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Chapter 13 What is your dream?
Chapter 13 What is your dream?
"Ronald, you said that the dream of those girls is the last movie screen, so what is your dream?" Gail asked after cleaning up the trash together.
"My dream? I don't think I've found my dream yet. All I want now is to be able to put my name in the credits of 'High School of Rock' so I can charge more for my portrait photography business , to take audition photos for the handsome men and women in Hollywood."
"Why? You are obviously very talented in this industry." Gail was a little confused that Ronald's "dream" was so realistic, and it had little to do with the film industry.
"To be honest, I don't know if I'm talented in this industry, but I know that people who don't have talent can't make money in this industry. Only those at the top of the pyramid can make a lot of money, and most practitioners don't have much money. And I need money, I need to make some money, go to college."
"Huh? How old are you this year, Ronald?" Gail looked at Ronald up and down, a little disbelieving.
"Yeah, it's hard to believe. This guy just graduated from high school this year. He's four or five years younger than us. He took a gap year to work to earn his tuition." Jim added with a smile, "I was surprised when I first found out."
"Do you really know how to take portraits?" Gail looked at Ronald.
"Yes, I take audition photos, wedding photos, family portraits, etc. in New York. But I don't know Hollywood, Broadway insiders, and clients don't believe me, so I can't make an offer. Each audition photo can only be Charge $30-50.
So I took advantage of the gap year between high school graduation and thought of coming to Los Angeles to try my luck. It happened that New World Productions was recruiting screenwriters, so I applied for the job, but I was accepted. Later, I worked as an assistant on the crew of "Rock High School". "
"Then why don't you take some photos of the crew and use them for marketing later? I'll tell Mr. Coleman. After today, you won't be an interim director, so you can make more money."
"If I can take pictures for the crew, then I will be very happy, and I can take pictures with the stars and hang them in my photography studio. Thank you, Gail." Ronald thanked Gail with a smile.
"It's nothing," Gail shook his hand, "Then what is your dream, Jim?"
"Me? I hope to make a sci-fi film like Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' one day." Jim said, "When I was in community college (equivalent to a junior college in China), I saw this The rerun of the movie, I was hooked, I watched it several times and I said to myself 'Jim, you have to make a movie like this'.
Then I went to Los Angeles, in the UCLA library, photocopied every book I could find on filmmaking, and taught myself.You all know what happened next. I found 12 dentists and raised funds to shoot this short film. Unfortunately, they invested in my short film just to get a tax refund. After seeing the sample, they rejected the plan to make a further feature film. "
"What about you, Gail? What's your dream?
"Me? I like movies, so after graduating from Stanford, instead of going to a financial institution like my classmates, I came to New World to work as an assistant to Mr. Coleman. During this time, I learned a lot about his work. Compared with the director , I prefer to be a producer. I prefer the financing, negotiation, and marketing parts, because my father is an investor, and I hope to be a producer of blockbuster films in the future.” Graduated from a prestigious school, with a long history of family education, plus In fact, she likes movies, and Gail's dream is a matter of course.
"Then may our dreams come true!"
"Yeah, dreams come true."
……
The one-hour lunch time passed quickly, and the crew and extras gathered again.Ronald is going to rehearse the remaining two scenes first, and rush to shoot at the magic hour of sunset in the evening.
Ronald invited Mary Voronov, who played the principal of Toga, "Ms. Voronov, we designed the shot like this. You and two security guards are walking from a distance, and the students are still jumping along the way." disco, rock music on the speakers. You're in a state of trying to put them..."
"Cut off the wires and put the students in solitary confinement." Mary Voronov made a very arrogant look, and waved her hand down fiercely.
"You are in good condition, that's it, you are such a good actor." Ronald praised repeatedly, and then pointed to the grass on the other side of the playground, "When the time comes, you and the security guards will walk from the grass, from the full view to the middle shot, and the two sides I'll have a few girls dancing, so you see them, there's an eye scene to play, and you end up in close-up."
"This shot is well designed." Mary nodded.
"This scene is your appearance shot. We will shoot the close-up first later, which is the last appearance. We will shoot the long shot approaching from a distance at sunset after 4 o'clock, so... "
"No problem, I will cooperate with the rehearsal first."
Unlike the old-fashioned Principal Toga she plays, actress Mary Voronov is a very "progressive" person.In fact, she is the one who likes rock music the most among the actors, but her acting skills are very good. She played a headmistress who hates rebellious rock music and is determined to clean up the campus.
Especially her facial expressions are well controlled.Just now Xiaolu showed a sharp edge, showing a mixture of contempt, hatred, and eagerness to ban rock and roll.Ronald doesn't understand acting, but he also knows that she is good at acting.
