Chapter Seventy-Three: "Old Boy" Kicks On
Returning from the capital, Lin Yi continued to be busy in the dark. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
First of all, after the establishment of the company, Cao Xiaoxue suggested that it should cooperate with the school, such as the company's employee recruitment, which can give priority to the use of current students and fresh graduates, and provide some corresponding internship positions, in exchange for the school's free shooting space and borrowed props and other support. Lin Yi naturally strongly agrees with this plan, not to mention recruitment, interns are low-priced, or even free labor.
So, on Thursday, Cao Xiaoxue came forward, Dean Cao took the lead, and Lin Yi, the main leader, was reduced to accompanying him and invited some department leaders to have a meal. The intention of cooperation was reached, and on Friday, the school actually invited the city station to interview, borrowing a handful of "Never Expected" - this is a popular online drama bred by CUHK, which is not enough to prove CUHK's ability to cultivate film and television talents?
The cooperation plan is negotiated, and the next step is recruitment. All day on Friday, Lin Yi sat in the company's office and kept interviewing. First of all, the director and cameraman, these two talents are the most scarce in Lin Yi, because the next filming of "Old Boy" will start, Lin Yi will gradually let go of "Never Expected", in addition, Lin Yi is going to star in "Old Boy", he can act while directing, but he can no longer be a cameraman.
In addition, many positions such as lighting engineer, recording engineer, editor and so on must be filled, and even novices cannot be used all, after all, in Lin Yi's planning, the best shooting cycle for the old boy is within May, and if it is late, the weather will be too hot, and the actors will not be able to wear Spring and Autumn school uniforms.
After a day of recruitment, there was no candidate who was particularly satisfactory to Lin Yi, and only a few fresh graduates barely met the standards and temporarily signed an internship agreement. In the end, Lin Yi could only ask Ma Chunqiang to find his uncle and introduce several teachers from film studios to participate in the filming of the old boy.
But there is good news, that is, the screenwriting team led by the fat man has been formed.
According to Lin Yi's request, as early as before the May Day holiday, the fat man began to release the screenwriter recruitment plan, and what was tentatively determined was the remuneration standard of Wu Baiyuan for each episode of "Never Expected", and the stories were collected. Of course, you can also have two stories per episode, ranging from 200 to 300 yuan per story. For a while, the fat man received dozens of short scripts, among which a few laughs were very good, so the fat man contacted the other party and signed as an intern screenwriter.
In this issue of "Never Expected", the fat man suggested using two of the new stories to shoot, Lin Yi simply didn't do anything, and also gave up the position of director, so that Zhang Huijun, who has always had extravagant hopes for the director's position, tried to shoot, and he guided from the side.
And the starring role of the new episode of "Never Expected" also took a lot of effort. After the last issue of Wang Dazhui's blind date, after all the four female pig's feet of "Wan Wan" appeared, according to the comments of netizens, Lin Yi finally decided to reduce the number of actresses, and only kept one goddess role and the reverse role of the fat man, and the other two no longer participated in the follow-up performance of "Wan Wan".
After weighing it, Lin Yi finally decided to let Wang Xinmeng continue to play the female number one in "Wan Wan", while Yu Xiaomei played Yu Beibei in high school in "Old Boy", and Yuan Yuan played Hao Fang in high school.
In addition, Zhang Han is still the main supporting actor in "Wan Wan", and at the same time, he will also play the young Xiao Dabao in "Old Boy".
That's right, the two protagonists, Xiao Dabao and Wang Xiaoshuai, Xiao Dabao's role is a little more in comparison, but Lin Yi's image is not the kind of school bully who bullies his classmates, he can only play a relatively honest role, but he played a big reversal and saved Xiao Dabao's Wang Xiaoshuai. In addition, the most important point is that Zhang Han will not jump MJ's space step, and Lin Yi ...... What else would he not have? It's a big deal to find a system......
Everything was arranged, on Saturday morning, the fifth episode of "Wan Wan" began to be filmed, Lin Yi watched a few shots on the spot, and then asked Zhang Huijun to shoot a story in the morning, and directly do the post-production in the afternoon, and after the rough cut out, he reviewed it himself in the evening. If you can, you can continue filming tomorrow, if you can't do it, Lin Yi will go into battle in person tomorrow, and you will have time to reshoot all the scenes.
After arranging the crew of "Wan Wan", Lin Yi took a taxi and went straight to a school in a suburban county 20 kilometers away, and met with the crew of "Old Boy" that Ma Chunqiang was responsible for forming and brought over early in the morning.
The plot of "Old Boy" in high school took place in the 90s, and it was filmed in schools in the city, whether it was architecture or campus beautification, it did not conform to the characteristics of that era.
Zhongzhou is an underdeveloped inland city, and the economic situation of the surrounding suburbs is relatively backward, so finding a campus with an environment that is relatively in line with the style of the 90s, and then a little layout, you can completely shoot the characteristics of the era.
This part is thanks to the props and set teachers invited by the film studio, just brush two slogans and make a few old-fashioned garbage cans, and the camera shows a lively campus in the 90s.
"Teachers have worked hard...... Lin Yi shook hands with six teachers from the film studio under the introduction of Ma Chunqiang, and thanked them one after another.
Those are the old people in the film industry, although the film studio is sluggish, and it is rare to shoot once a year, but because of this, they are all big names in the provincial film and television circle, although they have the face of the manager this time, they are not good at putting too big a shelf in front of Ma Chunqiang, but they should still have the reserve, and they are quite proud in the face of Lin Yi's politeness.
"We are all students, we don't have much time to shoot, and the funds are limited, so we will skip the opening ceremony today and start filming directly." Lin Yi said, "When it's finished, let's have another drink." Thank you teachers, hehe......"
Several masters glanced at each other, although they were not very satisfied with Lin Yi's arrangement, under normal circumstances, after the crew's start-up ceremony, they would take a few seconds of footage casually, and then go to the hotel for a meal, and then rest in the afternoon. A few of them came to the crew of "Old Boy" to earn extra money, calculated on a daily basis according to their positions, so that they would make one less day of money.
But after all, they are also adults, and they really can't deal with a stick of college students, although they nod their heads and agree to start the machine directly, but they can't help but be slack and lack of energy.
"Alright, everyone come here, let's get ready to turn on the machine." Lin Yi began to play the role of director, picked up the electric speaker and called the crew members, "The first shot we shot is Xiao Dabao singing Xiaofang, trying to attract the picture of Beibei, everyone prepare for ......"
In this scene, Lin Yi did not choose the staircase corner, but chose the flower bed in front of the teaching building, diagonally opposite the position of the staircase, so that when Hao Fang came to the stairs, he would hear the singing first, and then see Xiao Dabao behind the flowers, and the camera would look more beautiful.
There is nothing Lin Yi has to do in this scene, and he personally guides the actors to move before and after, especially Yu Xiaomei and Yuan Yuan, the two of them belong to the "moving" side in this scene, while Xiao Dabao and the two doglegs do not need to move and belong to the "quiet" side. The most important thing in this shot is to highlight Xiao Dabao's inner turmoil in "Quiet", and Yu Beibei's heart is like a mountain in "Motion......
"Okay, all in place, are you ready for the camera?" Lin Yi returned to the monitor and began to confirm the password before turning on.
The old photographer of the film factory in charge of the camera looked embarrassed: "Lin ...... Director, how do you use this camera......"
Lin Yi was suddenly dizzy and almost fell headlong......