Chapter 41: Bad Movie?
In the early morning of January 28.
"It's snowing!"
"Wow, it's snowing!"
“……”
Zhou Yang leaned back on the pillow, sat on the bed in the single dormitory, put down the book "The Art of Shooting Lenses" brought back from the office, and glanced at the window slightly.
He saw out the window that there were bursts of goose feather snow.
The goose feathers and heavy snow look particularly beautiful under the street lamps......
Not far away, a few girls shouted excitedly, and even held cameras, under the street lamp, patting this and that, and posing in various poses as if they had never seen the world.
Zhou Yang couldn't understand what was so exciting about the next snow.
He rubbed his somewhat dry eyes, and after looking at the time, he knew it was time for him to sleep.
Maybe it's because the girls outside are too noisy, or maybe it's because of the sound of firecrackers from time to time, in short, Zhou Yang, who turned off the lights and lay on the bed, couldn't sleep.
It's almost the New Year!
This thought suddenly popped up in Zhou Yang's mind!
When this thought appeared, Zhou Yang thought of the Spring Festival Gala for no reason, remembered that everyone gathered around to eat Chinese New Year's Eve meal, and remembered New Year's wishes......
Some happy pictures appeared in Zhou Yang's mind......
Eventually, he turned on the light again and continued to read the book "The Art of Shooting Lenses".
Looking at it, he finally felt sleepy, and then put down his book in a daze and lay back on the bed.
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Feng Kai left the company at 4 o'clock in the morning on January 28.
Approaching the end of the year, he was going to go back to his villa in Yanjing to take an annual leave after dealing with the situation of "Mine Bottom".
The filming of "Mine Bottom" really exhausted him.
He didn't want to do any more work.
However, contrary to his wishes, he did not wait for the next annual leave, but waited for an invitation from a crew named "Crow".
The director of "Crow" is Wang Shuai, one of the five generations of literary and artistic directors, and he is a veteran literary director who is ranked among the directors in the Beijing circle.
The full name of the Beijing circle is actually the Yanjing Literary and Art Circle, which was first set up by a group of cultural people in the Yanjing military compound, and they are also called the disciples of the courtyard.
The representative of the five generations of Chinese directors, directors Zhou Yilin, Shen Changwei and others are among the famous directors in this circle......
Of course, if you have the ability to dig deeply, you will even find that 80% of the popular stars, rising cutting-edge directors and those traffic celebrities from 01 to 06 are more or less inextricably linked to this circle.
This circle represents resources, money, power......
Although Feng Kai has a villa in Yanjing, and his family also has a listed company that is not small, and he is also famous in the circle of cutting-edge directors, he is not a figure in the Beijing circle.
Over the years, he has been relying on his family's financial resources to dredge up relationships, and all kinds of big-name crews in the Beijing circle have been contacted by the dock, dreaming of integrating into this circle and completing a gorgeous transformation.
It's a pity that some things don't fit in if you want to, Feng Kai has always been on the edge of this circle, and has never really blended in.
And this time he suddenly received an invitation from the crew of "Crow", which was really unexpected!
The accident made him feel shocked, unbelievable, and even so excited that he almost lost his mind and yelled at the door of Huaxing.
Of course, he had some doubts.
In his impression, he and director Wang Shuai only met at the Golden Horse Awards Film Festival dinner a year ago, and he and a group of people went up to toast Wang Shuai, Wang Shuai nodded at him symbolically, and even knew him very reluctantly, and there was no deep friendship at all.
It stands to reason that Wang Shuai doesn't know him at all.
Why now, Wang Shuai will invite him to join the crew of "Crow"?
Could it be that my talent has attracted the attention of Wang Shuai and Wang Dao?
Although he had some doubts, this was a great thing after all, after receiving the invitation from the crew, he packed his luggage the next day, and impatiently bought a ticket to run in the direction of the crew.
Spring festival?
It's the Year of the Rooster!
But!
"Mine Bottom" editing review work?
He hesitated for a moment, and suddenly felt that he couldn't stand Zhou Yang, but then he felt that he couldn't have both......
"Director Zhou, the post-review of "Mine Bottom" will be handed over to you, if you have any questions that you don't understand, you can call me at any time, but there may not be a signal in the crew, you can send me a text message...... I saw the text message, and I will immediately find a place with a signal to get back to you. ”
"I've already arranged the editing."
"That's it! Come on, Director Zhou! ”
“……”
Six o'clock in the morning.
Zhou Yang received a phone call from Feng Kai.
On the phone, Feng Kai seemed extremely excited, and his words were full of spirit, as if he was about to take off.
Zhou Yang was a little dazed after answering the phone.
After filming "The Bottom of the Mine", Feng Kai said more than once that he would take a break, at least until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, he would not be exposed to any work related to films.
He's going to have a good New Year......
But only a day has passed, and Director Feng has joined the new crew and started a new journey?
This slap in the face must have come too quickly, right?
Zhou Yang shook his head, but he didn't care very much.
After having breakfast in the company's cafeteria, Zhou Yang grabbed his books and walked towards the post-editing department of "Mine Bottom".
For a good movie, shooting is one thing, and post-editing processing is another.
