Li Shi first sent a message to Wang Jianmu: "Senior brother, are you busy, I want to ask you about something." ”

After sending it over, I came to the study, tidied it up a little, and the mobile phone on the desk rang, and I walked over to see that it was Wang Jianmu calling, and I quickly connected it.

"Brother, what's the matter?"

Li Shi explained the situation a little.

After listening to this, Wang Jianmu said directly: "Brother, I used to be an action director for a few years, but at that time, I just didn't want to stay at home and mess around, and I didn't want to develop as a director in the past, so I just did my own job, only about action design and guidance, and actor casting, I don't understand, but I know a few directors, one of whom has now been an assistant director of several TV series, if you need it, I can help you ask." ”

Li Shi immediately said: "Then this is great, please ask Senior Brother Wang to help me contact him." ”

"Okay, you can wait for my news."

After a while, Wang Jianmu called again: "I called him but didn't answer, maybe I was busy, I was working on the crew, I often had a day and night, I had already left a message for him, he would definitely call me back when he saw it, but there may be no news until tomorrow." ”

"It's okay, it's okay."

Li Shi expressed understanding.

After thanking Wang Jianmu again, he chatted a few more words before hanging up the phone.

He stood there and thought about it, flipped to Zhang Jingyi's WeChat, and edited the information: "Senior sister, I haven't seen you for a long time, do you have time to chat?" ”

After sending it, put the phone directly in the trouser pocket and continue to organize the study.

He found that it was more difficult to make a short film than he had imagined, so he felt that he needed to sort out his thoughts in order to ensure a high-quality film and express his thoughts on calligraphy as much as possible.

"Step 1: The core and synopsis of the story, the biography of the characters. (Completed)"

"Step 1: Script the script. (The third draft will be released tonight, remember, in addition to the story itself, the calligraphy related parts must also be reviewed) (unfinished)"

"Step 2: Storyboard. (After all, it's the first time to shoot a short drama, try to draw a storyboard to ensure the quality of the finished film) (first find a storyboard draft on the Internet to learn) (unfinished)"

"Step 3: Main character casting. (Male lead, TBD) (Female lead, tentative Zhao Lu) (County calligrapher, TBD) (early secondary roles: female protagonist's parents, high school principal, etc.) (Later secondary roles: elite male, big wave female, etc.)

……

Based on his previous experience in photography and filmmaking, Li Shi sorted out the steps, and suddenly had a good idea of what to do to make a short feature film, and felt much more secure.

I took out my phone and looked at it, and when I saw that WeChat was not moving, I put my phone on the desk.

I took the tablet, turned it on, searched the Internet for the storyboard draft, and soon found the storyboard script of Zhang Yimou's movie "Hero".

After downloading it, because I hadn't been in contact with it before, I still had the mentality of facing difficulties at first, but at a glance, I found that -

"Hey, it doesn't seem difficult for me to draw this."

I have the advantages of painting skills and drama picture imagination, and I also have the ability to write scripts.

After Li Shi carefully read the storyboard script of the great director, who was called "National Teacher" by netizens, he immediately tried to write a storyboard based on the painting.

What he chose was the scene where the male protagonist and his first love were separated on a rainy night.

[Somewhere, rainy night street, outside]

(Near the first love's home, at 10 o'clock in the evening)

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1 [Special or Near] (stepping on puddles, splashing water)

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2 [near or middle] (the first love's snow-white smooth calves enter under the reflection of street advertising lights, from the calves, thighs and buttocks, from the buttocks to the waist) (highlighting the white and smooth skin)

……

He wrote very quickly, and in a short time, he roughly drew the storyboard of this scene.

"When the script comes out, I will imagine the picture according to the script, and then draw the picture, which is the storyboard script."

"It's not necessarily exactly according to Lao Mouzi's model, it's good if you can understand it."

"Chinese, photography, painting...... The things I've accumulated earlier feel like they're meant for being a director, hey! ”

“so easy！”

Before, Li Shi was most worried about the timing of shooting short films, but now he found that in fact, after the storyboard is drawn, how to set the camera position will also come out.

He suddenly felt more confidence and anticipation in his heart for the first short feature film he was going to make.

After such a long retreat, Li Shi was also a little tired, and the matter of calligraphy creation was put on hold for the time being.

turned on the TV and casually watched the recent new dramas and new variety shows, scanned the circle, and found that they were all idol dramas, the key quality was still very low, there was really nothing to see, he simply picked up the tablet again, found some movie storyboards of other directors on the Internet, and took them as comic books to watch.