Maybe she is the legendary acting school?
Then rehearse the last scene of the day: Liv Randall, the protagonist of the rock and roll hot girl, and Kate Rambo, the good school girl, were punished by the principal Toga to stay in school.It was the first time for the good girl to be punished, and she was depressed. Liv came to comfort her, "It's nothing important to stay in school, I often stay in school."
The two walked slowly towards the teaching building. Liv was holding a portable tape recorder, playing Ramones music, joking around Kate to make her happy, and finally stopped at the backs of the two good sisters in the sunset.
I have to say that this part of the script and the director's lens design are of a very high standard, not like a shoddy low-cost exploitation film.Roger Corman was always able to find really talented people and work for him for minimum wage.
After rehearsing the two shots several times, the director of photography Dean felt that it was ok, and Ronald announced that the crew would suspend waiting.
This is a common thing in other film crews. Some big-name directors can wait a day for a certain light.But in Roger Coleman's crew, waiting for the light is very rare.
The actors hid in the dressing room, and the group actors also entered the teaching building and could not come out. There were only a few staff members left on the scene, and Ronald did not sit on the chair marked with Director Alan's name.Although as a temporary director, no one said anything if he really wanted to sit down.
Thinking of becoming a crew assistant next week, Ronald is very satisfied with his current state, directing a crew, and everyone is waiting for him to make decisions. This feeling is very addictive.There are only a few shots left, and Ronald wants to store up the feeling at this moment, and take it out for recollection at any time in the future.
The winter sun is very gentle, and the Arri 35 BL camera sits quietly on the head.The slate lay on the table next to it, the long recording rod, and the furry microphone... Ronald couldn't tell for a while whether it was these equipments or the people who manipulated them that were the protagonists of the movie?
What is my dream?Will there be a chance to become a real film director?It is too difficult to be a director. It took Alan and Joe more than 5 years...
Maybe I can also try to be an actor, a photographer?I have tasted the taste of making a movie, and I really want to do it again. It is difficult for other professions to provide this feeling of heroism.
In peacetime, command a team, spend a huge amount of money, and then wait for the day of the release, box office, film reviews, victory or defeat in an instant.Perhaps this is the closest you can come to being a general in command of a battle. "
No wonder everyone wants to be a general or a director, this is really a job that men are born to love.
(End of this chapter)
"Ronald, you said that the dream of those girls is the last movie screen, so what is your dream?" Gail asked after cleaning up the trash together.
"My dream? I don't think I've found my dream yet. All I want now is to be able to put my name in the credits of 'High School of Rock' so I can charge more for my portrait photography business , to take audition photos for the handsome men and women in Hollywood."
"Why? You are obviously very talented in this industry." Gail was a little confused that Ronald's "dream" was so realistic, and it had little to do with the film industry.
"To be honest, I don't know if I'm talented in this industry, but I know that people who don't have talent can't make money in this industry. Only those at the top of the pyramid can make a lot of money, and most practitioners don't have much money. And I need money, I need to make some money, go to college."
"Huh? How old are you this year, Ronald?" Gail looked at Ronald up and down, a little disbelieving.
"Yeah, it's hard to believe. This guy just graduated from high school this year. He's four or five years younger than us. He took a gap year to work to earn his tuition." Jim added with a smile, "I was surprised when I first found out."
"Do you really know how to take portraits?" Gail looked at Ronald.
"Yes, I take audition photos, wedding photos, family portraits, etc. in New York. But I don't know Hollywood, Broadway insiders, and clients don't believe me, so I can't make an offer. Each audition photo can only be Charge $30-50.
So I took advantage of the gap year between high school graduation and thought of coming to Los Angeles to try my luck. It happened that New World Productions was recruiting screenwriters, so I applied for the job, but I was accepted. Later, I worked as an assistant on the crew of "Rock High School". "
"Then why don't you take some photos of the crew and use them for marketing later? I'll tell Mr. Coleman. After today, you won't be an interim director, so you can make more money."
"If I can take pictures for the crew, then I will be very happy, and I can take pictures with the stars and hang them in my photography studio. Thank you, Gail." Ronald thanked Gail with a smile.
"It's nothing," Gail shook his hand, "Then what is your dream, Jim?"
"Me? I hope to make a sci-fi film like Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' one day." Jim said, "When I was in community college (equivalent to a junior college in China), I saw this The rerun of the movie, I was hooked, I watched it several times and I said to myself 'Jim, you have to make a movie like this'.