Many movies were filmed perfectly during the shooting period, but the post-production outsourcing editing was not handled well, and after the release, it became some messy shit bad movies that made people watch brains.
The deadline for registration for the Berlin International Film Festival in '06 is around February 10, so if "Mine Bottom" wants to participate in the festival, they must officially send the copy sample to Berlin before the 10th.
Although the post-editing difficulty of the movie "Mine Bottom" is not very difficult, the time is not particularly abundant.
The person in charge of the post-editing project of "Mine Bottom" is named Zhang Lei, Zhou Yang has seen his resume, he is one of the top post-processing personnel in China, Feng Kai is full of praise for this person.
"Brother Zhang......"
"Oh, you're Director Zhou, hello Director Zhou, hello ......"
"Viagra, are you there too?"
"Well, Director Zhou, Director Zhou, you sit ......"
“……”
Zhou Yang walked into the editing room, greeted everyone very politely, and then looked at the dense computer equipment and post-processing tools that he couldn't name in the editing room.
When the staff saw him, the expression on their faces suddenly became a little strange.
Especially Qian Wei, when Qian Wei saw him, his expression was embarrassed, and he didn't dare to look at himself.
Zhang Lei lowered his head even more, and after responding, he was silent.
"Viagra ...... the editing sample of "Mine Bottom", which part has been processed now?"
"......" The embarrassed expression on Qian Wei's face became even heavier, he hesitated for a while, hesitated for a moment, and finally said with a complex emotion: "Director Zhou, the editing of "Mine Bottom" has not started yet......
"Huh?" Zhou Yang was stunned: "Didn't you say that you started cutting it yesterday?" ”
"Originally, the original plan was to start cutting it yesterday, but ......" Qian Wei glanced at the costume modeling on Zhang Lei's computer screen: "The post-processing of "Warring States" is very urgent, and we were all pulled over to help......"
"Huh?" When Zhou Yang heard this, he fell into silence for a short time, and then, he stared at Qian Wei as if he thought of something: "Viagra, didn't you start the post-processing of "Warring States" a month ago?" ”
He was a little puzzled.
This is what Qian Wei himself said a few days ago.
Qian Wei lowered his head. Silent and silent, as if not knowing what to explain.
"Because "Warring States" is signed up for the Berlin International Film Festival, it is to compete with "Hero", so Director Zhou, well, Director Zhou Yilin and Director Zhou attach great importance to the post-editing of this movie, plus "Warring States" itself is a big scene, and there are some special effects factors, so the post-processing will be more troublesome, and it will require a little more manpower, so it will be very troublesome for us to cut it......" In the end, Zhang Lei controlled the computer and answered Zhou Yang's words while working.
"Oh...... Brother Zhang, I want to ask, when will you be able to deal with the later stage of "Warring States"? After listening to this, Zhou Yang also expressed understanding in his heart.
"According to this progress, if we work more overtime in the evening, we may be able to finish cutting it around February 7, depending on the satisfaction of Zhou Yilin and Zhou Dao......"
"Huh? That only has two days left for "Mine Bottom"? Zhou Yang was stunned when he heard this.
“……”
No one answered Zhou Yang's words.
Qian Wei lowered his head even more.
He acquiesced.
Zhou Yang glanced at the editing room.
The sound of the instruments in the editing room was constantly ringing, and all the staff of the post-production team were busy editing "Warring States".
"What can a two-day film be cut into?" Zhou Yang saw that everyone was silent, so he looked at Qian Wei again and added.
"I'm sorry, Director Zhou......"
“……”
Silent......
There was another long, long silence.
Just when there was silence, the door of the company's editing room opened again.
Then walked in a young man with glasses.
When he walked in, he didn't look at Zhou Yang, but just came straight to Zhang Lei and asked Zhang Lei to call up the sample film of "Warring States".
Zhou Yang stood next to him and heard this person say a lot of technical terms......
He didn't understand.
About half an hour later......
"Manager Xu, if you cut it like this, I'm afraid the editing time of "Warring States" will be extended, at least until the ninth ......"
"Nine's in time to ......"
"Then we may not be able to spare time for the movie "Mine Bottom"......"
""Warring States" is going to be applied for the Berlin International Film Festival!"
""Mine Bottom" also has to be registered......"
"Do you really think that nouveau riche invested, where did the stupid boy make a movie that made it to Berlin? It's good to be able to finish the shoot smoothly, and when the time comes, you can just take the time to cut it for a few hours and deal with it......" The young man said everything he had to say, his voice slightly disdainful.
Qian Wei became embarrassed......
He suddenly wanted to find a hole in the ground to get into.
"Xiao Qian, help the project of "Warring States", our crew will not treat you badly, I can't forget your help, before the release of "Warring States", we will add your name in post-processing...... I know that you participated in the filming of "Mine Bottom" and have feelings, but there is no need to spend time on some meaningless bad movies, your future is in your hands......"
"......" Qian Wei was even more embarrassed, he subconsciously glanced at Zhou Yang's direction, showing an embarrassed expression.
Then, he found that Zhou Yang didn't know when it started, and had already turned around and left.
The door in the distance was still open......