……

Complaining doesn't solve the problem, at best it just diverts anxiety.

Lao Tian is very Buddhist, and he casually enlightened a few words, and he didn't expect to be effective, so he soon became impatient and urged Cao Fang to hand in his homework.

Cao Fangfang's homework was originally a short script, and the old man said that he could write whatever subject he liked, and he didn't have to completely follow the strict script format, first write according to the penmanship, and then he would find out the problem and focus on solving the problem.

In terms of the basic skills of the script, Tian Anbang has already given a lot of guidance to the pretender crew, and he can digest the rest by himself.

Next is the promotion course, precision strike.

So Tian Anbang lowered his head and quietly flipped through the manuscript printed out by Cao Fangfang, first reading ten lines at a glance, and then pondering carefully.

The old man was very quiet when he read, and he didn't breathe at all, and the ADHD children on the side were still chattering and self-desolating.

Cao Yifang paced back and forth in the narrow corridor, trophies tossed around, his left hand poured into his right, and he muttered in a low voice:

"No, this mentality is not right, you can't care too much about other people's opinions. ”

"Just don't look at it, don't care about other people's evaluations, the more popular you are, the more negative information you have, you understand the truth, it's inevitable, don't be affected by your state......"

"Isn't it nice not to look at it at all?"

"I always need feedback from the outside world, otherwise my judgment will always be biased behind closed doors. ”

"Pain sobers up. ”

"Anxiety makes me grow. ”

"This is the way to go, accept it, don't run away from it. ”

But Cui Guanhai seems to say that she doesn't dare to read public opinion evaluations often...... I'm afraid of affecting my working status......"

The sound of footsteps came from behind, and seemed to be slow but fast.

Cao Fang turned around.

Bang!

The old man held the paper into a roll and slapped him in the face!

"Babbling mantras?!Come here!"

Just as a person with hiccups can recover from being frightened, Cao Fang was taken aback, and his spirit suddenly improved a lot, "Uh...... Have you finished reading it?"

"Hmm. The old man breathed out of his nostrils, and seemed to be unhappy.

When Tian Anbang was teaching and educating people in a serious way, his appearance was still very serious, which reminded Cao Fangfang of the fear of being dominated by the middle school homeroom teacher.

He sat quietly on the side, and Tian Anbang began to point out some of his mistakes.

This article was produced by Cao Fangfang before and after dinner, imitating the plot rhythm of American dramas, writing about a young domestic professor who came into contact with the supernatural world, and then used scientific thinking methodology, the fearless spirit of science and engineering men, and the chemical reaction caused by friction with the ghost field.

Draw on the atmosphere of American dramas such as Constantine, Evil Forces, etc.

Tian Anbang asked: "Do you like fantasy storytelling?"

Cao Fang nodded: "Yes...... To be precise, magic, fantasy, sci-fi, fantasy, I like them all. ”

Tian Anbang said coldly: "Childish ......"

Cao Fang was not angry: "You said that I would write whatever I liked!"

"If I don't talk about that, I'll just talk about the problem with your story itself. ”

Tian Anbang Zhengse said: "You want to learn the rhythm of American dramas, but you are affected by online literature, resulting in a loose structure and slow rhythm. ”

"The beginning of the story is very important, the beginning of the magic drama of the American drama must be to cut to the point, open the suspense, you barely pass the test, you use a dialogue to start, the protagonist hears an urban weird talk, and then uses his own careful logic to refute, and tries to verify, not only causes suspense, but also shapes the protagonist's arrogant and conceited character characteristics, readers will imagine, expect him to be corrected by the unknown world. ”

"But the rhythm is not right, the protagonist has a tattoo on his body after trying the Mayan spell, and then he goes to the bar to pick up a girl for a one-night stand? ”

Cao Fang explained embarrassedly: "Well, the protagonist is set to be a scumbag in the early stage, and this plot is just to highlight the character design." ”

Tian Anbang said: "After you caused a huge suspense, you spent so much pen and ink to write a useless event, just to highlight the character traits of the protagonist?

The old man framed the whole plot with a red pen, "If this plot is made into a TV series, it will take up at least twenty minutes, but it has nothing to do with the main line, if this is really an American drama script, you won't have a chance to explain it to the TV station, and the producer will kill you directly!"

"The so-called tight plot is to condense as much information as possible in a limited time. ”

"It's okay for the protagonist to have sex with a woman, but at this stage, all behaviors must not deviate from the main line, otherwise it will be a pure meat plot...... You can set up this woman to be a medium, or even a ghost, but not a completely unrelated outsider!"

"You have to remember that film and television dramas are not long, you can't draw too much ink to outline the image of the protagonist with useless plots, and the same goes for supporting roles, you have to use the story plot to create characters, the behavior of the characters in the story is enough, a plot of the same length, only in this way can you achieve a high density of information. ”

Cao Fang nodded again and again.

To put it bluntly, there were originally two grasshoppers strung on one rope, but now you just need to try to strung as many grasshoppers as possible on one rope.

