who was next to Xiao Yao nodded repeatedly.

"Guan Jing, right? I'm sorry!" He Ying smiled and stroked the little girl's hair.

This little girl is named Guan Jing, a student of the Acting Department of Huaxia Academy of Drama. She started her junior year in September. She is only 19 years old this year. She is the only actor in the entire crew who is younger than Xiao Yao.

Guan Jing played the role of Sun Jia in the movie, one of the leading actors in the movie, and he also had to take makeup photos. She is only 1.61 meters tall, with a small and exquisite figure. She wore a very pure school uniform when she took the makeup photo. The actor everyone loves and cares about most of the bunch.

Before coming here, He Ying already knew who the other actors were and read their profiles. Now I see Guan Jing, the youngest little girl, and I feel very cute and I like it.

"Okay," Xiao Yao clapped his hands, "Since Teacher He Ying is here, let's take your makeup photo first. Your costume and makeup have been done in advance, so go directly to the shooting area to try on the light." Let's see if there is anything that needs to be adjusted!"

"Photographer, get ready to work!" Xiao Yao turned his head and shouted to the photographer beside him.

"Okay!" He Ying nodded, and walked to the shooting area where the white background board was placed.

"By the way," He Ying took two steps, stopped again, turned around and raised the tobacco stick in Xiao Yao's hand and said, "I added a prop to myself, what do you think?"

"Danyan pole?" Xiao Yao asked, "You want to modify the character to be a woman smoking Hanyan?"

"Well," He Ying nodded, "According to my observation experience, many of the tough and aggressive elder sisters in the market can smoke, and I heard that in the poor areas in the northwest, there are more dry tobacco smokers, so I just added that one point to my character."

"There are indeed women who smoke dry tobacco." Xiao Yao nodded and asked He Ying, "Then you learned how to smoke dry tobacco?"

"Not yet," He Ying said, "But if necessary, I will learn!"

"Don't learn it," Xiao Yao thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "The prop of the pipe can be kept, and you can change it in the character settings to say that this is a pipe smoker. In some scenes, you will be asked to hold the pipe in your hand. In fact, it can better reflect that this is a very sturdy character. But your plays are basically group plays. When you quarrel with others, it’s okay to hold a pipe in your hand, but smoking a pipe in a rattle It’s unreasonable, and it’s also very deliberate to shoot the scene of you smoking the pipe alone, so the scene of you smoking the pipe will not be filmed in the movie, so you don’t have to learn.”

In the original movie of the previous life, the coppersmith's wife was indeed holding a pipe in her hand. However, when Xiao Yao wrote the script, he didn't mention this point, and he didn't explain this point to He Ying. Xiao Yao originally wanted to wait until the actual shooting to see if he should add this prop. Since He Ying had this idea, it would be good to decide to add this now. It's just a scene of smoking tobacco, Xiao Yao would never shoot it anyway.

"Yeah, this image has already been subverted." Lin Jingliang also agreed, "If you smoke dry tobacco in the movie again, it may feel a bit too much."

The role of the coppersmith's wife is not important in the movie. He Ying will play the role in this image, and the role will definitely not be without attention and topicality. If the performance is too much, it is inevitable that this character will steal the show too much in the movie.

"Okay, since the director and Mr. Lin don't think it's necessary, then I won't learn it." He Ying smiled and nodded, and continued to walk to the shooting area.

"Wait," Xiao Yao stopped He Ying, "Sister He Ying, go to the makeup area first, I'll find someone to put on makeup for you."

"Is there anything wrong with my makeup?" He Ying asked strangely, "I asked someone to make it according to the photo you gave me."

Another point that He Ying didn't say is that Xiao Yao just said that she was asked to go directly to the shooting area to test the light, which means that Xiao Yao didn't feel that there was a problem just now.

"There was no problem at first, but when I saw the pipe in your hand, I found a problem." Xiao Yao opened his mouth with a smile, pointed to his teeth and said, "Since I am a pipe smoker, my teeth will not be like You are so white now. There is no problem with the makeup on your face, but the fixed makeup photo we took was to show an image of you opening your mouth to swear, and to show your teeth, so you have to do some treatment on your teeth."

"Okay!" He Ying nodded when she heard that what Xiao Yao said made sense.

Pei Minyi is a makeup artist herself, and has a certain understanding of special effects makeup. This method of making teeth look black is not difficult, and Pei Minyi is enough to handle it.

After making He Ying's teeth look like they were blackened by frequent smoking, the photographer began to take pictures of He Ying's makeup.

He Ying first went to the background board in the shooting area to test the light, and then asked the makeup artist to make some adjustments on some parts of her face, and then stood back for the photographer to shoot. The whole process didn't last long, and it didn't take long for the filming to be completed.

The makeup photos of other actors have been taken. Sun Tingting is not coming back today. After He Ying's makeup photos are taken, Xiao Yao is the only one who has not taken the makeup photos.

Xiao Yao didn't have to push back at this time, so he asked He Ying to get acquainted with everyone, and then went to the dressing room to change his clothes, and then asked the makeup artist to apply makeup for him.

The role of the coppersmith has two quite different images in the movie. One is the original image of the coppersmith, which is rather sloppy, and the other is the image disguised by school teachers as a teacher, which looks much cleaner. For the makeup photo shoot this time, Xiao Yao didn't take both images, but only chose the more sloppy coppersmith's true color image to take the makeup photo.

