English songs?

"Why did you suddenly think of singing?" Liu Pian said in surprise, "Do you still want English songs?"

"I still have problems speaking English!How do I enter the European and American music scene?" Xiao Min muttered, "It's just a performance in the department, I signed up." ”

"Performance?"

"There's a small singer competition in the school. Xiao Min said, "The notice has only been issued in the past few days. ”

"Oh. Liu Pian nodded, there was a campus film festival later, and now there is a campus singer competition?

Seeing that Liu Pian was silent in thought, Xiao Min asked in a low voice, "What's the matter, don't you want me to participate?"

"No, I'm just trying to write you something. Liu Pian raised her head, "The competition rules require original songs?"

"Not really. Xiao Min shook his head, "It's okay to be original and other people's songs." ”

"That's right. Liu Pian nodded thoughtfully, "When will it start, is it too late for me to start making it now?"

"It's not in a hurry, the race only starts at the end of September. Xiao Min said, "And there are several rounds of the competition, the first few rounds, I can sing other people's songs, and then use your songs later." If you don't even pass the first few rounds, even if there is your song in the back, I don't think the result will be much better. ”

"That's fine. Liu Pian nodded, "Give me some time, and I'll write you a good English song." ”

Xiao Min smiled, "I believe in you." ”

Xiao Min is convinced of Liu Pian's creative ability. It's not that I haven't seen Liu Pian write English songs before, and they are all pretty good.

In the evening, the two returned to the apartment, lingered for half a night, and released the physical entanglement of the generalist during this time, and then fell asleep.

.......

The next day, Liu Pian found Zhou Mulan and followed her to a small film and television studio. According to her, this is her private studio, and it has just been established, and although it is fully equipped, it is not well staffed.

The purpose is of course self-evident: to fulfill her dream of directing.

Liu Pian is now her dreamer.

"Liu Pian, I'll leave it to you for the time being!" Zhou Mulan smiled, "Do you want me to call a few more people to come over to help?"

"That's not necessary, I can do it alone. Liu Pian waved his hand.

The movie "Blair the Witch" is so simple, and the biggest workload in the later stage is just editing.

"What about me?" Zhou Mulan said hurriedly, "You can't let me dare anything, right?"

When filming before, she felt that she really didn't play much of a role, saying that she was the chief director, but most of the filming work was done under the guidance of Liu Pian.

It didn't give her a sense of accomplishment.

Seeing Zhou Mulan's eager appearance, Liu Pian smiled, "Then you can help me screen the materials, let's edit together?"

"Okay!" Zhou Mulan smiled, "I just want to do something, otherwise it's too useless, I'm embarrassed to say that I made this movie." ”

Without further ado, the two of them got ready and got to work.

In the footage filmed, the timeline is chaotic, and Liu Pian needs to put these chaotic clips together into a complete movie. There are also clips of interviews with villagers, which also need to be selected.

When many villagers were interviewed, they said too many useless things, and they could neither lay the groundwork nor reveal the witch, and this kind of willow will pass through.

......

In the following period, in addition to studying time, Liu Pian put most of her energy on the post-production of the film, and helped Xiao Min make songs by the way.

The Conservatory of Music has all the equipment and instruments that Liu Pian needs, as well as a special recording studio, which completely makes up for all of Liu Pian's needs.

Liu Pian didn't plan to write too many songs, and there was no time to come. He only wrote two English songs for Xiao Min and asked her to take them to the competition.

End of September.

Xiao Min participated in the competition and successfully passed the preliminaries. Although the competition is open to the whole school, the advantage of the Conservatory is too great, and the students are all good musicians, and the students who sign up for the competition are the best.

In each competition, the champion is the Hualuo Conservatory of Music.

At the same time, Liu Pian was also speeding up the editing progress here, until October 8, when the Chinese National Day had just ended, and the film was finally completed.

Because it is a pseudo-documentary, without any special effects and rendering, it looks like a shoddy movie.

After watching the whole film, Zhou Mulan couldn't help but wonder if this movie could really get the box office?

No, is it possible to recoup the cost?

Someone willing to pay for such a movie?

After the production was completed, the next day, Zhou Mulan took the film to the world to persuade those guys who saw the money, including his father: Zhou Hao. English name: Caspar Zhou!

Originally, Zhou Hao, as a shareholder, usually didn't pay attention to such trivial things at all. A movie with an investment of only half a million US dollars can't get into his eyes at all. And this was taken by her daughter.

How capable Zhou Mulan is, he couldn't be clearer as a father. But it was because he knew too much that he wanted to see what Zhou Mulan could shoot.

At this moment, in a small screening room around the world, Zhou Hao saw his daughter's nervous appearance and said with a smile: "Don't worry, they don't dare to say bad things about you." ”

"I'm not worried about this...," Zhou Mulan muttered, "I'm just worried that if my movie is too bad, will they laugh at you." ”

"They dare?!" Zhou Hao raised his eyebrows, "No matter how you say it, it's also your movie, no matter how bad it is, they don't dare to say a word." ”

"It's hard to say, even you don't think well of me. ”

Zhou Hao was helpless, "It's not that I'm not optimistic, think about it yourself, a month, including filming and post-production, it only took you a month to make a movie! The time is too short, this is like making up homework in middle school before, how good can it be to rush out?"

