Chapter 68 Officially Start Shooting

Except for the two days when they first arrived in Wuhan, Xia Xiqing and Zhou Ziheng were basically working on the script in the hotel during the preparation time for a week before the start.

There are many conflict points in this film, and there are also many characters involved. There are also many memory killings with a relatively large span. In addition, Gao Kun played by Zhou Ziheng has a process from the early stage of the disease to the gradually serious, which means that the actor Just in terms of image, it has to show a very big change.

"I think you should get ear studs." After reading the script for more than 20 minutes without saying a word, Xia Xiqing suddenly raised his head and said to Zhou Ziheng, "You should also dye your hair."

Zhou Ziheng scratched his hair that he had grown a bit for styling. His hair was never more than four centimeters before, but now he looks like a real little fresh meat, "Are you serious?"

"Of course." Xia Xiqing picked up the phone and sent a message to the main creator group.

[Xia Xiqing]: Director Kun, I propose to let Gao Kun dye his hair and wear ear studs or something, which is more like a gangster.

There were only four people in the group, two starring, one director and one screenwriter, and Kuncheng replied to the news soon.

[Kuncheng]: This is a good idea. Gao Kun was originally a migrant child who almost went astray. He has been in the society for two or three years. I think it's okay to dye his hair.

[Xu Qichen]: Well, Gao Kun's image is actually more extroverted, wild road, to form a contrast with Jiang Tong, this image design can be.

[Kuncheng]: Xi Qing is worthy of studying art, or you can come up with a concept map of the images of several leading actors with the script, hahaha.

[Kuncheng]: Just kidding.

Xia Xiqing thought about it, it wasn't too difficult, but he could only make up to two leading roles by himself. He didn't take the job directly, and thought about it in his heart. He didn't expect Zhou Ziheng, who was sitting beside him, to pick up his phone and reply. one.

[Zhou Ziheng]: It's enough for him to memorize his lines. By the way, what color is more reliable for me to dye?

Seeing Zhou Ziheng's reply, Xia Xiqing felt warm in his heart, so he quietly pushed the work for himself, and the topic changed at once.

[Kuncheng]: It's yellow, it's just that kind of special and cheesy hahaha.

[Xu Qichen]: Well...I think so too.

Xia Xiqing imagined Zhou Ziheng with a yellow hair that killed Matt. He thought it was too funny, and had a weird feeling that didn't match his image. He glanced at Zhou Ziheng, who was sitting cross-legged beside him with his head down to send a message, reached out his face to face him, looked left and right, and took the tablet and electronic pen beside him.

"Are you going to draw me?"

"Shh..."

Zhou Ziheng lowered his head again with a wink, and the dialog box read what he didn't send just now - are you all serious? ? Well, if you really think yellow hair is okay, I'll dye it and dedicate myself to art.

Glancing at Xia Xiqing, who was drawing on the tablet with his head down, Zhou Ziheng deleted the words just now, word by word, and edited it again.

[Zhou Ziheng]: Hair color is a big deal, so you have to think about it in the long run. Give me three minutes to think about it.

[Kuncheng]: You just don't want to dye it.

[Xu Qichen]: Laughing jpg

After a while, Xia Xiqing raised his head, tilted his head and carefully looked at the tablet in his hand, changed it again, and finally posted a screenshot to the group.

[Xia Xiqing]: Do you think such an image is not suitable for Gao Kun?

Zhou Ziheng didn't click on the picture, he moved to Xia Xiqing's front, his chin rested on Xia Xiqing's shoulder and looked at the tablet in his hand. On the screen was a concept drawing similar to what a fashion design professional often draws. It depicts a tall man with an indistinct face, but with a cunning head dyed crimson, a black ear stud on his right ear that looks like a mole, and a black vest on his upper body. There is a tattoo on the left upper arm, wearing these dirty dark blue jeans, wearing old sneakers from the double cottage, and half a cigarette in his hand.

"How is it? Is it okay?" Xia Xiqing turned his face and asked him, Zhou Ziheng raised his eyes and pursed his lips, "I don't think so."

Xia Xiqing frowned, straightened his back and lowered his head to stare at the tablet, "Why not? I think it's pretty good." After speaking, he raised his back again, pursed his lips, and muttered softly, " I think Gao Kun in my heart should be like this."

Zhou Ziheng only smiled lightly, got up from his shoulder, reached out and rubbed a handful of Xia Xiqing's hair, sat up straight and sent a message.

[Zhou Ziheng]: Brother Kun's shape is so decided.

[Kuncheng]: Yes, Xiqing, it fits the character very well. I have already sent it to the head of the modeling team.

