"Originally, it was just a little idea, but when I came to the scene just now and saw this part filmed by Director Lu, I suddenly understood how to make a horror movie."

"As you said at the beginning, there is a text in the script of 'Pen Fairy' that says, 'At night, she was lying alone in bed, and suddenly she heard a slight breathing behind her, and suddenly turned around sharply, and let out a high-pitched scream......'"

"Judging from the description alone, the scene is at home, the time is late at night, and the character is the hostess, as a director, through these simple details, I can still imagine the basic picture sense, and there is a relatively clear clip in front of me."

"But the question is, is it scary in terms of the picture that I have in my mind that I have described through these words? Does it make people feel scary? Can it serve as an important part of a horror movie? ”

"These three questions came up in my mind, and the answer was obvious, no, it wasn't enough."

Although it is December, the students in this city are not afraid of the cold, as long as there is no snow, they run and play basketball on the playground one by one in the cold wind.

Driven by this fiery atmosphere, the people watching next to him were not so cold.

Lu Zhengyi followed Zhang Yu, Bai Wei and Li Chuanxin to sit on the stone audience platform, holding a boxed lunch, talking while eating.

As a director, Li Chuanxin's descriptive ability is still very strong.

The other three people present were also engaged in this profession themselves, and with his words, they could more or less have such a simple picture in their hearts.

First of all, there is the room, which is probably a room with all kinds of small objects, and there are dolls, pillows and other objects on the bed.

Then there is the time, and at night, there must be no lights on.

But if you don't turn on the lights, it doesn't mean that there is no light source in the room, the moonlight outside the window and the lights of the surrounding buildings peek into the house along the window, bringing a relatively dim light source.

Then there are the figures, a young girl who is reclining on the bed on her right.

In order not to press on the heart, many people are used to sleeping on the right side.

And the background of the story is a group of students playing pen fairy, so this girl can have a pimple on her face, or a pox mark.

Then, as a breathing sound suddenly sounded in the camera, the girl opened her eyes suddenly, sat up and looked back, and then began to scream.

This......

"Even if I pay attention to the scenes, props, and characters, the sense of the picture that can be shot according to this description is still relatively low in terms of horror." Li Chuanxin took another bite of food, "I think I should leave it blank rather than directly shooting a frightening picture." ”

As soon as these words were spoken, Lu Zhengyi and Zhang Yu looked at each other, and then smiled.

A similar conversation, which they discussed in previous shoots.

It's just not summed up in the word 'blank'.

"What do you mean?"

Only Bai Wei was present with a confused face.

"Xiaowei, how do you think you would choose to shoot this scene if you were to direct it?" Zhang Yu asked with a smile, "That is to say, where do you think the shooting should be placed, and how should you write this storyboard to meet the needs of the subject matter and create a sense of horror atmosphere?" ”

On the side, Li Chuanxin glanced at Bai Wei with some surprise, and then at Lu Zhengyi.

Seeing that he didn't make a sound, he didn't bother much, waiting for the other party's answer.

"How do you shoot it......?"

It's been almost a month since he was shooting in different dimensions, and in this month, Bai Wei has learned some basics with Zhang Yu, such as storyboards and other things, and he can still understand them.

After a brief thought, he replied embarrassedly, "If it were me, I would put the camera on the face of the protagonist, I mean, well, a close-up close-up, yes, a close-up close-up, just like the trailer of the curse that Director Lu shot at the beginning." ”

"No, no, the camera should be behind the protagonist."

"Wait, I don't feel like it's enough, we can start with a long shot, start shooting from the protagonist before he goes to bed, and follow the protagonist to brush his teeth and wash up and finally come to the bed from behind, and follow her all the way, until finally she lies on the bed, and 'I' finally wakes her up with a wheezing sound."

Bai Wei was a little embarrassed at first, but as he spoke, the picture in his mind seemed to become clearer and clearer, and he began to come up with more ideas.

As a real 'old man' in the crew, he has been following Lu Zhengyi from the old corpse in the mountain village until the current scene notes.

Although Bai Wei still has a lot of skills to learn, his vision and knowledge are very broad.

