Hua Yang's last letter said that he wanted Zhou Yan to have time to go to their magazine to revise the manuscript, and Zhou Yan had already replied to Hua Yang to make an appointment.

Zhou Yan was going to go to Chang'an for a spin first, and then go back to Yanjing and go to their magazine.

Now Hua Yang suddenly came to such a letter, which also made Zhou Yan scratch his head, and the key Hua Yang did not explain the specific reason in the letter, but simply said that after their internal discussion again, they decided to directly use "The Death of the Town Mayor".

Zhou Yan read the letter several times over and over again, but this was a thin piece of paper, and there were not many words written on it, and there could be no mystery.

After studying for a while, Zhou Yan put down the letter, although he didn't understand why "Yanjing Literature" suddenly changed his mind, but the manuscript was accepted, which was naturally a good thing for him, at least he didn't have to make another special trip.

After thinking about it, Zhou Yan took out a pen and paper and replied to Hua Yang, giving Hua Yang a new contact address.

……

After staying in Qiaojiabao Village for another three days, Zhou Yan and the others set off for Chang'an.

When he set off, he was still telling Liu Qing that this Qi County is really abnormal this year, and it has not snowed yet, if they were really obsessed with waiting for the snow to shoot again, they would probably be choking if they want to go home for the New Year.

Interestingly, as soon as their car drove out of JZ City, snow began to fall in the sky.

At first, it was just a sporadic snowflake, but then the snow gradually grew larger, because the snowflakes were too large and suffered a lot of air resistance in the air, and they really fell precariously, and it looked very laborious.

Fortunately, the heavy snow did not last long, and after driving for more than an hour, the snow slowly became smaller again, which did not affect Zhou Yan's itinerary.

From morning to night, three drivers were changed in the middle, and the car finally arrived at Chang'an Studio.

Zhou Yan was in a studio for the first time, and the studio he had imagined before should be the kind of three- or four-story office building, divided into offices, where people worked, no different from other government agencies.

But the first feeling that Chang'an Studio gave Zhou Yan was that it was a factory. It is not much different from a spring factory, a leather shoe factory, or even a kiln factory.

The brick walls and tile roofs are tightly structured, and there are not a few windows on one wall, which looks particularly solemn.

If another layer of barbed wire is put on the outside of the wall, it is said that it is a prison, and Zhou Yan believes it.

They arranged Zhou Yan in Liu Qing's dormitory, and it happened that Liu Qing's dormitory had an empty bed, and Zhou Yan also brought a quilt.

The next day, Zhou Yan and the others took the film to the printing room to develop it.

The film processing went very smoothly, because the processing task in the printing room was not heavy recently, and there was no work at hand, so there was no need to queue up, and the film of "Antlacewing" was taken in the morning, and the negative was obtained in the evening.

The negative is also the negative, because the relationship between light and dark is the opposite of the real thing, and the color is also the complementary color of the real thing, so everyone is used to calling it a negative.

When the sample came out, Zhou Yan breathed a sigh of relief.

There will also be some accidents in the process of printing, such as mechanical failure of film processing, human negligence, and unstable development solution.

Therefore, when washing the film, Zhou Yan was always worried that there would be problems.

After getting the sample film, Zhou Yan finally saw the results of his shooting, as Zhao Fei said, the shots they shot were basically no problem.

If something really goes wrong, they have no choice but to reshoot.

When some crews are filming, they are afraid of this situation, so they will bring the printing equipment with them, and the film will be filmed here, and the other side will be sent to the printing room to be washed out, until the printing room says that the film is fine, and the director dares to say that this time is really over, otherwise, it is very likely to face a reshoot.

Or set up a special film runner who is responsible for transporting the filmed film to the printing house and bringing back the processed samples.

Once the dailies are out, the next step is editing.

It's more difficult to get to this point.

The editing workshop was already busy, and during this time, their department was busy cutting "The Red Lantern Hangs High", and they didn't have time to deal with Zhou Yan's small project.

Zhou Yan thought, since it was a small project, could you let them help deal with it first, anyway, it wouldn't be long before he went to find the leader of the editing workshop, hoping to be accommodating.

