It took several days of filming in the blink of an eye. After Ronald finished his guest appearance, he just hung out on the set every day, as long as he kept an eye on Gene and didn't let him go crazy.
The Screen Actors Guild in New York also sent observers to the set to supervise that everyone got off work on time every day. Ronald just needs to go to get off work on time from 9 to 6. Ronald was very satisfied with his regular schedule and resumed the habit of watching ABC TV's "Good Morning America" and eating breakfast every morning.
Producer David, gave Ronald an actor's minimum wage, $785 a week. He was an actor in name, but David's main job was to keep an eye on Gene and his mother.
In fact, Jean and his mother will not do anything wrong for the sake of the large amount of dollars in the future. So what about Ronald's own actual job? In fact, he was observing Allen's every move and learning secretly. Of course, if you want to ask Allen why he took photos like this, don’t even think about it.
Director Allen is still a little dissatisfied with him, and the relationship is not good enough to teach him selflessly like the directors of the New World.
The filming continues. The team moved to the dance rehearsal room and started filming the scenes of the girls in the dance department.
"Ahem, cough..." Joanna played a dance teacher and had some scenes today, "What kind of poisonous gas did you put out?"
Director of photography Michael Seresin directed the lighting assistant to add fragrant powder to several charcoal stoves, ignited them and stirred them up with his hands, so that the fragrant powder spread all over the room.
"This is the traditional lighting method of our English studio. The director said that a warm and mysterious light atmosphere is needed. The proportion of perfume powder is the same as that of air, and it can float in the air for a long time, and the light will have a unique effect."
"Ahem, cough, can't you use the powder? I think it's not good for my health."
"Otherwise, you need to use multiple lights to achieve the same effect, and every time you switch the camera angle, you need to re-light. This kind of powder is a traditional method. Only one light is enough, and the light is very evenly distributed and can be moved at will. camera without having to relight.”
Ronald was also covering his nose with a handkerchief, listening to the director of photography explain to the actors. Lighting is indeed the most time-consuming aspect of indoor shooting. If you need to start from scratch every time you move the camera, you can only shoot four shots in one day.
"Sneeze." Someone sneezed. The smell of this powder was so strong that Ronald had the urge to sneeze.
Fortunately, after a while, the actors got used to the smell, and the discomfort caused by it became much better.
Today's play has a lot of dance moves. After the lighting is completed, it's time for the choreographer to come on stage.
The choreographer choreographed a ballet movement for each actor, and then asked them to dance out one after another according to the path of the camera movement.
"One, two, three... let's go... Antonia picks up... one, two, three, Lucy is you..."
Because the incense powder needs to float evenly in the room, the electric fan that disperses the incense powder was removed from the room and placed in the corridor. Actors can only go out for a break between takes.
After rehearsing twice, the dancers were sweating a lot and hurriedly escaped from the room and used electric fans to cool down.
Ronald also hurried out and helped scoop ice cubes into the ice bag. Today's temperature is very high, and the four burning charcoal stoves are constantly steaming fragrant powder, making it extremely easy for heat stroke and dehydration in the room.
These actors, who are mainly high school students, have no agents or assistants, so Ronald helps them when he has time.
"It's really hot." Gene picked up the ice pack that Ronald packed and put it on his body. He was wearing shorts and a short-sleeved top today, which was the best way to dissipate heat.
"Yes, the people in the costume department also forced us to wear autumn and winter thick woolen pantyhose." Several girls sweated so much that their dance clothes were soaked, which was a bit unsightly. They took out towels and were wiping the sweat from the backs of their necks.
The makeup artist took powder and brushes and hurried forward to touch up their makeup. Sweat melted part of the makeup, so I had to reapply it every time I took a photo.
Hairstylists also rushed over to re-fix their hairstyles. Sweat caused some people's fixed hair to fall apart. High temperature is really the enemy of photography.
The costume designer also came to check the condition of the clothes soaked by sweat, and for those protagonists who were seriously soaked, they were asked to change into spare costumes.
In order to save time, people from multiple departments gathered around the protagonists, like octopuses, to help them get everything done.
Antonia is the absolute protagonist. Her sweat also melted the makeup a lot, and the makeup artist is working on the scene to repair it.
The plot of "Famous" is set in autumn, so all the costumes are aligned like autumn. In the summer, wearing thick woolen dance tights in a closed room is simply a kind of torture.
Ronald could only give Antonia and the others a little more ice water and prepare ice cubes to cool them down. Fortunately, in order to become famous in movies, these girls have good endurance.
After packing another ice bag, Ronald put the long ice bag on Antonia's neck.
"Ah..." Antonia felt so comfortable that she wanted to cry out, and turned back to express her thanks to Ronald.
Ronald continued to pack ice packs and put them on the remaining girls.
"Get ready to shoot," the first assistant director came to urge, and the girls reluctantly put down the ice packs and walked into the oven.
