Chapter 386 Special Event
"Stop, there is still something wrong with my mood just now."
"Lillian, you have to remember your character. You are a magician from another world. The main purpose of building this snow village is to miss your hometown in another world. You are lonely, you are lonely, you are helpless. People can understand.”
"You're standing behind the bar wiping the cups, but you can't just wipe the cups. The camera is going to take a close-up of your face. You have to have eyes, and your eyes have to be able to reveal your emotions. The eyes and expressions just now were too I'm dead. You can experience the feeling I told you again. Let's rest for 5 minutes and do it again in 5 minutes."
Director Zhou, who was very enthusiastic about his work, wanted to make the promotional film to the level of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. The price of excellence was that the filming progress was very slow. Although Jiang Qi didn't know what the original filming schedule should be, if he followed the current standards and requirements, he would definitely not be able to finish filming in three days.
But he doesn't mind. As long as the final product is good, he can shoot for a few more days. Maybe a few extra days of shooting time would be added, and the staff of Fang Jing's company would be even happier because they could have a few more days of vegetable noodles.
The filming process was actually very boring, especially when there was only one leading actor, and the rest were staff and onlookers. The leading actor was still an amateur who had never acted before.
The same clip was filmed over and over again, dozens of times or even twenty times. The director, actors and staff had extraordinary patience and could endure this long process over and over again. Jiang Qi and the others who were watching couldn't stand it any longer. Gong Ye, known as the Gong Director, who had worked in a serious online drama crew and served as an assistant director, had even put on a mask of pain.
When Lillian was NGed for the 13th time because of the same scene, Gong Ye covered his face in pain.
"What's wrong? Your stomach hurts after eating too much?" Fang Jing asked with a smile when he saw his friend like this.
"It's nothing, I just think of the painful past." Gong Ye hummed, "Where did you find this girl Jiang Qi? She is really beautiful. She is really not good at acting. She is better than the one I followed before. The third female member of that group who brought money to join the group is not yet enlightened."
"Lillian is a relative of Teacher John. She was a teacher before, and she taught students seriously. Isn't it normal that she has never acted before and doesn't know how to act?" Jiang Qi felt that he had to say a few words for Lillian, "Second Are you not allowing newcomers to be nervous for the first time of filming?”
In fact, it’s not that Lillian can’t act. Lillian has an outgoing personality. She was able to find the right position and successfully join the company within a few days of coming to the amusement park. She was able to act in her true colors in front of the stalls and interact with tourists everywhere even though she didn’t know much about today’s society. chat.
She acted like this today. It would be impossible to say that she was scared and nervous in front of so many people and cameras.
Lillian acted like this entirely because her acting skills were not adapted to the local environment.
The Wizarding World also has actors, TV series, and movies, but they are called differently. Because of the diversity of creatures, actors in the magical world generally have exaggerated acting skills, and their body movements and facial expressions are quite exaggerated. After all, there are magic special effects as a base, and exaggerated performances will look better.
If this acting method were used today, most people would think that Lillian was having an epilepsy attack.
Such serious acclimatization in acting caused Lillian to stop acting for a while and turned herself into a piece of wood. Don't dare to be too exaggerated with your movements, and don't dare to look too exaggerated with your expressions. The result of being too restrained is that you have neither movements nor expressions, just a face that is so white that it shines, and the facial features are extremely delicate and photogenic.
If Director Zhou is willing to muddle along and just fool around, Lillian can barely get by with her acting skills as a wooden beauty.
But Director Zhou chose to eat green vegetable noodles. A bowl of noodles ignited Director Zhou's enthusiasm for work, the requirements for the promotional film and the expectations for Lillian's acting skills, which led to repeated failures.
A few hours later, all the people who came to watch dispersed except for Wang Xinghua, who was really interested in the filming and had seen what it was like to shoot a bad horror movie.
Even Jiang Qi, Fang Jing and Gong Ye escaped. Gong Ye yelled that he had never played in an amusement park seriously. He tried his best at the last amusement park annual meeting and took over it at cost price with almost no money. Jiang Qi was doing it for his brothers. Jiang Qi should reciprocate the favor this time, personally accompanying him and Fang Jing to have a good time in the amusement park.
Of course, Jiang Qi had to satisfy Gong Ye's small request. After leaving the snow village, he led the two of them to the ace project of the amusement park——
Horror doll house!
Take the fast track directly without waiting. During the cutscene, Jiang Qi even sent a message to Lili to tell her that an old friend was here.
The hardcore veteran player who was the first to experience "Horror Doll House" in the old script store, who prayed to God in the corner and prayed to the Jade Emperor from God, is here.
You must take special care of your old friends and get some powerful information.
The newly learned skills were taught to Gong Ye and Fang Jing.
The first time he played a horror book, he was frightened by Lili and left a psychological shadow. Gong Ye, who has never been involved in any horror books since, heard the familiar plot and wanted to leave first. The best thing to do is to leave this wrong place before anything happens.
