"It's vaguely dreamy,

The heart is turbulent.

Put aside the world and settle grudges,

Accompany to the horizon.

The desert is vast in all directions,

The cold wind blows the sky.

The fear of snow and frost on the face,

Vine trees are connected.

……

……”

With the sound of the classic "Iron Blood Dan Heart", in the conference room of the Magic City Red Star Media Company, Ye Weihong, Han Minzhong, Zhao Xingchi, Qian Minli, Zhao Xiaogang, Tang Xinya and others began to sit upright one by one, cheering up to watch the finished film of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" on the big screen.

After more than half a year, the itinerary covers most of China, from south to north, from east to west, from the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River to the desert in the northwest, Stephen Zhao and Zhao Xiaogang finally led the crew to complete "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".

Today is January 1, 2015, and the post-production process is finally complete, and all the footage has been cut into 45 episodes, each of which is 40 minutes long.

It's not easy, it's not easy!

For six whole months, just for the filming of this TV series, Stephen Zhao and others have endured countless hardships, some shouting to quit, some really quitting due to illness, and some quitting due to accidental injuries, all kinds of troubles are squeezed into a pile, and for the first time, Stephen Zhao knows that it is not easy to shoot a TV series.

Stephen Zhao refers to the 83 version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", which originally had 59 episodes, divided into a trilogy of "Iron Blood Pill Heart", "East Evil and West Poison", and "Huashan on the Sword", but when I thought that none of the later remakes did the upper and lower episodes or trilogies, Stephen Zhao also followed the trend, deleted and added some plots and scenes as much as possible, and finally condensed it into 45 episodes.

Yang Tiexin, Guo Xiaotian, Qiu Chuji, Wanyan Honglie, Jiangnan Seven Monsters, Temujin, Guo Jing's mother, ......Guo Jing, Hua Zheng, Zhebe, Wang Chuyi, Heifeng Shuangsha...... Huang Rong, Ouyang Ke, Mu Nianci, Sha Tongtian, Yang Kang......

In the opening prologue, one character after another appears one after another, with different expressions and various postures, in the background of the desolate and affectionate singing of "Iron Blood Pill Heart", it is particularly expressive, it seems that the whole book of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is presented vividly in front of everyone, showing a story that takes place in real history in front of them.

The character dress, background picture, and actors' acting skills are ......, not to mention perfect, but from Stephen Zhao's point of view, it is generally good.

From this point of view, Zhao Xiaogang's directing skills and the photographer's photographic skills are still worthy of recognition.

In 2014, when the entertainment exploded, the audience's requirements for TV dramas are getting higher and higher, in addition to requiring the plot to resonate and the picture quality to be good, but also to be entertaining.

Like on Earth, many TV series have been complained about by netizens, saying that they are making things up, but the ratings are high, because they are very entertaining and can touch the audience's laughter.

Of course, making things up doesn't mean making things up, you have to meet the audience's level of appreciation.

The audience's level of appreciation is here, and the fabricated entertainment point can be perceived by the audience, then this entertainment point is successful, and you have succeeded in making it up.

But if the entertainment point cannot be perceived by the audience, the result will be tragic.

For example, when the Earth Star Master's "Journey to the West" first came out, Hong Kong people didn't find it funny, but felt bored, because their appreciation level had not yet reached that level. But what about the real situation? Until 2014, this movie was still regarded as a classic among classics by the majority of movie fans, even a century-old classic!

It is in response to a sentence: one step ahead is a pioneer, and two steps ahead is a martyr!

It's just that entertainment is entertainment, but not all themes can be entertaining.

The choice of the theme of a TV series must first have a qualitative, for example, when filming serious historical dramas and martial arts dramas, you have to be serious, not most of them serious, but I don't know when Lu Dao suddenly has a humor or cold joke, which is simply a disaster.

The audience will definitely scold, your sister, what kind of plane are you doing?

It's like watching a TV series and suddenly having an advertisement, which can make everyone vomit with nausea.

Either you shoot for entertainment and funny, or you shoot seriously, don't be nondescript, stuff any hodgepodge into it, and make a kaleidoscope at the end, which makes people's scalps tingle.

Sci-fi you shoot sci-fi, you shoot magic if you are magical, you shoot funny if you are funny, you shoot adventure when you are adventurous, don't make a garbage film and say that it is a collection of science fiction, magic, funny, adventure, etc., etc., etc., it is doing a miracle attempt or something, which will make people laugh.

On this question, Stephen Zhao wants to severely criticize Sister Chi Ling's "Fuchun Mountain Residence", which is really a piece of soaring, and finally said that it is an attempt to make a Chinese science fiction blockbuster? Your sister, you think we didn't study, right?

