The Rise of Otaku

384 Chapter 384: Making a Movie

The only person in the amusement park who knew about acting was probably Lou Xiaobao. Although Zhou Yu claimed to be a director, the real director was Ling Daoran, so Lou Xiaobao was the only one who could give some acting guidance to those who would be recruited next.

Although Zhou Yu said that it was a privately-made movie, he didn’t want to really make a third-rate movie. After all, Little Muli and the other children of his were looking forward to it. In addition, director Ling Daoran had an ‘obsessive-compulsive disorder’. It would be very hard for him to accept bad acting skills.

After Xiaobao joined in, Zhou Yu needed to recruit some other supporting roles.

After all, this movie is a live-action movie, so it needs a lot of people to participate. It is not enough to just use the people from Qin Zhuan. And from the perspective of their age, finding the right actors would really take time. Moreover, Zhou Yu didn’t like to shoot as a commercial movie, so looking for professional actors would ruin the original purpose of making the movie. It was much better to find someone, who he was familiar with. It would be much fun that way.

Immediately afterward, Yuanyuan also joined in, and the popular employees of Qin Zhuan were also dragged in one by one. As for the others, they were assigned to do miscellaneous work for the crew, such as moving props, etc. There were also people wanting to do the living streaming of the movie making process, but Zhou Yu didn’t mind it.

However, it was difficult to get older people to participate in the movie. It was not that it was hard to find, but hardly ever people would agree to it. There were so many old people in Luhua Village, and they also knew Zhou Yu, but when they heard that ZhouYu wanted them to be actors in a movie, they all hurriedly waved their hands and refused. They have never been on a TV before, they would even get nervous when they were interviewed, let alone acting in a movie.

However, there were a few elderly characters in the script, so Zhou Yu had to get some old people to join the filming crew. In the end, he could only choose a few employees from the fantasy city and hoped that after makeup, they would look like old people.

Now that the script and actors were all found, the next step was to make the film set.

Although it was a movie with an amusement park as the main theme, there were still some shots that could not be shot in the amusement park. So it was necessary to create the film set. In the past, all the movie props and scene materials were produced by the little people, it was completely different like what he needed now. Although the carpenter beaver could still give designs, it could not produce anything now.

Fortunately, Zhou Yu had a prop master Wu Yun, and Wu Yun had a class of prop master students. After these people worked overnight, the necessary props and scenery were quickly gathered.

Now that everything was ready. Let’s start shooting!

The shooting of the movie was actually similar to the previous animated movies, except that most of the characters this time were real people. However, the real director Ling Daoran would not show mercy just because they were real people. On the contrary, because they were basically amateur actors, their bad acting skills made him furious all the time. Zhou Yu could only endure his curses patiently and then passed his message to those amateur actors.

The shooting of the movie went smoothly, but all the actors were mentally exhausted.

So, basically all the people, who took part in the shooting, just thought that this was a game. Especially on the first day of shooting, when they saw that Zhou Yu was only shooting it with a hand-held camera and there was only one cameraman, they were even more sure that this was just a low-budget private movie. They could just play around and use this opportunity to experience what it felt like to be an actor, and then they could also enjoy the box meals that were prepared by the emperor.

However, no one thought that the boss Zhou Yu was very strict during the shooting.

The acting guidance alone already made these amateur actors complain non-stop. They thought that they would complete the shooting without a single cut. However, that was just a dream. Zhou Yu was shouting cuts all the time that they had completely lost count how many times they had repeated the same scene. The worst part was that some actors just kept forgetting their lines, and then when they finally remembered their lines, they would still need to repeat shooting the same scene again because the acting was very bad. It was just a very short scene, but they have been spending the entire day shooting it.

Director Ling Daoran has completely lost his mind, facing these amateur actors, who were even worse than E-rated idols. He even wanted to appear in the real world and give every actor a smack on the back of their head.

All of them were completely useless! Except for that Xiaobao, who could barely be regarded as a good idol.

Ling Daoran was losing his mind, and it was the same for Zhou Yu.

It was not easy to be a messenger. While he had to endure all kinds of rants from Ling Daoran, he had to convey Ling Daoran’s message to every actor who didn’t perform well. Moreover, he had to omit some vulgar words as well. Sometimes, Zhou Yu really wanted to convey these vulgar words without vomiting anything. But thinking that it was he who asked those people to join in, he could only hold back his tears and carry on with the shooting.

Xia Huan and Shang Yue, who have been around him during the shooting, have been shaking their heads constantly: “Brother Zhou, where did you find these rookies? It is already a very low-level script, even if you have little Muli and other people, with those rookies, I don’t think the movie would perform well. If this kind of movie is played in the ACG world, then investors will have lost all their pants.”

“Stop talking nonsense, if you have nothing to do, you can help me figure out a solution. If it continues like this, god knows how long will I finish shooting this movie.”

In fact, the shooting progress was not that bad. However, Zhou Yu has become accustomed to the speed of people making a movie in the ACG world, so he was not satisfied with the speed of making a movie in the real world.

Facing this request, Xia Huan and Shang Yue both shrugged and expressed that they could not do anything. After all, they could not do anything to the real world people.

Helplessly, Zhou Yu could only try his best to push the shooting as fast as he could.

In this movie, little Muli and other children of his also participated. Every time during the shooting, Zhou Yu would tell the actors in the real world to pretend that they were interacting with “aliens”, and he would fill in the aliens with CG later.

However, he would not fill in those aliens later at all, because the ‘aliens’ were actually just right by their side. Compared to those amateur actors from the real world, Little Muli and other mini people’s acting was much better.

Of course, Little Muli was also very happy, because this was the first time she was in a movie with real people.

Anyway, as long as she was happy, Zhou Yu thought that it was worth it.