"Every unit is ready. Let's start this one again. Zhao Shiwen, Li Xinyu, you two just concentrate on playing with your puppets. Don't be affected by the accompaniment of your teammates!"

"Understood!" The two of them smiled sweetly and made an OK gesture.

"Get ready, start shooting!"

The camera started filming again, this time without the suona, and the world seemed much quieter.

Although for other musical instruments, especially drums and gongs, it is difficult to perform fake movements and can only be played real. Fortunately, they have a good sense of rhythm when learning music, and it is not too hard to listen to when playing, because they have the time.

The whole scene was filmed, and there was no big problem. Although they are a girl group, they used to sing on stage, so they still have some acting talent, and their various expressions are barely in place.

"Okay, the masters will come on stage, the camera lights will shift, and we will shoot in front of the stage!"

Director Wang Shenzhi said hello, and the original theater troupe who was standing nearby came on stage, took over what Xuan Ji and the girls had, and took their places to wait for the director's instructions.

Because there is no need to take pictures of faces, the masters are not so nervous, everything is the same as usual performances.

The lighting team has rearranged the lights and moved the camera to the front of the stage, adjusting the angle to take close-ups on the stage.

The stage of the puppet show is much smaller than the stage in our normal impression. After all, the puppets are small, so the stage naturally needs to be reduced in proportion.

"Ready, start!"

Following the order from director Wang Shenzhi, the troupe masters began to show their true strength.

Whether it is the accompaniment or the dance of the puppets on the stage, they are not comparable to the performance of Xuanji girl just now.

Especially the most intuitive puppet dance scene captured on camera.

The photo taken of Xuan Ji Girl just now only took pictures of the backstage and did not capture the performance of the puppets in the front stage. However, the camera responsible for taking the behind-the-scenes footage did record it.

Damn, those are two cases of polio!

But now on the stage, the same two puppets are dancing much more gracefully. Every move is like a professional classical dancer, and even the water sleeves are fluttering gracefully.

Director Wang Shenzhi, who was sitting in front of the monitor, was stunned. He had never thought that these two little dolls could be so graceful and graceful, as if they were alive.

Although he has already graduated from junior high school, he grew up in a big city and has never seen a puppet show. I was really surprised when I saw these puppets for the first time just now, but after all, given his age, La

I couldn't bear to look like those seven little girls from Xuan Ji and screamed nonsense as if they had never seen the world before, so I just endured it.

But now, he really couldn't help it anymore.

Beautiful!

Stunning!

In the words of otakus, this is a moving figure!

"Ahem." Han Lan next to him also noticed that he was distracted and coughed twice to remind him.

Only then did he come back to his senses and continue to conduct, using his film-making techniques to record the beautiful scenes on the stage.

This step was easily passed, and then we started filming the extras in front of the stage.

According to the plot setting, this is the memory of an old man who performed string string opera. When he was young, he disobeyed his parents and ran over to watch the string string opera. Then he became fascinated by the string puppets on the stage and became excited when he was excited.

I simply went to learn puppetry from a teacher.

Wang Shenzhi didn't have many requirements for the extras, he just asked them to act like normal people watching puppet shows.

But after all, we are not professional group actors, so this sequence of shots took three shots before it was approved.

A group of adults are not as good at acting as the child who played the role of the old man in the silk-stringing opera when he was a child. When shooting a close-up shot, he flashed a lollipop as big as a fist behind the camera. The whole soul was taken away. That little look was much better.

The more expressive he is, the more expressive he is, not inferior to professional actors at all.

Then I rearranged the scene and started shooting Han Lan's scenes, mainly to supplement some fragmented memories of the old man traveling around with his puppets. Han Lan is also an experienced actor now, so he shot several sets of shots very quickly.

Including all kinds of set-ups, this scene was shot in half a day.

At noon, the crew invited the old masters to have a meal nearby. Wang Shenzhi seemed to be chatting with the old masters throughout the whole process, chatting about the marionette show, and the more they chatted, the more excited they became.

It was rare for the old masters to see young people interested in such "old antiques", so they talked to them about everything from puppet making to puppet performances, as well as some legends.

Everyone forgot to pick up the food.

Han Lan was listening very happily. He was not afraid of knocking chopsticks with others even if he picked up any dishes on the table.

But later on, when the current situation in the past ten years was mentioned, everyone sighed.

"Master, haven't you tried to improve it? Just make some changes. The inheritance is not preserved intact. In fact, the puppet shows you are performing now are not the puppet shows from more than two thousand years ago, right?" Han Lan listened.

Hearing their sighs, he couldn't help but stop eating and asked casually.

"Oh~ I've tried it. Don't they say we need to keep pace with the times? We also learned from Yizhou's Gezi opera and made it into a TV show, but the response was not very good..." The Chinese accents of southerners are stronger.

Especially the elderly.

The senior chefs arranged by the troupe to assist them in filming also had very serious accents, but after getting along with them, everyone basically got used to them.

"Then, I can't afford celebrity endorsements. If you hadn't taken the initiative to come to us to cooperate this time, how could we have afforded you? Listen to our group leader, your appearance fee now costs several million, right? You are young and promising,

Our troupe has not been able to earn so much in a few years..." The old master also started chatting, and spoke out his innermost thoughts in one breath.

Han Lan smiled awkwardly, his appearance fee was more than a few million.

But this is indeed the situation in theater troupes now. They are also artists, but these traditional artists are not as good as the trainees of Tomahawk Entertainment.

"Master, what I mean by keeping pace with the times is not just for you to move the puppet show from the stage to the screen, but also all other aspects, especially the art style, music, and performance content.

It needs to be changed." Han Lan reminded again with a smile.

The old masters smiled and waved their hands, indicating that they did not understand.

Han Lan also realized it. It's not that they don't want to change, but that their style is just like this. They don't understand what contemporary young people like. After all, the generation gap has been there for decades. How can they change it?

The youngest in the troupe seems to be over forty, right?

It’s really hard to understand what young boys and girls like nowadays.

Han Lan thought for a while, then asked the girl Xuan Ji next to her to help bring over the custom-made puppets used for the shooting, and explained to them with examples: "Master, for example, we asked you to help customize these puppets.

You must be able to tell the difference between them and your own puppets, right?"

The old masters naturally smiled and nodded. To them, the difference was huge. These female dolls were too thin!

But in fact, Hyun Ji girls are not thin. Compared with other girl groups on the market, they all have a little baby fat on their faces, and their bodies are not particularly thin.

After all, I still have to practice martial arts on a daily basis, and a weak person simply can't handle it.
Chapter completed!