Chapter 8 Filming Begins

"Stop for a moment. Let me take another look."

Nanaya motioned to the extras present to stay where they were, and then he walked out from behind the director's camera.

The first scene to be filmed is a scene where passersby gather around the body of a high school girl who jumped off a building. This scene was not in the original movie version of "Kara no Kyoukai", but was added by Nanaya himself, just to improve the coordination between the crews with this dispensable shot.

But even so, Nanaya doesn't intend to take it lightly. After all, it's not impossible to edit this part into the final scene where Fujou Kirie commits suicide, so he still has to take it seriously.

Nanaya walked back and forth in the selected scenic area in front of the abandoned building, and then looked at it again through the lens of the director's camera.

"Like this, Ryougi!" Nanaya shouted to Ori who was following behind him, "Get more [Plasma], and make the bloodstain range wider."

"Okay, Director."

Nanaya specifically requested to be called director instead of senior, as he knew that it would be difficult to convince others with his lack of experience.

The film crew was fine, half of them were from his teacher's Huajing Film Studio. These people could be considered Nanaya's old partners and would generally obey his orders. The other part of the employees were supplements from Lin Bao. With the full cooperation of Lin Bao's manager Kaiuchi in Nanaya's work, there was no need to worry about any hypocrisy.

But the actors may not feel the same, especially when they see a young boy sitting in the director's chair and they have to listen to his instructions. Who knows if this kind of psychological imbalance will make them negative, and what's worse is that as a "face" presented to the audience, the quality of the actors' acting skills can basically give the audience the most intuitive feeling of the quality of the film. You know, for most bad movies, the first point of complaint from the audience is that the actors have no acting skills.

Nanaya is not a confidant big sister, and he doesn't have the time to smooth over the actors' feelings one by one, so he uses the most direct method - to establish the director's prestige in the crew. Anyway, as long as they can follow his command and make the movie smoothly, Nanaya doesn't care how fiercely these guys curse behind his back.

"Let's try this first."

After Ori laid out the prop blood, Nanaya first stood around and observed, and then compared it through the camera.

Some scenes may not seem to be anything special, but if recorded with a camera, they often become very inconsistent, which is a problem of camera sense. Therefore, Nanaya needs to compare the camera screen repeatedly to achieve the effect he wants most.

Fortunately, Ori and Nanaya had been partners for a long time before this movie, and he was able to immediately understand what Nanaya meant and make the props appear as Nanaya wanted.

"very good!"

Nanaya gave Ori a thumbs up, and then he said to Shonan Rantaro who was controlling the second camera: "Shonan, you will focus on shooting the crowd below the knees, and focus on the blood on the ground."

Rantaro nodded to show that he understood.

"Ok, let's move on. Action!"

As the "Action" sounded, Nanaya immediately put aside all distractions and focused on filming. His eyes were fixed on the scene captured by the camera, in which passers-by were watching the body of a high school girl who had jumped off a building...

However, these passers-by had no expression on their faces and just stared at the corpse prop on the ground.

Nanaya, who noticed the problem, immediately shouted, "Stop!"

"All you are looking at are dead people! Would ordinary people be as calm as you when seeing a corpse?!"

Nanaya finally understood how Yin Tianchou felt when facing that group of half-dead extras in "The King of Comedy". Now he really wanted to beat them up.

"Everyone, clear your heads. Extras are also actors. Although you are just playing passers-by, you all have your own stories! Give everyone three minutes to think about it. I don't want this to happen again! If you really don't know how to act, think about what you would do if you saw a corpse!"

Nanaya saw that these people still had confused expressions on their faces, so he added one more sentence at the end.

It seemed that Nanaya's words reminded the actors, and they all began to think deeply. Nanaya was sitting in his seat, rubbing his temples with his fingers to force himself to relax. What he meant by brewing emotions was not only for these actors, but also for himself, otherwise he would smash things.

It turned out that making a movie was not as simple as he thought. Even though he had made sufficient preparations, problems would still arise when the process really started.

