The March-based film market is still quiet, but it's also the most tense time for the film industry.

It's almost this time, and the movies aiming for the summer file have started shooting, and the films that want to compete for the Chinese New Year file have also entered preparation.

Of course, the big production is too late at this time, and the martial arts masterpiece "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" jointly created by Xu Ke and Li Lianjie is almost finished, and this time it is still a 3D version.

"The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" has also ended its special training and is in full swing to shoot.

The tribute film "The Great Cause of the Founding of the Party", which gathers a group of big-name stars, is also in final post-production and will be released on June 15, the party's founding day.

are all in full swing to make their own movies, and Li Qian's future pictures are also preparing three movies.

Guo Fan and Li Yang are preparing for "The Adventures of Li Xianji", and Teng Huatao is preparing for "Thirty-three Days of Broken Love".

There are only two films, one less than last year.

Su Lun has made two movies in two years, preparing to take a vacation to rest and rest, Xu Zheng's sequel script for "People in Embarrassment" just started writing, and he was pulled by Li Qian to play the leading role, Wu Jing is still soaked in the Jinling Military Region, and Qi Yukunwo is looking for material in the countryside of southern Henan.

One movie a year, only Li Qian, who stands on the shoulders of giants, can continue to maintain this rhythm.

However, the company also has a TV series, "The Legend of Lu Zhen" brought by Du Yang from Perfect Pictures, a new company that has just been established, and it is not a small number to launch four film and television dramas at the same time.

Li Qian has finished the storyboard script, seized the time to rest for a few days, recuperate, and then sat down with the main creator of the crew to discuss the specific shooting.

Everyone is busy with their own things, and Tong Liya is also at home during this time while studying the script while accompanying Li Qian.

However, she also has her own business, and today she went out to discuss the movie with Teng Huatao, screenwriter Bao Jingjing, and the actor Wen Zhang.

The three of them arrived, and Tong Liya, who pinched the order, looked apologetic, "I'm sorry to guide Teng, I'm late." ”

"Yaya is here, I've just come, sit down. Teng Huatao beckoned Tong Liya to sit down, and Bao Jingjing and Wen Zhang also said hello.

"Sister Bao, senior brother. ”

Wen Zhang has been Tong Liya for two terms, so there is nothing wrong with calling it that.

Teng Hua said with a smile, "Wen Zhang, Yaya, you are still classmates, you also know each other in school, right?"

"My brother is a big celebrity at school, but unfortunately I haven't rehearsed a drama together, but this time I finally have the opportunity to cooperate. Tong Liya smiled.

"Yaya, aren't you shabby me, I'm just messing around at school. Wen Zhang laughed at himself.

Alumni, fellow villagers, has always been the easiest to get closer, and they know each other in school, and they became acquainted without chatting a few words.

Seeing this situation, Teng Hua breathed a sigh of relief, Li Qian, who had not yet become famous, rejected Wang Jinghua, which made her very faceless, and unilaterally did not deal with Li Qian.

And as a friend, he understands Wen Zhang's character, and he is prone to tantrums, especially after he becomes popular, he doesn't follow his wishes, and he doesn't like anyone, Tenghua is afraid that he will be unpleasant.

Fortunately, Li Qian didn't hold a grudge against Wang Jinghua, and when he occasionally mentioned her, Li Qian didn't have a strange expression at all, it was purely Wang Jinghua's unilateral "feud"

After chatting for a while, Teng Huatao hurriedly chatted with them about the script.

"During this time, the two of you also read the script, we are a modern urban white-collar romantic comedy, focusing on the occupation, age and income group of urban young white-collar workers, this identity is not unfamiliar to you, this is a relationship story that is out of ordinary people, the middle class, and you must grasp the identity positioning of the characters. ”

It's been some time since I got the script, and both of them know this.

The character of Tong Liya is just an ordinary white-collar worker in a wedding company, and there is still a lot of distance from the middle class, but the plot downplays the economic situation of this "white-collar worker".

The most practical problem of renting a house, in a big city, an ordinary employee can't afford to rent a good house at all, but the interior decoration and external landscape of Huang Xiaoxian's house, Teng Huatao has to do more exquisitely.