[Xu Qichen]: As expected of Xi Qing, it also fits the early image of Gao Kun in my mind.

Xia Xiqing read the news, raised his head and stretched his leg and kicked Zhou Ziheng's waist, "Can't you just say something nice to me?"

"Just teasing you." Zhou Ziheng smiled and grabbed his ankle, put down the bottom of Xia Xiqing's sweatpants, and the air conditioner was running too hard.

"But yes, it's too handsome." Xia Xiqing only focused on his concept map, he is not very casual about other things, except for painting, he is very picky, "painted in black. A little bit? Get a scar?" After he changed it, he was still dissatisfied, so he poured his resentment on Zhou Ziheng, jumped on him and grabbed his face, "It's not bad for me, if you want to blame you for being too handsome , I will help you disfigure it and it will be perfect."

Zhou Ziheng was made to lie on his back on the ground by his sudden attack, but his hand was still supporting Xia Xiqing's lower back, and he didn't cry when he pulled his face, he just laughed and joked, "Then you ruin it. Ah, are you willing?"

As soon as he said this, he felt a little regretful. He felt that he took himself too seriously. Seeing that Xia Xiqing's hand was stagnant, Zhou Ziheng immediately added, "Didn't you just like this face?"

"Hey, you still have a figure." Xia Xiqing let go of his hand and got off his body, "But your figure has become thin in the later stage."

"Then what?" Zhou Ziheng immediately sat up and looked at him, his face was a little unhappy, Xia Xiqing quickly realized that he was unhappy because of those words, he squatted down and patted Zhou Ziheng's head again, "It's alright. , if the artworks are broken, they are artworks, and the small pieces of porcelain are shining with humanistic brilliance." After he finished, he kissed Zhou Ziheng's lips, "The aesthetic value will not be depreciated due to the fading of the canvas."

really say. Zhou Ziheng raised the corners of his mouth and stroked the tip of Xia Xiqing's nose with satisfaction.

"But you're an artist."

Xia Xiqing was a little embarrassed by his actions. Every time he concealed his embarrassment, he pretended to be embarrassed, "If you move my nose in the future, I've really ordered this mole." Thinking of what Zhou Ziheng just said, Xia Xiqing Suddenly he laughed wickedly, and the hooligan came up at once, stretched out his hand from his collar and touched it randomly, "Yeah, I'm just doing art."

He also deliberately took the word "to do" seriously, Zhou Ziheng grabbed his hand, "No, who is it?"

"Let's be quiet, I'll mess with you one day."

"Last time, who didn't have the strength to come here, and I didn't stop you, uh... don't cover my mouth, you're still afraid of being told."

"I have to mess with you next time!"

"Please."

The two had been making trouble on the ground for a long time, and finally Ronaldinho knocked on the door to come in and send the procedure book for the opening ceremony, which ended this childish game.

The biggest invisible investor, Zhou Zijing, can't trust other people. After a long time, he still let his wife be the production director. In the eyes of outsiders, it's just the boss of Zhou Ziheng's brokerage company to be the producer. This kind of situation is quite common in the circle. , what's more, the films in Jiang Yin's hands are rarely smashed, otherwise they would not be called gold producers. But in Xia Xiqing's eyes, it was a bit funny.

"It's your family's team who co-authored this play until the end. Your brother invested in it, and your sister-in-law produced it. You act. It's funny."

Zhou Ziheng shrugged.

Not only that, but the person he likes will act with him, and the friend of the person he likes will be the screenwriter.

A few actors with relatively few scenes did not join the group, and the opening ceremony was very simple. The director brought a few leading actors to pay their respects. In order not to reveal the story, the actors did not do makeup and hair, and finished the opening ceremony in private clothes. .

However, Jiang Yin's marketing was very good last time, and the effect still has a lingering effect. The opening ceremony alone has attracted countless media to come to interview. Kuncheng, who has always been shooting niche independent films, is not very good at dealing with it. In this kind of matter, the media meeting lasted for only half an hour, and it was all focused on Zhou Ziheng and Xia Xiqing, but Xia Xiqing, an "outsider", took on most of the tasks of answering questions from the media.

After the ceremony, a few actors started to do modeling non-stop. Xia Xiqing's modeling was easy to do. It was basically enough to cut hair and change clothes. Originally, Jiang Tong's prototype was Xia Xiqing himself, even the pale complexion of long-term malnutrition. Correspondingly, you don't even need to apply more foundation, just cover the lip color.

But Zhou Ziheng was in trouble. First, he had to cut and dye his hair, and then he had to stick tattoo stickers and ear studs. On the first day, Xia Xiqing only had one play, and in the script it was still dusk, and he had to wait for several hours. In this scene, Jiang Tong, who came out of the house, met a few thugs who received protection fees. Gao Kun passed by and beat up a few of them for him. This was the first exchange between the two after the "stalking". It is a very important literary drama. .

