According to the general template, Li Xiang, the reborn, is not qualified. He did not invest in the hot companies or stocks of the future, nor did he take advantage of other people's paths with foresight, leaving others with no way out. He just copied and pasted his favorite movies or TV series, more because he really likes the job of director, to be precise, he enjoys the pleasure of being a director.

And as a director from the rich second generation, he has an advantage that other directors from the grassroots do not have, that is, he doesn't need to worry about funds. Cinema is one of the most expensive of all art categories. So if you want to be a film director, first of all, you have to have money or someone to help you find money, or someone who is willing to invest in you when you mention your name, otherwise everything is empty talk. Even in the next 18 years, the barrier to entry will be much lower, and the cost of making a movie will still be high, even if your camera is just a smartphone.

Li Xiang has his back to Wanda, and he has the advantage of being reborn, as long as he is not too stupid, it is almost impossible to encounter any obstacles on the road to directing. What's more, he now has a close relationship with the two major distributors of optical fiber and Lionsgate, and he accounts for production, distribution, and theaters, which can be said to have opened up all the upstream and downstream industries of the film, of course, in the future, he may also need to expand the publicity platform and film peripherals, but that is not something he is willing to worry about.

Money is a thing, what is spent is his own, what is not spent is just a piece of paper or a string of numbers, which may also be the impact of Li Xiang's superior family conditions in his life, but he doesn't feel anything bad, he prefers others to call him a director, rather than this general manager. So when he touched the familiar camera again after nearly a year, he actually felt the joy of reuniting with his beloved after a long absence. So Li Xiang decided, you can invest in whichever you want to invest, Lao Tzu just needs to be a good director.

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The crew followed the local customs, and also followed the old HK set, and made a start-up worship ceremony. Li Xiang didn't want to brush off everyone's good intentions, so he agreed. After a few hours of busy chattering, the first scene of "Genius Gunman" is about to officially start filming.

Li Xiang wanted to shoot Xiao Lin for the first shot to tell the reason why he was reluctant to come to this school to study, which is also a sign that Xiao Lin, a school bully, can stand up, Xiao Lin has a lot of lines to say, which is not a small pressure. Li Xiang walked to Xiaoxiao's side, touched her hair, and said softly: "Don't be nervous, just play like you did when you held a script workshop before." ”

"Well, Brother Xiao Xiang, I'm not nervous!" but the hands on his sides were already pinched white.

"Bump... Cheer up!" Li Xiang flicked lightly on the door of his little brain.

"It hurts! Xiao Xiao rubbed his head and slowly walked to the seat, don't you say that after Li Xiang's brain jump, Xiao Xiao's nervous mood has been relieved a lot.

"Genius Gunner's first shot, first shot!action!" The scene was played, and the shooting officially began.

"Can I not answer yet? It's not that I don't want to come, I just think that the old school is more suitable for me. If I come here to study, my dad will have to pay about 30,000 yuan a year. Yes, yes, it's just that my dad taught at his old school, and I went to school with him in the morning. If I came here to study, I had to take the subway and motorcycle every day, which cost a total of 16 yuan. 8 months after deducting the statutory holidays, which is equivalent to 170 days, a total of 2,720 yuan a year, as well as lunch fees, the original school lunch meat and vegetarian food totaled 4 yuan, but here it costs 7 yuan. There are other miscellaneous expenses, like school uniforms and stationery, so I don't think it's worth it to come here to study. ”

"Cut! This is over!" I have to say that the little play is beyond Li Xiang's imagination, this large section of lines is calm and restrained, Xiaoxiao also deliberately tanned a little for this role, and the appearance of the female student bully is decent.

In the second scene, the father played by Mr. Li Liqun introduces his daughter to the headmistress, although his tone is very calm, but there is a thick pride in his voice, which can be clearly felt. When Xiao Lin finished analyzing the reason, Teacher Li's expression was full of embarrassment and polite smile, and at the same time, she said to the principal with a hint of pride: "This is the champion of the mathematics competition." ”

Mr. Li's performance is smooth and full of life, he is really a good actor! Li Xiang sighed secretly. Although Mr. Li is not very picky, he is willing to perform regardless of whether the script is good or bad, and is even nicknamed "the king of bad plays". But it's still the same sentence, there are only bad scripts, no bad actors, even if it's a bad scene, you can't find fault with Mr. Li's acting skills.

