In mid-September, Suncheonfu, a stage theater.

"All departments are ready, and the lighting team is ?...... OK, Miss Ho, are you ready?"

"I'm ready. ”

“OK…… Let's go!"

The headlights went out instantly.

The surrounding wall lamps glowed and emitted a faint light.

A woman in a long skirt walked slowly against the light.

What appeared in the monitor was her slender figure and elegant long skirt, wrapped in a thin light curtain.

All around her was a faint light, and she herself was dark.

She lowered her head, clasped her hands in front of her, clasped her fingers, and slowly walked forward.

The camera slowly reverses, always following her.

Da, da, da.

The crisp sound of high heels resounded in the empty theater.

Until he felt that the length of this scene was enough, the director decisively shouted, "Click!"

The lights are back on.

The cameraman skillfully jumped off the stage with the machine on his shoulder, came to the shelf that had already been set up in front of the stage, adjusted the machine, focused on it, framed the lens, and said, "Director, I'm all right." ”

The director nodded and said, "Pay attention next, Miss He, do you remember to move correctly? You must go to that circle, otherwise our headlights will not find you in a hurry, and then we won't be able to shoot the picture we should have!"

"I'm okay with the director, I remember. ”

“OK…… Headlight ...... Okay, so you're all set...... Let's go!"

The lights go out again.

It's still the same camera, it's still the same glowing light.

High heels, da. Click.

The woman is all over the camera. Walk to the center of the stage with your head down.

Her long hair was draped over her shoulders. From a distance, there is a unique, lonely beauty.

Then, she stood still.

But he still kept his head down.

With a "snap", a straight beam of light hit her, shining squarely on her.

The light was very bright, but when you look beyond the range of the light, this straight light in the dark night seems to be scattered into countless shiny particles.

It's in such a beam. Her white clothes are like snow, and her low face is still ambiguous, but her lips pursed slightly appear in the monitor very clearly.

After a few moments, she finally looked up.

The makeup is exquisite, elegant and glamorous.

It's just that she has a sad face and a distant gaze.

Such a distant gaze seems to have no focus. Just looking into the darkness around him, as if looking for something.

And then. She tilted her head, exhaled, and slowly spread her arms.

"Standing alone on this stage, I heard the applause......"

…………

"Click!"

The lights are on.

The director stood up and commanded: "This is also over! Well, prepare, let's shoot a few more shots of the lights on later." ”

After finishing speaking, he looked back at Li Qian, who had been standing in the background of the monitor and holding his chin as if he was thinking about something, and said with a smile: "How about the boss?

At this time, He Runqing, who was still on the stage, had already come down and was walking this way, and when he heard this, he smiled and said, "Yes, yes, boss, come and shoot me in the afternoon!"

Li Qian smiled, "Don't make trouble, I'm still in the learning period, study, pure learning!"

Director Jin Han laughed when he heard this, first praised He Runqing a few words, saying that her expressions and movements just now were very good, and then after the sycophant shooting, she turned her head and pretended to direct the crew.

Well, that's right, this is the shooting site of He Runqing's new album MV.

What is being filmed today is the MV of "Applause".

The venue is a small theater rented by Renjia, of course, the actor is He Runqing alone, even the audience shots that need to appear in the audience under the stage, as well as the cut shots of the audience's entrance, the crew has negotiated with the people's theater, and is ready to shoot a section when the theater performs when it turns back.

And director Jin Han was recommended by Yu Bojun, graduated from the Photography Department of Suncheon Film Academy, and is Li Qian's senior brother. After graduation, he carried the camera for three years and had a good reputation in the circle, but his ambition also rose, and he began to tinker with his own movies. By now, he is only in his early thirties, and he has already directed two feature films on his own, and it is said that he has also tinkered with several short films before.

His image style is very delicate, but the story is too literary and artistic, so at the box office, he basically has no achievements, almost making a film. Up to now, no one dares to invest in him anymore, and he is currently running around to do chores for others, Yu Bojun's new film is filming, and he is the scheduled assistant director and director of photography.

Later, Li Qian's studio wanted to shoot a MV for Liao Liao and He Runqing, Li Qian asked Yu Bojun for someone, and Yu Bojun sent him over first, the MV of 20 songs, this job is not big, it is not small, for Jin Han, who basically has no possibility of opening a new drama at present, taking this order, at least he can keep his job first.

Although Li Qian's requirements are very harsh, he requires that each song must come up with a story to shoot, instead of taking some scenery casually like the MVs of those singers in the current domestic music scene, and then stuffing in a little picture of the singer singing can be explained. But to tell the truth, the more this is the case, the more it is for Jin Han's appetite, if you really ask him to shoot that kind of simple thing, he may tell you directly, that job is too difficult, no matter how much money there is, I can't do it, you better go find a TV director!

Therefore, the work is passable, at least it can't be regarded as a loss of work, plus people are poor and short-sighted, and the price given by Li Qian's studio can still satisfy him, so he came over.

When recommending him, Yu Bojun spoke highly of him, and from Liao Liao's MV shooting to He Runqing's MV shooting, Li Qian followed and watched and listened to him along the way, and his evaluation of him was also quite good.

He is very good at grasping details, and the style of the images is as delicate and smooth as his films, with a unique, almost silky smoothness. And this guy deserves to have played a few movies himself. After finding him. Everyone negotiates the requirements and treatment, and the rest is completely ignored, as long as you give money, people will save a small crew for you in minutes, and it will run like a finger - for Li Qian, such a director is really the most suitable introductory mentor.

There are a total of 20 MVs, which were filmed first by Liao Liao. It only took him thirteen days from writing the script to the completion of the shooting, and now, He Runqing's MV has only been filmed for four days, and it is already the sixth song, and he has already completed the MV of Liao Liao's ten songs - although Li Qian has seen many fast gunners in his previous life, he still has to admire, this guy is really fast.

