Chapter 38

Tickets! Count the tickets!

At about eleven o'clock, the rehearsal ended temporarily because Kerry Mulligan had to go to school in the afternoon. Murphy had other work to do. After saying hello to three people, he left the warehouse in a hurry. But when he opened the door of the warehouse, his eyes were keen to catch James Franco coming up to Kerry Mulligan

Now, Murphy can understand James Franco's purpose. Bill Rossi is staring at him, and there is no need for him to interfere. He shakes his head out of the warehouse, goes to Milton cafe to meet Jessica chastan, and drives to a Hollywood company specializing in selling video equipment.

While driving, he was still thinking about James Franco, has this guy done the same thing before?

The law of the United States is very strict on the protection of minors. In places like California, it's extremely troublesome if they are bitten by minors after having a relationship.

However, James Franco is not a fool.

The car turned to Sunset Avenue, which is famous for its many accidents. Murphy shook his head quickly, scattered these messy ideas and focused on driving.

When I came to Hollywood this time, I mainly paid the deposit for the film. Jessica chastan on the co pilot looked through the list of goods and found that there was one more item than before. He couldn't help asking, "how come there are ten more Kodak 5222 films? Are you going to make a black and white movie? "

"I used it for the opening play."

This is what Murphy added yesterday. At the beginning of the planned film, a young girl is tortured and killed. After a period of consideration and understanding of MPAA grading system, he worries that because this period is too sensitive, he will drag the whole film into the quagmire of NC-17, so he decides to shoot it with black and white film.

Ten minutes later, Murphy's second-hand Ford stopped near a large video equipment store on Sunset Boulevard, where he had been with Jessica chastan before, and where he would rent cameras and buy films.

They were received by a middle-aged man, and Murphy didn't talk nonsense. She directly asked Jessica chastan to give him the film list. As long as she paid the deposit, the other party could deliver the film in the afternoon.

In addition to 10 sets of Kodak 5222 film, Murphy also had a lot of Kodak color film.

The 35mm Kodak color film is the same as the Kodak 5222 film, with the length of each disc of 122 meters. According to the current film shooting and projection specifications, it generally takes about 27 meters to shoot a negative in one minute, and a disc of film can shoot about 4.5 minutes.

So it seems that 20 discs of color film is enough.

But Murphy asked for 240 discs, which is still a conservative number. In the future, the amount of film will be more or less.

In Hollywood, almost all directors' materials are ten or even dozens of times longer than the length of the film, and people like James Cameron may even be hundreds of times longer.

A crew, just spend money on film, is often a lot of money.

Fortunately, Kodak has not killed itself in this era, and the price of Kodak's original 35mm film film is not as outrageous as it was later. After some bargaining, Murphy finally cut the price of each film to $150.

"A total of 250 Kodak films."

Back in the car, Jessica chastan reminded Murphy to prepare the money. "It's going to cost $37500."

This figure also makes Murphy's heart beat. Taking into account the expenses of film today, up to now, more than 150000 US dollars have been spent on the preparation of hard candy, including personnel salary, rental of equipment and venues, production of props, purchase of cosmetics and clothes, etc.

He really doubts whether he can finish the film with his 300000 dollars.

Preliminary preparation is the most expensive stage. It seems that the later shooting will cost less, but Murphy will not forget that there is still post production. He also needs to hire professional and experienced editors to rent post production studio

When he thought about it, he felt like his head was in two.

Now Murphy can't help but be thankful. Fortunately, he kept up with Kobe Bryant and made 100000 dollars from there. Otherwise, the film would not have been completed by the 230000 dollars of bill road incident alone.

Even so, Murphy thinks that $300000 may not be enough. After all, he is a complete novice and is bound to encounter some unexpected problems.

Time finally entered October 2000. After a long period of preparation, after Kerry Mulligan and James Franco had gone through all the scenes, the production of "hard candy" began shooting at the Milton cafe in old Chinatown, Los Angeles.

In the early morning of this day, Lynch, the owner of Milton cafe, put the sign of suspension in front of the shop. The two large card seats in the left corner of the cafe were also covered with screens and curtains, which temporarily served as the dressing rooms for men and women.

From entering the cafe, Murphy stands in the distance opposite the counter, directing the lighting engineer to arrange the lights according to the plan, the scenery engineer to adjust the store's furnishings according to the sub shot draft, the props engineer to check the prepared chocolate cake and other props, and Jessica chastan leads three interns to manage the choresBecause there is only one makeup artist, all the actors can only do their makeup work one by one. Fortunately, there are only two main actors. Old Lynch and his staff only act as background boards, so they don't need much delicate makeup.