Perhaps it is in response to the saying that a good start is half the battle. The crew's run-in period was very short, and they quickly entered the state, which led to the unusually smooth shooting of the scenes on the first day, and occasionally NG once or twice quickly adjusted the state, and the reshoot was basically for a little more edited material. At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the filming of the first day of the plan was completed, and the speed was a bit beyond Li Xiang's imagination.

The advancement of technology has really changed people's lives, and this is also vividly reflected in film shooting. Before the advent of digital cameras, filming was extremely cumbersome, but at the same time it was full of solemn rituals. The cost of the film itself is very high, and at the same time, it can be damaged in various links such as replacement, transportation, transcoding, etc., which requires the crew to reduce the error rate to a very low level, but even then the film can be broken, because you don't know what the film will look like after it is finally developed.

Most filmmakers in the film period were more dedicated to their work than you can imagine. But not everyone can always maintain that hard work, so the development of the world is ultimately driven by lazy people. Because I was too lazy to walk, I invented the bicycle, because I was too lazy to ride, I invented the car, and because I was too lazy to drive to great places, I invented the airplane. While technological progress has brought convenience to people, have people become lazier?

When the advent of digital cameras, basically everything in the image is under control. Photographers and gaffers can clearly see the final effect of light and shadow and make adjustments in real time until they are optimal. It brings a level of convenience and freedom that film cameras can't match. For example, now, if you shoot according to the film period, Huang Yuetai shoots with a camera for about half an hour to two hours, and she has to change the film. The film changer should put the cooked film (i.e. the filmed film) into a metal box in a hidden bag and seal it with tape. If this process leaks a little light, everyone before it will be in vain.

The cooked chips are stored in a metal box and stored in the refrigerator for temporary storage. When a certain amount of weight is accumulated (the volume of two suitcases), the executive producer will pull the finished cooked films, rush to Yindu as fast as possible, and send the cooked films to the printing company in the fastest time. Then wait for the negatives to be washed out, converted to magnetics, and then converted into digital files, and then take the hard drive back to the crew, so that Li Xiang can check the shooting effect, the process is extremely cumbersome.

And digital shooting doesn't need to be so troublesome, after a day's filming, Li Xiang can take Huang Yuetai and others to watch the finished film together, screen out the satisfactory ones, and delete the dissatisfied ones or those that need to be reshot, which is simple and convenient. By the way, Lin Chaoxian didn't come to be the producer in the end, because the preliminary preparation of "Witness" encountered a little problem, and he didn't have time to come to the gunman crew. Fortunately, these HK staff are very contractual, and they cooperated with Li Xiang very much during the shooting, so that Li Xiang wanted to dig up a group of behind-the-scenes personnel in HK to go back.

Many people say that digital photography has ruined the film and made the film no longer so artistic, and that only film films have the heaviness of the film, nonsense! If we follow this logic, the development of movies may still be silent films, color film films are the original sin, and sound films are also the original sin! The view is extremely absurd and ridiculous. The innovation of film technology has always been accompanied by great controversy, but later it turned out that such a development could not be stopped by any individual. Elegant to the extreme, not romantic, lonely self-appreciation will inevitably be high and low in the end. Appreciation of the common and the elegant can make cinema a true seventh art that people love.

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Since everyone has come to HK, how can we not try the food stalls with HK characteristics? Hong Kong's food stalls began to rise in the 50s and 60s of the last century, and the number began to gradually decrease in the 70s, and in the 80s, when HK underwent urban redevelopment, many food stalls had their licenses withdrawn, which was devastating to the food stalls. Even if the HK SAR government introduced a protection policy in 05, it would not help, and by 13 years, there were still inherited food stalls counted on one hand.

Li Xiang is not very familiar with HK, he only came once in his previous life, and he had dinner at a food stall called Mei Kee in Tsim Sha Tsui, and he felt good, so he asked the second sister to inquire about it this time. It happened that this store was there now, so the second sister set up several tables and waited for the crew to come to dinner. Li Xiang and Huang Yuetai came late because they were discussing the follow-up shooting, and by the time they got to the younger sister's record, everyone had already eaten half of it. There is a shooting task tomorrow, and everyone doesn't dare to drink too much wine, so one person just takes a sip to adjust the atmosphere.

The little sharp eyes saw Li Xiang at once, and hurriedly pulled Li Xiang to his own table, and the actors at the same table were all actors from the crew. Except for Huang Xuan, who is more introverted and seems a little restrained, the others are either Li Xiang's old acquaintances or flying people, so everyone is more relaxed. Xiaoxiao was like a little daughter-in-law next to her, pouring wine for Li Xiang and cloth vegetables, and she didn't notice the ambiguous eyes of the people around her.