Chapter 210: First Round Matchup
Although he traveled from a parallel space, Huang Guokun didn't know much about filmmaking, and the only movie he had seen and could remember all the details in another world was "Lao Paoer".
For other movies, he can only remember them roughly, and he can't copy the script for Huang Guokun to shoot at all.
So he could only give Huang Guokun this suggestion of raising a group of screenwriters.
What Huang Guolun can think of, can an old cannon in the film industry like Huang Guokun not think of it?
He told Huang Guolun: "Do you think our company doesn't have screenwriters? Since Li Zhe left the company with the main creative team that has been running in for several years, I have been training new screenwriters and writers for the company. But the screenwriting team under his command has changed one after another, and they can't find anyone as talented as Li Zhe and their group of children. Now there is a shortage of good screenwriters in the whole circle, and talented screenwriters are all raised by large companies, and they will not consider joining a small company like ours that specializes in online movies. Isn't this year's Spring Festival over, our company has recruited a group of supernatural writers, these people will gather in the company every day to talk about stories, just to see if there are any good ideas that can be made into money. ”
Huang Guolun asked: "They have been chatting for so long, haven't they come up with any reliable stories?"
Yang Xiaoying secretly pricked up her ears, wanting to know more about screenwriting, one of her future ambitions is to be a good screenwriter.
Huang Guokun said: "There are already a few stories at present, and I think it's okay to listen to them." But a good story doesn't equal a good script. It takes a meticulous process to turn the story into a script that can really be filmed by a team, but the general direction of our company's next film is already there. ”
"Or is it supernatural and terrifying?" asked Huang Guolun.
"That's for sure. At present, in the online circle, only supernatural horror movies have the best chance to be small and big. Our company is not so rich now, and we can't afford to toss the failure of large investments. Use the smallest possible price to shoot hot horror films, and re-establish the brand, so that future blockbuster horror films will be guaranteed. ”
Speaking of Huang Guokun, he sighed again: "Alas, in fact, our company has invested a lot of manpower and material resources in the film "Borrowing the Corpse to Return the Soul", and the main creative team has been grinding the script of this film for more than two months, and the energy investment is very large. Including the previous site selection, it also took a lot of connections and it took a lot of effort to get it done. Although the story of this film may not be so fascinating, it is better than the truth! Especially the first two-thirds of the film, which is completely based on Lao Zhao's oral narration of the supernatural events that happened in their family, will give people a strong sense of substitution. Even if the box office is not high in the end, it will definitely attract the attention of some supernatural fans. It's a pity that this film has been shelved now, and all our previous efforts have been in vain. Why do you say that our company is so unlucky, the house leak happened to rain overnight, and I couldn't spit out this breath in my heart, which was really aggrieved. ”
Huang Guolun smiled and said: "Xiaoli, don't be idle, quickly give your brother Huang a push and push back, and help him push out this breath." ”
When Cui Xiaoli heard this, she immediately pressed Huang Guokun's back.
Huang Guokun smiled bitterly and said: "If you push it like this, you can't push out this breath in my heart." ”
Cui Xiaoli was stunned and asked shyly, "That'...... How do you push it?"
Huang Guokun said: "I can't push it out, only when the company makes a good movie with a high box office, can I really vent this breath in my heart." ”
Huang Guolun persuaded: "I think you should give yourself a long vacation, don't stare at the movie every day." Take advantage of Xiaobo's matter, you should also rest and rest. ”
Huang Guokun nodded and said, "Well, I'll rest, but the company can't rest." Taking advantage of this time, I have to urge my screenwriters to quickly polish the script of the next film, and as soon as I come back, I will immediately set up a team to start filming the next tomb robbery film. ”
Huang Guolun asked: "Tomb robbery film?"
This plane also has the widely circulated "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" and "Tomb Robbery Notes".
Movies with this theme have long been made badly, and Huang Guolun didn't expect Huang Guokun to follow suit to make this type of movie.
Huang Guokun said: "It's not "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", where can our company afford the copyright of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" now." I wanted to make a real tomb robbery movie. There is a young man from northern Shaanxi in our company, and he told us a lot about their local tomb robbery gang, and he has an older brother who does this. ”
Cui Xiaoli was shocked and said, "There are still tomb robbers?"
