Chapter 346: There's no need to get along with money
At the beginning of May, a green screen shooting base on the outskirts of Kyoto.
"All departments, please be in place! Photography, lighting?....... Mr. Chen, are you ready?"
"I can start at any time on my side. β
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Since shadows are difficult to cut, in order to make it easy to cut out images in post, the lights in the green screen studio are all turned on.
A young man in a suit walks slowly from a corner of the green screen, the camera slowly receding on track, but the focus of the camera always follows him.
The director saw through the monitor that the young man had a solemn expression and a sad expression. He lowered his head, his gaze distant, his eyes hollow, as if he was remembering something.
He raised his head, exhaled, and sang: "The rain is deep in the old hometown, I heard that you are always alone, the mottled city gate, entrenched in the roots of the old trees, the stone slabs echo, wait." β
Director Hu Defa felt that the filming of this scene was enough, and he decisively shouted: "Card." β
Director Hu Defa beckoned to Chen Minhao and said, "Come and have a look." β
Chen Minhao watched his performance twice just now, and director Hu Defa praised Chen Minhao from various dimensions of expression, movement, demeanor, and positioning, and then discussed the next move with the crew's lighting and photography.
That's right, today is filming the MV of Chen Minhao's "Fireworks Are Easy to Cold".
At present, the MVs of many domestic singers are just shooting some scenery and interspersing some singing pictures, and Chen Minhao doesn't want to be perfunctory about his album at all.
He hopes that his MV will have a cinematic texture, and in order to make the listeners of the song more immersive, he hopes that his MV can create an atmosphere of historical vicissitudes: stupas are lined up, fleeting into the sky, swords and swords, and vicissitudes.
After comparing the two methods of live shooting and post-production, Chen Minhao finally decided to use the method of post-production and special effects. Although the cost is higher, the effect will be better.
The reason why Chen Minhao shoots in the green screen greenhouse is to "cut out the picture", which refers to separating actors or objects from ordinary scenes and synthesizing them into scenes needed for the plot.
Good post-production special effects are inseparable from the green screen, but they are also inseparable from the superb performance skills of the actors, who need to rely on their imagination to perform without physical objects.
The plot of "Fireworks Are Easy to Cold" planned by Chen Minhao is not complicated: a young general and a young woman fall in love at first sight and make a private decision for life, but just when the general intends to come to the door in advance, he is requisitioned to fight on the frontier.
When the general returned from the battle, accepted the canonization, and went to find the woman when he took the reward, he learned that the personnel was no longer in order, and the fate was over: the woman had fallen into a nun, and now she had died.
In the end, the general, who was no longer young, stood outside the temple where the woman got married, the drizzle fell one after another, he recalled the experience of envying others, and couldn't help but sigh: The beauty of the world is just like fireworks, easy to cold, easy to separate.
Director Hu Defa is the director of "Detective", and the editing of "Detective" has been completed, and he is waiting for the release of publicity. When Hu Defa heard that Chen Minhao was going to shoot an MV, he volunteered to contact Chen Minhao and help him shoot an MV.
Although Hu Defa has no experience in shooting MVs, he has directed several feature films with a box office of hundreds of millions, and his narrative skills are naturally very strong, while Chen Minhao's MV is mainly narrative-based.
Chen Minhao, the other staff members of the filming crew, is no stranger to Hu Defa's team, which means that this MV not only has a movie-level director, but also movie-level lighting, movie-level photography, and movie-level editing.
Although Hu Defa is a commercial film director, he is very good at grasping details, the whole MV looks delicate and smooth, and a story that is not novel makes him shoot a visual enjoyment and emotional impact.
Chen Minhao was very satisfied after watching the finished film of the MV of "Fireworks Are Easy to Cold", and said with a smile: "Mr. Hu, you have done a great job, it is really a bit overkill to let you shoot the MV." β
Hu Defa took a puff of cigarette and said with a smile: "As long as you are satisfied with yourself, which song are you going to shoot in the next MV?"
"Ah, didn't you say before that time is limited, so you can only help me shoot a music video?"
Hood smiled and said, "It's a little different over there, I coordinated the time myself, and I found that I can help you shoot the music video of two songs." β
It is human instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. Hu Defa originally just wanted to help Chen Minhao shoot an MV as a repayment, and Chen Minhao helped him get the role of Siyuan, the difficult role in the film.
But after Hu Defa listened to Chen Minhao's album "Fireworks Are Easy to Cold", he found that Chen Minhao was more talented than he imagined, and listening to other people's meaning, "Fireworks Are Easy to Cold" is not the main song in the album, and it is said that several other songs on the album are comparable to "Fireworks Are Easy to Cold".
Therefore, Hu Defa decided to invest further in Chen Minhao and spend two weeks to help Chen Minhao get the MV of another song.
Regarding Hu Defa's offer to help him shoot a second MV, Chen Minhao did not refuse. In the past and present life, one of the most important life lessons of Chen Minhao is: never reject the kindness of others to you.
Chen Minhao's second MV chose "See You Again". There is no "Fast and Furious" in this world, and naturally there is no unexpected death of Paul Walker. But Chen Minhao believes that the world of music is figured out, and he believes that even if this song does not reach the height of his previous life, it can still deeply move many people.
It took Hu Defa two weeks to get the MV done, and he was fully responsible for the plot design, shooting, and editing of the MV.
The progress of Chen Minhao's album is: the current progress of writing songs and composing music is 6/6, the progress of recording songs and mixing is 6/6, and the progress of MV is 2/2.
The next album mastering processing, finding manufacturers to produce, promotional poster design, and album cover production basically did not require Chen Minhao's direct involvement.
Chen Minhao stretched his waist and said to Kang Hui: "Next, I can finally relax." I haven't been home for the Chinese New Year, and I plan to go back to my hometown next week. β
Kang Hui loosened his shoulders and said, "You can go home between the "Detective" roadshows. After speaking, she handed the next schedule to Chen Minhao.
Chen Minhao looked at the schedule and showed an expression of "Are you kidding me?" said: "Is this schedule wrong, there are too many roadshow arrangements, right? I'm going to run 30 cities in 25 days?"
Roadshow was originally the name of the investment field, but I don't know when the concept of "roadshow" frequently appears in entertainment news, it is a general term for the main creators of the film, stars and the media, the audience and fans to meet offline to promote the new film, that is, the event that you have seen the stars in the cinema or shopping mall to build momentum for the new film.
Kang pulled the corners of his mouth back and said, "I confirmed with the film crew, there is no problem." The school rehearsal had to take a leave of absence. On the one hand, the contract stipulates that you must participate in the promotional activities of the movie, and in addition, confirm with the crew, knowing that the box office of the movie exceeds 100 million, and the excess part will give you 3%, that is, if the box office is 200 million, you can take 3 million, 300 million if you are 6 million, and so on. You don't have to get along with money. 2k reading network