The Celestial Empire is now in an era where there is a serious shortage of other cast and crew, but there is a serious flood of directors and actors.

One thing an actor and a director have in common is that those who are professionally trained can do it, and those who are not professionally trained can do it. There are many actors because the threshold for entering the camera is too low, and the income after becoming famous is disproportionately high. There are many directors because this profession is a bit similar to cross talk, cross talk is to be able to talk and tell jokes, and you can mix in a cross talk circle. The director is to bring in investment, and if he can make a group of people, he can become a director, what ideas, techniques, and techniques, and then find someone to blow it and come out.

Therefore, there is a flood of people with actors' names and director's names.

Therefore, it is natural for two graduates of the directing department of an orthodox college to go to the advertising industry after graduating from the directing department of a professionally trained college.

Xu Zhen and Jiang Chang are two dreamers who dreamed of movies but ended up in the advertising industry, the two came from different colleges and graduated at different times, but the rare two did not hate each other because they were colleagues, but became good friends who could talk about women, ideals and ideas. Of course, if you only talk about ideals and ideas and don't talk about women, then they are friends.

Of course, the two talked about movies the most together.

Today is the two working together to shoot a commercial film, Xu Zhen is responsible for the control of the overall plot, the performance of the actors, the use of lenses, etc., while Jiang Chang is responsible for the plot detail design, action design, and special effects design.

At this time, the shooting location in the warehouse rented by the company in the suburbs has been basically set up, and it has basically become a green world, with a huge green screen surrounding most of the venue, and all kinds of one-time buildings built inside are also green.

The filming team is also in place, the girls are all wearing makeup, and the boss has also come to inspect twice, just waiting for the protagonist to arrive.

"It's almost half past nine, why hasn't that great immortal come yet? Who's such a big brand?! Jiang Chang looked at the girls who had already put on makeup but were bored playing with their mobile phones in the field, and said to Xu Zhen helplessly.

"It's not a big-name star, but at this point in time, her influence on the Internet is really no less than some big names." Xu Zhen is very calm: "People don't have any coffee positions in the entertainment industry, but there are resources on the Internet that Lao Huang and this game company covet, now, you can't look at the entertainment industry with old eyes, these online anchors can't be underestimated, especially this one is very popular recently, there can be more than one million viewers during the peak during the day, and more than three million at the peak at night." ”

"Flower rub, isn't that a hair?!" Jiang Chang expressed envy, jealousy and hatred: "What do these people like about her?" ”

Xu Zhen shrugged, this thing can't be said, that is, after he heard that this business was looking for this girl, he also went to the girl's live broadcast room to take a look, how to say it, that girl is naturally beautiful and naturally cute, plus full of heroic vitality, coupled with the team's strength, she can always discover the laughter in her behavior, which actually made Xu Zhen watch it for more than two hours unconsciously, until he was hungry and did not react.

Although these three million viewers seem to have tens of millions of clicks on an episode of a TV series, and tens of millions of people follow Weibo, these HTC data are not worth mentioning in comparison. But you must know that more than one million people during the day coincide with more than three million people at night, but it is not too big, and these are three million people who can watch for hours just by watching the computer like this, such a real data even makes some big names envious.

Of course, it's not easy to monetize this data.

"Therefore, for game companies, it is very worthwhile to be able to do targeted advertising to more than 3 million young audiences, and on this basis, this one got an advertising remuneration of 150,000 yuan, the price of a third-tier star." Xu Zhen explained: "So, in order to make better use of her resources, I deliberately decided to delay the time as much as possible until the afternoon and evening, when her live broadcast room has the largest number of people." ”

Jiang Chang was a little speechless, and every time he compared with these little girls who came to the company to shoot advertisements, he felt a sense of frustration: "What's the use of saying that we have been reading books for so many years?" These little girls eat with one face for ten years, and then find a man to eat for a lifetime. ”

Xu Zhen said confidently: "Don't care about the gains and losses of one time and one place, you have to believe that the future is beautiful." ”

Jiang Chang cheered up and said, "Your script has been sold?" ”

Xu Zhen shrugged and said: "No, now the film industry of the Celestial Empire has not yet reached the point where the theme of the film is determined by the script, the project is given priority, the director's preference is given priority, the script is usually ranked last, usually there is a project to do the script, or according to the requirements of the director and producer, the script is changed, and there is no script first, so the idea of wanting to sell the script at the beginning was wrong." ”

"Then you ......" Jiang Chang wondered.

Xu Zhen said quietly: "Where did I ask Lao Huang for leave, leave without pay, and go with the crew, Director Ma's crew, hehe." I got his appreciation through the teacher's introduction to the shooting plan and script analysis that I helped Director Ma do. ”

"Congratulations!" Jiang Chang sincerely congratulated him.

"Hey, hey, how are your group saving?" Xu Zhen asked.

