What is the secret of photography?

An ordinary SLR costs tens of thousands, and at least hundreds of thousands are used in film and television, but it is just a simple optical imaging, why can someone win an award, and someone will make trouble?

Academically speaking, photography is to discover beauty, shoot beauty, and finally present beauty, if you want to shoot a beautiful girl, the key is not how expensive your machine is, but how to compose, move the camera, and how to find the right light source to present.

This is very complicated, but let's take fine art as an example, oil paintings are generally brilliant in characters and narratives, except for Van Gogh's "Starry Night", there are basically no other paintings, and in the history of Western art, it embodies the 'big'.

Chinese painting is generally landscape, to narrate, at least it must be a courtyard with three entrances, people in the house drink tea and talk about things, and people outside the house fly kites, fight crickets, and play mahjong.

Koreans like to be small and complex, but what about Chinese? I like big, big and complete, in fact, this whole also has the meaning of fine, but now it's all gone.

Some inexplicable foreign historians say that the Chinese people like to be big precisely because they are small...... This is pure fart, born in a land of 9.6 million square kilometers, with a vast country, and a history of 5,000 years of civilization development, and TM is not what Lao Tzu wants!

The ancestors are powerful, what can I do?

Having said that, film is an art form born in the West, which attaches great importance to small and fine, and because of the traditional cultural heritage of Chinese people, even if they can only shoot small films in movies, their correlation and insinuation must be closely related to all Chinese people.

It is a metaphysical, spiritual core of greatness.

This is why Director Xiao Yang has to link the love story of a pair of young men and women with the construction of a power station in Gansu from the central theme.

This is also why many big directors have made it difficult to commercialize films.

They don't understand a point, how can the audience like such a simple story so much?

In order to figure this out, the Chinese directors have made great efforts. Some people say that comprehensive learning of the West can achieve perfect replication; Some people say that the quality of the audience and practitioners is not enough, and the level of education is not good; There are also people who are not used to seeing the audience like small fresh meat, and directly say that the audience is garbage and rely on banknotes to kidnap the market.

Actually, there is no conclusion on this matter so far, but the reason why the five generations of domestic directors are worthy of respect is because the directors represented by Zhang Yimou have been exploring and looking for what kind of beauty should be made in Chinese films.

Looking at Director Zhang's career experience, you will find that the director's style has been changing, from "Alive" and "The Red Lantern Hangs High", to "Three Guns Shoot Amazement", "The Great Wall", and then to "Jinling Thirteen Laps", "One Second", and "Man Jianghong" released this year.

Director Guo Fan's "The Wandering Earth 2" conforms to the 'bigness' of Chinese values, and successfully kills the 'individual heroism' of the United States, and proposes 'collective heroism' in line with Chinese values.

Director Zhang Yimou embodied the small and 'complete' in "Man Jianghong", mixing commercial comedy, fresh meat actors, well-known acting schools, cross talk actors, and the concept of loyalty to the country inherited by China for thousands of years, etc.

It can be said that among the Chinese directors, only director Zhang Yimou can do it, and director Chen Kaige can do it.

Director Zhang Yimou is a photographer, a real wild road, Li Shu is also a wild road, but he is not born, at this time he was in the spare parts warehouse by a group of stage assistants, everyone used their hands and feet, and installed a 'Steadicam' for him.

This thing, even if it's 23 years, there are only two CCTV, right?

It is something like external skeletal armor, which is mounted on the upper part of the body, has a spirit level on the side, and can assume a DSLR camera or a portable DV on the front face.

Its main function is to rely on the spirit level to adjust the lens while moving, shielding all vibrations, which is equivalent to carrying a slide rail that does not need to be laid.

This thing is not expensive, it is only more than one million yuan, it is an auxiliary shooting equipment, and it has nothing to do with photography.

"Sister, look at it, it can really move!"

Li Suan looked at the imaging in the SLR camera in front of him, and Zeng Jia couldn't bear to look at it with excitement on his face. There is no way, men encounter this kind of deformation are children, but when Zeng Jia heard the price of this thing......

"Hurry up and remove it, don't break it!"

"It can't be broken!"

"Tear it down!"

Zeng Jia was really anxious, and Li Shu had no choice but to change the topic: "How much do we use to buy copyright?" ”

Zeng Jia was shaken for a moment, and asked rhetorically: "How much do you think is appropriate?" ”

"It's up to you."