Huang Guokun said: "Of course, there is, but doing this in other places is rampant, and it can't be caught at all." However, the real tomb robbery is not as evil as written in "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", the real tomb robbery is very rough, and it will not light a wax, and see if there are any ghosts who blow the wax. Those people are for money, even if there are real ghosts, they will fight with ghosts. People are much more terrible than ghosts. ”
Huang Guolun was amused by Huang Guokun's exclamation, and gave a thumbs up: "This is reasonable." ”
"Our company's next film is to make a tomb robbery film as close to the real as possible. Shoot in the way of first-person and pseudo-documentary films, so that the audience can follow the protagonist's vision lens to go down to the cemetery to feel the tomb robbery in person, which is definitely exciting to shoot well. ”
Huang Guolun thought for a while and said: "Using a pseudo-documentary to shoot tomb robbery sounds quite interesting. ”
In fact, there are many classic pseudo-documentary horror movies abroad, such as "Blair the Witch" by the Mountain Monster, and the crazy "Ghost Record" series, "Death Video" series and so on. However, in China, this kind of pseudo-documentary horror film is still relatively rare. If the audience can see a domestic pseudo-documentary film with strong local colors and a very real look, it should be quite a selling point. ”
Huang Guolun nodded in agreement.
Huang Guokun changed his words and said: "But to put it mildly, it is actually very difficult to shoot a pseudo-documentary in the local style, especially a pseudo-documentary with a supernatural theme, it is very difficult to shoot it well." This kind of film is too realistic, it will make people feel boring, and if it is not realistic enough, the audience will not have a sense of substitution when they see that it is fake. It's hard to grasp this degree. ”
Huang Guolun asked: "Haven't there been such movies in China before?"
Huang Guokun said: "Yes, there have been several pseudo-documentaries with supernatural themes before, but they are not brilliant enough, this theme has always been quite cold, and there are not many teams that dare to make movies in this way." Our company has always had this kind of creativity and ideas, and we want to make such a movie, but we just can't grind out a good script. The pseudo-documentary on the theme of tomb robbery to be filmed this time only has a general direction, and what kind of story to shoot has not yet been finalized. Whether there are ghosts in this film or not is still undecided. Some people think that encountering ghosts during tomb robberies will stimulate the audience's appetite more and will be better. But I think it's more important to create the atmosphere, like "Blair the Witch" and "Ghost Record", just hanging you, and not looking like a ghost in the end, that's really fascinating. However, to shoot like this, a good script is needed to support it. I don't want anything else now, I just hope that our company can emerge a few more truly talented writers. ”
Huang Guolun glanced back at Yang Xiaoying, and said half-jokingly: "Sakura actually likes to write stories, or take Sakura to the company one day and let her talk to the screenwriters in the film and television department to see if Sakura has any good ideas to help them." ”
Yang Xiaoying was frightened, and said nervously: "Don't, I don't know how to write scripts, I love to read books and comics, and I haven't written anything myself." ”
Huang Guokun said: "It doesn't matter, if you haven't written anything, it doesn't mean that you have the talent to write something." One day, let Mr. Huang take you around the company and talk to our company's screenwriters, maybe you really have a good idea to inspire them. ”
Yang Xiaoying said shyly: "This ...... I don't think I can talk about anything, I don't believe that there are ghosts in this world at all, how can you let me talk about supernatural stories. ”
Huang Guolun smiled and said: "You don't believe that there are ghosts in this world, but you can make up that there are ghosts in this world." Don't you like to watch horror comics, there must be a scene that you think is exciting, you can write it down, and talk to the screenwriters when the time comes, maybe you can use it. ”
Huang Guolun has helped Yang Xiaoying pave the way like this, and it would be too much to say if Yang Xiaoying didn't leave.
She whispered, "If that's the case, then I'll try." ”
Huang Guokun didn't think that a little girl like Yang Xiaoying could help them anything, but he had heard Huang Guolun talk about it before, saying that this little girl likes to write and wants to be a screenwriter. He felt that if Yang Xiaoying went to the company to talk to a serious screenwriter, broaden her horizons more, and be influenced by the atmosphere, maybe she could become a screenwriter in the future.
In short, no matter who helped whom, Huang Guokun decided to take this opportunity to get Yang Xiaoying into the company to train her first to see if she had the talent to become a screenwriter.
