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Chapter 17 Watch the demo
Chapter 17 Watch the demo
The samples are the daily shooting results, which are developed and printed.Ungraded, unedited original look.At this moment, a slate appeared on the screen and was hit with a snap.This is Jenny playing the board, Ronald thought to himself.
The first shot was taken by directors Alan and Joe. In the end, no one called to stop for a long time. Dai Yang looked at the camera in a playful way, and the voice of Ronald shouting Cut! was also projected.
Immediately after that was the second shot by Ronald. After the board was slapped, the picture was similar to the previous one. It was Kate played by Dai Yang. When the rugby team passed by, she was frightened by the muscular man and stepped back halfway. Step by step, the expression is more realistic.
It's not just that Ronald feels good about himself, he heard Julie, the proprietress in the front row, saying, "The second one is better."
Next came the headmaster, who threatened the students to make an example of others, and everyone ran away.
After downscaling and playing at normal speed, the extras, like actors in early silent films, quickly fled the playground with weird movements, inevitably colliding and dodging, and some screamed.
"That's a good one," said director Joe Dante.Roger in the front row turned around and asked, "Did you come up with this, or did Allen decide it?"
"Demotion was Jim's idea, and it was my idea to let them run in the opposite direction." Ronald replied.
"Oh, that's very interesting..." Roger was about to go on, and started to play the third one with a clap.Everyone looked back.
……
In the dark projection room, Ronald couldn't see everyone's expressions, but from the whispered voices, it seemed that the feedback was not bad.
A shot of the two beauties dancing was shown, and that Jerry Zach yelled "Whoa!" and then whistled loudly.
Roger turned back and asked, "Is this the shot I saw yesterday? These two dancing girls are very photogenic and dance well."
"This is Ciana the Dance Finger. I found out from the Van Nuys High School ensemble performance. I thought the two of them had a good image, so I took a close-up shot, and there was a medium shot of the two of them in the back."
The next one is the shot of the hero Tom coming out of the building and walking all the way to the dining table in the crowd to have breakfast.Roger Coleman couldn't sit still anymore, he turned his head and said, "This is really a genius way of filming. The loneliness in the crowd directly conveys a feeling of alienation. How did you do it?"
"I kept the male protagonist Vincent in the center of the frame, but deliberately walked half a beat, not on the same pace as the others..."
……
The sample film was shown very quickly. After the scene of Liv Randall and Kate Lambeau walking towards the grass in the sunset, the projection room cut off the scene and turned on the overhead lights.
Roger Corman looked in a good mood.Joe Dante deliberately came over and hugged Ronald, "Good shot, good boy." He patted him on the back.
"Thanks, Joe."
"Which university did you graduate from the film school, Ronald? Your name is Ronald, right?" That Jerry also came over and asked.
"Me? I didn't go to film school, I graduated from high school." Ronald was a little surprised why Jerry would talk to him.
"What? Graduated from high school, you must be joking. Was your high school art teacher Spielberg? Or did you have a crush on Francis Coppola's sister in high school? Or was your grandpa John Ford?" "
The names Jerry Zucker named were all well-known directors.Ronald didn't know for a moment whether he was praising him jokingly or sarcastically.
"I was joking." Jerrika explained at Ronald's most embarrassing moment, and then resumed the joke:
"Honestly, did your dad buy you a Super 8 camera? You've been making little movies since 8th grade? Have your school cheerleader come over to your house? Hahahahaha."
Super 8 is a home video camera produced by Kodak, using Kodak film.At $5 a roll of film, not counting the video camera, Aunt Karen couldn't afford it.
Ronald replied "No, I didn't..."
"Hahaha, I see, your family must have a movie theater, and you sell tickets at the door. Two tickets, two cups of Pepsi, a bucket of popcorn, salty, five dollars and fifty cents, your change, sir .” Jerry Zucker is very good at stealing the conversation, making jokes that are false, and if you feel offended by him, just say I was joking.
Ronald was interrupted by him a few times when he was about to speak, feeling a little bloody.Jerry Zucker not only receded badly, but also had buck teeth. He walked up to Ronald and threw out another joke.
Ronald became irritable and didn't want to talk to him anymore, but Jerry talked more and more vigorously, and he bowed his back with laughter first, "Hahaha, you know, I'll tell you something funny, hahaha... ..." as he said, he wanted to hook Ronald's shoulder.
Ronald felt a buzzing sound, and the blood rushed to the top of his head through the pulsation behind his ears. He instinctively reached out to block Jerry's hand, and then stepped forward to insert his leg, giving him a hard blow.
Fortunately, reason prevailed and controlled the wrestler's instinct.Others only saw Ronald holding Jerry's hand and not letting him hook his shoulders.Only Ronald's ears turned red.
The proprietress, Julie Coleman, couldn't stand it anymore, and came to rescue him and separated him from Jerry. "The filming is very good. I haven't seen such a powerful new director for a long time. The last time I was a producer for Martin Scorsese was when I filmed "In Cold Blood". Like you, he will Draw a beautiful storyboard."
Ronald was a little embarrassed by Julie's praise, and hurriedly said, "Thank you, Mrs. Coleman. You are too generous."
