Chapter 931
1o.168.58.178/q33861&id=343287745After the first rehearsal, Eric's sense of surprise caused by appearing Victoria Adams among the MV actors also dissipated. He just thought this was very interesting, but he did not have any interaction with Victoria Adams as many people envy or expect. ≈
Caroline and Melanie stepped forward to help Eric remove the heavy Stenickon equipment on his body. Eric called all the five-member creators and hot girls who participated in the MV production. A group of people gathered in front of the workbench in the corner of the studio, watching the video replay of the first rehearsal, while discussing various details that need to be improved.
Since it was the first rehearsal, there were quite a lot of improvements. A group of people discussed for about half an hour before they dispersed and improved according to the results of the discussion.
Eric and others dispersed, and continued to stay in front of the workbench, operating the computer in front of them to watch the screen playback, and from time to time, they recorded some long-lens insights about shooting in the notebook in front of them.
Caroline put a cup of warm coffee at Eric's hand, and without saying a word, she sat down quietly next to Eric, looking at him carefully studying the camera and taking notes seriously, with a small face full of satisfaction.
Melanie, not far away, saw Caroline sitting next to Eric, couldn't help but sigh. She thought for a while and walked to Simon Fuller, who was commanding the staff to adjust the set, called him to the side, and asked in a low voice: "Simon, what's the name of that girl just now?"
Simon Fuller is also a personal genius. He thought it was Eric asking Melanie, and he lowered his voice: "I just asked her name, Victoria Adams, May. Is Williams trying to treat her to a meal? I can arrange it now."
Melanie resisted the urge to roll her eyes. Why do these men look like this?
He shook his head quickly and Melanie said, "It's not like that, Simon, what do you think of Carly?"
Caroline has always treated everyone around her sincerely and politely, and coupled with her status as a noble daughter, although she has not communicated much in the past few days, Simon Fuller also has a good impression of Caroline, and even involuntarily felt a little respect in her tone, saying, "Miss Wilson is a great girl."
Melanie signaled to Eric and Caroline and said, "Now, Simon, you can definitely see that Carly likes Mr. Williams very much. So, do me a favor and let that, well, Victoria Adams disappear?"
Simon Fuller followed Melanie's gaze and naturally he could easily feel Caroline's affection for Eric.
However, Melanie's words also made him realize that this was obviously Eric, the female assistant, who was taking his own initiative to consider his best friend.
After hesitating, Simon Fuller advised: "May, if you really think about Miss Wilson, I think it's better not to do this. This is too obvious. Mr. Williams probably won't like people around him to make good decisions, and you should also have confidence in Mr. Williams, who is a very professional person."
Melanie finally couldn't help rolling her eyes, thinking that's what you've never seen him when he was unprofessional.
Simon Fuller refused to help. Melanie knew that she was going to find someone else, and probably the only result was that, so she had to give up the idea of driving Victoria Adams away.
However, she couldn't help but secretly look at Victoria Adams in the cast. She really couldn't see what attracted Eric to this girl. Her skin was not white enough, her face was not sweet enough, she was not tall enough, and well, not short enough, which was completely incompatible with her boss's aesthetic standards. However, if you think about it carefully, Melanie suddenly appeared and she really couldn't understand Eric's aesthetic standards.
Naturally Eric wouldn't know the little moves Melanie wanted to do in private. Of course, even if she knew, he would just laugh it off. Melanie wanted to protect Caroline, and Eric was even more so. Eric didn't have any special feeling about Victoria Adams, who would never become Victoria Beckham again. Since the other party happened to appear in the crowd of "E" MV actors, Eric gradually turned a blind eye to it.
After the staff in the studio adjusted the set and actors according to the results just discussed, the rehearsal continued to begin.
The next week, everyone spent this repeated practice, starting at nine o'clock every day until five o'clock in the afternoon.
Although on the third day, many people thought that the rehearsal effect was already very good and enough for on-site shooting.
However, if Eric doesn't stop, naturally no one will raise objections. After all, Eric Williams has created achievements that no one can achieve in the event of the event when he is less than 30 years old, but he still carries a Steinicon photography system weighing close to pounds and practices ten times over and over again, but the amount of exercise exceeds anyone present.
In this case, everyone involved in the filming put themselves in their shoes. If they had a net worth of hundreds of billions of dollars, they would be willing to do such tiring and boring work. If they could lie down, they would never sit again. Therefore, everyone only admired the repeated practices and had no complaints.
