Yu Jing is a graduate of CAFA and majored in painting.

She has no problem with the professional foundation of animation.

Another advantage is the production of animated films for "Kung Fu Panda" and "The Legend of Wukong" in the past two years.

Because Yu Jing often stays with Peng Yichen, she has been in contact with the production and shooting of animated films.

Therefore, the director of animated films is the most suitable job for Jing in Peng Yichen's mind, and he also sees that Jing himself likes this work very much.

This is the main reason why he forcibly pushed Yu Jing to the position of director of "The Great Protector" that day.

In addition, although the work of the director of an animated film is also very busy, because of the long production cycle of animated films, the production locations are relatively concentrated.

Therefore, the director of an animated film often does not need to be the same as a live-action director, running around and running outside all day long.

This allows Yu Jing to spare more time in the future to take care of Mengmeng and the company's affairs.

This is also Yu Jing's own will.

It's just that this time, Peng Yichen suddenly drove away Mark Osborne, and then let Yu Jing serve as the director, which made Yu Jing feel too sudden and couldn't accept it for the time being.

But she has never shirked, so Peng Yichen is sure that she will do her best to do a good job in the movie "The Great Protector".

What's more, isn't the producer of this movie Peng Yichen, even if Yu Jing can't stand it, isn't there still him behind him? !

Thinking of this, Peng Yichen smiled indifferently at Robinov: "I can't agree that Mark Osborne ruined the Great Protector, his concept is too old, and he doesn't understand Asian and Chinese culture at all, so it is a very correct choice to dismiss him, that's all." ”

Robinov understood Peng Yichen's temper, and he no longer persuaded him, but asked with some doubts: "Are you going to let Yu Jing take over "The Great Protector" immediately? "Three Billboards" has been prepared, and filming will officially start the day after tomorrow. Does Yu Jing still have time to take care of the matter of "The Great Protector"?"

"This is not a conflict, Yu Jing can complete the character design and animation background design of "The Great Protector" in the crew of "Three Billboards", and the art team of this film will stay in Los Angeles to complete the design of Yu Jing's character and animation background, and make other preparations. Peng Yichen laughed.

It's the information age, and teams don't necessarily have to stay together.

With video calls, e-mails, and instant messaging software, you can collaborate and communicate at work.

And Yu Jing and Peng Yichen stayed together, which also helped her to understand the core and spirit of the movie "The Great Protector" more deeply.

Robinov thought about it, nodded, and said with a smile: "Okay, the people of the "Great Protector" team, I will help you take care of it, you and Yu Jing can rest assured to shoot "Three Billboards". I made a bet with you, if this movie doesn't let Yu Jing win the Oscar, you can lose to me a Marbury villa!"

Peng Yichen smiled and nodded, "You just wait, the final result must be that you buy me a summer house in New Zealand!"

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The next morning, the sun was shining and cloudless in Los Angeles.

The Kodak Theater in Los Angeles, the royal theater of the Oscars, is holding the comeback press conference of Peng Yichen and Yu Jing at this time, as well as the launch press conference of "Three Billboards".

More than 200 media from around the world attended the event.

There were more media interviews than at the Golden Globe Awards ceremony just past.

Peng Yichen and Yu Jing did not answer media reporters, about the things they have done during the past 1 year of filming, those are their privacy, and they are not ready to share them with the public.

Everything the two answered was about the filming of "Three Billboards".

The press conference lasted only one hour and was all over.

For a while, fans all over the world were rejoicing, and they could finally see Peng Yichen's works in the cinema again.

Even though "Three Billboards" is a literary drama film, none of the literary drama films shot by Peng Yichen are obscure or ugly.

This makes the audience have great expectations and recognition for Peng Yichen's films, whether commercial films or literary films.

Three days later, on February 21, 2013.

The preparatory work before the filming of "Three Billboards" was finally completed.

Peng Yichen took Yu Jing and all the film crew members to Nahant, a small town outside Boston.

This was the filming location chosen by Peng Yichen himself, but in the preliminary preparation stage, the town's government once rejected the filming application of Chen Jing Film Company.

There are a lot of small-town residents who don't want the crew of "Three Billboards" to disturb them.

With Spielberg's help, the crew finally succeeded in convincing the government and residents of the small town of Nahant outside Boston to allow the crew to film in the town, on closed streets, or in residential areas for filming.

To this end, more than 7,000 residents of the town also held a special voting meeting.

In the end, Peng Yichen's fame helped the crew.

As a result of the vote of the residents of the town, with 3,734 votes, just over 50% of the votes, the company passed the resolution to let "Three Billboards" enter the town for filming.

The town's inhabitants depend almost exclusively on shipping and trade for their livelihoods, so they don't care too much about whether Peng Yichen's filming here will bring them a lot of tourists and income.

The residents of the town care more about their peaceful life and not being broken by outsiders.

This town, which is only 1 square mile, is like a flat boat tied to the ocean by a "rope" on land.

To the west of the town, there is only a narrow strip less than two kilometers wide, which is connected to the North American continent, and the whole town is almost separated from the mainland.

Despite the fact that it's only half an hour's drive from Boston, it still feels isolated.

It has beautiful beaches, inhospitable land, and old residential areas with even numerous remnants of World War II and the Cold War.

It is very in line with the requirements of Peng Yichen's mind to shoot "Three Billboards".

Of course, although the townspeople have already agreed to let them go on the shoot.

But there are still many restrictions on them.

For example, there are strict regulations on the blocking time of the streets of the town, the area where the shooting is carried out in the residential area of the town, and the garbage generated by filming in the town.

If the crew violates any of the rules, they have to leave here.

Of course, Peng Yichen's crew will naturally not be so boring to destroy the lives of the town's residents.

On the contrary, Peng Yichen hopes to be able to shoot some of the most natural and simple living conditions of the town's residents and put them into the movie "Three Billboards".

Of course, after arriving in the town, the crew could not start filming immediately.

In "Three Billboards", many special sets and props need to be prepared on the spot in the town, such as the three huge billboards, which need to be made in Boston, and then transported to the edge of the town, on the side of the road to Boston, and planted in the ground one by one.

It can be said that in order to meet Peng Yichen's requirements, the prop masters and set designers in the crew must rearrange every scene that needs to be filmed in the town in the most in-depth and meticulous way.

The entire behind-the-scenes art team did their best and spent a full 5 days to create the desolate, tough, but humane town that Peng Yichen wanted.

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