Chapter 97: Sorry

On December 6th, "Grey Track" officially started filming.

The first scene is Xiaolong Liang's delivery and being taken to the police station as a child laborer by the female lead, Nuo Feng.

In fact, the first act was originally arranged for Xiaolong Liang personal drama, but in order to let Ruonan Yan with Xingchen Qi, Dao Zhou deliberately changed to this.

This also shows that Dao Zhou has little confidence in Xingchen Qi.

At 6 a.m., Xingchen Qi went to the lounge to put on makeup. To make his skin look darker, he takes longer to apply foundation than any actress.

When he came out after changing into his costume, the light substitute was walking. He took the time to adjust the camera position to pat the light substitute shoulder, "hard work, thank you, I'll go next."

The location needs to be set up with the right light and angle, and some shots have to be shot overhead with a camera on a lift. Camera adjustments are a waste of time, no actor is willing to walk around with the camera, and no actor is willing to stand still and wait for lighting, so most of the crew will hire a lighting double to replace the actor, giving the actor more preparation time.

The light of the replacement froze, he met the photography and he said "hard", but have not met the male first to say "hard" to him.

"No hard work," he rubbed his frozen hands, "then I'll go wait for the next one."

After saying that he was going to leave, Xingchen Qi hurriedly called out to him: "Wait! Take this."

Xingchen Qi stuffed him a hand warmer and two bags of heat stickers, "Heat stickers can be put in your shoes, standing for so long, your feet are frozen and numb, right?"

"...... It's okay."

After all, he was making a living as a light substitute, and it was only right that he should be freezing. He couldn't remember how long it had been since he had been cared for, and was moved to sniffle, "Thank you, Mr. Qi."

"No thanks, go get warmed up."

Xingchen Qi sent the light substitute away and turned around to stand in the middle of the six camera stations by himself. When Dao Zhou saw him, he raised his walkie-talkie in surprise, "Xiao Qi, why are you up here by yourself? It's cold! Go back to the lounge and read the script, or go to your sister Ruo Nan for a scene."

"I wanted to get a feel for the set camera," Xingchen Qi confesses, "I wasn't filming for four or five months and I was afraid of getting rusty."

Dao Zhou : "Okay, now the camera position is adjusted half, need to set several points, you listen to my command, do not freeze cold."

Xingchen Qi nodded his head to indicate that he knew, and Ruonan Yan, who was reading the script, heard his words and became more anxious about what to do with the next rivalry scene.

Almost twenty minutes later, a cacophony of voices came over the intercom: "Camera three in position! Camera five in position! Machine six ......"

Dao Zhou asked, "Where are the props?"

"Props in position!"

"Okay, Ruo Nan come over here."

Dao Zhou laughed: "The two leads, from now on, 'Grey Track' will enter official filming. This is our first time working together, I don't know if you've heard of me outside, but my personality is very good at talking outside of work, but I like to get to the bottom of things when I'm working, and I like to do things to the best of my ability. Maybe you think that a web series doesn't need much effort, but I want to say that I never treated it as an ordinary entertainment web series. In my vision, it is an excellent work that has a chance to pass the review and be released to the stars at a later stage, a child that I have devoted my heart and soul to raise. I hope you'll join me in loving it, and I hope you'll take it easy on me when I get anxious and lose my temper, okay?"

The high intensity of brain work accompanied by long nights, few directors have a good temper, Yuliang Shang angry even kicked the stool, so Xingchen Qi very understanding, and Dao Zhou said: "Gray Track is my first major work, it is equally important to me, I will love it together with you. "

Dao Zhou : "That's good. Come on, take your places-"

Scene marker: "The sixth scene of "Grey Track", one shot at a time Action!"

The cold wind is biting, the eaves of the small second floor in the city village are hanging in bunches of icicles. Xiaolong Liang from the street spicy hotpot restaurant to pick up food, a shaky icicle fell right in front of him, can be an inch away.

Scared, he shrank his shoulders and stood frozen in place, looking at the icicle for a long time.

At this point, I don't know which two families quarreled, screaming and cursing sharp female voice finally brought him back to God. He jumped over the fallen icicles in pieces, ran quickly to the electric car, put the hot and spicy hot into the insulation box, right leg across the car.

