Chapter 400: Storyboard Script
That night, Fang Yajun stayed with Du Xinghe and Xu Nuo to have dinner at her house, and after the meal, Fang Yajun was bored and had no arrangements, so she invited the two of them to watch the movie "Flowers Fall Indefinitely" in her private theater.
This film was screened last year in the East China Cinema Alliance with Shenhai as the core, with a box office of 76 million, ranking fifteenth in the 1992 annual box office list announced by the East China Cinema Alliance.
The Southeast Cinema Alliance on the side of Fuwan and Xiangjiang has not released this film, and people in other parts of the country can only buy genuine DVDs to watch it if they want to watch it.
However, in this era, there are no high-definition Blu-ray discs, and they are still in the era of VCD discs, and even if most people buy VCDs, the feeling of watching them at home is not at the same level as watching them in the theater.
A wrist-level figure like Fang Yajun, who loves to watch movies in his own private screening room, can buy genuine home film to play movies. The specifications of this kind of home film do not match the player of the cinema, and it is specially made for private movie lovers, and it is shown on a short-range projector, which cannot be put on a large screen at the level of a cinema, so as not to be bought by the theater to steal the broadcast for profit.
The cost of this kind of film is much higher than that of VCD, generally a genuine VCD movie, only 30 yuan to 50 yuan, but a genuine home film film, the cheapest price is 7, 800 yuan, with collectible value of film film, it is as high as 5, 6000 yuan a roll!
The average person simply can't afford the cost of watching this kind of home film film, and only enthusiasts will buy film film. Build your own screening room at home to play.
Fang Yajun is such a person who likes to watch movies at her own home, she is also forced to do so, like her, a top diva who hides in the music scene, she can't go to the cinema to watch movies, and in front of the public, she has almost no freedom at all. Although she occasionally disguises herself and goes to the cinema to enjoy the real movie-watching atmosphere, it is only occasionally. Most of the time she watches movies, she gathers a few relatives and friends and enjoys them in a private screening room.
There is a benefit to this, too. It's that she can be better than anyone else who goes to the cinema. Enjoy more film movies, the movies of the five major theaters in China, she can buy them and play them on her own, unlike others. You can only watch movies shown in theaters where you are located. You want to watch movies from other theaters. I have to endure a VCD with terrible picture quality, which feels much worse than going to the cinema.
Fang Yajun's private screening room, the screen size is the current domestic home film projector. The largest area that can be projected, a 300-inch white screen, is only about 100 inches smaller than the screen size of a small screening hall in a movie theater. The sound is more high-end lark macro series than the small screening hall of mainstream theaters, and the sound effect is realistic and shocking.
Her family's private screening room can accommodate 30 people to watch the movie at the same time, which is enough for her family and friends to watch it together.
That night, Du Xinghe and Xu Nuo watched the movie "Flowers Fall Indefinitely" with a group of children from Fang Yajun's family.
To say that this movie is not suitable for children to watch, those children have to join in the fun, so they watch it together.
This is a popular campus youth tragicomedy in East China, mainly focusing on friendship and love, with the personal perspective of the heroine Lin Xiaoyue, showing the stories that originated in or around her one by one.
The beginning is that Lin Xiaoyue transferred from a small town to a big city to study, it was the second semester of high school, in the high school in the big city, she met a group of close friends, and at the same time met the actor Shen Ao, the hero of the movie, in the school's encyclopedia knowledge competition.
During the winter vacation, Lin Xiaoyue's friend Yan Wenwen died suddenly, which hit Lin Xiaoyue, who was growing up.
In the new semester, Lin Xiaoyue and Shen Ao fell in love, but Shen Xue, who was Lin Xiaoyue's homeroom teacher and Shen Ao's cousin, uncharacteristically did not oppose the young love of the men and women, and even Shen Ao's mother also let this matter go, which made Lin Xiaoyue very surprised, and then it was a long youth love song, and finally the two broke up, because Lin Xiaoyue always felt that Shen Ao's heart was not in her.
Later, after a long time, Lin Xiaoyue entered the society, and by chance met her old classmates, she understood the truth about her and Shen Ao's love back then. It turned out that the girl Shen Ao really loved was her dead friend Yan Wenwen......
In Du Xinghe's opinion, this story is simply cliché to the extreme, this kind of script should be placed in the hands of the director of the previous plane, not to mention the box office of 76 million, it is estimated that it is difficult to even get a box office of 760,000!
But in this plane, the Chinese directors have a very strong ability to tell stories, a cliché story, which they use to show the lens, but it looks particularly fresh, Du Xinghe hates vulgar movies very much, but this movie actually made him see the end in one breath, and laughed several times in the middle, but the final reversal ending made him chill. On the whole, he thinks that the style of this movie is quite relaxed and attractive, and the suspenseful reversal at the end is also acceptable to ordinary audiences.
But after reading it carefully, the story becomes very boring, and after reading it once, he will definitely not read it a second time.
Especially a week ago, he and Liao Nan just watched "No Bones", compared with the two, the level of movies produced by Xiangjiang is really going to explode several streets of movies in East China. Here are several major cinema chains in China, and the level of local film companies supported is uneven.
