Chapter 78: In the limelight
With the arrival of the Qixi Festival, the filming of the TV series has reached the final stage. The scenes are not filmed in the order of the plot, and now the final climactic scenes have been filmed, and only the first few scenes are left, which will definitely be completed in a week, and maybe it will be completed in advance.
In any case, according to Director Wan's plan, before the Midyear Festival, the filming will be completed.
In this way, Zhou Yi and Tang Yan can go to school easily and happily.
Seeing that it is the end of August, Yan Ying is indeed about to start school.
After the college entrance examination, this long summer vacation is coming to an end.
During the nearly three-month holiday, Zhou Yi finished a movie and a 40-episode TV series, filmed commercials, made endorsements, made cameo appearances in Shui Yuexun's blockbuster easter egg scenes, and created a lot of songs.
Now the post-production of "Rushing to the Sky Tower" is very smooth, Mr. Su Jian has finished all the soundtracks of the film, and it is estimated that the special effects are almost finished. After all, Zhengdong Pictures and Juneng have joined forces with the two companies, and the speed of special effects will be much faster.
Regarding the movie soundtrack, Zhou Yi has taken the time to listen to it carefully, and it feels really good, definitely not worse than the old works in his previous life, although it is different, but it is very distinctive, and it can reflect the solemn and sinister and bloody coldness of Chongxiaolou. There is a lot more place to add the soundtrack to the whole film, after all, the plot has changed, like some plots in the skyscraper, as well as the climax plot of the final battle, the soundtrack is very powerful.
Zhou Yi was very satisfied and felt that the soundtrack was fine.
The opening and closing credits are beautifully done.
Recording, mixing, and all of this is done.
Post-production doesn't have to worry about Zhou Yiduo at all.
When all the special effects are done, and then the color grading in the later stage, and the overall packaging, seeing that there is another small-budget film to be made, Zhou Yi feels very cool. It's really fun to save this kind of small film, it's risk-free, and it can make money, relying on appearance and drama to attract the audience, how good! This is the value of an actor. Like Lang Jun, he spent a lot of money all over the world to shoot scenes, and finally made a literary blockbuster, which can simply trap his father, and the money is not used in the right place. What's the use of taking pictures. At least Zhou Yi felt that every penny he spent on the blade, and he was so satisfied.
However, if "Chongxiao Tower" wants to be released, it must wait until after September, when Zhou Yi has already accompanied his sister to Yanying to school.
Yanying's start of school is September 7th, and there are still two and a half weeks of happy time.
In fact, going to school will be just as fast.
Zhou Yi never bothered about this kind of thing.
The arrangements for the opening of school in Yanying are: registration of new students on September 7, opening ceremony of new students on September 9, enrollment education of new students on September 10, military training for new students on September 14, and official classes on September 28.
There is still military training? For this, Zhou Yi is actually speechless, hasn't he been trained enough?
There was a skeleton party organization in the front, and a military youth group in the back, but unfortunately I can't say it.
He's qualified to be an instructor himself!
And it's a waste of time to mix up all sorts of things for another month. Isn't it good for us to hurry up and learn acting?
However, Tang Yan has always been looking forward to going to college, so that she will not follow her brother's mess, and following the rules is a good child. Besides, Yanying has two super clubs in the entertainment industry that Red Alert and Umbrella can play, and I am looking forward to it!
Although today is Tanabata, the crew is still filming as usual, and there will be no holiday.
It's not a big holiday for the crew.
Anyway, no one in the crew wants to celebrate "Chinese Valentine's Day", this is purely a festival for movie fans to make money, as soon as the so-called Cowherd and Weaver Girl meet, the banknotes fly away. As industry insiders, everyone is very calm, and they are all in a posture of preferring to celebrate Singles' Day, but Valentine's Day.
Even Zhou Yi felt that Producer Zhang was too calm, and asked him when he was fine: It's Chinese Valentine's Day now, won't your "Sleepless Tonight" be released on this opportunity? It's a rare Valentine's Day schedule.
Producer Zhang smiled wryly: Who dares to release it on this blockbuster schedule? That's going to be a trap. The summer season isn't over yet! Although this is the Chinese Valentine's Day schedule, this schedule is reserved for the actresses, not for us small-cost films!
