Anything, without actually doing it, will not realize how difficult it is inside.
Re-arranged the lighting, the actors are once again familiar with the walking position, the crew is all ready, Murphy, the director and cameraman, began to test shoot, the same as last time, when Carey Mulligan turned his head, he once again shouted stop.
Everyone in the crew looked at Murphy, wondering what he was going to do, and someone as emotionally outgoing as Carey Mulligan was already scratching her head.
She had been brewing her emotions for half a day, only to be shouted at to stop after only one action, and she was inevitably depressed.
James Franco simply found a chair and sat down, he kind of saw that this was completely a big collection of unreliable directors plus another group of unreliable people.
It was a good thing that his purpose wasn't roles or movies either, otherwise he would have to go crazy working with such a bunch of novices.
He looked at Murphy's eyes, but could not help but bring a few points of contempt, this so-called director's mouth said beautiful, actually do it but the problem is constantly.
This is good, lest Carey Mulligan admire him so much.
Compared to the weird James Franco, Jessica Chastain, who comes from the serious academy, is more professional, and after Murphy shouted stop again, she immediately came over to take over the camera and asked, "Where's the problem."
Murphy didn't think about it, and the words came out of his mouth, "Carey's eyes aren't bright enough, they aren't mesmerizing enough, and it will diminish the charm of the heroine's image."
"What?" Carey Mulligan obviously heard Murphy's words, pointing to her own eyes, just wanting to distinguish a few words, but was interrupted by Murphy raising his hand, "Carey, it has nothing to do with you, it's still a problem with the lighting."
Camera lenses are different from human's naked eyes, in the ordinary person's view even more bright and godly eyes, the camera shot will be much dimmer.
"Eye light!" Murphy angrily slapped himself on the head, "How did I forget about the eye light."
He sighed, this was all trouble from lack of experience.
This was the first frontal shot of the female lead Hayley, if the eyes were dull, the whole person's charisma would be greatly reduced, eye light was a must.
A movie of this type, like Fruity Hard Candy, can leave a lasting impression on the audience through the sparkling eye light of the actress.
Lighting technician Douglas followed Murphy's instructions and added another Fresnel lens spotlight underneath the main light, specifically for creating eye light for Carey Mulligan.
After half a day of busy time, finally realize the desired light effect, Murphy headache, but also slightly relieved, the cafe side of the scene to be filmed is not much, relatively simple, the biggest is the shooting and light problem.
After adjusting the lighting, Murphy deliberately let Carey Mulligan face himself, first casually shot a close-up, the camera Carey Mulligan's eyes bright and innocent, seems to be able to penetrate into the human heart.
Such an innocent, pretty and cute looking girl can only tickle the criminal's mind and mesmerize him, can't it?
Getting the lighting right doesn't mean the crew can run smoothly.
This crew is full of newbies and no prior experience working together, and bonding is inevitable, especially with Carey Mulligan, who, like all new actors, is unlikely to adapt to filming a movie right away.
After restarting the test shoot, Murphy's shots of her in the background and moments of turning around went well, but when James Franco pushed his way into the café and came over to say hello, the expression on her face and the tone of her voice changed.
As before, her emotions were too outward, and even Lynch, the café owner, could tell that she was a little annoyed with the person who came over to say hello.
It was impossible to film this way, and Carey Mulligan's Haley, at this point, should be revealing her innocent and sweet side to seduce Jeff.
"Stop!" Murphy directly shouted to stop the whole crew, "Take a half hour break."
After being busy for so long over the cloth light issue before, he also needed to take a breather and drank a cup of cold coffee, calling Carey Mulligan out of the café alone.
"Sorry, Murphy ..."
Standing in front of the cafe, Carey Mulligan seemed like a good boy who had made a mistake, "It's all my fault, I didn't do enough."
For people like Carey Mulligan, blaming could only backfire, Murphy instead asked, "Is James that annoying?"
Earlier in rehearsal, Carey Mulligan had been able to restrain her emotions towards James Franco, and she hadn't seen anything special in the morning, so why had she suddenly become like this again?
"Lunch ..." Kerry Mulligan dropped her head, "He said a lot of nasty things."
She then looked up, "Murph, I really dislike him. When we rehearsed, he was always deliberately trying to impress me, obviously with an agenda."
"Oh?" Murphy looked at her, Carey Mulligan was naive and rebellious, but no fool.
"I think ... I think, James Franco is like ..." she raised her eyes at Murphy, saw Murphy gave an encouraging smile, no longer scruples, said directly,. "I think he's like Jeff inside the script."