Speaking of which, the people in Fuwan, Guangcheng, and Xiangjiang are very eye-catching, because the movies they usually watch are basically the highest level movies in China, and their creativity is also the strongest.
The films produced by the film companies supported by the four cinema lines in East China, North China, Central and Western China, and Southwest China are slightly lower in terms of comprehensive standards, of course, this slightly lower refers to the general specifications of the film, and the finale drama that each cinema chain focuses on every year, the summer drama, and the Chinese New Year drama, the level is not picky, because these large-scale films are gathered by the top talents in the film industry, although the filming styles of these people are different, but the level of the films produced by zuò is extremely high. Its entertainment can be comparable to the level of the most popular period of Hong Kong films in the early 90s, and the depth does not have to be the poor level of the fifth-generation directors who have won various awards in the mainland, and the hard technology of the film industry such as film special effects. It is also a complete explosion of all Chinese Cantonese movies in the early nineties and even the mid-nineties.
Although Du Xinghe has not yet fully integrated into the culture of a powerful country that runs through this plane, and there are many ideas that have not yet been converted, he also has a lot of feelings when he watches the movies of this plane.
And whenever he enjoys the impact of this plane's movies on his thoughts, he always wants to copy the movies of the previous plane, and let the people of this plane also enjoy the crystallization of the wisdom of the people of their world.
In the previous plane, Du Xinghe didn't study film and didn't know how to make movies, but one of his college classmates transferred from the music industry to the film industry and became an assistant director. Specializes in helping a well-known director deconstruct and draw a storyboard script for film and television scripts.
The so-called storyboard script. Also known as the filming workbook, it is an intermediate medium that converts text into a three-dimensional audio-visual image. The script is the basis for making a movie, but it cannot be used directly for filming, and the director must also base the content of the script and his own overall concept. Write a script for component shots.
To put it more clearly. A storyboard script is a literary image of a script. An important part of changing the screen image is to draw the script text into a shot to be taken, which mainly includes: lens number, scene, scene, stunt, lens content, music, sound, etc.
Most of the directors are before filming. You have to draw a detailed storyboard, but some directors will leave this work to their assistants.
Du Xinghe's classmate specializes in this.
Du Xinghe has seen that buddy's work, this work is very boring and brain-consuming, to deconstruct and subdivide the simple words on the original film and television script into one shot after another, think about it, you know how much imagination this is a job.
A good director may not be able to draw a perfect storyboard script, but those directors who can draw a perfect storyboard script must make a very mature film, and their filming process will be much smoother than those directors who have a messy storyboard.
Du Xinghe has been thinking about how to copy the movies of the previous plane since he was a child, and if he was asked to refine and adapt the classic movies he had seen into ordinary film and television scripts, it would not be difficult for him. But even if he changes all those classic movies into scripts, it is a question whether the director of this plane can shoot the classic feeling of the previous plane.
Each director's filming style is different, just as there are no two identical leaves in the world, and there are no two directors in the world with exactly the same style, even if one director imitates him to make a movie in the usual way of another director, the feeling of shooting will definitely be different in the subtleties. And these subtle differences, combined, will make the overall style of the film less right.
Du Xinghe has always been worried that the classic movie stories in the previous plane will become a different flavor when they are filmed by the directors of this plane. Although the directors of this plane are all very good at storytelling, he still likes the feeling of authenticity.
So when I came in, Du Xinghe had a plan, which was to learn to draw a storyboard script. He'd seen his classmate's work and had a rough idea of what it meant to write a storyboard. It's a brain-consuming task to get a person to look at the text and draw a storyboard, but it's much easier to have a person watch a movie and draw a storyboard in front of a segment of shots.
Du Xinghe has a super memory playback function, he can automatically stop the movies he has watched in his mind, which is more convenient than watching movies on the computer, stop wherever he wants, and pour wherever he wants, which provides great convenience for him to draw storyboard scripts.
The shots to be drawn to write a storyboard script don't need to be as detailed as those drawn by art majors, as long as there is a scene that can make the director understand the meaning. To put it bluntly, asking him to draw a storyboard script is actually no different from asking him to copy a book, but it takes a little more brains to summarize the content of each shot, which is not a difficult task for Du Xinghe, who has extremely developed artistic cells.
Du Xinghe has always wanted to test his film copy ability lately, and he wants to see if he can draw a perfect storyboard script and shoot it by a director of this plane, whether it can be as original as he imagined.
Especially after the night movie theater was strongly stimulated by the audio-visual stimulation of "No Bones", Du Xinghe wanted to bring the "Old Corpse in the Mountain Village" that he had been strongly stimulated by the TV in the previous plane. Look at how many audiences this film can intimidate if it is to be shown in cinemas.
Du Xinghe has always felt that "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village" is more chilling from the bone marrow than "Curse", "Midnight Bell", and other Japanese horror films.