"Hmph! It's different! This movie doesn't have to take that much time!"

Zhou Hao shrugged, "Just look at it." ”

One after another, there were more and more people in the screening room, these are all employees of Universal, including directors and distribution managers with good vision. Every year, these distributors get some good movies from American studios, large and small, and more often they have the foresight to invest in familiar studios and make movies together.

Universal has a huge distribution channel around the world, and distributing movies is their main source of income rather than making films.

When everyone arrived, the crew began to prepare for the screening of "Blair the Witch".

While people waited, the three and so discussed the small production film.

"I heard that this was taken by the little girl of the Zhou family?"

"That's right, a kid who loves movies has just started college. USC Film School is a good place to be, and she should be exercising there for a few more years instead of rushing to make a bad movie now. ”

"A month is indeed too short, even if it is a small production, it is too shoddy. ”

"I heard that the film is still going to be released vigorously, and the plan has been drafted, but I don't understand why. We're spending millions of dollars to promote a movie that costs only half a million? It's crazy. ”

"If it brings enough returns, I don't refuse, I'm just worried that the money is being spent. With so much money, if the box office is very bad in the end, the cost will not be recovered. ”

"Let's see, maybe Ariel can surprise us?"

The movie starts playing.

Because it's not a release version, there's not even an opening, just a flashing title: "Blair the Witch", and the end is also blank, and there is no list of production credits. As for the director, actors, etc., these are even more impossible to label.

If you want to make it real, of course you can't mark these out, so that the audience can see at a glance that this is acting?

The film begins, accompanied by blurry shaky shots, and Charlene appears in front of the camera.

"I'm already shooting. ”

"Good. ”

"It's a bit vague .. I'll tweak it."

"Are you alright?"

"Alright, let's get started. ”

Shalene nodded and spread her arms, "This is my home, this weekend, I'm going to put down the warmth of this place and go to find the witch Blair!"

With the frolic sounds of the trio, the movie officially enters the theme.

However, everyone at the scene looked inexplicable, this expression...

"Documentary?" someone wondered.

"It's supposed to be a pseudo-documentary, oh, it's actually the subject. I hate this kind of movie, the camera is too shaky and it's uncomfortable to watch. ”

"This is a pseudo-documentary about witches?"

Everyone expressed their surprise that they spent so much money just to promote such a pseudo-documentary?

With doubts, everyone endures the discomfort of the camera shaking and follows the three protagonists to the town.

In interviews with villagers, the three leading actors learn about all kinds of weird legends about witches, mysterious stone mounds, vanishing children, cruel and bloody coffin rocks, cursed straw men, horror huts....

Everyone's curiosity was also piqued.

It's quite interesting to shoot horror films with pseudo-documentaries. But doesn't that look scary?

Subsequently, the trio entered the forest.

Because it is the first point of view, the sense of substitution of everyone is relatively strong. As the protagonist continues to go deeper, strange things keep happening...

After they found seven stone mounds, they heard all kinds of strange sounds in the tent that night, such as baby crying and screaming, and the next day they came together to find three neat stone mounds outside the tent.

Seeing this, some people began to get nervous.

Is this, really ran into a witch?

As soon as Shi Ji appeared, the three of them got lost in the forest, couldn't get out, and no matter how they walked, they would eventually return to the same place. This infinite cycle of reincarnation collapses the three protagonists and panics the crowd watching the movie.

Everyone realizes that it is definitely a witch who is doing it.

Later, when the three of them slept at night, there were more and more strange sounds, and the tent would shake inexplicably. But when they went out to look, they found nothing.

At noon that day, they found three straw men hanging from trees, and then Cliffor disappeared. He just went to relieve his hand, and then he stopped moving amid the screams and struggles. No shot of Cliffor is given in the camera, but the screams of fear confirm that he must have suffered a misfortune.

Later, this was also evidenced by a mass of fragments of clothing wrapped in twigs. The clothes were Cliffor's, and in them were bloodstains and broken entrails.

The rest of Jesse and Charlene fall into a meltdown.

The image of Shalene crying in front of the camera makes everyone empathize, and those confessions that are like last words all reveal how desperate this woman who has collapsed is.

They plan to look for Cliffor, but unknowingly come to a dilapidated hut.

The walls of the house are covered with children's handprints and footprints, and there are strange characters on the door. Jesse is still looking around for Cliffor, but Shalene is even more desperate when she sees all this.

Suddenly, Jesse was silent.

Charlene went to Jesse with a shaky camera, only to see Jesse standing motionless in the corner of the room, head down, facing the wall, with his back to him.

No matter how much she shouted, Jesse didn't respond.

Suddenly, with a scream from Sharin, the camera fell to the ground. The footage is empty, Jesse is gone, and Sharin's voice is gone, save for the subtle rustle of the camera moving.

Then, the screen goes black and the movie ends.

The audience at the scene fell silent, with a trace of unspeakable fear in their eyes.....