"Tsui Hark's storyboard painting is different from Lao Mouzi, it is very delicate, and even the dust of riding a horse is expressed."

"Haha, Jiang Wen's painting is really sloppy."

……

Li Shi is in a relaxed mood, and through different storyboard scripts, he can feel the differences in the styles of these big directors, which is quite interesting.

When it was quiet, he suddenly heard the sound of cicadas chirping outside the window, and at first he thought it was an illusion.

"I'm on the twelfth floor."

If you listen carefully, it is indeed the sound of cicadas, and I heard it right.

He became serious and listened very well, and soon found that the movement was coming from the green belt of the community downstairs.

I got up, took my phone and went downstairs to the elevator.

Today's weather is very good, sunny days, but it will be three or four o'clock in the afternoon, the sun has set in the west, and the sunlight under the community has long been blocked by the high-rise buildings.

Walking along the sound of cicadas, I felt that the calls were getting louder and louder, and soon I really found a small insect on a five-needle pine.

As soon as Li Shi approached, it stopped screaming.

When I left farther away, the sound that I often heard in my hometown when I was a child rang out again.

The sound of cicadas in the ears may seem like noise to others, but Li Shi was in a good mood when he heard it, and he only felt that this was a small surprise he encountered today!

He found a bench in the shade and sat down, and didn't think about anything.

Until the mobile phone in his trouser pocket vibrate, he took it out and saw that it was Zhang Jingyi who replied to the message.

"Senior, I was working before, and my phone was turned off, so I will see that I have time now, do you have something?"

Li Shi thought about it for a while, and felt that it was better to make a phone call to make it clearer, so he asked, "Is it convenient for you to answer the phone?" ”

No, Zhang Jingyi called directly after half a minute.

"Senior, long time no see."

"Long time no see, here's the thing, I'm ready to ......"

Li Shi briefly explained the reason, and then asked her about their filming casting.

Zhang Jingyi's voice was very flat, without too many tone fluctuations, but she spoke directly, and she didn't hide it, and directly told Li Shi in detail about the several casting auditions she had participated in when she entered the industry.

"My suggestion is that before you look for an actor, you should have a clear imagination of what the role is like, so that the goal is clear...... I've heard that some great directors, when choosing actors, often know at a glance whether this is the person they want. ”

In the end, she suddenly sighed faintly: "However, things in the world, nine times out of ten are unsatisfactory, people live in the world, they always have to compromise, not with others, but also with themselves." ”

Li Shi was thinking about his imagination of several main characters, but he couldn't help blinking when he heard this, thinking to himself, her tone was not quite right.

What is it that is not good, depressed?

After chatting a few more words, he thanked the other party and hung up the phone.

got up and went upstairs, but when he got into the elevator, he was still thinking about Zhang Jingyi's not quite right state, remembering all kinds of bad rumors in the entertainment industry, unlocked the screen, typed and sent a message over: "Senior sister, thank you again for telling me so much, you have helped me a lot, but the state of listening to you doesn't seem to be very good, did you encounter something unhappy?" ”

You help me, I'll help you, in addition to the identity of high school alumni, the two are barely friends now.

Zhang Jingyi's typing speed was also relatively fast, and the message was quickly replied: "My state is really not very good, maybe the role I played this time is too deep into the play." ”

The two didn't say a word to chat.

Zhang Jingyi talked about her situation, it turned out that she played a young girl murderer this time, and she had a particularly miserable experience, and was violated by campus bullies twice...... In the end, he killed everyone who hurt her.

"I am a halfway monk, so I can only take the path of experience, really listen, see and feel, and act in an emotional way, so I am more deeply involved in the play."

Li Shi was stunned, emotionally substituted for this kind of role, this senior girl is also ruthless enough to herself.

He asked, "Then there is always a way to make a play, right?" ”

Zhang Jingyi: "Yes, after a long time, it will naturally come out of the play, and time is always the best medicine to heal everything - otherwise replace it with another emotion, such as playing individual roles, or ......"

Li Shi asked curiously: "Or what?" ”

After a while, Zhang Jingyi said, "Senior, let's change the topic." ”

……

At five o'clock in the afternoon, Li Shi asked his assistant Zhang Huijing to bring five dishes and one soup to him, and after eating and drinking, he went to bed early and lay down, and fused the physical attributes of calligraphy promoted to (professional-) increase.

When I woke up at eleven o'clock in the middle of the night, my constitution attribute increased to 34.9.

He moved his body out of the bedroom, feeling the urge to smash the floor through with a punch.

"You can't really smash it, even if you don't smash it, with your current strength, you can hit it with all your might, I'm afraid that the upstairs and downstairs will mistakenly think that there was an explosion somewhere."

