"This is a golden wheat field. The wheat is swaying in the wind. The sky is so blue that there is no impurity at all. On the horizon, there is a beautiful olive tree. Its lush branches and leaves are full of vitality. It is very huge, but it does not feel oppressive at all. None.
In front of you is a small straight road leading to the olive tree. The soil is exuding fragrance. There is a small circle of open space around the big tree. In front of you, there are some little girls and women gathering, maybe seven or eight, and their soft chatter and laughter are spreading. Come. Susie, the focus of your eyes is on a little girl. She is thin and wearing an old cotton dress. She is spinning happily, and the skirt dances into a small circle.
At that moment, your heart softened and you almost cried. Harley wants to take you there, but you suddenly feel, no! They are deceiving themselves and betraying others. "
In front of the green screen of the studio, Liz and Kelsey were listening and watching Ye Wei's direction attentively, and he personally demonstrated the scheduling of the scene.
This is adapted from the scene at the end of Chapter 14 of the original work. The counselor Vernie gave Susie a map and asked her to go to the big tree in the wheat field. Some girls and women who were also killed by Mr. Harvey and died due to tragic experiences gathered together. Here, activities such as peer assistance are carried out.
In the original work, Susie "couldn't help but cry" and told everyone what was on her mind. "Every time she said it, the sadness in her heart lightened a little bit."
But in Ye Wei¡¯s adapted script, this scene releases almost complete sadness and repression. She scolds Harley and retreats to her own confinement paradise.
"I won't go there!" Ye Wei shook his head and backed away, looking at the camera in front of him as an olive tree, and Maurer and others as the victimized girls, and said sadly: "You are deceiving yourselves, maybe you are very happy, but every day in the world We are all sad! Our family is sad every day!¡±
After saying that, he turned around and ran, then quickly walked to Harley's stage and started acting. He turned sideways and looked back, with a depressed expression, and shouted: "Susie, Susie!"
A burly man with a height of 187cm used a thin girlish voice and a feminine demeanor to play two girls, which looked very funny.
"But the two young actresses are used to it, and the unscrupulous Master Gia has had enough laughter. In fact, there is nothing funny. This is the director.
Especially for green screen scenes, there are a lot of scenes like this every day on the tlb studio these days. No one knew what each scene was like until Ye Wei explained it. There were two types of explanations, one was drawing and the other was personal demonstration, and he used both.
Despite this, sometimes even when he said he had dried up his saliva, Liz and Liz still looked confused.
"That's it now. Ye Wei acted it out again, showing off the moves, the rhythm of the narration, and even the gestures. The two of them still had a lot of confusion.
Liz looked at the conceptual sketch in her hand. It was not drawn by Ye Wei, but by a conceptual artist. The olive tree occupied one-third of the frame, which was inconsistent with the perspective of the "horizon" he mentioned. This painting may be an empty shot, or an original painting given to the special effects company, and is not what Susie saw.
She had no choice but to ask in confusion: "Director, I want to know how big the tree is from my perspective? I'm a little unsure about the distance between us and the tree."
Ye Wei took the original painting in Liz's hand and looked at it. Its perspective was indeed not the Susie's perspective he wanted, and future shots would not be like this. He said: "The tree is over the horizon, so although it is huge, it doesn't look too big to you"
"How old?" Liz's doubts have not diminished, and Kelsey is also a little confused. They have the same perspective in this scene, and the distance affects their imagination.
"Giya! Give me a pen and paper." Ye Wei looked at them and realized that he couldn't make them understand with words, so it was better to draw pictures and show them directly.
Gia, who was next to him, started to work as an assistant and handed him a pencil and a small drawing board with drawing paper fixed on it.
Kelsey¡¯s pretty face showed excitement. She was obsessed with watching viy draw. He could draw the picture he imagined in a few minutes. It was really amazing.
In this regard, Liz is also deeply impressed. If "Heathscram" sings only well, his painting is really amazing.
Ye Wei took the sketch pen and drawing board and concentrated on drawing on the drawing paper.
Lines fell one after another, and in less than three minutes, a sketch of the scenery from Susie and Harry's perspective was drawn on the paper. The frame of the picture was based on the rule of thirds (tic-tac-toe composition), with the olive tree at the bottom of the middle grid and close to the top. , the sky occupies the upper three squares and more than half of the middle three squares, giving it a very broad and open feeling, and also very far away.
