The next day, the photography and post-production zuò that Meng Wentuo Zhou Wei was looking for had also arrived.

Photography and post-production are old colleagues that Zhou Wei has worked with before, according to Zhou Wei, the skills are not bad, but they are not very good now. I don't want to change careers when I'm old, so I've been floating in various shooting bases. Where there is a life, where to go. But it's quite righteous, I heard that Zhou Wei wanted to help here, so he hurriedly quit his job and came to Jinshi.

The makeup costume is the daughter of a friend of Zhou Wei, named Zhou Ling, who has just graduated from college for a year. However, he has been influenced by his parents since he was a child, and his skills are not bad. Now I am helping in a crew, and I can't leave temporarily, so I guess I have to wait for two or three days to arrive.

Meng Wen has already assigned the script to the actors. Because except for Hong Weide, who has performed a few plays with lines, the others have little experience. Xun Hanlei's three daughters have no experience at all.

Meng Wen took advantage of the past few days to ask Zhou Wei to give some simple performance skills guidance to Xun Hanlei and the others. In the evening, they practiced and exchanged ideas on the script. Just wait for makeup artist Zhou Ling to arrive and officially start filming.

Meng Wen was not idle, and had been discussing with Han Xinchao to see what props he needed. Han Xinchao is the apprentice of photographer Wang Lianghou, who has been working for lighting and set designers in the crew before, and has also learned a lot of things. After meeting Wang Lianghou during a filming, he has been learning photography with Wang Lianghou.

This time, Zhou Wei asked Wang Lianghou to come over to help, and Wang Lianghou directly brought Han Xinchao over. Originally, Wang Lianghou brought Han Xinchao to learn photography with him, but when Meng Wen heard that Han Xinchao had worked in lighting and photography before, he directly let Han Xinchao take charge of lighting and photography.

Han Xin Supernatural is very happy, so not only will his salary increase several times, but he will also learn a lot of experience. In the future, I will have the confidence to apply for jobs in other crews, after all, I have been responsible for lighting and sets, and after the broadcast of such online dramas, there will be names displayed at the end of the show, which cannot be bought by any amount of money. Unlike before, when people heard that they were apprentices, they ignored them, or they just gave them a hand.

Meng Wen found out how lucky he was after communicating with Han Xinchao. I lost this time to buy one get one free, and invited Wang Lianghou to bring a Han Xinchao. Originally, Meng Wen thought that the set was very easy, wasn't it OK to just put a few tables in the office, as for the lighting, there was a photographer there, and he could control it himself, what could this be?

After Han Xinchao said it, Meng Wen found out that it was not like that. The set is not so simple, how to make the camera picture the best, how to make the set more comedic, how to highlight the actions of a certain actor, there is a deep knowledge in this.

As for the lighting, this is especially true of the different lighting settings, which will lead to completely different effects, especially when shooting horror films, and the difference in lighting will greatly affect the horror of the film......

And so it passed two more days, on November 21. Makeup artist Zhou Ling also arrived. In this way, the people are completely complete.

Meng Wen invited everyone to get together again in the evening, and they could be regarded as getting to know each other, including the six protagonists, four staff members, Lu Yan, Zhang Dahai and Zhou Wei's bar, a total of fifteen people.

Meng Wen deliberately chose a hotel with a large private room, and set up two tables in the room, one table for women and one table for men. We had a good exchange together.

In the evening, after dinner, everyone went back to their respective homes and went back early to rest. It's been a tiring few days, and the key is that there is one more important thing to do tomorrow -- the start-up ceremony.

Directors who are slightly famous will hold a "start-up ceremony" and invite some entertainment reporters to promote the hype. It's a pity that Meng Wen is not famous at all in the film and television industry, even if he can spend money to invite some small reporters during the start-up ceremony, it will not play a big role, but it will give people a feeling of low grade.

Meng Wen decided to find another way and didn't invite outsiders to participate at all, just holding a simple online drama briefing for his own people.

Meng Wen did not invite reporters to participate, not because Meng Wen did not want to carry out propaganda and hype. After the publication of his two new books, Meng Wen is deeply aware of the importance of publicity and hype. The reason why Meng Wen decided to abandon this conventional propaganda method was because Meng Wen thought of a more suitable propaganda method.

In the past few days, in addition to discussing the set with Han Xinchao, Meng Wen has been thinking about what means to use to promote his online drama. Although he is now well-known in the martial arts author circle, he is really not famous at all in the film and television industry. The actors are also some rookie actors, and there is no topic to hype at all.

In the end, the topic of hype had to fall on Meng Wen, and now Meng Wen can get his hands on three things that are slightly more famous, one is martial arts novels, the second is the songs written by Meng Wen, and the third is Meng Wen's love poems.

Love poems are excluded in the first place, and the audience is too small. Only martial arts novels and songs are left to choose the same, and in the end, Meng Wen chose songs as a breakthrough. Martial arts novels have a relatively smaller audience than the songs I wrote, and they are not easy to operate, so I can't write another book specifically to promote "Waste Wood Brothers", right?

So Meng Wen decided to add his own songs to the process of the boot ceremony. At that time, the photographer will make a video of the singing part, the actor introduction part, and some tidbits recorded by Meng Wen in advance, post it on the Internet, and use the Internet to promote it.

In fact, many crew start-up ceremonies will also be recorded and uploaded to the Internet, and this combination of publicity methods is very common. The reason why Meng Wen dared to do this alone was because of Meng Wen's confidence in creating songs.

Meng Wen decided that the second male Wang Qiang would sing "Ambition in My Chest" as the ending song of "Waste Wood Brothers". The reason why Meng Wen chose "Ambition in My Chest" as the ending song of "Waste Wood Brothers".

First, "Ambition in My Chest" is classic enough to definitely attract people's attention. The second is that "Ambition in My Chest" is also in line with the artistic conception of "waste wood" in the play.

The literal understanding of "waste firewood" is likely to be associated with the negative words decadence and abandonment, and many people directly summarize the characteristics of waste firewood as "poverty, embarrassment, and decline". However, the "waste wood" expressed in "Waste Wood Brothers" is by no means just that. The "waste firewood" in "Waste Wood Brothers" is a seemingly deprecating positive energy term, and the waste wood expressed in the play is a group that cannot be ignored. It would be more accurate to say "young people who have the potential to be more successful but are temporarily declining".

Originally, Meng Wen wanted the male number one Li Longteng to sing, but unfortunately Li Longteng really had no talent in singing, and finally let Wang Qiang try it and felt good, so he handed over "Ambition in My Chest" to Wang Qiang.

called Zhou Haoda to train Wang Qiang in singing skills, Zhou Haoda sighed all morning after reading the lyrics and songs, such a good song was handed over to this two knives to sing. It's a pity that he didn't have anything to do, even Zhang He's kid got an opening song to sing......

Before Meng Wen promised Zhang He, the resident singer of the bar, to write a song for him. I haven't had time for this time, and this time I took this opportunity to push Zhang He out. gave Zhang He a supporting role, mainly so that he could sing the opening song "Alive" written by Meng Wen.

"Alive" is the theme song and ending song of "Waste Wood Brothers" in the previous life, sung by folk singer Hao Yun, the melody is catchy, the lyrics are simple and straightforward, a very good song, "laughing at life" is the philosophy in Hao Yun's music. This time, for the sake of publicity, Meng Wen had to change the theme song to the opening song.