Just like the current shot, other directors may need to think for a while to give an answer, but he is different, as long as he recalls how Lu Zhengyi usually arranges it, he can complete a simple shot by imitating this lens language.

Even in the process, he extended and added some of his own understanding.

Of course, this is only the learning stage, and only when Bai Wei slowly has his own style can he be regarded as a real director.

On the side, Li Chuanxin's eyes lit up, and the shooting ideas put forward by this scene record suddenly made the simple picture just now a little more terrifying.

"Oh, that's the white space!"

Bai Wei said and understood what Li Chuanxin meant just now.

"Horror movies are different from ordinary films, they can't show everything in front of the audience."

"We want to hide the scenes that are terrifying for the 'protagonist' and leave enough time for the audience to fantasize."

"Let them piece together their own terrifying images from the information collected by their brains."

Compared with the picture taken by the director, what is more terrifying than the picture made up by his own brain?

Just like the one just now, if you shoot according to his train of thought, the audience will only face a protagonist staring at the camera and screaming.

At this stage, as long as there are no problems with the previous plot shooting, and an atmosphere has gradually been created that can make people pause to think and recall the fears of the past, then that emotion will explode at this moment.

The audience will make up the 'ghosts' they have seen in their own minds. ’

"That's about it."

Lu Zhengyi nodded, and recognized the shooting technique that Bai Wei just said, after all, this method was what he had used himself, "Of course, this is not the only method, I hope that Director Li can also find more shooting techniques to create a terrifying atmosphere in the future, let me learn." ”

His tone was sincere.

Li Chuanxin was slightly stunned, he could feel that the other party's words were not polite.

"Actually, when the filming of the previous Night Fright started, I was very much looking forward to it." Lu Zhengyi looked at him, "The domestic horror film market is still very young, just last year, the directors who produced horror films in China except for me, only had night horrors. ”

"At that time, if it weren't for the fact that the night horror began to deviate in the follow-up, not only was it not suitable to be called a horror film in terms of quality, but even the marketing techniques became inferior, making this contest a vicious competition, I actually planned to help promote the film after it was released."

"Because I understand that this market can't be the only one of us in the production, more directors in China need to appear to try to make horror films, and everyone can collide with better ideas under healthy competition with each other."

"Since Director Li can say what he just said, I believe he is also interested in horror films, and he knows that this category of films is not so easy to complete."

"It's not just a good book, it's not just a shooting technique, it's not just a special effect...... It is too easy to make a child whose mind is not mature enough and full of imagination afraid. But it's too difficult and too difficult to make a horror film that scares an adult who is numb and depressed under the pressure of work and life. ”

Because of the perfection of the classification system, the horror films in this world are much better than the previous life in terms of shooting and production restrictions.

But because of this, the difficulty has also increased.

The most basic viewing age for horror films is directly set at adulthood, and even as the reviewers watch the content of the film, this age limit will gradually increase.

Although there will still be children who will find resources to watch, they are more likely to watch pirated copies or wait until the film is taken offline from the theater and use their parents' ID cards to watch it on the online video platform, so that the impact on the data judgment of the film is reduced.

And it is not easy to make adults afraid.

Rather than spending energy on research, making a niche horror film, and doing some thankless work, more directors are more willing to make some dramas and romance films.

The money is not enough, the film is too difficult to make satisfying films, there are better options...... These reasons are due to the fact that the world's film and television industry has a sufficiently complete rating system, but before Lu Zhengyi came, the quality of horror films still did not come up.

“…… Taught. ”

For Lu Zhengyi to say such a thing, Li Chuanxin was surprised and a little ashamed at the same time.

He could see that people really like to make horror movies, so he chose this category.

And what about Li Chuanxin himself? In fact, in a sense, he also chose to join because he valued the current hot horror film market, and no director had the ability to enter the scene, and wanted to seize this opportunity.

He is more inclined to money and fame than to like.

Lu Zhengyi looked at the unnaturalness on his face, and could probably guess what was going on in his heart, but he didn't feel contempt.

After all, this is the thinking that a normal person should have.

How many people like him can really do something for the so-called 'dream' and 'interest'?