Tong Liya said, "Therefore, we want to present an ideal world to people, so that people can at least forget their troubles in this world, and taste love and thinking about love as a luxury." ”

Teng Huatao nodded, and praised quite praisefully, "That's right, that's the truth, Yaya understands it very thoroughly, we are talking about the ideal love, and there is no worldly troubles such as firewood, rice, oil and salt." ”

is worthy of being one of the best actresses of the new generation, and has experience in two classic romance films, and her understanding of the movie is perfectly in line with her own ideas.

When talking about the script and characters, Tong Liya also understood it quite thoroughly, just like the effect he wanted to shoot in his heart, which made Teng Huatao even more impressed.

In less than a month, he can eat so thoroughly through the script, Teng Huatao has been filming for so many years, and it is very rare for an actor of this level to have this level.

Tong Liya would be really embarrassed if she knew Teng Huatao's thoughts, these were all said by Li Qian, but she just used them.

The conversation about studying the script passed so happily, most of the time Teng Huatao and Tong Liya were chatting, and Wen Zhang, as the male protagonist, was not very interjected.

The main reason is that he patronized and studied Wang Xiaobei, and the role of Huang Xiaoxian Wen Zhang couldn't interject, and Li Qian also talked about the role of Wang Xiaobei, and Tong Liya could also talk about it.

What makes Tong Liya a little strange is that Wen Zhang's rumors today are not at all like the rumors from the outside world, and she is very modest.

She remembers that after Wen Zhang's fame in the past two years, his temper has become bigger and bigger, and there are often media and even crew employees who broke out that he was playing a big name on the set, shouting at the crew at every turn, scolding people more powerful than the director, and traveling is also very domineering, one person occupies one road.

On Weibo, once a film critic wrote an article disparaging him, but the article directly touched him, and said that if you believe it or not, you will be killed.

All kinds of revelations may be fake, but Weibo with V, it is indeed Wenzhang's real-name authentication, and that sentence believe it or not is real to kill you.

But this meeting was similar to that in school, and even a little gentler.

If Wen Zhang knew what this school girl was thinking, she would really be a dog.

Although after the popular TV series "Struggle", "Snail House" and "Snow Leopard" in recent years, Wen Zhang is already a leader in the new generation of students.

partnered with Li Lianjie in "Ocean Paradise", and as the leading actor, he couldn't find fault with his performance, but the movie did not have much impact.

In terms of fame, Wen Zhang is not lower than Tong Liya, but in terms of coffee position, there is no comparison, two consecutive movies have sold more than 500 million box office, and among the new generation of actors, no one can compare with Tong Liya.

Wen Zhang is not stupid, it doesn't matter if he scolds the crew and the eighteenth-tier actors, of course, he has to lower his posture if he is higher than his own coffee position.

Moreover, he couldn't afford to offend Li Qian.

Even after filming "Ocean Paradise", he called Li Lianjie "Dad Jie", and with a backer, Li Qian is not something he can offend.

In short, the crew met to discuss the plot very harmoniously.

After it was over, Teng Huatao also went back to ponder his script again, and after discussing it with Li Qian some time ago, he also gained a lot.

The original intention was to make a middle-class love, full of petty bourgeoisie, even the restaurant waiter is a polite face-painted image, which is the ideal of ordinary people, there will be no house, car, firewood, rice, oil and salt, these troubled lives, love, and the just-filmed TV series "Naked Marriage Era" are two extremes.

However, Li Qian suggested that you should not be too detached from the ordinary people, and control it at a height within the reach of ordinary people, as if you can have it with your own efforts.

Moreover, Li Qian also gave a lot of detailed suggestions, worthy of being a big commercial director, and Tenghua admired Tenghua Tao in this regard.

However, before the chair was hot when he got home, he received a call from Huang Zhonglei, asking him to go to the winery and open a bottle of good wine.

The expression on Teng Huatao's big round face suddenly became a little indifferent, and when he asked them for money, he found an investment but came over from time to time, either drinking or playing ball, and partying.

......

