Chapter 44： Start shooting (1/2)

Salt Lake City, Utah, approaching December, the weather here has gradually become cold.

At this time, it was sunny morning, the Eastern High School in Salt Lake City, the class bell had already sounded, and the classroom was as usual, but today many students were obviously absent-minded. The students sitting by the window looked at the school lawn outside the window. By the side, the students next to each other whispered.

The white male teacher who was teaching the class shook his head secretly when he saw the students. He walked over to the window and looked outside. He said, ”God, it's very busy outside. Does anyone want to go down and see?” The students in the classroom They immediately coaxed and raised their hands together. The white male teacher laughed and walked back to the podium, saying, ”Don't dream, guys, give me a good lesson.”

”Oh, I knew it!” The students expressed their disappointment. The white male teacher shrugged and picked up the chalk to continue writing the formula on the blackboard. There was some complaint in his heart. Why did the principal approve the shooting of ”High School Musical” here? Don't he know that this will cause great trouble to the school? For visibility? Come on, will this movie succeed? God knows!

The teaching building area of ​​the Eastern High School in Salt Lake City is a ”concave” architectural pattern, with buildings on all three sides, and empty roads and lawns in the middle.

At this time, the lawns were full of youths dressed in youth, and they chatted in the sky, waiting for the start of filming. They were all mass performers in ”High School Musical”. The crew contacted the agency specializing in mass actors and got a reply. They hired students from the local acting school in Salt Lake City.

These people will act as ordinary students on campus, fulfilling the ”mass” needs of all scenes in the movie.

And now, ”High School Musical” is about to officially start shooting the first group of shots. The New Year holiday is over and the school is reopened. This set of shots is to film the actor ”Troy Burton” walking down the school bus, and then surrounded by good friends, teammates and beautiful cheerleaders. The first shot in this set of shots is a frontal shot of the Eastern High School, where the students are happily talking or walking into the school, a sunny scene. In the later period, this scene is also ready to be accompanied by lively and enthusiastic music, then the youthful atmosphere of the high school campus will come out.

On the way far to the school gate, the photographic equipment has been put in place, the crew of the photography team is carrying out the final debugging, and Vale-Fister talks with the lighting engineer Steve Taylor to confirm the light. And exposure, fat man Harry George listened carefully with his ears standing next to him. He had completed the task of laying the rails, so he had time to follow Vale Fister's **** to learn photography skills and experience.

The crew of the crew all perform their duties, and when they have finished their work, they take a break and stand away from the camera lens; the leading actors such as Tom Willing and Marcus Mans also stand and chat together, and Rachel sits Watching the script silently on the grass, Zachary twisted his body to practice the dance steps, and Jessica tilted her lips sweetly, staring at Wang Yang in the distance, he was talking about himself with the actors who appeared next. Requirements.

”When you wait for the filming, you pass by on a skateboard, just like you did when you were playing, and jumped on this railing.” Wang Yang patted the iron railing next to him and looked at the few skateboard masters specially invited. ”I need a perfect jump.” The few skateboarders nodded, and one of the white men smiled. ”Relax, this is too easy for us.”

Wang Yang patted his shoulder with a smile, and then walked to the mass actors who will be close to the camera, and said to the young men and women: ”You smile, high-five, hug, like you haven't seen for a long time, understand? ”

”Ok.” Several young people responded. At this time, field director Gil-Sedis came over and said: ”Director, the mass actors are in place, and the school bus is ready.” Wang Yang nodded to him and walked back to the camera, Valais -Fister has already communicated with the lighting engineer and checked the camera. He said to Wang Yang: ”No problem.”

Are all ready. Wang Yang looked at the main school building in front of him. In order to film this scene, the time of the big clock above the main building was also temporarily disrupted. He took a deep breath and turned his head to look at Vale-Fister standing behind the camera and said: ”Then, it's time to start.” Vale-Fister smiled at him and encouraged, ”Yan, don't be nervous.”

Wang Yang also smiled and exclaimed, ”Walay, I can't control myself, this is not” Ghost Record ”, this is not a dv, I'm looking forward to this for too long, it makes people crazy.” Vale-Fest point The head smiled and said: ”I can understand that when I first picked up the camera to shoot, my hands were shaking.”

In the original TV movie, this lens was only fixed at the front of the teaching building, and then switched to the next screen. The shooting range was very small. The lens only moved from the ground to the vertical and horizontal. The teaching on both sides of the Eastern High School There is no shadow at all in the building, it ’s because the TV screen is small, but it ’s not beautiful if you draw the picture far away; but the big screen is different. , So the lens we have taken now has been redesigned. After a frontal medium shot, the lens will quickly rewind to the back, turning the medium shot into a distant shot.

In order to shoot this effect, the camera's guide rails were laid very far away from the road.