Zeng Jia thought about it: "No matter how fast we move, this variety show has just been in the first season, and it is definitely unrealistic to expect it to earn 200 million this year, your movie also allocated 60% of the investment to Long Dandan, I don't know what she will talk about in the theater share, and don't expect 50% of the share."

By next year, this film will contribute a maximum of 200 million to the box office, even if we can get 40 million, plus variety shows...... When 20 million is counted, what is the difference of 40 million? I'm all full of it, what do you rely on to complete this year's bet? ”

Li Suan replied lightly: "I write a book, you won't sell the film and television copyright easily this time, right?" ”

Zeng Jia had a headache when he heard this, who would have thought that Li Shu would become a record-breaking best-selling author.

Besides, if you write a book, you will definitely be popular?

"Don't draw flatbread with me! Look at you like this, I won't see your outline until June! ”

Li Suan directly concluded: "Sister, writing a book has never been a one-person's job. ”

Zeng Jia looked at Li Suan and blinked.

When a few people left, it was the director of the variety show bureau who sent him off in person, and he couldn't be blamed for being so enthusiastic, if he could really log in to the Huaxia market through Jiaxing, the director of the variety show bureau would be promoted to a level.

When everyone came to the hotel, Wang Qiaoke was about to leave, but Li Suan didn't let her go, and asked her a question that went straight to the soul.

"How is your Korean?"

"How? Do you understand your second native language? ”

"How about translating text in addition to translating dialogue? Chinese becomes Korean, Korean becomes Chinese, note, I have requirements, the text does not require beauty, it can be plain, but it must convey the dramatic feeling I want to convey. ”

Wang Qiaoke thought about it and said.

"Gotta add money."

Li Shu smiled: "Do you want to find a friend who learns this?" ”

Thinking of Li Suan's cunning, Wang Qiaoke knew that it was useless to hide it.

"Do you know the screenwriter volunteers, the writer's assistants, and the comic assistants? There are quite a few in our school."

Li Suan praised it with his eyes, Korean movies are small and fine, and they can develop so fast, mainly because the country is small, and the boat is easy to turn around, just in the script, I don't know how many layers higher than the domestic masters.

He said: "I'll have a meeting first, and the script will be sent to you on WeChat, so you can take a look at it first." Do you have WeChat? ”

"Yes, I'm from Huaxia."

Li Suan looked at the youthful and fearless face: "I just like people like you who don't forget their origins." ”

After Li Suan finished speaking, he followed Zeng Jia and Zhao Ruoyao back to the room, leaving Wang Qiaoke to live in the standard room and wait for the summons.

Lighting and photography can be done, and the next thing is to work with the script, in terms of creation, "From You" only reflects Li Suan's writing, but the bigger golden finger is Li Suan's accumulated experience.

The script is industrialized.

Yes, this unconventional term tormented Li Shu for a long time later, it comes from the industrialization model of Hollywood, which is about using seven or eight screenwriters to collectively create a script, and domestic investors just listened to a rough idea and thought of domestic replication.

They usually find a group of students majoring in Chinese opera and literature, online authors who have appeared out of nowhere, and some script lovers, throw them a theme, and let them write a script.

The result, of course, was disastrous.

Artistic creation has always been very personal, industrialization requires a lot of copying, and investors are not willing to bear the cost of continuous trial and error, how can they spend money to buy a bunch of words that they themselves can't understand?

The layman directs the insider, which is another major scourge of this circle that is rotten to the root.

Li didn't say anything else, just divided the work of creation, and he did it easily.

Why?

Because in the next ten years, all kinds of capital not only trained him to be 'sensible', but also trained him to be quite capable.

QQ video connection and online conferencing are essential skills for Chinese people in 20 years.

"Can you hear me?"

On the other end of the video are the people Zeng Jia found, I don't know how the level is, but they all look very energetic.

Huaxia is like this, looking like a good person.

"In the future, you will often meet me in this form, and I know that collective creation is a very new term to you, and I don't require you to be able to complete all my requirements independently.

I just promise you one thing, if your stuff is really useful to me, the signature, there will definitely be no less. ”

No one responded to the camera side, and it is estimated that there are quite a lot of people, so no one believes it.

