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- "To make a movie you have to go through a period of youth and stupidity, and if you come out knowing as much as the veterans, it's impossible."-
Jean-Luc Godard
"The night sky, Days Inn East Beach, Little Miss Sunlight" is where the crew is currently staying. Ye Wei also lives here, and he has to deal with some work with the production crew in the evening.
Under his expulsion, after a weekend of observation, it really didn¡¯t matter. My parents have returned to Los Angeles. If I follow him around, I won¡¯t be able to give others confidence, and my image will be lost. Old George came to work as a driver and assistant. He needed to hire an extra professional personal assistant. Master Gia, who was playing tricks, was really unreliable.
At the end of the day, when his spirit began to relax, Ye Weizhen was a little tired, and his injuries were still affecting him, so he returned to the single room of the hotel and lay down for a while. Then he stood up, opened his laptop, and checked his emails. Knowing that today is his shooting day, the media is reporting on it, and many people have sent congratulations via text messages or emails, which makes him really feel warm in his heart.
Friends generally send text messages, and those who send emails are mostly friends with work connections and senior figures.
"New directors always have a quality: they are eager and courageous to express their unlimited ideas without any constraints. It is this quality that makes those debut films so charming. When you make your first movie, you are the most nervous and at the same time The most free. I will miss this feeling for many years to come. Enjoy it, young man.¡±
After reading Big Coppola¡¯s email, Ye Wei couldn¡¯t help but smile, ¡°Thank you, Francis.¡± Well, let¡¯s give up the idea of ??encouraging Gia to drop out of school.
He then clicked on the email sent by Wang Ying. The box office results of "It's Dai Qian's fault" were pretty good. It has grossed more than 1.4 million in North American box office in the six weeks since its release. Compared with the production fee of 1.46 million, these results will not let Wang Ying down. There is no film to make, and there is no money to be made in theaters, but there is still income from DVDs and TV broadcast copyright fees.
"Hollywood studios are highly hierarchical and commercialized everywhere. It's impossible not to face some problems of persistence or compromise. Most of the time you have to persist, but sometimes you have to learn to compromise and express yourself in another way."
"Thank you, Wayne, I will." Ye Wei nodded. Fortunately, he has not encountered any irreconcilable situation in his creation.
Hehehe, George Lucas also sent an email. He opened it excitedly and read:
"Boy, congratulations, you have become a cultural relic. Have you betrayed digital technology and tasted the pain of film shooting? Haha, I have stopped enduring that. Next time I see you, your hair should be whiter than mine. , that¡¯s what the film is for you. You¡¯re welcome back to the digital planet from the Death Star at any time, you¡¯ll have nowhere to go soon.¡±
"Hahaha" Ye Wei couldn't help but laugh, George, it's okay, of course it's not as convenient as digital shooting Damn it, I hate film shooting. If there is no need to insure a strip or change the film, without those glitches, there will be no problem. It's two hours away. There are gains and losses, the image quality and orthodox status of film.
Hey Li An¡¯s email came last night. He opened it excitedly. An was not joking. After congratulating him, he wrote:
"When I made the first few movies, I regarded movies as a medium to express myself. I had a lot of myself and didn't think much about the audience. The more movies I made, the more I felt that the essence of movies is a kind of communication and inspiration. You Just to stimulate the audience and let them make a decision.
Doing this requires skill. It is almost impossible to do this on your first film, and it may not be good. The first few films are more about the filmmakers themselves, especially small-budget independent films. You must have a lot to say. You have worked so hard to complete the production, and the result is naturally full of personal color.
Even if your shooting techniques are clumsy and you have bad luck, you still have to make at least two hundred decisions every day, fight against time, and fight against everything. If the movie you make under such circumstances is not about yourself, then it will not be about you. What else could it be about?
But when making a movie, don¡¯t be afraid to make a decision, no matter what it is. "
"Thank you, An." Ye Wei felt a surge of strength. An was like a prophet, knowing that he had encountered a time problem and knowing that he was hesitating about how to make a choice, and then told him to just move forward bravely. Spielberg sent it before An encouraging text message also said, "Children tell stories freely and independently, and directors must do this first." He hesitated and couldn't do this job.
