Chapter 498: Screenwriting Precision
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There is no rush to improve his ideas immediately, and the so-called comic performance method is slightly vague in Cao Fangfang's cognition.
It's just a more apt adjective he came up with on the spot.
Maybe...... Closer to nonsensical performance?
Cao Fangfang has always believed that he is a doer, vague correctness is always better than precise mistakes, and what is not completely clear is practiced first.
The famous doer, a fine descendant of the Stark family of Winterfell, Tony Stark once said:
"Sometimes, you have to learn to fly before you can run. ”
After the second scene was ready, Lu Zhen shouted at him from afar: "One side!"
Cao Fang woke up from his contemplation and saw the inquiring eyes of his dead friend, he gave a thumbs up: "I'm OK at any time!"
With the experience of successfully passing the first scene, several other actors, including Shen Yu'an, seem to be in a much easier state.
Cao Fang peeped for a while, and was quite satisfied with their state.
Perhaps, this drama is easily filmed, and the original temperament is more approachable?
They stood in their respective positions, and not far in front of them was a cracked asphalt road, only a short stretch of course, and there were various obstacles wrapped in green cloth, which at a cursory glance were roughly the shape of cars.
After the filming began, several of them had to walk from the scenic area of the subway station to this road, playing with mouth guns while walking, and the atmosphere was relaxed and comfortable.
After the scene was recorded, Cao Fang walked straight to the front of the subway map to look for clues.
There are a variety of game dungeons in Infinityland, and each dungeon generated has a high degree of freedom, and this is the first time that the protagonist enters the team survival mode and fights the level with other players, that is......
The first opportunity to pretend to be forced in front of people in the TV series is in this episode!
Pretending to be forced, the top keyword of YY aesthetics.
"Main quest ......" Shen Yu'an looked at a certain place in the air with blank eyes, and performed to check the status of the task bar: "Search the city, find the devil's gate?
The rest of them also began to think about it.
"The quest keyword is not a door, it's 'demon'. ”
Cao Fang saw no one in his eyes, poked the subway route map in front of him with his finger, and when several other people were attracted, his fingers followed the subway line on the route map.
The camera follows his fingers.
Then stop.
He stretched out his hands and framed a rectangle, pressing it against the circuit map, revealing a central area: "Five orbits interlaced to form a standard geometric figure, a pentagram." ”
"Uh...... So?" the male dragon showed a puzzled expression.
"An introduction to occult magic circles, the circular magic circle is used to protect the magician himself, and the pentagram is used to seal demons. Cao Fang didn't pause much, according to his understanding of this role, the arrogant Feng Bujue usually habitually put on a 'my painting style is above you', domineering body language.
Yes, this character's expression management is very easy, and there are only two kinds of normalcy.
Dead faces.
Dead fish eyes.
So this has to rely on body language and a lot of pretending lines to help acting and create a strong reasoning genius temperament.
When he was adapting the script, he noticed a lot of similar details.
For example, "The quest keyword is not a door, it's 'demon'." This line.
The original writes: The quest is used to remind us that the key word is not a door, but a demon.
For screenwriters, it is first necessary to understand the different carriers and what are the detailed directions of adaptation.
Why do you have to drag a sentence in English?
Because of such geniuses, Feng Bujue's instinctive sense of intellectual superiority is deeply rooted in the bone marrow, so when they speak, they sometimes have a bad problem like obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Rhyme, or artistic, funny talk all the normal colloquialisms, or the spit of the needle.
The door rhymes with demon, just for such a reason, it can prompt such a character to turn a corner and trouble his genius brain.
This is the ultimate detail of character building, which the audience generally doesn't realize, but you do it, which increases the texture of the character and adds the fineness and amount of information to the lines.
A scene, a line, the audience may not be aware.
But a drama, every episode, is demanding to the extreme, and a strong sense of forcing the king can make them a fool.
Due to the timeliness of online texts (high-intensity code word irrigation every day), no matter how good the author is, it is impossible to have too high precision, which is where the screenwriter of secondary creation is very worthy of improvement, and it is also the key point for Cao Yifang to strengthen the cooperation between screenwriters and authors when adapting IP.
For example, this is like the fine processing required by a Japanese cartoonist to finish drawing a manuscript and make it into an anime.
2D cartoons can't be lazy, each key action is called the original painting, which needs to be completed with the help of an experienced old mage, and there are more excessive actions, which are completed with the help of a not-so-awesome original artist.
The vast majority of animations are played with 24 frames per second, and the traditional 2D animation requires the original artist to draw manually, if the 24 frames per second are full, then you have to draw 24 hand-drawn pictures, 24 pictures per second, 240 pictures in 10 seconds, this workload is huge.
