Chapter 55: The Part Obeys the Whole

Fifteen superhero series, just the script took more than half a year, and this is still super efficient.

In the past six months, the Super Hero series has also changed drafts several times.

Don't look at this as a big work of pit money, but for the pursuit in his heart, Li Xianyun is still very serious and responsible.

To do this, he copied the Hollywood model.

Hollywood has its own script production process.

Here's how their process goes

The producer first brought in a bunch of screenwriters and asked them to write a one-sentence outline each.

Just one word!

This sentence is mainly about the subject matter, elements, etc., don't mention anything else, and don't read it if you write more.

For example, the one-sentence outline of the Superhero series is the story of a group of Chinese superheroes saving the world. Modern super-powered genre.

Then the producer made a choice after reading it, and asked the screenwriter to expand the selected sentence to 100 words, which is the style of the script, selling points, etc.

A week later, expand the content of 100 words to 500 words, and at this time it is time to make the overall framework, such as who are the superheroes, what is the main plot, etc., and the list of related characters has also begun to appear, and more than a dozen are also made to choose.

Another week, that's a thousand words, and that's the main outline.

Another week, it's 3,000 words, this is a detailed outline, the character list has to be completed, if it's an alternate world, you have to do the world background - Avatar light world background made a book.

At this point, &bsp&bsp another week, the producer called all the writers over, &bsp&bsp said to overturn the rewrite.

So continue to start with one sentence, &bsp&bsp start over.

Just repeat several rounds of tossing, &bsp&bspcreate, break, &bsp&bsp give up, and recreate, and then finally form a script.

During this period, &bsp&bsp&bsp will also have a set of summarized routines, including foreshadowing, development, incentives, &bsp&bsp small, turning, trough period, &bsp&bsp&bsp re-turning, &bsp&bsp large, etc., and the specific will be accurate to the time point.

What to achieve in a few minutes and seconds.

In the words of Huaguo, it is the beginning and the end, &bsp&bspIn Hollywood parlance, &bsp&bsp that is...... , &bsp&bsp I can't say the English name, anyway, it's a total of eight steps, you read the beginning and turn twice, &bsp&bsp is almost what it means.

It's a very scientific approach, and it's the key to the rise of Hollywood.

Of course, it's not invincible, the film should be rotten, &bsp&bsp But from a production point of view, it is indeed the most standardized.

This is a bit rigid, &bsp&bsp is not suitable for artistic creation, but it is suitable for assembly line production.

And if a company wants to be bigger, it must be like this - the contradiction between art and business is vividly expressed on this issue!

So in the past period of time, in addition to the doomsday crazy flowers, the apocalyptic danger and the nine hands-on exercises, &bsp&bsp has been grinding this with you - Mr. Liu said, &bsp&bsp said okay, I'm the director of the production department?

Okay, &bsp&bspYour boss loves to meddle, &bsp&bsp&bspI'm happy to be relaxed.

Everyone has their own ideas, and there are more than ten or twenty screenwriters, and just throwing the script is a bunch of them every time.

Looking at the frame, Li Xianyun could see that the sky was dark, and he was inexplicably a little envious of Shi Jun.

Look at what other people's bosses do, why is your own boss so hard?

But thinking that his company is about to collapse, I think it's better to be hard.

Fortunately, Li Xianyun still survived, and the basic framework, outline, character list, and world background of the fifteen-part online series gradually took shape.

Now that the director has set and the script is completed, the next step is for the director to elaborate, make a big plan, and then do the storyboard.

The director's elaboration is to put forward his own views on the tone and style of the whole film, and the big plan is the relevant implementation plan.

Storyboards are generally the director's personal artistic play, but this time is different, Li Xianyun has strict requirements for all storyboards, in fact, the director's personal play has been greatly limited, they are essentially more about implementing Li Xianyun's meaning, and only a small part of the space has room for self-play.

This made Rong Dasheng very dissatisfied.

He felt that Li Xianyun's approach was too rigid, and he approached Li Xianyun more than once and told him that it was impossible to put all artistic creations in place at one time, and there were many times when they were played on the spot. Sometimes an idea comes, but because of the limitations of the script, the idea cannot be used.

Li Xianyun was very puzzled, I didn't decide you to be the director, &bsp&bsp just gave you a position as a photographer, why are you so energetic?

However, Li Xianyun also understands Rong Dasheng's character, and this thing probably wants to prove himself in this way, &bsp&bsp to save the defeat.

And what he said wasn't all wrong.

Many great directors do it on the spot, after all, the shooting scene itself is part of the artistic creation.

For example, the famous director Jiang, &bsp&bsp changed the script on the spot I don't know how many times.

There is also the famous Director Du, &bsp&bspWhen he was shooting gunfire, he found that the time was not enough, so he simply let a group of killers be in a daze during the duel and create death silence, which turned out to be a classic shot.

is more famous than the king of sunglasses, when he was filming, he didn't even have a script, which was even more terrifying than the author who wrote an essay without an outline.

