Usually, the specific construction of all the scenes and artistic elements of a commercial film comes from the unified aesthetic style and color scheme of the work.

After completing the location survey, Yan Qing did not wait for the opportunity to contact Professor Weng in his busy time, and his next trip was in a meeting until midnight, leading the team to frantically catch up with the schedule.

A competent film location selection team not only has to consider the crew's external shooting scenes, but also the matching of studio scenes is equally important, and the two must be coordinated to form a unified aesthetic style.

Under the leadership of Yan Qing, the location selection team of the crew of "Laughing East" held a non-stop meeting with the professionals of the logistics, props, and art teams (scenery, props, makeup, costumes, etc.) to discuss the setting plans for the interior scenes of the Miao Village Drum Tower, the Stilted Building, the Fusang-style Inner Room, the Water Prison, and the General Altar of the Sun and Moon God Sect in Heimuya.

Of course, before that, there is another problem that needs to be solved urgently - the core idea of guiding the artists to make the set plan, and the unified aesthetic style of the whole film is not yet clear.

After pouring himself two cups of coffee, Yan Qing seriously discussed this issue with the art decision-makers of the crew, Su Xiuzhen, the art director appointed by Whisper Pictures, and Xie Wanying, the costume director supported by Shanghai Film Studio.

"The smoke and rain are vast, the wind and sand are rolling, the wind is drinking, the sword is playing and singing, the helplessness of the body is involuntarily, the sadness of not being able to love, the vicissitudes of the white clouds and the dog, and the open-mindedness of laughing at the wind and clouds."

Although he has practiced his sketching skills in private, Yan Qing's own artistic attainments are not high, and he can only try to use some emotional adjectives to summarize the overall aesthetic style that needs to be presented in the film.

"You're too general, aren't you..."

Su Xiuzhen, who has more than 30 years of experience as a professional film artist, shook her head slowly, and she expressed it very tactfully: "Director Yan, we need more precise words..."

"Xu Laowei's personal style is a bit unpredictable, which is a bit difficult for a strong man, but there is no way, if you want to achieve excellence on the basis of the original film, you must replace the relatively extensive and freewheeling production model with a systematic film industry process."

The mentality is very correct, Yan Qing continues to try to search the intestines and scrape the stomach to summarize the effect he wants.

"The so-called aesthetic style itself is somewhat understandable and indescribable, but in fact, Director Yan has expressed it very clearly through the soundtrack..."

The influence of "A Laugh in the Sea" seems to have exceeded Yan Qing's expectations, and Xie Wanying, who was thoughtful on the side, blurted out and concluded: "There is still a night photo left of pride!" ”

Xie Wanying's flash of inspiration can be called a sentence to wake up a dreamer, compared with the atmosphere map drawn by Yan Qing in advance, and then the comprehensive site survey photos taken during the selection of the scene, after an in-depth exchange between the three, Su Xiuzhen accurately combined the atmosphere map to summarize the aesthetic style of the film in four words - lonely and poignant.

"Director Su, Director Xie, I have never filmed costume works before, except for "Li Yu"..."

After determining the coordinated aesthetic style, Yan Qing turned the topic to color grading: "Maybe the overall color palette of our film also needs two more guidance from two teachers. ”

"Director Yan, you are overly modest, "Today's Pause", "Moonlight Sultry"..."

Obviously, Su Xiuzhen regarded Yan Qing's bottomlessness as modesty: "The aesthetic style of these two works and the overall color matching of the film are very harmonious!" ”

"That's a reference standard, this is a costume film, and the original piece is very rough..."

Holding the soul of complaining in his heart, Yan Qing looked at Xie Wanying as if asking for help.

"Don't look at me, in the later stage, you can't talk about it..."

Resolutely expressing that she didn't want to participate in the post-production, Xie Wanying couldn't put it down and looked at the pile of Wanlinian-style costume manuscripts on the table: "We revised all the costumes the day before yesterday, and now we are in a hurry, and Director Yan's color matching is obviously outstanding..."

"I'm going to do this by setting the tone in the early stage through the costumes, lighting, and color scheme of the scene."

