Exploiting Hollywood 1980

  Chapter 386 The director is obsessed with shooting legs?

   "Hi, hello, thank you for your help." Ronald held the hand of the marketing manager of Sherman Oaks department store and thanked him vigorously.

   "No problem, you've helped us a lot, and I hope your new movie will also sell well at the box office."

   "Night of the Comet" features footage of the two sisters dancing and trying on all kinds of good-looking clothes in a department store, as well as several scenes of a shootout between the two sisters and zombies in the department store.

  Ronald tried to contact the Sherman Oaks department store in the Los Angeles suburbs that he had rented while filming "Fast Pace", and got their permission to shoot here.

Sherman Oaks has made a name for itself among teenage shoppers since the release of "Fast-Paced", and many people want to come and see the place where the beautiful Phoebe Cates and Jennifer Jason Lee work, and the turnover is unreasonably high. a lot.

  The manager in charge of marketing saw that Ronald came, and agreed to their request for filming without hesitation. The owner of the department store has long said that in the future, it will be open to film and TV film crews, and they will be able to get some free advertisements.

   The budget is not as good as the "fast pace" time, and the "Night of the Comet" has no money, so I can only shoot here for one night, and I have to wait for the mall to get off work at 9 o'clock before starting to set up the scene.

   "Quick, quick!" Ronald clapped and urged the staff of the props group and costume group. A lot of furniture will be smashed by gunfights, and a lot of clothes will be tried on by the two heroines like models.

   So the props team pre-ordered some fake furniture and put them next to the railings on the third floor, dressed as the high fashion department.

   "Thank you, thank you." Ronald snapped, shook the hand of the manager of Zhen Zhen's haute couture department, and handed over two hundred dollars in cash. This action is now more and more proficient in him.

   The manager of the haute couture department smiled, put his hand in his pocket and touched it, "Come with me, when you try on fur, be careful, if there are stains, it will be difficult to clean."

   "No problem, we just borrowed a few dances and we'll change into our own costumes for the shootout."

   "Action!"

  Kelly Maloney and Katherine Mary Stuart two people, put on a variety of high fashion, began the dressing show.

   "When the day's work is over

   Oh girls, they want to have some fun”

Ronald hummed the song "Girls just want some fun" in his dream, which was much better than the Donna Summer's disco now playing, but the drums of the two songs were the same, until It's time to replace it later.

   It’s just that we haven’t found out who sang the song. Ronald plans to ask his agent to ask after the filming is completed.

  The camera was placed under the stairs and shot upwards.

"Ah ... All these good -looking clothes are free." The two changed into fur and started to bouncing on the stairs. A small platform on the corner of the mall staircase was used as a runway of high -end fashion.

   "Cut!"

   Katherine Marie Stuart and Kelly Maloney whispered between shots.

   "You said, is there something wrong with the director? Why does he keep slapping our legs?"

"Do you feel the same way? I think it's either the director or the director of photography. The scene in the apartment is when I talk in the apartment in the first two scenes, so he put the camera behind me and filmed my legs." Kelly Maroney also feels that she doesn't take close-ups of her face, and she always shoots her legs, which is a bit different from other directors.

   "Look, at the beginning of the scene where I played the game console, he also filmed the socks and shoes he was wearing." Katherine Mary Stewart, the more she talked, the more she felt that Ronald had a problem, and the two counted the shots of her thighs together.

   "I also shot my legs when I hit the car with the submachine gun."

   "Yes, and a shot of me in the apartment."

   "Also, there is also a shot of me riding a motorcycle, and he will also take a shot of me stepping on the accelerator with my foot in the car."

   "Catherine, Kelly, we're getting ready for the next shot."

   "Okay, Director." The two of you pushed me, I pushed you, carefully walked past Ronald, pulled down his skirt, and started to move.

   "What's wrong with your feet? Did you jump too much and make your feet uncomfortable?" Ronald poked his head out from behind the camera.

   "It's okay, it's okay, we're a little tired." The two actresses hurriedly said.

   "It's fine, let's hurry up, we won't be able to take pictures after six o'clock in the morning."

Then Ronald turned back to discuss with the director of photography, "Don't change the position of the camera lens, the time is running out, let's just shoot in an upside-down position, let them show their fashion happily. The original shot of the overhead shot of them walking the catwalk was canceled. , they are not tall enough, and the catwalk is not professional enough, so let's show off their youthful and beautiful legs."

   "You're the boss, and I think it's a good shot. Anyway, you're not aiming for an R-rated film. This level of **** can attract the audience without being too nudist."

