DSF Chapter 37

 "Hey, hey, your tripod is crooked, move it this way."

"What's going on? The Steadicam is suddenly a little unstable. Is the stabilizer not fixed properly?"

"Curtain, curtain, why wasn't the green screen pulled out before?"

Early in the morning, the variety show crew started to work on it.

First, the photo frame was assembled outside, and then the curtain was set up behind the back. Various lighting arm shade lights were lit one after another, adding a lot of bright color to this suburban area that few people visit.

Zong Qi, wearing a hat and a T-shirt, also followed to help.

After all, he was still a directing student. During his junior and senior years, he went to Hengdian with his teacher and worked as an odd job for a few small crews. When he was short of money during the summer vacation, he even worked as a bit player for a while and worked as an extra in a box lunch.

However, his current appearance, although he still looks like himself when he looks in the mirror, if there are any acquaintances here now, they will never recognize Zong Qi, including Xiaohong and Araki.

In the eyes of others, his current face is just an ordinary face with no memory points and can be forgotten at any time.

As for why Zong Qi is here, it’s a long story.

Two days ago, he announced actor recruitment as director Q.

Because the screening results of "Desolate Village" were not that good, Zong Qi's level was still a pitiful junior director, and he could only be randomly selected from the four identities of actor, decent NPC, villain NPC, and film designer.

This time the system selected him as a decent NPC.

A decent NPC? What is this?

Zong Qi was a little confused.

The system told him that winning this identity meant that the director could only indirectly participate in the filming of the plot, and the three major values ​​had to be changed to the actor's scream value, the actor's plot exploration degree, and the current number of surviving actors.

As the name suggests, if you win this identity and want to pass the shooting, you basically have to leave it to fate.

Zong Qi was stunned: "I have to say, my luck is really good."

Last time he hired a team of rookie actors to save money, but this time he spent a lot of money to ensure the actor's personal safety!

First of all, we hired the miraculous and unique S-class actor and artist who is said to have never failed to finish every movie perfectly.

Looking at this long prefix, you know that this person is not simple, and the salary is not simple either, a full 50%!

Zong Qi felt extremely heartbroken when he thought of the sky-high 50% remuneration.

In addition, he also invited his old friend, C-level actor Crow.

This product is cheap, only 5%, and it only takes ten crows to beat one artist.

For the rest, Zong Qi picked up an A-level one with a 20% remuneration, a B-level one with a 10% remuneration, and one of his own, Anna, who got a 3% remuneration.

Divided up in this way, 88% of the remuneration paid to the actors alone has been lost.

Zong Qi: ""

This time the post-editing must be done by himself, and he must not let the system extract another 10%, otherwise he will really have to drink the northwest wind.

When the recruitment was announced, he felt heartbroken for a long time.

Later, after revealing his identity in "Ghost House", Zong Qi finally felt relieved.

If such a golden team can still make a bad movie, then he really doesn't believe in evil!

Having said that, Zong Qi still read the director's manual carefully.

This manual is quite advanced. Whichever identity you draw will unlock relevant information about that identity.

The main responsibility of the decent NPC is to protect the safety of the actors and fight against the villain NPC. As for the actor's scream value and the actor's plot exploration, they are not included in the scope of the examination. It's just that Zong Qi himself doesn't want to make bad movies again, so he only cares about it.

It seems that the conditions are quite relaxed, but in fact, the limitations of playing a decent NPC are far greater than that of an actor. Four actors passed the test and five actors survived. He has to ensure that everyone survives to achieve excellence.

As for why I was on the set, it was because of the special nature of the big movie "Ghost House".

This is a play within a play.

The general plot of "Ghost House" is about a crew filming a variety show who rented an ancient building from the Republic of China period as a filming location. The result is not surprising, following the horror movie routine, with various supernatural events happening during the filming.

The background of the story is very old-fashioned, but once it becomes a real horror movie, it will be scary.

Zong Qi's hidden identity is that he is a top student who returned from Miskatonic University after studying abroad in Chou Country, and is also a glorious investigator.

He intercepted a piece of information about a cult organization from the underground organization. The information showed that the organization would conduct a ritual to summon evil spirits in this ghost building. However, the ghost building was recently rented out as a variety show shooting venue, so he got in. , intending to uncover the truth and protect innocent people.

As an upright NPC investigator, Zong Qi is the backbone of the fight against the villain cultists, leading his actor brother to fight for survival.

But he is obviously a serious director, but now he can only run errands with tears in his eyes. It is like a man silently crying and a woman crying.

Zong Qi sighed and heard someone greeting him not far away. He said "Hello" in a loud voice and hurried over carrying a large cardboard box.

Although this looks like just a variety show venue, the materials and equipment are surprisingly high-end, even more luxurious than the Hengdian movie crew where Zong Qi worked before.

"You don't know, it's because this variety show has a big investor."