Their modeling room was in a house rented in Huaanli before. Xia Xiqing, who had finished modeling, left the dressing room and came to the modeling room. At the door, he met a boy with wheat-colored skin and slender eyes, about 1.75 meters tall. Looking very energetic, he took the initiative to say hello to Xia Xiqing, "Hello, hello."

After being shaken by the boy for a long time, Xia Xiqing suddenly felt that he was familiar, probably because he had acted in some TV series, but he didn't watch TV either, maybe he had read it on Weibo, maybe he wasn't a popular actor like Zhou Ziheng, Xia Xiqing habitually showed a gentle smile, "Hello, I'm Xia Xiqing."

"I know. I love watching "Escape From Heaven"!" The boy laughed twice, and felt that he was a little too familiar, so he loosened his hand and scratched his own embarrassedly. Hair, "My name is Yang Bo, so what, I'll play Aaron here."

Xia Xiqing quickly realized that Aaron was a supporting role in this play, and the human blood reseller who indirectly caused Gao Kun to contract AIDS, "Oh, hello, hello, today's first scene is yours, are you nervous? ?"

"It's really a bit." Yang Bo's expression was very vivid. Although he was not handsome, he was born to eat this bowl of rice.

Sister Su, the makeup artist who had just done makeup for Xia Xiqing, came over from the makeup artist with a large bag and a small bag. Seeing the two standing at the door of the styling room chatting, she bumped Xia Xiqing's arm, "Why are you talking at the door? , go in, there is still a place to sit."

"Yeah." Yang Bo's Northeastern accent suddenly came out, and Xia Xiqing also smiled, "Then let's go in."

As soon as he pushed the door, Xia Xiqing saw Zhou Ziheng sitting in front of the vanity mirror. Turning his head and looking at his arm, he raised his head as soon as he heard the door open, and found that Xia Xiqing and another boy had walked in. He was full of eyes full of Xia Xiqing, and shouted at him when he looked in the mirror, "Xiqing! "

When the two of them were together, Zhou Ziheng seldom called him by his name, so Xia Xiqing was not used to it. He smiled at Zhou Ziheng, but Yang Bo didn't notice the shift in his eyes, and asked, "Then you guys go back to filming real people. Show?"

Xia Xiqing retracted his eyes, "I won't be filming for now, the production team has found another artist."

Not getting the attention he deserves, Zhou Ziheng is not very happy, but there are so many people in this room that he can't have a seizure, so he can only bear it for a while.

"Don't get wet, Ziheng, wait for him to do it." The tattoo artist invited by the modeling team took out a small fan and fanned it for him. This scene is a bit weird. A tattoo is connected from the finger to the neck with a round inch. The tough guy big brother held a small pink fan and squatted in front of him and shook it.

"Brother, how many copies have you made of this?" Zhou Ziheng felt embarrassed and took the fan over to fan it himself. The pattern on the tattoo is very complicated, with flames and tangled branches. If you look closely, you can still see that there is something hidden inside. The face of an old woman, that is Gao Kun's grandmother.

Gao Kun is a left-behind child. His mother ran away with others as soon as he was born, and his father worked in Guangzhou. He has always depended on his grandmother. Grandma is the most important relative to Gao Kun in the play.

"A hundred copies, don't worry, it won't be enough to print later."

Staring at the tattoo on his body, Zhou Ziheng was a little dazed. He spread out his hand and glanced at it, and asked in a daze, "Brother, if it is really tattooed, it won't take long."

"That's not necessarily, it depends on the complexity and size of the pattern." The tattoo brother smiled, "Why, I want to get a tattoo."

"No, I'll ask." Zhou Ziheng shook his head, "We can't get tattoos casually in our profession, not to mention my dad wouldn't agree."

"Yes, Mosaic is required to be on TV."

After getting the tattoo, Zhou Ziheng's hair was almost dyed. The stylist Ajie led him over to rinse his hair carefully, for fear of getting fake tattoos.

Xia Xiqing and Yang Bo were sitting on the sofa and exchanging scripts with each other. Yang Bo's family was from Harbin, and his whole body was full of the boldness of the shareholders from the north. He took Xia Xiqing as if they were brothers. After the two exchanged the script, they started again. Exchange styling.

Xia Xiqing grabbed a strand of yellow hair on Yang Bo's head and said with a smile, "In the beginning, the director said that Zhou Ziheng should dye the yellow hair."

"Really?" Yang Bo laughed twice, "He is definitely more handsome than I am. By the way, you two have a good relationship after acting in a reality show and in this drama, right?"

