NOVEL WEB Exploiting Hollywood 1980.
Chapter 26 Taking pictures in an upscale apartment
Chapter 26 Taking pictures in an upscale apartment
Demi Gaines' apartment is in West Hollywood, and it's an upscale apartment.
Early the next morning, Ronald drove an orange Volkswagen Rabbit to the gate of her apartment. The janitor saw that he was driving a cheap car and stopped him to ask a lot of questions.Luckily Ronald is white, and his English accent doesn't look like he's from a lower-class neighborhood.The janitor agreed to call Demi to confirm before letting him in.
After parking the car, Ronald looked around. It was really much better than his own apartment.Not only is there a gatekeeper, but inside the gate is an open-air swimming pool, next to it is a party venue, and there is still the atmosphere of last night's carnival.The laughter of men and women and the sound of diving could be faintly heard from the depths of the yard. It is estimated that there is a private swimming pool inside.
When they arrived at Demi's apartment, she and her boyfriend were already waiting at the door. "Hi Ronald, you're welcome."
With a tripod in one hand and a camera and flash behind his back, Ronald shook hands with them with the other hand.
Demi has black hair with a shawl, a very straight nose, thick and black eyebrows, her eyes are very lively, but one of them is a little inconvenient when turning.The cheeks are flat from the cheekbones down to the jaw, slightly sunken, and the slightly square jaw shows her strong personality, which is the most suitable face for a movie star.
Her boyfriend is Freddie Moore, the lead singer of the rock band "The Kats".Intentionally misspelling names is the fashion these days.
Freddie, wearing big black-rimmed glasses, looked nothing like a rock star and more like a high school geek.The kind who was bullied by the football team in high school, but managed to get into a good university and find a good job after graduation.
"Are you shooting right here?"
Demi and her boyfriend obviously prepped first, clearing out a bedroom, freeing up three walls and a large area for Ronald to film.
"Yes, Demi attaches great importance to this shoot. She said that the photos you took can bring people to life. So we made some preparations." Freddie put his arm around Demi's shoulder and smiled shyly.
"Do you have a bedroom floor lamp, or a desk lamp? The one next to the bed is fine, and you need to use a supplementary light."
After setting up the tripod three times, Ronald loaded a new roll of film and put the camera on the tripod.Then I took out a wire and connected it to the shutter of the camera.
"What's this?" Demi asked curiously.
"Shutter by wire."
Freddie brought the floor lamp, and Ronald set it at an angle, carefully adjusting it so that the lights on Demi's face matched and formed a synergy.
Ronald positioned the location and asked Demi to stand still in the reserved shooting position, and the light was carefully planned to illuminate Demi's face, giving her the beauty of an ancient Greek sculpture.
"The audition photos are for the casting director to discover your characteristics and match the characters in the script. So you can't use too exaggerated light, and it must match your own characteristics." Ronald explained while observing Demi.
"You need to wear a solid color top, not black or white, lest you steal the show"
"Okay," Demi went next door to change into a light green T-shirt.
"This light-colored dress is fine, it complements your hair color." America rarely sees such a pure black hair color, which reminds Ronald of Huaguo.
After adjusting the angle of the light, Ronald took out the light meter and put it on Demi's eyes. After measuring the data, he adjusted the aperture of the camera.
Carefully focusing on Demi's eyes, Ronald said:
"Now try not to move too much back and forth, so as not to lose focus and lose sight of your eyes." Ronald raised his head, and poked his head out from behind the camera with the shutter release.
"It's a bit presumptuous to ask, because I want to focus on your eyes, and your eyeballs seem to be...?"
"Yes, I had strabismus in one eye when I was young, and I have had two surgeries. The doctor said that as I get older, it will get better." Demi explained generously.
"Okay, I will use the pupil of the other eye to focus, and it will not affect the finished film." Ronald likes this frank girl very much.
"Now give me an idea, Demi." Ronald stood beside the camera with the remote shutter in his hand, and talked to Demi, but he paid attention to Demi's expression.
"What?" Demi didn't understand.
"Think about one thing in your heart, don't tell me what it is, but think about one thing."