The director of the workshop is called Yang Jinglan, a lesbian in her forties, with a serious face and a businesslike face, who doesn't eat Zhou Yan's "sycophancy" at all, and asks him to line up well.

In this way, Zhou Yan can only wait.

Originally, Zhou Yan had to report to Zhao Jiping about his work in the past six months, but Zhao Jiping went to Chongqing again during this time, and it would take a while to come back, so during the waiting period, Zhou Yan could only stay in the studio.

This is half a month.

One day half a month later, Zhou Yan suddenly received a notice that the editing workshop was going to start cutting his "Antfly".

Hearing this news, Zhou Yan was also surprised, why did Director Yang suddenly change his mind?

After inquiring with Zhao Fei, Zhou Yan learned that it was Director Yang who saw that he was running to the editing workshop every day, which affected their work very much, and there was no way, so he decided to put aside the other work on his hand and cut out Zhou Yan's film first.

After all, "Antfly" is relatively short, and all the materials add up to less than twenty minutes, and the audio track processing behind it is also simple, and this short film doesn't even have lines.

It stands to reason that ordinary people are not allowed to enter the editing workshop, but Zhou Yan is in a special situation, in addition to being the director of "Antfly", he is also the soundtrack and main actor of "The Red Lantern Hangs High".

As a member of the soundtrack team and the main actor, it is a reasonable demand for Zhou Yan to enter the editing workshop, and Director Yang has no way to push Zhou Yan out.

In the past half a month, every morning every morning, Zhou Yan clocked in on time, and when Director Yang and they went to the workshop, Zhou Yan would go whenever he went.

In the evening, when will Director Yang and them come out of the workshop, and when will Zhou Yan also come out.

Every day, Zhou Yan is like a fart, behind Director Yang and them.

And he not only followed, but also asked everywhere, no matter what he saw in the editing workshop, as long as he had never seen it, Zhou Yan had to ask what it was, what it was for, and how it was used.

Although Director Yang doesn't eat the "sycophant" set, he can't stand Zhou Yan's soft grinding and hard bubbles, and after half a month, he finally can't bear it.

Because Du Yuan, another knife in the workshop, was cutting "The Red Lantern Hangs High", Director Yang decided to start it himself.

After getting the news, when Zhou Yan ran to the editing workshop, he bared his teeth and smiled at Director Yang: "Thank you Director Yang for your kindness." ”

Director Yang rolled his eyes, "Hurry up and put away your big teeth, laughing makes me panic." ”

Zhou Yan put his teeth away, but his smile was still there, and he smiled without showing his teeth.

"Don't laugh, don't laugh." Director Yang waved her hand, she couldn't do anything about Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan, this young man, is really a bit special.

At the beginning, Yang Jinglan felt that Zhou Yan's skin was a little thick, but later she gradually found that it was not a little thick, but very thick.

Of course, in addition to being thick-skinned, Zhou Yan is also studious, persevering, and much more mature than the average twenty-year-old boy.

"Give me your storyboard, and we'll get started now."

"Okay." Zhou Yan had already prepared the things, and as soon as Director Yang asked for it, he handed it over.

……

Because Zhou Yan has a finished film in his head, and the film is relatively short, he doesn't have much of his own play, so the whole editing process is quite smooth.

In fact, Zhou Yan also learned a lot during this time, so he can also help when editing.

Before entering the editing workshop, Zhou Yan had no intuitive impression of the editing of film, and it was all based on guesswork.

When he came in, he found that the real film editing was completely different from what he had imagined.

The editing process of the film is much more primitive than Zhou Yan imagined, the cutting and splicing are in the physical sense, cut with a blade, paste with glue, if the film wants to make a filter, it is still manual, directly cover the film with a layer of filters, and you can add the filter when copying......

Many seemingly mysterious industries, after really entering them, find that they are very different from what ordinary people think.

After working overtime, the two spent three days together and finally cut out the film.

At this time, it is not over yet, Zhou Yan needs to match the sound of the movie, and later he will take it to Times International to help with special effects.

However, at this point, there will be less work in the future, and Zhou Yan's heart is basically settled.