Hou Xiaoxian is investing and getting paid, naturally not because of his kindness.

The reason why his current producer, Qiu Fusheng, signed two film contracts with Zhang Yimou is to unite with the mainland to promote Chinese films to the world.

In the past two years, Chinese films have achieved good results abroad, including Chen Kaige's "Yellow Earth", Zhang Yimou's "Red Sorghum" and Hou Xiaoxian's own "City of Sadness", all of which have won international awards.

The quality of these films is naturally an important factor in achieving good results, followed by publicity, and in addition to their own publicity, the famous Italian film critic Marco Müller also played an important role in it.

At the Venice Film Festival last September, Hou Xiaoxian had a chat with Marco Muller, who has always supported Chinese films, but he also mentioned that China's short film output is too small, which is a lack of film development.

Whether it is Italy or France, they attach great importance to the development of short films, especially France, and even the state intervenes to encourage more directors to invest in short film shooting, there are many individual short film festivals in France, and there are also many big film festivals that set up short film awards, and now France is also the country with the largest output of short films in the world.

When they were chatting, Qiu Fusheng was also there.

Qiu Fusheng didn't know much about movies, but he took Marco Muller's words to heart, and after returning to China, Qiu Fusheng began to collect short films.

In the past year or so, they have collected a lot of short films, but the quality is uneven, and they have spent a lot of money to collect these short films.

Why is it so hard to collect? Because no one filmed.

In France, the government will fund the production of short films, and when the short films are made, they can participate in various film festivals, and local television stations may also pay for the rights to the short films.

But in China, none of these.

Zhou Yan's short film, although it looks like they invested and paid for it, the cost is very small, and the total amount is tens of thousands of yuan.

The key is that it doesn't take a lot of work, now that the filming of "The Red Lantern Hangs High" has just been completed, the machine and the crew are still there, and the film can be finished in a day or two, just by the way, there is no need to set up a separate project at all.

In addition, Hou Xiaoxian is not only investing in movies, but also investing in Zhou Yan, he is very optimistic about Zhou Yan, even if Zhou Yan will not continue to develop his film career in the future, he will probably become a well-known composer, which is worth his investment in advance.

Tens of thousands of dollars, a good fate, why not do it?

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Zhou Yan doesn't care what Hou Xiaoxian thinks, his current mind is to finish filming "Antlacewing".

After negotiating with Hou Xiaoxian, Zhou Yan went directly to Zhao Fei, and Zhao Fei had to trouble Zhao Fei to help with the photography.

Hearing that there was a new project, Zhao Fei didn't hesitate, and agreed to come down, anyway, he would have to leave in a few days, and he was idle here these days, and he was also very curious about what Zhou Yan was going to shoot.

After finishing the camera, Zhou Yan went to find makeup again.

When he arrived at the makeup house, Hong Xin and the others were already packing up their things, except for the actors, the makeup team was the first to leave, saying that they would leave the day after tomorrow.

Entering the house, Zhou Yan said with a smile, "Hong Guantou, you may have to stay for two days." ”

Hearing Zhou Yan say this, Hong Xin's first reaction was that there was any scene to be filmed, "Which scene should be made up?" ”

Zhou Yan shook his head, "It's not to make up the film, there is another short film to shoot, I have already told Director Hou, I may have to seconded someone with your group." ”

Hong Xin asked, "Is one enough?" ”

"Just one person." Zhou Yan nodded.

Lin Juan, who was originally packing up her tools, had already stopped what she was doing, and looked at Hong Xin with a blank eye, and how could Hong Xin not know Lin Juan's thoughts, she pondered for a moment, or said, "Is it difficult to make up, let Lin Juan go with you?" ”

"Lin Juan?" glanced at Lin Juan, smiled and nodded, "Yes." ”

Although Lin Juan's skills are not as good as Hong Xin, there is no problem with simple makeup, and there is no makeup in "Antfly", if it weren't for the fear of problems, Zhou Yan would not come to the makeup team to adjust people.