Then he was held down by his good brother Fang Jing.
"Director, don't worry. Now that the horror dollhouse has been transformed into a haunted house with a plot, how can we get a signal jammer like we did before and lock you in the house to make you feel that it is really haunted?" Jiang Qi comforted him, "This is the trump card project of our amusement park. You asked me to take you to experience the popular project of the amusement park. How could you miss this?"
"Really?" Gong Ye was doubtful, and was full of doubts about Jiang Qi, who had led him into the haunted house. "You didn't lie to me?"
"You won't be locked in the room this time?"
"Definitely not. Our haunted house has two floors, which is huge!"
"Won't there be dozens of dolls chasing me?"
"Of course not. Don't look at how many people are there. If there is a stampede, wouldn't our amusement park be doomed?" Jiang Qi looked sincere.
Gong Ye let out a long sigh of relief: "That's good."
"Actually, I'm not timid. I... I actually have claustrophobia. The last time you scared me so badly, it was mainly because you suddenly turned off the lights and locked me in the room. I definitely won't do it this time. meeting……"
Just as he said that, the cutscene ended.
Jiang Qi and the other two players walked into the doll house and came to the living room.
As the time of operating the dollhouse increases, Lili's restoration of the scene becomes more and more perfunctory.
In the past, she would at least put away everyone's morning coffee and tea cups in advance, restore the used kitchen, and erase the traces of someone living in the doll house.
Now Lili is too lazy to do this. She only washes the cups at most. The coffee cups and teacups are not stored in the cabinet, but placed on the coffee table and kitchen counter. The newspaper that Old John read by the fireplace every morning was just left beside the fireplace without even moving the chair.
As long as players observe carefully, they will find that this doll house seems to be really lived in.
Then everyone felt even scarier.
"This coffee cup seems to have signs of use." Fang Jing is an observant person and noticed these small details as soon as he entered the living room.
While everyone was exploring, Fang Jing walked to the fireplace and picked up the latest newspaper: "Today's morning paper."
"Is this place usually occupied by people?"
Gong Ye shuddered: "Old Fang, don't scare me, this is a haunted house."
"Who lives in a haunted house every day when they have nothing to do? Even if it is decorated well, you can't live in it. If there are too many people, it's all a trap."
"Hehe." A faint laughter came from the distance.
Fang Jing looked around alertly, but Gong Ye didn't notice it at all. He squatted down and poked the inside of the fireplace to see if it was real or fake.
"Hehehe." The crisp laughter came again, this time the sound was particularly clear, and all the players on the first floor heard it.
The laughter came from the TV, which was still in a snowflake screen state.
Everyone is attracted to the TV and moves towards it unconsciously.
This is Lili's usual technique. Not every player will have someone like Jiang Qi to drag everyone's attention to the TV in advance. If the players are too distracted, Lili will use this special method. Bring attention to television.
When everyone noticed the TV, or could not ignore the bursts of laughter coming from the TV, the TV flashed and the snowflake screen turned into a video.
In the video, Sadako's doll of the same style is crawling out step by step.
Gong Ye was so frightened that he took a step back and breathed a sigh of relief when he found out that it was a video: "My dear, this looks too much like a midnight bell. I thought it was going to crawl out just now."
The next second, the doll crawled out.
Climbing towards Gong Ye step by step.
Climbing and laughing at the same time.
"Hee hee hee."
"Hee hee hee."
"Little brother, do you still remember me? You haven't come to play with Lili for a long time. Lili always remembers you. Do you still add water when you sell wine?"
"Ah! Help!"
"Mom, ahhhh!"
"Holy shit, baby Sadako!"
Just like every time the doll appeared before, all the players immediately dispersed and ran away in panic. Gong Ye even ran away immediately, without even hearing the lines specially arranged for him by Lili.
"Banban, the palace director is evil!" Lili saw that he didn't pay attention to the lines she specially arranged for Gong Ye to open the stove. She was so angry that she pressed Jiang Qi's calf and cursed, "Lili is scared."
"Lili, you'd better take it easy. I feel that a year has passed and the Palace Director seems to have become less courageous." Jiang Qi saw that Gong Ye had scared him just now at the slightest sign of trouble, and felt that Gong Ye should shoulder the responsibility. Can't stop Lili's addition.
"Okay." Lili agreed frustratedly, letting go of Jiang Qi's calves and jumping up and down on the sofa.
"Banban, Lili also wants to take pictures."
Jiang Qi knew that Lili wanted to watch Lillian shoot a promotional video, so he comforted him: "Tonight there will be a night scene filming in Xuecun. After the doll house closes in the evening, Banban will take Lili to watch Lillian's sister filming. Okay?"
"Okay!" Lili said loudly, "Lili wants to act too!"
"Then you pick someone with a European-style skin and a more gorgeous skirt, the better, and see if you can go abroad and act as a backdrop." Jiang Qi said with a smile.