Just do what he said. Ye Wei got out of bed and sat down at the desk not far away. He flipped through a stack of documents with one hand. There were storyboards and worksheets, thinking about which scenes to delete and replace. Time, every shot in the storyboard is my own painstaking effort. Every time I cross out one with my pen, it is like a sharp knife cutting into my heart, which is painful.
"I really can't do this job." He gritted his teeth, raised his head and opened his mouth like a roar. What he wanted to cross out the most was "the Abi shot (the penultimate shot of the day)".
He had to stop, and a text message happened to come on his phone. He picked it up and saw that the sender was Nina. He replied with a smile and cheered: "Evening"?It's settled
Love is indeed the best cure for fatigue. Suddenly I don¡¯t feel tired anymore and I continue to work.
Tomorrow's shooting will focus on the big scene of the "dining room". The highlight is Scene No. 18 of the script. It is the first group scene in the story, a very, very long scene. From Frank, DeWine and Xie Lil prepares dinner, then Richard takes his seat, then Oliver, then Grandpa. Each character has a scene when they sit down, and then their dinner scene. There are nearly ten pages of script paper before and after, and the preset length of the film is 10 minutes. After precise editing, it will probably be 7B minutes, accounting for one-third of the first act.
According to his storyboard, it was impossible to shoot this scene in one day. It was planned to take two and a half days, which was already an ideal situation.
"Little Miss Sunlight" is an ensemble story. It goes without saying how important it is to shoot the first ensemble scene well. The internal and external shaping, conflicts, emotional connections and on-screen chemistry of the six characters are all reflected in this scene. Entering the audience's sight determines their impression and interest in the following story.
It is very challenging for actors. Although everyone has had a roundtable reading meeting before shooting, it is just a reading meeting after all. The performance in front of the camera is another matter.
It is also a great test for the director. Whether the ensemble performance is good or not depends not only on the actors, but also on the choice and number of lenses.
The script is that the characters are sitting at the dining table and talking constantly. How to film it? Question 1: How many people should be put in the frame? When is it six people, when is it one person or two people? Three people? Question 2: When someone speaks a line, do you shoot a close-up of him directly, or focus on the reaction of other characters? Question three, what is the performance rhythm? How to adjust the reading speed of the six people and how to allocate time? Question four
Sometimes, the actors obviously performed well on the set, but because the director and editor made wrong choices, the result was that everyone was mediocre; vice versa, sometimes the actors performed mediocrely because the director and editor made wrong choices. Even the magical shots and editing techniques make everyone shine.
Fortunately, this is not a stage play. This scene will not be performed only once, but many, many times. The actors do not have much pressure, and the pressure is all on the director.
Basically, how a director handles scene No. 18 can tell his level.
If it were a TV series or a TV movie, then everything would be relatively simple and fixed, with several camera positions to switch back and forth, such as a six-person shot of the front/side of the dining table, a two-person shot, a three-person shot, and close-ups/close-ups of the characters ¡The level of filmmaking will be to avoid repetition and pay more attention to the scheduling of scenes, distances and angles, as well as composition, such as the one-third rule.
The rule of thirds is the most basic and practical golden rule in photographic composition, which is to divide the frame into three equal parts both horizontally and vertically. There is a vivid name in Chinese called "tic-tac-toe composition". Generally speaking, placing the subject in the center of the picture will be dull and boring, but if the subject is placed at or near the intersection of the three-point line, it will be better than in the blank space. The actor's eyes are usually located Position near the upper third.
Soap operas don¡¯t pay so much attention. The poorer the quality, the better. Of course, because the frame space of the screen is small, there will be more situations where it is best to use the center of the screen.
In addition to these, the most important thing is camera movement. The problem is that everyone is sitting during the meal and cannot walk around or move their buttocks. It is not easy to perform camera movement.
Ye Wei had been worried about this for a while. When he was drafting the storyboard script, too obvious camera movements would appear too formalistic and even make the audience notice the existence of the camera. This is not a pseudo-documentary, and it is not suitable for any feature film. , having this feeling will only be terrible and make people laugh.
