Chapter Nine Hundred and Thirty First Hit Sentence

At the end of the first rehearsal, Eric's surprise when he found Victoria Adams among the MV actors also dissipated. He just thought it was very interesting, but it was not as envied or expected by many people. What interaction does Victoria Adams have.

Caroline and Melanie stepped forward to help Eric untie the heavy Steadicam equipment on his body. Eric called all the five members of the main creator and the hot girl group who participated in the MV production, and a group of people gathered in the corner of the studio. While watching the replay of the videotape of the first rehearsal, I discussed various details that needed improvement.

Since it was the first rehearsal, there were a lot of things to improve. A group of people discussed for about half an hour before they dispersed and adjusted according to the results of the discussion.

Eric and the others dispersed, and he continued to stay in front of the workbench by himself, operating the computer in front of him to watch the screen playback, and from time to time on the notebook in front of him, he wrote down some reflections on the movement of the lens during long-lens shooting.

Caroline put a cup of warm coffee by Eric's hand, did not speak, sat quietly next to Eric, and watched him carefully study the camera and take notes carefully, with a little satisfaction on her face.

Melanie, who was not far away, saw Caroline sitting next to Eric, and couldn't help sighing. After thinking about it, she walked to Simon Fuller, who was instructing the staff to adjust the set, and called him Going to the side, he asked in a low voice, "Simon, what was the name of the girl just now?"

Simon Fuller is also a person, he thought it was Eric asked Melanie to ask, and lowered his voice: "I just asked, her name is Victoria Adams, May, does Williams want Invite her to dinner, and I can arrange it now."

Melanie resisted the urge to roll her eyes, why are these men like this.

Shaking her head quickly, Melanie said, "That's not the case, Simon, what do you think of Carly?"

Caroline has always been sincere and polite to everyone around her, plus her status as a noble daughter, although there is not much communication these days, Simon Fuller is also full of goodwill towards Caroline, even involuntarily in his tone. With a little more respect, he said, "Miss Wilson is a wonderful girl."

Melanie gestured towards Eric and Caroline, and said, "Hey, Simon, you can definitely tell that Carly likes Mr. Williams. So, do me a favor and let that, Well, will 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 is obviously Eric, the female assistant, who is thinking of her best friend on her own.

After hesitating, Simon Fuller persuaded: "May, if you really think about Miss Wilson, I think it's better not to do it, it's too obvious. Mr. Williams probably won't like people around him. Advocate, and you should have a little faith in Mr Williams, he's a very professional man."

Melanie finally couldn't help rolling her eyes, thinking that you haven't seen him unprofessional.

Simon Fuller refused to help, and Melanie knew that she could only find someone else, and she had to give up the idea of ​​driving Victoria Adams away.

However, she still couldn't help but secretly looked at Victoria Adams among the actors,

She really couldn't see what attracted Eric to this girl. Her skin wasn't white enough, her face wasn't sweet enough, she wasn't tall enough, um, she wasn't short enough, and she didn't meet her boss's aesthetic standards at all. However, after thinking about it carefully, Melanie suddenly realized that she really didn't understand Eric's aesthetic standards.

Eric naturally wouldn't know the little things Melanie wanted to do in private. Of course, even if he knew, he would just laugh it off. Melanie wanted to protect Caroline, and Eric even more so. Eric has no special feelings for Victoria Adams, who will never be Victoria Beckham again. Since the other party appeared in the cast of the "wannabe" mv by chance, Eric gradually turned a blind eye.

After the staff in the studio adjusted the set and actors according to the results just discussed, the rehearsal continued.

For the next week, everyone spent this back-and-forth practice, starting at nine o'clock every day and ending at five o'clock in the afternoon.

Although on the third day, many people felt that the rehearsal effect was very good, and it was enough for on-the-spot shooting.

However, Eric did not stop, and naturally no one would object. After all, Eric Williams is now less than 30 years old and has already created achievements that are difficult for everyone in the room to match, but he still carries a Steadicam camera system weighing nearly 30 pounds every day. Repeated practice more than ten times, but the amount of exercise exceeded that of anyone present.

In this case, everyone involved in the filming should put themselves in their shoes and think, if they had a net worth of hundreds of billions of dollars, where would they be willing to do this kind of tiring and boring work, and they would definitely not be able to lie down. sit. Therefore, everyone has only admiration for his boring practice, but no complaints.

In order to accumulate more experience in shooting long shots, Eric also often changed the shooting method when it was determined that the MV rehearsal was about the same. Sometimes the MV actors left and the five girls performed alone; During the period, Eric also deliberately took out a plot from "Birdman" and let the actors perform it, and practiced the mirror movement technique in "Birdman" in his memory next to him.