"After we finish watching the rest of the sample, you come to the president's office, and Roger wants to talk to you." Julie whispered.
Speaking of Julie glanced at Roger Coleman, he was whispering to the producer again.Julie patted Ronald on the shoulder, signaling him and Jim to go out first, and they still had to discuss the samples they had taken two days ago.It was not convenient for Ronald and Jim to sit in on these discussions.
Ronald and Jim opened the door of the auditorium and walked out.Gail also sneaked out, turned around and put his foot on the door to leave a gap, and said in a low voice: "Ronnie, Julie likes you very much. If you want to put your name on the subtitle, her opinion is very important."
Ronald made a gesture of thanks, and Gail turned back and went in.Ronald looked at Jim and touched his chin: "It seems that the samples we took are not bad?"
"Yeah, I think it's very good." Jim nodded, "I didn't expect that an ordinary main shot in your shot could convey an emotion to the audience. I have to think about it. Back then Kubrick That’s how it shocked me.”
"Roger seems to be very satisfied with the two of us, and may let us do some new jobs." The two walked out of the office together and chatted in the yard.
"Have you thought about what to do?"
"I've always been interested in special effects in movies. I like to think about the stunt shooting method of '2001: A Space Odyssey'. I heard that director Kubrick built a Ferris wheel to shoot the zero-gravity scene."
Jim said here, turning suddenly to say in a very small voice: "Gail told me that Roger may be in a big science fiction film next year, and he was stimulated by the success of 'Star Wars'. I want to go to that group." Do special effects here."
"Really? Is the movie ready?" Ronald was very happy for Jim. His dream was to make a sci-fi movie.
"I heard that it is a sci-fi version of 'Seven Samurai', which remakes the story of Akira Kurosawa into the background of Star Wars."
"Akira Kurosawa? Seven Samurai?" Ronald looked bewildered.
Looking at him, Jim knew that he had never seen this classic film by the famous Japanese director, "Have you seen 'Magnificent Seven'? The theme song of the Marlboro cigarette advertisement is from this movie. .”
"I've seen this one. Thum-thump, hum-thump-thump, hum-thump-thump-thump-thump." Ronald hummed the theme song.
"Yes, the brave seven dragons are the remake of the Seven Samurai, and we also want to make a remake." Jim took out a cigarette and lit it, "Would you like one too?"
"no, thank you."
"What about you? Have you thought about what to do?"
"I will be the stills photographer of the Rock High School crew first. The stills I take can be placed in my photography studio in the future."
"Okay, let's take a photo together then, and then call Gail."
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The samples are the daily shooting results, which are developed and printed.Ungraded, unedited original look.At this moment, a slate appeared on the screen and was hit with a snap.This is Jenny playing the board, Ronald thought to himself.
The first shot was taken by directors Alan and Joe. In the end, no one called to stop for a long time. Dai Yang looked at the camera in a playful way, and the voice of Ronald shouting Cut! was also projected.
Immediately after that was the second shot by Ronald. After the board was slapped, the picture was similar to the previous one. It was Kate played by Dai Yang. When the rugby team passed by, she was frightened by the muscular man and stepped back halfway. Step by step, the expression is more realistic.
It's not just that Ronald feels good about himself, he heard Julie, the proprietress in the front row, saying, "The second one is better."
Next came the headmaster, who threatened the students to make an example of others, and everyone ran away.
After downscaling and playing at normal speed, the extras, like actors in early silent films, quickly fled the playground with weird movements, inevitably colliding and dodging, and some screamed.
"That's a good one," said director Joe Dante.Roger in the front row turned around and asked, "Did you come up with this, or did Allen decide it?"
"Demotion was Jim's idea, and it was my idea to let them run in the opposite direction." Ronald replied.
"Oh, that's very interesting..." Roger was about to go on, and started to play the third one with a clap.Everyone looked back.
……
In the dark projection room, Ronald couldn't see everyone's expressions, but from the whispered voices, it seemed that the feedback was not bad.
A shot of the two beauties dancing was shown, and that Jerry Zach yelled "Whoa!" and then whistled loudly.
Roger turned back and asked, "Is this the shot I saw yesterday? These two dancing girls are very photogenic and dance well."
"This is Ciana the Dance Finger. I found out from the Van Nuys High School ensemble performance. I thought the two of them had a good image, so I took a close-up shot, and there was a medium shot of the two of them in the back."
The next one is the shot of the hero Tom coming out of the building and walking all the way to the dining table in the crowd to have breakfast.Roger Coleman couldn't sit still anymore, he turned his head and said, "This is really a genius way of filming. The loneliness in the crowd directly conveys a feeling of alienation. How did you do it?"
"I kept the male protagonist Vincent in the center of the frame, but deliberately walked half a beat, not on the same pace as the others..."
……
The sample film was shown very quickly. After the scene of Liv Randall and Kate Lambeau walking towards the grass in the sunset, the projection room cut off the scene and turned on the overhead lights.
Roger Corman looked in a good mood.Joe Dante deliberately came over and hugged Ronald, "Good shot, good boy." He patted him on the back.
"Thanks, Joe."