"It's basically almost, but there is a lack of people who really know how to props, and I paint everything by myself and find a factory to make it." Jiang Chang was a little helpless.

"Shooting plans are ready?" Xu Zhen asked.

"It's basically done, I don't have to make some deep artistry or something like you, in my eyes, movies are visual effects, and I play mainly on visual effects." Jiang Chang said.

Hearing his tone, the inertia left by the arguments with each other all the time made Xu Zhen speak again: "I still say the same thing, visual effects still have to serve the story, the story is boring, and your visual effects have no meaning to exist." ”

Jiang Chang shook his head: "I still say the same thing, your literary and artistic heart has made you lose a broader vision, the essence of film is a thing, the essence of the film industry is a business, good things are bad things, good business and bad business are nothing more." According to Lao Mi's experience, they usually have a story, and then develop or wait for the technology to appear, and then shoot, of course, this is only a few pioneers, most of their film industry is carried out around film visual technology, with computer technology, around computer technology, with CG technology, around this technology, with 3D, around this technology, with the technology that can perfectly shoot floating weightless shots, you find that many of their blockbusters have this kind of lens. ”

Xu Zhen retorted: "Your own words are contradictory, the point of view of the left and right will only become donkey's head and horsetail, have you ever seen a movie that has no story but is just a pile of special effects, and the special effects are just to better express the story." ”

Jiang Chang is definitely not so easy to be persuaded: "If you look carefully at Lao Mi's visual effects blockbuster, the story in the movie is not so much a story as a clue that connects the visual effects one by one, a kind of psychological suggestion, emotional cultivation, and when the special effects come out, the audience will say 'wow', they will succeed, and they will be able to sell for money!" As for the VFX blockbusters that you said didn't have a story, that's too much. ”

"Aren't you putting the cart before the horse? A dinosaur without a plot foreshadowing comes out, which is not as shocking as the commercial. ”

"There is a kind of plot arranged by the director's script, there is a kind of plot that is made up by the audience's brain, you put a good special effects dinosaur in the lens, rest assured, the audience will make up some shots in the brain, and the plot of our movie is not so much to give the audience a story, but to limit the audience's thinking to the story."

"Sure enough, it is worthy of the cultivation of Dongdu Art School, full of utilitarian thoughts."

"You are trained in the Beijing Art School, you always regard yourself as an artist, and the essence of a film director is an engineer, so that people will be beautiful, and they will become artists in the eyes of others, but they are still engineers."

"Well, I'm sorry, I'm very happy and engaged to listen to your conversation, but shouldn't we start work?"

A nice female voice sounded beside the two.

The two of them turned their heads at the same time, and saw a girl who was energetic in fashionable clothes, tall and handsome, with delicate and heroic features, and her signature fluffy short hair seemed to be jumping with her breath.

"Huh? Oh, Miss Ding, you're here. Jiang Chang was the first to react.

"I'm sorry, I'm late." Ding Weidao.

"It's okay, it's okay, it's a little later." After Xu Zhen finished speaking, he suddenly saw the camera following Ding Wei and knew that it was for live broadcasting.

"Well, is it live now?" Xu Zhen asked, pointing at the camera.

"Yes, you're on TV, would you like to say hello to your family and friends?" Ding Wei said.

Jiang Chang took out his mobile phone and logged in to the page of Ding Wei's live broadcast room, and then took his mobile phone to greet Xu Zhen: "Hey, Xu Zhen, you see me on TV!" ”

The corners of Xu Zhen's mouth twitched: "You guys really know how to play!" But I'd like to ask, isn't our conversation going to be livestreamed as well? ”

Jiang Chang looked at his phone and said, "It's been broadcast live, and everyone is discussing this matter." ”

"Hey, you're getting the point wrong." Xu Zhen gritted his teeth and glared at Jiang Chang, then looked at the camera with a smile and said, "I just talked nonsense with my good friends just now, and the students of Dongdu Art School are naturally all talented." ”

"Oh, yes, the students of the Beijing Art School are naturally artists." Jiang Chang also reacted.

"Oops, you're so nervous, no one of you will take your words seriously!" Ding Wei said.

Ah, yes, no peer would take the words of our two pawns seriously, what a butt comfort!

The two were speechless, looking at each other with teary eyes, almost holding their heads in pain and crying.

Ding Wei, who was inadvertently full of blood, turned to the camera unconsciously: "But the views of the two are still quite interesting, those who support special effects play 2, those who support art play 3, and then Xiao Qi, you can count how much they are." ”

Then the viewers who watched the live broadcast saw that a stupid and cute dog with glasses suddenly appeared in the live video, holding a sign that said 'It is impossible to count', jumped a few times with tears in his face and rolled down.

Xu Zhen quickly cheered up and waved his hand: "Okay, stop playing, hurry up and call the actors over for a meeting." ”