"This is what you see." Ye Wei took down the painting and handed it to Liz and the others, then quickly drew a floor plan of the scene on a page of white paper, drawingThe time, distance, and perspective of the characters are all clearly drawn. The camera position and movement route are drawn as dotted lines. The movement routes of Susie (labeled s) and Harley (labeled h) are also drawn as solid lines.
The three of them watched him draw those arrows, dotted lines, and solid lines as if they were random drawings. They were all amazed after seeing them. He even marked the relationship between the shots and the rhythm of the performance for later editing. Film geniuses don't just talk, their directing and painting skills are truly extraordinary.
"Look here." Ye Wei clicked on the two camera positions of the plane scene with the tip of his pen, and said to the two of them: "When Susie and Hallie first arrived at the wheat field and looked at the big tree, and when Susie Turning around and running away, although panoramic lenses are used, the distance between them and the camera is close to the same, but the camera position will be different. "
Seeing the two people listening, he continued: "It started from the front, with the wheat fields on both sides of the frame and them in the middle. The look was very fair and peaceful. But in the end, the camera moved to the left side of the wheat field, and the whole world seemed to be tilted. It also becomes sharper. When Susie runs back, the audience is not looking at her back, but her profile. It is not completely isolated from the character. The audience can feel her complicated mood and feel that A circuit to loneliness that would maximize the power of loss in her departure.
So when you perform, you should also follow this change in perception. When Susie broke out, she was not only sad, but also sharp; and when Hallie called Susie, the loneliness and depression caused by Susie's departure infected her, and she was also leaning. Even the calmest person in heaven There will still be sadness. Do you understand? "
Liz and Kelsey looked at each other, shook their heads, and said in unison: "I don't understand."
"What don't you understand?" Ye Wei looked at them blankly and said it clearly enough.
"I knew you were great." Liz murmured, and at the same time said in her heart: This is why movies are directed, and why actors are almost equal to the director's tools. How much does the actor decide on the composition and scheduling of each shot, and the role behind them?
After three days of acting, she was still not used to showing off herself. But he asked so hard, so she tried hard, and ended up being scolded by him more than ten times a day.
"Yes." Kelsey nodded in agreement, so handsome! After these days of mainly acting, she has a clearer understanding of the difference between movies and TV series. How could she hear such words on the set of "Basketball Brothers"? If you can't hear it, those directors are like wood.
Gia was quite amused. Is this guy speaking too much camera language to them? Even Master Gia can¡¯t fully understand it!
"Let's put it this way." Ye Wei said in a different way, "Susie made the happy atmosphere of a party very stiff. No one messed with her, but she was in a bad mood. She suddenly couldn't stand other people's good moods and yelled spoiling words. It makes everyone want to leave.¡±
This time the two of them nodded in understanding, and Liz remembered something and said, "There really are such annoying people."
"Okay! You guys digest it, we'll start shooting in two minutes!" Ye Wei handed the brush and pad back to Gia and walked back to the camera.
Gia took away the concept drawings and other things from the two people's hands and walked back.
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"Hello, I'm Heathram, and the song I want to sing for you today is i-was-born-to-love-temptation."
When people open this new video on the ia-songs channel, they can see that in the video window, Heathram continues to wear Guy Fawkes¡¯ smiling mask, has black hair, black clothes, black shoes and black gloves, and is holding a wooden guitar. . This is already 99.9% Ye Wei¡¯s 18th cover video.
The background of the video in the past week has been changed to a different hotel room balcony.
The media combined the days when the TLB crew left Philadelphia for Toronto, and there is no doubt that this is Ye Wei. The New York Times commented that "Ye Wei's poor disguise", and the Los Angeles Times praised his singing skills for "not being out of tune during live performances." Many netizens felt the same way. Compared with some, viy relies entirely on the tuner. Once he sings a cappella and Singers who reveal their secrets live are much better.
In response to these voices, Ye Wei has never responded at all. The blog is updated every day, but it seems like there is no such thing.
Heathklam has become a YouTube cover sensation. Each video can have millions of views. A large number of "fans" will listen to what songs he covers every night. The last day of June is i-was-born-to-love-lure, the song from Queen frontman Freddie Mercury's solo album Mr. Bad Guy.