All the actors appear in the camera, and there is no real makeup. People like Murphy know that all the so-called makeup is just makeup.

"When will you get to me?"

Looking at the layout of the coffee shop, Murphy just took a breath and wanted a cup of coffee to refresh himself. Kerry Mulligan came over and said, "I'm in a bit of a hurry waiting for make-up."

She pursed her lips tightly, obviously nervous.

This is Kerry Mulligan's first official role. She's not even 16 years old, so it's impossible to say she's not nervous.

"Kerry, you're nervous." Murphy stepped back and leaned on a coffee table. "And dark circles."

Kerry Mulligan immediately touched his eyes and forced out a smile. "I lost sleep last night."

This is not a good phenomenon. Murphy frowns slightly, thinks for a moment, and suddenly changes the topic. "How are you getting along with James?"

In the rebellious period of youth, the girl's first impression of a person is hard to reverse. Kerry Mulligan's mouth almost turned to his ear. "He has been trying to please me, but I think his purpose is not pure and he is making bad ideas. I still don't like him."

Murphy could not help shaking his head, but Kerry Mulligan reached over and pulled him in the corner of his coat. "Don't worry, Murphy. I don't mean to embarrass him. "

Then she added, "why do I still hate him so much?"

Just want to say something, Murphy saw Jessica - chastan with a man came face to face, quickly welcomed the past.

"Hi, Carla."

Over there, Murphy opens her arms and hugs Carla Firth. "It's unexpected. I didn't expect you to come."

Step back and take off your sunglasses. Carla Firth's words are still sharp. "I just want to come and see how you failed."

"You're going to be disappointed." Murphy shrugged and pointed to a nearby card holder. "Sit down."

Carla Firth first put down her handbag and sunglasses, then pulled back her chair, sat down on it, and waved to Murphy, "go ahead, don't worry about me, I'm just here to see the play."

Murphy wanted to give her a pair of white eyeballs, but she forbeared. She told Jessica chastan that she would come for coffee for Carla Firth, and she would not care about her any more. She would continue to be busy with her work.

Other people continued to set up the venue. Murphy went to the right of the counter. A 35mm camera was set up in the corner, and another shoulder mounted camera was placed nearby, so that he could exchange different scenes.

Compared with the cameras that Murphy used on the other side of the Pacific, these can be classified as antiques. The film industry is an industry with rapid technological development, and the speed of upgrading is amazing.

Murphy had studied these two cameras carefully before, but now he just debugged them.

As time went by, the preparations were gradually ready. When Kerry Mulligan came out of the makeshift dressing room, the shooting could begin.

In the first scene, Kerry Mulligan and James Franco have rehearsed several times, but Murphy still calls them over and gives them a few simple admonitions to remind them that one should be hypocritical and the other naive

At the same time, Murphy also looked at their clothes.

As in the set up photo, Kerry Mulligan wore a red sweater with a hat, while James Franco wore a gray jacket and a pair of glasses.

This pair of glasses comes from the makeup artist Jack Watson's suggestion, and the effect is also very good. It successfully conceals James Franco's somewhat ruffian temperament, making the whole person look more gentle.

It's not hard to see Murphy's mind from their clothes. Haley, played by Kerry Mulligan, is a modern Little Red Riding Hood, while Jeff, played by James Franco, is naturally a big wolf.

However, contrary to the fairy tale, in this version of Little Red Riding Hood and big gray wolf, the one who is really dangerous and in control of the situation will be little red riding hood who seems harmless to human and animals.

The shooting didn't take place immediately. Murphy asked Kerry Mulligan and James Franco to go to the counter of the coffee shop and practice walking several times. He also picked up the shoulder mounted camera to find the right photography route according to the predetermined idea and the position of the two main characters.

That alone took nearly an hour.

It wasn't until 10 a.m. that Murphy officially announced the start of the trial shooting.

Carrying the camera set up above stannikon, he first aimed at the counter to capture Kerry Mulligan's slender and beautiful back. Then he quickly adjusted the camera. When the cafe door was pushed open and Kerry Mulligan turned to look over, he gave her a close-up of her face.

“cut！”

Seeing the close-up picture, Murphy called to stop directly, and the shooting effect did not meet the requirements at all.