Director of photography Arthur Albert took another look at the frame, "To be honest, Ronald, you are also good at shooting **** films. Although you didn't shoot any **** pictures, you are obviously very good at expressing your youth and beauty. Sexy girls."

"I learned from Adrian Lane." Ronald made a "don't talk nonsense" gesture. The position of his own storyboard was inspired by dreams on the one hand, and also absorbed "lightning" on the other hand. Dance" by Adrian Lane.

   Sexy doesn’t have to be frontal nudity. If the camera can show some plots and let the audience use their imagination to complete the whole picture, it is actually a more advanced technique.

   For example, in "Lightning Dance", Jennifer Beers seduces Nick in stockings under the table, and the scene where the two beauties wrap their bodies in fur and show their smooth thighs. The parts that are invisible to the camera do not prevent the audience from imagining these parts, so they feel the blood rushing up.

   "Action!"

  After filming the fashion show, several actors dressed as villains and zombies found the department store through the radio, and took shotguns to arrest the two sisters.

   Samantha and Regina picked up their MAC-10 submachine guns and fought the gangsters. In the end, Hector, played by Kevin Costner, rushed in with the scientists at the research base and rescued the two sisters.

   "Cut!"

   "Very good, I'll shoot here today." Ronald looked at his watch, it was already six o'clock the next morning, and the army was exhausted from staying up all night, and just ended the shooting.

  The actors can leave first after signing, and Ronald will have to wait a while to watch them dismantle the set.

Kelly Maloney, in a nightgown over her cheerleading outfit and covering her bare legs under her skirt, came up to Ronald, who wanted to take a day off to go to ABC's evergreen drama "OneLife to Live" "Audition.

   "I'm so sorry, Ronald, but this audition means so much to me that if I get cast, you know, they might give me a permanent role, at least for this season."

"Tomorrow? Oh, it's already today. You only have a few scenes today, and the whole film will not have your scenes. Can you change it to tomorrow after your scenes are over?" Ronald took out the shooting plan and carefully Check out Maroney's part.

   "Oh, please, Ronald. I auditioned for the first round before I came to film 'Night of the Comet', and my agent just told me yesterday that they were calling me back for the second round."

   "Okay, you go, I'll use a stand-in for those shots, good luck." Ronald hugged Kelly Maloney, a small figure with a good figure.

  Ronald is very satisfied with Maroney's performance. She was born in the Shakespeare Theatre and is quick to act without making mistakes. And what she wants to audition for is another small role in a daytime soap opera, and it is estimated that there is no patience for her to change the time.

   For Maroney, this opportunity has the potential to land her a lot of roles in TV shows. Ronald also made it easy for him.

   "Thank you, thank you" Kelly Maloney happily ran away and went to the phone to discuss with her agent.

  After a few hours of rest, the main unit moved to the studio again and began to shoot the scenes inside the research base.

   "Kelly Maloney went to the audition, and I got a double to play her part of the elevator." The producer pulled over a double girl who was about the same height as Kelly.

   "Let her put on Kelly's shoes and try them on." Ronald looked up and down the legs of the stand-in, which looked similar to Kelly Maroney, and nodded in agreement.

   "We couldn't take a close-up of her face, so I figured out a way in the morning." Ronald drew the shot's settings on the white paper to the director of photography.

"We photographed her legs and feet, and she was wearing Samantha's socks and shoes with a short skirt around her waist, so the audience knew it was Samantha who got out of the elevator and they could follow her from where she was. recognized her in her cheerleading uniform."

   "Genius idea, Ronald. The movie basically takes a full-body or upper-body shot to show the characters coming out of the elevator. I've never seen someone do that before."

   "Okay, let's try it out."

   "Action!"

   "Ting" sounded, and the camera was framing the elevator door.

  The staff of the studio put their hands behind the wooden doors in the shape of elevator doors and pulled the two doors hard to make the appearance of the elevator reaching the laboratory below.

  The stand-in, wearing Samantha's azure dress, pink socks and shoes, came out of the elevator and walked to the left.

   "Cut!"

   Ronald asked the DP, “How?”

   "Very good, I think this will be a good shot, and some people in the industry will imitate your expression in the future."

   "Okay, ready for the next shot."

"Let me tell you, director Ronald has a special hobby for girls' legs, and this is the position he likes to shoot the most." Catherine Mary Stuart sat next to him Kevin Costner whispered.

"I have to say you're probably right," Costner smiled, "but Ronald is really good at photographing pretty girls. You know what? It reminds me of those classical novels and Shakespeare's plays, which often use The depiction of a body part as a metaphor for the beauty of women."

   (end of this chapter)