Chapter 89 Studio Fire, Acting Skills Frighten the Lead (Ch 89)

The days of joining the group always go by very quickly.

The crew of Better Days has started filming for more than ten days, and the shooting progress is currently going smoothly.

At the end of May, in the corridor of Nankai Middle School in Chongqing, the crew was filming intensively.

“Crack! Crack! Crack!”

Director Zeng threw the script in his hand, stood up, and impatiently stopped the filming.

After hearing this, everyone was silent and began to reset their work, ready to start over again.

The scene being filmed now shows a small gang led by Wei Lai, who pushed Chen Nian down the stairs when she was going downstairs.

It was originally a shot of several tens of seconds, but after shooting it over a dozen times, Director Zeng was still not satisfied and kept asking for a redo.

The reason was that he felt that Wei Lai’s momentum when he spoke the lines after pushing Chen Nian down was too weak, which made the audience not feel any hatred.

“Wei Lai, what the hell are you doing? I’ve fallen over a dozen times. How can you be an actor if your acting is so bad? If you can’t shoot, find someone else!”

After another “cut”, Zhou Dongyu, who played Chen Nian, finally got angry and got up from the ground and started cursing.

In fact, it’s no wonder that she’s angry. She didn’t use a stand-in during these dozen times. She was the one who rolled down the stairs herself time and time again.

“I’m sorry, Sister Dongyu, I know it’s my fault, I’m really sorry!”

After Zhou Ye came to his senses, he ran down from upstairs and apologized to Zhou Dongyu.

Because he was walking too fast, he accidentally stepped on empty air and rolled down the stairs, scaring everyone.

“Donyu, calm down. You’ve worked hard. Leave this to me. Go and take a rest.”

Director Zeng walked up and glanced at Zhou Ye. He heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that she was only slightly scratched.

“Tell her to finish her lines and call me back, otherwise I won’t act today!”

After Zhou Dongyu finished speaking, she went downstairs angrily and went back to her nanny car to rest.

“Rest where you are and shoot again later.”

After Director Zeng finished speaking, he glanced at Zhou Dongyu who was coming downstairs, and Zhou Ye who was standing beside him with his head down, looking depressed and with red eyes.

It’s really a headache. Now the roles of the two people seem to be reversed.

It becomes that Wei Lai is the victim and Chen Nian is the perpetrator. How can this be filmed?

On the other side, Qi Jia and his assistant, who had just finished filming, sat aside and ate melons the whole time.

“Brother, this is so exciting! This is the first time I’ve seen a big star get angry on the set.”

The assistant leaned close to Qi Jia’s ear and said with a look of excitement as if he had just eaten something new.

“Gossip, if you have nothing to do, I’ll punish you by letting you go downstairs and buy me two cups of Heytea. I want hand-made green grapes, half sugar and ice. Go quickly.”

After Qi Jia replied to Zhang Ruonan’s message, he drove the gossipy guy downstairs.

Tomorrow is the premiere of the movie, and she and the crew are making final preparations for the roadshow.

“Is that one cup for me?”

“If you want to drink, buy three.”

…

After sending the assistant away, Qi Jia put away his phone and sat down next to Director Zeng.

“Qi Jia, there is no scene for you today. If you feel bored, go back and have a rest.”

Director Zeng was reviewing the previous clip. When he saw Qi Jia coming over, he forced a smile and said.

“Wipe off your sweat first, Director Zeng. It’s too hot today.”

Qi Jia smiled, took out a few tissues and handed them over.

“Yes, it’s getting hotter in Chongqing these days. Let’s finish the filming as soon as possible, otherwise it will get even hotter later.”

“But Zhou Ye has been in a very bad state these days. If only everyone was like you and Zhou Dongyu, I would be much more relaxed.”

Director Zeng took the tissue, wiped his sweat, took off his glasses and wiped them, and said he was very tired.

After saying that, he saw Qi Jia concentrating on watching the clip he had just filmed, so he asked casually,

“What do you think of their filming of this scene?”

Qi Jia did not answer immediately, but read it again and again, then nodded and said seriously,

“The first three are fine, but Zhou Ye’s emotions seem to be getting worse as time goes on, especially in the last paragraph. Her tone makes people feel like she is the victim, and the expression on her face is also wrong. I think it should be like this…”

Qi Jia quickly simulated it in his mind, putting himself into the scene environment and character psychology of the movie.

Then he stood up and looked down at Director Zeng with an indifferent expression, his eyes revealing a chilling aura.

Director Zeng, who was originally puzzled, raised his head and met Qi Jia’s eyes.

I felt my whole body tremble instantly, and the scene of being ravaged by Qi Jia in the office during the audition appeared in my mind unconsciously.

The feeling of fear and helplessness surged into my heart, and sweat began to pour out on my forehead again.

thump!

Just when Director Zeng was almost suffocated by Qi Jia’s gaze, a burst of noise woke him up.

Just like a drowning person who was suddenly rescued, Director Zeng came to his senses and gasped for breath. He took off his glasses with trembling hands and wiped the sweat off his face. He looked at Zhou Ye on the side and asked.

“What happened? Did you break something?”

“I’m sorry, Director Zeng. I just looked at Brother Qi and his eyes were so scary that I lost my grip on the kettle and dropped it.”

