10. Recreate the face-destroying drama
The alarm clock went off at half past eight in the morning, and yesterday's busy day was like a dream.
Although he only slept for less than four hours, Feng Tangtang quickly got up when he thought of sorting out the minutes of the meeting before noon today.
"Master, it's early." Feng Tangtang, who entered the company hungry, saw Li Gang's soy milk refueling strips at a glance, and his eyes were very greedy, "Master, where did you buy this breakfast?" ”
Li Gang smiled: "The stall downstairs, the stall closes at eight o'clock, and the early birds will eat the worms." ”
Although Li Gang withdrew early yesterday, but at such an early age, the sleep time is exaggerated, and he is still a fifty-year-old person.
Feng Tangtang looked around, fortunately, it was not too late for her, a newcomer, and the most important thing was that Sun Ping had not come yet. Compared with Li Gang, Feng Tangtang is more afraid of Sun Ping, after all, she is directly in charge......
"Master, Master, while Sister Sun hasn't come yet~hehe~" Feng Tangtang fluttered his little devil's wings, and asked coquettishly, "Which role did you set for me?" Tell me about it! ”
Li Gang snorted and drank soy milk, and slurred her with disdain: "You have a big needle-eyed horn, and you still use it for me to ask in person?" I'll show you the way, it's useless to be courteous with me, it's better to serve Director Sun well. ”
Pointing to Sun Ping's vacant seat, Li Gang stuffed the last fritter into his mouth, wiped his mouth unobtrusively, and began to bow his head to work, ignoring her no longer.
Well...... Serve Director Sun...... The only way to satisfy a workaholic is to become Workaholic Number 2.
Feng Tangtang didn't care about foraging anymore, so Lisuo went back to the station to make up for the minutes of last night's meeting.
When Sun Ping sat down at the workstation like a gust of wind, he opened the email and saw Feng Tangtang's article, and after reading the reply: "Not bad." ”
Feng Tangtang's heart was overjoyed, and for Director Sun, the word "good" was already quite high. She hurriedly rubbed to Sun Ping's side: "Sister Sun, what are our work arrangements for the afternoon?" Do you want to continue with the audition? ”
Sun Ping said: "The next audition of the Shufei group is next week, and today's work is easy, which is to sort out yesterday's audition video, save a file, and have a meeting with the screenwriting team at 8 o'clock in the evening." ”
"Oh, I'm in a meeting with the writers at eight o'clock in the evening." Feng Tangtang wrote it down on a post-it note.
"So there's nothing to do in the afternoon, I see that you were in a good state yesterday, you haven't been in front of the camera for so many years, and your basic skills haven't been left behind." Sun Ping pulled out another text folder from the table, "This is a branch project, you look at the role of the second female, are you interested." ”
"Uh-huh, the second female ......" Feng Tangtang continued to draw ghost charms on the post-it notes, "Huh? Rise? Female second? ”
What's the situation? A branch project?
"The cycle of this drama is not long, urban dramas, the scenery is ready-made, in our city, there is still a period of time before the Shufei group starts, you can consider taking a look." Sun Ping still had an expressionless iceberg face, so she easily threw a script to her.
Feng Tangtang took it respectfully with both hands, opened the first page and looked at the title of the play, and almost fainted, "Urban Love" - isn't this the first heroine after plastic surgery in her previous life? There was a flood of bad reviews, and the crew also used her plastic surgery to carry out "self-blackening" propaganda when promoting, and the economic company helped her tear it up, but in the end, she didn't win it?
"Sister Sun, should we do the publicity of this drama ourselves, or should we find a distribution company?" Feng Tangtang gritted his teeth a little.
"What, still interested in publicity? This branch only has the ability to make zuò, and the propaganda is looking for distribution. Sun Ping didn't know why, "Why haven't you read the script yet, and thought of the propaganda so far?" ”
"Propaganda is easy to ruin the drama, having children and raising children is as important." Feng Tangtang said with emotion, "I'll mention it casually, thank you Sister Sun, I'll read the book first." ”
This play, from creation to post-production, to publicity, and the final actual results, is surprisingly poor, and it can be called a wonderful drama.