"This way ah ..." Murphy did not have any surprise, but instead lifted his chin and thought about it, Carey Mulligan looked at him blearily, her bright eyes flickered and flickered, as if she was waiting for Murphy to replace that nasty guy for her, but after a while. Murphy said instead, "James does look a lot like Jeff from the script."
"What?" Carey Mulligan's eyes widened, "Is that true?"
She was just inexperienced, not stupid, and looked a little alarmed.
"Calm down, Carey." Since Murphy said that, he naturally had a countermeasure, reminding, "You're forgetting that Haley in the script is facing Jeff ..."
"And I'm facing James Franco ..." Under Murphy's comforting gaze, Carey Mulligan gradually calmed down, her bright eyes showing a few moments of reflection, "A guy who's even more timid than Jeff. "
Murphy looked at her, his eyes full of encouragement, "It should be fun for us to deal with James Franco."
"Yeah!" Carey Mulligan nearly screamed, hurriedly covering her mouth and taking another cautious look through the clear glass door at James Franco inside, before lowering her voice, "I can deal with him the same way Hayley did!"
"Just teach him a little lesson." A few beads of sweat appeared on Murphy's forehead.
However, he didn't stop Carey Mulligan, this was supposed to be his intentional provocation, and this wasn't a movie, so he believed that the girl on the other side wouldn't do anything too far, and at most, he would give Rotting Ranch a bit of a hard time.
The benefits, however, were obvious; when faced with James Franco and his appearance as Jeff, Carey Mulligan only had to act in character, which would certainly make the performance less difficult.
Back to the cafe, Carey Mulligan in the shooting performance is completely like a different person, in the face of James Franco as Jeff, she fully will be a girl naive, cute, childish and with a little sexy side performance, and even caused James Franco in the test shot appeared to freeze ...
Looking at wearing a red bodysuit, as if the little red hat-like Carey Mulligan, that naive and lovely appearance and demeanor, James Franco for a moment almost couldn't suppress the impulse in his heart, good thing he was already an adult, and had played similar games a few times before, although he had never encountered such a fascinated type, but he was able to control himself.
"Cut!" said James Franco, still fuming, but Murphy shouted a halt, giving the two actors a thumbs up, "That one's over. Jim, Carey, you guys did great!"
This was supposed to be a test shot, but the effect exceeded Murphy's expectations, especially James Franco's frothing in the face of Carey Mulligan, which was extremely evocative of his urgent heart hidden under a civilized exterior.
With James Franco's current level of acting skills, it's probably hard to come up with an equivalent performance.
"This is the performance of the original color!" Murphy secretly muttered a few words, "If these two people can perform in their true colors, the effect will definitely be the best."
Like Robert Downey Jr. to Iron Man, when actors performed best, often the characters were similar to their real selves.
An occasional smooth ride couldn't hide all the problems that existed in the cast of Fruity Hard Candy, and the shooting afterward went into a cycle of mistakes, mistakes, and more mistakes, with Murphy's own inexperience being the main reason, and the general ability of the other people being the other side of the coin.
Three days of time down, the cafe just a few minutes of the scene are not shot to complete, and even a day can only pass a, Murphy also counted completely clear, he recruited these people the reason why the price is cheap, and the ability to be directly proportional.
It's a good thing that he chose a relatively simple movie like "Fruit Hard Candy", otherwise, if he, a rookie director, plus a group of crew members with mediocre abilities, went to shoot a film with a bigger investment, he would surely pit himself to death.
These three days also made Murphy fully realize that watching, analyzing and studying at the film school is one thing, while filming and producing a movie is another, and the distance between the two sides, not to mention equals, is at least as far as from Los Angeles to New York.
In spite of the difficulties, Murphy did not want to give up, now want to give up is not possible, he has invested more than 100,000 U.S. dollars, to give up means that all the investment is useless.
Murphy determined to persist, full of depression is difficult but inevitable, there is a person with Murphy as depressed, that is, Mittens Cafe owner Lynch.
The crew to shoot, Mitton Café will certainly suspend business, when the contract with the crew signed, the old Lynch thought so much drama at most two days to shoot, and did not pay attention to the contract prepared by Murphy simply did not specify the time limit, the back of a few days of filming down, but could not help but regret it.
His cafe is not only unable to operate, but also to provide free meals for the crew, which goes out is money ....
Fortunately, the cafe scene is really not much, in the old Lynch endure to reach the bottom line before, Murphy finally ended here only a single-digit number of shots shooting, leading the team to turn into the San Fernando Valley.