Zhou Ye said cautiously, and then secretly glanced at Qi Jia.

“Come over here. Director Zeng and I were just working on this scene with you.”

Qi Jia came out of the scene, smiled and waved to Zhou Ye, asked her to sit next to him, and asked Director Zeng again.

“Director, how do you feel?”

“Good! Very good! Very good! This is the feeling I want.”

Director Zeng slapped his thigh excitedly, and then looked at Zhou Ye.

“Zhou Ye, did you remember Teacher Qi Jia’s performance just now? Now I have a sample for you, can you reproduce it?”

“I will try my best to direct.” After several failures, Zhou Ye became a little nervous.

Qi Jia looked at her hand tightly holding the kettle and sighed inwardly. Just then the assistant came back with milk tea, so he waved to her.

Liu Yiran walked up, put the milk tea on the table, then trotted over to get a tissue to wipe his sweat.

“Here, I’ll buy you a drink. Relax and don’t be nervous. You can act well.”

Qi Jia took two cups and handed one to Zhou Ye.

“Thank you, Brother Qi.”

Zhou Ye took it with both hands and politely said thank you to Qi Jia~

There was still one cup left on the table. Director Zeng saw that there were only three people here and the other two had already drunk their cups, so he naturally thought that this cup was for him.

So he took it naturally, and in the desperate eyes of the assistant behind him,

!!!∑(ﾟДﾟノ)ノ

Puff~ He inserted the cannula, took a deep breath, smacked his lips and commented,

“Too much sugar”

“But it is quite cool, thanks Qi Jia.”

Qi Jia looked at the little assistant who was looking like a puffer fish behind Director Zeng, gave her an apologetic look, and motioned for her to buy another drink.

“Brother Qi, I have a question. Why didn’t you say your lines just now?”

Seeing that Qi Jia was still as easy-going as ever, Zhou Ye felt more relaxed and asked about her doubts.

After hearing this, Director Zeng also remembered it and looked at him curiously.

“Yeah Qi Jia, did you forget your lines just now?”

“Wouldn’t the audience come back to their senses after the lines were spoken? Silent terror is the scariest.”

Qi Jia shook the milk tea in his hand and said with a relaxed look.

“You mean, this line is redundant, it’s better not to!”

Director Zeng was the first to react and asked with a look of shock.

“Yes, Director. Your reaction just now proves that I was right, right?”

Qi Jia nodded and said,

“Director, I think what Brother Qi said is right. I want to give it a try.”

Zhou Ye raised his hand and carefully put forward his ideas.

“Alright, Zhou Ye, go get ready and we’ll try one out. Once we’re sure there’s no problem, call Dong Yu over.”

After thinking about it carefully, Director Zeng had to admit that what Qi Jia said made some sense, so he agreed to Zhou Ye’s request.

A special guest was randomly chosen from the extras to play Chen Nian. After the script supervisor clapped the board, the performance officially began.

In the shot, the students played by the extras ran out of the corridor.

Wei Lai, played by Zhou Ye, and her two followers came behind Chen Nian, reached out and pushed her down.

As Chen Nian fell downstairs, the camera shifted from Te Yue’s face to Wei Lai’s face.

Zhou Ye just stood there coldly, looking down indifferently at Chen Nian who was lying at her feet. Everyone around was silent.

Although there are no lines, in the eyes of the audience, she is saying that the strong prey on the weak, and if you are weaker than me, you are inferior to me, and you deserve to be ravaged and vented by me!

Instead of hating me, you should be more grateful to me. You won’t make much money if you’re alive anyway. Wouldn’t it be better if I kill you and compensate you with a large sum of money?

This lasted for more than ten seconds, until Director Zeng stood up with satisfaction and shouted,

“Okay! Passed!”

…

“Brother, has Chen Nian’s actor really been changed?”

The assistant had just come back from buying Heytea and happened to catch this scene. She curiously approached Qi Jia and asked.

“Reset the crew. Also, call up Teacher Zhou Dongyu and tell her that we can start filming. There will definitely be no problem this time.”

“Qi Jia, this time it’s all thanks to you, you are really a hero of our crew!”

After Director Zeng finished talking to everyone, he turned around and punched Qi Jia’s shoulder hard, extremely excited.

“Thank you, Brother Qi. If it weren’t for you, I really don’t know what I would do!”

Zhou Ye also hurried over and kept bowing to Qi Jia. The little girl was about to cry while talking. You can imagine how much pressure she was under today.

“See, I told you, you are great, believe in yourself.”

Qi Jia waved his hand, smiled and encouraged her again.

Soon, Zhou Dongyu came back.

Director Zeng told her about the changes to his role. She looked at Qi Jia in confusion, nodded and said nothing.

When everything is ready, continue shooting.

With Qi Jia’s encouragement and his first success, Zhou Ye performed much better this time.

A minute later, this one also passed smoothly.

Zhou Dongyu got up from the ground, looked at Zhou Ye who looked very happy, and then looked at Qi Jia who was sitting there childishly snatching grapes from his assistant.

I was even more confused. Less than half an hour had passed and Zhou Ye’s acting was like a completely different person. Was he really that amazing?

After thinking for a while, she walked up to Qi Jia, squatted down, and looked at him curiously.