The bad boy¡¯s madness for a girl is clearly shown on the mask.
"I was born to love you, accompanying every beat of my heart. Yes, I was born to take care of you, accompanying every day of my life."
In the video, Heathkram sang in a clear and affectionate voice while playing the guitar.?This famous song:
"You are my one and only, I am your man. You are my match, you are my passion. Even if I have everything, I will stop for your love, so give me a chance, let me be with you Romance together. I'm trapped in a dream and my dream is coming true.
How unbelievable that this happened to me, an amazing feeling that filled my body and mind!
I was born to love you, with every beat of my heart"
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On the afternoon of June 30, "The Lovely Bones" completed the five-day shooting of all green screen scenes, and it was completed as scheduled.
The crew flew back to Los Angeles at 20:45 in the evening. Of course, the two actors can stay in Toronto if they want. They are free. Liz can eat as much as she wants, but her work isn't over yet. In a few days, she will be recording in post-production, which is quite a workload because Susie's narration is throughout the film.
Kelsey went back to Columbia City, and Liz went back to LA together.
Ye Wei is not very satisfied with the shooting results of tlb. But it¡¯s really hard to say when it comes to making movies. Sometimes it feels like it goes well, like ¡°Soul Surfer,¡± but in the end it doesn¡¯t feel so good. Sometimes it feels like it doesn¡¯t go well but ends up being good. We won¡¯t know until the finished film is finished and released.
A large part of his dissatisfaction comes from Liz, who has gradually become more creative this week, just a little. I was so pissed off by her! He obviously has such a high talent, but he is inexplicably suppressed. He is a model who thinks too much is worse than not thinking.
Although the movie is not a reality show like the Olsen sisters, and the performance is not about being yourself, it does not mean that the actors have no self.
Liz¡¯s overall performance is only above average, still ranking behind Saoirse and Maudie. The first two are beautiful, natural, individual and full of creativity.
To be honest, the success or failure of tlb depends most on the success or failure of the story adaptation. It cannot be affected by the performance of one or two actors, as long as the acting skills are not so bad that it is unwatchable. Liz is not a bad actress, but she still has a long way to go in terms of releasing herself.
Now, there is only one female actor left in this year's three movies, Jennifer Lawrence, who is about to turn 16.
This girl is a smart person with a high IQ. In order to focus on developing her acting career and performing "Winter's Bone" well, she has graduated from high school early this year with an average grade of 3.9/4. She would have been classified as a gifted student in any high school in America.
During the audition, she was an amazing acting talent, but how she will fare on the set is unknown.
Ye Wei hopes that she will use her intelligence to bring some surprises.
To be honest, "Winter's Bone" is a completely independent project with a budget of only 3 million. It is solely funded by himself. The distributor, Weinstein Pictures, will not invest much in publicity in advance. Let's wait for the word of mouth after watching the screenings. First, make the film. The film will be shelved by him at any time.
Among the three heroines, Jennifer Lawrence has the lowest status.
But now Ye Wei has the greatest expectations for her and has zero choice. It's like he is Master Yoda and has three Jedi apprentices. The eldest Lizzie and the third Emma are both useless. Emma is because her basic acting skills are not good enough, and Lizzie is because she is smart but is misled by her cleverness.
There is also Jenny, the second child.
He felt that there was still hope. Liz and Emma are both wealthy young ladies from well-off families, especially Liz. Her family runs a bank, and her two sisters are worth hundreds of millions; and Emma has a good aunt. They are the kind of people who never worry about food, clothing or opportunities.
This opportunity is not life or death for them, and they won¡¯t feel that way at all. Compared with acting career, self-worth, fame and fortune, they seem to value "I worked with Ye Wei" and "I acted in Ye Wei's movie" more. Their mental energy is very weak.
Jennifer was different. Ye Wei saw the shadow of her original self in this Kentucky farm girl. She valued this opportunity extremely, and she clung to it with red eyes.
So even though he didn't care about her much in the past six months and spent the least time and thoughts on her, she still did a lot, which he couldn't help but admire.
Next, he will pay more attention to her. There are still three months before the filming of "Winter's Bone" starts. He wants to have a young actress as tough as "Rui".
