Chapter 10: The Evil King Huang Xifan
In the studio, almost all the main members of the crew have been gathered. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The director team and the camera team, which are the core, have gathered people. There are all kinds of teams that assist the director in filming, such as assistant directors, scene notes, line directors, stunt directors, etc. The action director can be concurrently served by Director Xu, who himself is a top master in this area. The photographers, assistant photographers, camera assistants, mechanics, gaffers, and lighting assistants of the photography group are also here.
There are also artists, costumes, props, makeup, etc., these people are also available.
There are also sound engineers and sound recorders in the recording crew.
Zhou Yi was very polite and communicated with everyone warmly and talked freely.
On behalf of Zhengdong Pictures, he welcomes everyone to join the crew, and also welcomes everyone to join Zhengdong in the future. If you have the opportunity in the future, you can also cooperate often. Zhengdong Pictures always welcomes professionals to join us and participate in the grand event. This is Zhou Yi's statement. He knows that these people are all professional masters, and no matter whether they come or not, he has to express his invitation, saying that he attaches great importance to talents.
Although these crew members have not officially met Zhou Yi before, they all know that Zhou Yi is an investor and starring, and he is a hot new action star in the industry at the moment, so they are naturally willing to communicate, and everyone is very enthusiastic.
Through communication, Zhou Yi knew that among these people, the ingredients are quite complex, and some of them are old partners that Director Xu knew before, such as assistant directors, scene notes, art directors, and art designers, who used to work together often. Many people did not sign a contract with the company, and took over the work alone, and most of them were lone ranger-style masters, but now they are all gathered under the command of Director Xu and gathered together. There are also professional studios that have worked with Director Xu before, such as art design, costume design, prop design, etc. When it comes to co-production, they naturally come together.
This is not uncommon in the industry.
Not everyone is willing to sign a contract with a company to ensure their jobs in drought and flood, and some people like to work freely, Zhou Yi can understand it.
However, being able to gather the whole crew in such a short period of time, Zhou Yi really admires it.
This time also includes the time when they came from all over the country, and almost as soon as Director Xu greeted him, everyone came. Director Xu Qianye's connections are really powerful, and his appeal is indeed very strong.
Now all departments of the crew have begun to prepare and carry out various tasks, not just waiting.
Although the specific shooting time depends on Zhou Yi's arrangement, the preparations must be in front.
Director Xu has recently entered a busy work state and has come up with some storyboard scripts.
Although he is making a small-budget film, he is also very serious, very carefully prepared, and will not shoot casually.
The art director and artist, got the relevant scripts and scripts, and began to design various shapes. They have to study together with the director team and the camera team, and draw design drawings of various shapes according to the hypothetical scenarios of the script and the director's intentions, mainly including scene design, character design, prop design, and lens design. Weapon designs like the Golden Knife and the Golden Knife Lock, start now.
In the original work in the previous life, the design of the golden knife lock was too rough and simple, which was a problem with the art props.
Limited to the backward level of the sixties in the previous life, it is naturally impossible for the props to be very beautifully designed.
In this world, remakes of old works must be better designed.
The costume designer has already begun to determine the costume design according to the requirements of the director and the artist. The costume artist also began to design the character makeup. The prop master should cooperate with the artists to create and design various weapons and props.
At present, the crew is mainly engaged in design work, and has not yet reached the specific production step.
After all, all kinds of preliminary preparations have just begun, and everyone must first come up with a professional design draft.
Before you start using your brain and writing, things must come in order.
Because it has just begun, there is no specific design plan to come up with yet, Zhou Yi understands the situation and is not in a hurry, just chatting with everyone about his thoughts for the reference of his colleagues in the crew. Zhou Yi will not follow the original works of his previous life, after all, the works of his previous life are all outdated things. He hopes that these professionals can open their minds and come up with better professional designs.
After communicating with everyone and understanding the basic situation, Director Xu took Zhou Yi to his own office to meet with action director Huang Xifan. The two sides should have a formal exchange, which is the main task of today.
Huang Xifan just got off the plane in the morning and was resting in Director Xu's office, after all, he was old, tired from the journey, and needed to rest. However, it can be seen from this small detail that the relationship between the two is indeed very unusual, and they can even use the same office.
Now Mr. Huang Xifan is taking a nap on the couch.
Director Xu woke up the old gentleman and explained. Mr. Huang recognized Zhou Yi, nodded, and went to the bathroom inside to wash his face first, and then came out to officially meet Zhou Yi. Director Xu introduced the two.