Simultaneous with the filming of the "wannabe" mv, Simon Fuller also began to promote the release of the Spice Girls' first single.

Since the Spice Girls recruited to great fanfare in July, the girl group, which is said to be built by Eric Williams, has attracted everyone's attention.

Recently, although the local media in the UK have speculated about the reason why Eric came to London, most of the topics are inseparable from the Spice Girls, which has further increased the media and public attention to this group.

Therefore, Simon Fuller intends to strike while the iron is hot and release the first single as soon as possible after the "wannabe" music video is completed.

When Eric completed a week of rehearsal in the studio of Pinewood Studios and moved to London for live shooting, the UK branch of Firefly Records, which had been established for several months, officially announced the first single of the Spice Girls. The release date of the song record, October 27.

Due to the repeated rehearsals in the studio, the live-action shooting seemed to be very smooth. It only took two days for the MV to complete the shooting.

At this time, the news that Eric himself served as the photographer of "wannabe" mv was finally dug up by the British tabloids, and it quickly caused a sensation.

A few months later, "Casino Royale" has not yet been released in the UK. The cumulative box office in the UK has reached more than 93 million US dollars. Although it has not been able to catch up with the record just created by "Titanic", the box office is enough. Squeezed into the top few box office charts of British film history. "Casino Royale" has gone through the second phase of its large-scale release in September, and the global cumulative box office has exceeded 900 million US dollars, steadily moving towards the 1 billion box office target. In this case, Eric personally carried the music mv shot by the camera, which naturally made many fans and music fans look forward to it.

On October 11th, after finishing the shooting of "wannabe", Eric handed over everything to Simon Fuller. He did not rush back to Los Angeles, but stayed at Pinewood Studios outside London. Continue the preparations for "Gravity".

Because of the one-shot shooting method, the post-production work of the "wannabe" mv was completed in just one week. Then, on October 20, a week before the release of the "wannabe" single record, the song's mv was officially released. Landed on major British TV stations.

Perhaps the expectations were too high in advance, and "wannabe" did not seem to have reached the point where the media and music critics were amazed.

In the 1990s, the mainstream British music genre was still pop rock, whether it was a single singer or a singing group, most people would be more or less influenced by the pop rock style. But the Spice Girls' "wannabe" is a pop dance song that completely deviates from the mainstream music genre, and has nothing to do with pop rock at all.

Moreover, most music critics feel that compared to Eric's amazing songs in the past, "wannabe" is very lacking in connotation, more like a mediocre slobber song.

Some media even fired directly at the mv of "wannabe". Not only did they think that Eric's 'one shot to the end' shooting method was just a gimmick, and there was no place to stand out, but they also commented very harshly on the five girls of the Spice Girls in the mv. Dressed like five dissolute little whores.

When everyone thought that Eric Williams might miss this time, on October 27th, the single "wannabe" was released. In just four days, the sales of this single-disc album broke through 100,000 Zhang, and then, the album sales in the first week eventually reached 160,000. Not only did it easily reach the top of the UK singles chart, but it even put aside the gap of more than 90,000 copies of the second single on the chart. For a time, all the media and music groups who had not been optimistic about the Spice Girls group The critics shut their mouths and began to investigate what was going on.

Almost naturally, the first thing most people think of is that Eric may have cheated by buying the list, but after some digging, no one has found any substantive evidence.

At the same time, all over the UK, whether it is a commercial street in a big city or a remote suburban town, many people unknowingly feel that they can hear the song "wannabe" everywhere. I can hear the word 'zigazig-ha' popping out of the mouth of some young people. This is a very unpredictable interjection in "wannabe", but it makes many people feel very cool. The five-member Spice Girl group has become a sexy idol in the hearts of young British people in a short period of time, and has also become the object of the British paparazzi.

Successful people have everything, this is a saying in any field.

As "wannabe" showed the powerful power of the brainwashing song that swept the whole of the UK, the media that originally disliked the song and the Spice Girls gradually changed the direction and began to praise the Spice Girls' perfection of dance pop and feminism are combined and infused with a strong female solo style'.

When Eric saw this sentence in the "Golden Pop Charts" magazine, he wanted to find a prawn tied with an egg and mail it to the music critic who wrote this article.

The success of the Spice Girls does not actually have any profound reasons, and they are indeed, as some media commented, the product of assembly line operations.

