Chapter 86 Begins
Today is the first day of filming, and Baichuan Feng arrived at the scene early. In his previous life, he had never touched things like movie lenses, so he was still a little curious.
Except for the staff members, the other person who arrived earlier than him was Yuko Tanaka, who was wearing a yellow sweater and had her hair simply tied up.
"Hey, senior sister, you're here so early?" Seeing her holding the script alone, Baichuan Feng walked over to her without any hesitation.
Yuko Tanaka smiled and then looked up, "Shirakawa-kun is here early too."
He would call me like that, and the voice was so familiar that I knew it was him without having to guess.
Baichuan Feng looked at her outfit. Did she put on makeup in advance? She was so dedicated. It was still August and the weather was still hot. Wearing a sweater was not a comfortable thing.
Fortunately, there are gusts of sea breeze, and looking at her long hair flying, she must feel more comfortable.
As for Baichuan Feng himself, a T-shirt and a pair of jeans are all he needs.
He had no intention of studying the script. He wrote the story and knew it better than anyone else.
The male and female protagonists don't have any dialogue, let alone memorizing their lines. Such a relaxing scene is so comfortable.
He pulled up his trouser legs leisurely, then sat down on the beach next to her.
The whistling sea breeze made his bangs flutter. When Tanaka Yuko saw his eyes slightly narrowed from time to time due to his hair hitting him, she smiled.
"How does it feel to be filming for the first time?" She closed the script on her knees, propped up her chin and looked at him curiously.
"How do I feel?" Baichuan Feng paused, "I'm a little curious, but also a little worried."
"Eh, worried?" It was the first time that Tanaka Yuko saw him so hesitant.
In her impression, Baichuan Feng has always been confident, stable and reliable. His current hesitation is unlike his usual self.
"Is there any problem?" Yuko Tanaka lifted her long hair that was covering her eyes, then hugged her knees and leaned her head gently on them, her face tilted to one side, staring at him quietly.
Baichuan Feng withdrew his gaze from the distant sea. He turned his head and smiled at her, "Nothing, maybe it's because I'm nervous."
I guess his friends who have been following him on the other side of the dimensional wall don’t like him appearing in the movie.
The faint sigh dissipated in the sea breeze, just like where the sea and the sky meet in the distance, the azure blue and the azure blue are intertwined and blurred.
Tanaka Yuko's eyes moved slightly, while Shirakawa Feng beside her was still staring blankly at the sea. After hesitating for a moment, she stretched out her slender fingers and gently poked his exposed arm.
"Eh?" Baichuan Feng came back to his senses and looked at her in confusion.
"Keep working hard" The clear eyes are not mixed with a trace of dust. There is only a trace of care hidden in the depths of the eyes.
Baichuan Feng chuckled and said, "Okay."
After saying this, the two of them faced the sea again, silent.
After an unknown amount of time, Bai Chuanfeng's voice came faintly, "Why hasn't Senior Brother Beiye come yet?"
"Eh" Yuko Tanaka also reacted. The crew's first commander, Takeshi Kitano, seemed to have never appeared.
Without him as the director, the crew is now in a state of disorganization and lack of discipline.
From a distance, Baichuan Feng could even hear the staff chatting and laughing. Turning around, he saw that everyone was gathered in groups of three or four, chatting and laughing.
As long as the director doesn't come, they don't care no matter how tight the shooting schedule is today.
They didn't care about the layout of the venue, the debugging of the equipment, and even if the director came, they would have something to say, because there was no one to arrange it.
Just when Shirakawa Kaede was thinking about whether to contact Kitano Takeshi, a figure slowly walked on the beach in the distance.
Wearing a gray samurai uniform, a bamboo sword on his waist and a white cloth belt on his forehead, Takeshi Kitano walked into the set with a serious face.
Not only was Shirakawa Kaede stunned, the entire venue fell silent. Everyone stared at Kitano Takeshi in such a costume, motionless.
Kitano Takeshi glanced around the venue majestically, then drew out his bamboo sword and walked towards two or three staff members who were holding beers.
Before they got close, the staff members were so scared that they stepped back.
One guy lost his footing and fell flat on his face. However, he didn't care about his image at all and just rolled and crawled away.
Kitano Takeshi knew when to stop, he held the bamboo sword in his hand and stopped where he was.
"Gentlemen, is there any problem with today's filming?!" A fierce gaze swept back and forth across the venue.
“No…no!”
"Hai!"
Chaotic responses came from all directions, and everyone's eyes became evasive.
"Let's start!" Kitano Takeshi shouted.
At the command, everyone immediately scattered. Some were setting up the scenery, some were starting up the camera. There was no more leisure as before.
After everyone left, Kitano Takeshi winked at Shirakawa Kaede quietly, and Shirakawa Kaede gave him a thumbs up implicitly.
This Senior Brother Kitano has always been very wild.
Tanaka Yuko noticed all this and didn't know what to say for a moment. This was the first time she had seen such a director.
Before she could think about it, Baichuan Feng had already patted his butt and stood up. "Tanaka-san, please give me your guidance."
Yuko Tanaka chuckled and said, "Shirakawa-kun too."
The two smiled at each other and then turned to join the busy crew. Thus, this first collaboration, under the command of the rookie director, began to operate awkwardly.
As mentioned before, this movie uses a lot of static shots. Before shooting, Takeshi Kitano had simulated the scenes of the movie in his mind.
He doesn't know how other directors shoot movies, but for him, it's like this. After reading the script, he will imagine it in his mind. When it's time to shoot, he will directly tell the photographer what scene he wants to shoot.
Instead of observing and shooting at the same time, and then deciding which shots to keep during the final editing.
Therefore, he is very purposeful and gives very specific requirements, so that the crew will not be like a headless fly, busy and aimless.
However, the shooting on the first day was very simple. Most of the time, Shirakawa Kaede and Tanaka Yuko just sat together quietly, and the camera was facing their backs for half a day.
Kitano Takeshi did not rush to shoot scenes with greater emotional tension, or obsessively capture the details of facial expressions.
He knew that neither he, the crew, nor the male and female protagonists had yet to get into the right state. Getting familiar with each other and getting used to each other was the safest approach at the moment.
So during the summer vacation, you could often see Shirakawa Kaede walking in front of you on the coast of Shonan in a T-shirt, with Tanaka Yuko following quietly behind him in a ponytail.
Without saying a word to each other, they kept moving forward, and forward, as if they would never finish this road.
The occasional glances between them are the bridge of communication between them, silent and yet burning.
