Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 386 The director is obsessed with leg shots?
"Hi, hello, thank you for your help." Ronald shook the hand of the marketing manager of Sherman Oaks Department Store, thanking him vigorously.

"No problem, you have helped us a lot, and I hope your new movie will be a hit at the box office."

"Night of the Comet" has scenes of the two sisters dancing in a department store and trying on all kinds of cool clothes, and there are several scenes where the two sisters have a shootout with zombies in the department store.

Ronald tried to contact the Sherman Oaks department store in the Los Angeles suburbs that he rented when filming "Fast Pace", and got their permission to come and shoot here.

Sherman Oaks has become famous among teenage shoppers since "Fast Pace" was released, many people want to see the beautiful Phoebe Cates, and the place where Jennifer Jason Lee works, the turnover is high for no reason Quite a lot.

Seeing that it was Ronald, the manager in charge of marketing agreed to their shooting request without hesitation.The owner of the department store has long said that in the future, it will be open to the film crews of movies and TV dramas frequently, so that they can get some free advertisements.

No more than the "fast-paced" time with a sufficient budget, "Night of the Comet" had no money, so I could only shoot here for one night, and I had to wait until the mall closed at nine o'clock before I could start setting up the scene.

"Quick, quick!" Ronald applauded and urged the props and costume staff.There's a lot of furniture that gets smashed in a shootout, and a lot of clothes that are tried on by the two heroines like models.

So the props team pre-ordered some fake furniture and placed it next to the railing on the third floor, dressed up as a haute couture department.

"Thank you, thank you..." Ronald snapped, shook the hand of the manager of the real high-end fashion department, and handed over the two hundred dollars in cash.Now he is doing this move more and more proficiently.

The manager of the high-end fashion department smiled, put his hands in his pockets and touched them, "Come with me, be careful when you try on furs, if there are stains, it will be difficult to wash them off."

"No problem, we just borrowed a few dances, and then we will change into our own costumes for the shootout."

"Action!"

Kelly Maroney and Catherine Marie Stuart, both in high fashion, kicked off the show.

"When the day's work is over

Oh girls, they wanna have some fun"

Ronald was humming the song "Girls Just Want Some Fun" in his dream, which was much better than the Donna Summer disco playing now, but fortunately, the drumbeats of the two songs were the same. It's time to replace it later.

It's just that I haven't found out who sang that song yet. Ronald plans to ask his agent to ask after the filming is completed.

The camera is placed at the bottom of the stairs and shoots upwards.

"Ahh...all these beautiful clothes are free." The two changed into furs and started bouncing up and down the stairs, using a small platform at the corner of the stairs in the shopping mall as a high-end fashion runway.

"Cut!"

Catherine Mary Stuart and Kelly Maroney chatted quietly between takes.

"Tell me, is there something wrong with the director? Why does he keep patting our legs?"

"You feel the same way? I don't think it's the director, it's the director of photography who has a problem. In the scene in the apartment, I was talking in the apartment in the first scene. He put the camera behind me and shot my legs." Kelly Maroney also thinks that she doesn't shoot close-ups of her face, but always shoots her legs, which is a bit different from other directors.

"Look, at the beginning of the scene where I was playing the game console, he also took pictures of the socks and leather shoes I was wearing." Catherine Mary Stuart, the more she talked, the more she felt that there was something wrong with Ronald, and the two counted the shots of thighs together.

"The shot of me hitting a car with a submachine gun also had my legs shot."

"Yes, and the footage of me in the apartment."

"Also, and, for the scene of me riding a motorcycle, he will also take a shot of me stepping on the gas pedal in the car."

"Catherine, Kelly, we're getting ready for the next shot."

"Okay, director." The two of you pushed me, I pushed you, walked carefully in front of Ronald, pulled down the skirt, and started to move.

"What's wrong with your feet? Are your feet uncomfortable after jumping too much?" Ronald poked his head out from behind the camera.

"It's okay, it's okay, we're a little tired." The two actresses hurriedly prevaricated.

"It's fine, let's hurry up, we can't shoot after six o'clock in the morning."

Then Ronald turned around and discussed with the director of photography, "Don't change the position of the camera anymore, time is running out, let's just take an upward shot and let them show their fashions happily. The original shot of them walking catwalks was canceled , They are not tall enough, catwalks are not professional enough, it is better to show off their youthful and beautiful legs."

"You are the boss. I also think this is a good way to shoot. Anyway, you are not aiming at R-rated movies. This level of nudity can attract the audience without being too nude."

