Episode 156: Preparing for publicity
"May is the time of the Cannes Awards in France, our "Farewell My Concubine" has been included, and there are no results yet, so I'll tell you when the nomination results come out, but my intuition tells me that I will definitely win the prize, and the Oscar nominations are available, and the Cannes Awards may be easy to pass."
"Don't dream about it now, let's talk about this later, there are still more than three months to go, before you go to the United States now, arrange for personnel to find a prison quickly, and then you don't find the whole crew and sit all day, this is the most important thing at present, you have to speed up."
In the next few days, Lin Feihong did not let the crew be idle, but first filmed some small scenes that had nothing to do with the prison, so that post-production was more troublesome, but now there is no better way, so it can only be so.
A week later, Feng Qingyang went to the United States to attend the Oscars, and at this time, Qihong Film and Television also informed Lin Feihong that the prison had been found and asked him to see if he was satisfied.
After reading it, Lin Feihong was not very satisfied, but it was okay to use it anyway, so he invited several brigades of renovation teams to renovate a not very large prison a little according to his own wishes in a week.
The time soon came to March 8th, the prison was renovated, all the preparations were ready, Lin Feihong immediately began to shoot the scene inside the prison, especially the scene of the prison in Room 7, after the early shooting, Wang Baoqiang and Xiqian's acting skills became more and more proficient, the two cooperated very well, it was simply a real father and daughter, at this time several supporting actors also played, and the whole scene was spectacular. In this No. 7 room, the room is relatively small and the shooting is more crowded, so in addition to the director, photographer, gaffer and other important people to be present, other idle people are driven out of the door to wait, the recording engineer is also withdrawn, the recording rod can be directly set up next to it, and there is no need for personnel to be present, after all, this is not a big scene and you need to change the shooting position frequently.
But no matter the size of the scene, the photographer is also one of the most critical personnel in the movie, in addition to being very familiar with the scenes described in the script, the photographer must also change the lens with the plot, have a good aesthetic, feel when to close-up, when to shoot a long shot, this kind of thing is not so detailed in the script, sometimes Lin Feihong will remind the photographer what to do before shooting, but not all the time to say so, so the photographer must have a certain ability. Lin Hui is Lin Feihong's most trusted photographer, he has been with Lin Feihong for five years, the two have cooperated very tacitly, sometimes a look can convey the meaning, no need for Lin Feihong to spend any more words, so in terms of photography, Lin Feihong also saved a lot of film, the first year or two often had the problem of photography defects, now the number of this kind of shooting ng is gradually decreasing, and most of the root cause of burning film is in the actors.
With such an elite filming crew around, the filming is progressing more smoothly than before, much smoother than when the initial filming of "Thai Embarrassment", unconsciously, the filming is almost over, and when I finally returned to the court, this part has been filmed in front, so until now, I just added some follow-up content, and in less than two days, all the filming was over, and Yisheng, who grew up played by Su Yawen, looked at the sky in the snowy prison and said to the sky: "Dad, I love you, goodbye." All episodes are over.
In the next two days, Lin Feihong watched the filmed content ten times, and announced the completion when he was sure that there was nothing to add or reshoot, and when the crew members heard these two words, the nerves in the whole body were completely relaxed, and everyone was relieved, it was time to have crazy fun, two months of filming time made them almost isolated from the world, and now they want to make up for the lack of play time in two months.
Lin Feihong's nerves still can't relax, there is still a lot to do in the post-editing and production, one person can't be busy, so he pulls Leslie Cheung over to help, and he wants to create an opportunity for Leslie Cheung and Su Yawen in the future.
The two hid in the work area of the villa, and it took a week to connect the various scenes properly and reasonably, and finally the movie was finalized in 120 minutes, and the made movie disc was sent to Feng Qingyang in the form of a secret document, and he was sent to the National Film Censorship Center for review, the technical review is easy to pass, and the most important thing is the content review, if nothing else, it should be replied soon.
This year's review was a little faster than usual, and two days later, a result was already available: the review was passed.
At this time, the movie is finalized, no further modifications will be made, the movie is determined, Lin Feihong has selected a few important links for technicians to make a trailer, and now it is time to do publicity.
It's good to leave the publicity to Feng Qingyang, now I have to go to France to participate in the Cannes Awards ceremony, as early as a month ago, the organizers of the Cannes National Film Festival in France have announced the list of nominations, "Farewell My Concubine" has been nominated for the Best Film Palme d'Or and Best Actress nomination, this time no matter whether you can win the award or not, you have to go to France, I promised Feng Qingyang before that this time I will go out in person, the last time Feng Qingyang went to the United States empty-handed back was very faceless, he also wanted Lin Feihong to make a fool of himself, in vain, of course, He is just angry, he still hopes that "Farewell My Concubine" will win the award, after all, it is also about his honor and his interests.
Feng Qingyang is not just angry, he feels very unlucky, he suddenly feels that since he took over Qihong Film and Television, he has been very busy, and now Lin Feihong asked him to do the publicity work of "Room Seven Gift", and he himself went to Paris to go romantic, thinking about this Feng Qingyang is very annoyed, sometimes he really wants to let go, but he is reluctant to leave when he thinks of the huge profits, alas, the money is not easy to make.
Only when I think of the results of "The Spring of the Cattle Herding Class" will my heart be better, and the box office of the movie is good, and I get more from it, although it is only 1/10,000 of the share ratio, but the sharing of this kind of thing is originally the more the merrier, and now "The Spring of the Cattle Herding Class" was released overseas a week ago, and now the box office results are also out, 689 million, which is better than "Farewell My Concubine", plus the mainland box office of 1.078 billion, "The Spring of the Cattle Herding Class" has received a total of 1.767 billion, which is still lower than "Farewell My Concubine" The total box office in mainland and overseas was 1.887 billion.
Although it is only a gap of more than 100 million, the cost of "The Spring of the Cattle Herding Class" is relatively high, so the former still can't compare to the latter anyway, but no matter what, I will benefit, so let's calm down and prepare to do the publicity work of "The Gift of Room No. 7".
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