Xia Xiqing was suddenly a little embarrassed when he asked this, and he glanced to the side, "It's alright."

It's really a shame to say it. Obviously it's a "negative distance" relationship.

The executor of "Negative Distance" kept staring at Xia Xiqing's little corner, intentionally or unintentionally, while blowing his hair. Seeing that he was fluffing other people's hair and chatting and laughing with others, his heart became more and more angry.

"Okay." The stylist Ajie put both hands on Zhou Ziheng's shoulders, "Ziheng, you are quite suitable for this hair color."

Zhou Ziheng looked at the mirror, not to mention, this red hair was like a fire rushing out of his heart, it was called an image.

Do not. Zhou Ziheng glanced at the small corner.

Still green is more appropriate.

In fact, Xia Xiqing glanced sideways at Zhou Ziheng every now and then, and now he looked up to see that his hairstyle was ready. His short crimson hair was almost the same as what he imagined. There, he sat up and walked to Zhou Ziheng's side, and praised sincerely, "It's pretty good."

"Is it just pretty?" Zhou Ziheng turned his head and raised an eyebrow at him.

"Handsome." Xia Xiqing stretched out his hand and wanted to pinch his face directly, but suddenly realized that it was too close in the group, and took it back, "Really handsome."

Zhou Ziheng's neatly trimmed eyebrows have been in a state of stocking for the filming of this film, and they have grown into his own wild eyebrows. With deep eye sockets and three-dimensional brow bones, this facial contour exudes a unique tough hormone. .

The previous Zhou Ziheng had a righteousness that could not be thrown away. He clearly had Zhang Pei Shi alpha scum attacking his face, but he was gentle and kind in his bones. Now that this little bastard's shape is done, it's just like what Xu Qichen said, a wild way.

Looking at his newly pierced ears, with a black ear stud still hanging on it, Xia Xiqing gently touched his earlobe with his fingers, "You will be the prettiest boy on this street from now on."

When Zhou Ziheng heard Xia Xiqing's praise, he couldn't hide the joy in his heart.

Ajie, who was standing behind the chair, also joked, "The director also doesn't match our Kunzi with a good-looking heroine. The most beautiful boy is the most beautiful girl."

No, no, no, the most beautiful boy wants to go to the most beautiful boy in another street. Zhou Ziheng retorted in his heart.

However, when he looked so closely, he realized that Xia Xiqing's hair had been cut quite a bit. Originally, it was almost to the shoulders, but now it was trimmed to the point of the chin. It looked similar to the length when he first met Xia Xiqing.

"The hair is well cut."

"No, the hair stylist is a professional." Xia Xiqing put his hand on Zhou Ziheng's shoulder naturally, looking familiar but not too intimate, "Unlike you, I can tell you, don't give it a click then. I'm bald, and I can't finish with you."

Xia Xiqing was talking about a scene in the script in which Gao Kun cuts Jiang Tong's hair. This scene was only in the final draft, and was probably added by Xu Qichen later.

"It's okay, a bald head won't affect your beauty." Zhou Ziheng sneered.

"Fuck off."

The assistant director pushed open the door and came in. He wiped the sweat from his bare head with the back of his hand, and took a bite of a standard Beijing film, biting his tongue halfway, "Okay? Let's shoot over there?"

This bald head is so fitting. This time, both Xia Xiqing and Zhou Ziheng laughed, leaning back and forth like two children, causing the assistant director to be puzzled by himself, and touched his light bulb-like head again.

The first scene is between Zhou Ziheng and Yang Bo. Yang Bo's Aaron is a reselling of human blood. Like Jiang Tong, played by Xia Xiqing, he lives in a small rented house in Hua'anli, but he doesn't have many scenes. This The rental house crew only rented for one day, and he had to shoot his part in the rental house first.

In this scene, Gao Kun, who had just found out that he had AIDS, came to Aaron in anger, believing that he had harmed him.

The first thing to start is the conflict scene, which is actually very demanding for actors, but Zhou Ziheng has been used to acting for so many years, and Kuncheng is even more worried about Yang Bo.

"You guys try to act first, it's alright, it's not dark yet, there's still time."

When it gets dark, it will be Zhou Ziheng and Xia Xiqing's rivalry. The director had to film this conflict scene in just two or three hours. Time was a big challenge. Xia Xiqing was completely blank in terms of acting. Although he didn't play at this time, he still stood on the set and watched, using the fastest way to absorb and learn.

After the actors were in place, the set manager walked up to the camera with a black and white slate board, glanced at the photographer's gesture, and said, "The first scene of "Tracking", the first scene, the first time, action!"