Most people, like themselves in their previous lives, can only be forced to give up some overly idealistic ideas and accept reality in order to live.

Lu Zhengyi doesn't care if other people come to make horror movies because of money and fame.

As long as they can produce a film quality that is worthy of the ticket price paid by the audience, they deserve to be rewarded.

But like the kind of crew that invites a few actors and idols with a lot of traffic to pretend to make a film, enter the horror film market to eat this dividend, take the money away, and finally leave a piece of chicken feathers, ruining the market he finally brought up, it will definitely not work.

This is not based on the result of any noble character, but just based on the fact that Lu Zhengyi is sitting in the leading position of the domestic horror film market, so other directors must abide by this rule if they want to enter.

He doesn't care what kind of rules the domestic film industry is now, and what kind of requirements other categories of films have.

But now the audience in the horror film market only recognizes themselves, so now it is up to them to decide.

……

……

With a test shoot in the morning, the afternoon shoot went a lot smoother.

is not only a group performance of students on rows of seats, but even Zhou Ziyun on the stage is naturally a lot.

But this scene is actually not difficult to interpret, and a confident and generous speech is not difficult for an actor.

"Director Lu, if you are not satisfied with this part of the shooting, we can make another appointment."

When night was approaching, the vice principal of the school, under the guidance of Assistant Wang, came to the shooting site kindly, "There is another month of New Year's Day, there are no classes on the school side of the holiday, and the students who choose to stay in school have nothing to do, we can lend you the venue for another day." ”

"That's not a bother, Principal Fan." Lu Zhengyi shook his hand politely, "The students of your school are great, today's shooting is going well, this shot is okay, thank you very much for your support to our crew." ”

"Is that so......"

Principal Fan looked a little regretful.

If the school is used as a filming location, the school may consider it more if it is a junior high school or high school, but most universities will not refuse.

This is a good opportunity for both the school's admissions and the social practice activities of the students on campus.

"Director Lu, now that the filming here is over, I don't know if we have time to have dinner together."

Immediately afterwards, Principal Fan proposed the idea of eating together.

This can meet a young and promising director, I believe most people will not refuse.

"I'm sorry, Principal Fan." But Lu Zhengyi hurriedly replied, "It's December now, and it's almost the New Year in a while, so the current filming progress of our crew is relatively rushed." ”

At this point, he looked apologetic.

Needless to say, Principal Fan has already fulfilled the position of vice principal, and of course he understands it.

"Yes, yes, it's almost the New Year." Principal Fan nodded very understandingly, "We Tang people still attach great importance to the New Year, if the Chinese New Year's Eve can't be at home, the family gathers and sits down for a meal, which is always not satisfactory." ”

As he spoke, he took the initiative to say goodbye, "In that case, then I should also get off work." ”

"Director Lu, then you guys will be busy first, and I'll leave first."

"As for the auditorium, if you are in a hurry, you can leave first, and someone will come to clean it up tomorrow."

Lu Zhengyi replied with a smile, "Principal Fan said that we borrowed the venue, we must clean up before leaving, otherwise we don't know how those media will write after they find out." ”

"Alas, those of you who work under the camera have to take care of every aspect."

Principal Fan's expression remained unchanged and replied, "That's okay, then I'll go first." ”

Lu Zhengyi politely followed behind and sent him to the door of the auditorium, and then walked back slowly.

Later, Li Chuanxin, who stayed on the set in the afternoon to observe, watched this scene silently.

From the first time he saw Lu Zhengyi, to the later dinner, to the time when he watched people send this Principal Fan away, he gave people a maturity far beyond his age.

Especially when he was talking to Principal Fan just now, that kind of sophistication made him forget that he was just a young man in his twenties.

can still maintain such a temperament when he becomes famous at a young age, Li Chuanxin thinks that if he is at the same age, he will definitely not be able to do it.

However, he remembered that when the Guzhai Record was released before, Zhang Xueming, who sat down together and discussed cooperation and publicity, accepted it for a while.

The couple are quite similar.

This is probably what a rich family can only cultivate after bothering to spend money and effort since childhood.

(End of chapter)