Chapter 11: Making a Storyboard
"I'm really shabby here, but I'm bothering you. You call me according to this cast list and invite them to come to the company to see the script and audition, and I need to re-select the role. Ning Hao took some documents to Chen Yanxi.
In order to save costs, only some of the previous actors can be used, but because the company disbanded the crew, these actors may come back, and they can completely refuse.
In the office, the two of them kept talking on the phone according to the address book......
It's just that, starting from the original starring role, one by one hasn't finished listening to two or three sentences, and when he heard that Ning Hao was going to restart filming, he hung up the phone directly.
Some unceremoniously laughed a few words, and then hung up the phone with a sneer.
Ning Hao glanced at Chen Yanxi with some embarrassment.
"Ning Hao, I think they have just lost an important opportunity in their lives. Chen Yanxi looked at Ning Hao and smiled comfortingly, and then dialed a group performance phone again.
"Huang Bo ......," Chen Yanxi read softly.
After a phone call, Chen Yanxi put down the phone excitedly and looked at Ning Hao: "Ning Hao, just now an actor agreed to come to see the script and participate in the audition." ”
"Great. Ning Hao's eyes lit up, and his heart was also a heart booster, indicating that there were still people who were optimistic about him.
The two encouraged each other, and they started to connect again.
There are many actors who directly choose to refuse, but there are finally a few group performances, and the supporting roles are willing to try, after all, they did get a salary from the company before, and they are really eager to get the opportunity to perform.
Even if the other party is a rookie with little experience.
……
After a while, the office door creaked open, Zhou Xian had a black face, dragged a broom, glared at Ning Hao fiercely, walked over and dragged a chair, a long sound crossed the foot of the chair, Zhou Xian gasped and leaned in.
During the period, he ridiculed a few words: "Only idiots will come to act with you." ”
He dusted off his body in disgust, then looked at Ning Hao with some disdain and provocation, and asked some difficult questions.
Pressing the broom with his palm, he looked around in a circle, looked at the DV machine on the cabinet a little casually, and asked: "Ning Hao, do you really think that the distribution company will take a fancy to what you shoot? ”
"Zhou Xian, of course I know what a movie is, and I also know what it means to record some life videos. Ning Hao left the information in his hand, looked up at Zhou Xian, and smiled, "Perhaps, your little niece is really making a movie." ”
Chen Yanxi was amused by Ning Hao's humor and said, "Okay, Zhou Xian, Ning Hao is very powerful. When it comes to movies, you're going to call him an expert. ”
Zhou Xian didn't squeak, just sneered.
"Ning Hao, how much box office do you think your movie will get if it is released? Who would spend dozens of dollars to go to the theater to see something that can be shot with a home DV machine. Zhou Xian paused for a while, and then threw out another question.
"Ten million, maybe twenty million. Ning Hao didn't raise his head, and said casually, as if he was joking, as if he was laughing at himself, "I still want to rely on him to pay off the company's debts." ”
"Yo, then you're really confident. Then how much are you going to invest in such a blockbuster movie?" Zhou Xian was also interested, looking at Ning Hao, and said in his heart, where did this person get his confidence?
"Five or six hundred thousand, your sister and I have already made an appointment with some group performances to audition, and the company still has a little bit left before the props and items, and I will simplify the crew, and I will calculate it. Ning Hao said lightly.
"Five or six hundred thousand?
Zhou Xian looked at Ning Hao, extremely speechless, and said in his heart that he was afraid that he was sick.
After that, with the help of Chen Yanxi's sisters and brothers, they reluctantly did a good job in the company's hygiene, and contacted the actors of the original crew.
Next, Ning Hao only had to wait.
After sending off Chen Yanxi's sister and brother, Ning Hao came to the office of the previous company for auditions, looked at the clean and simple room, and secretly clenched his fists, the key to the success of this movie is the actors.
"Hopefully the audition will go well after that. Ning Hao prayed silently.
After locking the office and going downstairs to eat some noodles, Ning Hao picked out some duck necks for Ning'er, a little gluttonous cat.
Sure enough, as soon as he got home, the little guy ran over from the sofa, sniffed Ning Hao suspiciously, frowned, hesitated for a while, and was bought by the duck neck that Ning Hao took out later, and then let Ning Hao go to the study by himself.
"I always feel like the perfume smell of vixen outside. Ning Ning muttered to herself while gnawing on the duck's neck, and looked at Ning Hao's study with a small mouth.
In the study, Ning Hao came to the computer desk and began to continue to improve the script of "Crazy Stone".
In addition to the text, the other thing is to design the shot. The most powerful part of this script is the editing, the scheduling of the timeline. If shot in the normal order, it would be a normal movie, but with a good hand, everything will be very different.
Storyboard scripts are the so-called "director's scripts", for example, cells make up the human body, and then the shots make up the movie.
In order to achieve the effect in the director's mind, these shots had to be designed by Ning Hao himself, and because of the clear impression in his mind, Ning Hao wrote smoothly.
Compared with text scripts, the biggest advantage of storyboard scripts is that they are intuitive and convenient for the entire crew to communicate. For example, some stunt shots require post-processing, and if there is no storyboard script, then the director has to constantly explain to the actors, cameramen, and hundreds of staff, and sometimes it is not necessarily clear.
Ning Hao was exhausted and almost collapsed in his previous life because of many times in order to explain these contents to the cast and crew.
In the end, she died young, because the heroine's IQ was in arrears, so she could only demonstrate in person, and then she was misunderstood by others.
So this time, in order to perfectly present "Crazy Stone", Ning Hao plans to draw all the key shots so that others can know at a glance.
Of course, storyboards also have their drawbacks, because once you have the constraints of storyboards, you will lose a lot of accidental randomness on the scene, such as the famous king of glasses, Wang Jiawei, whom Ning Hao admires very much, and filming has always been filmed while changing on the spot.
Therefore, there will always be a lot of interesting and unpredictable conflicts and images in his films, and some genius strokes will always be born.
Another amazing director, the king of comedy, Chow Sing Chi, also often lets his actors improvise.
Therefore, at this time, the storyboard has become a stumbling block.
The same is true of the memory of Nanjia of another Ning Hao in his mind, as his camera teacher at the time said.