Entering the gate of the Yanjing Film Studio, Zhou Yan walked directly to the main building in the middle, and went up the old-fashioned revolving central staircase to the third floor as Wang Junzheng told him.

The director's office is on the west half of the third floor, go west from the staircase, count to the third room, Zhou Yan stood at the door and looked inside, there were only two people in the office at this time, a man and a woman.

"Excuse me, is Director Wang Junzheng here?" Zhou Yan knocked on the door and asked.

Both of them looked up and looked this way, and the woman stood up, raised her hand and smiled, "Here, you are Zhou Yan." ”

Wang Junzheng is in his forties, not tall, wearing a gray coat, and looks very modest. Her voice is also quite loud, quite bold and bold in the northwest.

Zhou Yan walked over with a smile, "Teacher Wang, hello." ”

"Hello, hello." Wang Junzheng pulled a stool for Zhou Yan, "You sit, I'll pour you some water." ”

"Teacher Wang, don't bother."

Wang Junzheng walked to the edge of the tea table with a smile, took the tea box and asked, "Do you want to drink tea?" ”

"I'll just drink plain water."

Pouring a glass of boiled water for Zhou Yan, Wang Junzheng said with a smile, "The conference room is being used today, let's talk in the office, don't you mind?" ”

Zhou Yan took the cup and shook his head, "It's okay, you can talk anywhere, your office is quite spacious." ”

"No one is there, so it looks spacious."

The working hours of the director's department are still relatively free, and many times they are out on the field, so there are naturally fewer people in the office at ordinary times.

Then Wang Jun was taking out a notebook from the drawer, "Let's show you the outline of the script of our new movie first." ”

Zhou Yan put down the cup again, took the book from Wang Junzheng's hand, and while flipping through it, he heard Wang Junzheng say, "The first two pages are the outline, and the back is the segmented summary, you take a look at these first, and then let's talk." ”

Hearing her say this, Zhou Yan carefully looked at the outline in his hand.

After reading the outline, Zhou Yan frowned, he was sure that Wang Jun was going to shoot "Heaven's Reply", but this outline was a little different from the "Heaven's Reply" he had watched.

The biggest change is that the setting of the movie is set in the south, and the general direction of the story is not too much.

However, this doesn't have much impact on the soundtrack.

He read the synopsis of the segment again, then raised his head and asked, "Director Wang, are you done with the storyboard?" ”

Hearing Zhou Yan ask, Wang Junzheng was a little surprised, when she cooperated with other soundtrack artists, no one mentioned the storyboard.

Of course, in the movies she made before, the soundtrack basically started to intervene in the middle and late stages, and it was pointless to watch the storyboard at that time.

Although there are some surprises, Wang Junzheng can understand why Zhou Yan looks at the storyboard, and the design of the storyboard must be easier to associate music with than looking at words.

"I drew part of the shot, but I didn't finish it, and most of the drafts are at home, here......" Wang Junzheng opened the drawer again, "I came to look for it, and it seems that I left a few drafts here." ”

Rummaging through the drawers, Wang Junzheng found four or five drafts of the storyboard.

This is the second director's storyboard manuscript that Zhou Yan has seen in the real world, and unlike Zhang Yimou's manuscript, Wang Junzheng's storyboard portrays the characters in more detail.

In the notes, there is also more planning of the role, and there is less description of the mirror position.

But whether it is Wang Junzheng's or Zhang Yimou's manuscripts, they can all see the art skills.

Zhou Yan is relatively bad in this regard, his storyboard has no artistic reflection at all, although he is not a stickman, but it is not much better.

Because the drawing is so poor, Zhou Yan's own storyboard manuscript will have a large number of text annotations to help explain his ideas in the storyboard.

Zhang Yimou and Hou Xiaoxian have mentioned him this question before, and they said that even if they are assisted by accurate words, it is better to express what the director wants than to draw them directly.

A large number of text annotations can cause photographers to have difficulty understanding storyboards.

So Zhou Yan usually does practice painting now, but the progress is too slow, the key problem is that whether it is music or writing, he is very energetic in learning, it's just this painting, he really can't learn it.

After reading the storyboard, Zhou Yan began to say his thoughts, "I think the key to the soundtrack of this movie is to pay attention to the overall rhythm, at the beginning of the story, the grandson and grandfather fly kites, and the kites fly in the sky, and the atmosphere is cheerful at this time, which should be different from the kite flying in the future." The song "Forever Together" could be placed in the first section, but the piano version would be a bit monotonous here, and violin could be added. ”

Wang Junzheng smiled in surprise, "I was thinking about this before, isn't it enough to have a piano alone, as soon as you say adding a violin, I think it's right." ”

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "In fact, when the music is actually scored in the later stage, the score can also be fine-tuned according to the lens, and the music needs to match the rhythm of the picture in order to achieve a good effect." ”

Wang Junzheng raised his eyebrows and said, "Does that mean that when we shoot, the planning of the lens position can also be adjusted according to the soundtrack." ”

Zhou Yan nodded, "Of course you can." ”

In fact, he just wanted to say that if the director can cooperate with the music that has been set in the planning of the camera position during the shooting, it will improve the fit between the music and the movie.