Hearing Zhou Yan say that she could, Lin Juan smiled like a flower, "Brother Zhou Yan, then when will we start shooting?" ”

"For the past two days, you wait for my notice." Zhou Yan smiled, "Then you guys are busy first, and I'll go to the scenery and lighting." ”

When Zhou Yan left, Hong Xin walked over and waved his hand in front of Lin Juan's eyes, "The eyeballs are about to fall out, if you really like it, go and tell someone, just like you, you two will never have a show." ”

Now Hong Xin has also seen it, instead of letting Lin Juan fall in love every day, it is better to tell her to be bold to pursue happiness, which is naturally a good thing, if it doesn't work, it is better to break off her thoughts as soon as possible.

The little girls in the crew have a lot of meaning for Zhou Yan, but Lin Juan is still the only one who is so stupid.

"I'm afraid ......" Lin Juan lowered her head and pinched the corner of her clothes, "If he doesn't agree, how embarrassing it will be in the future, I am usually very happy to be able to play cards with him." ”

Hong Xin said angrily, "Don't fight." ”

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Zhou Yan went through various departments such as the lighting team and the scenery making team again, and told them about the shooting, among these departments, the most important ones are photography and lighting, makeup is dispensable, and the work of the scenery team is simple, Zhou Yan can do it himself.

After contacting him, Zhou Yan asked Liu Qing to drive him to the county, looking for a house and buying the props needed for filming.

"Antfly" does not involve many props, leather shoes, telephones, quartz clocks, ...... It may be a little harder to get a phone call, but they quickly found one in the scrap market.

As for the house, they asked around and finally chose a hostel, because there are so many problems involved in the house.

Ordinary people are reluctant to rent a house to others to make movies, even if they are willing to rent it, they are reluctant to talk to him when they hear that Zhou Yan only rents for a few days.

The hostel is very good, the environment is suitable, you can rent if you want, and you can return if you want to.

It took Zhou Yan two and a half days to get these things done.

When he got these things done and went back to Qiao's compound to inform Zhao Fei that they were going to start filming, he happened to run into Gong Li and several of their leading actors who were leaving.

Seeing Zhou Yan and Liu Qing coming back, Gong Li said with a smile, "I told He Saifei just now, you can't come back and say goodbye to us." ”

Many people from the other groups came out to see them off, although it was said goodbye, but the scene was not full of too many sorrows, because everyone felt that they should be able to meet again soon.

In fact, some of them do meet soon, and as long as Zhang Yimou makes another movie, they will get together. There are also some people who may not be able to see each other again, but they are not aware of it at this time.

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Aren't you going to Chang'an, I'm going to go in two days, how long will you stay?" ”

"More than a week." Gong Li said.

Zhou Yan counted the days and said with a smile, "Then we should be able to meet again." ”

He Saifei said curiously, "If you don't go back to Jinling for the New Year, what are you going to Chang'an for?" There's nothing going on with you later, right? ”

"It's still early for the New Year, Sister Fei, you forgot, I'm the soundtrack assistant, this work is done, I must report to Mr. Zhao, Mr. Zhao is in Chang'an."

"Oh, I almost forgot you were a soundtrack assistant."

Gong Li smiled, "His identity is changeable, and the next time I see him, maybe he will be the director." ”

"I think the assistant director is more likely, isn't what he ends up doing as an assistant director?"

A few people chatted for a while, and the driver began to urge.

Gong Li got into the car and waved to Zhou Yan, "Let's go first, see you in Chang'an." ”

"Well, see you in Chang'an."

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Early the next morning, the improvised crew of "Antlacewing" crowded into a van and headed for the county seat.

Entering the hotel room, Zhou Yan was about to start arranging the scene, but Liu Qing stopped him.

"A short film is also a movie, how can you make a movie so sloppily?"

Zhou Yan saw his chattering appearance, and he was a little confused, "Brother Liu, what do you say?" ”

"When making a movie, the ceremony can't be lost."

As he spoke, Liu Qing took out a stack of red cloth from his arms.

He slowly unfolded the red cloth, and it was a banner about three meters long, with a large crooked line written on it with a black brush.

[I wish director Zhou Yan's movie "Antfly" a good start]

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