Zuo Yan once chatted with Feng Tangtang, and he used all her film and television materials for his homework in a role class.

At that time, she thought, this is probably a professional and romantic crush, right?

The love buried in my heart is revealed in the works I create, passionate and secret.

So Feng Tangtang decided to confess to him in the most important thing in her life, her graduation work.

In this documentary-style short film, she shoots countless date scenes with a tripod, either Feng Tangtang alone, or a bustling crowd, or just empty shots. The lines in the whole article are only Feng Tangtang's own monologue.

Her graduation project, titled "Waiting to Meet You".

School dormitories. "Early in the morning, the phone alarm clock is your voice. I said good morning to you, seeing you waiting for me downstairs in the dorm. The lens is an indoor scene, the light is soft and quiet, Feng Tangtang blinks in his sleep, smiling to welcome the morning.

School playgrounds. "Among the classmates who get up in the morning to exercise, you are not the fastest runner, but you are a handsome runner. I waved to you with a glass of water, and you smiled at me. "The first-person shot, the water glass is handed in front of me, and it is an empty playground track.

School classrooms. "In today's drama theory class, I fell asleep again. You gave me a note with a big pig's head drawn on it. The camera close-up is a notebook, which has a piece of stationery with no text on it, but on that letterhead, there is a pig's head drawn by Zuo Yan when he left a message in Hengdian.

School cafeterias. "I said I didn't want to eat in the cafeteria, but you said that I had eaten too much junk food recently, and the canteen had less oil to clear my stomach. I got angry and decided to ignore you. There is no Feng Tangtang in the camera, and in the lively canteen, Feng Tangtang's lonely back.

School lakeside. "It's so cunning that I even brought beef jerky to apologize. I took the jerky, but I didn't intend to forgive you. "An empty shot, on the long pavilion by the lake, there is a large bag of open beef jerky.

Cafe at the school gate. "I said I wanted to find a quiet place to cut the film so that you didn't come along. You say yes, but I buy my favorite matcha latte and sit behind me. In the over-the-shoulder shot, Feng Tangtang is typing into a notebook, and there is a blurry grinding iron coffee in the middle of the back table.

On the flyover in the city center. "You take me for a walk and blow the wind, you take me by the hand, overlooking the great congestion of the city. I scolded you for your strange taste, and at the same time I was very happy to watch. Because your side face is just right for my taste. "It's still an empty mirror, the neon lights are busy, and when the camera turns, there is no one around.

Late-night snack shop. "Oysters, crayfish and skewers, you let me choose one of the three, I say three in one. I was hit on the head by you, and I was particularly aggrieved when I gnawed on crayfish. In the middle scene, Feng Tangtang in the small shop held his cheeks and poked the crayfish with an unhappy face.

Late at night on campus. "I love it when you kiss me under the tree." The shot shows a large tree in the distance, with a long figure in the shade of the tree.

School dormitories. "Although we have been seeing each other all day, before going to bed, you still called me and said that you would have insomnia without me saying 'good night' in person." Feng Tangtang, who was lying in the corner of the wall on the phone, turned his back to the camera.

……

After such a general dozens of shots, the black screen subtitle typed: "Why haven't I met you yet?" ”

The style of the short story is very literary, and it only takes a few minutes to cut it out, which of course can't be handed in, but the idea has been clearly expressed. She sent Zuo Yan online and asked him how the idea would diverge.

Zuo Yan called across the ocean, and the first sentence was: "Baby, the film is very sweet in me." But if you don't know, you might think you're making a ghost movie, right? Especially the shot under the shadow of the tree, it's a little scary. ”

Feng Tangtang, who was building the script, lost a lot of hair when he thought about it, and when he heard this sentence, he felt a little surprised: "Zuo Yan, I think this idea is good!" ”

Zuo Yan's face was full of black lines: "Not bad, you're big!" ”

Feng Tangtang was also aggrieved: "Then I can't open my mind......"

Zuo Yan thought for a while and said, "Because your short story is too personal and too confidant." Show it to me, I know it's a love letter. But for other people, there is no way to empathize. That's why you can't write long lyricals...... To be honest, it is too much of a loss to choose a documentary for graduation work, and it is easier to complete a feature film. ”

Feng Tangtang sighed: "I know, I actually have thoughts in my heart, but I can't express them, it's so uncomfortable." ”

"Aside from love and longing, what are your deeper thoughts?"

Feng Tangtang blurted out: "It's love and time." ”

After saying it, she herself was depressed.

About her rebirth, her mistakes with Zuo Yan in her previous life, and her love with Zuo Yan...... She couldn't say anything specific, but that inexplicable feeling collided in her heart, which made her have the desire to create, but at the same time, she was unable to do so.

"When?" Zuo Yan asked clearly.

"Yes, time." Feng Tangtang was immersed in Zuo Yan's voice, and the thoughts in his heart gradually became clear, "If we hadn't met so early, if we had met, I wouldn't be like this......"