At this time, Nanaya had to be thankful that he had chosen an insignificant shot as the first scene for the crew to get used to each other. If he had chosen an important plot, he would have been in a state of spiraling upwards.

"Okay, let's start over. Action!"

After a short break, Nanaya immediately returned to work. Unfortunately, these extras were really not good enough, and after going back and forth several times, they barely found a sense of touch in front of the camera.

[So it's not without reason that these people can only play supporting roles...]

Looking at this group of actors who seemed like stupid monkeys, Nanaya, whose patience had been almost exhausted, couldn't help but have a very immoral idea in his mind.

[However, it is finally usable. ]

Nanaya finally let go of this shot, but the scene was still not over. Due to the limited budget, the entire crew only had two cameras, so in order to leave enough pictures to choose from for post-editing, Nanaya decided to shoot this shot a few more times from several other angles.

"This shot has passed. Please stay where you are. I will adjust the camera position and shoot two more times. I hope everyone can maintain the state they were in just now."

As soon as Nanaya said this, a decent-looking extra directly refused to accept him and said, "Director, can this guy take a break?"

The atmosphere on the set froze in an instant.

Nanaya was so angry that his face turned purple. The fact that this guy suggested taking a break was a challenge to the director's authority, but what made people even more angry was that this guy actually spoke in a Kansai accent.

Speaking in a foreign dialect in such a serious setting, do you think this is an Osaka film set?!

Nanaya is not someone who doesn't know how to adapt. If the filming location is in Kansai and the main staff are all Kansai people, then there is nothing wrong with communicating in Kansai dialect. However, in a situation where most people use standard language, you suddenly speak in dialect, which is clearly a contempt for the authority of the crew, and the person you are talking to is the director, which is no longer a matter of disrespect.

"puff..."

Several extras who were on good terms with this guy couldn't help but laugh. The originally tense working atmosphere of the crew suddenly dissipated, and many people began to whisper to each other secretly.

As the noise grew louder and louder, the dark aura on Nanaya's face grew thicker and thicker.

"Please don't joke!"

Ryougi Ori made a voice as cold as ice. In this situation, as Nanaya's junior, he was the first to stand up.

"The director asked you to film, what kind of attitude is this?! Please be serious! You are not students anymore, do you still have to go to get out of class on time?!"

His two willow-shaped eyebrows were raised upside down, and at this moment he had a bit of the cool and handsome aura of an "ice beauty".

Everyone in the crew was frightened by the appearance of the weaving, and no one dared to make a sound for a moment.

[As expected, Ori is the most suitable for Shiki-sister...]

In just one second, Nanaya put this idea out of his mind. He looked around at everyone present and made his own decision.

"You, and those few others." Nanaya pointed his finger at the one who spoke in Kansai accent and the few people who followed suit, "Get out of here!"

"What?"

The other party didn't expect Nanaya to be so cruel. He looked at Nanaya with resentment.

Nanaya said fearlessly: "Hurry up and leave, I don't need actors like you in my crew!"

"Who do you think you are? How dare you make such a decision!"

Several actors named by Nanaya looked towards Kaiuchi. They thought that this big shot from [Lin Bao] would not stand the arrogance of Nanaya, a young boy, and would come forward to stop him.

However, what they didn't expect was that Kaiuchi did not raise any objection to Nanaya's disposal plan.

"As an actor, even if you are just a temporary actor, you should have basic professionalism. Unfortunately, your professionalism is not up to standard, so please leave."

Although Kaiuchi's words were very tactful, he still sentenced these people to death. The leading extra's face was so angry that it turned green. He threw his hat to the ground and complained: "Damn, what a crappy crew, I don't even care!"

As he said this, the guy was about to lead the people around him to leave, but he was stopped by Nanaya after taking a few steps.

"Wait a moment."

The other party turned back proudly. He thought Nanaya had given in and was ready to keep him, but Nanaya said expressionlessly: "Your hat has ruined the bloodstains on the ground. Pay me compensation before you leave. What are you looking at?! You are no longer an actor in the crew. Of course you have to pay for destroying the set!"

"..."

This time, the other person's face completely turned into Daniel Wu in "Warcraft".