If there is no movement and only hard cutting, it will inevitably be a bit dull. He doesn't like it. It seems that the actors have done the work but the director has not, and the shooting space of the studio is wasted.
How to make the sitting and talking part of this scene move?
Different directors will have different methods. Some directors will say "I don't want to exercise."
And Ye Wei¡¯s method involves solving another problem in the script.
In the script, when it comes to the beauty pageant venue, there are some scenes where other little girls laugh at Olive, like the one where they line up to get Miss California¡¯s autograph:
¡°Cheryl took Olive¡¯s hand and led her to the back of a line where six little girls and their mothers were lining up. A girl standing in front of them turned and stared at Oliver, as if sizing up her opponent's strength.
Oliver smiled: Hello
The girl in front quickly turned around without saying a word.
??Oliver takes other people¡¯s attitudes in his stride. She also turned around and looked at the other girls in the room. They were all extremely groomed. Olive was still wearing her travel attire, raw-edge denim shorts made of denim and black Converse high-tops.
?Two twin sisters were laughing and chasing each other around.
Oliver looked at them, and then the twins realized she was looking at them.
They whistled to each other and laughed. Oliver responded to them with a smile and kindness. Finally, the twins approached Oliver.
Twin sister 1: Are you losing weight?
Oliver: What?
Twin sister 1: Are you losing weight?
Oliver: No
Twin sister 2: Don¡¯t try to lose weight (you won¡¯t succeed).
They laughed again and ran away. Oliver felt confused.
Cheryl was a little angry, but she didn't know what to do. ¡»
For a while, Ye Wei was considering whether to have this scene, as well as all the scenes between Oliver and the young contestants.
Because what is the function of these scenes? If it only depicts the meanness of other children and the simplicity of Oliver, making the audience filled with indignation and hooked at the climax, then it is just the setting and processing of a commercial film, and it has no value in terms of art.
Ye Wei asked Michael River, what is the intention of the screenwriter here? Arndt said that it was one of the modifications made by Focus Film to make the story more commercial. It was not there originally. This part is a bit like a youth campus commercial film, where there is always a mean school beauty and her sister gang, and the heroine is The bully was punished and then broke out.
"But when "Little Miss Daylight" is positioned as an independent literary film, this setting is not necessary. Even if it is filmed, it will probably not be used in the editing room.
However, it is not without literary and artistic qualities. The meanness of little girls is caused by the beauty pageant in pursuit of fame and fortune that erodes their innocence. There is more darkness in their hearts than sunshine, and the darkness comes from the influence of adults. Oliver is in the early stages of this phase.
¡°If we shoot from this angle, we can use these scenes in a way that emphasizes literature and art rather than commerciality.
However, there are other problems in the script that hinder this perspective. These problems were not noticed by Ye Wei when he first read the script. At first, he only thought that such a commercial literary story was too rare, but when he officially did an in-depth analysis as a director Later, he found some deep-seated confusion in the setting.
Darkness corresponds to sunshine, little adults correspond to simplicity, and meanness corresponds to beauty.
When contrasting meanness with innocence, it is neither obvious nor precise, and the effect is: the girls are bullying Oliver, and they are in big trouble.
The enemy is Ms. Jenkins, fame-obsessed adults, and mainstream society's set of values ??that succeed and fail, not a group of children. Only with obvious and accurate comparisons can children not be enemies and can it be thought-provoking on the issue of "why little girls are mean."
The problem is that they are mean and Oliver is not beautiful. The expression of the story is obviously beautiful. The beauty of Olive's soul is not exaggerated in the entire script. She is just an innocent, childish and simple little girl. She says that boys are stupid for falling in love with boys. She is greedy and likes ice cream. She wants to be recognized by her father. Wanting the family to be happy is common enough and has self-evident kindness. But can there be a little bit of ordinary beauty, a sparkle of childlike innocence?
Another chaotic setting is Miss California. She is one of Oliver's idols and is positioned as a kind woman in the script. She answered Oliver's question "Do you eat ice cream?" and said, "Yes, I like ice cream very much." And when Oliver performed on stage, the audience was full of jeers and boos. She "sternly glanced around and felt bad for Oliver." At the end of the performance, she was one of the people who stood up to applaud Oliver.