Then he twisted the key a few times, the car did not move.

A few more twists of the key, the car still did not move.

He rolled out of the car and began to look for the source of the failure. Looking around without finding, look more and more anxious, a thin layer of fine sweat seeped out on the forehead.

Finally, he found that the battery is a problem. After a pounding, the car finally moved, he took off his helmet, the top of the brain immediately emerged a white gas - the weather is cold, the rush out of the sweat of the hot air into the gas.

The electric car was repaired, Xiaolong Liang wiped his head and face with his sleeve, and his face suddenly became a dirty little cat. Starting the car, he hummed a mountain song from his hometown, while following the location of his cell phone, running wildly to the delivery place -

"Attention electric vehicles in front, attention electric vehicles in front, please slow down and pull over!"

Hearing this, Xiaolong Liang was all excited - it is said that now the electric car catch is very strict, he does not want to lose the company's car.

That was the equivalent of losing his job, and he immediately sped up.

Unfortunately, how can two wheels outrun four? Three minutes later, a jeep with police lights on top jerked past him and stopped him on the side of the road.

Nuo Feng just out of the scene, a civilian clothes off the car, hands in the pockets, black police boots, while slowly pacing forward while measuring Xiaolong Liang: "How old?"

"Ten, nineteen." Nuo Feng looks fierce, Xiaolong Liang does not dare to look at her, the answer stumbles.

Nuo Feng said angrily, "Tell the truth!"

Xiaolong Liang is even more scared and coy: "...... Nineteen!"

"Okay, not telling the truth, right," Nuo Feng walked to the back of the electric car, carrying the insulation box down into the Jeep, "I help you finish the meal, and then you come back to the police station with me."

"Ka-"

Dao Zhou gave a thumbs up, "The two performed very well, this over. Xiao Qi electric bike riding good, I almost thought you really want to deliver takeout to go, rest ten minutes."

Xingchen Qi was relieved to hear the director's approval, as he hadn't shot a scene in a long time. Ran An immediately ran over with a blanket, which he put on, nodded to Ruonan Yan, and took the lead in going down to the set to fix his makeup.

Ruonan Yan looked at his back with a complicated expression.

She really did not expect that the first scene, or a pretty difficult scene, the other party actually passed in one go!

As Dao Zhou says, he is very strict with his work and his actors, one might even call it harsh.

What does a single performance mean? It means that Xingchen Qi's performance is completely faultless!

As a matter of fact, Ruonan Yan can't find any fault with it. From the micro-expression of being surprised by the icicle at the beginning, to the sweat when checking the electric car, to the emotion of seeing Nuo Feng transforming from panic to confusion and then to aggression, Xingchen Qi has done a good job, even the feeling of a delivery boy riding an electric car with ease.

Must have practiced in advance and must have put in some hard work.

Ruonan Yan suddenly felt a little ashamed.

I have to say that the day she first met Xingchen Qi, she really thought of him as a vase with a face and treated him in a very unfriendly manner.

The main thing is that she has eaten many times the loss of fresh meat, poor acting skills, irreverent abound. One of the drama's fresh meat also because of private life indiscretion was picked up, resulting in hard work for most of the play was finally blocked, not broadcast.

It was a play that she loved and one that she had hopes of taking a step forward in her thirties.

It was just so delayed.

...... But a good performance in one scene doesn't mean a good performance in every scene, Ruonan Yan retracted her eyes and went back to the lounge to fix her makeup.

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Ruonan Yan has another drama to shoot in four months, and in order to string out the schedule, the pre-production of "Grey Track" is mostly a rivalry between the two.

Especially today, probably to let the two get acquainted quickly, to lay the foundation for future relationship scenes, Dao Zhou arranged almost a full day of rivalry scenes.

Xingchen Qi made a lot of mistakes this day, but after he made them, he could quickly understand and digest them and correct them with a little talk from Dao Zhou.

The only remaining difficulty is the scene, with Ruonan Yan's strength, he will not be able to catch Ruonan Yan's scene once in a while.

What to do?

Just grit your teeth and take it!

Not only did it not delay the progress at all, but also grabbed out three scenes early.