Li Shi came to the kitchen, drank three cartons of milk in one go, carried a bag of bread, took a bottle of water, and went downstairs directly into sneakers.

When I arrived at the entrance of the community, I finished eating, pulled it into the garbage can on the side of the road, and walked towards the river.

It would be almost twelve o'clock in the morning.

The river is breezy, but there is no one.

He walked to a place where there was no surveillance, opened a boxing fight, one move at a time, and started a routine.

I fought all the boxing skills I learned three times, and although I didn't sweat much, my body was warm and comfortable, and my whole body was full of qi and blood.

"It's a pity that with my current physique, in such a place, it is no longer good to completely spread out the activities of your hands and feet, unless you go to the activity base in the suburbs. But...... After a while, I want to go back to Baoqing and Zhaoyang to shoot, and the plan is to do a small city series, and I must go there often, but I can also get a place to live there. ”

"Also, take some time to go out into the mountains."

Li Shi thought about the seaview villa again.

"It is also arranged, and occasionally go to the beach for vacation in the future, eating abalone and seafood on the beach or in the seawater, and enjoying the colorful flowers and bones, which is still very pleasant!"

It was almost one o'clock in the morning when he returned to Phoenix Bay, and he took a shower, only then did he check WeChat and find that Zhang Huijing and Zhao Lingfang had sent him messages at night.

The assistant reported on the interview for the actors tomorrow, and Zhao Lingfang told him that the script had been changed and sent to the work mailbox.

After replying one sentence separately, Li Shi turned on the tablet, logged in to the mailbox, downloaded the third version of the script sent by Zhao Lingfang to the tablet, and then came to the study, printed it out by Bluetooth connected to the printer, and then took the thick physical script, took out a pencil from the desk, came to the topic, sat comfortably on the massage chair, and began to read.

The third draft of the script was already very complete, and he read through it quickly first, and it felt pretty good.

Then he began to use his imagination, while reading, he transformed the words into picture scenes in his mind, and as the text turned page by page, the whole story was also played out in Li Shi's mind.

When he encountered something wrong, he marked it with a pencil, and when he finished the second pass, he began to revise it.

There are not many flaws, and it will be changed after five divided by two.

Looking at the whole script again, suddenly every character became extraordinarily three-dimensional in his heart, the male advocate who was passionate on the surface, Zhou Yan, the first love who was pure and rebellious in appearance, and Principal Peng, who seemed to be strict but warm-hearted......

"Although I'm making a short film, the core of the characters is still relatively rich, and it's not easy to act, so the stupid way is to directly find someone who is more similar to the character."

After sleeping for a few hours by fusing the physique attribute before, Li Shi was in excellent spirits, got up and came to the study, took a stack of A4 paper, and directly began to draw a storyboard script.

At first, it was relatively slow, but after becoming familiar with the routines of storyboard creation, the speed instantly increased, and there was no one around, only the sound of friction in the study was heard.

Suddenly, the sound of a WeChat message broke the quiet atmosphere of the night.

Li Shi stopped his pen and picked up his mobile phone to see the time first.

It was 2:46 a.m.

Looking at the information again, it was sent by Zhang Jingyi, an inexplicable sentence: "Senior, are you willing to trap me?" ”

What does this mean?

Li Shi was in a trance for a second, and suddenly remembered that "sleepy" is the local dialect of his hometown, which means "sleep".

When the old family says, "I'm going to sleep," it's "I'm going to sleep."

Brother Xun's Ah Q also said this to Wu's mother back then.

So—

Li Shi was excited, and he instantly came back to his senses.

Looking at the screen again, I found that the other party had withdrawn the message.

Li Shi frowned slightly, and suddenly remembered that she was too deep in the play: "Should I pretend not to see it, or ...... What's the answer? ”

This is the first time Li Shi has encountered this kind of thing, and even a wise person like him doesn't know how to deal with it for a while.

After hesitating, she nodded her avatar and entered her circle of friends.

The latest news was posted three days ago: Successfully completed, happy! (Cake) (Flowers)

In addition to the emoji in the copy, a photo taken at the end of the film is also attached, in which she is wearing a white coat and standing there with flowers in her hand, pretty and pure, smiling with a smile on her face, and also comparing a photo pose with a loving hand towards the camera.

Whether it's copywriting or photos, there's nothing unusual in the slightest.

At this moment, perhaps in order to cover up the previously withdrawn information, Zhang Jingyi sent a message again: "Senior, can I go and watch when you are filming?" (End of chapter)