Zhou Yi greeted him very respectfully and politely.
Being polite to your elders is the only way to maintain your own image. Many people are not to blame, no one can find fault with them, and domineering people are the most important.
Everyone sat on the sofa in the office and had a face-to-face conversation.
Huang Xifan does look quite old, a little older than Director Xu. And he is not good-looking, just the image of a little dry old man, holding a small green pipe, very lean, but his eyes are keen, some are not smiling, and he seems to be a little withdrawn and cold, and it is not easy to approach. However, Director Xu is very good to the old gentleman and is very close.
Zhou Yi can understand the temperament of the old gentleman.
In the entertainment industry, if you don't look good, you will inevitably be despised in your early years, and you will be withdrawn, which is not a big problem. Even if it is behind-the-scenes guidance, everyone has seen a lot of handsome men and beautiful women, and many things are unavoidable.
There are even some martial arts fingers who have simply moved from actors to behind the scenes because of their bad looks.
Like this film in his previous life, Yuan Heping is still an actor! It's a really interesting thing.
But no matter what, as long as you have real skills, think very highly of yourself, and appreciate yourself, it's no problem.
Zhou Yi is completely tolerable.
Accommodating people is a necessary condition for success, not to mention that people are old-timers in the industry. Whether Zhou Yi is pretending or his personality is like this, he has always behaved like this. If you can pretend to be a lifetime, it is also a real skill.
Looking at the skeleton of this old gentleman, Zhou Yi felt that the other party must have kung fu, and he should be a very knowledgeable action guide.
For this, Zhou Yi is very satisfied. He doesn't like the action instructions on paper.
At this time, Director Xu first talked about his specific thoughts on the action scenes of this movie, and then gave Zhou Yi a detailed introduction to Mr. Huang Xifan's industry experience and action design characteristics. In fact, this old Mr. Huang Xifan is well-known in the industry and is known as the "evil king". His action design can be summed up in eight words, that is, the sword goes sideways, and the evil spirit is awe-inspiring.
The film enabled him, of course, for a reason.
According to Director Xu, the ultimate fight scene of this movie is whether the long arm is against the one-armed, or the long knife breaks the knife, and it must not use the martial arts design of conventional routines, but it needs this kind of "evil spirit and awe-inspiring knife" action design, and it is necessary to play that kind of "demonic" and "bloody".
No matter how violent and crazy Zhou Yi's first two movies were, they actually followed orthodox routines.
But this time, because of the plot, I have to play a wonderful knife battle with evil spirit.
Director Xu obviously thought about it carefully, and explained the play very clearly and thoroughly, which made Zhou Yi nod again and again.
He is a big expert in making action scenes himself.
However, Mr. Huang Xifan didn't appreciate the praise in Director Xu's words, and said lightly: "Director Xu, don't praise me." In terms of professionalism, we have to explain to Zhou Yi first, and we can't complain later. ”
He looked at Zhou Yi at this time and continued: "Zhou Yi, if you just listen to Director Xu say that, you must think that I am the top master of action design in the industry, but in fact, it is not like that. If you look at the current action movies, which one has my name in it? If I was really that, the crew would have invited me a long time ago, would it still be like this? ”
Fame is famous, but whether you can get a job or not is another matter, not just famous, but also depends on whether you are in the trend.
Zhou Yi understood this truth, just listened carefully, and would not be prejudiced because the other party said so.
A decision can only be made when the situation is clearly understood.
Huang Xifan said with a serious face: "You can check my information on the Internet, and you will know." Some of the action movies I designed in the past were successful and could indeed be a big hit, but some of the design styles were not accepted by the audience and would lose a lot. The industry really doesn't dare to use me lightly. Some people say that this is a thousand kills and eight hundred self-inflicted losses. Maybe it will fall apart at some point. Since falling out with Zhao Yanqin, no one dares to use me. ”
Zhou Yi smiled calmly: "The old gentleman is really frank and respectable. However, sometimes the failure of the film is not all due to the action design, but also due to the actors' own reasons, which do not meet the action standards, or fail to perform the essence of the action. Sometimes the film fails, or the action design concept is too far ahead, which is understandable. Just because you've failed in the past doesn't mean you'll fail now, maybe the audience can accept it now! ”
With the experience of his previous life, Zhou Yi knows it in his heart and will not easily jump to conclusions.