In these three months, I have to complete the post-production of tlb. Only when it is completed to my satisfaction can I go traveling in August. I hope I will go with Lily.
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A Boeing plane flying to Los Angeles is flying in the night sky, with a 6-hour journey + 3-hour time difference. It will arrive at the Los Angeles Airport at local time:
As an onlineOfficers, Ye Wei and Liz were both traveling in first class. The comfortable seats were next to each other and they were talking softly.
"You really can't tell me?" Ye Wei asked.
Liz rolled her eyes, she had really seen his wordy side in the past few days. Then she heard him laugh and say, "I know even if you don't tell me. She must have said that I have nothing to do with him. Your scandal is none of my business. It doesn't matter." Liz looked at him, "You know why you still ask?"
"Make sure you didn't say anything bad about me." Ye Wei breathed a sigh of relief.
"I said a lot of nice things to you!" Liz growled, turning her head and not wanting to pay attention to him, it would be better to look at the stewardess who was passing by.
I'm really curious. She is not a gossip, but things happen around her, and people always gossip Thinking of the songs "Hisgram", if it were her, there is no guarantee that she would be able to resist until the end. 18 days, maybe I was moved by him on the 8th day maybe the 10th day.
Maybe Lily really doesn¡¯t care about him, otherwise wouldn¡¯t she be afraid? With each additional day, the variables multiply. How can a boy feel better if he is rejected again and again? There is no telling which time he will let it go. There is also a person with such an outstanding and proud personality as Ye Wei, and there are many beauties on the list who want to date him.
If Lily cared about him, it would be impossible for her not to be nervous. Liz asked herself that she couldn't do it.
"litchi."
"Huh?" Liz turned to look at him. Ye Wei was quiet for a long time and suddenly asked: "What do you think of me?" Liz was startled and noticed an unusual hint of depression in him. She said softly: "You ask this, it's hard for me to answer. What's the point? "
Ye Wei's face was silent, not knowing what he was thinking.
"I think you" Liz said, trailing off. After a while, she said, "Very good."
Almost perfect, she doesn¡¯t know why it¡¯s not perfect, probably because she doesn¡¯t know what perfection is.
She asked: "Do you still want to find confidence from me?"
"No, I'm just" Ye Wei's eyes looked up, "I'm thinking about how I can be better and satisfy her."
¡°Oh my God, these two guys. Liz was so helpless that she didn't want to speak, but she couldn't help but say: "Whether you like someone or not is not necessarily because of whether they are good enough or not. If they are good, they don't necessarily like you, and if they are bad, you don't necessarily like them. It's not necessarily the case. "
"I know." Ye Wei said. Liz encouraged her kindly: "Then why do you have to compromise? I don't want to compromise to grow up, just be myself." He smiled: "I asked you to be yourself on the set, why don't you do it." She frowned Frowning, "The performance is different."
"I can tell you that I am not satisfied with your performance this time." Ye Wei shook his head, "I hope you will be a better actor next time we work together."
"I'm sorry, I let you down this time." Liz said sincerely, feeling a little down, "I will try my best, I will remember everything you said, just be yourself!"
Ye Wei raised a self-deprecating smile on his lips, "Actually, now I think, 'Be yourself' is an inaccurate term, because 90% of myself are idiots, and the remaining 10% are idiots. Those are all The bad aspects of human nature are often selfish. ¡±
He paused and shrugged, "No matter what you do, don't be yourself. If you want to do it, just try to be your ideal self."
Liz looked at him, "Do you know you are very manly?"
"You tell me?" Ye Wei also looked at her.
"Don't be embarrassed when you are rejected, don't be discouraged when you fail, be proud but don't feel inferior and don't be beaten down, be able to spend more than you can when you spend time, love someone and love with all your heart, this is true manliness." Li It makes me sad to say that I am someone else's suitor.
Ye Wei said in surprise: "Hey, I am Master Yoda!"
"If she really doesn't want you, I want you." Liz suddenly couldn't suppress her heartbeat, and a different look flashed in her gray eyes, "I mean a date, a serious date, we can give it a try."
"No. I was born to love her." Ye Weiyi smiled, "If it wasn't on the plane, I would have started singing a song."
"I've heard of it." Liz nodded, "In that case, let's take her down!"