After the rehearsal was completed, it was time to shoot. Allen changed from his previous style of striving for perfection. There were no very detailed requirements here. As long as the director of photography nodded and there were no problems with the picture, it would be passed. It seems that he can't stand the furnace-like indoor temperature.
After shooting comes scheduling. The director and the director of photography work together to plan the camera movements and actor movements for the next shot. The lighting team plans the lighting according to the director's requirements. If there is a situation where the lighting will be caught by the camera, they have to discuss it again with the director.
Scheduling, lighting, rehearsal, shooting, one cycle after another, the crew moved forward slowly in the hot weather according to the plan.
During the lighting breaks, the dancers did not have the strength to dance and entertain themselves as they had in the past few days. Ronald went to producer David and asked for more ice to ensure that no one on the crew suffered from heatstroke.
The director and actors can also take turns to rest. The worst part is the operator who operates the camera. Help push and pull the camera while filming. When the director and actors went out to cool down, they added fragrant powder to the charcoal stove indoors to maintain the concentration of fragrant powder in the room.
Most of these operators were found by director Allen from England and have worked with the director of photography and director for a long time. This time we spent money to move them from overseas to reduce the friction and enable them to start filming immediately.
Due to their old relationship as directors, they received a lot of subsidies, which annoyed several Americans who were also camera operators. There is no rest time and no additional subsidies for suffering under high temperatures.
One of the American operators secretly took a glass bottle during the lunch break and put some fragrant powder in it.
"You asked Gene to stand on the corner of the table and look like he was watching Hillary dance. Do you understand?" After the last conflict, Alan Parker didn't dare to make direct requests to Gene. If anything happened, he usually went through Luo Nader conveyed.
"You're going to stand on your toes here, do an arabesque, and then go back to Leroy and walk around him in closer than normal human space. Confuse him as to what you're trying to seduce. I still accidentally got closer. After I walked around him, I looked into his eyes and made a come-with-me look."
Alan Parker then went to tell Antonia the play. In the afternoon we filmed the scene where Hillary seduces Leroy. The carpenters came in during lunch time and built a men's locker room door inside the dance rehearsal hall.
The door is very fake and can be opened and closed. Of course, there is nothing inside the door. The two actors can only open the door and close it after entering. The camera shoots it from the outside, so it looks like a room.
Jean, who plays Leroy, stands at a table outside the door, waiting for Antonia's Hilary to seduce him. His task in this scene was relatively simple. He was puzzled at first, and then after receiving Hillary's signal, he stayed for half a second, made an expression of realization, followed Hillary into the men's locker room, and closed the door.
"Okay, let's rehearse."
"No, no, no, you have to get closer, to a distance that makes both parties nervous. Do you understand?" Alan Parker looked directly at Antonia and got closer to Gene.
"No, no, you were too close this time. This is the distance for a thief to steal something. It's either far or not close. It just happens that the two parties are a little embarrassed. Do you understand?"
"Take a 10-minute break." Alan Parker saw that Antonia, who was usually very perceptive, could not understand the awkward distance this time. He thought she was too tired, so he called for a 10-minute break.
Ronald still put the ice pack on Antonia's neck, "What's wrong with you, Antonia? You are always the first to understand the scenes the director tells."
Antonia tilted her neck to feel the coolness of the ice pack: "Jean is...well, you know what I mean. So I can't feel his reaction. Acting is actually about reacting. If the other party doesn't react, it will be difficult for me." Keep acting."
"Have you ever acted before?" Ronald felt that what Antonia said made sense.
"Yeah, I did a supporting role on 'Grease' two years ago, dancing behind Travolta and Olivia Newton-John," Antonia said, laughing. "So I have a union. Card."
"The temperature is really killing me. How about you cooperate with me and help me find a sense of distance. I don't want to have to take many more photos." Antonia saw that makeup and hair had been done and left, and she said to Ronald Said something quietly.
"Well, I feel better after finishing the filming earlier." Ronald felt that if the filming continued in the hot room, the girl might faint, so he took a step forward and got closer to Antonia, "This way you can feel me Did it invade your privacy?"
"Well, it seems it's not close enough." Antonia stretched out her hand to feel the distance between the two.
"What about this?" Ronald took another half step forward.
"It seems we can get closer." Antonia's body was still more than an cubit away from him.
"What about this?" Ronald took another half step forward.
"Okay, okay..." Antonia took half a step back. Ronald's manly scent suddenly rushed into her forehead, making her face feel a little hot. Fortunately, it was already very hot and her face was red. "I got the feeling."
Ronald also felt that it was a little abrupt just now, so he picked up the towel and handed it to Antonia, indicating that she could wipe the sweat on her neck, "It's really too hot."
"Cut! Very good, this one is printed." Allen was very satisfied with the subsequent shooting.