Everyone laughed: This Valentine's Day schedule is stuck at the end of the summer schedule, which is really pitiful!
It's not a blockbuster, who would dare to release it?
The main focus of this schedule is a romance film between an old actress and a new Huadan, starring Long Xiang actor Liang Mofeng, and the other films will be dispersed! In the face of this combination of emperor and queen plus Hua Dan, plus famous directors, how many films dare to face difficulties?
In the top level of actor and superstar, Liang Mofeng is second only to Lou Degua, and in terms of awards alone, there are even more!
If "Sleepless Tonight" dares to be released, it is that Boss Huang himself wants to die.
However, Boss Huang is obviously not the former boss of Aurora, and he will not do that kind of stupid thing.
He's just patient and waiting for his chance.
There will always be opportunities in the industry.
In terms of the crew, now that the scenes in the two major venues in Tsinghua University have been filmed, the crew has moved back to Jiahua Art School and then filmed relevant scenes. Zhou Yi's brothers and sisters can follow the crew to shoot as usual, there is nothing to say.
The Zhengdong propaganda department has posted the song video sent back by Zhou Yi to the Internet to engage in publicity, entertain fans, and solicit fans. As for registering the copyright of the song, the copyright department has already done it, and there is no omission.
Many fans saw this shoddy "people-friendly" video of singing and dancing in time, and they really thought it was funny. Some fans exclaimed: This brother and sister are really good at playing! Watching Zhou Yi and Tang Yan sing and dance, many fans feel very happy, and it is indeed noisy. They think that Tang Yan sings well, which is rare for non-professional players, especially the graceful dancing and extremely good-looking, and fans can feast their eyes.
And fans think Zhou Yi's lyrics are extremely well written.
The full text of the lyrics was posted on Weibo for fans to enjoy.
This kind of propaganda is really good.
Zhou Yi's "Qixi Festival" plan is very successful, and the name of the talented man has lived up to his name, and he is currently in the limelight.
This is to be able to film, but also to publicize, to seize every opportunity to promote yourself and attract the attention of fans.
If you read it a lot, you will naturally remember it.
In his free time for filming, especially in the evening, Zhou Yi also discussed script creation with the company's three screenwriters.
In fact, Zhengdong Company also wants to recruit a few more screenwriters, and in the future, as the company makes more and more films, three screenwriters will be insufficient sooner or later, but this kind of thing is not easy, it depends on the opportunity, senior screenwriters are not so easy to recruit, and it is not easy to poach people. There are also talented young screenwriters, but young people often think too highly of themselves and may not be willing to succumb to a small second-tier company like Zhengdong.
Don't look at Zhengdong's success in a film, but there are too many such situations in the industry, there are countless of them, there are always dark horses appearing, and it is nothing at all.
A small company is still a small company, and it will not become a big company just because it succeeds in a film.
It's normal for people to look down on it, so you can only take your time.
Not to mention the screenwriter, it is not easy for Zhou Yi to recruit two older actors. Like Xie Wendong and Xia Ping, they haven't given Zhou Yi a letter yet. Even if they are all 40 years old, their future is almost exhausted, especially actresses, even if they are at the level of actresses, they are almost far away from the big screen at this age, and if they are in good condition, they can enter the TV drama circle and develop. Even so, in the face of Zhengdong's boss's very sincere invitation, the two actors did not immediately bow their heads happily and shouted to the lord, they still hesitated, still looking at the situation, and did not dare to agree easily.
This can also show that Zhengdong's current status in the industry is actually a second-tier small company, and there is a long way to go for future development.
Guo Fucheng and Guo Aiming can come to Zhengdong for development, most of the reason is because of their relatives, and they will be reused.
For this situation, Zhou Yi is not in a hurry.
Jiang Taigong fished, and those who wished took the bait.
In the evening, Zhou Yi and the company's three screenwriters, Li Dongquan, Xue Renbao and Kwong Mingyao, discussed the plot through online chat. It is inconvenient for the crew to meet, so they can only use this way. The main discussion is the script of "Ace vs. Ace".
