Chapter 53: The Production Meeting
At ten o'clock in the morning of the next day, the production meeting was held in the conference room of the hotel, and the director of this drama was the well-known director Director Zhang.
This is a top big name in the industry, I didn't expect him to be the director of this drama, Sugisawa didn't go to learn more about the production team of this drama yesterday, I didn't expect it to really make his eyes shine.
This is the first time that Sugisawa has cooperated with one of the top directors in the industry, and the production team with the director as the core in the domestic film and television market is still very different from the model with Western production as the core.
Director Zhang is a very rigorous person, and he arranges his work very carefully, and there are many things that need to be discussed today, first of all, the director expounds his creative concept, and then the main creators in all directions express their ideas and opinions.
"I'm very glad that all friends in the industry can come to our "First Sequence" crew, and I'm very happy to see a lot of fresh blood at this film production meeting, which is a blessing for the Chinese film industry, which shows that we have someone to follow, and I have studied your information and resume very carefully, and I am very happy and honored to be able to shoot such a movie with you. This is a movie adapted from a novel that I have always wanted to make, so the investment in this movie is also very huge, I believe you can still feel the difficulty of making such a post-apocalyptic movie, I hope you can overcome all the difficulties, let's work together to make such a movie. ”
With the warm applause after Director Zhang's opening remarks, Sugisawa didn't expect that such a big director would still be able to maintain respect for everyone in the production team, and there was no expected shelf at all.
"The shooting time of this movie must not be too short, and everyone may have to prepare for a protracted battle. My idea for this film is to restore the novel as much as possible, and then we will start the creation on this basis, this novel has a lot of readers, and it is also a collection of books that China Literature Group has dominated the list all year round. ”
The budget for the movie is very sufficient, so the money allocated to the character modeling must be very considerable, which can also ensure that Sugisawa can have more design possibilities, including some special effects and makeup.
Director Zhang's idea is to restore some details in the novel as much as possible, so the workload of Sugizawa's character design is also very huge, and many characters in "The First Sequence" need to be carefully portrayed by Sugisawa Hai, which is still different from the drama, the carrying capacity of the drama is there, and the characters he needs to appear are far less than the ones needed in the movie.
Director Zhang continued:
"In the plot of this movie, we will take some of the main plots in the novel as the main line, and slightly film and television treatment of the novel, I hope that this novel can be presented directly through one movie, rather than through several films, which can also better ensure the coherence of creation, and the actors will not be replaced in the second part, so the difficulty has been greatly improved. Now that the draft script for the adaptation of the novel is basically completed, I need to sign a confidentiality agreement with you, and then you can study the script. I learned that the main creative team has basically read this novel, so I still hope that the production teacher, stage teacher, lighting teacher, character teacher, and sound effect teacher will express some of their personal opinions on this movie while everyone is studying, so that the screenwriting teacher can better adjust the script and customize the final script. ”
After Director Zhang finished speaking, the staff took out a confidentiality agreement, which is a necessary process for the film and television industry. Sugisawa looked at it and signed his name without any problems.
In fact, many people will ask whether there is any point in signing a confidentiality agreement for such a script, after all, they are all novels and movies. In fact, this is still very necessary, although the novel is the main body in film and television creation, it is inevitable to adjust some plots, so as to make better use of the limited film time to shoot a complete plot, the general movie time is between 90 minutes and 120 minutes, and it is impossible to explain all the plot trends in detail in a novel like "The First Sequence", so it is necessary to create a second creation of the script of film and television workers.
In such a second creation, it is not only necessary to retain some classics, but also to delete a large number of them, and the creative space in this is still very huge, so signing a confidentiality agreement is still a very important job, which is not only responsible for the script but also an affirmation of the hard work of screenwriters, such a confidentiality agreement can ensure the confidentiality of the film to a large extent, after all, such a high production cost of the film can not withstand failure.
After everyone signed the confidentiality agreement, the script was also sent to the hands of the main creative team.
A million-word novel has been compressed and adapted into hundreds of pages of text, which is still very difficult, a large number of plots need to be adjusted, and it can be seen that the workload of the screenwriter is still very huge.
Sugisawa looked at the script in his hand seriously, although he had already read this novel, but the feeling of reading the script was still different from the feeling of reading the novel directly. The script will look much more boring, not as rich as the psychological portrayal in the novel, which needs to be presented by the actors under the camera.
A lot of dialogue and movement pervade the entire script. So in the eyes of ordinary people, reading a script may be an extremely boring thing.
After a careful reading of Sugisawa Sea, in this script, I found that the main characters and screenwriters have retained it, and there have been no special adjustments to the character settings, which does show the affirmation of this novel to a great extent, so Sugisawa Hai's task is still very large, and the drawing of the design drawing alone is a lot of quantity, not to mention the production in advance, so this is really a very large project. Sugisawa also needs to find some like-minded friends to form a character modeling team to do this, otherwise he will definitely not be able to complete the director's task requirements as scheduled with his workload.