Chapter 145 – Extremely Embarrassing and Awkward
On the day of filming, the skies were sunny and clear. When Qiu Jin arrived to the filming location, the members of the work crew were also arriving at the beach.
Coco was the art director of this project. When Qiu Jin got out of the car, she was secretly watching him. Yes, Coco was a yangou*. She has been involved in the fashion industry for many years and has a keen and wild intuition about beauty.
[*T/N: yangou 颜狗 – a type of person who has no resistance to anything with good looks. Usually used to laugh at oneself.]
As soon as Qiu Jin came out, she knew he was the best. He had a body shape between a teenager and a young man, and a candid smile. However, the most enchanting thing was the charm he conveyed nonchalantly.
It was difficult to have a standard for such a thing as charm. It depended on the control of the model and the director. One point less would not be sexy enough and one point more would come across as smarmy.
But Qiu Jin never seemed to have this kind of trouble. His movements, expressions, and smiles were all so natural and vivid, yet so dazzling that people couldn’t take their eyes away from him.
Coco finally understood why their president insisted on having Qiu Jin be the brand ambassador for this perfume. There was really no one more suitable than him.
The morning light sprinkled over the satiny beach. Right now, they needed to shoot a few scenes of Qiu Jin interacting with the seawater.
A waterproof camera was set up on the surface of the sea. Qiu Jin took off his T-shirt and trousers and walked towards the middle.
Coco was quite reserved at first. After all, she was only a fenyan*, and she has seen so many celebrities and models throughout her career, so she has already learned how to maintain a calm expression.
[*T/N: fenyan 粉颜 – someone who only likes celebrities for their looks, so their interest in a celebrity doesn’t last very long. They will like whichever good-looking celebrity is in front of them at the moment and forget about them when they turn their head and see another good-looking person.]
But the moment Qiu Jin took off his T-shirt, she was still dazzled.
Holy shit! What was this divine specimen?
The swimming trunks wrapped around his mermaid line* in a tantalizing manner. In the back it wrapped around a small portion of his perky buttocks, exposing the exquisite line of his back and the sensual dip of his lower back…!
[*T/N: according to Baidu, mermaid line refers to the external oblique muscles]
Who could resist this?!
His waistline was so good! It must be so enchanting when he moves…
Stop it! Don’t think about it!
No. I want to [think about it]!
Who didn’t like a younger wolf dog? She could totally go for him! Omega x omega was also possible! She will make a move!
“Coco-jie, what’s wrong?” Seeing the strange expression on her face, the assistant thought there was something wrong and hurriedly came over to ask her.
“It’s nothing.” Coco calmed down her expression and regained her seriousness as a young leader.
Stop your raging thoughts. You are a cosmopolitan person. You cannot be a love-struck fool!
Liu Wei secretly glanced at the young lady next to him. She must’ve been impressed by Jin-ge’s good looks, right? He felt like he could empathize. This was the first time that he intuitively felt that Qiu Jin was really about to take off [in the entertainment field].
The people looked at Qiu Jin with surprise and admiration. There was no longer the disgust that they once held for him.
Along with Qiu Jin’s skills, this was only the first step in taking off.
Because it was a foreign brand, Liu Wei was surrounded by blond and blue-eyed foreigners. Liu Wei only knew a few words of primary school English and was completely confused. He never expected that Qiu Jin could talk to the other party calmly. During the conversation with the director, Qiu Jin exuded a focused and serious temperament that was so dazzling that people couldn’t take their eyes away.
The director was from France. The camera language used was gentle and affectionate, bright and erotic, but not vulgar and pornographic.
On the sparkling sea, Qiu Jin floated among the waves in his gray swimming trunks. The blue water rippled across his chest and splashed against his collarbone.
The director’s lens was very close to the subject, like a human’s eyes, and you can clearly see the texture of the skin, the flow of the sea water, and the golden halo left by the sun in the water.
The camera gradually moved up, climbing up the chest inch by inch, sliding over the Adam’s apple, the full-colored lips, the high bridge of the nose, and finally stopped at the eyes.
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The young man in front of the camera has beautiful wild eyebrows. His eyelashes were wetted by water and bunched together, and his eyes were sparkling. When he looked at the camera, he seemed to be looking at his most cherished thing.
The camera zoomed out to reveal the fresh and sunny smile of the young man, as bright as the sun.
Even the director was stunned for a moment, this person was incredible!
They would surely be able to sell out the perfume just by relying on his face alone to promote the product.
These shots seemed simple, but it took several hours of back and forth shooting to capture what the director wanted.
At noon, when the sunlight was directly overhead, it was not suitable for filming. So they waited until three o’clock in the afternoon before going out to shoot again. This was also the most difficult part of this shooting session, which was to film him atop a horse.
In Western culture, horses were a symbol of strength and sexual desire. Many perfume advertisements prefer horse elements, especially foreign photographers. Young men, young ladies, and even men of steel could all be paired with horses, and various interpretations were common.
Somehow they had procured a pure white Arabian horse for the shoot, saying that it was to embody the spirit of chivalry and free will. The scene that Qiu Jin needed to shoot included, but were not limited to, interacting with the horse, riding on the horse with his face up against the horses neck, and galloping across the beach on the horse.
The scenes on horseback would be the most difficult parts of this shoot.