Because Zhou Yi is about to go to school, the filming time depends on the situation, before the release of "Chongxiao Tower", there will definitely be no way to prepare for "One-Armed Knife", even if you start to prepare, I am afraid that you will not be able to shoot for a while, so you can only wait first. But Gao Song and they usually have nothing to do, and they can film at any time. Of course, the script for their "Ace vs. Ace" movie had to be worked out first.
Zhou Yi made a detailed outline and character design earlier, and handed it over to the screenwriter to fill in the details and improve the script. Zhou Yi wrote not a script, a plot synopsis and some wonderful story paragraphs, which were brief things, not how the script was written. The three screenwriters want to get the complete script out according to these things written by Zhou Yi, which is actually a test of screenwriter skills.
Through the skillful hand of the screenwriter, the Hollywood-style movies of the previous life will become the original Chinese-style movies.
This style shift is crucial.
Zhou Yi understands this very well, so he will only tell the screenwriter what the plot is, but how to write it is the screenwriter's job. The three screenwriters obviously didn't know this, and it was impossible for them to think that they were taking a Hollywood work. They just have to do it in their own style.
During this time, they read a lot of internal information that Zhuo Qinglian gave them, studied it very carefully, and then referred to Zhou Yi's plot synopsis and some wonderful passages, basically knowing what the plot was about. Of course, time is limited, and it is not yet a month now, and it is impossible for them to come up with a complete script. After all, it takes a lot of time to research the material. A classic script like this is not something that can be done casually.
However, with such a long preparation time, now the three screenwriters have established a script framework, which can be regarded as a simple construction of the model of the script, the skeleton is there, and then find a way to enrich the details inside.
Zhou Yi read the script framework they designed, and was generally quite satisfied, and made some suggestions.
Usually they will discuss some specific details.
According to the details of the film in his previous life, Zhou Yi can give a lot of excellent advice.
How to write it depends on the three screenwriters to figure it out by themselves.
During this time, the three screenwriters felt that they had gained a lot, at least they had learned a lot, not only from studying the internal materials of the military command. Based on the plot design of this film, they were really inspired and helped a lot.
This is a classic movie from the previous life, and it is a wonderful drama, it is to attract people by the plot, not by special effects and action, as long as the screenwriter is a little smarter and his brain is smart enough, of course he can learn a lot.
Talent is talent, but screenwriters also need to be cultivated, and this experience is especially important.
The three screenwriters all felt that it was worth staying in Zhengdong.
As a screenwriter with ideals, of course, he will look forward to one day when he can write beautiful scripts, make blockbuster films, and get high dividends, but he must first have that kind of ability, and now they are still in their infancy, and they have to work hard.
Earlier, they adapted the script of "Chongxiao Tower" according to Zhou Yi's conception, although it was done well, but that kind of script is completely incomparable with the script of "Ace", the former relies on drama to speak after all, the plot is like that, no matter how it is adapted, it is not how outstanding it is.
For another example, the script of "Flower Season" written by them is certainly an excellent youth campus idol drama, but it is a TV series after all, and it cannot be compared with the highly condensed movie classic script, and "Flower Season" is to put it bluntly, it is all the little white routines of today's online novels pretending to be forced to slap the face plus upgrade flow and competitive flow, those plots are really good-looking and inspirational, but compared with classic movie scripts, they are a lot worse.
Now the three screenwriters have seen these plot designs of Zhou Yi, and they are indeed very impressed.
In their opinion, the plot design of this film is twists and turns, very professional, and extremely atmospheric, it can be called a large-scale work, and it is definitely a model work of mid-range strong films, which is much stronger than Zhou Yi's debut film "Five Poisons", and has made great progress.
can deeply process these plots, re-create, and make a complete script, the three screenwriters are very excited and very motivated.
In the pre-Aurora era, although they had successfully produced some small-budget productions, the box office had never reached the height of "Five Poison Gate", which was a lot worse! And they have never set foot in the field of such a mid-range strong film, and now it is the first time.
They really want to do their best to complete this screenwriting task, and they must strive to do their best.
For them, it was a rare opportunity to write a screenplay.
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