It’s half past five on Saturday morning, and there’s still an hour before sunrise. The crew of "Night of the Comet" is already waiting to film at Bunker Hill in Los Angeles. . .
A light came on to show the staff their way. Everyone is doing their part and preparing for the morning magic hour shoot.
There are a few office buildings and commercial buildings in the Bunker Hill neighborhood that are already occupied by companies, and they usually go to work at nine in the morning. Today is the weekend, so there are even fewer people coming to work overtime early in the morning.
In order to capture the deserted city, Ronald specifically chose a Saturday morning to shoot this part of the scene. They must take the key shots before the overtime workaholics arrive.
"Thank you for troubling you to seal the road so early." Ronald shook hands with the two police officers and handed over the tip in his palm.
The older of the two police officers felt that the cash he had received was quite thick. He looked under the light and saw that it was several stacked Andrew Jackson cards. He quickly changed his smile and started chatting enthusiastically with the young director.
"Assisting the film crew in filming is also the accusation of lapd. In fact, no one comes here on weekends. We just follow the regulations to take a look."
"What movie are you shooting? There seemed to be a gun battle yesterday?" The younger police officer was very interested in movie shooting.
"It's a science fiction film. A comet kills people or mutates them into zombies, and then two valley girls save Los Angeles."
"Oh, I like Dawn of the Dead very much. Do your movies also have zombies like that? Can I watch it? Those zombies are so sexy." The young police officer is also a fan of zombie movies. I heard that he is Zombie movies are great.
"Did you know? We have another scene today where the heroine dreams that two traffic policemen turned into zombies. If you are interested, you can also make a cameo."
"Oh yeah? Can we really do a movie? Seriously?"
"Make up the makeup and take the two of them to try on the zombie's hoods. If they can wear it, we'll sign an agreement with them as extras."
Ronald was very happy because he saved two extras. They also had their own uniforms to wear, and they could also borrow their police car for some shots. I guess they wouldn't mind if the filming took a little longer.
"Ah...ah" Kelly Maroney yawned and got out of the RV parked on the roadside. She should have started putting on makeup.
Ronald was very good to actors. Although it was impossible to get good treatment in small productions, she and Catherine Mary Stuart shared a motorhome, and Ronald often let them sleep more during their breaks. a while.
"Kelly, are you awake? I'm about to ask my assistant to call you. I'm almost ready to put on makeup." Ronald said to Kelly Maroney, "Where's Katherine?"
"Catherine is making coffee."
"Make-up, where are the people who put make-up on the two heroines?" Ronald started shouting again.
"The make-up artist is missing, and no one answered the call to her home. Yesterday someone heard that she seemed to say that the salary of the big crew was higher or something." The first assistant director came over and explained the situation clearly in a few words. There are often people in small crews who suddenly get a better job and run away halfway through their work.
"Ask someone who knows how to put on makeup and help." Ronald covered his face. A low-budget production is like a guerrilla army. If something goes wrong, then you have to make do with it. It is impossible for a crew to stop and wait for the makeup artist.
"Director, I can do my own makeup, that's what we do on daytime soap operas." Catherine Mary Stuart heard about the makeup artist putting her own makeup on.
"Can you draw Kelly Maroney too?"
"Um...of course." Catherine didn't expect Ronald to climb up the pole so quickly, and was stunned for a moment.
This scene is about two sisters who have a knot in their hearts. They heard the song was still playing on the radio, so they went to the radio station to find survivors, and accidentally met another survivor Hector who came along the radio station. The next day both sisters wanted to go on a date with him, so they got into a fight.
"a!"
The camera focuses on the two sisters on the balcony, pushing down the close shot. Sister Samantha is still wearing a cheerleading uniform, and her long legs and blond hair are very sexy. Clothing prepared two sets of identical outfits for Kelly Maroney to change.
she asked her sister Regina.
"So, you had sex with him last night?"
"Who? What?" Regina answered.
"Who else? That handsome and humorous man."
"Jesus, is that why you ignored me this morning?"
"cut! cut! cut!"
"Who the hell screamed cut!" Ronald was angry. He finally found the magic light time in the morning to shoot this scene where the sisters opened up their hearts and strengthened their relationship. Both heroines performed very well. I know some idiot called it quits and ruined everything.
"It's me, Ronald."
Ronald looked back and saw that it was producer Wayne Crawford. He quickly swallowed the curse words he was about to blurt out, "Wayne, why did you say stop?"
I saw the producer anxiously pointing to the office building opposite Ronald and behind the two actresses, "There is a glass cleaner there."
Ronald looked up and saw a cleaner hanging from the window of the skyscraper opposite, cleaning the glass. Today is Saturday, the office building is closed, and it happens to be the time for them to clean the glass curtain wall.
Ronald quickly got behind the camera and looked over, only to see the upper end of the viewfinder, where the cleaner just slid down one level and entered the background frame.