In order to accumulate more experience in shooting long shots, when confirming that the MV rehearsal is similar, Eric often changes the shooting method. Sometimes the MV actors leave and the five girls perform alone; sometimes the actors involved in the shooting will improvise a drama based on their roles in MV; during this period, Eric also deliberately took out a plot from "Birdman" to let the actors perform, and practiced the method of using the mirror in "Birdman" in memory by himself.
While filming the MV of "E", Simon Fuller also began to preheat the hot girl group's first single.
Starting from the hot girl group's fanfare recruitment in July, the girl group that is said to be created by Eric Williams himself has attracted everyone's attention.
In recent times, although the British local media have had a variety of speculations about the reason why Eric came to London, most topics are inseparable from the hot girl group, which further increases the attention of the media and the public to this group.
Therefore, Simon Fuller plans to strike while the iron is hot and release the first single as quickly as possible after the MV of "E" is filmed.
When Eric completed a weekly rehearsal in the studio of the Songlin Studio and moved to London for real-life shooting, Firefly Records, which had been established for several months, officially announced the schedule of the hot girl group's first single record, January 27.
Due to repeated rehearsals in the studio, the real scene shooting seemed extremely smooth. It took only two days for MV to complete the shooting.
At this time, the news that Eric personally served as the MV photographer of "E" was finally dug up by British tabloids and quickly caused a sensation.
A few months later, "Casino Royale" has not yet been lowered in the UK, and its cumulative box office in the UK has reached more than 90,000 US dollars. "Casino Royale" has experienced the second phase of the massive release of the second phase after September, and has steadily moved towards the goal of 100 million yuan. In this case, Eric personally carried the music MV shot by the camera, which naturally made many movie fans and music fans look forward to it.
However, on January 11, after completing the filming of "E", Eric handed over everything that followed to Simon Fuller. He did not rush to return to Los Angeles, but stayed at the Pinewood Studios outside London to continue the preparations for "Georgement".
Because of the shooting method of one shot to the end, the post-production work of "E" MV was completely completed in just one week. Then, on January 2, the week before the single record of "E" was released, the MV of this song was officially launched on 6 major British TV stations.
Perhaps because of the high expectations in advance, "e" does not seem to have reached the point where the media and music critics are amazed.
In the 1990s, most people were more or less influenced by the pop rock style in the mainstream music genre in the UK, whether it was a separate singer or a singing group. However, the hot girl group "e" was a popular dance music that completely deviated from the mainstream music genre and had nothing to do with pop rock.
Moreover, most music critics think that compared to Eric's previous amazing songs, "e" seems very lacking in meaning and is more like a mediocre saliva song.
Some media even directly fired at the MV of "E". Not only did they think that Eric's "one-shot-to-the-scene" shooting technique was just a gimmick and had no excellence, but they also made a very mean comment on the five girls in the MV dressed like five slutty little prostitutes.
When everyone thought Eric Williams might be about to miss this time, on January 27, the single "e" debuted. In just four days, the sales of this single record exceeded 10,000. After that, the sales of the week's record finally reached 160,000. Not only did it easily reach the UK singles ranking, but it even put aside the gap of more than 90,000 singles on the second-ranked single. For a moment, all the media and music critics who were not optimistic about the hot girl group shut up and began to study what happened.
Almost naturally, most people think of it first, that Eric may have cheated on buying the list, but after some digging, no one found substantial evidence.
At the same time, in the UK, whether it is the commercial streets of big cities or remote suburban towns, many people unknowingly feel that the song of "e" can be heard everywhere. When walking on the street, you can hear some young people suddenly say "zigazig-ha" in their mouths. This is an incomprehensible interjection in "e", but it inexplicably makes many people feel very cool. The five-piece hot girl group has become a sexy idol in the hearts of young British people in a short period of time, and at the same time, it has also become the target of crazy pursuit of British paparazzi.
Successful people have everything, and this is a true saying in any field.
As "e" showed the powerful power of the brainwashing song swept across the UK, the media, which originally disliked this song and the hot girl group, gradually changed the direction and began to praise the hot girl group for "perfectly combining Jindian pop music with feminism and injected a strong feminine style".
When Eric saw this sentence in the "Popular Music Ranking" magazine, he wanted to find a big prawn tied with eggs and mailed it to the editorial department of the magazine.