However, perhaps many legendary musicians have won the following and admiration of countless fans with their rich humanistic lyrics and music style, but for most ordinary people, music is only a form of entertainment after all. The Spice Girls just captured the spirit of 'entertainment first' very precisely. With their bright and lively images, simple and pleasant melodies, and easy and funny lyrics, they quickly won the welcome of the majority of young people.

After "wannabe" became a hit, Eric gave Simon Fuller a few other songs that belonged to the Spice Girls in his memory, and he let go of the matter completely.

According to the pre-drawn contract, in April next year, when the second-generation fireflyer player is released in North America and Europe at the same time, the Spice Girls will not only become the European spokesperson of the fireflyer player, but also make an exception for their first album. The strategy of synchronizing the release with the entity, which can greatly promote the popularity and sales of fireflyer players in Europe.

It is winter in London in November, and the temperature in the suburbs is even colder.

Rachel Weisz still drove a large-displacement Jaguar King and came to the Pinewood Studios. Caroline wearing a white trench coat was already waiting at the gate. The girl politely said a few words to the doorman. , the gear lever at the gate was raised.

"Rachel, you superstar is finally willing to see me," pulled the co-pilot and got into the car, Caroline began to tease Rachel with a smile on the corner of her mouth.

Rachel started the car and drove into the gate of the studio. She quickly reached over and pinched Caroline's face with a hand, and said in a hooligan voice, "Little baby, I'm not only here. Look at you, I plan to take you home tonight."

Caroline shrank her neck, avoided Rachel's claws, and laughed.

Rachel quickly parked the car in the parking lot of the studio. After getting out of the car, she gave Caroline a big hug and said, "By the way, what about Mel?"

"She's in there, let's go over there," Caroline pointed out of the parking lot.

Rachel reached out to hold Caroline and walked out, and asked, "I heard that Eric lived here for a month, what is he doing secretly?"

"His new movie, well, I can't tell you too much. But it's definitely a great movie."

Rachel lowered her head again and seemed to want to kiss Caroline on the cheek. Seeing the girl dodged shyly, she said, "Yeah, Eric Williams' movies, of course, are very powerful."

The two women chatted casually and came to the studio that Eric used as a studio.

The set during the rehearsal of "wannabe" has been removed. However, in the studio at this time, in addition to the two orange-red robots that have been refitted, there are several more strange equipment, among which the most conspicuous It should be the large box that is five meters high and consists of many LED screens that are one square meter square.

Rachel saw Eric and several others standing in the big box at a glance, and asked curiously, "Carly, what is that?"

"The light box," Caroline explained, seeing that Rachel still didn't understand, and added: "This is used to simulate the lighting environment in space. Eric's new movie uses ordinary lighting methods, which is very good. It is difficult to accurately simulate the space lighting environment without any diffuse reflection, so he planned to use this method to play a simple space scene directly on the LED screen around the light box, so that the actor performing in it is exactly the same as being in space. ."

Caroline was explaining the use of the surrounding equipment to Rachel. Eric walked over with Melanie, hugged Rachel, and said with a somewhat joking tone, "Rachel, You superstar finally came to see me."

Rachel was stunned for a moment, and suddenly burst out laughing, as if not enjoying it, and turned into a big laugh, looking like she wanted to squat on the ground with her stomach covered.

Caroline didn't expect Eric to say the exact same words she just said. Thinking about it again, maybe it's been a long time. Her words just now obviously imitated Eric's usual joking tone, realizing that Rachel might guess. At this point, Caroline's face suddenly turned red, and she could not wait to find a place to hide.

Eric didn't know what joke Rachel caught. Looking at Caroline's reaction, he probably guessed that this matter should have something to do with her, so he didn't ask any more questions, just said: "Okay, Rachel, lady. One point, be careful I sell you a photo of your current appearance to the paparazzi."

Rachel took a deep breath, finally stopped laughing, straightened up, and still couldn't help saying: "Eric, you've broken Carly again."

"Okay, I'm guilty," Eric shrugged, pointed to the workbench, and said, "Let's go and sit, seriously, why are you free today?"

"I came to see Carly and Mel," Rachel said, sitting down beside the workbench, looking at the table full of pictures of space scenes, and said, "Eric, you are planning to shoot a space movie ?"

"Yeah," Eric nodded. "A space disaster movie."

Rachel glanced at the table, noticed a rendered concept map, and took a look at it. It was based on the drafts Caroline and Melanie saw on the plane. real simulation map. Feeling the close feeling of a few thin lines connecting the two astronauts in the picture, Rachel couldn't help but become interested, and asked Eric bluntly: "Eric, this movie is suitable for me. role?"