In many cases, the success of a soundtrack is not particularly related to the story told in the movie, but more importantly, the rhythm between the shot and the music.

If you put aside the rhythm of the shot, the soundtrack will be a very simple thing, a sad plot with sad music, and a cheerful plot with cheerful music.

This rhythm can be simply understood as "stepping on the point", for example, the first scene of the kite flying in "Heaven's Reply", if the rhythm of the kite in the air can be made to step on the point of "Forever Together" when shooting and editing, the effect will be multiplied.

"Do you have an idea for the soundtrack?" Wang Junzheng asked again.

Zhou Yan smiled: "There is a point, such as this ......"

He pulled out the draft of the kite flying at the end of the story from the storyboard, "For this paragraph, you should pay attention to memories when soundtracking. Memories are a process, in the laying out of memories, the emotions slowly rise up, we use a piano as an introduction, and then introduce a sad violin, this violin represents the memory itself, and then we can introduce the cello with the same melody, the cello has a relatively low timbre, and then the memory slowly advances forward......"

When Zhou Yan was analyzing how to score this section, Wang Jun was pricking up his ears and his eyes were not blinking, this was the first time she had heard this kind of soundtrack analysis.

In the past, when she worked with other soundtrack directors, of course, there would be discussions, but it would not be so detailed, most of the time she expressed her ideas first, and then the soundtrack director took out the music and asked her for the director's opinion.

And most of the time, it is in the middle of the filming, or even after the filming, that she communicates with the soundtrack.

It's the first time it's so early.

As for how the soundtrack director gave a certain soundtrack, she didn't know the specific process.

At this time, two words came to Wang Junzheng's mind, professional and meticulous.

Zhou Yan's performance made Wang Junzheng feel very good, if she could let Zhou Yan be the soundtrack director of "Heaven's Reply", she thought it was very good, and took 10,000 steps back and said, even if Zhou Yan's performance was not good later, it could indeed be changed.

And it was precisely because of Zhou Yan's good performance that Wang Junzheng felt embarrassed.

Zhou Yan's matter, she had already reported to them Director Chen, but before she could finish speaking, Director Chen waved his hand, "Nonsense, no." ”

Their factory director Chen is a person who seeks stability and arbitrariness, and the factory has difficulties in operation and losses every year, but it is also because of his arrival that it turns losses into profits.

Arbitrariness is sometimes not just a disadvantage.

The operation of the factory can be improved so quickly, which is directly related to the arbitrariness of Director Chen, no matter what happens in the factory in recent years, the factory director can always make a decision at the first time, and is rarely affected by others.

Even if some decisions are wrong, it will not affect the overall situation, because the decisions are quick and greatly increase efficiency.

If you want to make a quick decision, then when you encounter a problem, there are not many conditions that affect the decision.

From Chen's point of view, it is impossible for him to consider whether a college student is really capable of doing soundtrack instruction, because this process is a waste of time.

Instead of wasting time panning for gold in the sand, why not go straight to the gold that has already been dug up? So many mature soundtrack musicians who have already worked in the unit are not chosen, why choose a college student?

Since the factory director has made a decision, it is difficult for Wang Junzheng to change.

So when Zhou Yan came, what Wang Jun was thinking about was to talk to Zhou Yan and ask him to give up the soundtrack direction and only authorize "Always Together" to them.

But now Zhou Yan's outstanding performance made her feel embarrassed, and she didn't know how to say no to the passionate young man in front of her.

Zhou Yan saw that Wang Junzheng didn't speak, so he asked with a smile, "Director Wang, do you have any ideas?" ”

Wang Junzheng shook his head with a smile, "No, I didn't expect your analysis of the storyline and soundtrack to be so detailed." ”

"It's always right to be meticulous in doing your work, and that's what a soundtrack director should do."

Hearing this, Wang Junzheng didn't know how to refuse Zhou Yan.

She pondered for a while, and just as Zhou Yan was about to ask her, she said, "Zhou Yan, can you go back and write your thoughts on the soundtrack for this movie?" It's like you told me just now. ”

"Yes." Zhou Yan nodded without hesitation, "In addition to this, I can also make some samples of the soundtrack for you." ”

Hearing Zhou Yan's words, Wang Junzheng was even a little moved, this young man really has nothing to say in all aspects, and the most important thing is that he is really enthusiastic about this movie, which is very rare, and it is also what Wang Junzheng values the most.

As a female director, she is easily moved by Zhou Yan's attitude, and she thinks that since Zhou Yan can be so enthusiastic about this movie, she should be able to pour more emotions into the soundtrack later.