"No, this one is not good, change it... This one is good." Ronald pressed the shutter with his hand.
"One more thought, well, I like this idea."
Click, click, click, the automatic film winder cooperates with the shutter, quickly replaces the exposed film and replaces it with a new one.
“The photographers were different when you and I were a graphic model,” Demi said. “They just made me pose.”
"The director mainly looks at your personal temperament. I try to restore your own characteristics. You are a very heroic girl."
Kacha, Kacha, Ronald was shooting, when suddenly a girl screamed from outside the window, and then someone fell into the water with a splash, "Ah...hahahaha." There was another burst of female laughter, as if someone was diving .
Ronald shook his hand, frowned, and paused the shooting.
Demi went to the window, opened the curtains, and yelled into the private swimming pool below:
"Hi, Natasha, are you back from Hair Country?"
"Hey, Demi, won't you come down to play in the water?" A voice came faintly.
"I'm taking an audition photo, can you wait for the dive, the photographer needs to be quiet."
"Okay, I'll come up and find you later..."
Stand up again, measure light, and focus.Ronald signaled that he could start over.
"Send me a loving thought."
This set was an audition shot for a rom-com and needed playful, adoring eyes.Ronald asked his boyfriend Freddie to stand opposite Demi to cooperate.
Click click click click.finished soon
"I'll send it to Kodak's print shop later. If you are willing to give Kodak an extra $5, you can expedite it. I have selected a photo and enlarged it. It can be done in about an hour."
Demi discussed with her boyfriend and chose to expedite, and then the two went to Kodak's photo lab with Ronald.
Kodak has uniform-quality printing shops all over America. No matter which shop you go to with a film, the quality of the printing is the same.This is also a manifestation of the technology and management strength of this Fortune 500 giant.
It happened that there were not many customers in the morning, and the three of them waited for 10 minutes before seeing 36 photos spit out by the machine.
Demi leaned on the counter and looked at her photo carefully.His boyfriend hugged her lovingly, "Your photos are very beautiful, my dear, I love you."
Demi turned around and kissed her boyfriend, selected 2 photos, and asked Ronald:
"I'll just choose these two, do you think it's okay, Ronald."
Ronald saw at a glance that they were the most beautiful of the two.
He pointed to the other two and said, "I usually take the opinions of customers as the basis, but if you are my sister, I would suggest you to choose these two."
"why?"
One of these two is a serious drama face without a smile, and the other is a smiling face suitable for a romantic drama.Ronald pointed to the photo and asked Demi's boyfriend, "What do you think of these two expressions, what is Demi thinking?"
"This one seems to be full of love, um, no, it seems a bit jealous? I can't say which one, maybe it's happy, but it seems a little sad."
Ronald spread his hands: "Demi, your face is very suitable for filming. Whether you light it from the left or the right, you can take beautiful close-ups. But let me say, your greatest talent is expression."
"With this face, the audience can see more than one expression and inner emotions. I can't explain the reason, I only know that the director likes this kind of face very much." Ronald concluded.
"Then choose these two, thank you, Ronald." Demi said and came up to hug him.
Ronald patted Demi politely, and said to the Kodak staff: "Please enlarge this one, and this one, 6 inches by 8 inches, five copies per sheet. Leave a white border around it."
After a while, the photo was put up, and Ronald asked again, "Do you have typing equipment here, please type her name under the photo"
Then Ronald asked Demi, "What stage name are you going to use?"
"I don't know, can't I use my original name?"
"Of course, but most actors will have a stage name." Ronald said, "The stage name should be resounding, such as Sean Connery who played 007 James Bond, and Roger Moore. Four syllables, long and short syllables match, read smoothly."
Demi's eyes lit up, she turned around and hugged her boyfriend Freddie Moore, "Freddy, will you always love me?"
"of course."
"Then when will you marry me?"
"Darling, as I told you, it will take some time to make it clear to Lucy that after I finish with her, we will get married"
"Then I don't care, I want to marry you."
"Okay, I'm definitely going to divorce Lucy, trust me, sweetheart."
Demi turned to the stunned Ronald and said:
"I'm going to be marrying Freddie soon. I'll just use his last name and I'll use Demi Moore as my stage name."
