One week later, the "Journey to the West on Film" production team began shooting at what seed like light speed.
Even Shao Yichen herself hadn't expected filming to start so quickly. But when the newly appointed General Manager Li Qianqian calculated that, based on the shots required by the script, the film would need at least three months to shoot, with another two months for promotion, ti was already tight. So she desperately submitted a formal proposal (i.e., a planning docunt) requesting imdiate filming, with earnest and well-reasoned language, giving off the impression that "if the emperor doesn't read this minister's morial, this minister will kneel in the great hall and refuse to leave."
Shao Yichen, never having encountered such a scene before, imdiately yielded and confusedly agreed to begin filming a week later.
Unlike previous film launches, this launch ceremony was noticeably more formal—Li Qianqian, as the newly appointed general manager of the dia company, was determined to make her mark with so bold initiatives, striving to make this film Morning Star dia's coback production. Therefore, she paid attention to virtually every detail of the film's production.
Whatever other film crews had, our crew must have too! Whatever other film crews didn't have, our crew should have it anyway!
At first, Shao Yichen would listen to the general manager's daily reports, but after days of hearing updates like "today we added a table to this set," "today we bought a large pig head for the launch ceremony," or "we tied three feet of red cloth to our cara," she finally lost what little patience she had left.
Moreover, during these days of listening to reports, Shao Yichen discovered that although Li Qianqian seed to have excessive energy, she was actually quite reliable in her work, and the prices of items weren't too extravagant, aligning well with her ten-million budget. Therefore, with a wave of her hand, she entrusted all pre-launch preparations to this capable person, comfortably serving as a ruthless ssenger between Li Qianqian and the system, daily submitting Li Qianqian's reimbursent forms to the system, which then approved the various funds.
She wasn't worried about any problems with the submitted docunts—if the system couldn't audit them properly, that was the system's problem.
Thus, she beca a thoroughly hands-off boss, unaware of what the launch ceremony would end up looking like. When Shao Yichen happily arrived at the venue on the day of the launch, she was shocked by an enormous pig head at the center.
The "large pig head" Li Qianqian had ntioned... was indeed very large.
Not only was it large, but Mr. Pig Head was also dressed distinctively, with a flower on top of his head, multi-colored flags clipped to his ears, a mouth that seed to be half-smiling, and skin that was pink and smooth.
Seeing this, Shao Yichen couldn't resist taking out her phone to snap a few photos. She blocked the original host's less familiar contacts and posted to her WeChat Monts with the caption "pig head at the launch ceremony," instantly receiving a batch of likes and several replies.
For example, Nan Rongyu's "This pig knows how to dress better than , but fortunately my natural conditions are still slightly better."
For example, Qin Lu's "Director Shao, I stayed up drawing manga, overslept, and now I'm stuck in traffic. Can I skip the launch ceremony?"
For example, Jiang Miaomiao's "I saw it too! I even added a filter!" attached with a photo of the big pig head with beautification effects—skin smoothing, blush, and big eyes all applied seamlessly—truly a hero among pig heads.
However, as Shao Yichen scanned through them, two replies with different tones caught her attention.
One was from Li Xingyu: "Congratulations on starting filming, Director Shao. Wishing you success." This plain, middle-aged tone paired with his starry sky profile picture appeared particularly profound, particularly calm, particularly... weathered. Just like him, Shao Yichen thought.
The other reply was: "Is this bought to congratulate Senior Li on his variety show premiere today?"
Shao Yichen looked and thought, wow, she had clearly written "launch ceremony," yet soone could still connect this pig head to Li Xingyu, and even knew Li Xingyu had a variety show premiering today. This person must either be a delusional shipper of the inappropriate Li Xingyu x herself CP, or a Li Xingyu solo fan who related everything back to their brother.
Shao Yichen perked up, determined to see which Li Xingyu closet fan had infiltrated her Monts.
But upon closer inspection, she discovered it was the new actor playing Xiao Bai, who had just added her as a friend. Perhaps because he was so socially withdrawn, withdrawn to the point of being forgettable, she hadn't even thought to block this new actor.
...The child is a bit foolish, can't be helped, must treat him with an understanding heart.
She even had the leisure to reply to Xiao Bai: "Did you forget our crew is starting filming today? If you're at the venue, just look up at the stage of the ceremony."
Half a minute later, Xiao Bai sent a string of exclamation marks.
"!!!!"
"Director Shao, I'm sorry! I didn't change your contact na! I thought it was so friend from a group chat posting!"
"Your friend has recalled a ssage."
"Director Shao, I'm sorry! I didn't change your contact na!"
It seed "so friend from a group chat" was purely Xiao Bai's montary carelessness, accidentally revealing too much.
Shao Yichen: ? You have a group?
Tell , is it a CP group or a Li Xingyu fan group? I might spare your life for the latter, but the forr ans imdiate execution!
However, no matter how many question marks, interrogative sentences, or window shakes Shao Yichen frantically sent, Xiao Bai's actor resolutely played dead and didn't respond, as if he had never sent that ssage.
