On Monday at noon, Duanmu Huai learned about Class F's situation from Ya Naijian.
"I went over to Class F today. The atmosphere was incredibly tense. It felt just like a wake."
Poking at the 380-yuan bento (Duanmu's price) in front of her, Ya Naijian continued.
"Everyone was sitting in their chairs with solemn expressions and their heads lowered, without saying a word. It was obviously break time, but the classroom was completely silent. It made everyone else a little afraid to talk when they passed by. No one knew what had happened there... Could it be that the movie we shot earlier was just too bad?"
"Of course it was."
Duanmu Huai took a bite of rolled omelet and answered.
"They're a bunch of amateurs. It would've been a miracle if they'd shot anything decent."
"But Duanmu, you all took part in it too. Even Kurokawa Akane and Sakurajima Mai came. How could it still be bad?"
"You're underestimating filmmaking."
Faced with Ya Naijian's completely nonsensical question, Duanmu Huai shook his head, then opened the computer and played the DVD again.
"Actually, this DVD has plenty of technical problems. For example, the camera shakes too much, and here... When the camera switches over, the middle is completely black. That's simply because the lighting wasn't properly arranged. The voices are sometimes loud and sometimes soft, which is a sound-recording problem. When a movie is really being filmed, although you might see only two people talking on the screen, there are at least twenty staff members around the actors handling different aspects of the production. From lighting, sound, and recording to filming, even manually creating wind and rain, all of that is the staff's responsibility. You can't just take a camera and shoot a movie. If it were really that simple,