Of course, they cut down the cost and put 2-3 frames on 1 picture, and only need to draw 8 or 12 pictures.
But such a huge workload is still testing back and forth in the sudden death range.
How difficult is it when combining screenwriting and online text IP, and what is the difficulty? Cao Yifang summed up some rules in the adaptation of the two scripts of Immortal Sin and Infinite Paradise.
If the author of the online article is a cartoonist, the screenwriter is the original artist of the animation reproduction, and he needs to use his professional skills and great perseverance to polish and smooth the rough original.
Squeeze out the water, rationalize the plot, plump up the characters, and transform the text language into the picture language.
It's easy to say, but you really have to do it well, and it's very difficult.
In the past, those IP dramas were lazy, not only other productions, but even the scripts at the core of the content were lazy.
Or animation for example, in order to save money and be lazy, domestic production of 3D animation, at the risk of falling into the "uncanny valley effect", is to make it convenient and save money.
As long as the 3D animation is modeled, the key frames and transition frames in the middle can be completed by the computer...... Who would be stupid enough to draw so many drafts.
And you can use it all the time, that is, the longer the cartoon is made, the more costs you will save.
But...... All laziness comes at a price.
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In the process of performing, Cao Yifang also constantly found some subtle problems in his script, but fortunately, they were not serious.
But the performance seems to be a bit of a problem.
Not only himself, but others are obviously more problematic.
This scene is okay to pretend to force the plot, he relied on his line skills to crackle and shake it off, in short, he reasoned unconsciously, Cao Yifang unconsciously brought in the Juan Fu in the American drama Detective Sherlock during the performance, and the effect was not bad.
He suspects that the original author also borrowed a lot from Sherlock Holmes when he created the character of Feng Bujue.
But in the next game, the problem is obvious.
According to the script, they heard many mysterious movements in the dark, mysterious whispers, distant and vague women's laughter, and small movements similar to animal crawling, intertwined into a terrifying atmosphere that gave people great psychological pressure.
"Having said all this, I just want to relieve the oppressive atmosphere. ”
Cao Fangfang's footsteps stopped and looked straight ahead: "Something is coming." ”
The rest of the people also stopped and looked around.
At this moment, an adult male actor playing a monster wrapped in a green leotard climbed onto the model car with his hands and feet, and looked at them with fierce eyes.
Seriously, Cao Fang wanted to laugh.
Because the special effects will be replaced with horror monsters in the later stage, these actors can only wear green tights, which is completely understandable.
But their image is so funny.
The whole person is green, and his hair is completely wrapped in a green hood, only revealing the face of an adult man, and looking at them fiercely.
Marvel actors also often face this problem, and sometimes it's really embarrassing and unbearable.
"Poof. The girl couldn't help but laugh.
Cao Fang breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that the scene was over, and immediately director Lu Jingzhen had already shouted to stop.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, my fault, I just couldn't hold back!" she apologized reproachfully.
Cao Fang waved his hand: "It's okay, you have to overcome the embarrassment when filming this kind of scene, I actually endured it just now." ”
Lu Jingzhen walked over, "The previous ones can be used, let's start this paragraph from here." ”
"Okay, let's tweak it a bit. Cao Fang said.
The second time, no one laughed anymore, and everyone behaved professionally.
But with the filming of this monster encounter, Cao Fang was fully aware that there was something wrong with the way they acted.
Lu Jingzhen was getting up to call it a day and go to have supper, when Cao Fang suddenly walked over and grabbed him: "This scene will be filmed again tomorrow." ”
Lu was stunned and said, "What's the matter, isn't it good?"
Cao Fang was so angry that he punched him: "I thought you could see the problem, but you didn't let go of a fart!"
Lu Jingzhen didn't understand, and thought it was Cao Fang's obsessive-compulsive disorder attack, so he frowned and persuaded: "It's good...... Hey, either you are a newcomer, or you are a supporting role and trick who has never learned acting professionally, you can't be too demanding, otherwise according to your standards, we will not be able to finish filming this drama in our lifetime, and we have to combine the actual situation. ”
Cao Fangfang wanted to smack him in the face at that time, but he couldn't help it, and asked, "What do you think is good?"
Lu was stunned: "It's quite happy, and the actions are all in place." ”
Cao Fang felt that this was a mistake that could not be understood, but Lu Jingzhen, as the director, didn't feel that there was anything wrong at all, and stepped forward with a hideous face and clasped his shoulder, shaking it vigorously, "This is the problem!!"