Chapter 265: A Bite of China
Gu Xiaofan gathered everyone together, stood in front of the map, and looked directly at Sun Bin and several people:
"Director Sun, do you all think that because I went to make a movie, you can't shoot anything good on the barrage network?"
Sun Bin hesitated for a moment, and then nodded with a wry smile: "Director Gu, let me tell you the truth, in the past few years, we have either made commercials or documentaries, and we have no commercial works at all, and we are also more than willing to do it......
All the directors are looking at me and I looking at you, their faces are a little embarrassed, although they all complain about Gu Xiaofan in their hearts, but in fact, if there is no Gu Xiaofan, their art factory is actually struggling before, and now that they think about it, they are really not qualified to complain about this little director......
"We have made a lot of documentaries~ It's a documentary~" Gu Xiaofan looked at everyone with blazing eyes, and said:
"This documentary is precisely the advantage of our art factory, Director Sun, you have shot 13 documentaries over the years, Wu Shikai you have filmed 11, Liu Hai you have shot 10, Xu Jiang has shot 9...... Even Hao Juan, who has the least qualifications, has made 3 documentaries......"
Everyone was surprised when they heard this, but they didn't expect Gu Xiaofan to find out their information clearly, this little factory director is not a management straw bag. [Full text reading]
"I've seen it carefully~" Gu Xiaofan looked at every production director here, and said proudly:
"Your team of directors has made hundreds of documentaries in total...... Jin Shouzheng and those people, this time not only underestimated me Gu Xiaofan, but also underestimated our art factory, which has the most powerful documentary team. ”
Liu Hai couldn't help muttering when he heard this: "What's the use of that, most of them are science, education, and social literature...... The TV station didn't broadcast at all...... You can't make any money at all. ”
Who wants to make a documentary...... It's not that I didn't have a job before, so I took on this thankless task.
"Who says documentaries can't make money?" Gu Xiaofan's face was serious, and he said loudly:
"As long as we shoot with our hearts, record the real bits and pieces, add good music, dubbing lines, even the simplest documentary, it will interest ordinary people, China has always been the people's food, we will shoot a documentary on food culture this time, "A Bite of China"."
"A Bite of China"? A documentary on gastronomic culture?
Everyone thinks it's very novel and ridiculous, not to mention the emerging online media, even if it's a traditional TV media, no documentary can become a popular work, not a single ......
He Tiejun thought for a while and nodded: "This is our factory's specialty, we have filmed so many food materials before, many of them can be used directly, and we don't have to follow the shooting for several months...... In terms of time, it can save a lot of ......"
He Tiejun said this, but looked at Gu Xiaofan and asked the question that everyone was thinking about:
"But Director Gu, do you know that dozens of such documentaries are filmed every year, but there is only a very small viewing population, why do you think that this "A Bite of China" will be likely to win the love of netizens?"
This is the biggest doubt in everyone's mind, they don't know how a documentary should move people.
Gu Xiaofan didn't speak, but said to Liu Liu, a military fan next to him: "Bring the materials in." ”
Liu, a military fan with a haggard face, immediately bent down and took out a thick stack of script-like things from under the table.
Everyone was a little curious, and when they came to see it, it turned out to be a storyboard manuscript with "A Bite of China - Nature's Gift" written on it, and everyone was stunned for a moment.
He Tiejun and Deputy Director Wang were surprised, what happened? How can there be a storyboard for a documentary? This director Gu is too serious.
The various production directors looked at each other, a little crying and laughing, this Gu Xiaofan is really a documentary layman, and he even engaged in storyboard scripts? That's too much fuss, isn't it?
"Is that the amount of ten episodes?" Sun Bin turned two pages, looked at Gu Xiaofan and asked, surprised by Gu Xiaofan's meticulous preparation in advance, with such a storyboard, the progress of their shooting will be greatly improved.
Before Gu Xiaofan could speak, military fan Liu smiled bitterly: "Ten episodes? These manuscripts are good for an episode~ I'm going to vomit when I sort it out...... "In the past few days, he has been staying up late almost every day in order to classify the information Gu Xiaofan gave him......
"How much is ...... an episode?" Sun Bin and the others frowned slightly when they listened, not quite convinced.
Military fan Liu didn't explain, and took out a stack of folders as thick as the script just now from under the table, a total of 7 copies, neatly arranged in front of everyone.
This can make He Tiejun, Deputy Director Wang, and Sun Bin all frightened, and He Tiejun was surprised, and shouted directly:
Wu Shikai, bangs...... How many of you counted, how many shots are in each of these~!? ”
Wu Shikai hurriedly picked up a book casually as fast as they could, and then counted the number of shots in it.
"I'm 50 minutes, 831 shots." Wu Shikai said with his mouth wide open.
Another production director also shouted: "I have 917 ...... for 50 minutes."
The last thing to count was bangs, and he put down the storyboard and looked at everyone with a shocked face: "I...... I'm going to be 50 minutes...... 1039 shots. ”
He Tiejun, Deputy Director Wang, Sun Bin...... Everyone was stunned.
50 minutes ...... More than 1000 shots!?
What a concept!
You must know that the general food documentary is a camera, a host, go to the kitchen to find the chefs, the camera is the process of cooking, and then let the master tell a paragraph to introduce the background of the dish, the practice, and what allusions there are.
Filmed all the way in this way, plus the material of the scenery and streets, the final editing and release of an hour-long documentary, the shots are about 100 to 200, and this "A Bite of China", the amount of shots alone is 10 times that of the ordinary!
That's an average of 3 seconds per shot! This is already a movie-level level~
Even in the fourth episode of the script "The Taste of Time", the Korean daughter made spicy cabbage with her mother, and Gu Xiaofan prescribed 4 shots to show it just the moment when the cabbage was cut......
Sun Bin held a script and was full of joy while reading it:
"This close-up design is fantastic...... Unexpectedly, using macro photography to express the beauty of a matsutake mushroom, bamboo shoot, or the structure of nature very beautifully~~ Director Gu, how did you design it......"