He thought, "We can all work together to get things done. When we find a problem, we will find a way to solve it, not a dispute or a contradiction. We are all here to do a good job in the action design of this movie and make the best results. At work, I believe in the professionalism and professionalism of everyone. As long as this premise is in place, I think we will definitely be able to work together happily. ”
Mr. Huang finally smiled, and it seemed that he was still satisfied with Zhou Yi.
In fact, Zhou Yi believes in Director Xu's vision and will not joke about this kind of thing, after all, this involves a series of follow-up business cooperation.
And Director Xu's understanding of action scenes really gave Zhou Yi confidence.
How could such a big director pick the wrong person? Even if you pick the wrong person, how can you pick the wrong action guide? If he can't even do this kind of professional thing, how did he become a big director of commercial action movies?
Thinking about it this way, Zhou Yi felt that as long as he trusted Director Xu, he must be very professional.
Of course, between everyone's conversations, Director Xu does have the intention of promoting his old partner, and he does not shy away from it.
Everybody can understand the things and avoid what to avoid.
Zhou Yi was clever and didn't understand anything.
Director Xu mentioned that since he had a falling out with Zhao Yanqin, he had rested for a while, but Huang Xifan also retired, which was affected by him. At that time, no one in the industry was willing to use Huang Xifan. When a film failed, everyone would not blame Director Xu, after all, Director Xu is a great director and does not worry about work, but it is inevitable that someone will put the responsibility on the action director, and Zhao Yanqin did this.
Of course, he can't say that the failure of the film is his own responsibility, and Director Xu has the grace to support him, and he can't publicly blame Director Xu.
If you really do that, you will offend all the big directors.
No matter how low his emotional intelligence is, he won't do that, not to mention team support.
Then the responsibility can only be the action director, and the action scene is not well designed.
Mr. Huang Xifan felt that he was very wronged, but he didn't bother to distinguish anything for himself at the time, not to mention that he was just a behind-the-scenes person, not a star standing in front of the stage, who would listen to what he said? Influence is not a progression.
Fans won't easily blame the idol, they can only blame him.
mentioned this matter, Huang Xifan didn't want Zhou Yi to misunderstand after all, so he helplessly explained a few words, and couldn't help but want to complain.
It is estimated that the old gentleman has been depressed in his heart for a long time.
He said: "Zhao Yanqin used to be good, otherwise it would be impossible to become famous." But after he became famous, he neglected body management, you guys, he has a small belly, as an action superstar, is this like words? And he usually doesn't practice diligently, how can he shoot action scenes? Difficult action stand-in, but also afraid of injury. It's not impossible to use a stand-in, but you can't shoot your face, and there are problems with various shooting angles, which is very limited, so you can still shoot well? He also has a face monster movement director, I want to design it for him, but if I design it, he has to be able to do it! Am I going to play for him? He also changed my movement design casually and picked and choose. But instead of examining himself, he blamed me. ”
The old gentleman finally sarcastically said: "Now his wings are stiff, but I don't see that he can really come up with any powerful representative works." Without the support of strong works, relying on fame alone, any actor will go downhill, how long can fame last? ”
Zhou Yi agreed with this statement very much, nodded again and again, and had a common language with the old gentleman. Don't look at himself, he is usually very good at promotional packaging, but he still has to rely on his works to speak. The fame supported by the work is the real fame, and it will not be criticized and ridiculed.
After this exchange, everyone is very satisfied with each other, and we must try to cooperate first.
If the effect is very good, Zhou Yi also wants to recruit this old Mr. Huang Xifan to join his company.
This evil style of action guidance can also be unique, and it will definitely be used in the future.
It is also very interesting to form a double yellow combination with Huang Huacheng, the action director of his own company.
Now the action direction of the crew of "One-Armed Knife" is officially determined.
Others didn't dare to use this old Mr. Huang Xifan, but Zhou Yi dared to use it, and he didn't care about Zhao Yanqin at all. As for how the action design is, Zhou Yi feels that he has his own checks and experience in his previous life, so it is impossible to really mess up the action design.
Director Xu was also very happy.
In his opinion, Mr. Huang Xifan has never met a suitable actor before, and many action stars can't play the essence of his action design at all, but now that he meets Zhou Yi, he can definitely be like a fish in water. And when Zhou Yi met this old Mr. Huang, he was also prepared. The two complement each other perfectly. Now it's finally time to do a big job.
Hopefully, this low-budget action movie is a good start to a collaboration.
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