Wang Yang had already discussed the shooting plan with Vale-Fister. Vale-Fister held the camera's control handle and waited for the director's order; Wang Yang looked around again, everyone was looking at him, the crowd actors, crew colleagues, and good friends ... ... Harry George exaggeratedly opened his mouth and said silently, his mouth was clearly ”buddy,” Michael Pitt put his hands on his chest and smiled with a thumbs up; Jessica's happy smile; Rachel Also stood aside and smiled lightly at him.

Wang Yang came to the back of the camera, his heart was beating very quickly, he did it, he was about to become a real movie director soon! Holding his fist, Wang Yang shouted loudly: ”Start shooting!”

The clerk held the clerk board and shouted the serial number and scene of this lens in front of the camera, which was to facilitate the editing work in the later period. After the speech was finished, he knocked off the speech board, and Wang Yang shouted again: ”n!” With his voice, the crowd of actors suddenly moved around and entered the state of performance.

Wang Yang ’s eyes were pointed at the viewfinder, and he saw that Vary-Fister pointed the camera at the school building sculpture on the ground, and then controlled the camera to slowly move to the right and raised, and he saw the lively school. The students walked on skateboards, one of them jumped on the iron railing and made a glide, while the students in the distance talked with joy and laughter. The two girls gave a high-five and said something together. The yellow behind The school bus is also driving slowly.

”Ok, ok, very good ...” Wang Yang thought in his heart and opened his side. Vale-Fest quickly pushed the camera back. Wang Yang followed, staring at the actors. The performance retreated to the end of the guide rail and shouted excitedly: ”cut!” Seeing everyone looking at him, Wang Yang grinned and nodded: ”Very good, passed!”

Everyone immediately cheered, clapping enthusiastically, and whistling. Wang Yang smiled and clapped his hands, raised a thumb, and shouted, ”Prepare for the next shot.”

The next scene is where Troy Burton walks down from the school bus and walks into the school with friends. The shooting position of this lens needs to be changed to the front of the yellow school bus. This requires moving all the photographic equipment and recording equipment over there, and readjusting the lights. This will take another while.

”Hey, man, leave it to me.” Harry George, the photography chore, walked over. The fat man stared at the dark film camera with his eyes glowing. He moved carefully, but his fat body had great strength and his steps were steady Move the camera to the front.

Other field services also carried other photographic equipment. Michael Pete packed up the rails, looked at Harry George's back, and shouted, ”Be careful, fat!” Harry George, who went further and further, did not look back. , Responded loudly: ”I can do it!”

”Michael, don't worry about that. For Harry, the camera is like his wife. He is reluctant to fall.” Wang Yang looked at Harry in the distance, and said with a smile, he clapped again: ”Everyone move faster, me-on, me-on! ”He stood beside and looked for a while, then walked to the grass next to him, looked at the clear blue sky, exhaled quietly, he just finished his directing on the film film The first shot was smooth and not as difficult as expected.

When I saw the camera shooting the picture I wanted, this feeling was really wonderful. Wang Yangwei smiled and pondered the indescribable taste. Suddenly he heard a gentle voice behind him: ”Hi, Yang, do you want to drink water?”

Wang Yang looked back and saw that Jessica was holding a bottle of mineral water in her hand. Her face was full of sweet smiles, and there was a unique expression in her eyes that made her look more charming. Wang Yang frowned pretendingly, shouting to the distance: ”Michael, where are you going? Shouldn't this be his job? How could there be a beautiful female fieldwork? I can't afford this salary!” Jessica laughed and said playfully: ”No salary, this is the girlfriend's job, not the female fieldwork.”

”Thank you, girlfriend.” Wang Yang took the mineral water in her hand with a smile, twisted the lid off, and suddenly whispered, whispered quietly: ”I thought it was opened, it was brand new. , It's so disappointing. ”Jessica rolled her eyes and smiled:” Ok, then I will give you Harry's bottle of water next time. ”Wang Yang pretended to look frightened and shook his head again and again:” No No, it ’s brand new. ”

Rachel, who was standing in the distance, glanced over there and saw Wang Yang and Jessica laughing and talking happily. She felt empty and a little uncomfortable in her heart, shaking her head and grinning reluctantly, holding the play farther Walked on the lawn.

”Yang, today's work is over, shall we go to the cinema?” Jessica looked at Wang Yang expectantly and introduced the authenticity: ”The recently released” Bugs and Bugs Agents ”I heard that it is very good, and there is” The National Enemy ” ”I haven't seen it yet.”

Wang Yang thought for a while, then shook his head apologetically: ”Jessica, I'm sorry, I have to discuss tomorrow's shooting plan with Varei; there are some company affairs waiting for me to deal with ...” Waving: ”Oh, that's okay! Yang, I just talked about it casually.” She smiled and said, ”I'm going to study the script too. I have a lot of plays tomorrow, don't I?”