Huang Guokun and Huang Guolun chatted for a long time that night, and in the end he didn't leave, so he slept at Huang Guolun's house.
Early the next morning, Huang Guokun went out to help Luo Yabo transfer to the hospital.
Huang Guolun also got up early to hang his throat and practiced basic skills.
He did not let Luo Yabo's accident affect his preparations.
In the next week, Huang Guolun and Mu Chunmei were still preparing for the game step by step.
As the recording approached, the two people met more and more frequently, basically meeting every day, practicing songs together, and discussing matters related to participating in the show together.
During this period, the program team consulted the opinions of these two most important contestants, and asked them to choose their own mentors to challenge in the first issue.
When the two of them have selected a mentor, the program team will arrange the appearance order of the other challengers.
This season of "The Voice of Dreams" is broadcast live, and both challengers and mentors must prepare for the game in advance, and the match must also be decided in advance.
The initial idea of the program team is to have five challengers in each issue, just to challenge the five mentors, no one should be idle, the five mentors will come out to sing every week, and there will be no vacancy and no one will challenge.
However, because there is a situation where the challenger will continue to challenge next week after the victory, the program team still needs to fine-tune the specific appearance method of the subsequent games according to the situation and results of the on-site competition.
But the first phase must be a situation where five challengers will challenge each of the five mentors.
In order to take care of Huang Guolun and Mu Chunmei, the program team asked the two of them to choose the mentor they wanted to challenge first.
Huang Guolun feels that it doesn't matter who challenges him, the live singing level of those mentors is very high, even if they can be distinguished, they are not too much different.
Huang Guolun simply didn't choose it, and let the program team set it for him, and he could challenge anyone.
No matter who he is up against, he is confident that he will win!
Mu Chunmei is not as big as Huang Guolun.
Now that she has the right of preference, she must make good use of this right of preference.
After making some trade-offs, Mu Chunmei decided to challenge the most difficult mentor for her in the first game - Chen Yixun!
If she can climb over the mountain of Chen Yixun, Mu Chunmei will be more confident to do something great on this stage.
She is trying to force herself to go to Huashan, that is, she is going to fight Chen Yixun to the death.
She chose Chen Yixun so quickly, but she didn't force herself to be full of firepower as soon as she came up.
She was afraid that she would not choose Chen Yixun as soon as she came up, and if she chose it later, she would not be able to sing Chen Yixun's work, which was the most competitive in her opinion.
According to the rules of "Dream", when a challenger challenges a mentor, the song to be sung must be the mentor's work.
Most of Chen Yixun's songs are not competitive works, but songs that you have to listen to with your heart.
"The Voice of Dreams" is to be scored by the audience and judges to decide the winner, and it is very risky to sing too quiet songs on such a stage.
To challenge Chen Yixun, the first choice must be the most popular and explosive "Exaggeration".
I believe that every challenger and Chen Yixun want to use this song to challenge.
The same goes for Mu Chunmei.
She was the first to choose Chen Yixun, so that she could sing this song quickly, so as not to be sung by others, and she would not be able to sing it.
Her strategy is to wear the shiniest shoes and leave the other challengers without shoes.
After Mu Chunmei decided to challenge Chen Yixun in the first round, the program team quickly assigned the battle situation of the first issue-
The other three fixed mentors Zhang Huimei, Lin Yilian, and Lin Junjie were fought by the other three challengers.
Huang Guolun was arranged to challenge Mentor X - Zhang Jie in the first round!
When there were still three days to go to the on-site rehearsal, Huang Guolun learned that he was going to challenge Zhang Jie, who was known as "Brother Runtu", in the first round.
This result made him a little laughable.
To be honest, he would rather challenge any of Zhang Huimei, Lin Yilian, and Lin Junjie than challenge Zhang Jie.
This is not to say that Zhang Jie's singing strength is off the charts, and he is stronger than the other three mentors.
It's that Huang Guolun is really unfamiliar with Zhang Jie's songs.
Zhang Jie is a typical singer who is popular but not popular.
It's just that this guy's live singing skills are still very strong.
If Zhang Jie catches up with a work that is very suitable for him to play, the live appeal and explosiveness of this guy's singing are very amazing.
The result of this match made Huang Guolun a little headache.
Which song of Zhang Jie should you choose to fight?
He really had to think about it.