And, when he cuts the film. Li Qian has watched and studied several times in the past, although his editing style is slow in the overall rhythm. But he is full of skills, and almost all the flavors in the script are given - his style may be difficult to become popular in the film market, but it is absolutely overkill to use it to shoot the MV of the song.

The audience bought a ticket to go to the cinema to watch your 90-minute movie, just to watch the story, so, Jin Han is definitely not good, his story is always slowly soaring, wanting to talk and resting, the audience who is a little impetuous can't bear it, either leave early, or yawn when they watch it, but fans buy MV discs and go home to enjoy every frame of the idol's picture, Jin Han's way, for fans, is definitely a very high-level enjoyment!

Cinematic cameras, cinematic directors, cinematic editing, cinematic picture sense- Before Liao Liao and He Runqing's new albums were released, Qi Jie had already come up with a plan for MV shooting, but at that time, Li Qian saw that she was still ready to follow the practice of today's music industry, each person only selected two title songs to shoot, and then packaged them with CDs to sell, so he rejected the plan at that time, and the two sentences he gave at that time, first, ten songs must be filmed, and they are not bundled, and the MV version will be sold separately, and second, everything must reach the level of a movie.

Qi Jie may not know, but Li Qian, who has come over from that period of history, is clear about this matter: the future era is the era of the fan economy through and through.

So, either don't do it, do it if you want to do it, do it more excitingly, and lay a good fan base in advance.

Others bundled two MV set CDs, a set of 15 yuan, 13 yuan, Liao Liao and He Runqing's new album does not have an MV, it is priced at 12 yuan, the price is cheap, and it can make those fans who are used to going back to watch the MV look forward to it first, and then, brush, ten wonderful MVs are taken out, and they can be directly priced at 20 yuan, or even 25 yuan a box.

In other words, in Liao Liao and He Runqing, MV is no longer a means of publicity when the album is released, it is purely independent and has become a separate audio-visual product.

Ordinary fans will definitely be too expensive and reluctant to buy it, but they are not afraid, just those hardcore fans of two people are willing to pay and are willing to buy it back for collection, which is enough to sell hundreds of thousands of sets of it twice.

Then, after the second batch of CDs is shipped, you can reduce the shipment of a single box of CDs, directly bundle the CDs and ten MVs together, plus some song recording tidbits and MV shooting tidbits, and produce a set of so-called "collector's edition" and "hardcover version", which are directly priced at 40 or 50 people to buy...... That's a lot of money.

And in this way, even if the fans' money is earned and the profits of Liao Liao and He Runqing's two albums are squeezed to the extreme, it is enough to make these fans recall many years later, and still clearly remember such a set of MVs and praise them - in Li Qian's view, this is the way to do things well.

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Jin Han was busy directing the crew to make adjustments, so Li Qian squatted in front of the monitor, adjusted the picture back, and then looked at it from the beginning, thinking while watching.

At this time, He Runqing hesitated for a moment and said: "The last time you took the cover and inner pages for me and Liao Liao, I think the shooting is quite good, many fans posted on the Internet, and they all said that your photos are very beautiful, why are you so modest now?"

Li Qian smiled when he heard this, and didn't look back, so he said directly: "Sister, the distance between shooting static and dynamic, the distance between the camera and the camera, that is the distance from the moon to the sun!

He Runqing sneered when he heard this.

Anyway, Li Qian stared intently at the screen of the monitor, so she stared at Li Qian unscrupulously.

After a while, she seemed to suddenly remember, and said, "By the way, I said last time that I would invite you to my house for dinner, when are you free? Can you do it today? I called the nanny at home in advance and asked her to go out and buy the vegetables for me." ”

Li Qianzheng was fascinated, and was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, before he glanced back at her, but quickly returned to the screen, and said nonchalantly: "Don't worry, anyway, you owe me a few meals, go back and find time, I will definitely go and eat these meals back." But forget it today, we have classes in the afternoon, and I still have some personal matters in the evening. ”

He Runqing's heart moved when he heard this, and he took a ridiculous posture and said: "I understand that there is a class in the afternoon, but there is something to do in the evening? I seem to have heard Liao Liao say the day before yesterday, isn't your girlfriend still filming outside? What else can you do at night?"

Hearing her ask about this, Li Qian turned around with a smile, looked at her, and said, "Sister, you've been gossiping a bit lately, and you've been knocking on the side several times! ”

"Oh...... That's it!"

He Runqing smiled slightly embarrassedly, and when he saw Li Qian looking back at the monitor again, a touch of loss flashed on his face.

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Li Qian, the boss of their dormitory, Liu Xueyi, is engaged.

The girl is a year younger than him, she just graduated from high school this year, it is said that she wanted to be admitted to the women's college, but the result was a few points worse, she was not admitted, and she was not ready to repeat her studies, so she was ready to get married.

Liu Xueyi went home during the summer vacation, and the two met a few times, and they looked at each other very pleasantly, so while Liu Xueyi was at home, they were properly engaged, and the wedding date was set at the end of this year.

Li Qian and their dormitory were six people, plus two buddies who usually played well with Liu Xueyi, and then, plus one Sun Yuting, a total of nine people, met after class in the afternoon, so they went out the back door in a group, and came to a stall that everyone often goes, asking for two hundred strings, a beer, and then casually getting seven or eight cold dishes to fight, which is considered to be the beginning.

They are all eighteen or nineteen years old, and they drink beer all about bottle blowing, and the scene is naturally so lively.

Li Qian is not a drinker, from his previous life to this life, he has always been like this, and he rarely drinks it usually, so after everyone raised a glass to congratulate Liu Xueyi, he slowly ate skewers and chatted with everyone.

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