What is the role of Miss California? Can you be beautiful even if you eat ice cream? Can you win a beauty contest?
It was Emma's sudden guest appearance that made Ye Wei clarify the problem. It was enough that "you can be beautiful even if you eat ice cream". There should not be "you can win a beauty contest by eating ice cream". This view was inappropriate and unreasonable. appear in this story.
Because the bigger theme is to see through the essence of beauty pageants: life is one beauty pageant after another, but winning or losing, fame and fortune is not the true meaning of life.
So eating ice cream and beauty pageants are opposites. The former is a "go to hell, I can fly if I want to" lifestyle, while the latter is a "winner, loser" lifestyle that follows the rules. With this This contrast is only established when the family leaves the beauty pageant venue to eat ice cream at the end.
¡°Miss California can¡¯t be a good person, she can only be an enemy. When the important responsibility of "eating ice cream can be beautiful" is taken away from her, and then the positioning is changed:
In this beauty pageant game, Oliver is in the early stage, the little girls are in the middle stage, and Miss California is undoubtedly in the late stage. She is a hypocrite, a champion of adults who is completely childlike, a hopeless mean spirit, little girls and Ollie??The future that continues on this beauty pageant road is the epitome of every adult who has no sunshine in his heart.
So, when a small flying insect like a bee or moth broke into the venue, causing all the little girls except Oliver to scream in disgust, and then was slapped to death by Miss California with a smile, the little girls cheered, and Oliver was stunned and confused. ¡
In this way, her confusion inspires the audience to think.
This is not enough. Olive is confused because she has a different attitude towards small flying insects, or life. Contrary to the law of the jungle, she believes that every life deserves to be respected, no matter beautiful or ugly, no matter successful or failed.
So, when a fly comes into Scene 18 and flies around the dining room table, and Richard wants to slap it to death, Oliver yells no
Is there any small flying insect more annoying than a fly? If there were any flying insect beauty contest, it would be the absolute loser. But it's just such a little fly, and Oliver doesn't want to kill it, because she is a child whose beautiful innocence has not been polluted by the "beauty contest".
Flies and bees, ordinary children and beauty pageant winners, sunshine and darkness, beauty and ugliness.
This not only changes the chaotic settings, but also appropriately increases the lens movement through the flight of the fly and the reaction of the people. In the case of Scene No. 18, you can also shape people through their different reactions, and once again reveal the situation of this family - there is not much cleaning, and flies are attracted.
When shooting, you have to be careful not to let flies bother the audience. Ye Wei does not intend to use the subjective or onlooker perspective of a fly. The camera perspective will not leave the six people. It is not involved in the whole process. After causing two or three camera movements, Don't worry about it, this is the role of flies in camera scheduling.
All scenes with flying insects can only be done with post-production special effects. Otherwise, who will teach him how to direct scenes with flies?
This is Ye Wei¡¯s way of handling this group scene and this script. Some people may not agree, but guess what? The director has the final say
"Oh nomy heart"
When another shot was crossed off the work list, Ye Wei screamed in pain. With such a stroke, he would never have the chance to see the combined effect in the editing room.
At this time, the doorbell rang. He got up and walked over. Through the door hole, he saw the silhouette of a young and graceful girl, Nina, who came to visit after the gymnastics training. He immediately opened the door, pretending to be confused and surprised, and asked: "Beauty, who are you looking for?"
"Hi" Nina laughed first, and then stopped laughing when she saw that he was acting so realistically. She looked charming and her eyes were sparkling, "I have a question to ask you.
"What?" Ye Wei asked her to walk into the guest room. Nina came closer to him, caressing his face with one hand, and holding his right hand with the other. Her eyes moved, and she said softly: "Do you want to know what I'm wearing under my jeans? There's nothing"
"Hahahahaha" he couldn't help but laugh, making her pout coquettishly. This really ruined the atmosphere. Anyway, I knew she wasn't serious and couldn't do that until she recovered. What she said was that the director's girlfriend had the final say on some things. He laughed and said, "Sorry, sorry, it's my fault, really. No? Haha.¡±
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