"You're not you? So, we meet in the future? Zuo Yan continued to ask.

Feng Tangtang suddenly realized: "I know! What a wonderful idea! ”

"Huh? It seems to be inspired. How's that, do you need my help? Zuo Yan asked, "Seeing that you think of me so much, I will spend the weekend returning to China, and I can help you appear in the camera." ”

"No need, you've helped me a lot, I'm going to do it, bye." Feng Tangtang hung up the phone.

The left eye sighed silently, this girl ...... The phone of love, hang up when you say it. In order to be busy with his studies, he even refused to send thousands of miles!

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Feng Tangtang's graduation work won an award in the department.

The shooting style is documentary, and the narrative rhythm is feature film.

The shooting technique of parallel montage subverts and reconstructs the acquaintance of a pair of lovers. In the short film, she did not appear on her own, but invited two actors from the acting department to participate, and there were only two actors.

The title was changed to "We Meet Tonight".

Before going on a date, the girl occasionally finds that the boy is familiar with the TV show playing at home. As a result, the girl and the boy are caught in the scene of their first meeting in "reminiscence": two people meet after a speech on campus, and in this encounter they swim together on campus. The empty shots shot before, interspersed with the actors' performance shots, make the atmosphere charming and beautiful. When this encounter was separated, the footage of their encounter became the projection screen in the school's small playground, becoming a "play within a play". And the boy is in the playground, watching the screen projection, the girl who came from the dormitory, walking on the way to meet him, their first "common memory" is about to happen.

The end-to-end cutscenes, the ups and downs of the plot, and the parallel narrative of the two worlds are exactly the expression techniques of the postmodern narrative of the documentary. Because it is a little difficult to understand, it did not appear in the school's online display, but it was highly praised within the directing department.

Feng Tangtang graduated from the film academy as an outstanding graduate.

What surprised her was that Zuo Yan watched this graduation work many times, stayed up all night to call and talk to her, and they finally began to face her uneasiness and doubts in this love.

"The first few minutes of the short story, when I first read it, I thought we were in a long-distance relationship, so you miss me very much."

"I miss you so much, yes."

"But later, it occurred to me that the name of your original idea film was "Waiting to Meet You". It's more like what you were imagining before we didn't meet each other. It seems that you are fantasizing that I accompany you through your college life. ”

"Uh, you're a nymphomaniac, aren't you?"

"No, after watching the film that was deliberately renovated, I realized why you use a documentary: you are not imagining, but more like reminiscing. And that seemingly sweet campus romance has a kind of sadness and anxiety in it. ”

"Zuo Yan ......" Feng Tangtang was suddenly a little scared.

Is it because she injects too much emotion into her work, or is Zuo Yan too easy to see through her?

"The later film, "We Meet Tonight". Zuo Yan continued to analyze, "The double world, from the perspective of the female protagonist into the film encounter on TV, and from the film back to the perspective of the male protagonist, waiting for the encounter to happen. The sense of fate of the Chinese people obscures the clear shuttle of the timeline. In fact, that encounter happened 'on the screen', it was fictional, it didn't happen yet, and it probably won't even happen. ”

"Zuo Yan, you ......" she was dissected and began to feel sad.

"Tang Tang, what are you hating and what are you afraid of. You have a deep sense of uncertainty about this relationship, I have found out before, every time we make love, you are as if you are going to finish the love of this life, you are crazy, you want to remember me, right? ”

After Zuo Yan asked this sentence, a whining cry came from the other end of the phone.

"Tang Tang, I'm here, I'm real, I'm yours." Zuo Yan spoke into the phone, word by word, slowly.

Feng Tangtang cried so much that he couldn't speak.

She never took the good fortune of being born again as she deserved. She works hard to love, study, and work because she wants to live hard. What she was afraid of, as Zuo Yan said, was that she was afraid that she would become a vegetative person at the moment of the car accident, and all her life now was a dream for her, and one day she would wake up.

Zuo Yan answered the question for her: "You hate, hate that I didn't appear in your life earlier, hate that we are all child stars but have never played together, not childhood sweethearts." And what you are afraid of is that I who have appeared in your life will disappear at any time. ”

"You...... Don't you disappear......" Feng Tangtang cried silently. When the nightmare is punctured, it is not the relief of returning to the sun, but the fear that the back is cold.

"I'm here, baby, stop crying." Zuo Yan spoke to her in a gentler, softer tone, "My tone just now was a bit heavy, but this is your heart disease, and we must face it." ”

"Hmm." She knew, and she was even more glad that he who walked into her heart also knew.

"Little crying bag, don't cry, okay?" He coaxed her.

Feng Tangtang wiped his tears with the back of his hand. Since she wanted to treat her heart disease, she cleared her throat and asked, "Since you have had a crush on me for so long, why didn't you come to me earlier?" ”

Zuo Yan was stunned.