At 6:00 p.m., Dao Zhou called it a day, and Xingchen Qi went to find his little battery car as usual, when Dao Zhou called him: "Hey, Xing Xing, are you going back to the hotel?"

"Don't go back for now."

"Then forget it," Dao Zhou turned to Ruonan Yan, "Ruonan, why don't you go back to the hotel? My car is broken down, give me a ride."

Ruonan Yan agreed, watched Xingchen Qi leave, and then took Dao Zhou to the car.

The hotel that the crew of "Grey Track" had chartered was far away from the city village, about forty minutes away. Halfway to the hotel, Ruonan Yan couldn't help but wonder: "Is Xingchen Qi like this every day?"

Dao Zhou didn't understand: "What kind?"

"Riding around on electric bikes."

"Oh, that means ah," Dao Zhou said, "the last two days he rode a battery, the day before was walking on foot - just off the plane and came here in a hurry, catching up to suffer. "

The new generation of actors can suffer, but there are not many like him who can suffer and are willing to think about it. I was afraid he wouldn't be able to act, and I was ready to put in a lot of effort to teach him, but I didn't think he'd be able to do it."

Ruonan Yan's heart became more and more uncomfortable as he listened.

"And his family is in a particularly good position, you know?"

After the casting was decided together with the capitalist, Dao Zhou checked Xingchen Qi's family background, "I carefully considered, if he brought the habit of the second generation to the crew to play big names how to do. It turns out that I worry for nothing, he not only does not look like a second generation, but also like a small actor of civilian origin, and today also light substitute to send hand warmers hot post, their own positioning on the scene, I'm really satisfied ...... Hey, Ruo Nan, how come you don't say anything?"

"It's nothing," Ruonan Yan said, "I misunderstood him as well as other fresh meat, and I was wrong."

Dao Zhou "yo" sounded, "know you are wrong, still do not follow people on Twitter?"

Ruonan Yan shook his head, "I've never thought of Weibo as a platform to run my business, for me it's more like a place to communicate with fans and people in my circle. I've just worked with Qi for a day and I'm not sure if I can add him to my circle."

"You are so ......"

At that, Dao Zhou had nothing to say. But how to do is the choice of people, people do not want to socialize in Weibo, he can not say anything.

"But I will find Xiao Qi to apologize," Ruonan Yan said, "I really wronged him this time."

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That night, Xingchen Qi received a WeChat friend request from Ruonan Yan in the Gray Track group chat.

He didn't know what Ruonan Yan was up to and chose to pass.

Soon, Ruonan Yan sent him an apology message: [Xiao Qi, I want to say sorry to you. The other day I treated you badly, after a full day of rivalry today, I found out that you are not what I thought you were, please accept my apology.

Xingchen Qi did not care about this at all, but he wanted to do justice to the fresh meat, thought about it and replied: [I certainly accept your apology, but I also hope that next time you do not preconceptions, judging people by their appearance].

Wakanan: [After you, I found myself too serious prejudice, I will quickly adjust]

Seeing Ruonan Yan apologize sincerely and not get angry because of his words, Xingchen Qi is also embarrassed to hold back. After changing his stance and discussing the next episode with her as a junior, he went to bed happily after an hour-long video with Park Night.

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Probably because of the resolution of the bad blood with Ruonan Yan, the rest of the shoot went smoothly and they were able to communicate with each other.

Sometimes when Xingchen Qi's performance deviated, Ruonan Yan would take the initiative to help him sort out his emotions and guide him into the scene.

The pressure of acting with this kind of actor is some, but more than that, it is the growth that comes from carrying through. Gradually, he found that there were few cases where he could not catch Ruonan Yan's scenes, and he was able to control the speed of his speech and the subtle changes of his pupils even in solo scenes.

This day, he was sitting in front of the electric heater with the script to bake his hands, the phone rang cold.

Caller ID: Ze Jia cub.

Now it is the winter break sprint period, senior freshmen have to make up classes during the day. So the cubs will send messages to harass him sometime, never call.

There must be something urgent on the phone, so Xingchen Qi picked it up: "Hello, Ze Jia, what's up?"

"Brother, can you come back," Jiaze Qi's trailing voice trembled, "Xuan Tao's condition has worsened!"