Forced to drive ducks to the shelves, Yan Qing had to stand up and explain his point of view: "In the later stage, the balance value of parameters such as the overall picture saturation of the film was adjusted to make the contrast effect harmonious and unified. ”

"With a steady line of thought, Director Yan's level is here, we can all see that Professor Weng's appearance is too amazing..."

casually picked out a photo of Weng Huaijing's makeup taken during the preparatory meeting for reading the manuscript from Xie Wanying's hand, Su Xiuzhen's body leaned back slightly, and she couldn't help but praise: "What is the beauty of oriental charm." ”

"She is the undefeated candidate in my mind..."

Once talking about Weng Huaijing, Yan Qing couldn't help but become full of confidence, and finally managed to restrain his spontaneous pride, and his answer seemed a little subtle: "A large part of my confidence in this film actually comes from the actors themselves. ”

"Judging from the clothes that Professor Weng tried on before, the undefeated Oriental design in the film uses a square scarf with a round neckline and a button at the front as the main knot..."

Xie Wanying carefully commented on Weng Huaijing's makeup photos from the professional perspective of costumes: "The typical Ming Hanfu style is compatible with some Fusang's ethnic designs..."

"Oriental Undefeated clothing is mainly red, red is a warm color, highlighting her confident, flamboyant, enchanting, and charming characteristics..."

Su Xiuzhen continued to interpret from the perspective of color science: "While most of the others are cold-toned clothing, using warm and cold changes to create a sharp contrast, in order to highlight the undefeated and unique image of the East. ”

"Her outfit also combines some Peking Opera elements... I guess I've made some optimizations to the original..."

Thick-skinned, Yan Qing accepted the praise of the two of them in full: "Yes, Director Su, my idea is to achieve the purpose of highlighting the characters through the contrast effect formed by the two corresponding colors." ”

"Use warm and cool colors to emphasize contrast and enhance the vivid, standout effect."

The jargon came as soon as she opened her mouth, and the well-informed Su Xiuzhen concluded: "Complementary Color Scheme! Typical Hollywood style, complementary color pattern color palette. ”

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The exterior stage effects, studio style planning, set setting plan, large-scale props production, costume style matching, and even the specific progress of setting up the scaffolding were all agreed upon in this meeting with high communication efficiency.

In addition to being responsible for the costume styling under the art team, costume director Xie Wanying is also in charge of the makeup artist team, and after unifying the scenery and costume plans, she communicated with Yan Qing on the makeup photos of several other main characters to ensure that the makeup and styling plans of each character are in line with the atmosphere and effect expected by the director.

The Miao Village-style drum tower and stilted building and other scenes that cannot be transformed from the Yanqi Lake base, the meeting also decided to choose a site in the hilly bamboo sea for artificial scenery.

Although there are many inconveniences in setting up temporary scenes, it is not without benefits, at least the construction of the scene can be strictly based on a unified aesthetic style, which is more in line with the requirements of Yan Qing and Su Xiuzhen.

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When Yan Qing finished his busy first day of preliminary preparations and returned to his room on the eleventh floor of the hotel, it was already two o'clock in the morning imperial capital time.

The room arrangement of the crew of "Laughing - East" was set by Luo Bing and Shao Qing, and the two villas of Yunju and Huang Liju were originally assigned to the two main creators of the program team, but Yan Qing lived in the main building in a gentlemanly style, and he gave Huang Liju to several female directors of the crew.

In the end, after some adjustments, Yuyun lived in Miao Miao, Zhang Yameng, Li Hanyuan, Zhou Peipei, Shao Qing, and Yi Yi and Weng Huaijing, who had not yet entered the group.

Huang Liju was divided into Luo Bing, Xie Wanying, Fei Jingyu, Yi Li, Zhao Mu, Su Xiuzhen and others.

［Nighty night， good night. Don’t let the bed bugs bite.］

Good night, sleep well, don't let the bed worm bite, Professor Weng sent Yan Qing a very New York-style witty good night message before going to bed.

"Subtle and restrained, it's her style..."

Yan Qing, who took off his mask, smiled tired and satisfied, turned off the screen of his phone and carefully rested it under the pillow, he muttered softly: "Anyway, I can accurately translate what she wants to say." ”

"Evening peace of mind, morning and evening!"

After washing and bathing, and putting everything away, Yan Qing muttered his own interpretation, and fell into a sweet sleep in room 1109.