The author can at least go all the way, even if it doesn't sell well, you can change it at will, and all the pit is the investor's money, after all, the crew exists for a day is a day's money.

But that's how people play, so that many directors are so pee-like and extremely hate filming that can't change the script.

And Li Xianyun's approach, not to mention that it is impossible to change the script on the spot, even the storyboard is locked.

But this can't be blamed on Li Xianyun.

After all, this is a series of fifteen parts.

A small detail change on your side is fine in this movie, but it may be a problem in other series.

For example, in the decisive battle in Sky City, the little junior sister saving people was changed to the senior sister saving people, this change, at least one more senior sister handed over the rescued person to the little junior sister, so that the plot could be recoherent, and then in the follow-up lines, the rescued male protagonist had to modify the lines slightly, and the gratitude for saving his life changed from the little junior sister to the senior sister. If necessary, even the emotional performance has to be adjusted, after all, the direction of gratitude has changed. Then the emotional drama with the little sister has to add a paragraph, otherwise the relationship between the male and female protagonists will be lacking in foundation.

The requirements are more refined, and even the details of the plot have to be changed, and the senior sister will also add scenes because of this.

It's still a movie, with a minimal change.

What about fifteen?

If you move here, the rest of the movies will follow you?

When all the directors move, the play collapses - it doesn't take everyone to move, everyone moves and it collapses.

Pull a hair and move the whole body!

So Li Xianyun's reply to this was to scoff.

Of course, he can also understand Yung Dasheng's idea - it is true that it is easy to limit inspiration by following the framework.

Not to mention Rong Dasheng, even the author of the online article, including Li Xianyun himself, has had such an experience.

The outline is done, but it doesn't mean that I have to write according to the outline.

I often write and write and deviate, and in the end, I go crazy, I'll go to you, damn the outline, I can write how I want.

Li Xianyun has made a 100,000-word outline, but he often deviates, and then turns around and changes the outline - the creator does not adapt to the truth, but the truth adapts to me!

But in this process, Li Xianyun will not lie to himself.

He firmly believes that this approach is a sign of a lack of control.

It would be a mistake to sacrifice the whole for inspiration!

Now fifteen movies are going to be filmed consecutively, and they must not be done like this.

The key is that even if he agrees, the ghost treasures are not easy to cooperate with - this time he is the chief director, what if he doesn't set a good path, what if something goes wrong?

So in this way, under the forcible suppression of Li Xianyun, a group of directors began their hard storyboard creation, which not only suited their own needs, but also suited the taste of the boss.

It will take a few months for the storyboards of the fifteen parts to be done well and meticulously, and Li Xianyun has not been idle during this time.

Yisheng Media now relies on special effects to make movies, and the money is basically stable, so it must work hard, so Li Xianyun turned around and began to plan the film that promoted the ghost town.

The idea has been there for a long time, and the specific idea is still provided to him by Sun Shi.

Sun Shi means that this time he made a documentary about the secret of the predecessor of the ghost town.

To put it bluntly, it tells the story of the haunted ghost town, why the construction site suddenly died, and why the blood dried up? Is it a distortion of human nature? Or is it moral decay?

After that, it turned out that there were never any ghosts, only murderers.

This was done mainly to wash away rumors of hauntings and stabilize the area.

Li Xianyun was a little hesitant, but after Sun Shi told him that this could become a propaganda film for the local government, Li Xianyun readily agreed.

The Ze County government was willing to give a bonus of one million for this, and promised to repair the broken road that Jiang Zheng had been running for a long time.

So after that, Li Xianyun and them made a pseudo-documentary script.

To be precise, it is a film in the form of a documentary, the film unfolds from the perspective of a female reporter, after entering the ghost town, while showing the style of the ghost town, while unraveling the "long-dusted" "accumulated past" through retrospective.

The ghost town has an unfinished construction site, and the busy construction site uses gray as the main body to create suspense, and the eerie horror style of the ghost town shapes the picture, thus forming a super-large haunted house detective puzzle story.

Li Xianyun even added another reversal at the end, after pushing everything to the real murderer, the female reporter was killed by the sudden appearance of the ghost, forming an earth-shattering reversal, which can also leave endless suspense.

But the county government will not accept this.

What we want is clarification, why are you doing this, the story is good-looking, and the political goal cannot be achieved!

For the sake of a million, you can only give up.

Li Xianyun lamented that his artistic creativity had been stifled by money.

In this way, the story is also there, and the scenery is also there, but the only pity is that this kind of pseudo-documentary film is not suitable for any love story.

The script has been completed a long time ago, and the crew of the old ghost is still filming in other places, because Jiang Zheng wants to rush them to work, he will come here at the last moment to film, it is expected to come in two months, Li Xianyun doesn't want to delay time, it is best to seize these two months to shoot the film.

Now the question is, who to find as the heroine?

While he was thinking, Yang Yuan called.

For the big drama that cooperated with Shengda Media, the crew was going to come to Kanjing to prepare.