Of course, her grades in her previous life were poor, and in this part of creation, she is also to blame for her plastic surgery face. In the words of the media at the time, the script of this play was as thunderous as the heroine's face - "cracked".
In this life, Sun Ping introduced her to the role of the second female. Even if she plays the heroine again, it will be difficult for her to save this bad scene by herself, let alone a little female supporting actress?
But this is an opportunity after all, and this opportunity was given by Sun Ping. Uncle Li had just instructed him to serve Director Sun well. If you take the first book and refuse it, isn't it a bit of a shame to give Director Sun......
Feng Tangtang spent the whole afternoon with an extremely tangled mood. Using the time of the video export, she read the script of "Urban Love" that she was familiar with. There is not much difference between the book and the impression.,Sure enough, it's a short-cycle project.,There's been no careful thinking from the preparation.。
What to do? The ghost sent the gods, she wanted to ask Zuo Yan's opinion. -- Because there is really no one else to discuss this matter.
After hesitating on the phone for a while, she still wrote an email to Zuo Yan:
"Zuo Yan,
Today, Director Sun gave me a scene in a branch office, not a behind-the-scenes company, and Director Sun pushed me to try the second girl.
An urban drama, it feels like to read the script...... It's hard to put into words. Unless there is a major change, it is difficult to open the market. But the posture of the branch is eager to start on the rocket.
I don't really want to take on the role here, but when I come, I'm afraid that Director Sun will be unhappy; Second, I haven't appeared on the camera for a few years, and the opportunity has returned to newcomers, so I'm afraid it's not good to pick and choose from opportunities.
It's quite tangled, I want to ask your opinion.
Reply to me when you are available. ”
After pressing the "send" button, my heart finally calmed down a little after an afternoon of struggle. She closed the book of "Urban Love" and began to prepare for the meeting with the screenwriter team in the evening.
At night, I was not afraid of fat and nibbled on a large boxed lunch. The "mail receiving" button was almost smashed by her, and there was no new email.
It was already early in the morning over there, and he said yesterday that he might be on location. In any case, the likelihood of seeing the message right away is low.
But Feng Tangtang couldn't control it, so he went to collect it every once in a while. She misses the future of a smartphone that doesn't turn off and a voice WeChat.
She never knew that in this "backward" era, the wait was so difficult.
At eight o'clock in the evening, I had a meeting with the screenwriting team. On the director team's side, only Li Gang, Sun Ping and Feng Tangtang went. The people in the screenwriting team all looked at Feng Tangtang with a kind of "where did this kid come out".
Feng Tangtang thought that she would come mostly because the director team had a meeting until the early hours of the morning yesterday, and she went back to sleep today.
Today is to discuss the script revision of about the length of the first 5 episodes. A writer-co-ordinator and three episode writers have arrived.
Although the first 5 episodes were written by an episode writer, this project strives for excellence, and the openness of mutual modification is still quite high. The four screenwriters came up with their own plans, and in addition to changing each other, they also had to deal with some problems raised by their director team.
Before the meeting, Feng Tangtang carefully read the problems listed by the director team: some of them were fine-tuned according to the fixed angle, and some were to avoid the difficulties of actual shooting.
Feng Tangtang, who knows what the final script looks like, admires Li Gang's ability very much, and many changes are indeed a stroke of genius.
The meeting lasted two hours in the discussion, almost page by page. The whole project, the determination to refine the opening 5 episodes, really opened Feng Tangtang's eyes. She felt more and more that she was lucky to be able to experience this masterpiece firsthand.
At the end of the meeting, Li Gang called up a document and put it on the big screen: "This is the drama review of our director team intern and classmate Feng Tangtang." The whole text is very long, and I only take out the content related to the length of about the first 5 episodes. Some of the ideas are very novel and I think they are inspiring, so why don't you discuss them on the spot? ”
The four screenwriters looked at the big screen and then went to see Feng Tangtang.