(End of this chapter)
Demi Gaines' apartment is in West Hollywood, and it's an upscale apartment.
Early the next morning, Ronald drove an orange Volkswagen Rabbit to the gate of her apartment. The janitor saw that he was driving a cheap car and stopped him to ask a lot of questions.Luckily Ronald is white, and his English accent doesn't look like he's from a lower-class neighborhood.The janitor agreed to call Demi to confirm before letting him in.
After parking the car, Ronald looked around. It was really much better than his own apartment.Not only is there a gatekeeper, but inside the gate is an open-air swimming pool, next to it is a party venue, and there is still the atmosphere of last night's carnival.The laughter of men and women and the sound of diving could be faintly heard from the depths of the yard. It is estimated that there is a private swimming pool inside.
When they arrived at Demi's apartment, she and her boyfriend were already waiting at the door. "Hi Ronald, you're welcome."
With a tripod in one hand and a camera and flash behind his back, Ronald shook hands with them with the other hand.
Demi has black hair with a shawl, a very straight nose, thick and black eyebrows, her eyes are very lively, but one of them is a little inconvenient when turning.The cheeks are flat from the cheekbones down to the jaw, slightly sunken, and the slightly square jaw shows her strong personality, which is the most suitable face for a movie star.
Her boyfriend is Freddie Moore, the lead singer of the rock band "The Kats".Intentionally misspelling names is the fashion these days.
Freddie, wearing big black-rimmed glasses, looked nothing like a rock star and more like a high school geek.The kind who was bullied by the football team in high school, but managed to get into a good university and find a good job after graduation.
"Are you shooting right here?"
Demi and her boyfriend obviously prepped first, clearing out a bedroom, freeing up three walls and a large area for Ronald to film.
"Yes, Demi attaches great importance to this shoot. She said that the photos you took can bring people to life. So we made some preparations." Freddie put his arm around Demi's shoulder and smiled shyly.
"Do you have a bedroom floor lamp, or a desk lamp? The one next to the bed is fine, and you need to use a supplementary light."
After setting up the tripod three times, Ronald loaded a new roll of film and put the camera on the tripod.Then I took out a wire and connected it to the shutter of the camera.
"What's this?" Demi asked curiously.
"Shutter by wire."
Freddie brought the floor lamp, and Ronald set it at an angle, carefully adjusting it so that the lights on Demi's face matched and formed a synergy.
Ronald positioned the location and asked Demi to stand still in the reserved shooting position, and the light was carefully planned to illuminate Demi's face, giving her the beauty of an ancient Greek sculpture.
"The audition photos are for the casting director to discover your characteristics and match the characters in the script. So you can't use too exaggerated light, and it must match your own characteristics." Ronald explained while observing Demi.
"You need to wear a solid color top, not black or white, lest you steal the show"
"Okay," Demi went next door to change into a light green T-shirt.
"This light-colored dress is fine, it complements your hair color." America rarely sees such a pure black hair color, which reminds Ronald of Huaguo.
After adjusting the angle of the light, Ronald took out the light meter and put it on Demi's eyes. After measuring the data, he adjusted the aperture of the camera.
Carefully focusing on Demi's eyes, Ronald said:
"Now try not to move too much back and forth, so as not to lose focus and lose sight of your eyes." Ronald raised his head, and poked his head out from behind the camera with the shutter release.
"It's a bit presumptuous to ask, because I want to focus on your eyes, and your eyeballs seem to be...?"
"Yes, I had strabismus in one eye when I was young, and I have had two surgeries. The doctor said that as I get older, it will get better." Demi explained generously.
"Okay, I will use the pupil of the other eye to focus, and it will not affect the finished film." Ronald likes this frank girl very much.
"Now give me an idea, Demi." Ronald stood beside the camera with the remote shutter in his hand, and talked to Demi, but he paid attention to Demi's expression.
"What?" Demi didn't understand.
"Think about one thing in your heart, don't tell me what it is, but think about one thing."
"No, this one is not good, change it... This one is good." Ronald pressed the shutter with his hand.