"Which university did you graduate from the film school, Ronald? Your name is Ronald, right?" That Jerry also came over and asked.
"Me? I didn't go to film school, I graduated from high school." Ronald was a little surprised why Jerry would talk to him.
"What? Graduated from high school, you must be joking. Was your high school art teacher Spielberg? Or did you have a crush on Francis Coppola's sister in high school? Or was your grandpa John Ford?" "
The names Jerry Zucker named were all well-known directors.Ronald didn't know for a moment whether he was praising him jokingly or sarcastically.
"I was joking." Jerrika explained at Ronald's most embarrassing moment, and then resumed the joke:
"Honestly, did your dad buy you a Super 8 camera? You've been making little movies since 8th grade? Have your school cheerleader come over to your house? Hahahahaha."
Super 8 is a home video camera produced by Kodak, using Kodak film.At $5 a roll of film, not counting the video camera, Aunt Karen couldn't afford it.
Ronald replied "No, I didn't..."
"Hahaha, I see, your family must have a movie theater, and you sell tickets at the door. Two tickets, two cups of Pepsi, a bucket of popcorn, salty, five dollars and fifty cents, your change, sir .” Jerry Zucker is very good at stealing the conversation, making jokes that are false, and if you feel offended by him, just say I was joking.
Ronald was interrupted by him a few times when he was about to speak, feeling a little bloody.Jerry Zucker not only receded badly, but also had buck teeth. He walked up to Ronald and threw out another joke.
Ronald became irritable and didn't want to talk to him anymore, but Jerry talked more and more vigorously, and he bowed his back with laughter first, "Hahaha, you know, I'll tell you something funny, hahaha... ..." as he said, he wanted to hook Ronald's shoulder.
Ronald felt a buzzing sound, and the blood rushed to the top of his head through the pulsation behind his ears. He instinctively reached out to block Jerry's hand, and then stepped forward to insert his leg, giving him a hard blow.
Fortunately, reason prevailed and controlled the wrestler's instinct.Others only saw Ronald holding Jerry's hand and not letting him hook his shoulders.Only Ronald's ears turned red.
The proprietress, Julie Coleman, couldn't stand it anymore, and came to rescue him and separated him from Jerry. "The filming is very good. I haven't seen such a powerful new director for a long time. The last time I was a producer for Martin Scorsese was when I filmed "In Cold Blood". Like you, he will Draw a beautiful storyboard."
Ronald was a little embarrassed by Julie's praise, and hurriedly said, "Thank you, Mrs. Coleman. You are too generous."
"After we finish watching the rest of the sample, you come to the president's office, and Roger wants to talk to you." Julie whispered.
Speaking of Julie glanced at Roger Coleman, he was whispering to the producer again.Julie patted Ronald on the shoulder, signaling him and Jim to go out first, and they still had to discuss the samples they had taken two days ago.It was not convenient for Ronald and Jim to sit in on these discussions.
Ronald and Jim opened the door of the auditorium and walked out.Gail also sneaked out, turned around and put his foot on the door to leave a gap, and said in a low voice: "Ronnie, Julie likes you very much. If you want to put your name on the subtitle, her opinion is very important."
Ronald made a gesture of thanks, and Gail turned back and went in.Ronald looked at Jim and touched his chin: "It seems that the samples we took are not bad?"
"Yeah, I think it's very good." Jim nodded, "I didn't expect that an ordinary main shot in your shot could convey an emotion to the audience. I have to think about it. Back then Kubrick That’s how it shocked me.”
"Roger seems to be very satisfied with the two of us, and may let us do some new jobs." The two walked out of the office together and chatted in the yard.
"Have you thought about what to do?"
"I've always been interested in special effects in movies. I like to think about the stunt shooting method of '2001: A Space Odyssey'. I heard that director Kubrick built a Ferris wheel to shoot the zero-gravity scene."
Jim said here, turning suddenly to say in a very small voice: "Gail told me that Roger may be in a big science fiction film next year, and he was stimulated by the success of 'Star Wars'. I want to go to that group." Do special effects here."
"Really? Is the movie ready?" Ronald was very happy for Jim. His dream was to make a sci-fi movie.
"I heard that it is a sci-fi version of 'Seven Samurai', which remakes the story of Akira Kurosawa into the background of Star Wars."
"Akira Kurosawa? Seven Samurai?" Ronald looked bewildered.
Looking at him, Jim knew that he had never seen this classic film by the famous Japanese director, "Have you seen 'Magnificent Seven'? The theme song of the Marlboro cigarette advertisement is from this movie. .”
"I've seen this one. Thum-thump, hum-thump-thump, hum-thump-thump-thump-thump." Ronald hummed the theme song.
"Yes, the brave seven dragons are the remake of the Seven Samurai, and we also want to make a remake." Jim took out a cigarette and lit it, "Would you like one too?"
"no, thank you."
"What about you? Have you thought about what to do?"
"I will be the stills photographer of the Rock High School crew first. The stills I take can be placed in my photography studio in the future."
"Okay, let's take a photo together then, and then call Gail."
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If there is anything you don't like, welcome to post in the book circle, and the author will read it carefully.
(End of this chapter)
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