Then I went to Los Angeles, in the UCLA library, photocopied every book I could find on filmmaking, and taught myself.You all know what happened next. I found 12 dentists and raised funds to shoot this short film. Unfortunately, they invested in my short film just to get a tax refund. After seeing the sample, they rejected the plan to make a further feature film. "
"What about you, Gail? What's your dream?
"Me? I like movies, so after graduating from Stanford, instead of going to a financial institution like my classmates, I came to New World to work as an assistant to Mr. Coleman. During this time, I learned a lot about his work. Compared with the director , I prefer to be a producer. I prefer the financing, negotiation, and marketing parts, because my father is an investor, and I hope to be a producer of blockbuster films in the future.” Graduated from a prestigious school, with a long history of family education, plus In fact, she likes movies, and Gail's dream is a matter of course.
"Then may our dreams come true!"
"Yeah, dreams come true."
……
The one-hour lunch time passed quickly, and the crew and extras gathered again.Ronald is going to rehearse the remaining two scenes first, and rush to shoot at the magic hour of sunset in the evening.
Ronald invited Mary Voronov, who played the principal of Toga, "Ms. Voronov, we designed the shot like this. You and two security guards are walking from a distance, and the students are still jumping along the way." disco, rock music on the speakers. You're in a state of trying to put them..."
"Cut off the wires and put the students in solitary confinement." Mary Voronov made a very arrogant look, and waved her hand down fiercely.
"You are in good condition, that's it, you are such a good actor." Ronald praised repeatedly, and then pointed to the grass on the other side of the playground, "When the time comes, you and the security guards will walk from the grass, from the full view to the middle shot, and the two sides I'll have a few girls dancing, so you see them, there's an eye scene to play, and you end up in close-up."
"This shot is well designed." Mary nodded.
"This scene is your appearance shot. We will shoot the close-up first later, which is the last appearance. We will shoot the long shot approaching from a distance at sunset after 4 o'clock, so... "
"No problem, I will cooperate with the rehearsal first."
Unlike the old-fashioned Principal Toga she plays, actress Mary Voronov is a very "progressive" person.In fact, she is the one who likes rock music the most among the actors, but her acting skills are very good. She played a headmistress who hates rebellious rock music and is determined to clean up the campus.
Especially her facial expressions are well controlled.Just now Xiaolu showed a sharp edge, showing a mixture of contempt, hatred, and eagerness to ban rock and roll.Ronald doesn't understand acting, but he also knows that she is good at acting.
Maybe she is the legendary acting school?
Then rehearse the last scene of the day: Liv Randall, the protagonist of the rock and roll hot girl, and Kate Rambo, the good school girl, were punished by the principal Toga to stay in school.It was the first time for the good girl to be punished, and she was depressed. Liv came to comfort her, "It's nothing important to stay in school, I often stay in school."
The two walked slowly towards the teaching building. Liv was holding a portable tape recorder, playing Ramones music, joking around Kate to make her happy, and finally stopped at the backs of the two good sisters in the sunset.
I have to say that this part of the script and the director's lens design are of a very high standard, not like a shoddy low-cost exploitation film.Roger Corman was always able to find really talented people and work for him for minimum wage.
After rehearsing the two shots several times, the director of photography Dean felt that it was ok, and Ronald announced that the crew would suspend waiting.
This is a common thing in other film crews. Some big-name directors can wait a day for a certain light.But in Roger Coleman's crew, waiting for the light is very rare.
The actors hid in the dressing room, and the group actors also entered the teaching building and could not come out. There were only a few staff members left on the scene, and Ronald did not sit on the chair marked with Director Alan's name.Although as a temporary director, no one said anything if he really wanted to sit down.
Thinking of becoming a crew assistant next week, Ronald is very satisfied with his current state, directing a crew, and everyone is waiting for him to make decisions. This feeling is very addictive.There are only a few shots left, and Ronald wants to store up the feeling at this moment, and take it out for recollection at any time in the future.
The winter sun is very gentle, and the Arri 35 BL camera sits quietly on the head.The slate lay on the table next to it, the long recording rod, and the furry microphone... Ronald couldn't tell for a while whether it was these equipments or the people who manipulated them that were the protagonists of the movie?
What is my dream?Will there be a chance to become a real film director?It is too difficult to be a director. It took Alan and Joe more than 5 years...
Maybe I can also try to be an actor, a photographer?I have tasted the taste of making a movie, and I really want to do it again. It is difficult for other professions to provide this feeling of heroism.
In peacetime, command a team, spend a huge amount of money, and then wait for the day of the release, box office, film reviews, victory or defeat in an instant.Perhaps this is the closest you can come to being a general in command of a battle. "
No wonder everyone wants to be a general or a director, this is really a job that men are born to love.
(End of this chapter)
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