Jiang Ran is a popular idol who came out of last year's talent show. Director Wang knew this, so he didn't have high expectations for her acting skills at the beginning. As long as it wasn't the kind of embarrassing acting that would make someone dig out her toes in a three-bedroom apartment, Just for the traffic behind her, they would keep her. After all, their drama is a low-cost online drama adapted from a novel IP. How can it work if the lead actor doesn't find some actors who can withstand the drama's low pay?

Moreover, when she first communicated with her agent Julie, Julie also came to get vaccinated with them in advance. Unexpectedly, she was very good at the audition, which was an unexpected surprise.

Of course, Jiang Ran's performance was not as good as Director Zhu and Assistant Director Wang imagined. The reason why they thought it was good was mainly because their psychological expectations for her were too low, plus there was a love interest from a previous cross-border actor with terrible acting skills. When compared with the beans, they look better.

The few of them walked to the studio together and chatted a few words on the way.

"You've never filmed before, right?"

Jiang Ran looked around at the staff who were setting up the scene. Hearing this, he looked away and shook his head and replied, "No, this is the first time."

"How much do you know about some common sense issues in filming? Do you know the filming process on the set?"

"I heard some from the acting teacher, but specifically..." Jiang Ran twitched her lips in embarrassment and revealed a slight smile. Assistant Director Wang immediately understood what she meant and smiled gently and replied, "It's okay, that's not the case. Come on, you’ll know this after just a day or two on the set .”

On the way to see Director Zhu, I happened to meet a man and a woman who were talking together. They were both followed by a lot of staff. The man among them was wearing a mask on his face, which was nearly 1 meter away. Jiu's height made the girl next to him particularly petite. Jiang Ran visually measured the girl's height and felt that she was only 1.6 meters tall.

"Chen Cheng! Xiaotong! You two have already met. Are you a couple?" Assistant Director Wang shouted from a few meters away, led Jiang Ran and others over, and pointed at the man The male artist introduced to Jiang Ran, "Let me introduce to you. This is Chen Cheng, who plays your brother and our leading actor Song Qingran. You can just call him Brother Cheng. This is Yu Xiaotong, your sister Tong, who plays the role It’s the heroine Liu Ying.”

After finishing speaking, he turned to Chen Cheng and Yu Xiaotong and pointed at Jiang Ran and introduced, "This little girl is the one you just mentioned, who plays Song Wanwan."

Those are the male and female protagonists of this drama, Jiang Ran thought to herself.

And after standing closer, Jiang Ran realized that her visual inspection just now was wrong. This "Sister Tong" should be less than 1.6 meters tall. Because she was wearing flat shoes without any heels today, and "Sister Tong" was about ten centimeters taller than herself, and was slightly shorter than herself.

So after this conversion, the height of the male protagonist is 190+, and the height of the female protagonist is 150+. There is a height difference of nearly 40 centimeters. How can we shoot this to achieve a CP feel? If they were really standing on the same level of the ground, the camera would only be able to frame one person's face. Could it be that when they were filming, Brother Chen Cheng needed to stand with his legs spread apart, or Sister Xiaotong had to put two bricks under her feet... …

Jiang Ran was imagining the scene in his mind, but with calm enthusiasm on his face, he bowed slightly and said hello to the two seniors, "Hello, brother Cheng, hello sister Tong. I am Jiang Ran, who plays Song Wanwan. Very nice." Nice to meet you."

Yu Xiaotong and Chen Cheng paused their conversation, nodded not enthusiastically but not coldly, and replied, "Hello."

After answering, Yu Xiaotong added, "I heard that you have also joined Director Li's crew. Congratulations."

Jiang Ran, "???"

She didn't publicize the news in a big way, so why did it seem like everyone knew about it? !

Jiang Ran blinked and replied modestly, "Just good luck."

"Isn't luck also a part of strength?! Just like your appearance." Yu Xiaotong tilted her head and stated with sincerity and seriousness, "There should have been many people on your show who were similar to your professional level. Little girl, to be honest, I’m quite envious of you for being able to debut in a high position because of your appearance.”

Jiang Ran, "?!?!?!"

The smile on Jiang Ran's face froze for a moment, then returned to normal and nodded in agreement, raising her hand to touch her cheek, "It's true, I did take advantage of this face."

"I have also studied the role of Song Wanwan and it is quite easy to play. I hope we can have a happy cooperation."

"yes..."

Assistant Director Wang didn't seem to notice anything wrong with this conversation at all, and concluded warmly, "That's it for now. If you two sisters have anything to say, we can chat later. There are plenty of opportunities. I'll take her to see Zhu Zhu first. Director, Xiaotong, Chen Cheng, we will leave first."