The leader of the props team who was moving things said casually, "See, it's over there."

Zong Qi looked over quietly.

A high-end old-fashioned car was slowly approaching over there. It had an expensive brand that he couldn't understand but he could feel it from a distance.

"The investor's son is the person this variety show wants to praise. It is said that he brought the lighting and makeup artists into the team. The entire team has been replaced from top to bottom. Can you do it without spending a lot of money?"

Several team members around started a gossipy discussion: "The investor's son? It is said that the investor seems to be in the import business. A large amount of overseas business in Jiangzhou belongs to his family."

"That's really awesome. No wonder these equipment are so expensive. They also said that in order to prevent too many people from affecting the performance of the horror variety show, drones were even used for filming in some places."

After listening for a while, Zong Qi secretly withdrew his gaze.

The NPC he played had investigated before joining the group. There was nothing suspicious about the filming of this variety show. They had filmed several scenes in other places before. The purpose of renting the ghost building today was to film the terrifying plot in the building at once. Even the actors in the group have clean resumes, and it is difficult to find any flaws in their background introductions.

And this building——

The black-haired young man stopped and looked up at the ancient building.

Because of the filming of the variety show, this building was completely renovated.

The building is indeed an old building from the Republic of China, with a history of many years. Unfortunately, I didn’t know what happened at the time, and it was burned down by a fire. In the end, only an empty shell was left, with half of it left. In modern times, a caring enterprise called a monastic organization helped renovate the building, installed new wooden piles, and painted it with vermilion paint.

But strangely enough, after it was done, the building started to be haunted.

First, it was said that some people heard the sound of opera singing in the middle of the night, and others said that many adventurers who came in to explore never returned, and a layer of fog enveloped the place.

"Come on, is everyone here?"

After the filming equipment was set up, Director Li took a loudspeaker and started calling people.

Zong Qi specially changed his place and squatted behind the NPC to watch.

Before filming this kind of historic site, the crew will do everything they need to do.

Especially those who make horror variety shows or ghost movies are particularly superstitious.

Outside the dusty gate of the ghost building, the crew set up a stage early, with incense candles, fruit tributes and various snacks placed on it.

All the other cameras were covered with red cloth, waiting for the protagonists to pay homage.

The first ones to come to offer incense were Anna and Crow.

Like The Deserted Village, the actors use their own code names in the variety show.

As soon as these two code names came out, they immediately attracted the attention of other actors.

It's no secret that the actors who appeared in director Q's previous film are not.

Many actors in actor forums hope that they will be selected.

Because you can get paid for participating in director Q's script, this has been confirmed by several actors. The remuneration can be used to extract movie props. Although it is expensive, it is much better than the previous situation where you could only wait for big movies to drop.

"We meet again, Miss Anna."

The filming of the movie hadn't officially started yet, so it was rare that Crow was in the mood to say hello to her.

In fact, after filming "The Deserted Village", Crow was on tenterhooks.

As an undercover agent assigned to the Ouroboros organization by the Secret Mobile Team, he had long been prepared to not expose his identity until death. But after all, the task of wooing Director Q is no small matter, it is of extremely high importance, and his superiors have instructed him to do it even if his identity is exposed at a critical moment.

Then Crow gritted his teeth and revealed his identity.

As a result, he was knocked unconscious when he was halfway exposed. When you wake up again, the movie is over.

crow:"?"

where am I? who I am? What am I going to do?

Such an ending is tantamount to not reaching an agreement.

He was summoned by the Ouroboros organization as usual, while carefully concealing his identity.

The crow waited anxiously. Anxiety and unease continue to rise.

He has also been undercover for many years and has passed the psychological quality test. If it were another person, he would probably have been thrown into chaos under the pressure of such an identity exposure, and he would have just brought it upon himself.

Then, while he was silent and anxious due to the lack of information, he received the invitation letter again.

What exactly does Director Q want to do?

Anna had no idea about the complex psychological activities of the undercover agent in front of her. She nodded lightly and considered it as a greeting.

Seeing this, another actor also came up to offer incense.

"Class B, Li Goudan, nice to meet you."

This B-level actor was outgoing and asked questions along the way. It was unclear whether he really wanted to help or was trying to get information.

"Speaking of which, I just saw an A-level actor with a red scarf over there."

There is only one S-level actor, and there are not many A-level actors. All of them are forum celebrities.

Since there are A-level actors in this movie, it means that the difficulty is not trivial, and everyone was a little cautious for a while.

"No, isn't there five people participating in this movie? Is there another one?"

Soon, Li Goudan knew that he had said nonsense.

The door of the classic car opened, and a man wearing sunglasses and a long Tang suit appeared. The people behind him lined up respectfully.

Yu Chenxue took off her sunglasses, and her cold blue eyes were immediately exposed to the air.

"Nice to meet you, artist."