The director of photography Arthur Albert glanced at the viewfinder again, "To be honest, Ronald, you are also good at shooting pornographic films. Although you didn't shoot any nude scenes, you are obviously very good at expressing youth and beauty. Sexy girls."

"I learned it from Adrian Ryan." Ronald made a gesture of "stop talking nonsense". Dance" in Adrian Lane's way of expression.

Being sexy doesn't have to be naked. If the camera can show some plots and let the audience use their imagination to complete the whole picture, it is actually a more advanced technique.

For example, in "Lightning Dance", Jennifer Beers seduced Nick under the table wearing stockings, and in this scene, the two beauties wrapped their bodies in fur and showed their smooth thighs.The parts invisible to the lens do not prevent the audience from imagining these parts, so that they feel a surge of energy.

"Action!"

After filming the fashion show, several actors dressed up as villains and zombies found the department store through the radio, holding shotguns to arrest the two sisters.

Samantha and Regina picked up the MAC-10 submachine guns and confronted the gangsters.In the end, Hector, played by Kevin Costner, rushed in with the scientists from the research base and rescued the two sisters.

"Cut!"

"Very good, I'm going to shoot here today." Ronald looked at his watch. It was already six o'clock in the morning the next day, and the team was exhausted from staying up all night, and the shooting just ended.

The actors can leave first after signing, and Ronald has to wait a while to watch them disassemble the set.

Kelly Maroney, wearing a nightgown over her cheerleading outfit to cover her bare legs under a skirt, approached Ronald to take a day off from work on ABC's evergreen series "One Life" to Live)" audition.

"Ronald, I'm so sorry, but this audition is so important to me that if I get in, you know, they might give me a recurring role, at least for this season."

"Tomorrow? Oh, it's already today. You only have a few shots today, and you won't have any scenes in the whole film. Can you change it to tomorrow when your scenes are over?" Ronald took out the shooting plan, carefully Watched Maroney's scene.

"Oh please, Ronald. I auditioned for the first round before I came to 'Night of the Comet' and my agent just told me yesterday that they're calling me back for the second round."

"Okay, you go, I'll use a stand-in to shoot those shots, I wish you good luck." Ronald hugged Kelly Maroney, who was small and well-built.

Ronald was very satisfied with Maroney's performance. She was born in the Shakespeare theater and she acted quickly and made no mistakes.And what she was going to audition for was a small role in another daytime soap opera, so they probably didn't have the patience to change the time for her.

For Maroney, this opportunity has the potential to land her a number of TV roles.Ronald also made it easy for one time.

"Thank you, thank you." Kelly Maroney ran away happily, and went to find a phone to discuss with her agent.

After a few hours of rest for all the staff, the large team moved to the studio and began filming scenes inside the research base.

"Kelly Maroney auditioned, and I got a stand-in to do her stepping out of the elevator." The producer pulled a stand-in girl, who was about the same height as Kelly.

"Let her put on Kelly's shoes and try it out." Ronald looked up and down the stand-in's legs, which looked similar to Kelly Maroney, so he nodded in agreement.

"We can't take a close-up of her face, so I thought of a way in the morning." Ronald drew the lens settings on white paper to the director of photography.

"We shot her legs and feet, she was wearing Samantha's socks and shoes, and she was wearing a short skirt that hit her waist, so the audience knew that it was Samantha who got out of the elevator, and they could follow her from the original recognized her in her cheerleading uniform."

"Genius idea, Ronald. The movie basically shows the character coming out of the elevator, and it's a full-body or upper-body shot. You have a close-up of your legs and feet. I've never seen anyone do it before."

"Okay, let's try."

"Action!"

There was a sound of "ting", and the camera took a view of the elevator door.

The staff of the studio pulled the two doors with their hands behind the wooden doors that looked like elevator doors, making it look like the elevator reached the laboratory below.

Wearing Samantha's azure dress, pink socks and shoes, the stand-in stepped out of the elevator and walked to the left.

"Cut!"

Ronald asked the DP, "How was it?"

"Very good, I think this will be a good shot, in the future there will be people in the industry imitating your way of expression."

"Okay, get ready for the next shot."

"Let me tell you, the director Ronald has a special interest in girls' legs, and this is his favorite position to shoot." Catherine Mary Stuart sat beside her and pointed at the girl beside her. Kevin Costner whispered.

"I have to say you might be right," Costner smiled, "but Ronald was really good at photographing pretty girls. You know? It reminds me of those classic novels and Shakespeare plays, often with The description of a part of the body is a metaphor for the beauty of women."

(End of this chapter)