Li Suan glanced at Zeng Jia, Zeng Jia took out his mobile phone and made a call.

Soon, a young lady dressed conservatively walked into the room and handed out a screenwriting contract and an entry contract to the dozen or so young people present.

Li Suan said with the employment contract that had just been printed.

"This employment contract will prove that you are an employee of the literary department of the company "Twinkle Twinkle Twinkle Star", which is a company I established according to the project we want to create, and I myself am the direct owner of this company, and I bear all legal responsibilities.

My last work was "Passing by Your World", you can search for it, that book, which created an economic value of more than 100 million, was my debut work. ”

Li Suan seemed to hear the sound of the video and gasped, everyone knows that radish and stick are added, and if you want this group of productive forces to work, the right production relationship is to give enough money.

"Of course, I signed a contract with the company, so how much economic value we can create in the play "One Flash" has to be shared with the company.

But what I can tell you is that when I wrote "From You", I was a newcomer, and I couldn't get the best contract from Sina Weibo, that is, according to the exposure of "From You", Sina would give me a share of the advertisement.

How much is this divided into, it depends on the quality of the book, the quality of film and television adaptation, and the quality of follow-up development, of course, these have nothing to do with now, but everything starts with the pen in your hand.

Next, I will tell you what to do one by one, if you can meet my requirements and get my approval, you can directly get the shares according to the terms of the contract, and how to divide the money in the end, depending on the shares. ”

Yanjing.

Li Suan's words caused a little wave, this is a common way for European and American screenwriters to divide money, and it is also an incentive share of Internet companies, why are people in Europe and the United States always more valuable the older they get? Because of the shares.

Of course, Li Suan was prepared for the worst, that is, he couldn't use anything written by these people, so it didn't matter, just change a group of people and come again. If he really can't, he can do it all himself.

It's just a little tired. But if this model really becomes a model, Li Shuan can take everyone to plagiarize more things.

In 14 years, director Hu Mei ordered a script in France, called "Princess Kuo Kuozhen", which tells the story of the Mongolian princess Kuo Kuozhen.

Of course, this story was not filmed in the end, but the way this cross-border transaction is made is very interesting.

For example, Thailand's "Genius Gunman", "The Little Thing of First Love", South Korea's "Twenty Years Old", "Sunshine Sisters" and so on.

The scripts of these movies can be bought, and others may be drowned in the sea of scripts, but Li Shu knows where the treasure is.

So, what is plagiarism a person counts as?

Buy these scripts, take a group of mature screenwriters, localize these stories, shoot them, and sell them......

What is a person who plagiarizes?

Let's do it with everyone!

After turning "Twinkle Twinkle Twinkle Star" into the corresponding characters and plots, and telling the theme outline after the segmentation to these strangers, Li Suan proposed the key part of this web drama.

"Crush, guys, I want you to write a story about a male student's crush, why is crush beautiful? Why is it more touching than first love? Why is it more unsettling?

Because of its failure, because of its purity, because it is not noticed, our heroine goes back to the past to make up for regrets and change the present, but as a result, she finds that she can't do it anyway, until she discovers this boy's love, which is a love that you have missed and cannot change.

Guys, I've invested money in this project, and I'm going to give you money, so if you want to get away with it, please leave now, trust me, with my ability to read and write, you can't fool me.

Everyone should come up with a central idea within the week, and the deadline for submission is seven days later. ”

Wait for Li Suan to turn off the video, and then look at Zeng Jia on the side.

"Sister, I'm doing this, are you relieved?"

Zeng Jia sneered: "I'm afraid you'll die!" ”

Zeng Jia really cared about what he said, because even if Li was young, he couldn't bear so many worries.

"Lighting, cinematography, these are the director's business, you yourself are the screenwriter, and now you are writing with these people...... How many brains do you have? ”

Li Suan thought about it, Zeng Jia shouldn't have known about "The Beginning" yet. Actually, where did this go? Yang Mi's popularity is not endless, and if movies and variety shows want to sell money, don't they still have to rely on hype and publicity?

Plus getting married...... Li Suan suddenly felt that he didn't have to sleep.

But he looked at Zeng Jia and said: "Sister, as long as this model is established and operated, so that it is smooth and profitable, we are the Disney of Asia!" ”