Time passed day by day, and half of March had passed, and Li Qian had also ended his short rest time and devoted himself to a new round of work.

Before the start of filming, convene a meeting of the main creators to talk about how the film is filmed.

"The tonality and style of "I Am Not the God of Medicine" have been determined before, adopting a realistic creative method, maintaining the tone of realism, trying to extract from reality, and emphasizing reality with less embellishment. ”

The tonality of the film must first be determined, and the direction that must be determined at the beginning of each film's creation, along this direction, photography, lighting, character performances, sets, etc. must be conformed.

Even the posters, they are different.

"I Am Not the God of Medicine" has already made a promotional poster, which can be regarded as a set of makeup, the font is handwritten, and the handwritten font gives people a sense of intimacy, which is based on the tone of the movie.

"Are we people-oriented, or are we story-based?" said director of photography, Zhang Zhonghua.

"Of course, it's people-oriented, otherwise the well-designed character image will not be in vain. Li Qian smiled.

The characters starring in the movie are all anthropomorphic, Cheng Yong is a wild boar with broken teeth, Huang Mao is an angry monkey, Lu Yingyi is a humble raccoon, and the medical representative is a shrewd Doberman.

These are very delicate things, including the costumes of the actors.

Cheng Yong's clothes at the beginning had a lot of lines, squares and flowers, but gradually turned into cold colors, into collared clothes, and became more and more serious.

Shoes have also changed from leather sandals or slippers to leather shoes, turning a person wearing sandals into a person wearing boots, and the spiritual temperament is completely different.

As a woman, Liu Sihui's changes are the most obvious, her hairstyle slowly changed from burgundy to black, long and straight, and her clothes gradually changed from a leopard print windbreaker and python skin pants to a serious image.

Even Zhang Changlin, in order to fit the changes of the characters in the movie, wore a white coat at the beginning, and a red sweater under the suit, especially like a person spitting out a red tongue, which is the state of a vampire.

But his character setting is not a simple villain, and the transformation of his humanity can also be seen later, so his character shape has slowly become the image of an ordinary person, and his clothes and image are becoming more and more ordinary.

Li Qian has done a lot of details in terms of characters, and it is not too much to say that he is meticulous, of course, he mainly tells people, and uses people to promote the story, rather than focusing on the story.

This series of settings was completed by Li Qian alone in a short period of time, which also amazed everyone.

Xu Zheng said, "Director Li, this level of detail is simply more detailed than more than 90% of literary films, and I have never seen any commercial film in China that can do this, even "Lust and Caution" is almost there. ”

Li Qian smiled, "Movies are different from movies, we have more important characters in this movie, and we need to be more detailed, if there are only one or two main characters, of course, there is no need to be so troublesome." ”

"However, my image turned out to be a wild boar with only broken fangs, and I am inseparable from pigs in this life, and Director Li's brain hole is too big. Xu Zheng complained again.

"It's very in line with this image, Cheng Yong is already aggressive, beating his ex-wife, beating a lawyer, irritable, and doing it at every turn, but the actual situation is very bad, not enough to support his character, like a wild boar with broken fangs. ”

"But boss, you have a lot of main characters, and you are mainly character-oriented, aren't you afraid that the plot will be scattered or even fragmented?" Guo Fan asked again.

There is no end to learning, Guo Fan temporarily dropped the preparation of "The Adventures of Li Xianji" and came to the meeting, just to learn, learn something useful in each movie, and squeeze Li Qian dry sooner or later.

"You didn't look at the storyboard?" Li Qian asked rhetorically.

"See?"

"Then to ask this kind of question, there are almost no scenes of other characters appearing alone, and most of the scenes appear as groups, so there is no sense of separation. ”

Movie group dramas are not easy to film, especially people-oriented, everyone has to take care of them, and it is easy for the plot to collapse.

However, this problem can be avoided by having all the characters appear together, but the difficulty is that with so many main characters appearing at the same time, it is difficult to express everyone's personality in the same shot.

Therefore, it is necessary to set special and vivid characteristics for each character, all-round, and you can know what kind of person it is at a glance.

will not introduce the characters one by one, the character image + plot, which is enough for the audience to make up their respective family relationships and backgrounds.

