Samples are the results of daily shooting, developed and printed. Unedited, unedited original look. Then a clapperboard appeared on the screen and clicked. This is the recorder Jenny, Ronald thought to himself.
The first shot was shot by directors Allen and Joe. In the end, no one called for a stop for a long time. Dai Yang looked at the camera in amusement, and Ronald's voice shouting "Cut!" was also played.
Immediately after that was the second shot taken by Ronald. After the slap of the board, the scene was almost the same as the previous one. Kate, played by Day Young, was frightened by the muscular man and stepped back when the football team passed by. Step by step, the expressions are more realistic.
This wasn't just Ronald feeling good about himself, he heard the proprietress Julie in the front row saying, "The second one is better."
Next, the principal took action and threatened to kill the students to scare the monkeys. Everyone ran away.
After downgrading the filming and playing it back at normal speed, the extras, like early silent film actors, quickly escaped from the playground with weird movements, inevitably colliding and dodging, and some even screamed.
"This one is good." It was director Joe Dante speaking. Roger in the front row turned around and asked, "Did you come up with this, or was it Alan's decision?"
"It was Jim's idea to downgrade, and it was my idea to let them run in the opposite direction." Ronald replied.
"Oh, that's very interesting..." Roger wanted to continue, but with a slap on the board, he started playing the third item. Everyone looked back.
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In the dark screening room, Ronald couldn't see everyone's expressions, but from the low voices, it seemed that the feedback was good.
A shot of two beauties dancing was shown, and Jerry Zucker yelled "Wow" 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 Sianna the Dancer. I discovered it from an extra performance at Van Nuys High School. I thought they had a good image, so I gave them a close-up shot, followed by a mid-shot of them from the side."
The next shot is of the male protagonist Tom coming out of the building and walking among the crowd to the dining table to have breakfast. Roger Corman couldn't sit still anymore and turned back and said: "This is really a genius shot. The loneliness in the crowd directly conveys an emotion of alienation. How did you do it?"
"I kept the male protagonist Vincent in the center of the picture, but he deliberately walked half a beat slowly, so that he was not at the same step as the others..."
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The sample film was shown very quickly. After showing the shot of Liv Randall and Kate Lambeau, two best friends, walking to the grass together under the sunset, the screening room cut off the picture and turned on the overhead light.
Roger Corman looks to be in a good mood. Joe Dante came over specially to hug Ronald, "That's a good shot, good boy." He patted him on the back.
"Thanks, Joe."
"Which film school did you graduate from, 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? You must be joking after graduating from high school. Is your high school art teacher Spielberg? Or did you date Francis Coppola's sister in high school? Or is your grandfather John Ford? "
The ones Jerry Zucker named are all famous directors. Ronald didn't know for a moment whether he was complimenting him jokingly or sarcastically.
"I'm just joking." Jerrica explained when Ronald was at his most embarrassed, and then started telling jokes again:
"Honestly, did your dad buy you a Super 8 camera? Have you been making short films since you were in 8th grade? Let the school cheerleaders go to your house to shoot? Hahahahaha."
Super 8 is a home camera produced by Kodak, which uses Kodak film film. Not counting the camera, a roll of film costs $5, and Aunt Karen can't afford it.
Ronald replied "No, I didn't..."
"Hahaha, I get it. Your home must be a movie theater. You buy the tickets at the door. Two tickets, two Pepsi-Cola, a bucket of salty popcorn, five yuan and fifty-eight cents, your change, sir ." Jerry Zucker is very good at stealing the conversation and making jokes that are both false and true. If you feel that you are offended by him, just say "I'm joking."
Ronald was interrupted several times when he was about to speak, and he felt his blood rising a little. Not only did Jerry Zucker's hair line recede greatly, but he also had buck teeth. He walked up to Ronald and threw out another joke.
Ronald became irritated and didn't want to talk to him anymore, but the more Jerry talked, the more enthusiastic he became. He laughed and bowed his back, "Hahaha, you know, I'm going to tell you something funny, hahaha... ...", saying that he was going to hook Ronald's shoulder.
Ronald felt a buzzing sound, and the blood rushed to the top of his head through the vibration behind his ears. He instinctively reached out to block Jerry's hand, then stepped forward and inserted his legs to give him a hard blow.
Fortunately, reason prevailed and controlled the wrestler's instincts. Others only saw Ronald holding Jerry's hand and not letting him put his arm around him. Only Ronald's ears turned red.
The proprietress Julie Coleman couldn't stand it anymore, so she came to the rescue and separated him and Jerry. "The filming is very good. I haven't seen such a powerful new director in a long time. The last time was when I was the producer for Martin Scorsese and made "The Human Torch". He is also like you, he knows how to Beautifully drawn storyboards.”
Ronald was a little embarrassed by Julie's praise, and said quickly, "Thank you, Mrs. Coleman. You are so flattering."
"When we finish watching the rest of the samples, come to the president's office. Roger wants to talk to you." Julie whispered.
As she spoke, Julie glanced at Roger Corman, who was whispering to the producer again. Julie patted Ronald on the shoulder and motioned for him and Jim to go out first. They still wanted to discuss the samples taken two days ago. These discussions were inconvenient for Ronald and Jim to observe.
Ronald and Jim opened the door to the screening room and walked out. Gale also sneaked out, turned around and jammed the door with her foot to leave a crack, and whispered: "Ronnie, Julie likes you very much. If you want to leave your name on the subtitles, her opinion is very important."
Ronald made a gesture of thanks, and Gale turned back in. Ronald looked at Jim and touched his chin: "It seems that the sample we shot is not bad?"
"Yeah, I think it's very good." Jim nodded. "I didn't expect that in the scenes you shot, an ordinary main shot could also convey an emotion to the audience. I have to think about it carefully. Back then Kubrick This is how the movie shocked me."
"Roger seems to be quite satisfied with the two of us. He might let us do some new work." The two walked out of the office together and chatted in the yard.
"Have you decided what to do?"
"I have always been interested in film stunts, and I like to think about how to shoot the stunts in '2001: A Space Odyssey.' I heard that director Kubrick built a Ferris wheel to shoot the weightless scenes."
When Jim said this, he suddenly turned to a small voice and said: "Gale told me that Roger might be in a big-budget science fiction film next year. He was stimulated by the success of 'Star Wars'. I want to go to that group." Doing stunt design there.”
"Really? Is there a plan for the movie?" Ronald was very happy for Jim. His dream was to make a science fiction movie.
"I heard it's a sci-fi version of 'Seven Samurai', remaking Kurosawa's story into a Star Wars setting."
"Kurosawa Akira? Seven Samurai?" Ronald looked confused.
Jim looked at him and knew that he had never seen this classic film by a famous Japanese director. "Have you seen 'Magnificent Seven'? The theme song of the Marlboro cigarette advertisement is from this movie." .”
"I've seen this. Thump-thump, thump-thump thump, thump-thump-thump-thump-thump thump." Ronald hummed the theme song.
"Yes, The Magnificent Seven is the remake of Seven Samurai, and we are going to remake it too." Jim took out a cigarette and lit it, "Would you like one too?"
"no thanks."
"What about you? Have you decided what to do?"
"I will first be a still photographer for the Rock and Roll High School crew. The stills I take can be placed in my photography studio in the future."
"Okay, let's take a photo together then and call Gale up."