The story of this film is told very well, although the director's lens advancement language is slightly flawed, but it is also considered superior, if the storyboard script of this film is drawn, and the director of this more mature horror film will direct it, the story will be more moving, and the special effects will be more terrifying. That's definitely better than the well-received "No Bones"!
Although horror movies are restricted in this plane. This will greatly restrict the box office of horror films, but Du Xinghe's purpose in moving movies is not to make money, he just wants to communicate with the public in this plane. It's just a movie that touched him deeply in the previous plane. It is purely in the nature of playing tickets. So his choice of movies is not as refined as copying songs and novels. He was deeply impressed by which movie he thought was good. Copy whichever one comes.
At present, what he is looking forward to most is watching top horror movies in the cinema, so what he wants to copy most is "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village", and he wants the people of this plane to also listen to Chu Renmei's singing.
After sending Xu Nuo home that night, Du Xinghe took advantage of the high interest in playing tickets, returned to his residence, read the professional reference book he bought before about drawing a storyboard script, and began to try to draw the storyboard script of "The Old Corpse in the Mountain Village".
This kind of attempt is very tiring, much more tiring than copying books. In the face of the terrifying shots, drawing a sub-shot picture, this work is both rusty and frightening for Du Xinghe, he didn't draw a few minutes of sub-shots, and repeatedly watched in his mind a few times after the group of 2B young people who played psychic provoked ghosts, Du Xinghe was a little panicked.
He is alone at home, and there are still portraits of his parents hanging at home, and he draws a storyboard script for a horror film that has left a deep psychological shadow on him, and the atmosphere is indescribably infiltrating.
In the end, Du Xinghe stopped writing, and he decided to draw the storyboard script for this film, and he did it during the day.
Putting down the messy script, he grabbed his guitar and sang a song that came to mind to surprise himself.
It is a classic funny work "I Eat Fried Chicken in People's Square" by the independent creation of the female voice "Ah Huan" in the mainland of the previous plane.
……
Recently, you have become very apathetic~
Makes me a little overwhelmed~
Actually, I didn't expect too much~
You can love me as much as you used to~
It's just that you can't even get away with a date~
I don't say anything about it~
It's not that I don't know~
Love needs to be tormented~
It's not that I didn't pray~
……
I'm eating fried chicken in People's Square~
And where are you at this moment~
Although maybe you are striking the east and west~
But tiredness has made me too lazy to doubt~
I'm eating fried chicken in People's Square~
And at this moment ~ where are you ~ ……
I don't know why, Du Xinghe sang this song, and he felt a special depressive effect, maybe this song was too cute.
After singing it twice, he felt less nervous.
With high interest this night, Du Xinghe slept beautifully.
Early the next morning, he got up as usual to hang his throat, and then jogged for a while, which was considered to warm up and stretch, and then turned home, washed up, and at seven o'clock, drove to Tonga Garden to pick up Xu Nuo. Before half past seven in the morning, they had to rush to the tennis court of Fuzhou University to practice with Zhang Yifan.
Xu Nuo can't live with Du Xinghe now, especially because he has the desire to be newlywed, no matter what he does with Du Xinghe, he is very energetic and interested.
It was less than half past six o'clock in the morning, and the cute girl finished washing, and waited for Du Xinghe under the phoenix tree at the entrance of the community.
Before Xu Nuo went out, Zhou Chuhong specially instructed Xu Nuo that he must call Du Xinghe to his home at noon today. Xu Nuo saw that her mother's love was so high, so she naturally didn't dare to disobey her order, she could feel that her mother was now very supportive of her relationship with Du Xinghe, which made her happy from the bottom of her heart.
When Du Xinghe drove to the gate of Tonga Garden, he saw Xu Nuo wearing a white sportswear standing under the fiery red phoenix tree from a distance, the corners of his mouth were curved, and he smiled warmly.
The sportswear he wore that day was the same as the last time he went to play at Fuda University, the sky-blue Baijiazhuang sportswear that Xu Nuo gave him.
He thought that Xu Nuo would also wear the couple sportswear that matched him, but he didn't expect this cute girl to be a little cautious now, and she didn't wear the same couple clothes as him, so as not to be seen by outsiders like Zhang Yifan.
Xu Nuo was wearing a pure white long coat and trouser suit, which looked very refreshing. Her hair has grown a little long lately and is past her shoulders. Because she wanted to exercise, she turned her shoulder-length smooth black hair into a beautiful ponytail, revealing the curves of her rounded face. However, she still had dark brown sunglasses on the bridge of her nose that covered half of her face. No way, she is used to being a star now, and if she goes out without sunglasses, it is as awkward as not wearing a bra.
drove the car to the gate of Tonga Garden, Du Xinghe didn't get out of the car, pushed the co-pilot's door open from the inside, and beckoned Xu Nuo to get in the car.
Xu Nuo got into the car sweetly and asked Du Xinghe, "Have you had breakfast?" ”
"No, I was trying to drink your milk."
Du Xinghe playfully joked with Xu Nuo, and he saw that Xu Nuo was holding two cans of milk in his hands. Xu Nuo knew that what Du Xinghe wanted to drink was not the milk in her hand...... (To be continued......)