Somehow, he was distracted by a series of dark dishes on the barbecue stand.

"When American screenwriters weave storylines, they focus on plot appeal, and fantasy stories will even give up a lot of logic, resulting in loopholes...... This is the price that must be paid, and they are particularly aware of it. ”

While listening, Cao Fang thought in combination with the real situation.

Domestic film and television dramas actually do not follow the guidelines of American screenwriters, they not only do not condense the amount of information, but dilute the amount of information, after all, an ordinary story has to shoot dozens of episodes.

Get water.

Immediately diverged thinking, thinking that the strict upgrade system of online texts can actually solve this problem, even if the demand for episodes is great, using the upgrade system to connect a small story can also successfully complete the task of making up the number of episodes.

This reminded him of the super long boy manga of Japanese benzene.

These different carriers all work in common.

Wait a minute...... Why did I start researching how to collect water......

Cao Fang suddenly came to his senses again.

It's study time!

Miao Yingsong talked about the shortcomings he didn't learn from the common advantages of Cao Fangfang's writing and American dramas, and then began to say that he made the same mistakes as American dramas......

Such as.

Lack of a full outline.

"You wrote three stories here, borrowing the template of some urban weird stories, but the main line is vague, and at first glance it was written improvised to fool me, and you don't have an outline at all. ”

Tian Anbang hit the nail on the head and pointed out Cao Fang's laziness, "This is also one of the biggest shortcomings of American dramas." ”

He said solemnly: "As far as I know, American dramas are much rougher than movies, and their screenwriters usually have a rough idea, and then give a verbal explanation to the producer and the film and television company, interested in reworking the idea. ”

"If you don't have a complete story outline in advance, you can write while shooting, so that you can cancel the cost, and if the ratings are not good, you will cut it, and the loss is not big...... Therefore, usually American screenwriters do not go to great lengths to write the outline first, which leads to a rapid decline in the quality of American dramas after a few seasons. ”

Cao Yifang added: "This is the so-called digging a pit without burying ......" He complained indignantly: "Evil capitalism, everything is only like interests, completely ignoring the feelings of the audience." ”

"Hold back the!"

Tian Anbang was dissatisfied: "You have too many problems now, and the screenwriters have their own strengths, but what about you, the flying squirrel five abilities are all excellent, saying that you are not rigorous enough, the atmosphere is average, and the character creation ......is not enough."

Cao Fang was depressed: "Don't I have any advantages?"

Tian Anbang thought for a moment and decided to give a little encouragement: "It's okay to have character dialogues, and there are no written problems with the dialogue." ”

This advantage that has been understated is actually Cao Fangfang's greatest ability in terms of screenwriting in addition to copying and changing the works of his previous life.

In any case, in fact, most creators are relatively lifeless people.

Otaku are the majority.

Even the best screenwriters in China, the stories they create will always have intricacies such as unclear characters and written dialogues.

There is no way, a person is just a person after all, and what he knows and learns is limited to his cognitive environment.

usually doesn't like to talk, and it is difficult for the characters in his pen to have vivid dialogue...... Putting aside the detailed descriptions and superfluous tone particles and mantras, looking at the dialogues of many screenwriters' characters, it is easy to find that this is almost a person's tone.

And the way of speaking is not at all in line with reality, and it is quite in the style of a stage play.

In addition to having decades of life experience than his peers, Cao Yifang is also an actor himself, and has pondered the deep structure of countless characters, and when he turns them into characters, the degree of freshness is indeed higher than that of other screenwriters.

"Give you a homework, you train first, make up for your shortcomings. Tian Anbang said tiredly at the end.

Cao Fangfang asked, "What shortcomings?"

The old man said two words, loudly: "Outline." ”

……

Recently, he may not have time to complete the homework assigned by Tian Anbang.

Back in Jianghai City, Cao Fangfang had to quickly find the studio's first project.

Coincidentally, Singularity Group has a vice president.

Li Yiming, the vice president in charge of copyright marketing, brought full sincerity and a bunch of online IP recommendations.

Cao rented an unused conference room in the office building, convened the core creative team, and held a roundtable meeting.

"I took a general look at the white tea after it was screened. ”

Cao Fang took out a few crumpled sheets of A4 paper from the folder, looking as if he had picked them up from the wastebasket.

He frowned and looked at the dense small words on it: "I can't have time to read them all, so I screened it, let's set a direction first, and then whether to continue to shoot Xianxia, or fantasy, or a relatively fresher game theme in the film and television industry." ”

He leaned back tactically and said with a big grin: "Everyone, please speak." ”

There were only seven people in the venue, in addition to Cao Yifang, there were also Lu Jingzhen, who had left his old club at the moment and was ready to be attached to his studio, Bai Di, the general manager of the studio, Miao Yingsong and Lin Yin, the co-producers Miao Yingsong and Lin Yin, the only screenwriter under him, Hao Yunlai, and Li Yiming, vice president of Singularity Group.