The audience's level of appreciation is not so low, and the IQ is not so low, which is much higher than the IQ of a bad movie director.

So, don't fool the audience's IQ, they will make you hit the street at the box office, the ratings go down the street and then slump.

"The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is undoubtedly a relatively orthodox martial arts drama, and it is definitely inappropriate to make it funny and entertaining, unless you are pure enough to spoof.

Stephen Zhao wanted to make a spoof film "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" in the past, but it was a movie, just like "East Becomes West" of the "Bodhi Ancestor" on the earth, and he already had a draft, and after Zhan Xianjun finished adapting the orthodox "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" movie, he started filming the entertainment version of the "Legend of the Condor Heroes" movie.

The name is called "East Becomes West"!

The first version of the "Legend of the Condor Heroes" TV series is orthodox in nature, not funny, but tries to restore the whole novel truthfully, so in terms of shooting style, the whole TV series tends to be calm and heavy.

Speaking of which, the directors bred by the vast land of the motherland, the things they shoot are generally deeply humanistic, deep and heavy, giving people the truth of life, but they are beyond life and have reached a level of art, which is also the fact that many directors obviously shoot movies with rural themes, but no audience will feel that these movies are rustic, but they are easy to be infected and shocked, this is the power of art.

The same is true for the filming of TV dramas.

Where the director is, the style of the TV series filmed is which. Although each person's style is different, the styles of directors in the same place are generally similar.

Just like the mainland of the earth, Xiangjiang, and Duwan, each has its own style, and the audience can easily identify it after the shooting, and the same is true here.

Zhao Xiaogang is a mainland faction, so although the martial arts drama is to create a dream of the martial arts world, after the first episode on the screen, everyone in the conference room felt that deep and introverted humanistic atmosphere. I can't say it's bad, but I can't say it's good, it can only be good overall.

Rao is like this, and everyone is still fascinated by the plot of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".

Starting from Stephen Zhao, everyone was applauding.

The conference room burst into thunderous applause and cheered: "Great! ”

"This drama will definitely be popular!"

"Classic!"

"It's a classic!"

……

Zhao Xiaogang stood up to accept the cheers and congratulations of everyone, his eyes were a little hazy, this is his first time as a director, this is his first work.

Zhao Xiaogang bowed deeply to everyone, and said in a choked voice: "Thank you, thank you, thank you!" ”

Stephen Zhao was also full of emotion, and he had the urge to cry, but he held back. After six months of travel, he has gained a lot and grown a lot.

Speaking of which, a lot really happened during the filming of this TV series.

The first thing is, of course, Tang Xinya and his scandal, after Tang Xinya's heart knot was untied, Stephen Zhao had to hold a small press conference on the set to officially refute the rumors.

The second thing and the things after that, there are no outside disturbances, but there are many problems in the filming process.

Don't mention other small things, talk about some big things.

For example, an actor was injured.

Filming action dramas is like this, and martial arts dramas are even more so when they dance knives and swords, and if you are not careful, you will hurt people. Or slash and stab someone with a knife or sword, or hit someone with a stick or stone, or fall down while hanging Weiya, or even fall on a horse.

Stephen Zhao sometimes wants to give up and let other people serve as producers, but he only serves as the shopkeeper. But then I thought about it, people living in this world must always have a career to devote their hearts and minds, otherwise life will be too boring.

If he wants to succeed, it is very simple, he will succeed now, and in the future, as long as he copies all the novels in his head, not to mention that he can spend all his days drinking until death, even his sons, grandsons, and great-grandchildren can spend all their days drinking until death without working. But is there any fun in that?

No fun at all! Stephen Zhao can be so lonely that he wants to go crazy just thinking about it.

The life of the traverser is really lonely as snow.

After thinking about it, it is better to be a producer and screenwriter in the future, this is his real labor.

When the copyist doesn't need him to put his mind to it, as long as he writes it regularly, the producer and screenwriter will ask him to spend his brains. Especially the producer, who manages the entire crew and makes friends with insiders, really requires him to spend a lot of effort and suffer, but he thinks he also enjoys it.

After watching the film, all that remains is publicity and distribution.

It doesn't take too much effort to publicize this part, with novels in front and scandals in the back, the TV series "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" can be said to have long been a household name.

The only problem lies in the distribution.

There are three distribution directions for TV dramas, one is a TV station, one is an Internet platform, and one is the sales of DVDs.

The sale of DVDs, Han Minzhong is already working on it; The sales of TV stations and Internet platforms, this is going to hold a viewing party, inviting people from major TV stations and video websites to watch the film.

Stephen Zhao is the author, screenwriter, and producer of the novel, but the director is Zhao Xiaogang, an unknown person, and no one will put a hundred hearts into the TV series version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", so it is impossible to buy it without watching the film.