Feng Tangtang never expected Li Gang to have this kind of arrangement, she is a newcomer who performs and turns direct, and she faces four of her own screenwriters...... She felt that she couldn't even take care of the confusion, and she was excited and a little shy: "Please give me more advice...... seniors"
"Concubine Shu's sister shouldn't be overly inked, it's too long since the number of episodes she appears again, it's a waste to pave the way here, it's better to reduce the precious space and let Concubine Shu enter the palace as much as possible." Wu Qingfeng, the screenwriter's coordinator, read the opinions on the screen, turned his head to Feng Tangtang and said, "The style of writing is very sharp, and it doesn't go around in circles to point to the problem, I like this little girl, and she has the charm of Sister Sun." ”
Feng Tangtang was so embarrassed that he didn't know what to say, but Sun Ping answered: "I don't know whether to lift me or scold me, just look at your book!" ”
"Why is there such a rush to speed up the pace? The character's family environment is crucial to the character's character formation, and I don't think that should be called 'waste'. Da Li, the episode screenwriter in charge of this plot, directly dismissed Feng Tangtang's construction at the meeting.
This conversation is familiar. In fact, this opinion was put forward by Zuo Yan, and it was Feng Tangtang himself who questioned his "why speed up the pace".
The two argued, and finally Zuo Yan said a paragraph, which moved Feng Tangtang and made her add this Jian yì to her own drama review.
So she retold Zuo Yan's original words to Da Li: "The results of character should be directly exported to the audience, and the causes of character can be recalled and killed at critical moments." The younger sister of Concubine Mo, in my opinion, is not for the sake of the concubine, but for the sake of the sister. You can see the screenwriter, that is, your preference for your sister, which should not be risked with the precious time of the first few episodes. ”
Feng Tangtang recalled Zuo Yan's tone: "Concubine Shu's sister is indeed an excellent character and deserves preference. But the opening is not her time, and appearing at the wrong time is unfair to the character itself. ”
The episode screenwriter Da Li changed his face when he heard it, and he was so choked that he couldn't say a word.
It should have been more relaxed, but Feng Tangtang unconsciously repeated Zuo Yan's words, because she felt that what she said was really handsome.
She obviously ignored that when she listened to Zuo Yan's words, she had a big male god aura bonus! And the big Li on the other side didn't love Feng Tangtang, but wanted to flip the table at her: "I've been writing for so many years, and my experience is still less than yours?" ”
Wu Qingfeng, the screenwriter's coordinator, stopped him: "It's still a child, Da Li, don't be so ungraceful." When you think about it, how much truth does she have in saying it? If you want to make something good, you can't just rank seniority. ”
Another episode screenwriter came out to play a round: "I think it's okay for the little girl to talk about directly outputting her character." But there is no need to secretly speculate on the author's thoughts, there are many reasons why a person does something, and it doesn't have to be the one you guessed, so why should young people be so big? ”
Zuo Yan's work style is indeed not so sleek.
Feng Tangtang didn't expect Da Li to be annoyed and angry, and he also regretted it a little: "Teacher Li, I'm sorry, I was too self-righteous just now. ”
Da Li, who was said by two colleagues, was also a little ashamed of his anger: "Actually, the little girl guessed right, my old face ......"
Li Gang walked up to Da Li and patted him: "I absorb the young voice, just for this, don't talk about your old face, my old face may be gone in a few days." ”
Feng Tangtang was even more embarrassed: "Master......"
Wu Qingfeng said with a smile: "It turns out that the little girl is your apprentice, don't say it earlier." Hmph, an old fox, with a little fox, it will become more and more difficult in the future, okay, let's get here today? ”
After the meeting, Feng Tangtang's mood was worse than in the afternoon, and the first thing he did when he returned to his desk was to look at the mailbox.
The flashing icon lit up her whole body.
New email, from: Zuo Yan. Los Angeles time, 6:30AM.