"One more thought, well, I like this idea."
Click, click, click, the automatic film winder cooperates with the shutter, quickly replaces the exposed film and replaces it with a new one.
“The photographers were different when you and I were a graphic model,” Demi said. “They just made me pose.”
"The director mainly looks at your personal temperament. I try to restore your own characteristics. You are a very heroic girl."
Kacha, Kacha, Ronald was shooting, when suddenly a girl screamed from outside the window, and then someone fell into the water with a splash, "Ah...hahahaha." There was another burst of female laughter, as if someone was diving .
Ronald shook his hand, frowned, and paused the shooting.
Demi went to the window, opened the curtains, and yelled into the private swimming pool below:
"Hi, Natasha, are you back from Hair Country?"
"Hey, Demi, won't you come down to play in the water?" A voice came faintly.
"I'm taking an audition photo, can you wait for the dive, the photographer needs to be quiet."
"Okay, I'll come up and find you later..."
Stand up again, measure light, and focus.Ronald signaled that he could start over.
"Send me a loving thought."
This set was an audition shot for a rom-com and needed playful, adoring eyes.Ronald asked his boyfriend Freddie to stand opposite Demi to cooperate.
Click click click click.finished soon
"I'll send it to Kodak's print shop later. If you are willing to give Kodak an extra $5, you can expedite it. I have selected a photo and enlarged it. It can be done in about an hour."
Demi discussed with her boyfriend and chose to expedite, and then the two went to Kodak's photo lab with Ronald.
Kodak has uniform-quality printing shops all over America. No matter which shop you go to with a film, the quality of the printing is the same.This is also a manifestation of the technology and management strength of this Fortune 500 giant.
It happened that there were not many customers in the morning, and the three of them waited for 10 minutes before seeing 36 photos spit out by the machine.
Demi leaned on the counter and looked at her photo carefully.His boyfriend hugged her lovingly, "Your photos are very beautiful, my dear, I love you."
Demi turned around and kissed her boyfriend, selected 2 photos, and asked Ronald:
"I'll just choose these two, do you think it's okay, Ronald."
Ronald saw at a glance that they were the most beautiful of the two.
He pointed to the other two and said, "I usually take the opinions of customers as the basis, but if you are my sister, I would suggest you to choose these two."
"why?"
One of these two is a serious drama face without a smile, and the other is a smiling face suitable for a romantic drama.Ronald pointed to the photo and asked Demi's boyfriend, "What do you think of these two expressions, what is Demi thinking?"
"This one seems to be full of love, um, no, it seems a bit jealous? I can't say which one, maybe it's happy, but it seems a little sad."
Ronald spread his hands: "Demi, your face is very suitable for filming. Whether you light it from the left or the right, you can take beautiful close-ups. But let me say, your greatest talent is expression."
"With this face, the audience can see more than one expression and inner emotions. I can't explain the reason, I only know that the director likes this kind of face very much." Ronald concluded.
"Then choose these two, thank you, Ronald." Demi said and came up to hug him.
Ronald patted Demi politely, and said to the Kodak staff: "Please enlarge this one, and this one, 6 inches by 8 inches, five copies per sheet. Leave a white border around it."
After a while, the photo was put up, and Ronald asked again, "Do you have typing equipment here, please type her name under the photo"
Then Ronald asked Demi, "What stage name are you going to use?"
"I don't know, can't I use my original name?"
"Of course, but most actors will have a stage name." Ronald said, "The stage name should be resounding, such as Sean Connery who played 007 James Bond, and Roger Moore. Four syllables, long and short syllables match, read smoothly."
Demi's eyes lit up, she turned around and hugged her boyfriend Freddie Moore, "Freddy, will you always love me?"
"of course."
"Then when will you marry me?"
"Darling, as I told you, it will take some time to make it clear to Lucy that after I finish with her, we will get married"
"Then I don't care, I want to marry you."
"Okay, I'm definitely going to divorce Lucy, trust me, sweetheart."
Demi turned to the stunned Ronald and said:
"I'm going to be marrying Freddie soon. I'll just use his last name and I'll use Demi Moore as my stage name."
(End of this chapter)
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