"Hey, goodbye, Brother Wang." "Bye, Brother Wang~"

"Goodbye, teachers."

When he followed Deputy Director Wang to the corner, Jiang Ran looked back without leaving a trace and found that Chen Cheng bowed slightly and lowered his head, leaning down to listen to Yu Xiaotong's speech like a gentleman. What do you think of this posture? .

Inexplicably, Jiang Ran felt that something was wrong with Chen Cheng's attitude. Because when facing him, he stood upright and looked at himself condescendingly, but when facing Xiaotong, he had a docile look with low eyebrows. Could it be because they are relatively familiar with each other and it is their first time meeting him?

After meeting Director Zhu, Jiang Ran's crew life officially kicked off.

Julie is the manager of Starlight Girls, not Jiang Ran’s personal manager. However, she not only needs to be the manager of the Starlight Girls team, but also needs to check the personal resources of the nine members. You can imagine how busy she is. .

So this time I was able to take the time to send Jiang Ran to the crew in person, which was considered extremely conscientious. After staying in "Half the City" for two days, Jiang Ran met with the crew. After the initial adaptation, Julie left, leaving Jiang Ran's personal assistant Dongdong and another assistant to help.

After all the main actors had arrived, Director Zhu took the male and female actors and other major role players to hold the opening ceremony and media conference. Jiang Ran was lucky enough to follow him to the press conference, although he was not in the right position due to his role. It was relatively marginal, but she was still very nervous and apprehensive.

At the press conference, apart from the director, the main subjects of questioning from reporters and friends were the co-stars Chen Cheng and Yu Xiaotong. On the contrary, no one asked Jiang Ran any questions. Even if there were a few cue questions from Jiang Ran, There were also some tough questions directed at her.

Reporter 1, "Jiang Ran, how did you get this role?"

Reporter 2, "Jiang Ran, what do you think about filming with two seniors, Chen Cheng and Yu Xiaotong?"

Reporter 3, "There is a lot of controversy on the Internet about your getting this role. Many people think that you are unable to interpret the role of Song Wanwan. What do you think of it?"

Reporter 4, "As an idol, why do you come to film instead of doing stage work?"

Reporter 5, "Some netizens questioned that you relied on unspoken rules to get this role. Is this true?"

Jiang Ran remembered the special phone call from Julie before he went on stage. No matter what questions he heard, he always kept a business smile and answered their questions in turn without showing any displeasure.

"Because I felt that the script of the drama "Half the City" was very good, so I specially submitted my resume for the audition."

"It is an honor for me to film with these two teachers. I feel very happy and excited. I hope I can keep up with the two teachers and complete the drama "Half the City" together."

"Whether Song Wanwan can be interpreted well is not something that netizens can draw conclusions now, nor is it something I can say now. Please stay tuned for the drama "Half a City of Misty Rain", and you can find this in the drama by then The answer."

"I think it is necessary to have some new attempts in life. Now that I have this opportunity, why not give it a try?"

Director Zhu was very satisfied with Jiang Ran's consistent answer to "Half the City". After seeing it, the reporter asked more and more excessive questions and quickly picked up the microphone and changed the topic, "Today is the press conference of "Half the City". I hope Can we talk more about topics related to this drama, okay?"

After answering some questions from media reporters, Director Zhu officially announced the start of filming, and "Half the City" has entered filming mode.

In the first three days, we did not shoot scenes on the set. Instead, we locked the leading actors in a conference room for three full days of script reading sessions, sorting out the continuity of the script, character biographies, script content, and shooting plans. After that, the official filming and recording finally came.

Today is the first day of filming, and the first scene to be shot is the scene where the male and female protagonists are passionately in love together. In fact, according to the order of the script, this is not the plot at the beginning of the script, but the scene in the middle. However, Director Zhu deliberately put the scenes of the passionate love period at the top of the list to shoot, also hoping that the male and female protagonists could become familiar with each other and integrate into the plot as soon as possible - after all, the intimate scenes have been filmed, so even those who are not familiar with them will become familiar.

Chen Cheng and Yu Xiaotong are worthy of being the male and female protagonists of the second team. The two have a tacit understanding of each other. They quickly got into the mood as soon as the script was played. They ignored the large circle of staff around them and looked at each other lovingly. , as if there were only the two of them in the whole scene, looking at each other seemed to make people smell the sour smell of love emanating from the air. Jiang Ran, who was watching on the sidelines, couldn't help but exclaimed in her heart, "Awesome!"

In front of the monitor at the shooting site, Director Zhu looked back at the results he had just taken. He still frowned slightly and was not very satisfied. He raised his loudspeaker and shouted, "One more shot."

"Director Zhu, is there something wrong?"