Chapter 85 - Collaborative Works

"Ah ..."

The audition room resounded with terrified screams, the bright-eyed little girl shriveled up into a ball, looking at the stuffed bear toy on the table across the room, a frightened look, "Mommy ... Mommy ... "

Watery light appeared in her eyes, then large tears rolled down her face.

Murphy nodded gently and looked up from behind the camera, "OK, Ms. Collins, that's all."

The little girl still stood there frozen, seemingly not having shaken off the state of shock she had just experienced, the middle-aged woman standing to the side hurriedly walked over and took her into her arms.

"Ms. Coren." Murphy walked up to the two of them, his voice lowering slightly, "We will inform you of the results of Ms. Collins' audition within the next three days."

"Thank you." Jill Coren nodded politely and left the audition room with her daughter.

Murphy went back and turned off the camera, removed the tape inside, labeled it, and handed it to Paul Wilson, who had been acting as his assistant.

The audition just now, the little girl's performance was not bad, among the girls of the same age that Murphy had seen, it belonged to the more spiritual type, and the role itself did not have too much difficulty in acting, and the role was limited.

In the bottom of his heart, Murphy has been listed as the first candidate, but it also depends on the price.

Walking out of the audition room and just returning to the living room, James Franco came over, "How was it?"

Murphy knew what he was asking and lowered his voice in warning, "Jim, this isn't just any girl, don't do anything confusing."

James Franco switched directly to Murphy's tone from the other night, "Am I that kind of guy?"

Extending a finger to point at him, Murphy didn't bother to say anything else; James Franco was eccentric, and many times his behavior was impossible to guess, but he wasn't one of those dumbfounded fools.

Murphy went up to the second floor, Carey Mulligan followed from behind, "James is getting bad ideas again, it's going to affect the crew."

"It's fine." Murphy waved his hand casually, "Jim's a man who knows what's important."

By now, where could he not see that James Franco was a guy with a thief's heart but no guts.

In the latter days, Murphy's main work was auditioning, interviewing more than fifty actors and actresses, and finally finalizing all the casting choices in mid-April, the little girl called Lily Collins, also became a member of the cast list.

As for the need for passerby viewers, Murphy does not intend to spend any more money on extras, the cast has so many behind-the-scenes people, cameos will be enough.

And it's always been a Hollywood tradition for behind-the-scenes people to make cameo appearances to act as backdrops.

To determine the list of actors, the crew is considered to be formed, but also entered the formal preparation stage.

Murphy has become even busier, he is not only the director, but also the producer who is in charge of the whole situation, every job in the preparation has to be set up in place, and the final review.

This time the project is not compared to the last time, it is much more complicated, Murphy knows that he has only shot a small budget movie, the ability is still insufficient, the difficulties that may be encountered will be estimated more than enough, and unlike the mature director, he has made a plan is also more realistic.

On top of the split-screen artwork, he made a point of preparing a storyboard for each of the main actors, which could not be described as all-encompassing but was sufficiently detailed, focusing mainly on the shooting of handwritten individual scenes.

In fact, many Hollywood directors also use storyboards, and the level of detail of the storyboards depends on two main factors: the director's confidence and the complexity of the shot.

Some directors want very precise storyboards for every shot, while others only decide how to shoot when they get to the set.

Only experience can tell a director what works for you, and Murphy is clearly still in the figuring out stage.

The various departments coordinated a unified schedule, and Murphy led the assistant director, cinematographer, lighting, props, art director and set designer to scout for suitable locations.

This stage is mainly to find practical solutions to meet the needs of the script.

A good director and screenwriter will screen the script, screen out those scenes that are not suitable for filming, or the budget range of filming costs are too expensive to screen out the bridge, from the financial aspect of the consideration, Murphy directly deleted a few costly car chase scene.

In the crew, there are special people to search for scenes, props, costumes, pictures, information, etc., to Murphy here to review.

This is the toughest step in the preparation phase, Murphy will encounter many challenges, either too many choices or too few choices, he needs to propose solutions in order to allow the crew to make the most suitable choice.

Again, this is the most stressful part of the preparation phase, and Murphy's schedule is full every day.

The entire movie, only a very few location shots, these will basically be shot around Stanton Studios, which requires a residence, from the perspective of cost savings, Murphy preferred the same Stanton Studios.

With a few minor adjustments, Stanton Studios is a qualified middle-class residence.

In addition, the film's main scenes Murphy intends to find a large old warehouse shooting, studio rental costs are too high, not he can afford to pay, in Paul Wilson submitted a list of five places, he and the heads of the various departments to visit after the synthesis of all aspects of the views of the final final finalized the outskirts of Venice, a scrap steel warehouse.

This warehouse has been abandoned for a period of time, looks relatively shabby, the rent is cheap enough, only 10,000 U.S. dollars a month; and the space is large enough to build a number of scenes at the same time, and then there is still a small boom above the roof of the previous transfer of steel, according to the director of photography Philip Raschel's statement, the boom can be used in a number of shots of the top of the shot.

Finalize the shooting location, the crew immediately began to transform the construction of the scene work, even if it is such a small crew, the data and information from various departments are still a large number of convergence to the director of the Murphy, the data need to be sorted out, filtered and validated, usually this is the responsibility of the assistant director, if the person is well chosen, he will be very attentive to the project, and there are any problems will be marked or in the problem has not yet arisen when He or she will mark any problems or make a note of them as soon as they arise.

Paul Wilson's sense of responsibility is not to say, also has a certain ability, but unfortunately the experience is even worse than him, Murphy can only work with Paul Wilson, and in a timely manner to sum up the experience.

All the talents in this world need a growth process.

In addition, Murphy has to coordinate the work of various departments, the crew is small is not wrong, but the work of the collision and stumbling will not be less, where there are people there will be contradictions and conflicts, this time we have to look at the director and the producer of the coordination of the management capacity, the work to do a good job, the crew smooth preparations, and vice versa, there will be a lot more trouble.

Movie production is a collaborative project, personnel management is the cornerstone of this project.