Blank space in the film is also very important, you have to give the audience room for imagination, so that you can substitute for it.

It's like writing a book, depicting the appearance of a heroine, you can't write all the facial features carefully and carefully, so although it is written very clearly, the audience will definitely not feel it.

"Oh, I see!"

Guo Fan suddenly realized that he didn't write the script himself, and as a bystander, there are some things that can be explained at a glance, which are easy to ignore.

"Then boss, are you going to add some comedy elements, how can you not conflict with this serious realistic theme?"

Guo Fan asked questions like a curious baby, Ma Xiaogang is undoubtedly a master of comedy, but even he didn't dare to add comedy elements to serious themes such as "Assembly Number" and "Tangshan Earthquake", that is almost none.

Two conflicting elements, put together rashly, are too easy to collapse.

"Where did you get so many questions, did you pay the tuition?"

"Tell me, boss, I found comedy to be one of the most relatable elements, and I'm going to add a little bit to my movies as well. ”

Li Qian was helpless, and also said simply, "The comedy elements in my movie are mainly the slightly vulgar market elements to show the environment and character information of the characters, which are interesting and humorous, and they are not only humorous for the sake of creating jokes, but also a true portrayal of the lives of the bottom of society, especially leukemia patients. ”

Seeing that Guo Fan still wanted to ask something, Li Qian hurriedly stopped him, "Stop talking, listen carefully, this is our discussion of the movie, not for you to solve your doubts, after the movie is released, you will know by looking at various movie reviews, those film critics definitely dig very deep, the kind that has no dead ends in all directions." ”

Guo Fan shut up knowingly, and he could finally get back to the topic.

"Lao Zhang, the focus is on photography and lighting, there will be more movement, shoulder resistance, and following the camera, and there are also shots with neorealist characteristics close to the actors.

In terms of color, it is similar to most realistic films, mainly natural light, less lighting if you can do less, and the color should have a sense of age, mainly according to the four acts of yellow-orange-blue-white, and there should be a clear distinction between Yindu and domestic lenses.

Yindu's footage should be colorful and energetic, because it represents the hope of Cheng Yong and countless leukemia patients, and the country is much more plain.

The domestic Arley camera, the color is relatively plain, close to the effect of the human eye, the lens uses Cook, a little warm and warm, Yindu uses small red, the color is relatively saturated, with UP lens, more solid and fresh. ”

Standing on the shoulders of giants, there are basically many things that do not need to be discussed, Li Qian can arrange them.

"I understand. Zhang Zhonghua nodded, and then he sighed a little emotionally, "Xiaohong, in 07, we used the first generation of this machine to shoot "Sniper Phone Booth". ”

Speaking of the past, Guo Fan was also a little embarrassed, "At that time, no one thought that we could come to this point from the crew of a small online movie." ”

Suddenly began to sigh, Xu Zheng and Wen Muye didn't know how to answer, because when they joined, Li Qian had already succeeded.

However, looking back at Li Qian's directorial career, it is amazing that he has come to this level in just four years.

Xu Zheng also sighed, "In 07, the RED digital camera was just launched, Director Li made the first online movie, and now the latest series of this brand of digital cameras can be used on the big screen, and Director Li has become the best director in China." ”

“......”

I'm not old yet, and I'm feeling my life here.

Li Qian shook his head and said with a smile, "Science and technology are changing with each passing day, Xiaohong back then was enough to be on the big screen, it is an epoch-making product, we can't lose to the machine, we have to progress, domestic films are also improving, just make a good movie with your heart, our "I Am Not the God of Medicine" will also be an epoch-making movie!"

Epoch-making films?

Li Qian's high evaluation of his new film made everyone look sideways.

"Go on, there's still a lot to talk about, and we have to plan how to shoot the early shots. ”

Li Qian didn't say anything off-topic, this meeting had to be held for a week, on the basis of the storyboard script, it was necessary to determine how to shoot each scene, and ensure that the set was filmed directly according to the pre-agreed conclusion, so that a movie could be shot efficiently and quickly.