"Banban is good!"
By the time the three of them came out of the haunted house, it was already fifteen minutes later.
The 15 minutes of fright made Gong Ye recall the fear of being dominated by the doll house. After being chased from the ground to the underground in the haunted house, Gong Ye's legs were weak when he came out. He also took more than a thousand steps on WeChat. He came to the haunted house to exercise.
On the contrary, it was Fang Jing. The new version of the dollhouse really didn't scare him that much. At least for Fang Jing, the fright he received was far less than when he played it for the first time.
When Fang Jing played the book for the first time, although he maintained his sanity throughout the whole process, his body was very honest. When he knew it was not a ghost but a trap, his legs were weak and he couldn't stand up. In the end, Gong Ye pulled him up.
"Boss Jiang, don't you think that the story of "Horror Doll House" has been weakened a lot after it was completely changed into a haunted house?" After Fang Jing came out of the haunted house, he even had the leisure to discuss with Jiang Qi the differences between the two versions of the haunted house, "Although The area of the haunted house has increased, there are NPCs, and the types and number of mechanisms have also greatly increased, but it lacks the most important plot and the story line that the players themselves should get. I always feel that the horror atmosphere is a bit lacking."
It can be seen that Fang Jing really likes the original story of the Horrible Doll House.
"Is it still bad?" Gong Ye felt that if he had more lives, he would end up in a haunted house. "There are heart-eating female ghosts, hanged ghosts, chainsaw monsters, water ghosts, and the final battle royale, and maybe some more. I haven’t encountered any ghosts, isn’t this rich enough?”
"No matter how rich it is, the lives of timid tourists like me will have to be enriched."
"That's not what I'm referring to." Fang Jing sighed helplessly, "I'm referring to the plot."
"You think it's scary because you have played the original version like me, and you know what the original plot of Dollhouse is based on. But the tourists who came with us can only watch a brief NPC performance. The cutscenes are, at most, the only way to understand the background of the story.”
"Without more detailed enrichment and introduction, without the interactive plot of the ancient mother-in-law, the core story and atmosphere of the Horror Doll House will be gone."
"I know what you said." Jiang Qi took over, "But there is nothing we can do about it. If you want to change a script that you have experienced for several hours into a haunted house, you have to make a choice."
"Of course such a large scene can be changed into an escape room, but even a single escape room game will take about an hour." Jiang Qi pointed to the tourists queuing outside, "We are an amusement park after all, and all facilities must be in the same format. Efficiency comes first.”
"The current situation is already the best choice we can make after several changes."
Gong Ye listened for a long time and finally understood. He thought for a while: "This is not easy. Let's find an opportunity to hold a special event."
"Just for one or two days, during the special event, the horror doll house will be enhanced, the haunted house will be transformed into an escape room, and more people will be allowed in at once."
"If you ask me, twenty or thirty people in this scene are actually a bit small. Your house is big enough, and there is a basement at the bottom. People will disperse as soon as they run away. You can let about forty people in at one time, and it will last an hour. One game can be played ten times a day.”
"400 people a day is indeed a bit less in terms of customer flow, but for special events, it is normal for there to be fewer people."
Jiang Qi's eyes lit up when he heard what Gong Ye said, and he said excitedly: "Director Gong, I really like you. You are worthy of being a director, and you are good at event planning!"
"Hehe." Gong Ye chuckled, "I got it from running a bar."
"As a bar owner, the most important thing is to hold events. If you don't hold small events every now and then, you won't be able to retain customers even if there are so many big events throughout the year."
After talking about what he was good at, Gong Ye felt that he had finally calmed down and could start the next project: "What is the next project? Is there anything a little more normal?"
Jiang Qi looked at the time: "At this time, the second play at the theater should not be over yet. Fang Jing hasn't gone to the theater to watch it yet? Why don't you go to the theater?"
Fang Jing nodded without any objection.
"Are you two free tonight? If so, my sister and I will give you our front row tickets. The big show tonight is "The Princess". It's rare to come here without watching our theater's signature show. ? Appreciated by both refined and popular people!"
Gong Ye asked: "Is "The Legend of the Princess" the one who traveled through time and was reborn? I see that Liu Lan has a lot of friends."
"right."
"That depends! Lao Fang, do you have time?"
"I can do that too. I've booked a room in a train-themed hotel for two nights. I'll stay at the amusement park these two days."
"Hey, you do have some free time!"
"It just so happens that the things at hand are over. Give yourself a vacation." Fang Jing said calmly.
Gong Ye nodded and smiled mischievously: "You used to come to the amusement park to ride the Ferris wheel during your break because your family has money and willfulness. Now you have to buy a ticket to ride the Ferris wheel in the amusement park during your break."
Fang Jing glanced at Gong Ye: "The amusement park sold 130 million, and 158 tickets are enough for me to play for more than 2,000 years."
Gong Ye:......
"You damn rich people!"
Jiang Qi:?