"Oh, fuck." Ronald cursed. Why would there be workers cleaning glass exterior walls in the apocalypse? This dress was too big and had to be retaken.
He picked up the electric horn and said, "Hi, hi, friend across the way, can you go up for a while? We are filming a movie and you are cheating."
"Huh? Are you talking to me?"
"Yes, it's you. Can you go up and wait? We'll finish filming this shot right away."
After a period of fuss, the cleaners finally slid up a few floors to give the crew some time to film.
"a!"
"Okay, listen, I didn't 'do' him last night, why are you always so sad?" Regina looked helpless as she looked at this sister who always wanted to ruin her romantic relationship.
"Why are you sad? My sister has always attracted the attention of every boy I know, and now she has to attract the attention of possibly the last man in Los Angeles!" Samantha rushed forward and pushed Regina.
Regina looked shocked, then took a step forward and looked at her sister. The opposing emotions between the two are cleverly expressed in the picture.
The two girls come face to face, neither giving in to the other in Kevin Costner's Possibly The Last Man in Los Angeles.
On the balcony railing behind them, there is a Pepsi can and a Mac-10 submachine gun, two representative symbols of the capitalist world - consumerism to satisfy one's own desires, and high-tech weapons to protect one's property.
"Hahahaha..." The two finally couldn't hold back their laughter.
"cut!"
The camera was quickly moved downstairs and a dark red filter was installed. Then take a shot looking up. The two sisters still stood in the same place, relatively speechless. Compared with the conflict of falling in love with the same boy, supporting each other to survive in this apocalyptic world is obviously more important.
In the zoomed-out shot, there are only skyscrapers and streets. The emptiness represents the last bit of persistence of the two valley girls in the empty city of Los Angeles in the apocalypse.
The next scenes went relatively smoothly. Ronald borrowed the police car of the two lapds and asked Catherine Mary Stuart to ride a motorcycle next to the police car to check for survivors.
Under the dark red sky, the props team used a blower to stir up the red powder produced by grinding the red bricks purchased by the crew. Regina was riding a motorcycle and sitting alone. There were only two sets of clothes in the police car. The police officer Already reduced to ashes.
This means that the last line of order in the city has collapsed, and you need to fight on your own from now on.
"Lunch time! Take a half-hour break. The actors eat first, then the staff." After shooting all the shots in the morning, the first assistant director began to arrange lunch.
Ronald put on his sunglasses. The red powder just now was Cameron's idea. Although it is very cheap, it will fall on people's heads and bodies when blown. Wearing sunglasses will prevent powder from drifting into your eyes.
He wiped his hands, walked to the RV where lunch was served, and stood in line to get his meal. Everyone ate the same small meal. The burgers were wrapped in tin foil and heated, and a cup of Coke was added on site.
"Who are these people? Are they not from our crew?"
One of the responsibilities of the second assistant director is to count the heads of people eating. Many actors in the entertainment industry have huge expenses. They will go in groups to make a living in movies starring actors they know. Sometimes the crew doesn't really care, so they just post it.
However, "Night of the Comet" is a small production, and the number of people for lunch is also very tight. Ronald and the producers don't want dozens or hundreds of people to come to eat every day.
"Don't you give out charity lunches here? The last time the church used an RV to give out free lunches." An old man wearing a woolen hat and in tatters came out and asked Ronald and the others.
"We're here for a movie shooting lunch, not a charity." The second assistant director stepped forward to stop the more than 20 homeless people they were collecting from the party, "I'm sorry."
At a glance, Ronald saw that they were all very shabby homeless people with weak bodies. Some of them were very thin from hunger. Men, women, old and young, of all races. And they were not asking for money, but for lunch. I guess they were really unfortunate people.
Although the current economic momentum is good, the unemployment rate is still very high. Many poor people who are old and weak and have no value for exploitation and no family to take care of them are abandoned by the big machine of capitalism after losing their jobs. They have no social security and cannot afford a hot meal.
Ronald felt some compassion and asked the first assistant director, who had dealt with all kinds of people, "Gordon, who is usually in charge of them? What do they usually eat, and do they have a place to live?"
"Mind your own business, Ronald. These people are usually managed by churches and charities. They are either white or Latino, and they don't even get relief from the government.
Although some people are indeed pitiful because of divorce, unemployment or bankruptcy, there are also many people who abuse illegal drugs or gamble badly. If you show any sympathy, they will follow the crew around and cause trouble without paying them. "
"At least give them a hot meal. I'll pay for the lunch for these twenty or so people. Anyway, after we finish shooting this scene, the location will be almost done, and I won't be able to control their affairs tomorrow."
"Okay, I'll go talk to the producer."
Afterwards, each homeless man received a lunch, opened the steaming tinfoil package, and began to devour it. Several women even shed tears.
"Call the church?" Ronald said to his assistant, "Move these poor people over and out of the frame. We have to continue filming."
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