The equipment and personnel at the shooting site were all quickly arranged for the next scene.

The extras who were ‘lucky’ to get the more tattered clothes for the first scene and were, thus, chosen to participate in the next one had enough experience to find suitable places in the filming location, and they lay themselves down in various positions.

Seeing this, Lin Cheng had no choice but to also find a corner and sat down himself.

At this time, the assistant director’s commanding voice came from not far away.

“Those people in the middle, move a little to the side.

“Those who are together, don’t all stay bunched together and spread out a little bit.

“And the one over there! You are outside the camera shot, move a little further in!

“Yes, you! I’m talking about you, stop looking around and move closer inside! Lie down a little further on the ground, lower your head, and lie on the ground.” 

After confirming that the other party was talking him, Lin Cheng: “…”

And so, Lin Cheng from the Lin family—who had never bowed his head to anyone before— bowed his head for the first time for some living expenses.

… …

After the scene was properly arranged, several main actors who had already changed their clothes now came to the shooting location.

At the director’s shout, shooting officially began.

After several main actors rushed into the village, their eyes immediately turned red when they saw the scene of countless deaths on the street. The second male actor lost control and cursed the enemy as crazy. The male protagonist made plans after appeasing the brothers behind him. They decided to chase down the enemy and avenge the dead fellow villagers.

Such a scene took about ten minutes: from the time the actors enter the village until they leave in pursuit.

However, unlike the previous scene when the enemy massacred the villagers, the shooting of this scene was much more complicated and the requirements were much higher because the main actors appeared on the scene.

A scene lasting more than ten minutes had to be filmed several times before it passed approval.

… …

On the other side, Lin Momo stayed on the filming crew’s shooting infield where Lin Cheng left her, not knowing how the filming on the street outside was going.

Although Lin Momo wanted to know how Lin Cheng shot TV, Lin Momo still stayed where she was next to the field service girl, remembering what her father had told her earlier.

In order not to disturb other people’s work, Lin Momo took out her little notebook and wrote down the crews they had visited and the remaining crews they had not yet visited.

From time to time, Lin Momo could also listen to some actors playing against each other, as well as several assistant directors and young actors talking about the shoot.

Lin Momo didn’t understand some professional terms, so she could only write down some useful things said by the assistant director and actors. For example: where to look in the camera when looking straight ahead, how to avoid laughing during the scene, and how to express happiness and anger when reading lines, etc.

… …

While Lin Momo was ‘stealing skills from teachers’ from the sidelines—through her perspective—the audience in the livestream channel also had a direct look at a filming scene.

[Haha, it turns out that this is what real studio shooting is like.]

[It feels different from those promotional photos of the crew they share on the Internet, as well as the filming footage released.]

The stills and footage released by the filming crew online were either stunning and good-looking, or they were funny and full of interesting topics. In contrast, the scenes that everyone was seeing through Lin Cheng team’s livestream channel seemed very ‘down-to-earth’.

[I thought the crew was very high-level when filming, but I never expected this…]

[It feels just like when we were scrambling for work at the construction site, hahaha.]

[Watching a parent-child reality show and also seeing a live filming of a tv crew, the money I paid for this super VIP membership is so worth it.]

… …

When Lin Cheng and Lin Momo went to this filming crew to get a job as an extra, the staff from the [Living with Dad] program team contacted the crew chief and director. Although part of the content involving the filming crew information was protected, and the program team live-edited matters as the recording went on, this actually had little impact on the audience in the livestream channel.

While the audience kept complaining that filming in real life was not as advanced as they originally thought, they were still watching everything with gusto in the livestream channel.

For a time, the number of active viewers in Lin Cheng and Lin Momo’s livestream channel reached the highest value it has ever been, even surpassing Zheng Chengye’s group.

Among them, there were also many new viewers who came to the livestream channel to admire stars:

[I heard that you can watch a real filming crew shoot here, so I came to take a look. ]

[Ahem, I’m different. I just came to see my precious little brother. I heard that he is starring in this drama. ]

[I watched the other teams before, but I never paid attention to Lin Cheng’s team. It seems that this group is also quite fun haha]

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

On site.

Lin Momo was still unaware of the sudden popularity of their livestream channel. At this time, she was immersed in taking her ‘little notes’.

At this moment, the mobile phone of the field service girl next to Lin Momo suddenly rang. It was a call from another colleague of hers.

“Where are you?” asked her colleague, a senior sister, on the other end of the phone.

“I’m here on the edge of the infield,” the lady field staffer replied.

Because the main shooting at this time was happening on the streets outside, there was a lot less tension inside.

This field service girl originally planned to take a short break; who would have thought her colleague would call her.

“Is there anything I can do for you?” she asked.

“There is. Teacher Lu invited everyone to drink milk tea and ordered seventy or eighty cups. The people at the milk tea shop are too busy to deliver so many at once. Go find a few more people to go over at the shop and help pick them up,” said the colleague on the other end of the phone.

The Teacher Lu mentioned by the other party was the second male lead in this crew.

After listening to the other party’s words, the field service girl frowned and quietly complained, “His own assistant won’t even go take care of it…”

However, she still agreed to do this task and hung up the phone. After that, she began recruiting other staffers to help with the errand.

Their location right now was a special filming area only accessible to crews. To buy milk tea, they’d have to go to a nearby snack street that was open to tourists.

The field service girl was busy looking for people to help get the milk teas with her, and she couldn’t pay attention to Lin Momo, a little girl who was quiet and had no presence at all.

It wasn’t until the field service girl and two other crew members had already come out of the set and onto the streets that they discovered the child who had been following them.

“Why did you follow me out?” The field service girl asked, looking at Lin Momo with a strange look on her face. Only then did she remember that the child’s father had entrusted this little girl to her temporary care.

She frowned again and said to Lin Momo, “Just stay inside, why did you follow me out?” 

Seeing that Lin Momo didn’t have any reply, and she herself was busy with the task of getting the milk tea, she had no choice but to wave her hand and just said, “Forget it, come with me.” 

This group of people arrived at the store where the second male lead ordered milk tea for everyone. The field service girl settled Lin Momo on a bench next to the milk tea shop.

“We’ll go in and get the milk tea. You wait here and I’ll take you back with me later.”

Lin Momo nodded.

Serve as Contrast Team in a ‘Dad with Baby’ Show translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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