This image is also very different from Xiao Yao's own image. The skin color and hairstyle have obvious changes, and the clothes are also relatively shabby. However, after seeing the image of He Ying, everyone's psychological endurance is much stronger, and the visual impact of Xiao Yao's character image on everyone when taking pictures is relatively not so strong.

Taking advantage of this opportunity when the main actors are basically assembled, Xiao Yao intends to make everyone familiar with it as much as possible and connect with them. So after taking the makeup photos, Xiao Yao, the producer and director, announced a treat. Let's have dinner together in the evening. Naturally, this decision was unanimously supported by everyone.

Now the movie has not started, and the actors are not required to join the group now. After the makeup photos were taken and the dinner was over, these main actors temporarily disbanded and separated, and then joined the group after Xiao Yao confirmed the start date. So when the dinner was over, everyone bid farewell to Xiao Yao one by one.

Lin Jingliang deliberately stayed until the end, and came to Xiao Yao's side after everyone else had left.

"Director Xiao, I'm leaving for Jin Province tomorrow," Lin Jingliang said to Xiao Yao, "I'm going to go over to the filming location and watch it myself. When the house is built, I'll immediately start decorating the interior."

After finishing the makeup photos, most of the behind-the-scenes staff in the crew have also been finalized. Now the main thing that affects the start time of the film is the preparation of the shooting location. Lin Jingliang, as an art director, goes to the shooting location to personally supervise the construction of the shooting scene, and it is also his duty to guide the set.

"I've just finished my work, don't you want to rest for two days?" Xiao Yao didn't refuse, but just suggested, "The house over there hasn't been built yet, and people from our company and professionals from the construction company are watching over there. It was built according to our requirements, and there is still time to go after the house is built."

"No need." Lin Jingliang said, "I'm an art director, and that's where I work. I've gone, and I can make some adjustments according to the situation on site. For example, some built places don't need to be moved later. You can do some interior decoration in advance, and make the scenery while building the house, maybe you can save some time. Don’t you want to start the machine as soon as possible? So the sooner I go, the better.”

"That's fine." Xiao Yao no longer insisted, "I will go there with you tomorrow. Have you booked your ticket? If not, I will find someone to help you book it together. If you have already booked it, tell me the flight, I'm on the same flight as you."

"You don't have to go there so early." Lin Jingliang said, "I'm the art director, so I'll just go. You have agreed to the art plans I made, and I will strictly follow those plans. Then Don't worry about the other side matters, I will give you a satisfactory shooting location!"

"I'm not worried about leaving it to you," Xiao Yao said with a smile, "but you are the art director, and I'm still the producer and director. Why can't I go?"

"Even if you are a producer and director, you don't have to do everything yourself!" Lin Jingliang smiled, "You still have some time to take a good rest. After the machine starts up, you, the director, will still be busy!"

"As a director, I expected it to be like this." Xiao Yao spread his hands and smiled, "The director is the core of a movie. Isn't the pre-production, mid-stage shooting, and post-production all the work of the director? Which director doesn't do this? ?”

"I've seen a lot of film directors who I participated in investing in, wrote and directed myself, but I haven't seen many like you." Lin Jingliang said, "You have to let go and hand things over to others. Since you hired me As an art director, you should trust me and leave this matter to me.”

"I don't seem to do everything myself, do I? I entrust others to do a lot of early stage work, and I just make the final decision." Xiao Yao said helplessly, "Also, I said that I don't feel worried about handing over the matter. Here you are. It’s just that as a producer and director, I should go to the scene to care about the set. The most important thing is that I have already handed over some of the less important things in the crew to others. It takes such a long break."

"If you really have nothing to do, how about I give you a suggestion?" Lin Jingliang said with a smile, "Shencheng will hold a Chinese and Korean star concert in a few days, you go to the concert, relax, and when the concert is over, You go to the filming location."

"Concert? How do you know the information about the concert so clearly?" Xiao Yao looked at Lin Jingliang strangely, and changed his address, "Old Lin, do you have some conspiracy?"

"I just let you go to the concert, what kind of conspiracy can there be?" Lin Jingliang smiled.

"Really?" Xiao Yao threatened, "If you don't tell me, I will definitely not go. I will follow you to the shooting location tomorrow!"

"Well, I know that concert because Ah Yun told me that she will attend." Lin Jingliang raised his hands in surrender, "She will sing the new song you wrote for him at the concert, and I really want you to go and watch her perform live. But she knows that you are going to be busy with the new movie recently, and she is afraid of disturbing your work, so she dare not call you rashly to invite you, so she contacted me to ask about the preparation of our movie, and wanted to know from me if you would be there It’s time to watch her perform live. Anyway, the crew hasn’t turned on the film yet, and you don’t have to go to the filming location these days, why not go to the concert to see Ah Yun’s performance.”

"A Yun participated in the concert, why don't you go as an uncle?" Xiao Yao asked, "I should go to the shooting location to monitor the progress, so why don't you go to the concert to support your niece?"

"I'm her uncle. I've seen her various performances many times since she was a child. It doesn't matter if one more time or one less time." Lin Jingliang said with a smile, "The song she's going to sing this time is written for her by you." Yes, she would prefer you to watch it live. Also, people don’t know that I am her uncle, but they all know that you are her senior, and you wrote the song for her. The effect of your support at the scene is much greater than mine. So , Leave the matter on the shooting location to me, and you can go to the concert properly."