After persistent questioning yielded no results, Shao Yichen sighed and gave up further inquiry.
Never mind, there was plenty of ti ahead. The film would take three months to shoot, and there would always be opportunities to find out what group it was.
But thinking back, she recalled the ntion of "Li Xingyu's variety show premiere."
She had indeed heard him ntion planning to participate in variety shows and rest for a while, but she hadn't heard which show it was. When she'd asked him recently, he had casually dismissed it as nothing worth watching, without giving her a specific na.
However, with today's advanced internet, Shao Yichen easily found Li Xingyu's upcoming variety show using online tools. She briefly looked at the summary—it was a two-person obstacle course ga, or more simply, a large-scale ga of catch. Celebrity pairs would evade the program's capture team while solving puzzles, and the team that successfully avoided capture and reached the final destination would win the prize money.
However, if one team mber was caught, the other could continue competing, but the prize money would then be claid solely by that person. Due to this rule, internal team conflicts sotis occurred during the show.
Shao Yichen watched so highlights and found them quite entertaining, planning to watch more during her downti after filming began.
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Several crew leaders (except for Qin Lu, who had overslept and was stuck in traffic) took turns offering incense to the pig head on the table, then unveiled the red cloth on the cara. Li Qianqian had also found a string of firecrackers from sowhere and set them off with a series of pops and bangs. With that, the launch ceremony concluded, and filming officially began.
Typically, a film crew would deliberately choose simple shots for the first scene, aiming for a smooth, one-take success as a good on. But Shao Yichen's habit was to film from the beginning of the script to the end, making slight adjustnts if set changes were frequent, but generally shooting according to the script's sequence.
Therefore, the filming of "Journey to the West on Film" also followed her habit, beginning directly with the first scene in the script.
The first scene in the script took place in a small classroom of the film coaching class with only five people. Old Tang stood on the podium wearing a suit, appearing professional as he taught the course.
But then the cara turned to the four students in the coaching class—
Rich second-generation Xiao Sun had his feet propped up on the desk, swinging his designer sneakers, his hands moving rapidly on his phone amid ga sound effects, looking as if he was slaughtering opponents in a ga;
The socially withdrawn Xiao Bai held a mirror, reflecting sunlight coming through the window, concentrating intently on trying to catch the reflected light spot. Unfortunately, whenever he moved, the light spot moved with him, causing him to circle around himself like a foolish cat chasing its tail;
The money-obsessed Xiao Zhu had a notebook and pen in front of him, but had only recorded the content from the first five minutes of the class. Now he was staring at the stock page on his phone screen, silently mouthing "rise, rise, rise, co on, rise," like so kind of occult ritual;
Xiao Sha was perhaps the only student seriously listening. He was vigorously wielding his fountain pen, even quickly sketching Old Tang's yawning expression in his notes. However, today the fountain pen seed to have a problem, stopping midway. So he unscrewed the cap and began frantically shaking the pen, trying to get the clogged ink to flow again.
He succeeded. With a "swoosh," the ink successfully flew out of his fountain pen, landing precisely on Old Tang's face.
Old Tang slowly wiped the ink from his face, giving himself makeup resembling that of a rainforest indigenous person, then calmly continued with his lecture.
But today's class was destined to be different from usual—just as Old Tang erged from the shadow of the ink, planning to restart his teaching, the door was violently flung open. Old Tang looked up to see a group of unfamiliar people wearing suits and sunglasses, cigarettes dangling from their mouths and clubs in their hands, looking like gangsters. But the person standing in their midst was very familiar to Old Tang—it was one of the students he had tricked into enrolling from his previous batch half a year ago!
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The content of the first shot was just this, primarily focused on exaggerated cody without high acting requirents. The most important thing was to set aside dignity during the performance.
Qi Gelong perford according to the script content. The lines were familiar film theories that he had morized thoroughly without much preparation. He perford in the manner of a teacher from his mory, seemingly very smoothly, but sohow felt sothing wasn't quite right, as if he hadn't truly imrsed himself in the plot of the script.
But what was the problem? Wasn't Old Tang in the first scene just an ordinary fraudulent teacher on the surface?
Before he could figure out exactly what felt off, he saw the usually silent Shao Yichen suddenly stand up from behind the cara, her expression serious and even sowhat intimidating.
She raised her voice and said: "Let's pause the filming, take a thirty-minute break, and reconsider the script."
After saying this, she walked aside with a cold face and took out her phone to make a call.
All the actors in the crew looked at each other, unsure what had gone wrong.
But Old Tang's heart tightened, feeling he understood the director's intention.
—The actor's understanding of the character apparently hadn't t Director Shao's expectations.
He needed to quickly figure out what had gone wrong during this thirty-minute break!
Author's Note: Shao Yichen: I was just watching the variety show during my downti and got angry at the production team's actions... Teacher Dong Qiang? Have you misunderstood sothing?
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