There is actually no profound reason for the success of the hot girl group. They are indeed the product of assembly line operations, as some media have commented.
However, perhaps many legendary musicians have won the followers and worship of countless fans with their rich lyrics and music styles, but for most ordinary people, music is just an entertainment after all. The hot girl group just accurately grasped the spirit of "entertainment first", and with its bright and lively image, simple and pleasant melodious melody, and relaxed and funny lyrics, it quickly won the welcome of the majority of young people.
After "e" became a hit, Eric gave Simon Fuller several other songs in his memory that belonged to the hot girl group, and completely let go of this matter.
According to the contract planned in advance, in April next year, when the second generation of fire1yer players are launched in North America and Europe at the same time, the hot girl group will not only become the European spokesperson of fire1yer players, but also make an exception to adopt the strategy of synchronizing the network and entity, which can greatly promote the popularity and sales of fire1yer players in Europe.
It is already winter in London in November, and the temperature outside the suburbs is even colder.
Rachel Vizi was still driving a large-displacement Jaguar King outside the Songlin Studio. Caroline, wearing a white windbreaker, was already waiting at the gate. The girl politely said a few words to the doorman, and the gear lever at the gate was lifted.
"Rachel, you big star is finally willing to come to see me," Caroline pulled away the co-pilot and got into the car. Caroline started to tease Rachel with a curved smile on her lips.
Rachel drove into the studio gate, reached out with one hand and pinched Caroline's face. She looked like a female hooligan tone and said in a rough voice: "Little baby, I not only come to see you, but also plan to bring you home tonight."
Caroline shrank her neck, avoided Rachel's claws, and laughed.
Rachel quickly parked the car in the parking lot in the studio, got off the car and gave Caroline a hug, then said, "By the way, where is Mel?"
"She's inside, let's go over," Caroline pointed outside the parking lot.
Rachel reached out and walked out with Caroline, asking, "I heard that Eric lived here for a month, what was he secretly busy with?"
"His new movie, well, I can't tell you too much. But it must be a very good movie."
Rachel lowered her head again as if she wanted to kiss Caroline's face. Seeing the girl dodged away shyly, she said, "Yes, Eric Williams' movies are of course very powerful."
The two girls chatted casually and came to the studio that Eric used as a studio.
The set during the rehearsal of "e" has been completely removed. However, in the studio at this time, in addition to the two orange-red robots that have undergone modification, there are also a few more strange equipment. The most conspicuous one should be the large box composed of many LED screens that are as high as five meters high.
Rachel saw Eric and several others standing in the big box at a glance, and asked curiously: "Carly, what is that?"
"Lightbox," Caroline explained, and seeing that Rachel still didn't understand, he said: "This is used to simulate the space lighting environment. Eric's new movie uses ordinary lighting methods, and it is difficult to accurately simulate the space lighting environment without any diffuse reflection. So he planned to use this method to directly play simple space scenes on the LED screen around the lightbox, so that the actor performing in it will be exactly the same as in space."
Caroline was explaining the purpose of the surrounding equipment to Rachel. Eric came over with Melanie, hugged Rachel, and said in a joking tone: "Rachel, you big star finally want to come to see me."
Rachel was stunned for a moment, and suddenly burst out laughing, as if she didn't feel satisfied, and turned into laughter, as if she wanted to squat on the ground with her stomach covering her stomach.
Caroline didn't expect Eric to say exactly the same thing as hers. Think about it again, maybe she had been together for a long time, and the words she said just now were obviously imitating Eric's usual jokes. Realizing that Rachel might have guessed this, Caroline's face turned red and she wanted to find a place to hide it.
Eric didn't know what laughing point Rachel caught. Looking at Caroline's reaction, he guessed that this matter should be related to her. He didn't ask too much, but said, "Okay, Rachel, be a lady, be careful I'll take a photo of you now and sell it to paparazzi."
Rachel took a deep breath, finally stopped laughing, straightened her body, and couldn't help saying, "Eric, you've taken Carly again."
"Okay, I'm guilty," Eric shrugged and pointed at the other side of the workbench, saying, "Let's go and sit there. To be honest, why are you free to come today?"
"I'll come to see Carly and Mel," Rachel said, sitting down at the workbench, looking at the pictures of the space scenes all over the table, and said, "Eric, are you planning to shoot a space movie?"
"Yes," Eric nodded: "a space disaster film."
Chapter completed!