Chapter 103 Shooting MV II
The script is very good, Ye Liangchen also thought so when he first read it, but when he read it carefully, he found a problem. According to this script, it will inevitably be filmed with a strong sadness, although it has a sense of Chinese-style pictures, but it is a little deviated from the nostalgic and sad tune of the song itself. It's a pity that it's been a long time, and he doesn't have a specific impression of the original MV anymore.
Ye Liangchen couldn't tolerate the slightest flaw in such a hand-me-down work, and even though he communicated with the creators of the script, the two chatted until noon, but no matter how he revised it, Ye Liangchen still felt that it was not perfect.
A bold, almost crazy idea was born in Ye Liangchen's mind - he wanted to write his own MV script.
After some painstaking negotiations, EMI finally agreed to give him three days to write, and after three days, the two scripts would be comprehensively compared before making a decision.
Ye Liangchen immediately started to prepare, first learned the basics from the script writers of EMI, and finally went back with a few successful MV work templates to start his creative process.
Since he had this idea, he already had a blueprint in his heart, no diamonds, no porcelain work!
For the next two consecutive days, Ye Liangchen devoted himself to creation except for eating and sleeping, and finally completed it in advance before dinner on Saturday.
Ye Liangchen has been creating for the past two days, and everyone has not bothered him, and when they hear that he has completed his creation, they are naturally happy for him. Song Jia finally talked to her peers, and in the past two weeks, she has been practicing hard every day under the supervision of Mr. Feng and Teacher Zhang, but she has been suffocated, and this dinner is extraordinarily lively.
Early on Sunday morning, Feng Lao, Chen An, Ye Liangchen, and Song Jia came to EMI together, and Ye Liangchen handed in the script he created.
"East Wind Breaking" Storyboard Script:
Role: Actor: Xu Zhimo - Ye Liangchen
Heroine: Lin Huiyin - Song Jia
Exterior scenes: Chinese-style old small building, boating on the Kang River (considering that it cannot be filmed on the spot, it was changed to boating in the lake);
Indoor: study, bedroom, living room, stairs (wooden);
Clothing: robes and horse coats, classical cheongsam;
1, (from the door music) The camera panned, in front of the ancient small building, Xu Zhimo walked to the door from far and near. (Continuous subtitles: "Dongfeng Break", lyrics: Legend Special Guest Accompaniment: Feng Shaoxian Screenwriter: Legend, Xiaomi (the creator of the first draft of "Dongfeng Break", Ye Liangchen specially added it as a thank you) Producer: ...... Director:...... Producer:...... Camera:...... Actor:...... (Subtitle appearance method optional) (fade out)
2, (fade in) (the background is still a small building) Close-up of Xu Zhimo's face, the camera pushes to a close-up, Xu Zhimo stands behind the door, the camera switches, Lin Huiyin stares at the door alone in the living room (song: a light is sad, standing alone at the window; I'm behind the door, pretending you're not gone) (fade out)
3, (fade in) (the background switches to the exterior scene, from the bridge to the lake) Xu Zhimo and Lin Huiyin are boating in the lake, the camera switches, Xu Zhimo stands on the bridge, looking at the lake, and is sentimental alone (lip-syncing). (Lyrics: The old land is like a revisit, and the full moon is more lonely; The candle flame that was awake in the middle of the night couldn't bear to criticize me. (fade out)
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The whole book is divided into 56 shots, telling the love between Xu Zhimo and Lin Huiyin, the ancient small building was originally the house where Lin Huiyin lived in London, which was replaced by a Chinese-style small building, where Lin Huiyin played the piano (replaced with pipa in the script), Xu Zhimo recited poetry, the two met and knew each other, and gradually fell in love, and finally regrettably, although Xu Zhimo would rather be pointed out by Lin Hui, and even did not hesitate to fall behind the infamy of abandoning his wife and children, he resolutely became the first divorced man in China, But Lin Huiyin was deeply bound by traditional concepts, and returned to China in a hurry, and even got engaged to marry Liang Qichao's son Liang Sicheng within a few months. Xu Zhimo also returned to China soon, and he couldn't turn the situation around with all his efforts, Xu Zhimo's sadness comes from this, he misses the good times of the two in Cambridge, among which there are two close-ups in the study, one is Xu Zhimo's poem (farewell to Kangqiao), and the other is Lin Huiyin's autographed book "You are the April Day in the World", the MV will not appear in the words Xu Zhimo and Lin Huiyin, but the two deliberately arranged close-ups will make the identities of the two self-evident.
"It's really extraordinary, the hero is a boy!"
Those who have participated in Na Ying's MV works and EMI's senior MV producer gave such an evaluation.
There is no doubt that Ye Liangchen's script was successful, and everyone spent most of the next day further refining all the details.
On Monday, the MV of "East Wind Breaking" was officially launched.
This is the first time Ye Liangchen and Song Jia have been on the camera, and they were so nervous at the beginning that they slowly adapted, and the smart two quickly found the feeling in front of the camera, and their cooperation gradually became tacit.
Ye Liangchen wore a robe and a horse coat and a mask instead of Xu Zhimo's glasses, on the one hand, he figured out that the MV work guò conveyed the love story of Xu Zhimo and Lu Xiaoman to the world, on the other hand, he had to choose to stick to his original intention of keeping a low profile, so it could only be like this. Fortunately, there is a post-production zuò, which uses the fade effect of the lens to weaken the mask itself and give it a special meaning, as Xu Zhimo once said to Lin Huiyin: "Because we are too accustomed to wearing masks in front of others, we end up disguising ourselves in front of ourselves." ”
Song Jia appeared almost without makeup, dressed in a red or elegant cheongsam, with a gesture, full of classical beauty. The meditation in the living room, the fuqin in the study, and the boating on the lake are all so beautiful that people feel suffocated.
After nearly five days of shooting, the two got along day and night, and the relationship became much closer, almost to the point of saying nothing.
After completing the shooting of the MV, Ye Liangchen hurriedly started the next show and recorded his second new song.
Here's the thing, during the filming of the music video the next day, he inadvertently went to the finance room during the intermission, and it happened that he had always been curious about how much money he was making now, so he asked the finance staff.
I don't know, I was shocked when I asked, his current income is nearly 20,000, just 100,000 albums, and there is only one of his songs. Looking at Ye Liangchen's expression, the financial staff explained to him that the net profit obtained by the singer after removing the production cost, publicity cost, sales cost, and tax cost of each album is shared by the company and the contracted singer according to the proportion on the contract, and his income is high because his works and lyrics are all created by him.
"I'm going to come out with a second song," Ye Liangchen thought to himself.
When I returned to Feng's hometown that night, after everyone finished eating, Ye Liangchen helped with the housework, and said to Chen An and Feng Lao: "Feng Lao, teacher, these days in school, in addition to conceiving the script of "Dongfeng Breaking", I also created a song, which is also related to Xu Zhimo, do you want to listen to it?" ”